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Saturday, February 04, 2012

Alternate Media follows our lead

Now that millions have seen the true colors of the Komen Foundation Following its withdrawal of funding from Planned Parenthood I'm posting a selection of our articles on "PINK" from over the years.

After 20+ years of PINK there is no cure. And there is little aimed at prevention and different screening and treatment options that may be better than what if offered and supported by Komen.

I applied one year for a grant to do education and was denied.  I take it that my focus to help women learn about options was not on the agenda for Brinker.

This also says too that the Pink Lid campaign from General Mills ignored a request for a grant from the 501c3 non profit that sponsors this blog.

I started educating in earnest against the lineal mind set of breast cancer care and lack of sure in the early 90s.

The fact that Komen backed mammography screening was advised against in the early 70s by an expert in radiation effects is also quite unknown. It was opposed because it was expected to increase the risk of breast cancer, which it has done.

Now with the outrage and backpedaling from Komen on awards to Planned Parenthood, mostly effecting poor women, Alternet has picked up on some of what we have been saying for decades.

Donations to our 501c3 are welcome. 
Please use the PayPal link in the right column to support us. 



There are quite a few more that listed here which you can locate with our search function.

Jan 21, 2007
General Mills won't support Creating Health Institute's Women's Health programs (especially those we provide to people with limited income) through the pink lids program. Komen never responds when we submit a proposal.
Apr 26, 2010
The sprawling chicken purveyor and Susan G. Komen for the Cure® have teamed up "to raise funds and spread breast cancer awareness and educational messaging" via a campaign at 5000 KFC restaurants. Participating ...
Jan 04, 2010
It seems as if the controversy over Hadassah Lieberman, the Senator's wife, is on the payroll of the Komen Foundation to the tune of about $300K a year. Gary Locke's wife is on their payroll too, most likely lobbying while she's ...
Sep 30, 2009
After five years of asking consumers to collect and send in Yoplait pink foil lids to raise money for Komen, Yoplait sought a way to enhance consumer involvement and elevate its brand awareness in the crowded breast cancer ...


Oct 01, 2008
We at Creating Health Institute would be very grateful if we could get donations for our year-long women's health initiative from Komen or other corporate programs that promote Komen. Donations for this effort go a long way to ...

Feb 24, 2011
4 September 2010 - The Pink Cause Marketing is getting underway once again. I just received a spam from a PR firm about a massage clinic in Seattle that would give $15 from each massage to the Komen Foundation.
Sep 04, 2010
I just received a spam from a PR firm about a massage clinic in Seattle that would give $15 from each massage to the Komen Foundation. I wrote the fellow back and explained a few things about the Politics of Pink. Here at ...
Apr 04, 2009
Just this week I sent a message to the Inland NW contingent of the Komen Foundation who are gearing up for another "Race for the Cure". My message was the same: "Why aren't you providing women with the facts about ...

Oct 13, 2009
With their "Buckets for the Cure" campaign, KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure are telling us to buy buckets of unhealthy food to cure a disease that kills women. When a company purports to care about breast cancer by ...
Sep 21, 2009
I direct a 501c3 organization and I can't get General Mills/Kraft to donate to it for our educational efforts, like this blog for example, as they give only to Komen. Komen refuses to communicate with my office. Maybe there is a ...
Similarly, Yoplait requires participants in its “Save Lids to Save Lives” campaign to either mail lids to the company or enter a code online to donate a whopping 10 cents to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Why not donate a ...
Jan 18, 2009
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation and Bristol-Myers Squibb, which makes the imaging agent used in the study, paid for the work. The next test will be to see how MBI stacks up against MRI. The federal government ...

Mar 25, 2010
"We hope that no one comes away from these studies with the idea that they're an attempt to 'blame' anyone for breast cancer," said Diana Rowden, a vice president at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer group in ...
Apr 23, 2008
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Komen Foundation for the Cure, and the Wilmot Cancer Center. Adapted from materials provided by University of Rochester Medical ...

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Thermography Validated

NEW: From the British Medical Journal

"WOMEN LIVE WITH FALSE CANCER VERDICT FOR A YEAR BEFORE GETTING THE

ALL-CLEAR"
24% of mammogram results are false-positives, where cancers are detected
that aren't really there. Some women live with the belief they have breast
cancer for over a year, suffering great anxiety, before the mistake is
rectified, a new study has found. Researchers questioned 385 women with
abnormal mammogram results. Of these, just 152 were diagnosed with breast
cancer, but the other 233 had false-positive results. 60% of all abnormal
mammogram results are false positives found research from St. Elisabeth
Hospital in Tilburg, Netherlands. Nobody tells the women about the high
rate of false-positives. 
(Br J Surg,2011; 98: 537-42)
In its never ending march to side with the corporations and the mainstream FDA seems to be going against the flow.

Has the FDA told you that mammography, while existing as the standard, was never recommended to screen women for breast cancer because of the over exposure to ionizing radiation, a known cause of cancer?

Now - even though thermography has received FDA approval, it stands on its platform of mammography as the only approved screening system.  And at the same time blocks any information that has been scientifically established showing a much earlier detection rate over the x-ray based system.
Clinical research studies continue to support thermography's role as an adjunctive tool in breast cancer screening and the ONLY tool that measures breast health. There are now more than 800 publications on over 300,000 women in clinical trials. A recent finding published in the American Journal of Radiology in 2003 showed that thermography has 99% sensitivity in identifying breast cancer with single examinations and limited views. Scientists concluded that a negative thermogram is powerful evidence that cancer is not present.
  • In 1982, the FDA approved thermography as an adjunctive tool for breast cancer screening. Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging, also known as DITI measures heat emitted from the body and is accurate to 1/100th of a degree. 
  • During a chest X-ray, a person receives 1/1000 of a RAD, or radiation absorbed dose. This type of X-ray is a high energy X-ray. During a mammogram, however, the X-ray used is a low energy X-ray and results in 1 RAD or a 1000-fold greater exposure than a simple chest X-ray. It has been suggested that the low energy X-ray used may cause greater biological damage which is cumulative over time. In a journal entitled Radiation Research and published in 2004, the author concludes that the risks associated with mammography screening may be FIVE times higher than previously assumed and the risk-benefit relationship of mammography exposures need to be re-examined. 
  • Detection rate of breast cancer for CBE is only 47% when the tumors are less than 1 centimeter while mammography has given us a 70% detection rate. By the time a tumor is detected by palpation or found mammographically, it has already been growing and developing for 8-10 years.
Many medical schools are using thermography now, but again, this is not in the FDA press release, nor have they been issued warning letters.

Reference FDA article here

Many related articles are found here at Natural Health News
May 21, 2010
A great boost for the benefits of thermography over breast-cancer-causing mammogram. It is more effective and better for women under 50. Yes! Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%. ...
Oct 23, 2009
Better to Screen You with Thermography, My Dear... "Rethink" of Cancer Screening Triggers Comments and Controversy By Nick Mulcahy October 23, 2009 — In a comment that has triggered widespread media coverage, the chief ...
Oct 02, 2010
A great boost for the benefits of thermography over breast-cancer-causing mammogram. It is more effective and better for women under 50. Yes! Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%. It is well past time the ensconced ...
Oct 07, 2009
If you're fortunate enough to be living near Toronto, your choice for breast screening for about 10 years could have been Thermography Clinic, Inc., a company started in 1998 as an integrative medical practice ...
Aug 04, 2010
A great boost for the benefits of thermography over breast-cancer-causing mammogram. It is more effective and better for women under 50. Yes! Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%. ...
Sep 04, 2010
Please educate yourself, and consider thermography and ultrasound with breast self-exam as much better, safer, and more effective than breast cancer causing mammograms. (Many posts here and at leaflady.org) ...
Oct 11, 2010
No one wanted you to learn that there are safer screening methods (thermography) and safer therapy approaches that include nutrition, herbs, vitamins, and other natural therapies ( ex: JBNI herbal formulas all tested at ...
Oct 25, 2009
Of course we hope that more will stand up to the status quo and demand access to thermography, but in the interim, this information certainly can be of help. It is also good news for our military, now known to be over ...
Jan 07, 2009
Inviting Dr. Sherry Tenpenny to join in the discussion would disseminate more information about the benefits of thermography over mammogram. Allowing Dr. Oz to promote annual screening mammogram only brings more ...
Apr 29, 2011
Certainly it controls the fact that unless you pas on your own, you won't get thermography, the earlier detection system fro breast cancer by a decade. It certainly limits your access to care of your choice, even natural health care 
Sep 23, 2010
A great boost for the benefits of thermography over breast-cancer-causing mammogram. It is more effective and better for women under 50. Yes! Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%. It is well past time the ensconced ...
Sep 05, 2008
UPDATE: 19 January, 2009 -More mammography madness, women's health really not a priority - Thermography needs to become the treatment of choice and women should not be subjected to high risk of harm or breast cancer (along with heart ...
Aug 26, 2009
(Suggestion: Request Thermography). Long-term use of a common breast cancer drug may hike the risk of developing a deadly second tumour, a study suggests. Tamoxifen, given to thousands of British women, prevents tumours being fuelled by ...
Nov 17, 2009
And I will encourage thermography. Mammogram accounts for finding 10% of all breast cancer cases. The woman herself discovers the other 90% of breast cancer cases. Although the numbers are recorded separately from other breast cancers ...
Oct 26, 2009
As you know from reading articles here at Natural Health News, Creating Health Institute has been a strong proponent for thermography and ultrasound for more than two decades. Listen to our recent 2 part series "Pink May Not Be ...
Dec 12, 2007
WOMEN: Maybe now you will stop going for this cancer causing X-RAY and start demanding Thermography and Ultra Sound. By Kyung M. Song Seattle Times health reporter. A new three-state study led by Seattle's Group Health Cooperative shows ...
Nov 05, 2007
If you have been following our work you know that we have provided a great amount of science to proves that mammogram causes breast cancer and we have encouraged thermography or ultrasound as safer diagnostic methods. 
Feb 20, 2009
I heard this same song from a local hospital administrator when I queried him why his facility was not offering thermography. His reply was that there weren't any studies. I replied that there were studies and sent him several ...
Mar 22, 2010
The test can detect early cellular changes within the breast ducts, the area where more than 90% of breast cancer begins. Complete article. Consider Thermography and please read this as well (one of about 30+ related articles found at ...
Sep 21, 2009
Why not report on Thermography, a non-carcinogenic screening system that detects earlier and even identifies very minute real tumours. Mammogram, on the other hand, can't detect tumours until they are about 8 years old. ...
Oct 17, 2009
And remember Breast Thermography: For Earliest Detection and Intervention. Women Denied Truth On Breast Cancer Testing By Sarah Boseley Women must be told the full truth about breast screening, which may in some cases expose them to ...
Apr 08, 2008
You would also think they would be up to date on thermography as a much more effective tool for diagnosing breast cancer, than breast cancer causing mammogram. LOS ANGELES, April 8, 2008 (UPI) -- Australian pop star Kylie Minogue 
Aug 27, 2009
Instead of mammogram, opt for Thermography. American College of Clinical Thermology. This information is provided by Creating Health Institute through our Health Matters(c) project.
Jul 31, 2007
Today you read this same news again because someone did a new study. yet when do you see that there has been a change to thermography or ultrasound for diagnosis in all these years. You don't. And you don't because of the $$$. 
Oct 01, 2008
The screening tool you need to know about is THERMOGRAPHY. You should also know - something we have written about before - is that commercial yogurt is not a health food. These products are loaded with additives and the light types ...
Apr 22, 2008
Why is there no fund raising for Thermography machines that detect earlier, don't promote cancer, and don't force you to compress breast tissue? Ladies, there is no cure because if one had been found the cash pipeline would disappear. ...
Oct 31, 2007
... who gave their life while in the race to cure this serious health problem. Just think before you pink...and demand thermography! This information is provided by Creating Health Institute through our Health Matters(c) project.
Apr 04, 2009
I also asked why there is no information about thermography, a better screening test with earlier detection and no risk of increasing rates of breast cancer. You can get the information you need from our non-profit organization with a ...
Mar 22, 2009
In the interim we hope you will consider more about thermography. We hope too that you will visit our colleague at Thermomed, especially good if you are located in the SoCal area. Women need to take back the night on their own health ...
Apr 04, 2007
I have spoken against the 'enhanced digital imaging' from the time it was proposed as an ineffective method of detecting tumours. Thermography is the best choice for early and effective detection of tumours and it is not cancer causing. ...
May 13, 2008
I have taught thousands of women to demand ultrasound - and better yet - THERMOGRAPHY - in the classes, workshops and writings that I have done in many venues. If you do not get it yet, MAMMOGRAPHY CAUSES BREAST CANCER. ...

Monday, April 11, 2011

No More Pink Please

UPDATE: 11 April 2011 -  The "Race" campaigns are once again in motion and so far I have yet to hear one thing about the fact that this cancer has been cured.

Just where does the $ go?

Top 4 of 30+ from Natural Health News

Thermography 90, Mammogram 50
May 21, 2010
A great boost for the benefits of thermography over breast-cancer-causing mammogram. It is more effective and better for women under 50. Yes! Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%. It is well past time the ensconced ...
Better to Screen You with Thermography, My Dear...
Oct 23, 2009
"Rethink" of Cancer Screening Triggers Comments and Controversy By Nick Mulcahy October 23, 2009 — In a comment that has triggered widespread media coverage, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society (ACS) admitted that ...
Call For A Differing Viewpoint
Jun 30, 2010
A great boost for the benefits of thermography over breast-cancer-causing mammogram. It is more effective and better for women under 50. Yes! Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%. It is well past time the ensconced ...
Supplement Suppresses Breast Cancer Cells
Oct 11, 2010
No one wanted you to learn that there are safer screening methods (thermography) and safer therapy approaches that include nutrition, herbs, vitamins, and other natural therapies ( ex: JBNI herbal formulas all tested at Dana Farber), ...


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NEW - How much pink turns into green?  

Looks as if some people are catching on, says Komen Foundation rated only as a B+ which means much less than 75% of donations are used for goals.  A pretty high adminsitrative rate if you ask me, when 7% should be the target.

and

 "I don't think people understand the lack of progress"
The stark reality is that in the 26 years since the campaign began, deaths from breast cancer have dropped only slightly — about 2% per year, starting in 1990. According to the National Breast Cancer Coalition in Washington, D.C., 117 women in the U.S. died of breast cancer every day in 1991; today that number is 110.

Just the other day I was out shopping about 80 miles from where I live. I was on a mission as I was looking for some specific items.Every turn I made up another aisle was a woman talking on a cell phone.

Exasperated, I finally had had enough and when I went on yet another aisle in yest anotehr store I yelled out " Not you too!" This woman was no more than a foot from me chatting on her cell phone, holding it between her ear and shoulder.

I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Don't you know cell phones are linked to breast and thyroid cancer, and can cause heart disease?"

In a quick, and all too common reply, she said, "That hasn't been scientifically proven."

My answer was, "Yes it has, since the 1940s!"

Of course too few know the real risk of cell phones and WIFI, but the cellular providers do, and so do the scientists.

Even more amazing was when, while channel flipping, I heard Dr. OZ tell poeple that you have to shield your thyroid when you get ANY x-ray (even mammogram) or you will be at risk for thyroid cancer, because x-ray is cumulative. And, YES, this means that when you opt for radiation treatment if you have breast cancer you can get thyroid cancer and heart failure.  Just something we have been teaching at CHI for decades.

Now that this cat is out of the mainstream bag, ask about options to give you better and earlier screening and least risk of more cancer.

Natural Health News: Thermography 90, Mammogram 50
May 21, 2010
Yes! Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%. It is well past time the ensconced ACS wakes up to newer, better, and safer screening for breast cancer. Big Insurance needs to wake up as well! ...
Sep 23, 2010
A great boost for the benefits of thermography over breast-cancer-causing mammogram. It is more effective and better for women under 50. Yes! Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%. It is well past time the ensconced ...
Oct 23, 2009
"Rethink" of Cancer Screening Triggers Comments and Controversy By Nick Mulcahy October 23, 2009 — In a comment that has triggered widespread media coverage, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society (ACS) admitted that ...
Oct 07, 2009
If you're fortunate enough to be living near Toronto, your choice for breast screening for about 10 years could have been Thermography Clinic, Inc., a company started in 1998 as an integrative medical practice specializing in the care ...
And please THINK before you raise money for PINK.  If this was for a cure, then it would have been here long before now. (BTW, Natural methods are offering cure)
Sep 05, 2008
This is why for more than a decade we have been saying THINK Before You Pink! Women's Health Month is March, and that is not too far away. FDA Warns of Potential of Serious Side Effects with Topical Numbing Agents ...
These and at least 30 more articles may be found at Natural Health News, and even more at Leaflady.org
Oct 05, 2009
4 September 2010 - The Pink Cause Marketing is getting underway once again. I just received a spam from a PR firm about a massage clinic in Seattle that would give $15 from each massage to the Komen Foundation. ...
Oct 13, 2009
Walk into almost any store this month, and you'll be hit with a wash of pink products -- pink clogs, pink vegetable peelers, pink cleaning products, even pink food -- sold in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. ...
Aug 14, 2006
When you dig into a strawberry Yoplait yogurt, take a moment to contemplate where the beautiful pink color comes from. Strawberries? Think again. It comes from crushed bugs. Specifically, from the female cochineal beetles and their eggs ...
Feb 11, 2008
Currently the legislature in Hawaii is contemplating a ban on aspartame. I have spoken out about this toxin for decades. I speak out as well about the risk of its heir, sucralose. Both should be avoided without question. ...
Oct 31, 2007
... who gave their life while in the race to cure this serious health problem. Just think before you pink...and demand thermography! This information is provided by Creating Health Institute through our Health Matters(c) project.
Oct 01, 2008
In your effort to not be swayed by massive marketing of pink lids on toxic products join the campaign to stop Yoplait from using rGBH hormone laced milk to make their synthetic goop. Yoplait touts its yogurt as being healthy for women, ...
Oct 02, 2009
PINK TIP - Women who have poor diets, low in antioxidants and high in omega-6 fats (vegetable oils such as corn, safflower, sunflower, peanut, soybean and canola oils), are at much greater risk for breast cancer. ...
Oct 31, 2009
As the pink madness of the October 2009 programming winds down, because today is October 31, I am pleased to provide readers with this very good article from an MD with an open mind. As more and more doctors and other health ...
Oct 04, 2007
I'm sure you very infrequently hear the facts about radiation exposure(mammogram) and increasing your risk of developing breast cancer. Every year CHI tries to educate more people about this scientifically proven risks, often to deaf ...
Oct 08, 2008
D. Mail 7.10.08 "DOES BREAST CANCER SCREEING DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD?" Interview by Thea Jourdan. Michael Baum, Emertitius Prof. of Surgery at University College, London writes: (shortened) Each year I dread Breast Cancer Awareness month ...

Using our search engine you can locate many other interesting articles for your health and education.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Yes, Mammogram isn't as beneficial as you are told

Yet another new article supports what we have been stating for decades - and what Dr John Gofman and others have proven in excellent research!

Mammogram offers modest benefit
LOS ANGELES – Mammograms don't help women over 50 as much as has been believed, new research suggests.
Only a third of the reduced risk of death credited to breast cancer screening is actually deserved — the rest is due to better treatment and greater awareness of the disease, a large study in Norway found.
The research, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, is the latest to show that the benefits of mammography are limited.
"It's not the great lifesaver that people think it is. It's not a magic bullet," said Georgetown University researcher Dr. Jeanne Mandelblatt who was not involved in the study.
Mandelblatt headed six teams that helped shape the new mammogram guidelines issued last year by an influential government task force. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concluded that women at average risk for breast cancer don't need mammograms in their 40s and should get one just every two years starting at 50.
The World Health Organization estimates that mammograms reduce the breast cancer death rate by 25 percent in women over 50. Other groups put the figure at 15 to 23 percent.
The latest study found that while mammograms cut the risk of dying, the benefit was disappointingly low. Women who were screened had a 10 percent lower risk of death from breast cancer, but only a third of that reduction was due to screening itself.
Some 2,500 women would have to be regularly screened over 10 years to save one life from breast cancer, Dr. H. Gilbert Welch of Dartmouth Medical School noted in an accompanying editorial.
In the study, scientists were able to tease out the benefits of mammography by studying Norway's breast cancer screening program, which began as a pilot in 1996 and later expanded to the entire country. As part of the national screening program, teams of doctors were set up in every county to treat any breast cancer cases that did occur, whether they were found by mammograms or other ways.
Some 40,000 women with breast cancer were included in the study. Women ages 50 through 69 were offered screening every two years.
Researchers compared the breast cancer death rate in four groups: a screening group of women living in areas where mammograms were offered; a non-screening group in regions that did not have screening; and two comparison groups of women from the decade before the screening program began, from the same counties as the women in the other two groups.
This allowed researchers to separate the effects of mammography from other factors that may have an impact on survival such as improved treatment and increased awareness.
Among women in the screening group, the breast cancer death rate declined by 7.2 deaths per 100,000 people compared with women in the decade before the screening program started. The death rate in the non-screening group fell by 4.8 deaths per 100,000 people compared with its historical counterpart.
That means that mammography reduced mortality by only 2.4 deaths per 100,000 people — a third of the total risk of death.
A second part of the study bore this out: Women over 70, who weren't eligible for screening, had an 8 percent lower risk of dying from breast cancer compared to the previous decade, pointing to the benefit of better care.
The study was funded by the Cancer Registry of Norway and the Research Council of Norway. It was led by Dr. Mette Kalager of Oslo University Hospital with collaboration from Harvard University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
More than 1 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer each year and more than 500,000 die from it. In the United States last year, there were an estimated 194,280 new cases and 40,610 deaths from the disease.
The American Cancer Society has long advocated that women get annual breast cancer screenings starting at 40.
The small benefit of mammograms in the latest study may be because the women weren't followed long enough, suggested Otis Brawley, the cancer society's chief medical officer, in a statement.
"The total body of the science supports the fact that regular mammography is an important part of a woman's preventive health care," Brawley said. "Following the American Cancer Society's guidelines for the early detection of breast cancer improves the chances that breast cancer can be diagnosed at an early stage and treated successfully."

http://www.nejm.org
Some of the 30+ related articles from Natural Health News
May 21, 2010
"What I didn't know was that I have dense breast tissue and like two-thirds of pre-menopausal women and one quarter of post-menopausal women, I have a much lower chance of having breast cancer detected by a mammogram." ...
Aug 04, 2010
A great boost for the benefits of thermography over breast-cancer-causing mammogram. It is more effective and better for women under 50. Yes! Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%. It is well past time the ensconced ...
Dec 12, 2007
Dec 12, 2007
A new three-state study led by Seattle's Group Health Cooperative shows that even the most skilled radiologists fail to detect 20 percent of breast-cancer cases in diagnostic mammograms — which are done when cancer is suspected and when ...
Nov 17, 2009
As a person with an investigative mine I did look for all of the options and I will continue to support the science behind the dark side of mammogram that no one seems to want you to know. And I will encourage thermography. ...

Friday, May 21, 2010

Thermography 90, Mammogram 50

A great boost for the benefits of thermography over breast-cancer-causing mammogram.  It is more effective and better for women under 50.

Yes!  Thermography's accuracy rate is 90% versus mammogram's 50%.

It is well past time the ensconced ACS wakes up to newer, better, and safer screening for breast cancer.

Big Insurance needs to wake up as well!

Scan that spots breast cancer like a heat seeking missile

By Jerome Burne
Last updated at 10:30 AM on 18th May 2010

A technology originally developed by the U.S. military for night vision could soon help young women cut their risk of developing breast cancer.
A study due to be published on Wednesday found that this technology - used in medical scanning - vastly improved the chances of spotting early signs of a tumour in women under the age of 50.
The breast tissue of younger women tends to be denser, which makes conventional mammogram scans less reliable.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1279215/Scan-spots-breast-cancer-like-heat-seeking-missile.html#ixzz0oZuR7YuR

The web site mentioned in this article promotes MRI and ultrasound, also less cancer promoting than mammogram and doing a better diagnostic job as well.

Dense breast increases cancer risk

Published: May 21, 2010 at 1:04 AM
ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 21 (UPI) -- Seventy-four percent of U.S. woman say they have had a mammogram, while 66 percent say they get mammograms on a regular basis, a survey indicates.
However, the national poll by Harris Interactive of 599 adult women age 40 and older, conducted April 28 to 30, indicates 95 percent of women age 40 and older do not know their breast density and nearly 90 percent do not know denser breast increases the risk of breast cancer.
Nancy M. Cappello, founder of Are You Dense, a non-profit organization dedicated to informing the public about dense breast tissue, says the survey indicates 9 percent of doctors discuss breast density with women.
"Prior to finding out I had advanced breast cancer, I had annual mammograms, I ate healthy and exercised and didn't have a first-degree relative with breast cancer. But I didn't have all the information I needed," Cappello says in a statement. "What I didn't know was that I have dense breast tissue and like two-thirds of pre-menopausal women and one quarter of post-menopausal women, I have a much lower chance of having breast cancer detected by a mammogram."
However, Dr. Rachel Brem of George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates in Washington says although ultrasound is a proven tool in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, it has not typically been used for screening.
"Several studies have shown that for women with dense breast tissue, supplementing mammograms with ultrasound can increase detection from 48 percent to 97 percent."
More information is at: areyoudense.org.
http://leaflady.org/women.htm
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/better-to-screen-you-with-thermography.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/ultrasound-in-cancer-detection.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2009/02/women-kept-in-dark-when-it-comes-to.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2009/01/dangers-of-screening-mammography.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2008/09/radiation-of-any-kind-iincreases-cancer.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2009/11/better-to-rethink-mammogram.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2010/03/halo-breast-test.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2005/10/breast-health-awareness-day.html
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2007/10/think-before-you-pink.html
and there are over 30 more posts found here at Natural Health News

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Radiation and Your Health

For longtime readers of my work you reacll that I have had an active campaign to call your attention to the riskes and hazards of exposure to medical radiation, especially as it pertains to screening mammograms.

Mammograms greatly increase your risk of breast cancer and it is uncalled for when there are better and safer screening methods.  This is because all radiation exposure is cumulative and it is well known in the radiology community.

Radiotherapy for breast cancer also can cause congestive heart failure and thyroid dysfunction as well as other cancers.

Radiation in war zones will also cause sever problems for our military serving in the current political un-war, and those who call Iraq and other careas home.

Currently there is a medical effort to reduce radiation dosages in x-ray screening for children and hopefully others.  But remember that this effort was initiated by John Gofman, PhD, MD many decades ago.

Now mainstream media seems to be catching on too. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Will you?

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Better to Rethink Mammogram

UPDATE: 1 December

The US Government has known since the 1960s and perhaps before that mammogram causes breast cancer, they just failed to tell you so an industry could be created on false findings.

Mammogram Radiation May Put Some Women at Risk
By Julie Steenhuysen
Reuters
CHICAGO


Low-dose radiation from mammograms and chest X-rays may increase the risk of breast cancer in young women who are already at high risk because of family history or genetic susceptibility, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.
They said high-risk women, especially those under 30, may want to consider switching to an alternative screening method such as magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, which does not involve exposure to radiation.

"Our findings suggest that low-dose radiation increases breast cancer risk among these young, high-risk women, and a careful approach is warranted," said Marijke Jansen-van der Weide of the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands.

"I should recommend to be careful with radiation before 30 and to think about alternatives," Jansen-van der Weide, who presented her findings at the Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago, said in a telephone interview.

For the study, Jansen-van der Weide pooled data from six published studies that involved 12,000 high-risk women from Europe and the United States.

The team found that of the 8,500 women who had been exposed to radiation from chest X-rays or mammograms before the age of 20 or those who had had five or more exposures were 2.5 times more likely to develop breast cancer than other high-risk women who had not been exposed. read full story
UPDATE: 29 November

The Basic Problem With Screening Mammography
Reservoir of Silent Disease

The basic underlying problem with screening for breast cancer with mammography

is the "reservoir of silent disease". A series of autopsy studies show that indolent breast cancers are common in the population. These early cancers, called DCIS, are silent and rarely cause clinical disease. The most impressive study was from Denmark in 1987. The Danish group used specimen radiography on autopsy samples, which most closely approximates what screening mammography does, searching for and finding small clusters of calcifications. The Danish team found breast cancer in one out of five women, most of which was DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ).

One out of 5 women show breast cancer at autopsy, yet only 2 to 3 women per 10,000 die from breast cancer annually. (20% vs .03%) This indicates a disconnect between the huge reservoir of silent and clinically insignificant disease, and the much smaller numbers of invasive breast cancer presenting clinically.

DCIS in 18% of the Population

Current screening mammography technology detects >60,000 cases of DCIS annually, and this is only a small fraction of total DCIS which is present in one out of five women in the population. DCIS is ductal carcinoma in situ, an early form of cancer with good prognosis, a 98% five year survival with no treatment. I expect future refinements in xray technology to allow detection of even greater numbers of DCIS cases which have small calcifications. Ultimately the technology will catch up and replicate the Danish autopsy findings.

Do we really want to be detecting DCIS in one out of five women, and submit all these women to biopsy and lumpectomy? This is exactly what is advocated by the corporate-government-media sponsored mammography screening programs.

Just Stop Calling It Cancer

Recently, an NIH panel has asked pathologists to stop calling DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ). Here is the NIH Consensus statement: "Because of the noninvasive nature of DCIS, coupled with its favorable prognosis, strong consideration should be given to elimination of the use of the anxiety-producing term “carcinoma” from the description of DCIS. "

Less is Better

I beg to offer a differing opinion more in line with the US Preventive Task Force revisions. The detection of massive numbers of cases of DCIS results in harmful over-treatment of the population with little benefit in terms of reduced mortality from breast cancer. This opinion is echoed by Dr Laura Esserman in a recent JAMA article on the limitations, and disappointing benefits of screening mammography.

Cancer Prevention With Iodine Supplementation

The discovery of a large reservoir of silent disease is a wake-up call that something is dreadfully wrong. Rather than screen the population for small calcifications, called DCIS, generating massive numbers of lucrative procedures with biopsies and lumpectomies that have little impact on overall mortality, I suggest a better approach.

The evidence is overwhelming that Iodine deficiency causes breast cancer, and Iodine supplementation prevents and treats breast cancer. Iodine supplementation is a less expensive and more effective alternative to the corporate-government-media sponsored runaway train called mammogram screening.

Radiation Exposure Causes Breast Cancer

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ORIGINAL POST 11/17

Larry King had a discussion last evening about the mammography controversy.  One of his guests was the TV OB-GYN Lisa Masterson who was very aggressive in her defense of this practice.

Listening to the other guests and Masterson discuss this topic it made it so very clear how graduate education seeks to make one believe that certain things are written in stone, and should never change.  And so once you've received your diploma and later a license if you are in a licensed profession, you will often go to great ends to defend what you were taught rather than look to see if there might be something else more effective.

As a person with an investigative mine I did look for all of the options and I will continue to support the science behind the dark side of mammogram that no one seems to want you to know.   And I will encourage thermography.
Mammogram accounts for finding 10% of all breast cancer cases. The woman herself discovers the other 90% of breast cancer cases.


Although the numbers are recorded separately from other breast cancers by the American Cancer Society, DCIS, Ductile Carcinoma in Situ accounts for 40% of all breast cancer detected by mammogram. DCIS is abnormal (sometimes called pre-cancerous) cells confined to the milk ducts of the breasts. (source:leaflady.org)

There are at least 45 articles here on Natural Health News addressing the issue of mammogram, and specifically the issue that it is known to increase breast cancer.

I think Dr. Susan Love is correct when she says the focus needs to be on prevention and finding out why so many younger women are getting breast cancer.

Of course there are many factors such as hormones, cell phones, fluoridated water, vaccines, environmental toxins, BPA, pharmaceutical drugs, cosmetics....and I am sure you can think of several others.

Instead of outrage, and of course knowing that Big Insurance will take this chance to limit screening as a cost cutting action, get more knowledgeable about the real facts on this issue.  And demand better methods of screening that detect sooner and do not increase your exposure to radiation that also can cause severe thyroid and heart problems.

There are some 22 articles regarding thermography, ultrasound and Breast Self Exam here and more here.

http://leaflady.org/mammography_risk1.html
http://www.leaflady.org/breast_thermography.htm
http://www.greenmuze.com/blogs/natural-notes/1631-not-pretty-in-pink.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_bi_ge/us_med_mammogram_advice