pedal wench said:
Margo, at the 3-Days, they've been saying that survival rates, with early detection, have gone from about 75% up to something like 98%

These stats stress the extreme importance of early detection:

Stage I:100%

Stage IIA: 92%

Stage IIB:81%

Stage IIIA:67%

Stage IIIB:54%

Stage IV:20%
Thanks for that. I haven't heard that. I wasn't speaking specifically about breast cancer. I read, NYTimes I think (that's the only news source I really read regularly these days), but who knows for sure, that over the last few decades overall cancer survival rates have barely changed/improved...despite all the new treatments out there. Please understand I am not stating an opinion that I think screening is a bad idea AT ALL. Like I said, I think it saved the life of a friend of mine, and I bet we all know someone for whom it did.