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We recently observed World Cancer Day. The media again came with reports about how important prevention is and what options you have within it.
What they did not tell you, however, are important facts that some diagnostic methods intended primarily to prevent cancer may even be the cause of many oncological diseases.
One of the most dangerous examinations that can cause cancer is the very frequently promoted mammogram .
So let’s take a look at what physician Dr. Ben Johnson thinks about this issue.
For those of you who understand English, you can watch the video recording of the interview with him.
For those who do not speak English, we have prepared a transcript of the interview. So let’s take a closer look at it.
And here is the transcript and translation of the video into Czech:
Expert opinion
Dr. Ben Johnson: I wrote a book for women called The Secret of Health Breast Wisdom because we, the medical community, are causing women to get cancer by asking them to undergo mammography.
Mammograms cause cancer. Period. Mammograms are not healthy for women and therefore they should not be subjected to 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, figuratively speaking, be “pushed down her throat”. She will be exposed to heavy pressure to go for a mammogram that can give 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, basically the primary method of detecting breast cancer, actually causes the cancer itself?
Dr. Ben Johnson: Without a doubt. The mammogram is a horrible test. The pressing of a woman’s breast and its subsequent radiation causes cancer – it’s so insensitive. And inaccurate. For women under 50 its accuracy is around 52%. And 52 is pretty close to 50.
Ty Bollinger: Ah …
Dr. Ben Johnson: So it’s about half and half. 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 there are much better and more accurate tests.
Yet women are constantly being pushed mammograms. And moreover, this horrible test even causes cancer.
Ty Bollinger: And it doesn’t even detect the cancer. Well, it does detect it, but only in 50% of cases. You said there are better screening options. What methods are those?
Dr. Ben Hohnson: Well, basically there are two better options. If you have a lump in the breast, that is, if you think there’s something there, then ultrasound is excellent. It’s an anatomical test, just as a mammogram is an anatomical test. MRI is also an anatomical test. So if you find a lump, then you need an anatomical test.
Ultrasound can detect a lump and can also see its consistency. It can pinpoint where there is a calcification in it. And it also sees blood flow, because tumors are characterized by increased blood supply.
The accuracy of ultrasound is about 80%, which is much higher than for mammography. And 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. So nothing touches a woman’s body. No breast is squeezed and there is also no radiation that causes cancer.
Just as we are sitting here now, we emit thermal energy into the surroundings in the infrared band of the electromagnetic spectrum. In plain language, “we radiate heat”. The electromagnetic spectrum ranges from radio waves, through microwaves, infrared waves, visible and ultraviolet light to X-rays.
We cannot see the infrared spectrum with our eyes, but a camera can capture it (try shining the remote control at the camera of your phone and you’ll see light that you cannot see with the naked eye).
However, the military developed much more sensitive infrared cameras to be able to see moving bodies of enemy soldiers at night that emit (radiate) heat into their surroundings.
Ty Bollinger: Do you mean night-vision cameras?
Dr. Ben Johnos: Yes, exactly. Night-vision cameras are infrared cameras. And the exact 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. It can be 8 to 10 years before a tumor formed from cells that 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 is already too late, because a 1 cm tumor contains approximately 1 billion cancer cells.
When you reach the number of one billion, the cancer has already had time to spread into the lymphatic system and disseminate cancer into other parts of the body through the blood.
And that is also one of the reasons why mammograms did not save human lives. It is not early detection at all. It is another of the lies they have long been spreading: “Early detection saves lives. Get a mammogram” .
Ty Bollinger: That’s true.
Dr. Ben Johnos: That sentence is true, early detection really saves lives. Only 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 before a mammogram.
And also, as I mentioned earlier, the infrared camera, i.e. thermography, emits nothing, it only captures. Therefore it is a completely safe examination.
For these reasons women should prefer thermography screening over the mammogram. It can save their lives. Literally. Period.
