tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37242167.post1665126482725335917..comments2009-06-14T02:09:25.724-07:00Karen M. Lynchnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37242167.post-90239205375750000842007-05-18T19:17:00.000-07:002007-05-18T19:17:00.000-07:00Dear Karen,<BR/>So sorry to read of your struggles with cancer. But I am inspired by your attitude and spirit.<BR/><BR/>I recently was asked for some input from a woman on Skin Cell Forum by private message. This seems to happen every month or two now.<BR/><BR/>Although she gave me leave to publish our interchange on my blog or on the forum, I have not decided to do so. If I come to the conclusion that her particular problems are relevant to enough people, and my particular ideas are not too speculative, I may do so in the future.<BR/><BR/>What brought her to mind was that she was talking about issues which included monthly difficulties, early puberty and some breast difficulties not related to cancer.<BR/><BR/>A part of my advice to her was that she should get a base-line mammogram or some other diagnostic test like perhaps an MRI or CAT scan to include her breasts if she was getting one done for any other reason.<BR/><BR/>I may have erred however in telling her that it could perhaps wait a few years since she was only thirty-one. I think I will revise my advice.<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that we need more comfortable testing than mammograms are, particularly for women with unusualy tender breasts. I think it is one of the key reasons why so many women delay doing it.<BR/><BR/>I will try to drop back in on you to see how your struggle is going.anthropositorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16177753166841748609noreply@blogger.com