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It's not even limited to the "awareness" thing. It's that the "awareness" being raised is specifically to have mammograms, and the more mammograms that are performed the more DCIS is discovered, which is by definition always stage 0 and which some people would say is not correctly identified as cancer, but which is only detectable by mammogram. So the more mammograms that are performed, the more DCIS is found that would not otherwise be diagnosed and the more women are identified as "cancer survivors." And you bet, they had surgery and radiation and dog knows what in order to "cure" the DCIS. But they also had fear and heartbreak and anxiety and relationship pressure and so on and so forth. I tell you from experience that after you've had cancer, no matter how good your experience or how positive your outcome, you are changed.
Anyway, that DCIS thing creates a statistic that makes mammograms look effective. Those women would not have died from DCIS anyway, and the women who did not have mammograms but did get breast cancer and die of it were all other types of cancer. So of course the mammograms look like they're doing something essential, when in fact they may be much less valuable than Komen Foundation wants you to believe. Because if you believe that they're valuable, then you too will want to "raise awareness" and you will donate to the Komen Foundation. And your money will go to fund more fundraising efforts or, in other words, to pay their salaries.
I have already told my doctor that if I'm diagnosed with DCIS, I will decline treatment. And you know what? She didn't argue with me.
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