Today I would like to pay a tribute to Kate. She was a strong and determined woman who valiantly fought breast cancer for more than five years, though she was initially given a stage 4 diagnosis. Kate lived in Holland and the treatment protocols (some experimental) were quite advanced. Hopefully, the reactions that her body [...]
An email circulating by Kathy Rosenbloom points out an important issue that is unknown to many. Read on. “Susan G. Koman for the Cure just cut all its funding to Planned Parenthood for breast screenings, bowing to anti-choice pressure and making breast health care suddenly inaccessible to many women. Planned Parenthood health centers are often [...]
The article below hints at the healthcare rationing to follow. How Government Micromanagement Could Discourage Access To Some Preventive Services Kathryn Nix | October 14, 2010 A recent letter from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reveals how Obamacare will erode patients’ access to certain preventive services. The new health care law requires insurers to cover [...]
Please take a moment to read this (and act on it!) MASTECTOMY LAW CHANGE Written by a surgeon. I’ll never forget the look in my patients eyes when I had to tell them they had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast. I remember begging the doctors to keep these women in the [...]
Dr. Abraham Port, director of the Mammography and Women’s Radiological Health Center at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, N.Y. consented to an interview on the new mammography guidelines, put out by the United States Preventive Task Force. When asked about the new recommendations, here were his comments. “I can understand healthcare rationing. The harsh [...]
Physicians and patients alike are in a quandary as to which is the best screening modality for breast cancer. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force set out to answer this question. Analyzing data for five different modalities, results were evaluated. The modalities compared were: film mammography digital mammography magnetic resonance imaging clinical brest examination breast [...]
Perhaps this published article had missed your attention (Published: 10/19/09, 10:02 PM)– one where doctors ARE with borders. Unfortunately, when it comes to disease, borders are not respected. It is a travesty that intellectual minds cannot get together and work towards the goal of eradicating problems that face all mankind. Therefore, I am republishing this [...]
Happy Mother’s Day. The Mets celebrated Mother’s Day in quite a unique manner today. Think Pink! Bats were pink as were the arm bands of each player. The purpose of this was to pay tribute to Breast Cancer awareness and to raise funds for this worthy cause as well as to fund research to [...]
There are many prostate cancers that are picked up by examination. Yet many rely on going to the lab for a PSA (prostate specific antigen) alone. While this blood test is essential for men over 50, it is not the only parameter for diagnosis. PSA can be falsely elevated. Inflammation or hypertrophy (enlargement) can cause [...]
