Can Mammogram Radiation Cause Breast Cancer?
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Many women, including some doctors, fear mammograms are causing over-treatment and mammogram radiation is resulting in more cases of cancer.
According to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine, between 1976 and 2008, 1.3 million U.S. women received unnecessary and invasive cancer treatments, including surgery, radiobiology, hormone therapy, and chemotherapy.
This is in large part due to routine mammograms detecting harmless tumors.
Other studies conducted in European countries have concluded that mammograms reduce the risk of death from cancer by less than 10% or not at all.
But when combined with anatomical testing, breast thermography can reduce the number of false positives and over-treatment of breast cancer by demonstrating whether a tumor is metabolically active or not.
Mammogram Radiation Puts Young Women at Risk
More than 20,000 cases of breast cancer have been reported annually in U.S. women under the age of 40.
Unfortunately, when cancer strikes a younger woman, it is typically a more aggressive form and is less likely to respond to treatment.
But despite this greater risk, younger women have been consistently neglected by traditional breast cancer screenings, and besides mammography, there is currently no other routine screening test for women under the age of 40.
Thermography, on the other hand, offers an ideal test for this age group, especially considering that it’s radiation-free.
If you’d like to learn more about the dangers of mammogram radiation, check out the video below from NutritionFacts.org.
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