Totally agree.  My sister recently diagnosed with breast cancer is constantly nagging me to have a breast x-ray as her doctor suggested I should.  My response was "tell him to put his gonads between two plates and 'zap' them."

I don't see the point. I won't, at any point, be a little mouse on the medical treadmill loop.  Chemotherapy, for me,  is out of the question.  After 6 misdiagnoses and subsequent death of 6 close relatives I am alert and very alarmed

OMGsh is that funny (testogram, testythingies), you're so right, no man would ever think to go there!!!!!

We, women need to continue asking for safer options such as sonograms, create the demand!

I just went to a breast health info luncheon where a homeopath that does thermography was talking.  Apparently thermography is leaps and bounds ahead of mammograms, and catches breast cancer YEARS ahead of the "boob squish".

I won't subject my breasts to the horrors of the squish -- not only is it uncomfortable, but it is also invasive and abusive.  

It is expensive but thermography is the only way I'm willing to be checked.

Men do have some quite invasive tests, namely for prostate cancer, there are also many tests that involve the “manhandling of testacies” they are no fun either.  It is our own choice to get tested for whatever.  Unfortunately we cannot make informed choices because we are lied to by the governments, pharmaceutical and testing equipment manufacturers.  Not to mention doctors that don’t know any better; they were educated with extreme bias for those companies.  It took two bouts of breast cancer, with all the chemo and radiation, before I began to insist that my partner get an MRI instead of mammograms which never showed any of the previous three different types of breast cancer anyway.  The majority of breast cancers are found by the woman, mammography is a poor test.  I just hope MRI’s are better.

Thermograms are much more sensitive and completely safe.

Lively:

 I know it is a serious subject, and I totally agree with you, but MAN did I laugh out loud like a braying jackass when I read your post!!

Dogfaceboy,

Yes, men have invasive tests BUT your sensitive areas are not RADIATED!!!!  It didn't seem like you quite got that.   Let's radiate your testes!!!

That's the problem with mammograms!!  Women are worried about the direct radiation of a cancer sensitive area.  If the tests worked and accurately showed problems without risk, I'm sure most all women would not have a problem with it.  It's the risk vs. benefit.

My wife had a mammogram and they caught breast cancer very early.  She did not require any chemo or radiation.  I agree with you on the fact that cancer is big business, but part of me is thankful for the early detection.

How is laser hair removal actually a "crime"?  If there is a health risk please let us know.  It seems to be a cheap and relatively safe method of hair removal.  And while it may not offer 100% permanent results, for many of us with French and Italian ancestry, it's a wonderful way to lessen growth.  Personally, in addition to my ethnic background, I have had problems with birth control pills causing courser, darker hair.  IPL treatments have helped tremendously.  I don't think I should feel guilty or be thought of as body obsessed for doing something about my hair.  

Explain to me why all the hip, cool people that are for all the good things in life use other non-legal drugs that are not even percolated in a lab that is clean or the ingredients are tainted, with most of the chemicals not approved.  Do all of these supposedly smart people think that putting polluted chemicals in their systems is ok.  Come on, this is like the people of the 60s ignoring all of the health hazards of the environment such as smog because it was the smell of money.  Besides that, you are supporting a bunch of people that are trying to take your freedom away.  Get smart and dump the crap and live healthy.

How about they put their $$ into their community and environmental & rescue organizations. It is a crime to ignore the needs of the community and the earth. People are strange.

Right on DFB

Dogfaceboy said: We should be teaching health and physical education to our children instead of insulting them after they do some sort of bodily enhancement.  Forget that it should be taught in schools; it is the responsibility of parents to teach their children...

I say:

Hear! Hear! Yet another reason I choose to homeschool because their upbringing is MY responsibility.  It is our job to help them become reasonable, well-rounded adults.

As for the list, I agree with adding vax, big pharma, mam's, circ.  For the tooth rot emergency surgery...the mouth is a gateway to all kinds of illnesses and diseases if we do not take care of our gums. It's not just a risk of cavities or gingivitis...there's so much more that mainstream is not even putting on the radar as being associated with dental health.  Which would qualify amalgam, etc for the list also. *shudder*

I vote for the addition of fast food, HFCS/Aspart./Splenda, GMOs, and all those other nasties I'm having difficulty kicking.

My final vote for the list is to add the FDA.