The hidden dangers of breast cancer “screening”
This is not the first time that I have spoken to you about it, but as people continue to ask me the question “are you for or against mammo?”, I understand that sometimes I have to insist. I've only had one mammogram in my life. And already there I was treated to a level of stress that I could have done without. So I've been without it for 17 years.
It turns out that I regularly receive material on the subject, so I'm translating some of it for you here, it won't hurt to keep you informed.
Millions of women undergo them every year, but few are aware of the many dangers they expose themselves to in the name of prevention, including misdiagnosis, overdiagnosis and the promotion of breast cancer itself.
A concerning study published in the Annals of Family Medicine, Long-Term Psychosocial Consequences of False-Positive Screening Mammography, brings to the forefront a major, rather overlooked harm of breast cancer screening programs: the very real and lasting trauma associated with to a false positive diagnosis of breast cancer. It is true that when it comes to “giving you the good news”, doctors rarely do anything right.
The study found that women with false-positive breast cancer diagnoses, even three years after being declared cancer-free, "consistently reported greater negative psychosocial outcomes than women who had normal results within 12 psychosocial outcomes.
The psychosocial and existential parameters negatively affected were:
► Feeling of discouragement
► Anxiety
► Negative impact on behavior
► Negative impact on sleep
► Degree of breast self-examination
► Negative impact on sexuality
What is even more worrying is that six months after the final diagnosis, the falsely diagnosed women continued to experience changes in existential values and inner calm as great as those reported by women who had actually been diagnosed with a breast cancer.
In short, even after being “rid of cancer”, they continued to suffer. I call it trauma, followed by post-traumatic syndrome. As if women needed that.
And that's just a small part of the risks. Of course, we will tell you that you risk developing a lump which would be invisible without the mamo. But undergoing this examination regularly is also one (apart from the risk of a false positive).
In fact, the procedure carries health risks, both for the body and the mind. For example, according to a groundbreaking study published last November in the New England Journal of Medicine, 1.3 million American women have been overdiagnosed and overtreated over the past 30 years.
Yes, over-processed. These are the "false positives" that were never detected, leading to the unnecessary irradiation, chemotherapy poisoning and surgery of approximately 43,000 women each year. However, if we add to these figures the millions of "false positives" which, while being detected, nevertheless caused trauma in these women, breast screening begins to resemble a veritable nightmare of iatrogenesis.
And that doesn't even take into account the radiobiological dangers of the X-ray mammography screening process itself, which may be driving an epidemic of radiation-induced and mostly unrecognized breast cancers. exposed populations.
At the same time, it's not just mammography that is questionable. The prestigious journal Cancer, a publication of the American Cancer Society, has published a study by researchers from the Department of Radiation Oncology at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center that show that even when radiation kills half of the treated tumor cells , surviving treatment-resistant cells, called induced breast cancer stem cells (iBCSCs), were up to 30 times more likely to form tumors than non-irradiated breast cancer cells.
In other words, radiation therapy shrinks the total population of cancer cells, which creates the illusion that the treatment is working, but actually increases the ratio of highly malignant to benign cells in that tumor, ultimately leading to death of the patient (through his own treatment).
I don't like having to notice it and remind you, but there is no way to ignore it: the conventional strategy and protocols for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer are bankrupt. Or, if we are a little cynical, we see that it is immensely successful, because it generates billions of dollars and euros in revenue by producing more of what it claims to fight.
To conclude: apart from the fact that it is crucial to know your essential oils well and to know how to use them because they give you the means to really protect yourself, at all ages, from everything, even from cancer, nothing replaces to know how to act on the cells of your body energetically , and above all, to identify if you really have something serious, or if this or that treatment is good for you.
Here are links including the studies mentioned in this article.
John Brodersen, Volkert Dirk Siersma.Long-term psychosocial consequences of false-positive screening mammography. Ann Fam Med. 2013 Mar-Apr;11(2):106-15. PMID: 23508596
Rebecca A Hubbard, Karla Kerlikowske, Chris I Flowers, Bonnie C Yankaskas, Weiwei Zhu, Diana L Miglioretti. Cumulative probability of false-positive recall or biopsy recommendation after 10 years of screening mammography: a cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2011 Oct 18;155(8):481-92. PMID: 22007042
Research: Some Diagnoses Kill You Quicker Than The Cancer , April 2012
30 Years of Breast Screening: 1.3 Million Women Wrongly Treated , Nov. 2012
GreenMedInfo.com, How X-Ray Mammography Is Accelerating the Epidemic of Breast Cancer , June 2012