Mammography Risks and Alternatives

Data has come out about mammography,

getting a mammogram,

that shows that for every 10,000 people

that you give a mammogram to,

eight people will die that would have

never had breast cancer from breast cancer.

Now, you can justify using a mammogram

and say, well, hundreds of people will be saved

by getting no harm first. That's doing harm.

You're killing eight people.

You're killing eight people for every 10,000 mammograms.

And yes, you're saving hundreds.

However,

there is a ton of data that actually shows

there's a 52% overdiagnosis when using mammography.

That means that we are treating a great deal

of people that would have never died

of breast cancer in the first place just by doing the mammogram.

Now, if you want to do a safer way,

you have a couple options. You can do an ultrasound,

which literally is super definitive.

And if you found something on mammogram,

you'd get an ultrasound anyways.

Except with ultrasound, there's no radiation.

Secondly, you can do a thermogram.

Just have them take a heat signature of your breast tissue,

and you can actually see if there's metabolic activity,

potentially extra blood flow to one of your breasts,

and then you'd get an ultrasound anyways.

Why are we getting mammograms and telling women

to get mammograms on a yearly basis,

especially if they have dense breast tissue,

when the radiation from the mammogram can actually cause breast cancer?

And they've done long-term studies on this.

I actually read a Cochrane Review,

which is the most prestigious research entity that exists.

It's a huge meta-analysis of multiple, multiple studies,

and basically said, in a study of node-positive cancers that

were saved within pre-screens versus control screen would be a mammogram,

there was a zero net effectiveness rating.

So just keep that in mind.

Ultrasound and thermogram should be the standard.

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