Mammograms are not worth the money for any woman under the age of death so the coverage of mammograms will be eliminated soon from all insurance plans. Furthermore, women need not perform self-exams to catch breast cancer in its earlier stages. It would be cheaper if women just died from cancer while they’re young and left their money and belongings to their husbands – whose prostate screenings and erectile dysfunction prescriptions will still be covered and encouraged.
Pap smears are likewise no longer needed because again women, with all their complicated reproductive parts, are too costly to live. In the near future babies will be grown in artificial wombs thus eliminating the need for women altogether. Woman will only be allowed to live long enough to satisfy men for recreational sexual purposes – possibly to the age of 25. After that, all woman will be declared too costly and ugly to live.
That only pertains to the insured, if you lucky enough to afford it. The uninsured have to wait for the autopsy to detect breast cancer. There was a special on not too long ago talking about another procedure to detect breast cancer that was much better than the mammograms but I can’t remember what it was. The only problem is there were only 3 place in the U.S. that perform the procedure and insurance doesn’t cover it because of the expense.
Its no different than men and Prostate Screenings. My dad had Prostate Cancer and my mom was on me to get checked so I finally caved in and called the Doctor. I was only 38 and my insurance wouldn’t cover it because I was to young. The way I interpeted the new mammogram screenings was that only persons with no family history of cancer were to wait untill 50 and those with history should go at 40. I just hope they get the new and more efficient test down to an affordable price for our poor insurance companies.
My mom died from breast cancer and had a mammogram a year before she was diagnosed and nothing was found then. She thought she was the healthiest 60 year old in Decatur just a few months before she passed away. She even had a lump removed from the lymph node area under her arm, less than a year before she was diagnosed, and it came back benign – which I question to this day. In fact, after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, once it was too late, and they did another mammogram, the mammogram came back clean again. She had an aggressive form of breast cancer that mammograms don’t pick up because there was probably never a tumor in the breast to begin with.
I believe the better test is an MRI for breast cancer. My dad made sure I knew about it. He is always on me about getting tested. I’m at high risk because my mom and two aunts have died from breast cancer and both of my grandmothers died from ovarian cancer. I feel like a time bomb and I need a sex change operation!
Mammograms aren’t the only answer but telling women to not even worry about breast cancer before they’re 50 is nuts! We all know women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer way before age 50. And if it leads to biopsies which turn out benign, then so what?
I was scared out of my head the first time I had a mammogram at age 34. I had to have a biopsy, and this was less than a year after my mom passed away, and I was planning my funeral as I awaited the results. I had the music selection picked out in my head and everything.
It was scary but if it had been cancer, that mammogram would have probably saved my life.
I would hope that all of these types of tests (mammograms, pap smears, prostate screenings, etc) would be covered for people beginning at a reasonable age. It’s about lives. What dollar amount do you put upon someone’s life? These new guidelines are like saying, it’s okay if some women die because it’s saving us money. That is so wrong.
“I just hope they get the new and more efficient test down to an affordable price for our poor insurance companies.” LOL! It does seem like these new guidelines are more about the insurance companies than patients.
Oh I know I don’t know why the tests don’t start in the teens developmental years. I wish I could remember this test that they were showing. What amazed me was they have a better way of finding the cancer but because its expensive we don’t use it and thats a croc of crap.