Health Buzz: Cancer Society Shifts Stance on Screening and Other Health News

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Government must have threatneed them as they have and are doing with other companies and organizations, tv stations, etc.. Everyone has a price and we just found out what The Cancer Society really is all about. Best thing to do is stop funding them and sue them if they kill family members from "mishandling" a life.
Can't trust the Government and maybe the Pres was right... these organizations and insurance companies are just out for the bucks. Point taken and will pass this article around to anyone with a mother and father.

JG of PA 6:14PM October 21, 2009

If you are at risk for prostate cancer by virtue of your age or its presence in your family, have your PSA checked regularly and watch for upward trending. If it occurs, ask for a biopsy or other effective diagnostics. If you are positive for PCa, seek expert advice. Make an informed decision as to what you should do.
Because some men are jumping into unnecessary treatments does not mean that you should stick your head in the sand.
- a prostate cancer survivor

Gary Hardenbrook of MA 4:05PM October 21, 2009

Could it be that the Insurance companies are pushing for this because they do not want to pay for the testing and treatment.
This is ridiculous!
If I have even a small early stage cancer in my breast, I want to know about it and have it removed.
Something sounds fishy here!

Marie of CT 3:48PM October 21, 2009

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_2_1x_Chief_Medical_Officer_Otis_W_Brawley_Responds_to_Prostate_Studies.asp

LevonTostig 3:15PM October 21, 2009

"They're going to have to give up paying for things that don't make them healthier. And I -- speaking as an American, I think that's the kind of change you want.
Look, if, right now, hospitals and doctors aren't coordinating enough to have you just take one test when you come because of an illness, but instead have you take one test, then you go to another specialist, you take a second test, then you go to another specialist, you take a third test, and nobody is bothering to send the first test that you took, same test, to the next doctors, you're wasting money.
You may not see it, because if you have health insurance right now, it's just being sent to the insurance company. But that's raising your premiums. It's raising everybody's premiums. And that money, one way or another, is coming out of your pocket. Although we are also subsidizing some of that because there are tax breaks for health care."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/22/transcript.obama/index.html?section=cnn_latest

LevonTostig 3:06PM October 21, 2009