Majority of breast cancer patients develop symptoms of PTSD

[donocco]

Excellent point.

Sadly I laugh when I see the Komen adds about the " Race for the Cure."
Lets assume the unlikely possibility they found "THE CURE." It would be FDA approved for advanced Triple negative breast cancer after drugs A,B,C,D and E have been used.

If "THE CURE" were wideley used.

1. Oncologists go out of business

2. Drug companies are reduced to finding new Viagras and hopefully new antibiotics

3. Labratories lose money (a lot)

4. No more mammographies

5. No more Mammography machines.

6. No more mammography technicians

7. The stocks representing whatever metals make up Mammography Machines drop

Paul

[StephN]

Good ideas voiced.

I think the PTSD diagnosis can come more easily with cancer patients who have experienced any of the other multiple events that can leave a person marked. For instance, many of us have been in car accidents, had other life threatening things happen, such as nearly drowning or other narrow escapes, been hurt badly by loved ones or someone very close, or seen a house on fire with people inside. All shocks.

These events can add up and then when a life-threatening diagnosis is added to 2 or 3 of the above, the PTSD is not far away.

Count me as thankful that the parameters of PTSD have widened so that more people can get help that is far beyond the normal "support group" to provide.