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Specifics and Interests => Health => : Ewigkeit Mon May 11, 2009 - 18:08:34

: Regular Cancer Screening
: Ewigkeit Mon May 11, 2009 - 18:08:34
Everyone should at least occasionally be tested for cancer, but if you're over 35, regular screenings are a must, because once cancer metastacises, it's especially difficult to nearly impossible to control it.  Many an individual has died needlessly because he'/she failed to heed early warning signs of cancer.
: Re: Regular Cancer Screening
: mandalee65 Tue May 12, 2009 - 07:59:21
I'll be heading for mammograms a little early b/c my grandmother had breast cancer twice. I'm also probably going to be colonoscopies before too much longer, b/c colon cancer seems to run in the family.
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: Ewigkeit Tue May 12, 2009 - 17:08:28
Let's hope and pray that all test results will be negative.  Wouldn't it be great if insurance companies would get on the preventitive medicine bandwagon?
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: mandalee65 Wed May 13, 2009 - 12:36:49
I'm not worried. :)

It does seem like a no-brainer that insurance companies would cover more preventative expenses, doesn't it?
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: Ewigkeit Wed May 13, 2009 - 15:02:49
Indeed it does; but have you ever noticed how utterly short-sighted nearly all business executives are?
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: mandalee65 Thu May 14, 2009 - 09:45:44
Well, at least the ones in the insurance industry... as someone with a BBA in management, I have to say there are a few out there with a bit of sense. :)
: Re: Regular Cancer Screening
: Ewigkeit Thu May 14, 2009 - 10:37:40
Congratulations.  I'm glad to know there's at least one Bus Ad with a brain!
: Re: Regular Cancer Screening
: Corriher Sun May 31, 2009 - 17:07:44
The radiation of mammograms CAUSES cancer.  So the cancer that is spotted this year was most likely caused by last year's mammogram.  It's quite a racket they have going.  Notice how the more screening they do, the more they "discover" cancer?
: Re: Regular Cancer Screening
: Ewigkeit Sun Sep 06, 2009 - 20:49:38
: Corriher  Sun May 31, 2009 - 17:07:44
The radiation of mammograms CAUSES cancer.  So the cancer that is spotted this year was most likely caused by last year's mammogram.  It's quite a racket they have going.  Notice how the more screening they do, the more they "discover" cancer?

Could be, but it's also true that cancers are often treated with radiation.