guardian.co.uk— Women with breast cancer let down by not offering enough patients reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy, report finds.
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If it were really about choice, then have the government run health care with no tax dollars used. Let people really choose. Oh wait, nothing with the government is about choice. Its about force.
"Just 48% of women with the disease were offered the option of reconstruction in 2007-08 even though National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines say it should be 100% of eligible patients, according to the National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit."According to <a class="user" href="http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/surgery/reconstruction/new_research/20080501b.jsp:" rel="nofollow">http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/surgery/reco ...</a>"In a review of 626 women with breast cancer who underwent mastectomy, Greenberg and colleagues found that 253 (40.4 percent) also had breast reconstruction. In 249 women (39.8 percent), the medical records documented that the doctor discussed breast reconstruction with the patient."If the NHS is failing patients, what should we say about the US system, where an even lower percentage of patients are even told about the option?
slvrbullet87Oct 3, 2009
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maynzaOct 3, 2009
So it is saving people's lives but not giving them replacement t**s?The bastards!
bobcat7407Oct 3, 2009
If it were really about choice, then have the government run health care with no tax dollars used. Let people really choose. Oh wait, nothing with the government is about choice. Its about force.
pinkertinkleOct 3, 2009
Isn't not dying enough?
barackalypseOct 3, 2009
They're lucky, usually the people the NHS fails are dead and can't complain.
maxamegalon2000Oct 3, 2009
"Just 48% of women with the disease were offered the option of reconstruction in 2007-08 even though National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines say it should be 100% of eligible patients, according to the National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit."According to <a class="user" href="http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/surgery/reconstruction/new_research/20080501b.jsp:" rel="nofollow">http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/surgery/reco ...</a>"In a review of 626 women with breast cancer who underwent mastectomy, Greenberg and colleagues found that 253 (40.4 percent) also had breast reconstruction. In 249 women (39.8 percent), the medical records documented that the doctor discussed breast reconstruction with the patient."If the NHS is failing patients, what should we say about the US system, where an even lower percentage of patients are even told about the option?