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but on the whole I just think people, men and women, don't get preventative treatment because it costs so much even if you are insured and if you're not, just forget it. I mean getting a colonoscopy, a mammography, an MRI, all that stuff which is essential at a certain age is pretty spendy. It seems to me that contemplating the results of these tests being positive puts quite a few people off. That being said, I work for doctors and having a chronic condition of my own I always have a regular doctor. Maybe they just hate my guts (understandable) which I'm beginning to suspect is the case but it seems that neither men nor women doctors listen to a word I say. Just get in get out. I have to add this. My aunt who had been a single parent, age 60, living on her own, developed breast cancer, never told anyone, never got treatment, keptagoing to work and then one day called in sick and when her sisters took her to the hospital, she died. She struggled financially all of her life. There was no doubt that she knew she had the cancer as the tumor was huge. I just don't think she was up for the fight and I'm sure this kind of thing happens a lot to men and women. Sorry.
