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Another chicken or egg question
Clearly by the poll results people here overwhelmingly feel mammography is useful, and I am definitely standing off by myself in questioning it. I don't think there is any real way to know for sure whether or not it causes the cancer that people are then extremely grateful that it also usually finds... unless a time comes when we have better ways to detect bc and the rate of bc drops.
How many of those who believe radiation from x-rays or mammograms did not cause their cancer never have had any prior radiation? We already get some radiation from the sun as well as from radon.
Repeated radiation by mammograms did lead to the identification of my tumor by ultrasound. But I simply can't feel sure that it didn't cause it either, or that the radiation I received as treatment is not the source of second cancers and recurrences, either in the affected breast, the other breast, or elsewhere.
AlaskaAngel
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