3-D mammograms present new risks for women
There’s a new weapon aimed at your boobs, ladies – a powerful new 3-D mammogram that emits twice the radiation of the traditional screening.
If you didn’t have cancer before your exam, you might get it afterwards!
The newly approved machine is called the Selenia Dimensions System, and studies show it increases “accuracy” by 7 percent – but as I’ve told you before, docs don’t need more help spotting tumors.
If the “pink ribbon” campaigns have taught us anything, it’s that spotting tumors doesn’t save lives – it just puts millions of women through unnecessary life-altering treatments such as poisonous drugs, toxic chemo, and disfiguring breast-chopping surgeries.
The new machine won’t change that – it’ll make it worse, because increased “accuracy” is just code for increased paychecks, as docs spot even more harmless tumors to perform unnecessary treatments on.
Some of the risks of these treatments can haunt women for the rest of their lives – and not just the obvious one, like surgically butchered breasts.
One new study finds that women who survive breast cancer treatments could suffer hip fractures at earlier-than-ever ages.
Researchers made the connection when they found six unusual fracture cases in women in their early 50s – practically kids by today’s standards – and all of them just so happened to be breast cancer survivors.
One of the women already had osteoporosis, while the other five had osteopenia, which is a thinning of the bone that isn’t quite osteoporosis.
The researchers wrote in Clinical Cancer Research that they believe chemotherapy and common cancer drugs can cause or accelerate bone thinning and weakening – and say women who’ve undergone these treatments should have regular bone density tests.
But I’ve got a better idea: Just skip the mammograms.
Don’t waste your time choosing 3-D or 2-D – only “No-D” will ensure that you don’t fall victim to an unnecessary treatment that could ruin your life now... and shatter your bones later.
Bird brains and radiation risks
Want to see what happens when excess background radiation is a constant part of life? Just take a look at the birds of Chernobyl, then try to hold onto whatever gray matter you’ve got left.
Researchers examined 550 birds of 48 different species from inside the region, in areas normally off-limits to people for obvious reasons. They found that, on average, the birds had brains 5 percent smaller than normal.
That might not sound like a lot, but it is – smaller brains are linked to dementia and other cognitive problems. And while all our brains shrink a little in our later years, dementia patients see a loss of about 1 percent a year. Take away 5 percent right off the top, and it won’t be long before you’ve got a birdbrain of your own.
OK, OK, I know – you’re not a bird and you’re not moving to Chernobyl, so you’re probably thinking I’m the birdbrain for even worrying you over this – but take a look around you. You don’t need to live in a nuclear kill zone to face radiation levels unheard of just a generation or two back.
Our exposure levels went up when X-rays became a regular part of medicine... then they shot up dramatically when CT scans entered the picture, with each blast slamming you with up to 1,000 times the radiation of a single X-ray.
Our exposure levels went up when they added X-rays to airports and courthouses... and who knows what risks will accompany the new full-body scanners, because the feds refuse to share their safety data. But already, we know these things are far more dangerous than they’ve let on.
Women began getting extra bursts of radiation when the mainstream pushed annual mammograms... and with new 3D mammograms packing double the punch, their exposure is about to shoot up to new highs. And let’s not forget zap-happy dentists.
Add it all up, and you can bet that there are people right here in the United States exposed to more radiation than some of these Chernobyl birds – and every new “advance” brings even more radiation to the table.
EmoticonEmoticon