How Safe Are Mammograms? The Myths Uncovered...

Julia Posted 08/06/2008

I see the above comments and thoughts were made back in 05 have there been any updates on your mind set since this time!!

gwen Posted 04/08/2008

Thank you so much for this information

jamie Posted 30/08/2008

Thank you for explaining the ugly truths about mammography which mainstream medicine for the most part chooses to ignore while making every attempt to bully patients into having mammograms.

Sylvia Posted 13/11/2008

agree completely. excruciating pain cannot be good. stopped cos two frozen shoulders resulted from one visit,took a year to recover with physio.

Janice Posted 06/02/2009

While there are disadvantages with the mammogram, I for one am glad for these examinations. My sister did not have any lumps, and had her first mammogram the back of last year. The results were calcifications all over one breast. She has been advised to think about a masectomy, as the highly likelyhood of these resulting in cancer in a few years time. Personally, I think the mammogram has saved her life.

Joan Byrne Posted 23/02/2009

I had a wide local incision to remove breast cancer in 2005 and had to endure a mammograph six months after the operation. I am now left with multiple lumps in that breast, I feel this is due to the extreme pressure and pain caused by that subsequent mammograph. I am dreading the next one. Is ultrasound alone not a good marker?

Administrator Posted 23/02/2009

In answer to Joan. Please read the related article posted on our website about Thermography: Thermography a Safe and Very Effective Alternative to Mammograms. All of the best.

Judy Bolger Posted 23/02/2009

This news on mamagrams does not suprise me at all as I have read it several times that they can not detect some cancer in the breasts and yes they are very painfull when your breast is squeesed between the machine.I do not like them at all and then theirs the radition.

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fouress Posted 20/12/2009

happy to read so many views on mamogram..would like to know what u wud recommend as the best, safest n most effective way of detecting breast cancer, other than self examination

CHRISTINE SCALES Posted 26/02/2010

It is a year since I received treatment for breast cancer (the whole works, chemo, lumpectomy and radiotherapy) I have radically changed my diet, done a month's detox and feel much better than before the cancer. Various medics including my consultant are keen for me to have a mammogram, which I have been refusing as I find such procedures painful and am worried about the harmful effects of the radiation. Yesterday, in an hour-long interview I felt I was being pressured into having a mammogram. My ultrsound scan was clear, but this was not regarded as sufficient evidence without a mammogram. I continued to resist, but they will be sending me an 'invitation' for a mammogram in May! What part of 'No' do they not understand? I am 59 years of age with no history of cancer in the family.

Brigitte Posted 04/04/2010

I just turned 54 and scheduled my annual check up. So far I had 9 mammograms and for a time every year, but lately was hesitant because it is so uncomfortable and painful. A friend pointed out the danger and now reading up on it myself, I will not have another mammogram. What was I thinking.

Heather Keel Posted 26/04/2010

I have never liked having a mammogram and now with all this information it doubles my reasons for not having another!

John  Posted 05/10/2010

I find the differences between Australia which believes it has superior technology and diagnosis procedures to developing countries interesting. My experience in asia, Phillipines, Thailand etc are more progressive and use normal ultrasound, for the first checkup, they then only use for diagnosis MRI and thermal imaging tech. Xrays are not used as asian women will not tolerate these tests.

sherry will Posted 05/12/2010

this is to christine . i also have had the full cancer experince. i also feel pressured into a boob vise. i am of mixed feelings. the people i was told to trust i have big douths with. i was scared and bullied by some docs! what to do /? my first mammogram i was 14 years old!

Debra  Posted 16/02/2011

What do you recommend instead right now?

Anonymous  Posted 19/03/2011

Just keep in mind: they need your explicit informed consent before they leagally can do anything to you. If you don't want something, you have every right to say no, stand your ground, and they can't touch you. :)

Valmsie Posted 29/10/2011

like Christine & Sherry I have had full breast cancer experience, mastectomy, chemo, radiation & I've read about lots of women who have found a lump a few months after their latest mammogram, which hadnt detected cancer. I had a mammogram 9 months before I found a lump, a lady I met this week found a lump 3 months after her mammogram. I was told I had dense breast tissue which is hard to detect a tumour, so why am I still being told to have a mammogram if they aren't going to be able to see it anyway. I'm very confused & not sure what to do next month re my annual check ? any suggestions. I live in Tasmania, Australia

Amy Posted 20/01/2012

Thanks for the refernces at the bottom of your articles. It's good to know we can verify what you say.