I’d Be Dead By Now New Breast Cancer Guidelines

The report was disappointing at best, reckless at worst. Breast cancer survivors under the age of 40 can attest to that.

Kathleen Reardon said it best……

I’d be dead by now if it weren’t for breast self-examination. And had my doctor been less convinced of his own guidelines regarding women without a known history of breast cancer, my cancer would have been detected earlier and I would have been treated sooner and less aggressively. I was 32 years old.

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Later today I’m heading over to the YMCA to Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong exercise program for cancer survivors. I don’t think I’ll find many people there saying, “I wish I’d known not to bother looking out for cancer at my age” or “I wish some doctors had protected me from worrying.” No. We’re going to enjoy our exercise thanks to Mr. Armstrong and the YMCA and be glad that when it came to our decisions, we did, after relevant information was considered, what seemed right for us.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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