About me: NJ feminist, delaying entering the real world by hopefully going to graduate school soon? to study non-profit management. loves the color pink, silly movies, and talking for hours.
From my understanding, providers are shying away from necessarily encouraging a formal self breast exam. My provider discussed this with me letting me know that a lot of young women perform SBE's incorrectly and therefore ineffectively and that it would (posted to Breast Cancer: The decline of the self-exam?)
From my understanding, providers are shying away from necessarily encouraging a formal self breast exam. My provider discussed this with me letting me know that a lot of young women perform SBE's incorrectly and therefore ineffectively and that it would (posted to Breast Cancer: The decline of the self-exam?)
Not to make it too personal, but my mother was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer at the age of 45. Her initial tumor would have been very apparent on a mammogram a year or two before if she had (posted to What We Missed )
According to many major medical sources, most women with breast cancer have no known risk factors other than simply being women. The number one risk factor: being a woman. When the recommendations say women with risk factors should still get (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
According to many major medical sources, most women with breast cancer have no known risk factors other than simply being women. The number one risk factor: being a woman. When the recommendations say women with risk factors should still get (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
Curious-- who's deciding which posts have comments screened and which don't? A lot of posts lately seem to have them screened but this one doesn't. It would be nice to know up front which is which before posting. (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
I guess what I don't get with this thread of comments is why so many people are angry that there is a backlash against these guidelines. I can't speak for anyone else but I don't like the reflexive demonizing of (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
Yes, that is the other main point. If black women are more at risk, then the guidelines SAY that they should get earlier screening. So if they get earlier screening, they are following the guidelines. It makes no sense to (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
Why would they know when the coverage of these new standards doesn't say a word about different risk factors for black women? Actually, when I first heard this news on the radio they DID specifically mention that black women are (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
Yeah. Perils of women interested in feminism winding up in women's studies classes that don't seem to do a very good job of explaining statistics, at a guess. In fact, from what I can tell feminism itself (or at least (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
