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[RICHARD]

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Hey, You know it's all about the budget.


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Bernardine Healy, from the Nat'l. Insitiute of Health was on the tube yesterday and commented on basic yearly screening protocol.

She made an interesting comment about how, since the yearly screening guidlelines were put into place way back when, that the incidence of prostate cancer in the U.S. had dropped 70%.

I don't remember what the percentage was with BC.

IT's all a matter of economics-the more the system can pare by eliminating simple dr. visits, they beleive that it will save money.

Compare a treatable illness, caught with pre-screening protocol, with the same disease in an advanced stage. Surgery, treatment, hospital stays are way more costly that putting forth the effort to make sure those conditions are treated at the beginning.

It is all about money.