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"Women Vets May Need More Access to Breast Cancer Services"
Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2013-09-24 08:13
Link here. Excerpt:
'Women are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. veteran population, making breast cancer screening a crucial public health issue for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
As the agency has worked to expand mammogram screening, the need for other diagnostic tests and treatments has also grown, and a new study that looked at how well women's follow-up needs have been met suggests that more resources are likely required.
From 2003 to 2009, the use of VHA outpatient care nationwide by women grew by 47 percent, and demand is expected to increase even more as thousands of women veterans return from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The program expansion is a step in the right direction, said Dr. Julie Gralow, a professor of medical oncology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and director of breast medical oncology at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
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"The message for military women, and all women, is that we need to advocate for ourselves regarding our health," she said. A diagnosis of breast cancer, she said, is rarely an emergency needing immediate treatment.'
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Almost at the end of Sept...
Anyone seen a single ad on TV or display at work about Sept. being Prostate Cancer Awareness Month?
So, the VA wants to increase mammogram services available to female vets. OK, great, nothing wrong with that. But under the ACA, women already get no-cost-to-patient gender-specific preventive tests (incl. mammograms) and medical office visits. As for men, we get nothing gender-specific, though the MHN has proposed that men also get a similar benefit. Thus far, no dice.
I also have to wonder if the VA's attention to mammograms would be less intense and more focused perhaps on something like suicide prevention if the recent increase in suicides were accounted to women committing suicide and not men. But since it's "just men" killing themselves, guess it's not such a big deal. Oh, they say it's a big deal, and I'm not saying they aren't taking it seriously and aren't concerned; just saying, I think they'd be a bit moreso if the suicides were nearly entirely women instead of men. Quite a bit moreso.