[norkdo]

ok. i was peremptory. i went back and reread more. the thing i was objecting to was this:
Aside from having regular screenings and being generally aware of breast health, other factors that women should be aware of include :
Post menopausal weight gain
Family history of the disease
Getting Yearly Mammograms after the age of 40

when i went back and read the whole thing, aside from the above, the rest was more realistic. better than the above.

Here is my point. We should not be happy with the above "standard advice" . We should rebel. we should speak out. Telling people that they only need worry if they are chubby and post menopausal with a family history of the disease and telling them to put faith in yearly mammograms without knowing if they have dense breasts, etc (mammograms did not serve the majority of women on this site according to our poll...my mammogram, and many other mammograms were false negative for breast cancer)...is not right because it is not true. Read the threads consisting of dozens of posts by young women on here. definitely not post menopausal.

Billions of dollars donated over the years should mean we demand really good results. At least a few billion of some of the billions donated to breast cancer need to be set aside for replacing mammography with the latest state of the art machine that detects cancer in those with dense breasts.

I had a bad mammo and a follow up mammo. The follow up was false negative for b.c.

Advice in a fundraising campaign tends to put the onus on the individual woman and what she, alone, can do to make this a less rough road once it gets diagnosed. but catching it early is, from what I have seen on these boards, not the lot of the individual woman. It is the lot of the men and women who decide how the billions get spent: a reliable machine that detects cancer in dense breasted women, for example. there are billions of us out there in all countries wanting the right machine, and wanting the money spent correctly.