Take a breast, squish it between two hard pieces of metal, flatten it out and do this every year and of course you end up with breast cancer. I said this in June, listen to my podcast here, and boy did I receive a few nasty letters from physicians. One physician told me I was doing a disservice to women by telling them to skip mammograms in their 20’s and 30’s. I wrote to him asking if he ever spoke about the importance of diet, nutrition, and stress to his female patients, or does he just send them off to be zapped? It is so offensive to me to think that after all the pink ribbons, all the marathons, all the millions raised, we are still working with archaic machinery and barbaric treatment of our bodies. Could you imagine them taking a man’s penis, slapping it on a cold metal shelf and squishing it flat? Hmmm? What do you think happens to the delicate breast tissue, mammary glands and possible cysts and tumors when they are compressed like that? All cancer research shows that tumors must be handled delicately. Bursting a tumor sends cancer cells out into the rest of the breast and body.
These new guidelines out are not shocking to me. If you spend any time researching this you will come to one conclusion, no tests have ever been conducted to prove mammograms do work. In fact you will find plenty of tests proving women received a false reading and the mammogram picked up a tumor that ended up not being cancer. Add in mis-readings by radiologists, the question is, are we over-diagnosing breast cancer? More women are living with breast cancer, the death rate has decreased, but the rate of women developing breast cancer each year has increased.
Is it that we are detecting more cancer via mammogram or are the mammogram’s causing the cancer? This is a very serious question that must be discussed and investigated.
I urge you all to demand answers. We can all donate money but that isn’t working. It is time for us to ask our representatives to change how we discover breast cancers. Right now most insurance companies will not cover ultrasound of the breast. Why? There is a new technology out there called Thermogram, which has no radiation at all. The insurance companies do not cover this test. In regards to ovarian cancer there is a test the CA 125 that may detect it but the insurance companies won’t cover that either. And I am sure under these new guidelines about mammogram’s the insurance companies will use this to leverage not paying for mammograms for any woman under 50.
So can we even trust these results? It’s all about money. The bottom line is eat healthy, take grape seed extract, selenium, vitamin e, c, b complex, and every day get in the sun for an hour. Do all this before our government makes it illegal. Don’t eat meat with hormones. Demand hormone free meat. Demand hormone free dairy. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day.
Here is an interesting article for you
http://www.naturalnews.com/026880_cancer_brst_cancer_cancer_screening.html
I was diagnosed one year ago with breast cancer at the age of 45. This year I had a lumpectomy, chemo therapy and radiation therapy and am currently on a medication called herceptin. I have only had 3 mammograms in my life and I certainly do not believe that the mammogram gave me cancer. I am also very healthy, I eat nutritiously and I have exercised 3-4 days a week for years. Why I got cancer, who knows? I have beat myself up about it and have decided to live today and live as healthy as I can and move on. I am very upset about the new guidelines! I have met many wonderful and courageous women who have been through this breast cancer journey and most of them are under the age of 50. Many of their cancers were found with the aid of a mammogram. I think this is an outrage and I am so afraid for women who put this off until 50 yrs of age. Most women in the US can beat breast cancer if found soon enough and go on to live healthy lives. This cancer needs to be caught early and self breast exams are not the only answer.
I am right there with all of you who want to live healthy lives to keep from getting cancer, but until you have been diagnosed and have walked this journey, you just don’t understand.