Comments on: Rundown 11/16

By: Richard Davis

Richard Davis — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:57:21 +0000

I think Jamela is on to something. Just the presence of this paranoia is proof that web browser monitors are going too far. I think this hot button word of “net-privacy” is a issue worth looking at. I think issue gained rise in popularity after the patriot act. This is no longer a time when everyone just writes letter and meets in person. Web monitors and anyone that took a computer class at a community college can read your e-mails if they really want to. No longer can the private information of a person’s severe hemorrhoid outbreak or sex change operation be sealed in an envelope. I think just like any technology the google system comes with a price. The price is our privacy. personally I don’t really care who reads what. It does scare me that people feel they have to delete their facebook before they job hunt.- love Rich

By: Charlie Summers

Charlie Summers — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:09 +0000

Am I the only one to find the irony that this page uses javascript served directly from Google’s servers (google.com, googleapis.com), as well as tracking javascript from google-analytics.com? So the simple act of visiting a page to re-listen to a story talking about how creepy Google is actually gives Google more information about you. Only those few people who are actually willing to block Google’s servers from placing code on their machines are immune to this frightening tracking, and even WBUR/Here and Now contribute to Google’s knowledge base.

Truthfully, Google isn’t the problem; the general population’s acceptance of this nonsense is.

By: Carole

Carole — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:37:53 +0000

Robin,
The news about mammography is disturbing enough, but to see that the panel questioned the value of self-breast exams and doubted the value of physician breast exams is even more disturbing.

My small invasive cancer was found in an office visit with my primary care doctor. It had not been picked up in my mammogram 6 months previously. That discovery led me to an ultrasound, biopsy, lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation and I am grateful for that because my prognosis was excellent because it was caught early.

It is indeed stressful to have mammograms and biopsies, but I feel that it is irresponsible to suggest that women should not check their own breasts. And that stress has to be balanced with the stress that most certainly will occur if a late stage cancer is detected because there has been no screening

I had no history of breast cancer in my family and was 48 at diagnosis. The large majority of the women I met throughout this process were women in their 30’s and 40’s. And those in their 30’s seemed to have more aggressive types of cancer.

This experience has led me to think that not only should people have mammograms at a younger age (at 30 or 35) but that MRI’s should also be added into the mix when dense breast tissue (which most people have) cannot be clearly seen in mammography.

No one should die of breast cancer but they do because of late detection and spread to other parts of the body.

I am healthy and consider myself cured, but I will now always be vigilant through dr’s visits, exams and screening. My doctor, in my opinion, saved my life. Everyone should have that benefit.

By: Debby Daman

Debby Daman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:02:19 +0000

Robin,
I am one of those ladies who discovered her breast cancer through self-examination. I had had my mammogram the year before (at beginning of 2001)and discovered the lump in June 2002. I was 49 years old at the time. After a follow-up mammogram and ultrasound, it was discovered I had invasive ductile carcinoma in my OTHER breaast as well as the lump. What if I had waited and not had checked myself or had mammograms?? I shudder to think! After double mastectomies, chemo, & radiation, I am alive and well!! It has been 6 years since my treatment ended and I have seen two of my three children happily married and I am looking forward to being a grandmother in February. Women need to be familiar and aware of their bodies!! Do self-exams and have mammograms especially if there is high risk. (There was no history of BC in my family) I am thankful for the excellent medical care I received, but don’t be afraid to advocate for yourself!! Thanks!!

By: Richard Cole

Richard Cole — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:57:27 +0000

“Don’t Be Creepy”

Speaking of ‘creepy’, am I really the only person to notice that the image on the Motorola/Verizon/Google-Droid advertisements looks just like the image of “HAL”’s “eye” used throughout the movie “2001”?

By: Richard Cole

Richard Cole — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:43:00 +0000

The creepiest part of China’s worldwide “investment” is that they’re doing it with money earned selling gullible Americans trillions of dollars of junk over the last three decades – ever since Nixon “opened up” China.