1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 7:30 pm PDT

Since the mid 1990s my wife has had mammograms every year religiously. She had her last in May of 2008 and the results were clean. In November she went to her primary care doctor for follow up on cholesterol medication and asked the doctor to examine her right breast. She was sent to radiology immediately and within a week was diagnosed with HER2+ breast cancer, and had a mastectomy within less than two weeks. She is currently undergoing chemotherapy. We cannot help but think that the protocol for screening needs to be drastically revised as there are many patients who get mammograms whose cancer is not found by this test but by ultrasounds or MRIs, or who go undetected because mammography fails women with dense tissue of the breasts.

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, May 06, 2009, 11:08 am PDT

A few years back I suddenly found myself of breast cancer.....lost my job due to ill health and ended up losing my life and living in a tent. Thank God the people I came across were a hell of a lot kinder than some on here. Believe me, anyone can end up of breast cancer...throw mental illness or depression into the mix and it can become a downward spiral into nowhere. Me, I always give to breast cancer people, it's the Jesus within me meeting with the Jesus within them....as my priest said last week "how we treat other people mirrors how we truly treat God" thankgodforebooks.com/breast-cancer-parr-rud.html

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