Information that may save women from breast cancer
From: Carol Jones [mailto:grammycarol714@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:59 PM
To: Jones, Carol
Subject: Please share with your women friends
Dear Friends,
It has been quite a journey starting with the shock of a serious diagnosis in September. I have yearly mammograms and just had a “normal” report. Three days later I found a lump in left breast during a BSE in shower. Help me spread the word for ALL women to do breast self exams monthly. If they have “dense breasts” insist on an ultrasound or better screening. Routine mammography misses 10-15% of breast cancers. No woman is too young or too old to do BSE. Please do not rely on regular mammography to find cancer. BSE saved my life. If I had no done a thorough BSE no telling how long before I discovered I had invasive ductal carcinoma.
I knew I had dense breasts. I did not realize I should insist on another screening methodology. Shocking to learn this now but others may benefit from what I have experienced. It is difficult to share personal information with friends. My story might help others to be spared breast cancer. So spread the word for women to do breast self exams monthly.
Some good will come from my sharing a personal event if you will send this to your women friends. Please send to all women you love, care for and want to spare the pain of breast cancer.
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Holiday hugs, love. Best wishes to us all for a happy, healthy New Year.
Carol Jones
Re: Information that may save women from breast cancer
A good example of why THERMOGRAPHY is the much better screening method! BSE is better than nothing, but by the time a lump can be felt it is pretty far along.
Thermography catches problems earlier than mammography and finds things that mammography does not. It is functional, not optical. Unlike ionizing radiation from X-rays of the breast, it does not cause the disease that it is looking for. In addition, it is non-contact so no discomfort (a bit strange perhaps, but no smooshing).
This story is a good example of something much larger: that for-profit medicine does not have our best interest at heart, especially our best long-term interest. Why are mammograms still being used and *pushed* when it is known that they do not work and the ionizing radiation is dangerous? Why is the AMA actively trying to prevent thermographic screening from being covered by medical insurance by screwing around with the billing codes for this procedure?
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From: Carol Jones [mailto:grammycarol714@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:59 PM
To: Jones, Carol
Subject: Please share with your women friends
Dear Friends,
It has been quite a journey starting with the shock of a serious diagnosis in September. I have yearly mammograms and just had a “normal” report. Three days later I found a lump in left breast during a BSE in shower. Help me spread the word for ALL women to do breast self exams monthly. If they have “dense breasts” insist on an ultrasound or better screening. Routine mammography misses 10-15% of breast cancers. No woman is too young or too old to do BSE. Please do not rely on regular mammography to find cancer. BSE saved my life. If I had no done a thorough BSE no telling how long before I discovered I had invasive ductal carcinoma.
I knew I had dense breasts. I did not realize I should insist on another screening methodology. Shocking to learn this now but others may benefit from what I have experienced. It is difficult to share personal information with friends. My story might help others to be spared breast cancer. So spread the word for women to do breast self exams monthly.
Some good will come from my sharing a personal event if you will send this to your women friends. Please send to all women you love, care for and want to spare the pain of breast cancer.
Send as a Bcc to avoid sharing your list with those that receive a copy.
Holiday hugs, love. Best wishes to us all for a happy, healthy New Year.
Carol Jones
