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"We hear it a lot about mammography in general," she says, referring to women's tendency to not get regular mammograms. Perkins speculates that "the longer you are cancer-free, the more 'normal' you feel, and then [you] begin to behave more like the general population." Perkins believes that the fear of a recurrence keeps breast cancer survivors from getting mammograms. But she would tell them, "The earlier you detect anything that might recur, the better your chances to have a successful treatment the next time around." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Women who exercise have also been reported to have a reduced risk of high-risk mammography patterns compared with inactive women.102 Exercise in adulthood might help protect against breast cancer by lowering blood levels of estrogen or by helping maintain ideal body weight. In addition to the preventive effects of exercise, aerobic exercise has been reported to reduce depression (page 145) and anxiety (page 30) in women already diagnosed with breast cancer." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"It may also act indirectly by sensitizing the breast to subsequent unrelated risk factors, such as carcinogenic and estrogenic pesticide contaminants in food, and radiation, particularly mammography in premenopausal women (55, 56). IGF-1 in rBGH Milk as a Potential Risk Factor for Gastrointestinal Cancer IGF-1 stimulates proliferation of intestinal epithelial cells in culture (57). Such mitogenic effects are induced at concentrations equivalent to those occurring in mature bovine milk." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Women don't need to rely on mammography to feel safeguarded against breast cancer, especially since it is highly unreliable as a diagnostic tool. A series of liver, kidney and colon cleanses are often enough to prevent, stop and regress any type of cancer." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Only 1 to 10 out of 100 "positive" mammography tests are truly positive, which means that there is a 90 to 99 percent chance of a woman being diagnosed with breast cancer who doesn't have it. Since these tests are not taken only once in a lifetime, the chances of becoming a victim of false diagnosis for breast cancer are very high. In Great Britain, about 100,000 women per year receive a false diagnosis for breast cancer (not excluding other forms of diagnosis). The women undergo many unnecessary biopsies and an unknown number of mastectomies (breast amputations)." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "So why use a method that can exacerbate a disease unnecessarily? mammography is a major-league moneymaker for hospitals, doctors and cancer clinics nationwide. The unsuspecting women believe that the screening reduces their risk of death from breast cancer by 50-75 percent! In truth, according to research conducted by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, it would be necessary to screen over 1,200 women aged 40-74 every year for 14 years to prevent even one death from breast cancer." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Considerable effort is under way to improve the sensitivity and specificity of mammography by using higher-resolution imaging techniques, some of which employ other processes such as ultrasound and mri. Unfortunately, we are still waiting for compelling evidence of improvement in detection: the cancers remain nearly as furtive regardless of the technique. We seem to be asking more of this anatomical imaging technology than it can possibly deliver." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.) "The study of the inter-observer reliability of mammography was by Elmore and colleagues, "Variability in Radiologists' Interpretations of Mammograms" (1994), as was the study of false-positive rates (Elmore and colleagues, "Ten-Year Risk of False Positive Screening Mammograms and Clinical Breast Examinations," 1998). The study probing the psychological price paid by these screened women was earlier (Lerman and colleagues, "Psychological and Behavioral Implications of Abnormal Mammograms," 1991)." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"I just walked you through eight big studies that have been conducted over the past 40 years: almost half a million women entered in randomized trials of mammography; millions of dollars' worth of research. No cancer test has been more carefully studied. And we still need more research? The truth is, we do. There are other questions we need answers to before we can say how best to screen for breast cancer. THE REAL CONSTRAINTS IN TESTING TESTS Welcome to the real world of cancer detection research. Here are the hard facts. There are a lot of potential questions to ask." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.)

"Over a 10-year period, for every 2000 women undergoing mammography only 1 woman would have her life prolonged while 10 healthy women would be errantly diagnosed as having breast cancer and undergo unnecessary treatment. Cochrane reviewers state that "it is not clear whether screening does more good than harm." [Cochrane Database System Review Oct, 18, 2006 CD 001877] { /_ The idea is, if breast tumors are growing for 8-10 years before detection, that mammograms in younger age groups should produce earlier detection and reduce mortality rates." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "While DCIS represented only 1% of newly diagnosed breast disease decades ago, since the introduction of mammography it may represent 30-40% of the new cases that are treated. [Annals Surgical Oncology 6: 802-10, 1999] Dr. Silverstein goes on to say that "many patients with DCIS are in a state of terror after having been told that they have breast cancer." But is DCIS really breast cancer? Yes, up to 40% of cases may develop into invasive breast cancer, but only after 25-30 years. Maybe 1 in 5 patients with DCIS will die of breast cancer. In Dr." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"In the United States, mastectomies have skyrocketed since mammography became the most popular "preventive" method for diagnosing breast cancer. The medical establishment is very nervous that the truth about the mammogram technology is finally beginning to surface. After all, it is a huge moneymaker. Peter Gotzsche, M.D.—a researcher at the Nordic Cochrane Center in Denmark—and his associates recently published a peer-reviewed study that found major fault with the results of a large trial that reported a 31 percent reduction in breast cancer mortality as a result of mammogram screening." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"If screening worked for cervical cancer, and did so for women at all ages, why should mammography be any different? Economists were not widely engaged in such matters at the time. They ask questions such as, "Are the costs of using this procedure on women of certain ages in line with the benefits?" Costs are the simple part. Benefits are harder to measure. The actual number of lives saved can be estimated, but what about unnecessary radiation and surgery to look for things that appear to be cancer and turn out not to be?" - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Brewer et al. 2007). A false-positive result increases anxiety, increases self-examining, and tends to render another mammogram less appealing. Thurfjell (2002) provides a brief discussion of the influence of breast density on mammographic accuracy. Similar conclusions resulted from an analysis of the Million Women Study (Banks et al. 2004). The paper by Boyd et al. (2002) demonstrates that breast density is a familial trait. The literature on dcis is somewhat muddled by the preconceptions and beliefs of the various authors." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"When used in conjunction with mammography (above) there is a better than 95 percent detection rate. Q A study showed that women who used aspirin at least four times a week for at least three months were almost 30 percent less likely to develop estrogen- or progesteronerelated breast cancer than those who did not use aspirin. Published in the journal of the American Medical Association in May 2004, the study was led by researcher Mary Beth Terry, Ph.D., and Alfred Neugut, M.D., Ph.D., of Columbia University. Researchers suspect aspirin works by interfering with estrogen production." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"This is why many doctors are reluctant to overuse mammography. While it can detect cancer, it also contributes to the body's radiation dose. Current guidelines recommend routine mammography only after age fifty, with the proviso that mammography equipment be new and well-maintained to keep radiation doses minimal. Heredity alone causes about 5 percent of breast cancers39 and genes probably also have subtle effects on cancer susceptibility, for example, by influencing the strength of your immune system." - Neal Barnard, M.D., Eat Right, Live Longer: Using the Natural Power of Foods to Age-Proof Your Body (Get the book.)

"The same thing's true about mammography, which actually causes breast cancer even while it claims to be detecting it. The second myth is that the sunlight actually causes skin cancer in the first place. Here's the truth about this. We need ultraviolet radiation in certain doses in order to live as healthy human beings. Why? Well, think about it. Your ancestors evolved on a planet where they were frequently exposed to the sun. Your ancestors didn't spend eight hours a day huddled over a computer breathing office air and living under fluorescent lighting." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"And yet, many of the screening tests we imagine will protect us— mammography, colonoscopy, and more recently, CT scans to screen for lung cancer—suffer from many of the same drawbacks as the PSA test. The only cancer screening test that has been shown unequivocally to decrease mortality is the venerable Pap smear for cervical cancer. Yet even that is not a fail-safe talisman for warding off premature death." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "For instance, it may never be possible to conduct a clinical trial to test whether mammography really brings down death rates because too many women and their doctors are already convinced of its merits and will never be willing to enter a trial that might randomly assign them not to be screened for breast cancer. In cases where the benefits of a procedure, drug, or test are uncertain, patients need to be given clear, unbiased information about what's at stake." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "In a brilliant essay on mammography and the limits of seeing, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell tells a story that illustrates how high-tech images can be deceiving. When the first Gulf War began, the U.S. Air Force employed two squadrons of F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets to find and destroy Scud missile launch sites in the Iraqi desert. After a Scud was airborne, it would leave a light trail in the night sky, allowing the fighter pilots to narrow down the site of the launch to a few square miles." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Such imprinting by IGF-1 may not only constitute a direct breast cancer risk factor, but may also increase the sensitivity of the breast to subsequent unrelated risk factors, such as carcinogenic and estrogenic pesticide contaminants in food, and mammography. On the basis of these data and women's right to know, I urge that minimally you revoke recent FDA restrictions on labeling of BST-free milk. More prudently, I further urge that you revoke approval of BST registration. I would appreciate a response at your early convenience. Sincerely yours, Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. cc: The Hon." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"The mammogram group had many more lumpectomies and surgeries, and the death rate was 107 deaths in the mammography group and 105 in the physical examination group.51 Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a common noninvasive form of breast cancer. Most cases of DCIS are detected through the use of mammography; in younger women, 92 percent of all cancers detected by mammography are of this type. Nevertheless, on average, 44 percent, and in some states 60 percent, of these are treated by mastectomy. As most of these tumors are harmless, this greatly improves the survival statistics." - Walter Last, The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Health (Get the book.)

"The cancer that the digital mammography found and film missed were the kind that kill women. Etta D. Pisano, MD Dr. Rowan T. Chlebowski, a medical oncologist at Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute, says, "Even without a clinical benefit, digital would replace film. With the current mandate for electronic medical records, you are going to have a hard time getting a film mammogram into an electronic medical record. "This study makes it more reasonable to go for the investment now, because you get an immediate clinical payoff," he adds." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"The impact of showing that mammography actually worked on older women was breathtaking. The long drought of failed promises was over. Finally, after years of promises, a life-sparing technology was at hand. Convinced that all women would benefit from regular mammograms and caught up in the political and economic enthusiasm of combating cancer, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) launched a massive demonstration project on breast cancer detection in 1972 that covered women of all ages." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "We talked about creating master mammography readers who would provide standardized second opinions on all films, which has long been done in Scandinavia. Blumenthal came up with an innovative scheme to use technologies of the space and intelligence agencies that can read a license plate from outer space to enhance the ability to find early signs of cancer within the breast. Despite these efforts and major technical progress on several fronts, no major change in how mammograms should be read and reviewed ever happened." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "The federal government didn't even have national standards for mammography until 1994. This only happened after John Dingell, William Ford, Marilyn Lloyd, Patricia Schroeder, Henry Waxman, and a number of champions of women's health, including Assistant Surgeon General Susan Blumenthal, married to Congressman Ed Markey, and NIH director Bernadine Hardy, demanded such a program be put in place.7 I had visited Arkansas that year, working for Jocelyn Elders, the surgeon general." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"The effectiveness of breast cancer screening by mammography in younger women," Online J. Current Clin. Trials 193, No. 32, 1993. 57. A.N. Corps and K.D. Brown. "Stimulation of intestinal epithelial cell proliferation in culture by growth factors in human and ruminant mammary secretions," J. Endocrinol. 113:285-290, 1987. 58. R.J. Playford et al. "Effect of Luminal Growth Factor Preservation on Intestinal Growth," Lancet 2:843-848, 1993. 59. O.P. Chaurasia et al. "Insulin-like Growth factor-1 in Human Gastrointestinal Exocrine Secretions," Regul. Pept. 50:113-119, 1994. 60. H. Olanrewaju, L." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"A study reported that mammography combined with physical exams found 3,500 cancers, 42 percent of which could not be detected by physical exam. However, 31 percent of the tumors were noninfiltrating cancer. Since the course of breast cancer is long, the time difference in cancer detected through mammography may not be a benefit in terms of survival. I. Mittra, "Breast Screening: The Case for Physical Examination without mammography," Lancet 343 (February 5, 1994): 342." - Dr. Gary Null, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"Imprinting by IGF-1 may increase future breast-cancer risks and sensitivity of the breast to subsequent unrelated risks such as mammography and the carcinogenic and estrogen-like effects of pesticide residues in food, particularly in premenopausal women. These concerns are not new. In a 1989 letter to the FDA, I warned that the effects of IGF-1 "could include premature growth stimulation in infants, breast enlargement in young children and breast cancer in adult females." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"When this fact hit the news wires, breast cancer imaging centers and makers of mammography units circled their wagons in defense of their technology. Upon re-analysis, researchers dispelled the idea that mammograms lead to needless care, but still could not produce a meaningful reduction in mortality rates. [Lancet 359: 909-19, 2002] While there has been a reduction in mortality rates for breast cancer in many countries, there is no clear link this is related to screening. A recent report concluded: "If women choose screening, they should understand their risk of dying may not be reduced." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

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