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Old 11-24-2009, 04:38 PM   #19
Margerie
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Re: Does Anyone Know Why We Are No Longer to Do Self Exams?

You can not put a dollar value on a life. You can not put a dollar value on suffering.

I think a lot of us resent that our lives are being added and subtracted in some column in the name of biostatistics/ bioeconomics by this panel. I think a lot of us realize that if these guidelines were in place years ago, we may not be here. I probably would not. There is value to what this panel found, but they needed to consider a lot more than economics and evidence-based science before revising their recommendations IMO. We need to debate considering the human element, we need to remember the enemy is breast cancer.
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