I love it when readers email me about articles and/or other stuff they find intriguing, troubling, disgusting, informative, inspiring or whatever the case might be. It’s like having my own team of breast cancer internet sleuths out there. You, my dear readers, are so smart and when you see or smell BS, you aren’t afraid …
Mammograms
Cancer is all about worry. Cancer causes a domino effect of worry. One worry leads to another. When you first find your lump or whatever clue finally gives your sneaky cancer away, you worry about what might or might not be. You worry about if you should tell anyone, make that doctor appointment, or schedule that …
The mammogram debate continues. Eleven things to discuss with your doctor. Despite the frustration it causes, I’ve heard it said that the ongoing mammogram debate is actually a good thing. Debate and discussion facilitate more debate and discussion. More debate and discussion eventually facilitate (hopefully) change and improvement. Without debate, change and improvement happen even …
In my previous post, I tried to navigate my way through the topic of mammography and the debate surrounding it by sharing some of my personal experience with mammography, an anecdotal account. Though anecdotal accounts are interesting and perhaps even useful, they are not based on scientific evidence or scientific anything.
Are you feeling confused by the ongoing debate about mammography? Who isn’t, right? Mammography has been in the news a great deal of late; but the debate about it has been going on for years now. I have wanted to write about this issue ever since I started blogging, but haven’t gotten around to tackling …