What You Need To Know About Mammograms. Should You Get One?
Women in their 40’s should not get routine mammograms for early detection of breast cancer, advises U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
The group recommends that before having a mammogram, women ages 40 to 49 should talk to their doctors about the risks and benefits of the test, and then decide if they want to be screened.
This new recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is stirring up controversy. The new advice is a small step in the right direction.
For starters mammograms expose your body to radiation that can be 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray. This poses risks of cancer.
Mammography also compresses your breasts tightly, and often painfully, which could lead to a lethal spread of cancerous cells, should they exist.
What is rarely discussed about mammograms is this: the tests could actually be causing many cases of breast cancer
In fact, a new study just presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), concludes the low-dose radiation from annual mammography screening significantly increases breast cancer risk in women with a genetic or familial predisposition to breast cancer. And,
What’s more, women at high risk for breast cancer who had been exposed to low-dose radiation before the age of 20 or who had five or more exposures to low-dose radiation were 2.5 times more likely to develop breast cancer than high-risk women not exposed to low-dose radiation.
In other words, it appears that the diagnostic X-rays in mammograms being used to detect possible breast cancer are themselves a prime cause of breast cancer.
Cancer research has also found a gene, called oncogene AC, that is extremely sensitive to even small doses of radiation.
A significant percentage of women in the United States have this gene. This could increase their risk of mammography-induced cancer. They estimate that 10,000 A-T carriers will die of breast cancer this year due to mammography.
The risk of radiation is apparently higher among younger women. The NCI (National Cancer Institute) released evidence that, among women under 35, mammography could cause 75 cases of breast cancer for every 15 it identifies.
A woman ages about 4 years every time she gets a mammogram. Radiation causes cellular damage associated with aging and DNA mutations that raise cancer risk.
The more mammograms you get the greater the risk. Women who start getting annual mammograms at age 40 have a 12-14% increased risk of developing breast cancer by the time they turn 50.
Mounting evidence now indicates that the any possible benefits of annual screening mammography are not worth the risk.
Dr Hansen from The Hansen Clinic of Natural Medicine simply says, “Stay behind the leaden glass window with the radiology tech anytime an X-Ray machine goes off. The radiation could kill you.”
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