Quote Originally Posted by Pedal Wench View Post
I'm trying to figure out why this has made me so, so angry. I think I'm getting a grasp on it.

This task force has said that all the false positives just make women unnecessarily worried. It's all so degrading -- women are just so fragile that they can't make up their own minds and take charge of their bodies and health. Don't do a self-exam because you might not be able to handle the results or the stress while determining if it's a cancerous growth that might be silently killing you.

Even some of the opinions here - you might not feel that you want to know what's going on in your body, but for the government to tell women not to worry about it until they're 50, when so, so many women are dying because their cancer wasn't caught earlier is infuriating. Don't tell women to put their heads in the sand and their hands in their pockets. Feel your boobs, learn them, and know what your options are. It's my body, and I'll be damned if I'll let a government task force decide what's best for me.

In the interest of full disclosure, I"ve had numerous suspicious lumps, some discovered by self-exam, some on mammogram. I've had biopsies on most of them, and wear the scars proudly, because I know they're a symbol of me taking charge of my body and proactively fighting for my life.
+ 10^infinite

Well said.