You might be interested in this, actually
Spain's mortality for breast cancer is about 20/100,000 as opposed to 27/100,000 in the UK. That's enough of a difference to maybe be significant, except that breast cancer is much lower in southern european countries than northern ones regardless of heathcare systems (the Dutch and the Danes have rates in the 40/100,000 for instance, the only nothern exception is Norway). So it's much more likely to be diet and climate and genetic factors than a man motorboating you once a year. But it's interesting, for sure.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 17:14, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I'm sure the diet and stress play a big game there
I'm pretty sure most of those cancers were diagnosed by gyns.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Apr 2011, 17:18, Reply)

i'm sure they were
I'm just making the point that self-diagnosis is obviously at least as good or we'd have a brutally higher mortality rate.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 17:22, Reply)