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Every year we are reminded of International Cancer Day. Everywhere we see information about how important it is to pay attention to prevention against this insidious disease. But do you know all your options when it comes to this examination?
Mammogram
But it may have been kept from you that the examination itself can be the very cause of serious cancer.
Mammography is among the most dangerous oncological examinations.
So take a look at the following video where Dr. Ben Johnson explains what makes this examination dangerous and why it’s good to look into other ways to undergo this examination with less risk of the disease itself.
Mammography is among the most dangerous!
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For those of you who do not speak English, we have prepared a transcript of the interview. Let’s take a closer look at it.
Dr. Ben Johnson: I wrote a book for women entitled The Secret of Health Breast Wisdom because we, the medical community, are causing women to get cancer by requiring them to have mammograms.
Mammograms cause cancer. Mammograms are not healthy for women and therefore they should not undergo this examination. It is crystal clear; it has even been published in the professional literature.
Nevertheless, when a woman visits her gynecologist or family doctor today, this examination will, so to speak, be “pushed down her throat”. She will be subjected to strong pressure to go for a mammogram that can cause her breast cancer.
Mammograms do not save lives. If you go for one, you have a 4% higher risk of death. After every mammogram. Period.
Ty Bollinger (reporter): So the screening technique we use, essentially the primary method for detecting breast cancer, actually causes the cancer itself?
Dr. Ben Johnson: Without a doubt. The mammogram is a terrible test. Compressing a woman’s breast and then irradiating it with cancer-causing radiation — it is so insensitive. And inaccurate. For women under 50 its accuracy is around 52%. And 52 is pretty close to 50.
Ty Bollinger: Uh-huh…
Dr. Ben Johnson: So it’s about fifty-fifty. That means that for half of the women who have breast cancer, the mammogram will not detect it. It’s a terribly bad test. And yet there are much better and more accurate tests.
Nevertheless, women are constantly pressured into mammograms. And on top of that, this terrible test actually causes cancer.
Ty Bollinger: And it doesn’t even detect cancer. Well, it does detect it, but only in 50% of cases. But you said there are better screening options. What methods are those?
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Dr. Ben Hohnson: Well, basically there are two better options. If you have a lump in your breast, that is, if you think there’s something there, ultrasound is excellent. It’s an anatomical test, just like the mammogram is an anatomical test. MRI is also an anatomical test. Therefore, if you find a lump, you need an anatomical test.
Ultrasound can detect a lump and can also see its consistency. It can pinpoint where calcium deposits are located in it. It also sees blood flow, because tumors are characterized by increased blood supply.
Ultrasound’s accuracy is approximately 80%, thus much more than that of mammography. Its sensitivity is also higher.
However, when it comes to prevention, there is basically only one device for it, and that is the thermograph. It’s an infrared camera. Nothing touches a woman’s body. Nothing squeezes the breast and there is no cancer-causing radiation involved.
Just as we are sitting here now, we emit thermal energy into the surroundings in the infrared band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Colloquially put, we “radiate heat”. The electromagnetic spectrum ranges from radio waves, through microwaves, infrared waves, visible and ultraviolet light, up to X-rays.
Our eyes cannot see the infrared spectrum, but a camera can capture it (try shining a remote control into your phone’s camera and you’ll see light that is invisible to the naked eye).
However, the military developed much more sensitive infrared cameras to be able to see moving bodies of enemy soldiers at night, who produce (radiate) heat into the surroundings.
Ty Bollinger: You mean night vision cameras?
Dr. Ben Johnos: Yes, exactly. Night vision cameras are infrared cameras. And the very same principle is used in medicine to detect hot spots in the breast.
Look, long before a tumor formed in the breast, there were cancer cells in it. Maybe 8 to 10 years before a tumor formed from those cells, cancer cells began to grow in the breast.
At first there were 2, then 4, 16, 128, etc. It takes approximately 8 years for a tumor to grow to a size of 1 cm, when it can be detected by a mammogram or ultrasound. Unfortunately, that’s already too late, because a 1 cm tumor contains approximately 1 billion cancer cells.
Once you reach the number of one billion, the cancer has already spread into the lymphatic system and is being distributed by the blood to other parts of the body.
And that is one of the reasons why mammograms do not save lives. It’s not at all about early detection of cancer. It’s another of the lies they’ve been spreading for a long time: “Early detection saves lives. Go get a mammogram”.
Ty Bollinger: That’s true.
Dr. Ben Johnos: That statement is true, early detection really does save lives. It’s just that the mammogram is not early detection. So, in short, mammograms cause much more breast cancer than they detect.
Compared to the mammogram, today’s highly sensitive infrared cameras can detect cancer at a much earlier stage.
Cancer cells have an accelerated metabolism and therefore produce and emit more heat than healthy cells. An infrared camera can capture this heat already in very early stages, several years earlier than a mammogram.
And also, as I mentioned earlier, the infrared camera, or thermograph, emits nothing, it only captures. Therefore it is an absolutely safe examination.
For these reasons, women should prefer thermography over mammography. It can save their lives. Literally. Period.
