Page 18of Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo. It compared two groups of Norwegian
women ages 50 to 64 in two consecutive six-year periods.
One group of 109,784 women was followed from 1992 to 1997. Mammography
screening in Norway was initiated in 1996. In 1996 and 1997, all were offered
mammograms, and nearly every woman accepted.
The second group of 119,472 women was followed from 1996 to 2001. All were
offered regular mammograms, and nearly all accepted.
It might be expected that the two groups would have roughly the same number
of breast cancers, either detected at the end or found along the way. Instead,
the researchers report, the women who had regular routine screenings had 22
percent more cancers. For every 100,000 women who were screened regularly,
1,909 were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer over six years, compared with
1,564 women who did not have regular screening.
Of course the old guard is quick to point out that the findings do not mean
that the mammograms caused breast cancer! That’s false: evidence shows that
there is a significant increase in the risk. The “guidelines” are no more than a
smokescreen for profiteering, not science.
John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. – a nuclear physicist and a medical doctor, and one
of the leading experts in the world on the dangers of radiation – presents
compelling evidence in his book, Radiation from Medical Procedures in the
Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease, that over 50 percent
of the death-rate from cancer is in fact induced by x-rays.
The routine practice of taking four films of each breast annually results in
approximately 1 rad (radiation absorbed dose) exposure, which is about 1,
times greater than that from a chest x-ray (remember, mass screening with chest
x-rays was stopped, because it caused more cancer than it detected!)
Dr. Epstein, M.D., professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational
Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, and author of an
amazing book “The Politics of Cancer Revisited” has described the guidelines
as a sham.
According to him “They were conscious, chosen, politically expedient acts by
a small group of people for the sake of their own power, prestige and financial
gain, resulting in suffering and death for millions of women. They fit the
classification of ‘crimes against humanity.’”