Mammograms cause breast cancer, groundbreaking new research declares
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 by: S. L. Baker
(NaturalNews) Ever since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
took a look, finally, at the scientific evidence and announced new
recommendations earlier this month for routine mammograms --
specifically that women under 50 should avoid them and women over 50
should only get them every other year -- the reactions from many women,
doctors and the mainstream media have reached the point of near
hysteria (http://www.naturalnews.com/027558_m...). Not getting annual mammograms, some say, means countless women will receive a virtual death sentence because their breast tumors won't be discovered. But 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. This is particularly worrisome because women who are at high risk
for breast cancer are regularly pushed to start mammograms at a younger
age -- as early as 25 -- and that means they are exposed to more
radiation from mammography earlier and for more years than women who
don't have breast cancer in their family trees.
"For women at
high risk for breast cancer, screening is very important, but a careful
approach should be taken when considering mammography for screening
young women, particularly under age 30," Marijke C. Jansen-van der
Weide, Ph.D., an epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology and
Radiology at University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands,
said in a statement to the media. "Further, repeated exposure to
low-dose radiation should be avoided."
Dr. Jansen-van der Weide and colleagues analyzed peer-reviewed, published medical research
to investigate whether low-dose radiation exposure affects breast
cancer risk among high-risk women. Out of the six studies included in
this analysis, four looked at the effect of exposure to low-dose
radiation among breast cancer gene mutation carriers. The other two
studies traced the impact of radiation on women with a family history
of breast cancer. The researchers took the combined data from all these
research projects and then calculated odds ratios to estimate the risk
of breast cancer caused by radiation.
The results? All the
high-risk women in the study who were exposed to low-dose mammography
type radiation had an increased risk of breast cancer that was 1.5
times greater than that of high-risk women who had not been exposed to
low-dose radiation. 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.
Bottom
line: any supposed benefit of early tumor detection using mammograms in
young women with familial or genetic predisposition to breast cancer is
offset by the potential risk of radiation-induced cancer.
"Our findings suggest that low-dose radiation increases breast cancer
risk among these young high-risk women, and a careful approach is
warranted," Dr. Jansen-van der Weide said in the press statement.
The mammogram scam exposed
Incredibly, although it is rarely reported in the mainstream media,
the new study follows on the heels of several others that have already
sounded the warning that mammograms may cause breast cancer. For
example, NaturalNewscovered a Johns Hopkins study published earlier this year in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (http://www.naturalnews.com/025560_c...)
that warned radiation exposure from annual mammograms could trigger
breast malignancies in women with a strong family history of breast
and/or ovarian cancers who have altered genes (identified as BRCA1 or
BRCA2).
And it may not be only women with a familial risk for
breast cancer who are at extra risk from mammography radiation. As
NaturalNews covered last year, a report published in the American
Medical Association's Archives of Internal Medicine found
breast cancer rates increased significantly in four Norwegian counties
after women there began getting mammograms every two years. In fact,
the start of screening mammography programs throughout Europe has been
linked to an increased incidence of breast cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/024901.html).
Comments by the Health Ranger, Editor of NaturalNews.com
Mammogram
pushers now have nothing left to stand on. The complete and utter hoax
of mammography has now been wholly discredited through a flurry of
groundbreaking studies performed by conventional medicine researchers! Yes, even the industry's own former advocates now admit mammography harms far more women than it helps.
Why? Because mammography causes the very disease it claims to "detect".
It's much like a clever sleight-of-hand magician's trick where they
reach for your ear and suddenly produce a coin that was presumably
hidden there. But as everybody knows, they put it there themselves!
Mammograms offer a similar kind of sleight-of-hand trick (or
sleight-of-breast, as the case may be) by actually generating the very
disease they claim to find. If so many women hadn't already been harmed
by mammography, the whole thing would be quite hysterical.
"Early detection saves lives," they say. Except they stupidly forget to tell women the other side of the story: "Mammograms cause cancer."
And if you're gullible enough to actually irradiate your breasts every
year, don't be surprised -- shocked! -- if they someday find tumors in
them.
