I mean I’m aware of the controversial past in regards to how women weren’t represented in trials but your own link says that they reversed that decision in the 90’s so there has been sufficient time for doctors to learn the differences in biology because the research has been built upon robustly during the last 30 years. So that makes them terrible people for not keeping up with the research was the point of my other comment.

Unless you have a source for that second sentence I’m going to have to call bullshit on that, I’ve read probably 100s of articles on clinical trials and the spread of patients tested is usually close to even gender wise, if not with a very slight female bias, at least in the studies I’ve read. The problem isn’t from a lack of medical knowledge of how women work, it’s from misogynistic shit stain doctors that read these articles but still treat women in such a horrible manner systemically despite the literature being out there.

Its more of a societal problem than a lack of knowledge of how women’s bodies work, but in my opinion that makes these doctors even more horrible people than if it were just a basic lack of knowledge of women’s anatomy, they choose to he terrible people despite the knowledge being easily available to them.

As someone currently wasting away from a chronic illness my doctors haven’t been able to diagnose I feel like a dick for even pointing this out, but obesity is a risk factor for many different types of cancer so it isn’t always as simple as that sometimes. I’m so sorry for the process your friend is going through though, I hate the medical system with a flaming passion because of the demeaning experiences I’ve had with specialists. I just wanted to point that out in case anyone reading thinks obesity and cancer aren’t related at all, it’s just never that cut and dry with health problems a lot of the time so people need to be wary of certain risk factors they may have.

Again, im so sorry for your friend and I hope you don’t think this comment came from a malicious place. I can link you some sources if you’d like but it’s been pretty well established in the literature through the years that obesity is the primary causative factor in up to 20 percent of certain types of cancers. Sending positive thoughts to you and your friend, and I’m sorry if my comment comes across in a way I didn’t intend for it to.

Editing to say that my comment was more of a PSA and I wasn’t directing it at your friend specifically.

Editing my comment one more time to say anyone that gets imaging done, always ALWAYS get a second opinion from a different radiologist no matter what the results say. I can’t even explain to you how incompetent snd lazy some of them are so the only way to ensure you didn’t get one that skimmed over your images in 2 minutes (like I literally had happen once, they left the log times in from when he accessed it to when he wrote his “report” and it was I shit you not it was less than 5 minutes, and it was far from simple imaging so he was just a heartless bastard).

It’s even more insidious when you look at the shit Amazon does, im almost certain they hyper-aggressively track the popularity of products not made by them, ones that are made by small companies (and even individuals in some cases) for the sole purpose of seeing what’s popular with the masses and then they make their own shitty version of said product followed by undercutting the original products cost significantly. And when people go to search they of course put their shit product at the top of the search page so that’s the one the unaware will always buy. It’s kind of a genius business model if we are being honest, if you’re an absolute shit stain that completely lacks morals that is. I just can’t believe they’ve been allowed to do this for so long under the radar because I feel like I never hear people talk about that particular scummy tactic they use.