mammograms

[The Nut Lady]

As you can see from a few of the blog posts, radiation from mammograms is outrageously excessive and has all the ingredients to actually cause the cancers it is trying to detect. Every time we have a mammogram we get the equivalent of 1000 Chest X-Rays. When I was a young woman regular Chest x-Rays were advised and many people were worried about their  side effects, I note that those Chest X-Rays are no longer on the scene, surely because of these concerns. Yet we are now asked to undergo routine Mammograms that are vastly more dangerous-Are we going backwards? or is it that women are expendable in the quest for greater profits and moral issues often take a backseat to money issues. I won't be having another Mammogram ever, How do others feel? 

[Freelee]

This is fantastic info Nut Lady. Yes it does seem like we are going backwards, it really is crazy.
I won't ever be having a mammogram that's for sure. I'm wondering how much radiation is in an ultrasound as an alternative.

[Mike G]

Apart from the radiation these things give off they are supposed to be an early detection tool, however, most cancers of the breast are there for up to 10 years before these scans can detect them...how is that 'early detection'?
A friend of my wife and I had a mammogram 5 months ago and was given the 'all clear' 4 months later a tumor approx 4 cms was felt by her in her breast. Now either the tumor was missed by the mammogram or the mammogram failed to pick it up. Of course there is the probability that the cells had already changed but had yet to form the tumor but this also indicates how useless these scans are!
Infact, mammograms do nothing but get women to the clinic and start the preparation for their induction into the cancer industries mass income machines and treatments.
As the original thread has already stated if you don't have breast cancer now, having yearly mammograms will in time start it off for you. Infact in America the Govt has changed the regulations and made it so the scans are to be every second year instead of yearly to try to save women from the overdoses of radiation, of course the only ones to objest was the AMA, Cancer Councils and Big Pharma who stand to lose millions of dollars of income from this decision.
Remmeber
The Choice Is Always Yours

[The Nut Lady]

Good on you Mike we need a few good men to understand how devastating these diagnoses can be and how powerless women feel in the face of all the intimidation that they have to withstand.

Mike G said:

Apart from the radiation these things give off they are supposed to be an early detection tool, however, most cancers of the breast are there for up to 10 years before these scans can detect them...how is that 'early detection'?
A friend of my wife and I had a mammogram 5 months ago and was given the 'all clear' 4 months later a tumor approx 4 cms was felt by her in her breast. Now either the tumor was missed by the mammogram or the mammogram failed to pick it up. Of course there is the probability that the cells had already changed but had yet to form the tumor but this also indicates how useless these scans are!
Infact, mammograms do nothing but get women to the clinic and start the preparation for their induction into the cancer industries mass income machines and treatments.
As the original thread has already stated if you don't have breast cancer now, having yearly mammograms will in time start it off for you. Infact in America the Govt has changed the regulations and made it so the scans are to be every second year instead of yearly to try to save women from the overdoses of radiation, of course the only ones to object was the AMA, Cancer Councils and Big Pharma who stand to lose millions of dollars of income from this decision.
Remember
The Choice Is Always Yours