Mammograms Won't Detect This!

[Witness4Jesus]

That video is very good. There is so much of a gray area regarding breast health. Mammogram's pick up most tumors but not all... if they see something suspicious they send you to ultrasound... but ultrasound will not pick up all tumors either.

I am currently in limbo... I had a density on my first "baseline" mammo three weeks ago and then was called back for an ultrasound. They saw something suspicious on ultrasound so they core biopsied it. When they biopsy a site they leave a metal tiny clip so that you go immediately back to the mammo machine for an image. They look to see if the thing they biopsied is the suspicious thing they saw on mammo... well, I never knew that the two sites might not correlate. So, NO the site they biopsied was not the site that was suspicious on mammo.. so back in for a few more mammo views... and now am told..it is probably dense tissue and to wait six months for repeat mammo and ultrasound. The thing they biopsied was a papilloma and was not cancer.
I am trying to find peace in this... my gyn said he could try and push for a breast MRI if I was going crazy waiting.

SIGH.
Get those mammos!!!! This was my first one... didn't think anything would show up as I am only 42.. I am learning different.

[adam423]

Witness

After reading about IBC, I would have you doctor push for the breat MRI. You don't want to wait too long if it is IBC and six months can make all the difference.

I'm praying for you too. Ladean

[adam423]

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[Doobie56]

why can't I get the video to come up?

[adam423]

I just tried the link again and it is working. Maybe try copying the link directly into your browser and see if that works.

[Cd4u_2]

why can't I get the video to come up?

you have to wait awhile to load up. Sometimes your computer have a restriction on downloads so check your anti-virus or something like that.

If you can download it, and you did wait til it finished downloading, you probably need the software to play it. I think Realplayer is what you need although I am not sure if it work with window media.

[Architectlink]

I wish my plan paid for MRI's instead, because they find so many more cancers and are so much less painful.

X-Rays, Mammograms, Cancer (Aug/Sept2007) Townsend Letter for ...Urging this highly susceptible population to have mammograms, a procedure known to damage cells and increase cancer risk, is totally immoral in my ...
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X-rays and mammograms increase cancer risk.(Health Risks"Each and every incremental exposure to any form of nuclear radiation increases the risk of cancer. It is persistent, deadly, silent, and unseen," d.
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Mammograms, Adjuvant Treatment Help Increase Breast Cancer Survivalmammograms and adjuvant treatment help increase breast cancer survival.
www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/testing/new_research/121605.jsp

Breast density may increase cancer risk Mammograms are only recommended for women who know they are at high risk, ... may increase cancer risk; Women in BRCA families also have high cancer risk ...
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Internet Medical Journal » Mammograms Increase Risk of Breast ...Mammograms Increase Risk of Breast Cancer in Some. In patients with a genetic predisposition, radiation with x-rays such as occurs from mammography and ...
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Mammograms cause breast cancer (and other cancer facts you ...Another Canadian study found a 52 percent increase in breast cancer mortality in young women given annual mammograms. Dr. Samuel Epstein also claims that ...www.newstarget.com/010886.html

[Kathe]

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer by Dr. John Lee.

Kathe

[dusty]

Hmm, the op link said the page could not be found.
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[Raye007]

Mammograms
I wonder about those tests and they need to change the age on those things 40 as the starting ages come on we have the Doctors to blame if we get Breast Cancer I mean I'm good on the exploration of the body and all but I want a Mammogram and I don't want to have Breast Cancer on my first visit on someone that you didn't Detect that is such a sad Cancer