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StephN · 12-02-2009, 03:53 PM

Nice to see you Rozbud. Bet you have been active on the other boards with this development!

Sarah -
I wish what you say was true.
The legislators who will be voting on a new health care plan are ALREADY in office (many as "fixtures"), and just who is going to run against them on a Let's Do Mammograms platform??

On the other hand, if there is too much hue and cry, these recommendations should get watered down and some kind of compromise would hopefully be the outcome.

My fervent HOPE is that some new screening techniques will soon emerge and these WILL be offered to women of younger age AS SCREENING, and not just on the basis of a complaint that should get checked out.

Might as well pray for rain in Seattle, huh?

12-02-2009, 03:53 PM	#48
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: New Proposed Changes to Mammogram Guidelines Nice to see you Rozbud. Bet you have been active on the other boards with this development! Sarah - I wish what you say was true. The legislators who will be voting on a new health care plan are ALREADY in office (many as "fixtures"), and just who is going to run against them on a Let's Do Mammograms platform?? On the other hand, if there is too much hue and cry, these recommendations should get watered down and some kind of compromise would hopefully be the outcome. My fervent HOPE is that some new screening techniques will soon emerge and these WILL be offered to women of younger age AS SCREENING, and not just on the basis of a complaint that should get checked out. Might as well pray for rain in Seattle, huh? __________________ "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.