by Patty Donovan
(Health Secrets) Recently there has been an uproar in the media about the new mammography screening guidelines that increase the age at which to start and the time frame between mammograms. The people yelling the loudest and trying to convince women they will die of breast cancer if they follow the new guidelines just happen to be oncologists, radiologists and centers offering mammography. Most fail to mention that regular exposure to the radiation from mammograms actually causes more breast cancer than it detects. The safer alternative is thermograms.
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Thermograms detects tumors and malignancies many years before a mammogram will pick them up. Unfortunately, because of the billions invested in mammography equipment, this technology is only now becoming readily available and insurance are slow in covering it. Thermograms are not excessively expensive, though, and centers offering thermograms are often willing to work with patients on financing options.
According to the International Academy of Clinical Thermography (IACT): “Breast thermography has been researched for over 30 years, and over 800 peer-reviewed breast thermography studies exist in the index-medicus. Breast thermography has an average sensitivity and specificity of 90%.” This study database includes well over 250,000 women. The number of participants in each study ranges from 37,000 to 118,000, and these studies have followed patients for as long as 12 years.
Breast cancer continues to threaten women in spite of all the pink ribbons
Approximately one in eight women today will get breast cancer. Men account for only one percent of breast cancer cases. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women aged 20 to 59, and there are now even cases of girls as young as 10 dealing with breast cancer. Unfortunately, survival rates for breast cancer have not improved much in 40 years.
Eighty percent of cancers are environmentally caused. Five to ten percent of all cancers arise from an inherited genetic component. The rest are caused by damage to genetic material within normal cells. This damage is caused by hormone imbalances, and exposure to toxins and to radiation. The medical establishment now knows that radiation exposure is cumulative over a lifetime and that radiation-intense procedures such as mammograms and CT scans can actually cause cancer.
Exposure to chemical endocrine disruptors that mimic estrogens may be one of the greatest risk factors in the development of breast cancer. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals which interfere with the endocrine system, causing developmental, reproductive, neurological and immune defects in both wildlife and humans. These types of chemicals are now ubiquitous in our society. Examples of endocrine disrupters include: many pharmaceuticals, dioxin and dioxin-like compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls, DDT and other pesticides, and plasticizers such as bisphenol A (BPA).
These chemicals are found in numerous everyday products, such as plastic bottles including baby bottles, the plastic liners used in canned food cans, detergents, flame retardants, bleached paper products such as toilet paper and paper towels, toys, cosmetics and pesticides. It is virtually impossible to escape exposure today.
Why getting a thermogram is better