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I remember my homeopath in Canada saying she had serious concerns about mammograms. She thought that yearly radiation exposure to very susceptible breast tissue could even trigger cancer. She has avoided them, as have I.
In a quick search, I can't find studies to support her suspicions. This article is about a study that indicates that some of the cancers detected by mammography would regress on their own if undetected. That would also explain why regularly screened women have higher rates of cancer.
Meant to say: I know radiation is known to cause cancer, and mammograms are x-rays. However:
"The largest and most credible study ever done to evaluate the impact of routine mammography on survival has concluded that routine mammograms do significantly reduce deaths from breast cancer... The researchers found that death from breast cancer dropped 44 percent in women who had routine mammography. Among those who refused mammograms during this time period there was only a 16 percent reduction in death from this disease (presumably the decrease was due to better treatment of the malignancy)." -- from Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld's Breakthrough Health
Keeping that in mind, I am all for approaching any medical procedure with caution.
I wouldn't imagine that there are any studies to support her suspicions. As a homeopath, she's probably skeptical of many medical studies, anyhow!
I haven't avoided mammograms just on her advice. I thought 40 was too early and I was in the midst of nursing Michelle, in any case. I don't have a genetic predisposition and I'm not taking hormones for menopause (a contributor to increased incidence of breast cancer).
Caution is always a good thing. I think there's a mammogram in my future.
Some good sources and info. here: http://www.naturalnews.com/010886_cancer_brst_cancer_mammography.html
I'll pass thank you. Part of it is the fact that I don't want to approach my body with fear. The other part is there will be better methods of detection in the near future. No mammograms for me thank you.
When one kind of cancer has increased by 328 percent since mammograms started, that's a good reason to be cautious and research more. Everyone has to make their own decisions on this of course, but there is GOOD information in support of not having them done.
That site is where I got my quote. Honestly, I didn't find much there compelling enough for me to leave "mammograms cause breast cancer" on my blog without a balancing viewpoint.
The 328% stat refers to Ductal Carcinoma in Situ, a noninvasive cancer that some think shouldn't be labeled as cancer at all. These show up on mammograms as "small specks" according to Wikipedia, which might explain why diagnoses are up since mammography: nobody could see them before. There are concerns in some quarters that mammograms are "freeing up" these cells, but I couldn't find anything conclusive on that.
Again, I created this post because I agree wholeheartedly that most women ought to wait until 50 (and then see what the research shows by then), and because I take a generally skeptical view toward "routine" medical procedures and especially those recommended for women, a group of people toward whom the medical community has shown a distressingly cavalier attitude.
I also believe it's clear that mammograms save lives.
But thermography looks like an intriguing alternative...
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