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Heather's avatar

You said it. Wait for masses to get larger so it's obvious. When you notice symptoms, then treat the disease. Acknowledge that you are going to die of something, and it'll likely be either heart disease, cancer, or dementia - no amount of screening is going to change that inexorable fact. Stop trying to live forever and reconcile yourself to your mortality. Accept that you're going to die of something, and by not dying of infectious disease etc, you've increased your chances of dying of breast cancer. Make peace with your humanity. There's no need to desperately do something - you seem to believe that doing something is better than nothing - rather, what is needed to be done is in the spiritual or therapeutic realm, in helping people to adjust to their mortal condition and accept their death as a natural part of life. And yeah, my mother had a screening detected breast cancer she survived to die of dementia, (she'd have been better off dying from the cancer) and my stepmother died of a non screening detected breast cancer.

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Lis's avatar

And to the young mother who wants to live to raise her children you would say???

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Kalika's avatar

Yeah I think we are just a number here. Gotta die of something, maybe stroke when you're 80 or maybe breast cancer at 45, all the same amirite?

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