Comments on: Breast Self-Exams: No Survival Benefit

Review Shows No Cancer Survival Benefit From Monthly Screening; Cites Benign Biopsy Risks

[imarltool2u]

Maybe men should do the breast exam for the women.

[martin9p2]

"New Advice On Breast Self-Exams" is a totally misleading and dangerous headline for this article, and should be changed immediately by CBS. There is NO new advice to patients that self-exam is not as worthwhile as it was before. WAKE UP news people -- be responsible -- DO NOT PUBLISH FALSE REPORTS.

[martin9p2]

It is a useless scientific conclusion to say that self-exam doesn''t increase chance of survival. If self-exam gets me (my wife) into the doc sooner, then treatment cannot be any more difficult, and maybe easier. Insurance companies might be leary of detecting too many benign lumps, but for the individual, it is absolutely necessary to go to the doctor with all lumps to find out if they are benign. This is a BS study and article.

[erasmus81]

"Really people...what is it harming?!" Posted by aleishaa at 12:28 PM : Jul 16, 2008

It is a constant pushing and prodding, isn''t it? I have always wondered about it. And if that is causing problems, what is the mammogram doing? Not only is it "squishing" the breasts, you are also getting radiation. My belief is that if you weren''t already going to get breast cancer, you will eventually, from the mammogram itself. It is like chemotherapy. You get chemotherapy to rid yourself of a cancer, but if you live long enough, that chemotherapy will be the death of you.

[gwagener]

So what about men?
We do not have mamograms because brest cance is so rare in men, so is breast self-exam useful?
For a man, if a lump is big enough to find, the cancer has probably matacisized if the lump is malignant. Still, maybe the survival rate might be better if you caught it when the lump was still very small.

[aleishaa-2009]

For years they have advised women to do self-examinations! I can honestly speak from a young women''s point of view - and the doctor''s show you how to do it! Really people...what is it harming?!

[catsbow]

My aunt had a mammogram and they found nothing. During her own self exam ONE WEEK later she found a lump. It was breast cancer. Ridiculous article!