Dr. Mercola December 18 2008 48,945 views
Limitations of Screening Mammography
An eminent radiologist, Leonard Berlin MD, says we have failed to disclose the limitations of screening mammography, namely that mammography will miss 30-70% of breast cancers, and leads to over diagnosis and over treatment.
Dr. Berlin says disclosures of these limitations should be mandated, just like the cigarette and drug warnings that appear on their ads.
Dr. Berlin also points out that 57% of the American women believe that mammograms prevent breast cancer, a misleading message from Breast Awareness Month.
Mammograms are designed to detect cancer, not prevent it. Thinking that a mammogram can prevent breast cancer is like thinking that checking your house annually for broken windows prevents robberies.
To read more: http://jeffreydach.com/2007/11/04/the-untold-message-of-breast-cancer-awareness-month.aspx
The Untold Message of Breast Cancer Awareness Month by Jeffrey Dach MD
Jeffrey Dach MD
As Dr. Mercola points out, there are two factors. Radiation CAN cause cancer AND rancidity of the tissue. Dr. Revici (The Doctor Who Cures Cancer) discovered that the radiation particles move the angle of one of the hydrogen atoms on a fatty acid by 90 degrees.
The result is three hydrogens in a row along a fatty acid chain. It's called a "trienically conjugated" fatty acid, instead of the original "Twin Formation"
This is VERY bad.
The middle hydrogen that has moved into place blocks the ability of the fatty acid to transport oxygen into the cell, causing rancidity! Of course, once meat goes rancid, it doesn't get better.
Revici was able to measure the rate of rancidity with what he named the "oxalic index." Your oxalic index should be zero. When the oxalic index reaches 17 the lab rat or person dies. He was successful in reversing the oxalic index in patients suffering from radiation poisoning.
Yes, cancer can go away seemingly "by itself." It was just that type of event that led Revici to find a cure starting back in the mid 1930's. A pregnant woman who had ADVANCED incurable cancer was found to be inoperable. So she was closed up from exploratory surgery.
Two years later she showed up, and stunned Revici with her baby. She was cancer free. From that, Revici determined that the combination of the lipids in her placenta combined with the metabolic shock of the surgery CHANGED her metabolism.
That is how cancer goes away "by itself," namely by changing the metabolism. Fortunately, no surgery or pregnancy is needed to alter the metabolism.
I altered my metabolism to help cure my stage 4 cancer ten years ago. The early responses indicate it's helping others as well:
itsnotjustforsex.blogspot.com/.../she-said-my-knife-piercing-pain-is.html
Dr. Mercola, if you'd like a copy of "The Doctor Who Cures Cancer," please contact me, and I'll send it to you.
The best to you.
Kelley Eidem
Together we can cure can cure cancer - one person at a time
I agree with Aaltrude. RNM.
Hello jellesmere,
Gurdjieff tells us that this is the Chief Weakness of human beings; believing just any old tale we are told provided the source has some credibility, like a doctor, an elected official, or the host of a TV talk-show. Advertising thrives on this weakness when they claim, "most doctors recommend Camels for their patients who smoke." One only has to hear it once to believe and accept it as fact.
What humanity really needs to discover is a way for each of us to become critical of everything we are told. In other words to believe nothing but verify everything. Can we really stay on top of everything we are told?
We believe doctors because we ourselves do not know. They are the trained professionals and we allow them to make bad decisions for us because we do not know any better. They themselves often do not know any better. They believe in over-powering the body with artificial drugs and chemicals while we here in Dr. Mercola's group believe in giving the body what it needs so that it can do its job. We trust that Dr. Mercola's research is accurate and when I have verified it, it has been.
How modern medicine was able to take over decision making is a long story, but basically it was about putting out of business alternative medicine so as to destroy competition all under the ruse of protecting the public from frauds and snake oil salesmen. Some lives might have been saved from this. But how many more were lost because of being forced into a medical system that dismisses alternative treatment all together? A system that will not even look at the evidence?
We are accustomed to consulting experts. We take their advice because they supposedly know more than we do; that is what we pay them for. But sometimes it is necessary to think critically. If your auto mechanic tells you your car needs blinker fluid, you will walk away and take your business elsewhere. Sadly, we tend to put more faith in the doctor's authority and are less likely to think critically about his advice. We need to practice critical thinking skills not only about advertising and other propaganda, but about every "expert" we consult. Where is that "challenge authority" generation when we need them?
You can question the experts - but they don't know either! :)
This is exactly what I've been guessing. I am 55 and had my last medical examination 16 years ago. I decided then to take care of myself, and I don't take medicines other than some homeopathy. So my theory is that whatever I might have had over these years, it went away for sure, because I feel great. And whatever may show up in the future, I will let it go too. Tests are not preventive, a healthy lifestyle is. Tests can only detect a problem in order to initiate a treatment (some tests are dangerous too), because for changing our lifestyle we don't need a test... only the right attitude and the right information.
Years ago when I was about 47, I had a "suspicious something" perhaps a calcification, in my right breast. The Kaiser HMO doctor suggested I rush into a biopsy. I didn't know better, so agreed to a barbaric wire-localization biopsy where I had to be awake for the first part when they put needles into my breast in 3D to try to locate the area since the calcifications were so deep & not palpable. They kept inserting big needles like knitting needles and then having me have mammograms with the needles in me until they found the spot, at which point, they put me under and did surgery to remove the suspicious tissue.
I don't know how many mammograms I had in that one day with the needles being inserted, xrayed, pulled out and reinserted, xrayed again, etc. but it was probably more than most women get in a lifetime. My breast was terribly bruised, brutalized. I didn't understand how they could do this procedure in the 20th century.
I was so relieved by the good news that there was no cancer & no pre-cancerous cells. It was no shock to me that 5 years later a routine mammogram (which I kept rescheduling) showed a small suspicious something in that same deep area of my breast. I would not have the same horrible biopsy. I researched and found a gentler procedure. This time, it was malignant. Could it have been the trauma to that breast, and all those mammograms. I went through breast cancer several years ago, and the doctors keep calling, writing, and talking to me about getting an annual mammogram. I haven't had one since my recovery from cancer, but I get frequent thermograms, and work with a holistic MD outside the HMO system, whose mentor is Dr. Klinghardt and have been in good health. My HMO doctor was ordered to write a letter acknowledging that she religiously recommends mammograms to me, as they are the "right" thing to do. For whom? I am pleased with my health, and my network of "alternative" loving and caring providers. Get thermography. It works!
triple OUCH!
I have had mammograms, and in spite of my breasts being polycystic I keep on getting reminders. From recollection the most recent reminder says that two of the reasons to NOT get a mammogram are existing benign cysts and also previously treated breast cancer.
Don't the clinics keep records?
The mammograms broke my breast ligaments, so now I wear a bra because I must.
I would like the inventor of this torture device to experience it for himself - preferably at the hands of someone who has suffered the experience!
It would be hard to find a more dedicated proponent of Thermology/Thermography than me but it is important to mention that Breast Thermography does NOT detect cancer per se (see PaulaBob post). Thermography as a study of physiology will detect active breast disease earlier than an anatomical test but the diagnosis of cancer can only be established following further tests and a laboratory confirmation. Thermography is looking for change over time. If lifestyle changes are made and other associated action is taken (Dietary, nutritional, holistic, homeopathic etc), Thermography can be used to monitor the efficacy of the action and probably the disease will dissipate to complete exclusion. If there is an advanced condition it may be neccessary to have an anatomical test (MRI, U/Sound, Mammo, biopsy etc). Thermography is NOT a standalone diagnostic test for breast cancer but it does remove the exposure to serious radiation for healthy women until and if further tests are needed. It is adjunctive. There is another simple benefit with breast thermography compared to Mammography for: Small breasted women, men (around 1% of breast cancer is in male patients), women with implants, post surgery monitoring etc. No contact, no pain, no radiation and very reliable. Please do not forget that Thermography is also very effective in many other pain related applications to detect the causal centre of pain whether it is Vascular, Visceral, inflammatory, neurological. It is used in Podiatry (very effective at early detection of the onset of neuropathic foot ulcers in diabetic patients), Dentistry/TMJ, Carotid test (pre & post stroke treatment). Finally, remember that all breast tests are precisely that - they do not prevent cancer but simply give the patient/healthcare provider the opportunity to intervene and possibly resolve the problem without recourse to surgery ('last resort' and NOT a 'just in case action'). Happy Christmas and a Healthy New everyone