Yesterday I wrote about research that found optimal blood serum levels of Vitamin D3 could not only prevent 50,000 new cases of breast cancer (and colon cancer… review the study), but could save 75% of the women already dealing with the disease.
In that article, I suggested that mammograms do not help and have not helped reduce the number of women who die from breast cancer.
- First, although most women believe that regular mammograms will prevent them from getting this feared cancer, these tests are diagnostic. That means that the tests themselves only let women know that they may have breast cancer; it cannot and does not prevent the cancer from occurring.
And, review of the research shows “an absolute risk reduction in breast cancer mortality of just 0.05 percent (for all women attending annual or semi-annual mammography screening).”
- Second, this diagnostic test results in false-positives about 10% of the time, subjecting healthy woman to additional testing and treatment – biopsies, mastectomy, radiation.
And, as a result, women are subjected to “an absolute risk increase of 0.5 percent.”
Together, these results show that you have as much risk for cancer from exposure to mammograms as you have of a mammogram saving your life from cancer.
One research study that came to that conclusion, and the one quoted, was led by Gotzsche. He runs a nonprofit organization, part of the highly-regarded Cochrane Collaboration, itself an international organization providing health-care analyses worldwide. His researchers reviewed all seven randomized mammography trials conducted prior to June 2005 and involving half a million women.
So, if an annual mammogram is not the answer to lowering breast cancer rates and can actually lead to unnecessary treatments – including mastectomies, perhaps it’s time to look for other answers. Checkout what Dr. Cedric Garland and his team have learned about cancer and blood serum levels of Vitamin D3.
What do you have to lose?
Blessings,
Judy
P.S. Here is the link to the Gotsche research: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/338/jan27_2/b86
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