Mammogram? Thermography?
What’s the Best Strategy?
Recently, I wrote the 10 Reasons I Don’t Get Pap Smears. On a similar vein, I don’t get mammograms either.
While I support your right to get them, or choose an alternative–including self-exam, and options you may not even know about–you should at least be aware of the pros and cons of each option.
Thermography doesn’t expose you to radiation. On the other hand, it misses some breast cancers.
Mammography misses some, too, though! And, can diagnose “stage 0” breast cancers that even the oncology industry now admits aren’t really cancer, and the mastectomies they used to do, to address these tiny clusters of cancer cells, were “overkill” (literally).
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What about ultrasound? And, do you know about molecular imaging? (The favorite of Dr. Sheeler, in the interview below.)
Let me share with you three interviews I’ve done with compassionate, educated, “integrative” or holistic OB/GYN’s willing to question orthodoxies and share their experience with you:
Each of these three doctors’ interviews are also transcribed, so if you prefer to read, just click the link, and read the transcript instead. But on iTunes, I listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed, saving me time.
I have done thermography once, and otherwise rely on preventative strategies. There’s a fierce debate about whether wearing a bra many hours a day contributes to breast cancer risk. I don’t wear a bra, except to run or play sports, as it makes logical sense to me that trapping lymph leads to a clogged lymphatic system, in the breasts and the many lymphatic pathways that drain away from them.
Every woman should take some time to educate herself, before submitting to and paying for imaging. What I care about is that you know the risks and benefits, and make an informed choice.
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I absolutely despise wearing bras but I do so out in public. However, once I get home, it’s the first thing that comes off...along with my shoes. I refuse to get annual Pap smears and mammograms anymore too. I got my first baseline mammogram at age 45 (I’m 63 now)and of course they “saw something“ and needed me to come back for a follow up mammogram to get a better look....to which I did, although, I was worried sick those two weeks. Come to find out, what they “saw” was calcium deposits caused from dried up breast milk in one of my milk ducts since I had quit nursing my youngest child two years prior. I decided right then and there that I would never have another mammogram ever again. My last Pap smear was at the age of 53 but I was never regular about getting them. I won’t have another ever again unless I start having an issue with bleeding.
They say thermography is no radiation, but on closer inspection they also admit it is nonionizing radiation. So, definitely is radiation exposure. Years ago had one and felt off after, like I was exposed to something. Later learned that the industry lies about there being no harmful exposure. I don't know how the exposure compares to cell phones and other wireless devices, but they are also nonionizing radiation and that is known to be harmful.