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StephN · 10-17-2012, 04:04 PM

The same thought struck me after all the bruhaha between Komen and PP last year.

I just checked our Greater Northwest Planned Parenthood web site and Alaska has a program to PAY for mammograms after the primary insurance has been billed, if the person has that. Otherwise there is a fund up there to pick up the cost.

There may now be other PP locations that have enough private funds to do as Alaska in certain instances, since Komen no longer contributes to PP.

However, I don't think mammograms are available at the actual office locations. There are mobile units that come to designated places.

A woman CAN get a breast exam at most of the PP locations, as far as around here. I understand that mostly young women and underserved populations take advantage of PP.

P.S. Moderators should not be trying to fact check, but let the debators check each other as time allows and without going on a tangent.

10-17-2012, 04:04 PM	#6
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: Statement by Obama again in Debate re: mammograms at PP The same thought struck me after all the bruhaha between Komen and PP last year. I just checked our Greater Northwest Planned Parenthood web site and Alaska has a program to PAY for mammograms after the primary insurance has been billed, if the person has that. Otherwise there is a fund up there to pick up the cost. There may now be other PP locations that have enough private funds to do as Alaska in certain instances, since Komen no longer contributes to PP. However, I don't think mammograms are available at the actual office locations. There are mobile units that come to designated places. A woman CAN get a breast exam at most of the PP locations, as far as around here. I understand that mostly young women and underserved populations take advantage of PP. P.S. Moderators should not be trying to fact check, but let the debators check each other as time allows and without going on a tangent. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018. Last edited by StephN; 10-17-2012 at 04:06 PM..