TO Mammogram, or NOT to Mammogram:
Is that really the Question?
by Hartke is Online! Contributor, Janice Curtin
Burton Goldberg, a highly acclaimed author of 18 books, including the 1994 best seller, Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, was highly criticized when he recommended that women under 50 avoid mammogram screening. Now, an independent panel, commissioned by the government, agrees with him, and news stations and every tv commentator on The View is up in arms. Wait a minute, there are other options!
What are women supposed to do now?!
Perhaps some of the controversy comes from the fact that there don’t seem to be any mammogram alternatives discussed at all, thus leaving women to think of mammograms as the All-Or-Nothing cornerstone of preventative care for breast cancer. In reality, this just isn’t the case. If any of our news programs were to step outside of our comfort zones and mention some of the other safe and effective options that are out there, we might all feel a bit better, knowing that “To Mammogram or Not to Mammogram” isn’t the only question that we have to answer in seeking preventative care for breast cancer.
Ultimately, women need to weigh the risks, look at alternatives, and decide for themselves, but how are we to do this if nobody seems to mention the possibility that effective alternatives even exist?
New Screening Technologies
Burton Goldberg suggests thermography technologies for safety and accuracy. Able to detect cancers at a minute physical stage of development, thermography does not use x-rays, nor is there any compression of the breast. Also important, new thermography technologies do not lose effectiveness with dense breast tissue, decreasing the chances of false-negative results and unnecessary biopsies.
Another advancement is Asyra Electrodermal testing. The Asyra energetic scan can screen for over 5000 causes of illness. Breast cancer does have a cause. The Asyra computer detects toxins such as heavy metals, chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, bacteria, viruses, radiation, fossil fuels, hormonal problems, nutrient deficiencies, and much more that can be affecting our immune systems and our health. For information about this fully FDA approved test, go to www.Asyra.com.
Janice Curtin
Janice Curtin is a long-time member of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Price-Pottenger Foundation. Janice’s philosophy is that to have good health and reduced health costs we must eat nutrient dense farm food, digest and metabolize it well, and avoid toxins. Our nutrition determines how our genes express. She grew up on an Iowa farm on a diet of real farm food and raw milk. She has a degree in Education from the University of Northern Iowa and a masters degree in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University. She has worked in Legislative Affairs on Capitol Hill and at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She is a WAPF chapter leader, coordinates nutrition talks, and is the coordinator for a farm buying club. She also works with a TBM practitioner (Total Body Modification) who uses a whole body approach to healing.
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Biggest cause of breast cancer as far as I’m concerned? Too much #$%^ing sugar in the diet. That’s the biggest difference between the Standard American Diet and other diets (by “diet” I mean “cultural way of eating”).
Anyway, why don’t we have more publicity about a cancer that kills far more women than breast cancer does–lung cancer! We assume it’s caused by smoking, but that’s not always the case. I wonder if it doesn’t get publicity because lung-shaped plush toys wouldn’t sell?
Also, Europeans have been using ultrasound for years to check for breast cancer. Why aren’t we doing that here?
Am I crazy to think that it could be related to long term bra usage? I mean you restrict (in some cases very tightly so) the movement of glads, why wouldn’t this lead to problems?
My mother developed breast cancer after 35 years on hormone replacement therapy. What kind of doctor writes refills of Premarin for 35 years without thinking? She also has an “allergy” (full body hives and stops breathing) whenever she is exposed to sunlight. Gee, did anyone think maybe she’s low in vitamin D? Did anyone check?
The number one cause of any disease is doctors. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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Local nourishment said:
“The number one cause of any disease is doctors”.
There were long strikes by doctors in Israel in 1983 and 2000. Also a long doctors strike in British Columbia.
In each case, the death rate DECREASED substantially, by 40 – 60 % or more.
Once each doctors strike ended, the death rate in each example skyrocketed back up to where it had been before the strike.
I am a breast cancer survivor, I was diagnosed at 25 when I was pregnant with our 4th child. It’s been five years since my diagnosis and I am currently cancer free. Mammograms are not the only way to find breast cancer…. they don’t even recommend them if you’re under 30 and many young women with no history of the disease are being diagnosed, in fact the age group of 18-35 has one of highest death rates because we’re made to think that this is an older woman’s disease. It’s not!
I wish there was a perfect way of locating cancer but I don’t think there is, but please don’t encourage women to not have mammograms. I also agree that there is a cause for breast cancer…when I was going through chemo they were doing testing on the tumor because so many young women were being diagnosed that they thought it was environmental or a new genetic strain.
I think more important than mammograms and other types of screening for cancer is to make sure ALL women know that it could happen to them- no matter the age- no matter your family history( I had none of the risk factors). Remember the facts are that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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awesome article I actually know a person who does these breast cancer screenings and watched a demonstration on it, its truly amazing did you know they can also check your thyroid and screen the rest of your body at the same time? they have a really good health site where they offer online health exams.
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