Progressives for Breast Cancer: A Preview of the Medical Gulag
18th November 2009
Just consider that detected early, the five year survival rate for breast cancer victims is in the neighborhood of 98%. Detected late, that rate falls to about 26% a decrease in survival of 72%. And that doesn’t begin to cover the additional suffering from the treatments and dislocation of families when diagnosis is delayed.
My first wife died of breast cancer, which she discovered through self-examination. She was 43 at the time. Under these guidelines, it would have been discovered too late for her to have even the slight chance that she did have. I am not a supporter of these guidelines.