07-17-2012, 09:43 PM
Pam, you'll never convince me that mammograms for women under 50 is not a good thing. I spent 4 Months doing chemo with 12 women week after week. Half of those women were under 30 and three of those 6 were in their 30s with young children. Two of those 3 are now dead from metastasized breast cancer.. All of us did the full Monty, mammogram, needle biopsy, surgical biopsy, bone and body scans. It wasn't easy and it wasn't fun, but it is what you do when you discover a lump or have unexplained pain or swelling in your breast. Only 2 of the 12 had a family history of breast cancer. ALL of us had been doing regular annual mammograms.
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, is the 3rd largest NCI certified research facility in the USA. It, along with cooperating facilities such as Morsani Center and USF Health are on the cutting edge of all things cancer. Moffitt just announced the ground braking of it's cancer genetic research facility. Technology, such as the Kubtec XPERT 40, is making a world of difference in the OR and has much promise for radiology seeding. My surgeon, Dr .Charles E. Cox used this technology during my surgery. As explained in the article below, it saved time and costs and provided pinpoint accuracy.
http://kubtec.writeappeal.com/wp-content...orsani.pdf
To sum it up.. We have come a hell of a long way in medicine and health care (not just breast health), but I see it coming to an end with more and more government intervention. Especially with panels that don't even have doctors from a given medical discipline make decisions out of their field that affect millions of people.
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, is the 3rd largest NCI certified research facility in the USA. It, along with cooperating facilities such as Morsani Center and USF Health are on the cutting edge of all things cancer. Moffitt just announced the ground braking of it's cancer genetic research facility. Technology, such as the Kubtec XPERT 40, is making a world of difference in the OR and has much promise for radiology seeding. My surgeon, Dr .Charles E. Cox used this technology during my surgery. As explained in the article below, it saved time and costs and provided pinpoint accuracy.
http://kubtec.writeappeal.com/wp-content...orsani.pdf
To sum it up.. We have come a hell of a long way in medicine and health care (not just breast health), but I see it coming to an end with more and more government intervention. Especially with panels that don't even have doctors from a given medical discipline make decisions out of their field that affect millions of people.