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  • ChicagoReader
    ChicagoReader Member Posts: 110
    edited August 2015

    Hi Rosie,

    I just sent you a private message responding to your question about providers.

    CR

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  • muska
    muska Member Posts: 1,195
    edited August 2015

    Chicago, my situation is not that uncommon. I don't even mention that prior to DCIS/IDC diagnosis I was monitored for 13 (!) years with regular mammos and they still missed the right moment to intervene. So when I read all that general wording about just monitoring DCIS I get a little skeptical. The devil is in the details.

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  • ChicagoReader
    ChicagoReader Member Posts: 110
    edited August 2015

    VR: Thanks for the clarification on the study. Now if only all the news articles reporting about the study would be so careful!

    Rosie: I also worry that we may be heading towards denying insurance coverage of BMX for DCIS patients. In my view, that's a bad idea until until we have better science telling us *which* women we are over-treating.

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  • cp418
    cp418 Member Posts: 7,079
    edited August 2015

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/let-fear...

    This article is an "opinion".

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  • muska
    muska Member Posts: 1,195
    edited August 2015

    Good article, thank you for posting it.

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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited August 2015


    “Overtreatment” is easily conflated with “unnecessary” care. But they are quite different. Unnecessary care is getting antibiotics for a cold. It’s not only care that won’t help you, but care we know in advance won’t help you. But overtreatment is the Monday morning quarterbacking of cancer care: You can know it only retrospectively.

    I feel you have to go with the treatment that will let you sleep at night.

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