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Re: New mammo guides - more pushback
I am pretty appalled by the news that has come out. I am happy to see there is some push back. Below is what I copied and pasted from Dr. Susan Love's site. Most people on her blog totally disagree with Dr. Love's agreement with the new study. Below is one of those who disagree with Dr. Love and the Study.
My wife was 25 when she felt a lump during a self-examination. Her doctor told her she was too young and not to worry about it. So my wife, trusting her doctor, let her tumor grow for over a year until a different doctor insisted on testing it.
She’s now 30 and Stage IV. Thanks to people like you, Susan, more young women are going to find themselves in this situation.
And for those of you who say anecdotal family stories aren’t relevant – go jump in a lake. My wife is not irrelevant and neither are any of the other younger breast cancer survivors whether you want to believe they exist or not.
I wonder how much the Insurance Industry is paying Dr. Love for her endorsement.
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Catherine
Found my own lump in the shower
April 2006 at the age of 58
Stage IIB, ER- PR- HER2+++ multi focal tumors, largest 2.3cm
Chemo first: AC/Taxol over 16 weeks
Bilateral mastectomy Sep 06
33 rads after the surgery
1 year of Herceptin completed Dec 07
15 years and no recurrence as of April 2021
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