Regular Cancer Screening

[Ewigkeit]

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.

[mandalee65]

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.

[Ewigkeit]

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?

[mandalee65]

I'm not worried. :)

It does seem like a no-brainer that insurance companies would cover more preventative expenses, doesn't it?

[Ewigkeit]

Indeed it does; but have you ever noticed how utterly short-sighted nearly all business executives are?

[mandalee65]

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. :)

[Ewigkeit]

Congratulations.  I'm glad to know there's at least one Bus Ad with a brain!

[Corriher]

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?

[Ewigkeit]

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.