Breast Cancer And Mammograms - The Truth and Evil

These statistics can be scary when you read them.

It may drive you to make : 

Precautionary moves and changes in your lifestyle.

Rush to the nearest hospital and enroll yourself in a screening test ( which would probably be the worst decision that you could ever make in regards to your health)

Learn, understand, reason and share this knowledge with several others who may be at the risk of making the wrong decision.

According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 200,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed each year in the US, making it three times more common than other gynecological cancers.

Breast cancer will claim the lives of over 40,000 people this year.
 

Even more disturbing is the speed at which breast cancer rates have risen over the past 5 decades.

In 1960, one in 20 women was diagnosed—but today, it is one in seven.

The following are some important facts about this type of cancer:

• Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for women age 40 to 55.
• 15 percent of all breast cancers occur in women under age 45; in this age group, breast cancers are more aggressive and have lower recovery rates.
• 80 percent of breast lumps are NON-cancerous.
• 70 percent of breast cancers are found through breast self-exams.
• About 80 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of breast cancer.
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• The Institute of Medicine is finally acknowledging the toxic effects of mammogram radiation as a significant factor in the development of breast cancer; just one mammogram can expose you to the radiation equivalent of 1,000 chest x-rays

•  Mammograms also carry an unacceptably high rate of false positives—up to six percent—which can lead to repeat screenings that expose you to even more radiation, as well as unnecessary medical procedures, including biopsies, surgery, and chemotherapy
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• A new study in the British Medical Journal highlights losses in quality of life related to the high rates of false positives and unnecessary treatment associated with breast cancer screening
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• Mammograms have been scientifically proven not to save women’s lives, and do not improve breast cancer survival rates over annual physical examination alone
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• Your immune system is your greatest weapon against breast cancer; research now shows that 30 percent of breast tumors go away on their own, because a healthy immune system is so adept at eradicating cancer

• Another concern is that mammograms carry an unacceptably high rate of false positives—up to six percent. False positives can lead to expensive repeat screenings, exposing you to even more radiation, and can sometimes result in unnecessary invasive procedures such as biopsies, surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. In fact, if you undergo breast screenings, you have a 35 percent increased risk of having surgery.If a mammogram detects an abnormal spot in your breast, the next step is typically a biopsy.So beware.

This involves taking a small amount of tissue from your breast, which is then looked at by a pathologist under a microscope to determine if cancer is present. These biopsies are notoriously inaccurate, often leading to misdiagnosis and unnecessary treatments, not to mention undue emotional stress.

Just thinking you may have breast cancer, when you really do not, focuses your mind on fear and the disease, and the stress is actually enough to trigger the illness.

In the next newsletter i will discuss some startling facts about cancer and how we can prevent it or heal better.

Till then, don't jump on the bandwagon for all these multiple packages offered by hospitals for cancer screenings and mammograms.

If you are making the right investment in your health and making a positive change in your lifestyle, just have faith, and everything will be ok. Worry and stress cause unnecessary problems and illness.

Always ask questions to your doctors. Do NOT do or opt for some procedure/treatment that does not make sense to you or does not offer logic to you, or is done because everyone else is doing it.

The human body is capable of cure and regeneration if you do the the right things for it.