Debate on Mammography Effectiveness

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 mammograms

preemptively.

First off, the Hippocratic Oath says do 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 ultrasound, which literally is super definitive.

And if you found something on mammogram, you would 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 would 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.

It basically said

in a study of node-positive cancers

that were saved within

pre-screens versus controlled screen would be the 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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