Mammograms

"Clearly for women under 50, the risks and costs outweigh the benefits. For women over 50 the benefits are minimal, the harm substantial, and the costs enormous. No benefits have been found for women over age 69."
Dr. John A. McDougall, M.D.
http://www.drmcdougall.com/med_hot_breastcancer.html

"Mammograms are dangerous. Mammograms expose your breasts to harmful radiation. One of the largest mammogram studies ever initiated had to be cancelled because the mammogram group of women developed more cancer than the non-mammogram control group."
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"The latest study from the University of British Colombia in Vancouver has come out with the astonishing suggestion that we junk mammograms altogether. Researchers studied all the trials since the early ones that claimed a 30% reduction in deaths from breast cancer in women over fifty.
There has been far less publicity, the Canadian researchers point out, about all the studies that have been done since those early days, showing that mammography does no good for anyone in any age group, but does great harm through false positives and get-in-there-early intervention. The study attacked mammography after discovering that only one in fourteen women with a positive mammgogram result indicating breast cancer will actually have the condition."
Lynne McTaggart
What Doctors Don't Tell You: The Truth About the Dangers of Modern Medicine

"As you may already know, my life's research and experience have convinced me beyond any doubt that in the vast majority of cases, mammograms are less accurate than manual breast cancer screenings - and that the unnatural compression of the breast during mammography actually increases the spread of any cancerous tissues that may be present."
Dr. William Douglass, MD
http://www.douglassreport.com/