X-Ray Mammography Is Accelerating The Epidemic of Cancer: Screening led to 30% overdiagnosis and overtreatment, or an absolute risk increase of 0.5%. This means that for every 2000 women invited for screening throughout 10 years, one will have her life prolonged and 10 healthy women, who would not have been diagnosed if there had not been screening, will be treated unnecessarily. Furthermore, more than 200 women will experience important psychological distress for many months because of false positive findings. It is thus not clear whether screening does more good than harm. In 2006, a paper published in the British Journal of Radiobiology, titled Enhanced biological effectiveness of low energy X-rays and implications for the UK breast screening programme, revealed the type of radiation used in x-ray-based breast screenings is much more carcinogenic than previously believed: Recent radiobiological studies have provided compelling evidence that the low energy X-rays as used in mammography are approximately four times - but possibly as much as six times - more effective in causing mutational damage than higher energy X-rays. Since current radiation risk estimates are based on the effects of high energy gamma radiation, this implies that the risks of radiation-induced breast cancers for mammography X-rays are underestimated by the same factor. READ MORE: greenmedinfo/blog/how-x-ray-mammography-accelerating-epidemic-cancer#_ftn2
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:27:34 +0000
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