NYTimes.com – Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer

By PEGGY ORENSTEIN
Published: April 25, 2013
NYtimes.com

So when the radiologist found an odd, bicycle-spoke-like pattern on the film — not even a lump — and sent me for a biopsy, I wasn’t worried. After all, who got breast cancer at 35?
It turns out I did. Recalling the fear, confusion, anger and grief of that time is [...]

Cancer Survivor or Victim of Overdiagnosis?

The New York Times Articles
By: H. Gilbert Welch
Written: November 21, 2012
FOR decades women have been told that one of the most important things they can do to protect their health is to have regular mammograms. But over the past few years, it’s become increasingly clear that these screenings are not all they’re cracked up to [...]

Mammography: Are There Pros, or is It Just a Con?

By Johnnie Ham, MD, MBA
Original Article at Mercola.com

Many women are completely unaware that the science backing the use of mammograms is sketchy at best. As was revealed in a 2011 meta-analysis by the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, mammography breast cancer screening led to 30 percent overdiagnosis and overtreatment, which equates to an absolute risk [...]

Health Canada protects mammogram racket by criminalizing thermography for breast cancer detection

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
By Natural News
(NaturalNews) The forces of evil are currently running wild in Canada, where the government-run healthcare machine and the mainstream media are currently engaged in a vicious assault on the safe and effective breast cancer screening tool known as thermography. A recent “investigative” report aired [...]

The Benefits and Harms of Breast Cancer Screening: An Independent Review

The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 30 October 2012
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61611-0Cite or Link Using DOI
The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review
Original Text
Independent UK Panel on Breast Cancer Screening†
Summary
Whether breast cancer screening does more harm than good has been debated extensively. The main questions are how large the benefit of screening is in terms of [...]

Breast Cancer Screening Causes More Damage than Previously Thought

Around 4,000 women have unnecessary treatment for a disease that will never threaten their health, though tests should continue
Sarah Boseley, health editor
The Guardian, Monday 29 October 2012

Around 1,300 lives are saved by mammography, but many women have unnecessary breast cancer treatment. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA
Breast cancer screening causes more harm than has previously been recognised, even [...]

Professors: Komen overstating benefits of mammograms (CNN News)

By Saundra Young, CNN Sr. Medical Producer
updated 1:33 PM EDT, Tue August 7, 2012

Read complete article on CNN

(CNN) — A national breast cancer charity is being accused of using misleading statistics to convince women to have mammograms, according to a paper published Thursday in the British Medical Journal.
Susan G. Komen for the [...]

Cancer prevention on minds of Ontario CWL

Written by Erin Morawetz, The Catholic Register
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:25
Ontario’s Catholic Women’s League has put its support behind infrared breast screening thermography while expressing opposition to youth indoor tanning.
These resolutions were passed at the 65th annual Ontario provincial convention of the CWL, which took place in Kingston, Ont., July 9 to 11.
Marlene Pavletic, president [...]

When a Train is not a Boat, and a Row Boat is not a Luxury Liner

Why Mammography cannot be compared with breast thermography.
Author: Dr. Hillary Smith
I have recently seen the media go crazy with a study that was done at Bryn Mawr Hospital comparing mammography and thermography for breast cancer detection. The thermal images in the study failed to impress those conducting the study. And so we see multiple [...]

Rebuttle to No-Touch Study ~ Misleading Media About Thermography

The recent plethora of articles reporting a study published that compares a certain type of infrared imaging for breast cancer with mammography has been taken out of context and perspective by some journalists and by certain self interest groups within the medical profession.
The ‘No touch breast scan’ product was tested alongside mammography for the detection [...]