The truth about mammograms: They do more harm than good!
September 20, 2007 on 6:06 pm | In Uncategorized |Unlike many of my colleagues in the health insurance industry who are like sheep when it comes to following the propoganda we are all fed by the medical establishment, I have done my research. I also have common sense and after decades of observing cancer rates deteriorating, obviously continuing the same mathods which should be all it should take for women, by now, to realize that mammograms do more to cause cancer than they do to prevent it.
First of all, mammograms have 1000 times the amount of radiation than a chest x-ray. (http://www.healingdaily.com/conditions/mammograms.htm). Women in the United States need to start thinking for themselves and stop “obeying” their OB-GYNs that prescribe regular mammograms. Chances are your OB-GYN has not read all the medical journals and is much more interested in running their practice (and making $$ and perhaps getting kick-backs on each mammogram prescribed) than he or she is in trying to do the best he or she can with their patients.
Secondly, false positives lead to unnecessary biopsies. In a study of 60,000 women, 70% of tumors found were not cancerous nor were many of them tumors. (http://www.newstarget.com/010886.html)
Why risk increasing your risk of cancer when there are non-toxic more effective alternatives such as Thermograms, although they are not as widely available. Here are where you can obtain one: http://www.herbtime.com/InformationPages/Thermography.htm
Also recently besides thermograms, MRIs have been suggested as a safer alternative to mammograms. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0675/is_5_21/ai_112982437