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"But it's important to remember that doing a mammography or getting a genetic test to see if you harbor BRCA genes does not constitute prevention of breast cancer. Screening is merely an observation to see whether the disease has progressed to an observable state. Some studies34-36 have found that groups of women who undergo frequent mammography have slightly lower mortality rates than groups of women who do not undergo frequent mammography. This implies that our cancer treatments are more likely to be successful if the cancer is found at an earlier stage." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"The controversy looks almost Swiftian when we consider that even under the most optimistic assumptions, mammography still cannot prevent the vast majority of breast cancer deaths." This editorial concluded: There will come a time when all the study patients have been followed up, all the analyses have been done, all the expert groups have met, and all the editorials have been written, and we still won't be sure how much benefit and how much harm are caused by mammography.48 In this book, we are using mortality as an indicator of effectiveness." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Programs to encourage self-examination in the absence of mammography are unlikely to reduce breast cancer. 3. Women who choose to practice self-examination should be informed that its efficacy is unproven and that it may increase their chances of having a benign breast biopsy.43 An accompanying editorial, two University of North Carolina physicians pronounced the self-exam "dead" and urged their colleagues to change their advice to women. Until there is evidence to the contrary, "physicians can stop spending time routinely teaching women's fingers to do breast exams." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Commenting on the official mammography guidelines, Epstein says: "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 suffering and death for millions of women. They fit the classification of crimes against humanity." Experts now no longer recommend following a strict examination routine, but for women to get to know what is normal, and feel their breasts regularly for signs of any changes." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Yes, there is a side-effect free and inexpensive screening technology that is far more effective than mammography. High-resolution Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI). DITI measures the radiation of infrared heat from your body and translates this information into anatomical images. If there is an abnormal growth of some sort in your breast it will stand out clearly on the thermographic image as a "hot spot." Although accepted by Duke University, this diagnostic tool is not a mainstream technology. "..." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Thanks to the discoveries of the North Carolina Institute of Technology (NCIT), a privately funded research center, thermal imaging, done using the protocol established by NCIT, may find developing breast cancer 10 years earlier than mammography. (Check out BreastCancerCured.com for more information). Comment: I personally don't endorse any screening method to diagnose cancer, for reasons explained in this book." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Age-adjusted incidence of breast cancer in industrialized countries has increased 1 to 2 percent per year for several decades, both before and after the introduction of mammography. ?Prostate cancer is up nearly 290 percent in the last fifty years. ?Thyroid cancer is up 258 percent. Cases of skin melanomas are up almost 700 percent in the last fifty years. ?Lung cancer is currently the most common cause of cancer death in women, with the death rate more than two times what it was twenty-five years ago." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Women ages fifty to fifty-nine are encouraged to have an annual breast exam and mammography. Second, doctors themselves acknowledge that they often treat a disease with a medication even if they know it won't help because they would rather do something than just stand by. Or they may take the position that the medicine "might help, and couldn't hurt." Unfortunately, many times a drug that won't help you may indeed hurt you. In the past twenty years the length of time it takes to review a medication for approval has gone from a few years to six months." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Very clear and specific standards and targets need to be set for interpretation of mammography," said the study's lead author. "Radiologists who perform outside acceptable ranges need to be told: 'that's not acceptable.'"37 We are not saying that a substantial proportion of physicians are incompetent. What we are saying is that the competence of physicians, even specialists, cannot be assumed as a given. 2. Does Screening Improve Prognosis? The question is fundamental. Diagnosis has value, but not in and of itself." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Softer, fattier breast tissue can tolerate the potentially injurious mammography screening much better. Microwave Ovens Do you ever wonder what microwaves do to water, food, and your body? Russian researchers have found decreased nutritional value, cancer-making compounds, and brain-damaging radiolytics in virtually all microwave-prepared foods. Eating microwave-prepared meals can also cause loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decline in intelligence, according to the research." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Given the issues in reliability and accuracy, can you imagine that mammography can find the twelve new breast cancers that will occur in 929 women screened annually from age sixty to sixty-four? All it will do is give the mam-mographers license to recommend a biopsy in 150 of these women, including many of the twelve with breast cancer but not necessarily the few whose cancer is life threatening. Many Women Are Better Off If Their Breast Cancer Is Never Detected Not all breast cancers need to be cured. If nothing else, mammographic screening causes a lot of women to undergo breast biopsy." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Some studies34-36 have found that groups of women who undergo frequent mammography have slightly lower mortality rates than groups of women who do not undergo frequent mammography. This implies that our cancer treatments are more likely to be successful if the cancer is found at an earlier stage. This is likely to be true, but there is some concern over the way statistics are used in this debate." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"A recent British study found that even small irregularities in breast symmetry as measured by mammography may become an important indicator of increased risk of breast cancer. Though rare, uneven breasts can also be a sign of a congenital defect called Poland's syndrome, in which the chest muscles on one side of the body are underdeveloped. Although present from birth, and sometimes hereditary, this type of breast asymmetry may go unnoticed until puberty when the breasts start to develop. Poland's syndrome is actually more common in men than women." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"While this study showed an advantage with digital imaging in these groups, it should be remembered that traditional film mammography also is effective," Smith adds. Pisano agrees. "It is important that women get screened when they are supposed to be screened and not wait to get a digital [mammography]. If there is film available, it's better than nothing." A Bad Sign: Breast Cancer Survivors Fail To Get Mammograms Chyke A. Doubeni, MD, assistant professor of family medicine and community health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Many of the breast-cancer-detection machines or mammography machines are not even calibrated correctly. mammography itself is a procedure that actually causes breast cancer, because the machines emit radiation that promotes DNA damage in the breast tissue. We have a situation here where the very machines that conventional medicine uses to detect breast cancer also give patients breast cancer." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Some studies34-36 have found that groups of women who undergo frequent mammography have slightly lower mortality rates than groups of women who do not undergo frequent mammography. This implies that our cancer treatments are more likely to be successful if the cancer is found at an earlier stage. This is likely to be true, but there is some concern over the way statistics are used in this debate." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"This editorial concluded: There will come a time when all the study patients have been followed up, all the analyses have been done, all the expert groups have met, and all the editorials have been written, and we still won't be sure how much benefit and how much harm are caused by mammography.48 In this book, we are using mortality as an indicator of effectiveness. Thus, the question: What has been the impact of screening—and all treatment—of all breast cancer? The answer: The mortality rate from breast cancer has been stable over the period from 1930 to the present." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (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.)

"The controversy speaks to the fact that if there is benefit to screening mammography, it is minimal. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (Mandelblatt et al. 2003) thinks that the cost of screening justifies the program in women after age sixty-five. They have been looking at the same data we have been pondering. So have the British. The spokesperson for the consultant breast surgeons thinks it's worthwhile (Dixon 2006). British epidemiologists (Irwig et al. 2006), echoing the Nordic Cochrane Centre investigators (Jorgensen et al." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "The messengers can be vilified, not just by those with vested and invested interests in promulgating mammography, but by the women on whose behalf the science is designed. Again, for students of Popper, this is a predictable dialectic. I discussed the follow-up to the Malmo trial at the outset of this chapter. The Malmo trial enrolled over 40,000 residents age forty-five to seventy between 1976 and 1978. The Stockholm trials enrolled 60,000 residents in 1981. Both studies monitored their cohorts for at least eleven years." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (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.) "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.)

"THE STUDY When researchers reviewed mammography use in 797 women older than age 55 who had been treated for breast cancer, they found that in the first year after treatment, 80% of the women had gotten a mammogram. But only 63% of the women had gotten a mammogram in the fifth year after treatment began. Over the five-year study period, only one in three—33%—had gotten a mammogram every year, as recommended. Overall, healthy women are not as faithful to mammograms as health-care professionals would like." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"In an investigation into the relationship of breast density as measured by mammography to serum-vitamin D levels, it was found that there was a strong inverse correlation; the higher the density, the lower the vitamin D levels.38 Vitamin D levels and breast-cancer survival Does the blood level of vitamin D at the time of diagnosis of breast cancer make a difference in a woman's time of survival? Yes, it does." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"Given the issues in reliability and accuracy, can mammography find the twelve new breast cancers that will occur in 929 women screened annually from the age sixty to sixty-four, as set out in table 4.1 ? All it will do is give the mammographers licence to recommend a biopsy in 150 of these women, including many of the twelve with breast cancer, but not necessarily the few whose cancer is life threatening. Proviso 4: Not all breast cancers need to be detected This proviso is a corollary to proviso 1 - not all breast cancers need to be cured." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"The Breast Cancer Fund, along with several other groups in the Alliance — Friends of the Earth, the National Black Environmental Justice Coalition, National Environmental Trust and Alliance for Healthy research into less-toxic treatments, alternatives to mammography and prevention of the disease. After almost ten years at the helm of the Breast Cancer Fund, Andrea had another fateful trip to the doctor's office and another horrible diagnosis. She learned she had a malignant brain tumor, which the doctors suspected was caused by radiation treatments for the breast cancer." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"An x-ray of the breast, produced by mammography, that is used in screening for breast cancer. mammography (ma-mog-ruh-fee) Examination of the breasts using x-rays. mammography is useful in locating tumors of the breast that are too small to be detected by other means. marrow The soft, specialized connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones. One kind of bone marrow is responsible for manufacturing red blood cells in the body. mastectomy (ma-stek-tuh-mee) The surgical re-. moval of a breast." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"An ultrasound ot special three-dimensional mammography (called stereotactic mammography) is used. A core needle biopsy using stereotactic mammography entails fitst placing a woman on her stomach on a mammogtaphy table with the affected breast fitted through a hole in the table. Then, as in a diagnostic mammogram, the breast is compressed so it will remain in place and the equipment can record an accurate image. Calculations are made based on this image, and a biopsy device containing a needle automatically takes a number of tissue samples from the affected area in the breast." - The Life Extension Editorial Staff, Disease Prevention and Treatment (Get the book.)

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