Screening has little impact on breast cancer deaths: Study

Screening has little impact on breast cancer deaths: Study


Careful, Ladies. Take your cue for how to take care of your breasts from Susan Love's Army of Women (see Links) or other breast cancer awareness organizations. Breast cancer diagnosis is a comprehensive process, one that starts with you. Yeah, you.

Leigh Hurst, a young breast cancer survivor, from the homeland, Pennsylvania, founded an awareness campaign whose message is: Feel Your Boobies (I've added this important campaign to my Links). It's a simple and smart idea--awareness starts when you get to know your boobs! It's your body--take charge! The shower is the best place to get to know your girls. Are they lumpy? Do they feel like a bag of peas? Is the tissue smooth? And ask your doctor--"do I have dense breast tissue?"

If you have dense breast tissue, imaging, via mammogram can be more challenging--the image may be less clear. Since more women diagnosed with breast cancer have no history of the cancer in their family, we all have to be vigilant.  Follow your physician's guidelines and have a look at the links provided on this page.

We want to kick breast cancer's ass. We want a cure--but that cure starts with you. As someone who has been there and done that, I still advocate for imaging.

Suzanne Somers Puts the "Dumb" Back in "Blond" Part 2

Suzanne Somers' grim forecast for what happens to women who are aging naturally (rather than artificially replacing their hormones and trips to the plastic surgeon's fountain of youth):

1). You can't sleep.
2). You gain weight.
3). [Your partner] (she said "men"--I'm saying partner) goes out and finds the younger version of you.

Does this make you feel more empowered? No? Me neither.

Somers predicts that if you allow yourself to age naturally, you're going to be a fat insomniac. Oh, and your partner is going to leave your fat ass.

Actually, that was the point where I wanted to kick my TV for saying bad things out loud.

Somers' message:  Those of us, over 50, are headed for Sleepless In (Name Your Town), unless we sign up for a bunch of hormones.  Ms. Somers prescribes a regimen, a bunch of pills, a cornucopia of pills, to make us become "hormonally balanced." When has that ever occurred?! I don't know about you, but my hormones have never stood in a straight line.

Researchers continue to find threads that link HRT to certain cancers.

Here's the thing:  Ms. Somers is stuck at pretty. Never mind confidence, the sexiest trait any woman can possess.  Forget smart. Forget fierce. Forget wisdom, courage, and influence.  It's easy to see that Ms. Somers does not see any value in aging women.  And, let's face it--we are all aging!

Oh, um, by the way, excuse me, Ms. Sommers, You've aged!  But it's ok.  Aging is a privilege.

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."  ~Alanis Morissette, quoted in Reader's Digest, March 2000

Thank you, Ms. Morissette!