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RE: CAN WE DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT CANCER?
I would really like to see some medical articles about how mammograms can cause cancer. Of course, in theory, the small dose of radiation is carcinogenic....but the benefits always outweigh the risks. Other than that, I agree with everything else you wrote.
it is possible that my memory of the issue is warped a bit because when i went to find some studies i first found a leaflet from a danish research center that makes clear that the problems with mammograms are not so much in that they cause cancer, but that they result in a statistically significant amount of mis-diagnosis. mis-diagnosis results in healthy women having breasts removed and chemotherapy un-necessarily..
Thus mammograms do increase the risk of death and it is claimed actually statistically do much more harm than good:
http://nordic.cochrane.org/sites/nordic.cochrane.org/files/public/uploads/images/mammography/mammography-leaflet.pdf