Susan G. Komen Foundation Adopts New Cancer Screening Policy for Worthwhile Lives
“By eliminating further treatment for those individuals whose survival importance we deem ‘stage 0,’ our overall survival percentage rates are going to be WAY better,” Gladson concluded.
The new screening methods allow care providers to determine which individuals seeking care are deserving of actual treatment based on a series of simple preliminary questions about the patient. Some of these include: “Is the patient Latina, Non-Gentrified Black, or another non-specific Poor?”; “Has the patient ever shopped at a Wal-mart? If the patient refuses to answer, use the ‘smell test’ guidelines included at the back of this pamphlet”; “Does the patient’s insurance information, or lack thereof, lead you to believe that society as a whole might be better off if this patient died from untreated, but not-provably-breast-cancer-related, illnesses?”
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