It’s better to have an encapsulated tumor/lump than to have it burst under the hefty pressure of a mammogram machine.
My mom and her mom were mammogram junkies and both ended up with mastectomies.
I’ve had maybe 3 in my whole life and do not intend to ever have another one.
Why would I want to constantly irradiate myself and increase my chances?
I’m with you. I think those damn machines can give people cancer. It’s like putting your tits through a washing machine wringer. Whomever invented it hates women. Can you imagine a man having to put his wiener in a machine and then having it flattened by crushing it, just to check for cancer? Neither can I. Whomever invented those machines is a sadist.
I had my baseline mammogram done, and it was awful! Painful! I had my last 4 babies at home without any meds, I am no pansy, but having my boobs crushed... I had tears streaming down my face. It was pure torture.
I like the idea of sonography MUCH better.
The idea that a tumor is ‘burst’ from a mammogram machine is a false idea. Breast cancer isn’t a cyst or cystlike in anyway.
While the effects of radiation are serious and limiting exposure to radiation something we should all do, in all regards, there is no evidence that a reasonable amount of mammograms cause an increase in breast cancer. I wouldn’t limit my time on a plane to avoid radiation, but I wouldn’t play with radion because it makes a good toy either.
That being said, I think we likely do get too many mammograms on a whole. I believe age should be a limit at the high end. If you make it to breast cancer free 80 years and you are doing monthly exams, I doubt the need for annual mam’s. Perhaps yearly is more than necessary for younger low risk woman too.
I think overall generalizations of Mammograms = Bad or Reducing Mammograms = Obamacare are both fallicies.
Early detected cancers start people on the path for cancer treatments such as chemo, when the body may have self corrected on its own. I don’t find this information to be a war on women so much as a better understanding of when to intervene.
There is a sisterhood of like-thinking gals, like us, out there. I had my last mammogram years ago. My doctor thinks I am a kook .....evidently, some Freepers do too, but it is my life, my decision.