mammograms

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Should I do my Annual Mammograms? No. I do not recommend annual mammograms for our clients due to false positives and degree of specificity. Screening via ultra sound, breast self exam or thermography is safer and more accurate to detect breast lumps/cancer.

I recommend 3 D Ultrasound VIP Breast Imaging instead of mammograms. See my blogs at www.academyofwellness.com
Amanda Lamanna, VIP Breast Imaging, toronto@vipbreastimaging.com; 647 350 2229

A mammogram is an x-ray picture of the breast. Screening mammograms are used to check for breast cancer in women who have no signs or symptoms of the disease. Diagnostic mammograms are used to check for breast cancer after a lump or other sign or symptom of the disease has been found.
Screening mammography can help reduce the number of deaths from breast cancer among women ages 40 to 74.
Potential limitations of screening mammography include false-positive results, over diagnosis and over treatment, false-negative results, and radiation exposure.

The practice is based on the presumption that mammograms detect breast cancers that are smaller than those detected by physical breast exams, meaning they can be detected sooner on average than clinically palpable breast cancers.

Mammograms can be used to check for breast cancer in women who have no signs or symptoms of the disease. This type of mammogram is called a screening mammogram. Screening mammograms usually involve two x-ray pictures, or images, of each breast. The x-ray images make it possible to detect tumors that cannot be felt. Screening mammograms can also find microcalcifications (tiny deposits of calcium) that sometimes indicate the presence of breast cancer.

Mammograms can also be used to check for breast cancer after a lump or other sign or symptom of the disease has been found. This type of mammogram is called a diagnostic mammogram. Besides a lump, signs of breast cancer can include breast pain, thickening of the skin of the breast, nipple discharge, or a change in breast size or shape; however, these signs may also be signs of benign conditions. A diagnostic mammogram can also be used to evaluate changes found during a screening mammogram or to view breast tissue when it is difficult to obtain a screening mammogram because of special circumstances, such as the presence of breast implants.
False-positive results occur when radiologists decide mammograms are abnormal but no cancer is actually present. All abnormal mammograms should be followed up with additional testing (diagnostic mammograms, ultrasound, and/or biopsy) to determine whether cancer is present.
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology are actively recruiting clinical trial participants to validate the test, which looks for metabolites called pteridines in urine. All humans excrete some pteridines, but levels rise in cancer patients; scanning for them could unmask tumors even before they appear on a mammogram, and also tell doctors the stage to which cancer has advanced.

As so expertly demonstrated in the video above, created by Dr. Andrew Lazris and environmental scientist, Erik Rifkin, Ph.D., it’s easy to misunderstand the benefits of mammograms.

Mammograms are said to reduce your risk of dying from breast cancer by 20 percent, but unless you understand where this number comes from, you’ll be vastly overestimating the potential benefit of regular mammogram screening.

Most doctors also fail to inform patients about the other side of the equation, which is that far more women are actually harmed by the procedure than benefit from it.

1 in 1,000 Women Is Saved by Regular Mammogram Screening While 10 Undergo Cancer Treatment for No Reason

Incredible as it may sound, the 20 percent mortality risk reduction touted by conventional medicine actually amounts to just 1 woman per 1,000 who get regular mammograms. How can that be?

As explained in the video, for every 1,000 women who do not get mammograms, 5 of them will die of breast cancer. For every 1,000 women who do get mammograms, 4 will die anyway.

The difference between the two groups is 20 percent (the difference of that one person in the mammogram group whose life is saved). On the other side of the equation, out of every 1,000 women who get regular mammograms over a lifetime:

• HALF will receive a false positive. So while they do NOT have cancer, about 500 out of every 1,000 women getting mammograms will face the terror associated with a breast cancer diagnosis
• 64 will get biopsies, which can be painful and carry risks of adverse effects
• 10 will go on to receive cancer treatment for what is in actuality NOT cancer, including disfiguring surgery and toxic drugs or radiation. Surgery, chemo and radiation are all risky, and dying from the treatment for a cancer you do not have is doubly tragic

All things considered, the evidence seems quite clear; most women should probably avoid mammograms, as they cause far more harm than good.

Many studies have now come to that conclusion, and the most recent research,²published just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, again hammers home that point.

Harms of Mammography Eclipse Benefits

When you are faced with Breast Cancer Diagnosis do NOT FEAR? The worst 4 letters word starting with F?

FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

FEAR= Forget Everything and RUN

FEAR= Face Everything and RISE

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