Deaths from breast cancer usually appears between ages 30 to 50 years. Fortunately, today you have more choice in detecting breast cancer than a few decades ago.
But unfortunately, the education and socialization will these options and their effectiveness in detecting breast cancer in different levels is lacking.
Compared Mammography Better
At the beginning of his article, Beyond Mammography, Dr. Len Saputo told that he followed the development of all detection methods used by the medical community, including mammography, clinical breast test, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and PET scans.
In the next section, Dr. Len describes a detection method that is better than mammography, explained with great detail how to date and this one method, namely breast thermography (breast Thermography).
Breast thermography, breast cancer detection method that has existed since around the 1960s, using a scanner monitors the heat to heat variation detecting breast dijaringan body. However, infrared scanners in those years was less sensitive. Today, more modern breast thermography has undergone a very rapid progress than ever before.
Breast cancer is the second most malignant cancer for women in the United States. Based on the latest reports Cancer.org, Breast Cancer Data 2007-2008, in 2007 there were 178,000 new breast cancer cases and more than 40,000 women die from it.
But to watch is men are not immune to breast cancer. It has been found more than 2,000 men diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and approximately 450 men die from it. Therefore detection of breast cancer for men almost never done, this seems to make a man diagnosed with a more severe stage and thus a small survival rate.
Unfortunately, in this case the conventional medical still wearing the old method in detecting and treating cancer, no matter how less effective methods.
Use of mammography as a standard is one example of the conventional medical errors in detecting cancer.
The Case Against Mammography
Healthcare institutions in the United States recommends all women over 40 years to get a mammogram every 1 or 2 years, but there is no strong evidence that screening tests could save lives and the benefits were too controversial. Precisely mammography for health hazards have been clearly identified.
John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. – A nuclear physicist and a medical doctor, and one of the world-class experts in the field of radiation hazards, presenting irrefutable evidence in his book “Radiation from Medical Procedures in the pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease,” which explains that more than 50% mortality due to cancer is actually triggered by the use of x-ray.
Now consider the fact that the routine practice of taking 4 images in each breast one film each year, resulting in approximately 1 rad (radiation absorbed dose) exposure to radiation, it means the same thing with 1,000 times greater than the chest x-ray photographs.
How Mammography Increase Your Risk of Cancer Affected
X-rays and ionizing radiation other classmates in a few decades has been shown to cause any kind of biological mutation. At first biological mutation is not lethal. But these mutations gradually accumulate with each additional exposure to x-ray or other ionizing radiation.
X-rays are also known to cause genomic instability, which is one characteristic of the most aggressive cancers.
In addition, the risk of radiation is 4 times greater for 1-2% of women who are carriers of the AT gene (ataxia-telangiectasia), which in the calculation of an average of 20% per year on breast cancer patients.
When taken into account, reducing the frequency of medical radiation exposure, such as mammograms will reduce mortality.
The practice of screening mammography itself resulted in a cumulative risk of breast cancer, especially for women who were premenopausal at the time.
What’s worse, the false positive diagnosis often occurs at 89%, which resulted in many women get mastectomy (surgical removal of breast) an unnecessary and harmful, coupled with radiation or chemotherapy.
In certain cases mammography is beneficial. But the fact is that out there there are proven technologies that are cheaper, really do not endanger health and more effective in saving many people.
Now imagine what if you are able to look inside yourself and find out what would happen and “developing” 10 years later in your breast, where it will enable you to take a step towards the development of cancer PREVENTION early and radically change lifestyles for health you.
The technology has existed since the 1960s, namely screening for breast thermography.
Screening for Breast thermography – Safer Alternative methods and more effective
Most doctors still recommend mammograms for fear of being sued by a female patient who developed breast cancer because she did not advise patients to check with a mammogram. But I advise you to think about your health and to consider alternative methods of safer and more effective than a mammogram.
Options for breast screening that I highly recommend is breast thermography screening.
Screening of thermography is very simple. He measured the infrared radiation heat from your body and translates this information into the form of images. Normal blood circulation you are in control autonomik nervous system that regulates the function of your body.
Thermography does not use mechanical equipment that suppress or ionizing radiation, and can detect signs of breast cancer before it develops 10 years earlier than mammography or physical examination!
Mammography can not detect a tumor until the tumor unless it has long been grown and certain size. But it is different with thermography where she was able to detect the possibility of breast cancer much earlier.
It can even detect the potential presence of cancer before a tumor was formed because he could describe the early stages of angiogenesis, the formation of a direct channeling of blood to cancer cells, which is a necessary step before the formation of the developing grow to the size of the tumor.
Many men would be saved his life by these methods because mammography is not regularly applied to men.
Other risk factors are usually ignored and How You Avoid It
Breast density and circulating levels of sex hormones are two of the high breast cancer risk factors commonly found in women in post-menopausal stage. A study in 2007 which was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute confirmed that although the two factors usually appear together, they are also an independent risk factor.
The researchers found that (after controlling other factors) when breast density is not taken into account, women with a total circulation of high sex hormone, has a risk of developing breast cancer is two times greater than those with low circulating sex hormones. And the women who have breast density one-quarter higher, have a risk four times greater than low, regardless of sex hormone levels.
The women with both factors, namely high sex hormone and the most dense breasts have a risk six times greater of developing breast cancer.
The pengemuka in this study emphasizes the importance of screening and perhaps, most important is to maintain a balanced weight to keep the hormone levels remain good. American Cancer Society acknowledges that obesity is very influential on several deaths due to cancer.