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Listen to Consumer DNA Test Company Sales Reps Behaving Badly!

Listen to Consumer DNA Test Company Sales Reps Behaving Badly!
One sales rep told a fake customer that she’d “pretty much get” breast cancer.

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Don?t Listen to the New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

Second to lung cancer, breast cancer kills more women in the United States than any other disease. In fact, before 2009 ends, an estimated 40,000 people will die from this disease and another 192,000 will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Although men can also get breast cancer, it affects a majority of women.

A woman’s risk of dying from breast cancer is an estimated 1 in 35, and this death risk increases with age. The earlier that you diagnose breast cancer, the greater the survival rate is. If you catch this cancer in stage 2, you have a 5 year relative survival rate of 86 percent. It’s 100 percent with stage 1 cancer. Sadly, if you wait too late, at stage 4, these breast cancer patients only have a 20 percent survival rate.

With these staggering statistics, it is very important to detect cancer early. Mammograms, self breast exams, and clinical breast exams can be used to detect cancer in its earliest stages.

Mammograms are low dose x-rays that show the inside of your breasts can often detect breast cancer before the onset of any symptoms. That’s why the American Cancer Society, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and other healthcare professionals are standing firm in their stance that women get regular screening tests starting at age 40.

These major groups disagree with the new U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation that regular mammograms start at age 50. As of November 2009, this federally funded task force also argues against self-breast exams.

Since one of the major signs of breast cancer is a painless lump that develops in your breast, not doing a self-breast exam on a regular basis can make delay your diagnosis.

In 2009, the American Cancer Society estimates that over 18,000 people who are younger than 45 years old will have invasive breast cancers, and close to 3,000 of people under 45 will die from this disease.

If you wait to detect cancer, it is possible that people in the earliest stages of cancer will miss their symptoms and when they finally have a mammogram exam at age 50, their breast cancer has already metastasized (spread to other parts of their body, including their brain and vital organs). In this advanced stages, their survival rate is quite low as these cancers are hard to treat.

Although the choice of healthcare is up to each and every individual person and woman, this is an issue that will continue to be debated in the future. When is early detection a bad thing?

Because the USPSTF is a federally funded entity, one must wonder if they are making these recommendations based on economic reasons. Many major healthcare organizations, including the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins, as well as the American Cancer Society and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology are sticking by the old guidelines of starting screening at age 40.

Why the diagnostic for breast cancer is poor, and doctors don’t refer to right tests and don’t listen?

I have dence breast, i had discharge from breast before, and my sister had cancer.Doctors in Kaizer Permanente San Francisco didn’t refer me for diagnostic mammogram or ultrasound, only for regular mammogram.I had mam. in 2004, 2005,2006.They found differens in mm.2006 komparing 2004.
It mean, i already had cancer in 2005, but they missed it.
I had biopcy, and it was taken from 2 places.
and they have to put them in two different containers, but they puted them in one.The tecnition said, it is first time in his career.And i had to have one more biopcy.
Based on result, one MD.said, i have breast cancer, 2 tumors, another said, i have only one tumor. Surgeon said, he will cut out one tumor, because second is not tumor.I was begging him to take out both, and hi did it.The second one turn out was a tumor, too.Surgeon said it happen first time in his career.And i had second surgery for second tumor.I had one unnesessery biopcy and one unnessesery surgery. Doctors should pay attention

Lesson 2D- Listen Up Everybody- Dance With Me- Regular Speed.wmv

This is Lesson 2D (Listen Up Everybody – Dance with me regular speed) of the instructional video’s to learn the choreography for Hangin’ Tough. We will be dancing globally at the same time to spread breast cancer awareness and to raise money for breast cancer research. Please join us in the fight against breast cancer. More information can be found at www.hangintough.info

Will Obama listen to the FDA scientists, or will the corporations prevail?

See this article from the Washington Post

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123142562104564381.html

FDA scientists PLEADING Obama for reform to address the corporate corruption and violations of the law.

By ALICIA MUNDY and JARED A. FAVOLE
Some quotes

“WASHINGTON — A group of scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team pleading with him to restructure the agency, saying managers have ordered, intimidated and coerced scientists to manipulate data in violation of the law.”

and

“The scientists’ main concerns are with the agency’s scientific review process for medical devices, which they characterize as having been “corrupted and distorted by current FDA managers, thereby placing the American people at risk.”

and

“The group says they have taken their concerns to the head of the FDA, Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, and his assistant commissioner for accountability and integrity, attorney Bill McConagha. The scientists say no one has been held accountable, and say some of the problematic managers have been promoted and rewarded.”

and

“The agency has been under fire from both parties in both Houses of Congress as being too close to industry. Several leading politicians, including Sen. Chuck Grassley have complained that FDA leaders often ignore or suppress their own scientists’ opinions on safety issues involving drugs and devices.”

and

“The group says the FDA approved such devices [mammograms] without clinical evidence showing they were effective in detecting breast cancer. Since 2006, FDA physicians and scientists have recommended five times that these devices not be approved without valid scientific and clinical evidence.”

Did you catch that last sentence “SINCE 2006, FDA PHYSICIANS AND SCIENTISTS HAVE RECOMMENDED FIVE TIMES THAT THESE DEVICES NOT BE APPROVED WITHOUT VALID SCIENTIFIC AND CLINICAL EVIDENCE.”

Should we be contacting our Congress Critters to express our support for these patriots and demanding FDA reform?
John De Witt. Why the antagonism in your answer. Do you have an agenda?

What I do or do not take has absolutely no relevance to the question. Read the article. Most people are not as apathetic as you suggest.