Snap out of it, ladies – you’ve been brainwashed.
Mammograms have led to the mass disfigurement of American women while doing nothing to improve breast cancer survival rates, and now even mainstream docs and researchers are backing away from them.
But there’s one group of people who still haven’t gotten the message: Women.
Apparently women don’t care what the science shows – they want their mammograms, and they plan to get them just the same.
The Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll of 1,083 U.S. women over the age of 18 finds that 57 percent of women believe mammograms should start at 40 – 10 years younger than the current recommended age of 50.
And 77 percent of women in their 40s have already had a mammogram, with 64 percent saying they get them annually – guidelines be damned.
Even more shocking, the poll found that 29 percent of women think mammograms should start in the 30s... and 11 percent think women in their 20s should be screened regularly.
It’s pure insanity – because mammograms shouldn’t be routine at ANY age.
It’s been proven time and again that these machines detect tumors that don’t need to be treated in the first place, and you can look it up for yourself: Since the rise of breast screenings, surgery rates have skyrocketed... but survival rates haven’t budged.
These radioactive tumor-squishing screenings can even CAUSE the very cancers they claim to detect – and the earlier you start, the higher that risk.
Women, I know you aren’t dumb – so let me explain what’s really going on here: For decades now, all we’ve heard is screening, screening, screening.
The same is true for men and their prostates.
The screening message has been drilled home so constantly and for so long that anything else just feels wrong.
It’s mass brainwashing, plain and simple, courtesy of groups like Susan G Komen for the Cure. It’s time to wake up.
Radiation for breast cancer can cause heart disease
Congratulations, your cancer is cured. Oh, and by the way, you now have heart disease.
Have a nice day!
Sounds crazy, but it’s true as new research confirms that women who have radiation for breast cancer have a much higher risk of heart disease – a risk that hangs around for up to two decades after treatment.
That radiation is measured with a unit called the gray, but there’s no gray area when it comes to the risk: Each unit you’re exposed to during treatment will up your odds of heart disease by 7.4 percent over the following years.
Since the average woman in the study was exposed to 4.9 gray during treatment, that’s an average increase in risk of more than 36 percent.
That’s unacceptable – and that’s just an average.
More radiation equals more risk – in some cases, a lot more risk.
In fact, women with the highest levels of radiation exposure during treatment had a 117 percent higher risk of heart disease, according to the study of 2,168 Scandinavian women published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Now, I don’t know about you. But none of those numbers look all that small to me. And that last number is positively staggering. But the lead researcher had the nerve to call this “reassuring,” claiming it’s only a tiny increase in heart risk.
Can you believe that?
If you want to talk about tiny risks, let’s talk about the breast cancer itself – because despite what the Pink Ribbon Mafia wants you to believe, your risk of dying of that tumor is much smaller than your heart risk.
It’s so close to zero that most breast tumors don’t need to be treated with radiation or anything else for that matter.
Heck, they don’t need to be diagnosed or even screened – because the screening itself is risky. In fact, I firmly believe that mammograms can sometimes turn harmless tumors into killers.
Mammograms cause psychological damage
Mammograms can scar a woman for life – even when she doesn’t have a tumor!
Page 2 – Mammograms, Breast Cancer & Heart Disease
Up to 61 percent of women who get screened regularly experience a false positive, but there’s nothing “false” about it when you first get the news that something’s amiss.
No, you get a crash course in the Kübler-Ross stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining... the works.
Nearly all women lose sleep. How could they not? It’s CANCER!
Many battle actual physical symptoms, including nausea and vomiting. And some even update their wills and start saying their good-byes.
All that angst doesn’t vanish when a follow-up finds that it’s not a tumor after all. No, it lingers for years – with new research showing that women who get false positives battle many of the same psychological issues as patients with actual cancers.
Over six months, women with false positives suffer the same loss in “existential values” and “inner calmness” as cancer patients, according to the new study out of Denmark. False positives also make women more pessimistic and anxious, and they can even suffer sexual problems.
And some of those problems can linger for as much as THREE YEARS after the cancer scare.
That’s not even a “scare” at that point. That’s a disease of its own – and it’s not caused by cancer.
It’s caused by cancer screenings.
If there’s a bright spot here, it’s that some women are so put off by this trauma that they never get a mammogram again.
They’re on the right track, but I’ve got a much better idea: Don’t wait for a false positive before you quit mammograms. Quit now, while you’re still ahead – because these screenings don’t save lives.
All they do is pad surgeons’ bank accounts, because while years of mammograms have caused the number of operations to skyrocket, it’s barely made a dent in the death rate.
Not what you’ve heard, I know.
But it’s TRUE – and I’ve got the science to back me up. In fact, I wrote all about it in the Daily Dose just last year.
Mammograms have led to the mass disfigurement of American women while doing nothing to improve breast cancer survival rates, and now even mainstream docs and researchers are backing away from them.
But there’s one group of people who still haven’t gotten the message: Women.
Apparently women don’t care what the science shows – they want their mammograms, and they plan to get them just the same.
The Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll of 1,083 U.S. women over the age of 18 finds that 57 percent of women believe mammograms should start at 40 – 10 years younger than the current recommended age of 50.
And 77 percent of women in their 40s have already had a mammogram, with 64 percent saying they get them annually – guidelines be damned.
Even more shocking, the poll found that 29 percent of women think mammograms should start in the 30s... and 11 percent think women in their 20s should be screened regularly.
It’s pure insanity – because mammograms shouldn’t be routine at ANY age.
It’s been proven time and again that these machines detect tumors that don’t need to be treated in the first place, and you can look it up for yourself: Since the rise of breast screenings, surgery rates have skyrocketed... but survival rates haven’t budged.
These radioactive tumor-squishing screenings can even CAUSE the very cancers they claim to detect – and the earlier you start, the higher that risk.
Women, I know you aren’t dumb – so let me explain what’s really going on here: For decades now, all we’ve heard is screening, screening, screening.
The same is true for men and their prostates.
The screening message has been drilled home so constantly and for so long that anything else just feels wrong.
It’s mass brainwashing, plain and simple, courtesy of groups like Susan G Komen for the Cure. It’s time to wake up.
Radiation for breast cancer can cause heart disease
Congratulations, your cancer is cured. Oh, and by the way, you now have heart disease.
Have a nice day!
Sounds crazy, but it’s true as new research confirms that women who have radiation for breast cancer have a much higher risk of heart disease – a risk that hangs around for up to two decades after treatment.
That radiation is measured with a unit called the gray, but there’s no gray area when it comes to the risk: Each unit you’re exposed to during treatment will up your odds of heart disease by 7.4 percent over the following years.
Since the average woman in the study was exposed to 4.9 gray during treatment, that’s an average increase in risk of more than 36 percent.
That’s unacceptable – and that’s just an average.
More radiation equals more risk – in some cases, a lot more risk.
In fact, women with the highest levels of radiation exposure during treatment had a 117 percent higher risk of heart disease, according to the study of 2,168 Scandinavian women published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Now, I don’t know about you. But none of those numbers look all that small to me. And that last number is positively staggering. But the lead researcher had the nerve to call this “reassuring,” claiming it’s only a tiny increase in heart risk.
Can you believe that?
If you want to talk about tiny risks, let’s talk about the breast cancer itself – because despite what the Pink Ribbon Mafia wants you to believe, your risk of dying of that tumor is much smaller than your heart risk.
It’s so close to zero that most breast tumors don’t need to be treated with radiation or anything else for that matter.
Heck, they don’t need to be diagnosed or even screened – because the screening itself is risky. In fact, I firmly believe that mammograms can sometimes turn harmless tumors into killers.
Mammograms cause psychological damage
Mammograms can scar a woman for life – even when she doesn’t have a tumor!
Page 2 – Mammograms, Breast Cancer & Heart Disease
Up to 61 percent of women who get screened regularly experience a false positive, but there’s nothing “false” about it when you first get the news that something’s amiss.
No, you get a crash course in the Kübler-Ross stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining... the works.
Nearly all women lose sleep. How could they not? It’s CANCER!
Many battle actual physical symptoms, including nausea and vomiting. And some even update their wills and start saying their good-byes.
All that angst doesn’t vanish when a follow-up finds that it’s not a tumor after all. No, it lingers for years – with new research showing that women who get false positives battle many of the same psychological issues as patients with actual cancers.
Over six months, women with false positives suffer the same loss in “existential values” and “inner calmness” as cancer patients, according to the new study out of Denmark. False positives also make women more pessimistic and anxious, and they can even suffer sexual problems.
And some of those problems can linger for as much as THREE YEARS after the cancer scare.
That’s not even a “scare” at that point. That’s a disease of its own – and it’s not caused by cancer.
It’s caused by cancer screenings.
If there’s a bright spot here, it’s that some women are so put off by this trauma that they never get a mammogram again.
They’re on the right track, but I’ve got a much better idea: Don’t wait for a false positive before you quit mammograms. Quit now, while you’re still ahead – because these screenings don’t save lives.
All they do is pad surgeons’ bank accounts, because while years of mammograms have caused the number of operations to skyrocket, it’s barely made a dent in the death rate.
Not what you’ve heard, I know.
But it’s TRUE – and I’ve got the science to back me up. In fact, I wrote all about it in the Daily Dose just last year.
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