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I have read your post and am wondering.... I just finished my chemo and radiation therapy after having a mastectomy of my left breast.
My PA found a small lump during a normal exam. I proceeded to have a mammogram, a sonogram, then a biopsy after removing the tumor. It was diagnosed as Stage II cancer. I had a mastectomy where they removed the breast tissue and 13 lymph nodes, five of which were cancerous. They also found another small tumor and I was bumped up to Stage III.
I am now going through the healing from radiation step and am peeling, itching, and part of my skin was in need of Silvadene because it was burned more than the rest.
Now I am reading in your article that maybe.... just maybe... I should have waited to do ANY treatment whatsoever??
My younger sister had just gone through a similar experience a year prior to mine, only she had a lumpectomy. (Her breasts are larger than mine, mine are extremely small.) Our Mother had died of ovarian cancer at the age of 62. Are we in the category of the "at-risk" people? Or should we have delayed treatment too?
I know that there seems to be an epidemic of breast cancer, and many other types in women these days, even in women younger than before.... everyone seems to know at least one person that has been diagnosed. Are they false-positives? Or are people (doctors maybe) jumping to conclusions and assuming cancer when there is none?
We are trusting the medical profession, when they hold our lives in their hands, that they are telling us the truth and we are not having unnecessary operations and treatments. I would hate to think that I lost my breast, as little as it was, went through chemo and radiation...... all for nothing??
What IF I had done nothing? Or waited to see what would develop? What would the outcome been? I had those questions anyway.... I felt that I had to trust what they told me, and at least DO SOMETHING to get rid of the thing that was potentially threatening my life!
Now, with these new guidelines pushing back the time for serious consideration from the medical profession about mammograms and such... it makes me feel (and I am sure many others that have gone through cancer treatment already) that the government is not taking our fears seriously. All we hear is that "early detection" is the key to conquering this deadly disease. But these guidelines seem to ignore everything that was ingrained in us over the past few years. Now that we are getting women on board to take it serious, the government is pulling the rug from under us. And you seem to agree with them.
WHO do we believe?????
Personally, what I have noticed.... even though there are more cases of breast cancer (and others that are just as important) that have showed up over the last few years, there also seems be less that are dying from it. Or at least more that are surviving longer than before after the initial diagnosis. I find that as a major improvement. As a recent diagnos-ee (I know that's not a real word :)) .... I like to believe that is an improvement anyway.