Lisa Graham's Blog – December 2010 Archive (3)

Myth #5 Regular mammograms are the best way to detect cancer

The Truth: Mammograms harm 10 women for every one woman they help

A new study by researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Denmark found that mammograms may harm ten times as many women as they help.  The researchers examined the benefits and negative effects of seven breast cancer screening programs on 500,000 women in the United States, Canada, Scotland and Sweden.  The study's authors found that for every…

Myth #4 Chemotherapy is safe and doesn't cause permanent damage to your health

The Truth: chemotherapy causes vomiting, hair loss, muscle loss, brain damage, heart damage, kidney damage and liver damage. Much of this damage is permanent. Like my surgeon said to me when I enquired "there has to be some trade offs"! Some interesting sites below:

Cancer Drug Causes Permanent Brain Damage…

Myth #3 The only proven treatments for breast cancer are chemotherapy and radiation

The Truth: Chemotherapy doesn't work and radiation causes cancer, chemotherapy is a fraud, plain and simple. It's as ludicrous as poisoning patients with mercury and calling it medicine (which is something doctors did a hundred years ago, by the way). There is absolutely no reliable scientific evidence showing that chemotherapy has any positive effect whatsoever on breast cancer. Try to find the…