A 2017 article discussing the increase of breast cancer after frequent/yearly mammography screening.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/238527v1.full
Mammograms have been touted as the best screening option for women over 40 to early detect breast cancer. However, there have been concerns raised about mammography in the last few years. Midwestern Doctor has written an extensive article about his concerns with mammograms, and some countries in Europe are changing their practice away from mammography as well.
Here is a study published in 2017 pertaining to mammography. The results are interesting……
“In women aged 50-64 attending screening at the NHS Breast Cancer programme, in situ breast cancer incidence increased linearly from 1993 to 2005 as a function of the number of mammograms. Incidence did not increase anymore after 2005 when the number of mammograms and the delay after screening was stable. Invasive breast cancer incidence increased more specifically in the 60-69 age group. The risk of breast cancer almost doubled after 15 years of screening. Additional cancers began to occur less than 6 years after mammography. These results are evidence that X-ray-induced carcinogenesis, rather than overdiagnosis, is the cause of the increase in breast cancer incidence.”
The results in this study suggest that starting mammograms at age 40, and introducing x-ray technology into the breast, doubles the risk of breast cancer after 15 years of yearly screens. This was supported by the age 60-69 group having increased diagnosis of invasive breast cancer.
Is the technology they have told us is “safe and effective” at early detection of breast cancer contributing to it?? Women are being told to get mammograms earlier and earlier if they have a family history of it, which is exposing women at 30 to 35 to yearly mammograms. If the mammogram hypothesis is true, then we are setting these women up for a much higher risk and incidence of invasive breast cancer in their 50’s instead of their 60’s. And possibly as young as in their 40’s.
In a similar way that the pilot’s heart test results have been changed for acceptable levels, perhaps the mammogram accepted results have been changed over time too to create more clients?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-ekgs-pilots-no-longer-normal/5806704
Against my better judgement, I endured this atrocity. I'd been having some breast pain. Hubs got worried. Said maybe I should have it checked out. Sigh...
So. Scheduled and went for this atrocity. First one. This is probably 20-25 years ago? As I endured this ridiculous procedure -- annoyed with myself for having given in -- I swore then and there that I would never, EVER do it again.
EVER.
And I have kept my word to myself -- and highly glad of it. Sometimes the blatant absurdity of something is blatantly clear. Mammograms are a prime example of this.