The Mammogram Myth

The link below is a very good recent article covering the studies showing that mammograms really provide no benefit in reducing or preventing breast cancer.  In fact, quite the opposite is true:  regular mammograms actually increase the risk and incidence of breast cancer!

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/02/26/mammograms.aspx

Another article on the same topic:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/04/30/mammography-screening-programs.aspx?x_cid=20140430_nonlead_facebookdoc&utm_source=facebookdoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=nonlead&utm_campaign=20140430

Mammogram imaging uses ionizing radiation, which undeniably causes cancer, and continued exposure over time increases the risk of developing breast cancer, especially in those women who carry the "breast cancer gene."   The newest type of mammogram, touted as the best yet, which provides 3-D imaging of the breast, uses three times the amount of radiation in a regular mammogram, thus increasing the risk of causing cancer!

Although mammograms can and do detect breast cancers, there is a sobering false positive rate as well as a false negative rate.  On top of that, doctors are realizing that a significant number of in situ cancers found by mammogram, if left alone, could exist in the breast harmlessly for many years, if not the entire lifetime.  But once they are "found," doctors insist on treating them with invasive treatments that serve to weaken the body's own defenses against cancer and even cause more cancer.

There are other harmless imaging techniques such as ultrasound, MRI, and thermography to detect breast cancer which should be considered before mammograms.  

Mammograms have been one of the cash cows of the cancer industry for years, and I doubt they will be given up any time soon, despite concrete scientific proof of the complete lack of benefit.