Mammograms cause breast cancer, groundbreaking new research declares

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Mammograms cause breast cancer, groundbreaking new research declares

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Ever since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force took a look, finally,

at the scientific evidence and announced new recommendations earlier this

month for routine mammograms -- specifically that women under 50 should avoid

them and women over 50 should only get them every other year -- the

reactions from many women, doctors and the mainstream media have reached the

point of near hysteria (

_http://www.naturalnews.com/027558_mammograms_cancer_industry.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/027558_mammograms_cancer_industry.html) ) Not

getting annual mammograms, some say, means countless women

will receive a virtual death sentence because their breast tumors won't be

discovered. But what is rarely discussed about mammograms is this: the tests

could actually be causing many cases of breast cancer.

 

 

In fact, a new study just presented at the annual meeting of the

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), concludes the low-dose radiation

from

annual mammography screening significantly increases breast cancer risk in

women with a genetic or familial predisposition to breast cancer. This is

particularly worrisome because women who are at high risk for breast cancer

are regularly pushed to start mammograms at a younger age -- as early as 25

-- and that means they are exposed to more radiation from mammography

earlier and for more years than women who don't have breast cancer in their

family trees.

 

 

" For women at high risk for breast cancer, screening is very important,

but a careful approach should be taken when considering mammography for

screening young women, particularly under age 30, " Marijke C. Jansen-van der

Weide, Ph.D., an epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Radiology

at University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, said in a

statement to the media. " Further, repeated exposure to low-dose radiation

should

be avoided. "

 

 

Dr. Jansen-van der Weide and colleagues analyzed peer-reviewed, published

medical research to investigate whether low-dose radiation exposure affects

breast cancer risk among high-risk women. Out of the six studies included

in this analysis, four looked at the effect of exposure to low-dose

radiation among breast cancer gene mutation carriers. The other two studies

traced

the impact of radiation on women with a family history of breast cancer.

The researchers took the combined data from all these research projects and

then calculated odds ratios to estimate the risk of breast cancer caused by

radiation.

 

 

The results? All the high-risk women in the study who were exposed to

low-dose mammography type radiation had an increased risk of breast cancer that

was 1.5 times greater than that of high-risk women who had not been

exposed to low-dose radiation. What's more, women at high risk for breast

cancer

who had been exposed to low-dose radiation before the age of 20 or who had

five or more exposures to low-dose radiation were 2.5 times more likely to

develop breast cancer than high-risk women not exposed to low-dose

radiation.

 

 

Bottom line: any supposed benefit of early tumor detection using

mammograms in young women with familial or genetic predisposition to breast

cancer

is offset by the potential risk of radiation-induced cancer. " Our findings

suggest that low-dose radiation increases breast cancer risk among these

young high-risk women, and a careful approach is warranted, " Dr. Jansen-van

der Weide said in the press statement.

 

 

The mammogram scam exposed

 

 

Incredibly, although it is rarely reported in the mainstream media, the

new study follows on the heels of several others that have already sounded

the warning that mammograms may cause breast cancer. For example, NaturalNews

covered a Johns Hopkins study published earlier this year in the Journal

of the National Cancer Institute (

_http://www.naturalnews.com/025560_cancer_brst_cancer_mammograms.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/025560_cancer_brst_cancer_mammograms.html) ) that

warned radiation exposure from annual

mammograms could trigger breast malignancies in women with a strong family

history of breast and/or ovarian cancers who have altered genes (identified as

BRCA1 or BRCA2).

 

 

And it may not be only women with a familial risk for breast cancer who

are at extra risk from mammography radiation. As NaturalNews covered last

year, a report published in the American Medical Association's Archives of

Internal Medicine found breast cancer rates increased significantly in four

Norwegian counties after women there began getting mammograms every two years.

In fact, the start of screening mammography programs throughout Europe has

been linked to an increased incidence of breast cancer

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Comments by the Health Ranger, Editor of NaturalNews.com

 

 

Mammogram pushers now have nothing left to stand on. The complete and

utter hoax of mammography has now been wholly discredited through a flurry of

groundbreaking studies performed by conventional medicine researchers! Yes,

even the industry's own former advocates now admit mammography harms far

more women than it helps.

 

Why? Because mammography causes the very disease it claims to " detect " .

It's much like a clever sleight-of-hand magician's trick where they reach for

your ear and suddenly produce a coin that was presumably hidden there. But

as everybody knows, they put it there themselves! Mammograms offer a

similar kind of sleight-of-hand trick (or sleight-of-breast, as the case may

be)

by actually generating the very disease they claim to find. If so many

women hadn't already been harmed by mammography, the whole thing would be quite

hysterical.

 

 

" Early detection saves lives, " they say. Except they stupidly forget to

tell women the other side of the story: " Mammograms cause cancer. " And if

you're gullible enough to actually irradiate your breasts every year, don't be

surprised -- shocked! -- if they someday find tumors in them.

 

 

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