Millions of women are subjected to ionizing radiation every year when
we get mammograms at the directive of our health care providers.
Radiation
risks might be worth it if actual cancerous tumors were detected by
mammograms, but a Swedish study involving over 60,000 women pointed out
recently that
70% of all detected ‘tumors’ weren’t tumors at
all, but false positives that led to invasive biopsies. Up to 80 % of
all positive mammograms turn up without a shred of cancer after the
biopsy, as well.
Furthermore, mammogram screening
increases your risk of cancer. Just four breast films (the usual for one session)
exposes a woman to
1 rad (radiation absorbed dose) about 1000 times more than a chest
X-ray. If cancer is present, the extreme compression during a mammogram
can help
cancerous cells to spread (Lancet, 11992; 3440:122). Some doctors in
the medical community, including, Dr. John W. Gofman, an authority on
the health effects of ionizing radiation, estimates that 75% of breast
cancer could be prevented by avoiding or minimizing exposure to ionizing
radiation.
Dr. Gofman goes so far as to say that medical radiation may even be a
primary cause for numerous cancers, including breast cancer.
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