OT but relevant to some members: breast cancer

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AN IMPOrtant concern about the percentage of misdiagnoses by pathologistsin early detection of breast cancer. Since some of our members havedealt/are dealing/will deal with this, I thought it was worthposting:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/health/20cancer.html?src=me & ref=generalProne to Error: Earliest Steps to Find CancerMara

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At 05:19 PM 7/21/2010, you wrote:

AN IMPOrtant concern about the percentage of misdiagnoses by

pathologists

in early detection of breast cancer. Since some of our members

have

dealt/are dealing/will deal with this, I thought it was worth

posting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/health/20cancer.html?src=me & ref=general

You know what? That's blasted petrifying.

Anyone who hasn't been there has no concept of how truly horrifying it is

to hear the words, " It's malignant. " Just as no one who

doesn't have it truly understands what any one individual case of IBD is

like to someone who does, it's impossible to convey the terror of

" How can my body betray me like this? "

And the idea that one should go through the surgery, the chemo, the

radiation, and then find out it was unnecessary?!

Gawd.

—

Marilyn

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