More Information About Breast Cancer, Self-Examination - 2

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Due to a response from my first post of which part is below I will write a little more about the CT imaging. According to reports it is still undergoing tests and not yet available to the general public and it may be some time before it is. But if it proves to give better results than a mammogram (please note I am not saying it does but if it proves to do so) I believe that everyone deserves the best.

Cost can be a killer, the cost of some drugs that could extend peoples lives or give them a better quality of life are refused because of the cost, the same will happen with CT imaging unless you can pay the costs yourself. It may not deem to be medically necessary, but if you value your life it could be money well spent even if you do prove to be a healthy being.

Your money or your life; which would you choose?
I am going off tack now to a similar subject but different.

My best friend had been having problems for over two years, visits to the doctors and hospital were she was given x-rays, tablets and other tests showed nothing, they told her she had stomach problems. She lost lots of weight and it was only when she had really severe pains in her side that they finally decided to do a scan which revealed that she had cancer. Six weeks later my friend was dead.  If a scan had been done two years earlier it would have been found and her life may have been extended with cancer treatments. But the expense of a scan is deemed too much to warrant the possibility of a life being saved. That is what we must assume anyway.

So when we talk about options about whether to go for cheap or expensive it is your life so you choose if you are able.
After explaining all that I will go back to the mammogram. It is important to take the tests and it is just as important for self examination as early detection can save your life.

To be continued;

(the statement that CT imaging is “better” might lead women to think that they should do this instead of a mammogram. Your article does not address the fact that this test is extremely expensive, not readily available across the nation, and unless there is documentation that it is medically necessary (and often not even then).