Sign the Petition Against the new Mammography Guidelines
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My sister was diagnosed at age 30.....no other breast cancer in our family. I was diagonosed at age 61 by a routine mammogram. Regular screenings save lives!
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As a breast cancer survivor I really believe that screenings save lives. It saved mine
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Kimberly Pawluk-Gilbertson age 38. I found the lump myself. Do not change the currant guidelines. So many more will get sick. We need to cure breast cancer, not hide it.
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I was DX at 47. I couldn't feel a lump and the mammo picked it up. I have a 9 year old son (at the time) who is now 12 and still needs me.
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Annual routine mammogram 3/08 showed DCIS stage 0, 1 cm, grade 3. Lumpectomy, 36 radiation treatments. Normal annual mammograms from age 45-55 previously. Have been promoting annual mammograms to everyone since my diagnosis. I have a 14 year old daughter with Downs Syndrome who can't afford to lose her mother.
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Linda---1st DX at age 31...no family history.....found the lump by accident..thank God
2nd DX....23 yrs later same breast...age 54....DCIS...found by my annual mammogram....if I had not been getting a mammogram yearly this one could have gotten way out of control. Found early and no chemo
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Diagnosed in January of 2009 at the age of 50 with breast cancer. A friend of mine died 4 years ago of breast cancer, she was in her late 30's. This proposal is bad for women's health. Baseline's should be done no later than age 30!
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Breast cancer and colon cancer are common in my Maternal family. I have been tested for the gene and luckily do not have it. However, I have friends who do not have breast cancer in their families, but have developed breast cancer before age 50. Most of them have survived, but because they had early screening. To change the law now is crazy. Most breast cancer is not found by self exam. Mammograms are NECESSARY AND SO IMPORTANT.
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Amy Barwan - age 40. Diagnosed with DCIS after annual mammogram. No lump could be felt. Pathology report revealed IDC.
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Allison Cannon- diagnosed at age 36 with baseline screening mammo. Sister dx age 44 by mammo.
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Barbara T-H -- Nurse, close friends diagnosed prior to age 50. Strongly opposed to the change in the guidelines. Any unnecessary deaths from a failure to screen far outweigh the cost and inconvenience of the additional tests and procedures due to false positives.
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Terry Vondruska diagnosed at age 38, no family history
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Dx at 40. ILC. No family history,no risk factors and BRCA I and II negative. 4 cm tumor that NO ONE could feel!
Cheryl S
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i was diagnoised in march of '05 with late stage breast cancer that had already spread to my bones. IF my doctor has requested mammograms, it would have been caught much earlier and my prognosis would have been good. now it just a matter of time. this is rationing starting already. just six months ago, they gave us totally different guide lines, interesting. if this isn't stopped, more women will die sooner.
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It is so important for all young girls and women to understand breast cancer and have the comfort of being able to have a mammography in their 20', 30's, especially if there is a history in their family. Preventative Maintenance should be encouraged, not discouraged. I was lucky that a mammography caught my breast cancer at a very early stage. Even the doctor exam did not detect.
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i cannot find the petition and i asked some friends to sign it and they can't find it either. am i missing something here or do we not have a link to the actual petition??
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hi,
Google the "Kretsky mammogram paradox" where younger women having mammographic screening lived died sooner than those who weren't screened. Harvard study.
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please visit this site & take the survery!!!! let ur voices be heard!!!This survery was posted by:
MyBreastCancerNetwork.com
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Tina Hughes- Baseline Mammo at age 40. Had regular mammos at age 41 and 42, showed no signs of cancer. Found lump one year later, age 43, which mammo confirmed.
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SIRS, Screenig programs for breast cancer are based on cost-effectiveness. The cost may be high... but the effect is LIFESAVING. If they cut support to ample breast cancer sreening programs due to economic issues, MANY YOUNG MOTHERS WILL DIE.How can they weigh mothers lives against economic issues?...and still justify the low cost-effectiveness of middle east conflicts and NASA space projects?...Fundings for all cancer screening programs must be a top priority in our nation. All women will sign the petition.
Carmen Morell
Breast Cancer Survivor
Bilateral Mastectomy
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I was diagnosed last year with triple negative IDC last year, from a mamogram. The year before it was clear. I was Stage one, grade three. It would have been worse if I had waited two years.
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My cancer was found at age 49 BEFORE your recommended guidelines. I totally disagree with these guidelines . How are high risk women supposed to be identified?
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An request for a more reasonable statistic:
After two years and 7 surgeries I am on my way to becoming a survivor statistic. I believe that without the push to get a mammogram at age 42, it saved my life. I think it is outrageous that medical professionals participating in this study had the intelligence to claim that they studied the data and believe that these guidelines are reasonable. I refuse to believe that any study would point to this. I would like to ask the obvious question of how many oncologists participated in these findings? This great country that we live in has advanced much more than this in attitude regarding this terrible disease so when the statistic of 1 out of every 8 women in the US will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer changes to 0 out of every 8 women I believe that the current recommendation should stand. Please consider the impact on so many lives as publishing these findings is such a disservice to this society. Sarina Tamagna
Diagnosed 4/28/07 Stage 2B Her2 Neg
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Diagnosed at age 39, with my first mammogram, 20 years ago. No prior family history of breast cancer. I have a question regarding the number of women who receive mammorgrams after age 80 or 85. I am no expert, but it is my understanding that women who get breast cancer at this age usually get slow growing cancers, such that they are likely to die of something else besides cancer. While the numbers are likely not to be large, if the goal for society is saving money, maybe it would be more prudent to stop mammogams after a certain age.
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I was 41 when I was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma insitu. It was found on my 2nd mammogram. There were NO LUMPS. There were clusters of cells in my mammory glands in both breasts! Furthermore, I had the very aggressive cells. Had I waited until lumps had formed and/or the age of 50, I would not be here today.
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Elizabeth Hasselbeck is calling this genocide ... now that they say the bse's are of no advantage, that mammos should be at 50 and they are going to delay pap's and change those guidelines too ..
So, what's the news with the males .. any downgrade on the PSA tests??? Should they be instructed not to touch their scrotum, that finding any lumps in there should just be thought to be some false positives???
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I'm a little confused. I can not find a petition to sign. There are now 33 pages of messages from members here. Are these meassages the "signing" of the petition? I doubt that I'm the only one who can not find THE PETITON. Please help me and many others to find our way to sign this .
Phyllis
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Sonya S - Dx 38 - DCIS - mastectomy, nodes clean. Radiation due to margins less than 2mm, high grade, and presence of necrosis. Breast feed 2 children 1 year each - No family history - No Brac1 or 2 mutation
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When I was 45, I was refused a mammogram by my HMO and was put on estrogen without
bloodwork to find out if I was premenopausal (I was). Two years later, at 47, I found my own 3cm lump,
Family history of ovarian cancer. I have been disabled for years now.
I support mammograms starting at 40 years old.
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