As we leave the month of October, the controlled news media screams out loud for women to get their mammograms. Women are frightened to death about developing cancer in any part of their body, but the breast get special attention. Since mammographic screening was introduced, the incidence of a form of breast cancer called Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) has increased by 328 percent. Mammography itself is radiation: an X-ray picture of the breast to detect a potential tumor.
The use of women as guinea pigs is familiar. There is revealing consistency between the Tamoxifen trial and the 1970s trial by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) involving high-dose mammography of some 300,000 women. In 1978, Irwin J.D. Bross, Director of Biostatistics at Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research, commented about the screening program: The women should have been given the information about the hazards of radiation at the same time they were given the sales talk for mammography. Doctors were gung ho to use it on a large scale. They went right ahead and X-rayed not just a few woman but a quarter of a million women. A jump to the exposure of a quarter of a million persons to something which could do more harm than good was criminal and it was supported by money from the federal government and the ACS.
The actions described above were crimes, not errors of judgment. Nor were they differences of scientific opinion. They were conscious, chosen, politically expedient acts by a small group of people for the sake of their own power, prestige and financial gain, resulting in the suffering and death for millions of women. These actions fit the classification of "crimes against humanity." It's time for women to try something new, such as the Thermal Image Processor (TIP) and toss dangerous mammography, along with the ACS and those which are incompetent at NCI into the dust pan of history.
Sorry, I don't see how mammograms cause cancer. If it's just x-rays, then millions more people are getting cancer from them too, since that's how you check to see if there are any broken bones. And a small exposure of x-rays once a year will not cause cancer.
~C
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I think whatever souce you used might be a little bit... unreliable. Where did you find those stats?
X- rays were declared carcinogenic in the 11th edition of the "Report on Carcinogens," published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Toxicology Program. This declaration came many years after it was generally recognized that the ionizing radiation that is emitted from all X-rays causes cancer! (Countless numbers of scientists and doctors died of x-ray induced cancer in the early years of experimentation and use following the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by Roentgen.) Evidence shows that there is no safe dose – minimal exposure is dangerous.
With regards to the population screening of healthy women for breast cancer by mammogram, the risks of ionizing radiation are just one of many drawbacks of mammograms. With a false negative rate of 20%, and a much higher false positive rate, sensible and unbiased persons readily see that mammograms are simply too inaccurate – and too dangerous – for safe and effective breast cancer screening. U.S. screening by mammograms is a multibillion dollar a year business!
Harold C.