Mammograms: How The Mainstream Got It Wrong

HSI – The Health Sciences Institute. UK Edition 19th December 2011
We’ve written to you many times in the past about mammograms. Despite the fact that this breast cancer screening procedure is painful and risky the mainstream still chooses to cling to it like it’s a long lost child.
In recent years, mounting evidence has [...]

California Passes Breast Density Bill

September 16, 2011
by Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News Associate Editor
The California State Legislature passed a bill last Friday requiring doctors to inform women if they have dense breasts after a mammogram, making California the second state this summer and the third state so far to have passed a so-called breast density law.
The bill, SB 791, [...]

California Bill Aimed at Breast Cancer Worries Docs

By SHEILA V KUMAR – Associated Press | AP – Fri, Sep 16, 2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It took seven years of annual mammograms and a cancer diagnosis for Amy Colton to learn something her doctors had realized from the beginning: Her breast tissue is so dense that it could have masked tumors on earlier [...]

TEN-YEAR RISK OF FALSE POSITIVE SCREENING MAMMOGRAMS AND CLINICAL BREAST EXAMINATIONS

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Fewer mammograms being done, studies show

By Madison Park, CNN
May 2, 2011 7:39 a.m. EDT
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CNN) — The use of mammograms has dipped since a medical task force made controversial recommendations that women in their 40s may not need to get breast cancer screenings every year, according to one [...]

New Mammogram Recommendations

E. Huff, as staff writer at NaturalNews.com, wrote an interesting article explaining the data behind the new mammogram recommendations.  
Here’s a quote from the article:
“Several years ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (PSTF) issued an updated set of recommendations about mammogram screenings, suggesting which and how often women should get them. Since the last [...]

Mammography: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released updated recommendations for breast-cancer screening

The New England Journal of Medicine published this article entitled “On Mammography – More Agreement Than Disagressment. ”
Click here to view the article.

Women Receive “Good News” on Mammography Screening But Is it Really Good News?

Women Receive “Good News” on Mammography Screening But Is it Really Good News?
Women Have A Safe Alternative to Mammograms to Maintain Annual Screenings
For immediate release from the American College of Clinical Thermology.
 Women of all ages received good news with the recent revision of the government recommendations for screening mammography.  The US Department of Health and [...]

Alternative to Mammograms

Sunday, November 22, 2009
The Record
Alternative to mammograms
In view of the recent U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations concerning new guidelines for having mammograms, some vital information for women needs to be presented. The new guidelines are for the general population, not those at high risk of breast cancer because of family history or gene [...]

KTTV Fox 11 – A Better Way to Detect Breast Cancer?

Santa Monica (myFOXla.com) – Some women are looking away from mammograms to another method of breast cancer screening called “thermography.”