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Comment on Breast Cancer and Women Under 40 by e cig

e cig — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:28:43 +0000

I think whether you have a history or breast cancer in your family or not, every women should get her breats checked out annually. My doctor taught me how to check for lumps myself, and I do that every few months just to be safe. Catching breast cancer early is better then catching it later on.

Comment on Larger & More Graphic Cigarette Warnings by e cigarette

e cigarette — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:25:00 +0000

I think by making the graphic cigarette warnings larger will probably help prevent people from smoking even more. I believe if the picture is bigger, then it is hard to miss and all attention will be focused. I think they should do even more graphic things around the world to really make people understand the harm behind smoking.

Comment on Women Living & Blogging Lupus Awareness Month by Step On Me

Step On Me — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:47:30 +0000

Got SLE in 2000, hve had it for 13yrs. I was suffering tking many med’s. For the yr00-03,it got to much for me and I couldnt go out with my little girls and do wht a parents should do with there kids. I got completely off all med’s. Then got pregnant in 04yr, had the bby. Was doing great, now my levels r high 300, and need to get bck on med’s again.I had have been getting flu like colds evry 2weeks. Wht do I tell my Dr. to do cause it seems like they don’t give me the care I need.

Comment on Breast Cancer: My Interview With Dr. Laura Esserman by Informed Consent

Informed Consent — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:40:17 +0000

Thanks so much for this blog and posting the video of Dr. Esserman. I’ve been most interested in her work re: DCIS, so it was really good to have the chance to see this interview and her approach. I was surprised to see one of the other posters say that Dr. Esserman did no follow-up with the patient’s mother who ultimately died after an apparent succsesful DCIS surgery. Even with Dr. Esserman’s somewhat bold statements about the needed changes in DCIS, I can’t imagine that she wouldn’t do basic follow-up after surgery or at least one repeat mammogram? That makes no sense and would open her up to legal action. I’m currently going through a situation with microcalcifications detected on a routine mammogram, very small, 9mm in size, and so far have refused biopsy and opted instead for follow-up mammogram, my first one at six months and no changes seen in the calcs. I totally agree with Dr. Esserman’s ideas that we overtreat DCIS and put women through torment unnecessarily. Is everything in medicine (or life) 100% No. we can’t even know for sure if we are doing the right thing, but I have read too many horror stories of women dragged through the mill over DCIS scenarios at the total ruination of their health for NO REASON. I think we need to focus on those thousands of cases like that, where there’s harm being done every day. I am attempting to avoid unnecessary harm to my health while remaining aware that I have a few microcalcs. The mammographer is continuing to insist that I have a biopsy because that is the “standard of care”. Hopefully this “one size fits all” knee jerk reaction about DCIS will change through the dilligant efforts of Dr. Esserman and other researchers around the country who want to interject some rationality into the breast cancer debate.

Comment on Can Yoga Help Reduce Symptoms of Chronic Illness? by Yoga Doc

Yoga Doc — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:58:21 +0000

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