My Bad?

My August 6th post shares a report on a new technology for breast cancer screening. I confess: I did not check out the story.

To cope with my limited energy, I pick and choose what I do during my awake time. On August 6th, I chose not to do any research before posting the excerpts from an article in Israel 21C, the newsletter of "a non-profit educational foundation with a mission to focus media and public attention on the 21st century Israel that exists beyond the conflict."

My bad? No. My reason for posting about the new technology was simply to nourish readers' hope by sharing an exciting new technology being investigated at reputable hospitals. I did not even remotely suggest readers fly to Israel to gain entry into trials of this new technology instead of pursuing their routine screening with mammography.

This highlights a vital point in Healthy Survivorship:

You don't need to research everything.

As a Healthy Survivor, you only need to do research if news causes you to:

• Lose faith in your current medical care
• Want to discuss these new technologies with your healthcare team as an option in your care

I was about to add a third bullet: "Consider pursuing them without your healthcare team's knowledge." But, of course, Healthy Survivors don't pursue any tests and treatments without first discussing them with their healthcare team.