CRY WOLF

Sometimes l think is this not the right forum to talk about Breast Cancer and am I doing the right thing.

Cry Wolf         

I have just received this from a new friend,

    I am now the biggest ambassador for telling women and men to insist on a proper diagnosis. Interestingly enough my friend who is a local GP has had a couple of complaints from consultants from **** for "inappropriate referrals", because he has referred young woman with similar symptoms and because they have not been malignant they have deemed his referrals inappropriate. He says the bottom line is money.

If you are lucky and your GP guesses the wrong diagnosis  and sends you to the consultant all you will be is an inappropriate referral but you will be a statistic some where.

If you are unlucky and your GP guesses  the wrong diagnosis and sends you home all you will be is unlucky.

There are no statistics for the unlucky ones and no one knows how often this happens.


I wonder what the consultant would say if he had a daughter that was unlucky because someone had guessed wrong.
    This is what Cry Wolf is all about

    * Next year about 45,000 women will get breast cancer and thank god their survival rate is growing every day.
    * Next year 1 in 2000 (or so they say) of those women will be under 30 and their survival rate is not as good as it should be.
    * Next year 1 in 200 women under the age of 40 will get breast cancer.

EARLY DETECTION GIVES YOU THE BEST CHANCE OF SURVIVAL. MAKE NO MISTAKE BREAST CANCER FOR WOMAN UNDER 30 IS VERY RARE.
YOU MAY NEVER MEET OR SEE  ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 30 WITH BREAST CANCER.

    * But if you get Breast Cancer under 30 the chances are you will have an aggressive type of cancer.
    * It won't wait for you to see your local GP.
    * It couldn't give a damn if your GP said "it's nothing".
    * It won't care how long it takes for you to get classed as a non urgent referral.
    * It might even smile to itself when your consultant says "that one can wait till next week".
    * It knows for every day you wait it can get a bigger hold on you.
    * It will go from your breast to your lymph nodes then to your bones or where ever else it wants because no one will stop it.
    * No one will know you have it and what's worse no one will believe you have it.

Breast Cancer still kills more women than any other disease and after all these years the first examination for it, is still done by feeling a lump and guessing. Three different GP's told Leigh she had nothing to worry about, even the family GP admitted that she would have said the same.
They all GUESSED wrong!

Then when Leigh did get to see a consultant he examined her and said she has breast cancer in both breasts and they have to come off, but he even got it wrong because she only had it in one breast.

Lets get rid of the guess work. Lets try and make it easier for every woman or man, no matter what age, to get checked out properly and with a mammogram or an ultrasound.

Lets make it a right for every woman, no matter what age, to walk away from their biggest killer knowing their life has not been decided by guess work. Lets try and make it a right for every woman to have access to a mammogram at any time in her life, no matter what the cost and without having to wait 3 months because if she does have cancer it won't wait.
That's what CRY WOLF is about.

Me thinks maybe the ****** learnt the hard way from Leighs' case and sends people off to get checked just in case. We all learned a lesson from Leigh, I went and had to spend a day at St. Georges in Tooting and left having had a biopsy on my left breast, There were 20 of us (older than Leigh and Nicola) and it was unnerving being the only one that did not go home after early tests that day.

I had to wait a week to find out if I had a problem but was given the all clear by phone the afternoon before my appointment. I cannot begin to imagine how anyone must feel to get the wrong news. I was nearly disappointed not to have to go back as I felt so safe in their hands. I will happily support your cause as I do privately.

Put it on the front page - not just here, of every newspaper in the land. This sort of thing needs publicity, because someone might get the strength of character to be insistent at their GP's Surgery from being aware of other women's action, and that action might just save their life.

GO FOR IT!

R.

Quoted from richardjackson99

Put it on the front page - not just here, of every newspaper in the land. This sort of thing needs publicity, because someone might get the strength of character to be insistent at their GP's Surgery from being aware of other women's action, and that action might just save their life.

GO FOR IT!

R.

exactly-well said Richard.  No-one minds at all in fact we are all behind you , I can't see anyone having a problem with it at all.

Quoted from richardjackson99

Put it on the front page - not just here, of every newspaper in the land. This sort of thing needs publicity, because someone might get the strength of character to be insistent at their GP's Surgery from being aware of other women's action, and that action might just save their life.

GO FOR IT!

R.

I also agree  

re cry woolf --i wonder if you can still buy those furry tails thingys they used to have on the back of Scooters in the old days they would be good to tie them on our Mini somewhere??


(not that i saw them for real   i remember seeing them on the old film/TV clips !!!)

OH no! but it is a good idea what if we could get them in pink.

i could probably buy some pink furry material and make them

im going to get some black and white material tomorrow to make some bunting for OB's Gem so ill get half a metre of that too and try  it cant be that difficult

Weren't they tiger's tails, part of an Esso advertising campaign?

R.