Can Breast Cancer Disappear?

Fran Visco

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Friday, January 30, 2009
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What if you found out from a mammogram that you had breast cancer - but a few months later were told it had gone away? Sounds pretty unbelievable - but a study published recently by the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that this might be true. Scientists from Norway and the U.S. compa...

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PJ Hamel
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 03:26 PM

Fran, I did a post on this same study a couple of months ago, and it did provoke some comments. I also threw the question out to my survivor group, and it generated some REALLY interesting discussion. What it boiled down to was, "Would YOU want to be the woman who decided to watch and wait, rather than get treated?" I said I would; most said they wouldn't. Thanks for surfacing this again— PJH

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Lynda
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 05:21 PM

Hi Fran, sounds like they should also look into mammograms actually causing cancer. This could also be a reason for the reduction in breast cancer partients who had not been screened in 6 years as opposed to those who had.

Caused by mammograms would take much longer to show up
Kay
Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 07:15 AM

Yes, radiation does cause cancer. But it takes several years before a new breast cancer will show up on a mammogram, so the cancers seen in the Norwegian study could not have been caused by a previous screening mammogram done only two or four years earlier.

Can Breast Cancer Disappear?
KrissBrock
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 06:57 PM

How can breast cancer disappear when men aren't being informed MEN GET BREAST CANCER, TOO? Until EVERYONE is aware of this fact how can breast cancer disappear!

What is it going to take for ALL breast cancer sites to get the word out? Komen commercials say "Everybody deserves a life" but how can that be when men can die from breast cancer because they don't know they can get this "WOMAN'S DISEASE." Shame on ALL breast cancer sites for not doing more to let men know. I don't care if only 1% of all breast cancer is in men. It should now matter who gets breast cancer, the word needs to get out.