Older Americans Getting Cancer Tests They Don’t Need

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pie2634 — 11/30/2020 2:45:46 AM

Criminal medical cartel. And most of these tests give CANCER. Overtesting but investing about nothing in good old prevention. Western medicine is morally bankrupt and today a criminal activity. Follow the money.

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lyonsksl1 — 11/29/2020 8:46:09 PM

Glad I got a mammogram at the age of 71. Two cancerous tumors in one breast, HER+.

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Kitera — 11/29/2020 2:41:23 PM

The medial treatment types keep sending me appointments to have a mammogram. Had one when I was 45 and thought this can't be helpful but at that time I was a believer in the medical system. After many years they stopped sending me mail booking my appointments. It took many years for them to get the message

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Astonished — 11/29/2020 8:43:27 AM

Fifty percent of mammograms are false positives or false negatives. The pressure and the radiation, however, endanger those who are at risk. Ultimately, about three percent of women die of breast cancer, whether treated or not. Colonoscopy destroys the gut flora, where 80% of the immune system resides. Theoretically, your appendix retains some reserves, but I wouldn’t hold my breath, because the preliminary purging is so invasive.Add the nearly totally unnecessary pushing of cholesterol drugs, painkillers that work lowering pain by up to 30%, cause dependency, eventually, they don’t work at all, while destroying the stomach or the liver.Psychiatric drugs are also addictive and ultimately nearly always end up causing more damage than good.

Pregnant mothers are prescribed antibiotics that increase the probability of the child developing asthma by tenfold, and so does the whooping cough shot that the legal pill-pushers also like to enforce. A child whose mother receives both has a hundred times higher chance of developing asthma than those children whose mother do not receive the same treatment... False positives in cancer tests have also gone rampant, especially on patients who receive “charity care.” Chemotherapy would kill 98% of healthy recipients and turns the lives of real patients hell on earth for the last few months of their lives. My favorite healthcare joke is the following: An old man collapses in the village. A tourist goes up to him and asks, “Sir, shall I call a doctor?” “No, son. Here, in the village, we prefer to die from natural causes.”

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Almond — 11/29/2020 2:02:15 AM

Many procedures are done to the elderly only for 2 reasons. $Reimbursement$ and the need for interns to practice. My husband's grandmother was in an assisted living facility. She wanted to refuse testing, but staff kept testing her anyway. This added to her anxiety. If I recall correctly, she was 95 years old at the time. Finally, my husband's father intervened. he forbade further testing without her consent. He explained it well. At her age, a cancer diagnosis was irrelevant as she would likely die of something else before she could die of cancer. Also, at her age, treatment would have been inappropriate. Anxiety was not helping her health.

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Jackaroni — 10/11/2020 5:40:43 PM

A friend of mine recently took her elderly (mid 80's) mother in for her mammogram. This woman is in poor health, lives with her daughter, and can not leave the house without assistance. My first thought was "what the heck!? Not only was that very stressful for her mother, but I doubt that she would be able to survive the treatment for breast cancer if the test turned out to be positive. There is a good chance that even if she had cancer that she would live long enough to die from the cancer, it would likely be from some other age related issue. But the doctor's office sent a reminder, so my friend who is very devoted to her mother, took her in for the mammogram. Sigh.

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Almond — 10/11/2020 12:55:55 AM

it is not just cancer. It seems there is also a problem with 'diagnosis of the month' and 'drug of the month'. No matter what kind of problem you see the doctor about, you walk out with the same diagnosis as many of your friends. It makes me wonder if there is a very persuasive drug salesman making the rounds at the same doctors offices. -And, what incentives might they be offering to doctors to prescribe certain drugs. Then, in my experience and that of my friends, after you have taken time off work for a medical appointment, spent money on gas, paid an exorbitant $sum$ for an initial appointment and had several lab tests run (more $$), then at your follow up appointment--allegedly to discuss test results--you will pay $$ of a 5 minute telephone consult. Only to have the doctor tell you his diagnosis was a misdiagnosis. So, you are out all that time and money and have needlessly taken an expensive drug and has uncomfortable lab work done. Further, the doctor may even try to blame the patient for his own shortcomings--they may try to spin what you told them to mean the opposite. Whereas, if they had actually listened to you initially, they would have known their diagnosis could not possibly be accurate. Although he has lost all credibility in your eyes, he may attempt to refer you to one of his buddies for more of the same kind of abuse. No wonder more and more patients are doing their own research, buying their own medical equipment and medicines. Short of trauma, you can hardly do a worse job of healing on your own. It would be nice to have competent medical care available when you need it, but it is foolhardy to keep doing the same things over and over that do not work. You cannot find help if you go looking for it where it is not available.