US women with breast cancer currently have a higher survival rate than in socialized Europe.
A major reason for this is because the cancer is diagnosed earlier.
Researchers discovered that it was because of breast cancer screenings that women with breast cancer have a 14 percent higher survival rate in the United States than in Europe. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Breast cancer mortality is also 9 percent higher in Canada than in the US. Less than 25 percent of U.S. women die from breast cancer. In Britain, it’s 46 percent; France, 35 percent; Germany, 31 percent; Canada, 28 percent; Australia, 28 percent, and New Zealand, 46 percent.
Maybe that’s why just 8% of Americans agree with the government’s new rationed mammogram rules.
Rasmussen reported:
A federal medical panel’s recommendation that women can now wait until age 50 to get a routine mammogram instead of age 40 is stirring up strong debate. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey finds that 81% of adults disagree with the panel’s recommendation. Just nine percent (8%) agree with the new guideline.
November 28th, 2009 | 9:54 am | #1
Next they’ll tell us .. “..it’s only stage one cancer…you can wait until it’s stage three and then we’ll treat it”.
Just how freakin stupid are these people???
November 28th, 2009 | 10:01 am | #2
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November 28th, 2009 | 10:07 am | #3
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November 28th, 2009 | 10:15 am | #4
The Democrats like Obama/Pelosi/Reid have to lie in order to sell the public on this “budget busting” bill. Reid: “The Bill will save lives, save Medicare and reduce the deficit.” are all big fat lies. If Reid was honest he would have said “The bill will cost lives, destroy Medicare and increase the deficit.” The Preventative Health panel that recommended that women under 50 should not get mammograms will be given great power in the Bill to determine what procedures are allowable or not based on “cost effectiveness” will cost lives, maybe your wife, daughter or mom. The 500 billion dollar cuts to Medicare will destroy Medicare which is already operating in the red. The over trillion dollar in new spending cannot be fully paid for with higher taxes and cuts to Medicare given the fact the US debt is already unsustainable and the economy is going down the tubes. Obama/Pelosi/Reid and the rest of the Democrats are all a bunch of big fat liars who will not have to personally bear the burden of the most horrible bill ever as they will all be covered by their “Cadillac plans” while the rest of us are forced to stand in line waiting for that surgery or treatment we need to save our lives that some government bureaucrat has outlawed as not “cost effective”.
November 28th, 2009 | 10:23 am | #5
What about Prostate cancer? No early screening no test until it’s too late.
November 28th, 2009 | 10:52 am | #6
It would be interesting to know how this 81% voted last November…
November 28th, 2009 | 11:07 am | #7
Oh, American woman! Do you feel cheated by the “cool black guy” yet? I bet you thought you were going to get free, frequent cancer screenings because he’s so handsome, and black, and in the movies God is always black, so black guys must be Godlike in their compassion? Do you feel now like you threw it all away so that you could use your emotions to select a President, rather than your reason?
McCain might have been old, and White, and not very “hip-hop” generation at all. I can see why you wouldn’t want to vote for an old guy who couldn’t even raise his arms above his head. How would McCain have ever given a “shout out” and rasied his hands up in da ay-ere and waved ‘em like he just don’t cay-ere? I’ll bet, though that the man who ran INTO a fire to save his comrades would protect you, rather than factor you in to some equation to see if your health care resources could be better used on some other segment of the population.
Don’t think for a minute that this is not a preview of the government healthcare rationing system. Remember, they are going to take things away from you for the common good. One of those things will be your life, unfortunately.
November 28th, 2009 | 12:22 pm | #8
This is irresponsible and extremely intrusive. They will not dictate to us when we can get testing. This is a clear violation of our Constitution, and everything America stands for. This coming from none other then HHS who believes it’s also ok to stick an ice pick in an unborn’s skull. We will fight this illegal seizing of our health care. These people are nobodies who can go straight to hell!
November 28th, 2009 | 1:38 pm | #9
Just because 81 percent of Americans believe it doesn’t make it true. Eighty-one percent of Americans certainly don’t have the medical expertise to make an informed decision; I wouldn’t want the average person off the street operating on me or even making medical decisions pertaining to my health, so why do we care what they say? What matters is what the doctors have to say, not what the general public says. And the doctors certainly don’t seem to have reached a consensus on the updated recommendation.
November 28th, 2009 | 1:40 pm | #10
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November 28th, 2009 | 2:18 pm | #11
As Dell mused, it’s won’t be “cancer”/ cancer until it’s in an advanced stage.
Pre cancerous cells? Sorry, cannot be removed- not really cancer!
November 28th, 2009 | 2:52 pm | #12
They’re just setting the table!
They will beat us with this kind of stuff often enough that some of us will start to believe it.
November 28th, 2009 | 4:57 pm | #13
Wow. We finally get the diagnostics good enough to detect just a handful of (sometimes pre-) cancerous cells, and to differentiate aggressive v. non-aggressive cancers. The more aggressive ones tend to show up in younger women.
The response to this news is a suggestion to cut off funding for diagnosing younger women.
Why would that be? Could it be that someone who wants to pass a huge bill would prefer to argue for a cut that nobody in their right mind would want, in order to divert attention from something else in that monstrosity of a pile of paper?
I detect a shell game.
November 28th, 2009 | 5:18 pm | #14
Let’s prohibit treatment for ED as well. And no funding for hair plugs, botox and whatever else the gubmint needs to stay out of!
More and more they build a case for term limits! MORONS!
November 28th, 2009 | 6:15 pm | #15
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November 28th, 2009 | 6:19 pm | #16
It would be interesting to get a profile of those 8% that that think there should be no breast cancer scanning before age 50, and why they think so.
Here is one possible school of thought: Everybody knows or certainly should know that ObamaCare is designed to sacrifice the weak and infirm below teenage years and above 55 or 60, because these people are not productive. Killing off women below 50 who get breast cancer may be a gesture to even out the killing, i.e. it is kind of a matter of fairness (always a fetish among Liberals), and anyway once a woman gets breast cancer, medical expenses are bound to mount.
November 28th, 2009 | 7:16 pm | #17
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November 28th, 2009 | 8:43 pm | #18
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November 29th, 2009 | 10:07 am | #19
I’d be far more impressed if you reported on how very little money goes towards prostate cancer. Of course, it’s silly of me to think men would get any attention in an overly feminist nation like the USA. Both the left and the right are overwhelmingly FEMINIST. Weird.
Get me out of this sick country!
November 29th, 2009 | 10:49 am | #20
Lee
November 29th, 2009 | 10:07 am | #19
Get me out of this sick country!
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You do realize that there are no restrictions (yet) on departures from the USA for foreign shores, don’t you?
If you prefer to run rather than stay and try to fight against the wrongs being perpetrated against the people of this great country, then do so. Don’t just talk about it.
Planes and boats leave every day for places you might find more amenable.
November 29th, 2009 | 2:28 pm | #21
Since we stopped pumping ladies full of estrogen, the number of breast cancer cases has dropped significantly. I wasn’t surprised to see a change in the preventative care scans but I think these might be too extreme.
I definitely want to see the data on breast cancer deaths examined more. Are these many extra deaths women in their 30s and 40s who would have had their cancer caught if screened? Are the women in their 50s not getting screened because of an overburdened socialized system? Are the deaths due to the months of delayed chemo after the cancer is found as we so often see in Canada? In America, we also have many different cancer drugs, allowing a doctor to quickly change the medicinal formula to better suit a patient. This probably ups our percentage of survival a point or two.
Let’s also be honest with ourselves. This isn’t about losing our ability to get screenings done in our 30s or 40s, it’s about keeping our insurance paying for them if we decide we want them. With new screening guidelines, we fear our insurance listing them as extraneous and having to pay for them ourselves.
This issue isn’t settled by far but add my vote to the 81% of those who disagree.
December 8th, 2009 | 1:02 pm | #22
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December 16th, 2009 | 7:19 pm | #23
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December 17th, 2009 | 9:26 am | #24
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