| BEWARE OF HEALTH RISKS BEFORE YOU UNDERGO MAMMOGRAM For decades, the mammogram industry has been scaring women into having regular mammograms to 'prevent' breast cancer. Their government-supported public relations campaigns have been so successful that women have the idea that 'mammograms prevent cancer'. The truth, however, is that mammograms can cause breast cancer. There are at least two reasons for this – radiation and physical compression – both integral parts of the procedure. It seems to have been forgotten that radiation was the first proven cause of cancer, and, if you have ever been subjected to a mammogram, you know that they squeeze the breasts tightly in a vice before shooting radiation through them. The danger is exacerbated due to the fact that breasts are more susceptible to radiation than other tissue. In 1996 John W Gofman, MD, PhD, revealed in his book, Preventing Breast Cancer: The Story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease, that past exposure to ionizing radiation – primarily medical x-rays – is responsible for about 75 percent of the breast cancer problem in the United States. What the proponents of mammograms fail to tell us is that, after all this squeezing and squashing and possibly spreading cancer cells, an all-clear on a mammogram is not a guarantee that there is no cancer developing. Not only do they miss 10 to 15 percent of all cancers, but interpreting them is far from an exact science. There is a high risk of false negative and false positive findings. A further problem with mammograms is that they may help spread an existing mass of cancer cells. The compression during testing, according to pathologist Lorraine Day, MD, can cause existing cancer cells to metastasise from the breast tissue. If there are cancer cells, they are more likely to spread to other parts of the body, because cancer cells are now circulating in the bloodstream. University of Illinois ' Emeritus Professor Samuel S Epstein, MD, points out that "Since 1928, physicians have been warned to handle cancerous breasts with care – for fear of accidentally disseminating cells and spreading the cancer. Nevertheless, mammography entails tight and often painful breast compression, particularly in premenopausal women, which could lead to distant and lethal spread of malignant cells by rupturing small blood vessels in or around small undetected breast cancers." Dr Charles B Simone, former clinical associate in immunology and pharmacology at the ( US ) National Cancer Institute, concurs. "Mammograms increase the risk for developing breast cancer and raise the risk of spreading or metastasising existing growth," he states. According to Dr Douglass, "One animal study found that the number of metastases will increase by 80 percent if the tumour is manipulated. A human study reported in the British Medical Journal confirms these ominous findings. They discovered that there were 29 percent more deaths from breast cancer in women who had had mammography. All this disturbing and reliable information, unfortunately, does not filter down to the people who need it most, women. Mammograms are big business! The last thing the industry will admit is that they can cause cancer, and are not even accurate. There has been a huge increase in breast cancer during the past twenty years and, as the New York Times, January 24 2002, reported, regular mammograms have contributed to them. And for what? As Dr Lee wrote in his newsletter, "For a breast cancer cell to become large enough for detection by palpation, the cancer has to have been growing for about 10 years. If found one year earlier by mammography, the cancer has been growing for about nine years, which is plenty of time to spawn metastases if the cancer is prone to do that. The one-year difference between palpation and mammography detection is ultimately of little importance." Biopsies of a suspicious lump found in a mammogram do not improve survival rates, because cutting into the lump invades the protective pocket that helps keep it from spreading. Research in Germany showed that women who had not had biopsies lived longer than those who did. Surgeon Emeritus George Crile, from the Cleveland Clinic in the US, says, "It gives credence to what our patients already think and tell us – that cutting into cancer spreads it and makes it grow." At a meeting of the British Royal Society of Medicine in 2002, Professor Michael Baum said that screening for breast cancer should be scrapped, because it caused hundreds of healthy women to undergo risky, mutilating and unnecessary treatments even when they may never develop the disease. An eminent breast surgeon and researcher, Professor Baum's statement drew considerable attention because he was one of the physicians who helped set up the UK 's £50-million-a-year breast-screening service. And on the other side of the Atlantic, similar views are held by Samuel S Epstein, MD, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago, who adds, "Screening mammography poses significant and cumulative risks of breast cancer for premenopausal women. The routine practice of taking four films of each breast annually results in approximately 1 rad (radiation absorbed dose) exposure, about 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray. The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about one percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening. These risks are even greater for younger women subject to 'baseline screening'." Far more preferable to this uncomfortable and hazardous treatment are two relatively new diagnostic tools now gaining wide acceptance; CRT-2000, which uses computer technology, and Digital Thermal Imaging (DITI), a 15-minute non-invasive test. In an article entitled Thermography vs Mammography published in the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, January 2000, Rose Marie Williams, MA, of New Paltz, New York , gave the clear description of CRT-2000.
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