Sign the Petition Against the new Mammography Guidelines
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Statistical studies should be made to ascertain the general pattern of case diagnoses. This must not be done in America only. When the trend is found, if the age group is between 40 and 50, then the time to start checking should be five years before. I think the new suggestion might be risky, based on some ages I seen, which fall below 50. More efforts to educate people on lifestyles should be put in place for prevention.
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Jacqueline U- Diagnosed at age 40 ( found on routine mammogram) Microcalcifications found at stage 0. Wouldn't have been palpable for years....Diagnosed for 2nd time at age 45, again found on mammogram. I wouldn't have been here typing this, if it weren't for those mammograms. They saved my life..! I had been having them regularly from the age of 35, because my Mom passed away from it age 53. Please do not change the guidelines. Womens health care will suffer so greatly from this.
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Diagnosed at age 47; might not have been around with suggested changes. No family history.
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Diagnosed at age 42 due to a mammogram. Detected early, had a bilat, and here today because of that mammogram. I was lucky, no chemo, no radiation and no drugs needed because it was caught so early. In my opinion, a group of POLITICIANS have no business making life threatening decisions for me, my family (two daughters) and intelligent women of the world. My mother died of BC, 35 years ago, in her fifties leaving me an orphan at age thirteen. The ideal of anyone else experiencing that when, with the early detection methods available to us today it could be prevented, is appalling! We need to ADVOCATE methods of early detection and prevention not DENY/OPPOSE them.
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My breast cancer was discovered at my yearly mammogram. Had I waited two years to have another one, I would not be here to write about it. I was 52.
The new guidlines need to be reexamined.
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Extremely early diagnosis via mammogram. DCIS in right breast detected, further mammogram detected IDC in left breast. If I had waited two years between tests I don't know what would have happened.
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I was diagnosed with IDC (2cm) at age 46...absolutely NO family history! S/P Mod Radical Masectomy/chemo and now doing well...both self exam and mammos are extremely important...at the CURRENT age recommendations
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Diagnosed with breast cancer RIGHT BEFORE my 50TH birthday
....but lost my Mother AT the age of 50. Any questions??????????
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i was diagnosed just a few months after my 45th birthday. i had no family history and no risk factors. a routine mammogram discovered the cancer. i disagree with the guidelines.
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Amy Whitman - Diagnosed at age 45, stage 1...insurance paid for mammograms, MRI and everything else. If our caring government has their way, this may no longer be the case. If women have to wait until they are 50 to be screened...well, many may never live to see 50.
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At age 50 I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma from a routine mammogram. I know so many women who have found their cancer through self examinations. WE MUST encourage all women to do self exams and have their mammograms....
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JDiagnosed the day before my 33rd birthday. No family history.
ennifer Keisner
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Are you concerned about the recent news of mammograms not being covered until 50? Are you concerned this may INCREASE the price of healthcare in treating cancer? Did you know by the time a mammogram detects cancer its already year number 8? Did you know threre is a FDA approved LOW cost tests that can detect breast cancer 5 years sooner than mammogram AND detect swine flu? Did uou know that this is the ONLY tests that can effectively assist MEN that have breast cancer?Did you know this test only costs about $150 and 10 minutes to perform? TRUE Early Detection FDA Approved Breast Scan - SAVES LIVES and reduces the cost of healthcare Early Cancer Detection/Visualize Your Pain
There are MANY alternatives that have been PROVEN to detect Breast Cancer Earlier than Mammogram. One of which is Breast Thermography.
Thermography is
Digital infrared thermal imaging (D.I.T.I.) is a totally non-invasive clinical imaging procedure for detecting and monitoring a number of diseases and physical injuries, by showing the thermal abnormalities present in the body.
It is used as an aid for diagnosis and prognosis, as well as monitoring therapy progress
Unlike most diagnostic tests, D.I.T.I. is non invasive and there are no risks or side effects.
Using the latest digital technology, images, or 'thermograms', - taken using an infrared camera. These images can assess the whole body or just areas of particular concern.
Excellent for those seeking OTHER LOW COST diagnostic tools for Breast Cancer and Mammogram Screening.Thermography Has been approved by the FDA for over 25 years! Read more at
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I am not against mammograms, as I would just like to offer this as an adjunctive approach, a baseline for young women and or an alternative for women who are uninsured, underuinsured or that do not fit the criteria for mammogram under current heath plan. This test will assist men that have breast cancer as for way too long breast cancer has been seen as a "female issue" when millions of men die from breast cancer each year.
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* No Radiation - FDA approved
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* Detects Cancer Before forms a lump (5 years sooner)
When DOES a mammogram Detect Cancer? Year number EIGHT!!!!
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What Thermal Scan Can Offer - The Thermal Imaging Test
The test is performed in about 10 minutes and the results are downloaded into a secure server to specialized Doctors at Duke University and Cambridge School Of medicine. The Doctors and specialists are trained in their skill of radiography and thermal imaging. After taking a detailed history, we enter the information for the doctors to analysze along with your test results. Certain questions can be asked of the test ie. is it bone related? Is it nerve related etc alsmost like a process of elimination. The results are typically back within two to three days and 2 copies are mailed to you with results and suggestions (if any). The Doctos at Duke will be available if your Doctor should have any questions about the results and would be willing to speak with you other doctors accordingly.
This technology was invented by Duke University School Of Medicine where I was trained (By Dr.Lenardo Duke Professor and Inventor) and certified and was promo-ed on Good Morning America
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This test is covered by very few health insurance companies under "Digital Breast" for Breast Mammography and you would have to check your insurance company. For Auto accident related/pain cases Thermography is usually covered under the PIP portion of auto insurance "Thermography" Or "Thermal Imaging" and must be for pain associated disorders and or soft tissue damage, tmj etc. (ordered in 2006 by NJ Supreme court)
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At age 55, 6/2006, I was examining my right breast and felt a grow, it was diagnosed positive, what worries me is that in 2005, my doctor told me that it was not necessary to have a mammogram and when I went to get my records I fount a letter inside the film of the 2004 mammogram. The letter was questioning a finding an strange mass in my right breast, advising a follow up. I can only think that it could have been prevented if it was done a follow up.
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Diagnosed with aggressive her2+ cancer at 49, three years ago. I am here to type this, so I am eternally grateful to routine mammography.
False positives and benign biopsies are much less upsetting than dying from a true cancer. Everyone I know would rather go through a few weeks of uncertainty rather than risk catastrophic illness and death. I am completely opposed to the recommendations of the panel to start mammos at 50.
Eileen G.
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Having worked in a hospital, I have seen too many women succomb to breast cancer because they were "too young" to have it. I received mammograms annually & sometimes more frequently after recurrent abnormalities. Within less than a year after my last test, I found a small lump. My gynecologist said it was smooth and was not cancerous. He refused to move my mammo up. Fortunately I had already scheduled my annual test which found two tumors, one on top of the other. My regular doctor was away when his partner got the results & called me. He said you must schedule a biopsy immediately. Within days my surgeon called me to let me know that both tumors were malignant and one was invasive. My cousin, a nurse whose employer gynecologist told her it was "nothing" & to wait 6 months. By then it was too late. She died two years ago.
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I think the new guidelines are ridiculous and I think people supporting them do not have enough data. The data I have seen does not lead me to the same conclusions. If you want to change the recomendation because something isn't reliable then please offer alternative solutions or guidelines. This will have an impact on insurance and that is what is so disturbing.
There are many women that have had breast cancer under the age of 50. Most of the women I know that have been diagnosed have been under the age of 50 and none of them were at high risk - including myself. Mammography was critical in most of the diagnoses.
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Kristin King, diagnosed at age 37, no significant family history, no BRCA mutation, no reason to think I was at risk at all (except for being a woman).
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My sister was diagnosed at 43 with triple negative cancer. My cousin died of breast cancer at 47.
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Was diagnosed at age 43 when my son gave me a running hug - his head hit right below my breast - a routine mamogram discovered a tumor the size of a golf ball. My dr thought it would be a cyst - cancer doesn't hurt! Would be dead if I hadn't scheduled my routine mamogram. Am outraged by the new guidelines. No history in my family and NEVER would have thought it was breast cancer if my mamogram wasn't due.
Pat
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These new guidelines are complete stupidity. My wife was diagnosed at 33 by finding a lump herself and then having a mammogram. It showed up clearly on the mammogram. What kind of idiot would tell women to not do self exams. That's like telling people not to look at moles for ones that change color looking for skin cancer or like telling them to not look both ways before crossing the street. This is the kind of garbage we will get if Obamacare passes and we get socialized medicine.
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I can't believe these new guidelines! All women in this country should be up in arms regarding the endangerment we are being put into. I have two daughters and I demand they have yearly mammograms! After going through a mastectomy and chemo, I do not want to see their lives at stake because some bean counter wants to cut costs, which I believe this is all about!!!!
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Stacie Pitts, 37- invasive ductal carcinoma, grade 3....found lump myslef, mammogram and biopsy confirmation
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My DCIS could only be detected with a Digital Mammogram. After 3 excisions and finally a mastectomy it was determined that I had high grade DCIS throughout my right breast. I was only 45 at the time. My surgeon is sure that if my cancer was not found and removed at that time I would have moved to invasive cancer. Recently I had my tissue tested for HER2/Neu and it was found to be positive. Early detection did not save my breast but it saved my LIFE! Plus now research is finding indicators like the HER2/Neu that can help other women make decisions earlier in the process.
I also have no family history of breast cancer, so based on the new guidelines, I would not have had a mammogram until age 50. Or maybe not because I would have been dead by then, I guess that would save a lot of money.
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Sandi Flowers--IDC stage 1, grade 3--totally detected by routine mammogram 3 yrs ago. Absolutely no lump, no family history. I am thankful for mammograms and pray that they will be here for family, friends and anyone who needs them.
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The new guidelines also recommend mammographic screening after age 50 only every two years. At 59 I let 15 months go by between screening mammograms, and "suddenly" there was a 1.1 cm invasive ductal carcinoma that wasn't there 15 months ago. Breast surgeon estimated it took 5 years to get that far, but when a meteor is coming at you from outter space and finally gets within sight, it starts to look bigger pretty darn fast! If you know what I'm saying! The pea-size tumor had already invaded the chest wall, and had I waited another 9 months per the new guidelines, it certainly wouldn't have been Stage 1. The only survival statistic I would have cared about at that point would have been my own. Screening mammography saved my life, pure and simple. Women over 50 shouldn't think these new guidelines don't affect them.
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Found my own lump with BSE at age 39;
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Found my own lump with BSE at age 39.
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I was diagnosed at age 51 with stage 3 IDC. I SKIPPED a year of getting my mammogram ( I thought this was ok even then). In the year that I skipped my mamm, I could have ended up dead. I found my own tumor and finally had a mamm one year after I should have. My tumor was 6 CENTIMETERS by that time. I had no family history that I knew of. I had a FAST growing Her 2 positive tumor. It ended up that I did have a family history, on my fathers side. My cousin (age 57 at the time) and my niece (45 at the time) and I were all diagnosed with IDC on the right side within 3 months of each other. Today we are all cancer free, thanks to our own self-breast exams, and YEARLY mammograms. I am outraged at the possiblity of a change in mammogram guidelines.
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Stupid is as stupid does. Why change a program that is so successful at early detection and cure?
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