encouraging someone to go for breast cancer screening?

Question

does anyone have any good ideas of how you can encourage someone to go for breast cancer screening, without preaching to them?

Answer 1

i have had breast cancer twice and without screening i would be dead now it saved my life twice ,doesnt hurt much and takes about 15 minutes a small price to pay for your life

Answer 2

No, but you might show them this in the interum - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider

Answer 3

I am a breast cancer survivor and I have made no secret of it. I flat out ask women to see thier gynecologist once a year as well as do self examination.After age 40 you should have regular mammograms. If you are a woman, offer to go with the person you are concerned about. Or simply tell them you love them, and have some concerns.

Answer 4

Try, Please, Please, for God Sake go & have it done. If that is begging so be it, for that is the greatest thing a woman can do for themselves. It is a life saver that takes about 15 mins of your time & is not at all a painful or uncomfortable procedure. I have survived breast cancer so far. The first time I went to the cancer treatment place, I was told this, fear kills far more people then the cancer. The media protrays the disease like it is a death sentence. I quess tragedy sells best. Truth the vast majorite of women do survive the disease & go on to live along life & live quite well & healthy. The earlier the disease is found the better the chances. Scared or not, PLEASE, PLEASE GO.

Answer 5

you can tell them about a young woman (27) was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. had to have a lumpectomy (partial mastectomy), 8 rounds of vigorous chemotherapy. after wards finding there were still precancer cells that remained and had to have a full mastectomy. i had chosen for a bilateral (both breasts) mastectomy in February. never wanted to go through it again. its not worth waiting or ignoring.

Answer 6

Stress the importance of early detection. I know what an ordeal breast cancer is, I was just diagnosed on March 1. I wish you the best. If you have any questions please feel free to ask, I am open about it. Kim

Answer 7

Saving money by early detection is one reason. Increasing quality of the practice of health care is another. Health insurance companies benefit by promoting healthy populations. A lot of people think that health plans don't want to provide care, but that is not true. If populations are not healthy health plans would go out of business.

Answer 8

My wife and her friends have a mammogram party every year.
They schedule their appts at the same time in the AM, then go to breakfast.

Start your own mammogram party,

Answer 9

try sending a email to all of ur female friends, saying how important it is to get checked.... that ur sending this to them because you care about them... it might work.. hope i helpppp =]