Most women who undergo routine mammogram screenings will have a false positive result in their lifetime and be “overdiagnosed” with breast cancer which often leads to unnecessary treatment that is dangerous and harmful.
~ False Positives Prevalent in Breast Cancer Screenings – YouTube
- ~ Mammogram Results Can Be Misleading – The New York Times
- ~ More false alarms, uncertain benefits seen with annual mammograms – CNN
- ~ Most Women Who Get Yearly Mammograms Will Face A False Alarm – Live Science
- ~ New Study Questions Yearly Mammograms: Mammograms Have High Rate of False Positives – AARP
- ~ Study Finds High Rate of Mammogram False Alarms – 50 percent chance in 10 screenings – SF Gate
- ~ Study: Mammograms Lead to Many False-Positive Results – TIME
- ~ The Messy Math Of Mammograms: Math biologist Kit Yates breaks down the numbers behind breast cancer screenings—and the serious implications of false positive and negative results – Science Friday
- ~ Consequences of False-Positive Screening Mammograms – Breast Cancer – JAMA Internal Medicine – JAMA Network
- ~ Predicting the cumulative risk of false-positive mammograms – PubMed
- ~ Ten-year risk of false positive screening mammograms and clinical breast examinations – PubMed
The U.S. Wastes $4 Billion a Year on False Positive Mammograms and Overdiagnosis
~ US wasting billions on cancer over diagnosis, false positive mammograms – report – YouTube
- ~ Breast cancer overtreatment costs U.S. $4 billion a year – PBS NewsHour
- ~ High Costs for False-Positive Mammograms, Overdiagnosis – Consumer Health News – HealthDay
- ~ Study: Breast cancer overtreatment costs US $4B a year – Medical Xpress
- ~ Study finds breast cancer overtreatment costs US $4B per year – Fox News
- ~ Study: US spends $4B a year due to false positive mammograms and breast cancer overdiagnosis – StarTribune.com
- ~ The Hidden Cost Of Mammograms- More Testing And Overtreatment – NPR
- ~ U.S. wastes $4BILLION a year on unnecessary breast cancer treatments because of false positives and over-diagnosis – Daily Mail Online
False Positive Mammograms Causes Women to Suffer Terrible Anxiety
- ~ Called Back After A Mammogram? Doctors Are Trying To Make It Less Scary: Mammogram False Alarms Are Common, And Worrisome – NPR
- ~ False breast cancer alarm has negative impact on health – ScienceDaily
- ~ False-positive mammograms have limited effect on anxiety, study shows – Fox News
- There is about a 61 percent chance that a woman who undergoes yearly mammograms over a decade will have a false-positive during that time, according to Dr. Kurt Kroenke, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new study.
- ~ False-Positive Mammograms Traumatize Women: Study – Newsmax.com
Most Women who get Routine Mammograms will be “Overdiagnosed” with Breast Cancer
~ Are Cancer Patients Being Over Diagnosed? – YouTube
~ Breast cancer ‘may be overdiagnosed’ – YouTube
~ Breast cancer screening ‘leads to over-diagnosis’ – YouTube
~ Good Health: Breast cancer over-diagnosis – YouTube
- ~ 1 million women ‘overdiagnosed’ with breast cancer due to mammograms, controversial study suggests – Boston.com
- ~ Are mammograms useless? A New England Journal of Medicine study claims mammograms overdiagnose breast cancer – Slate
- ~ Few women aware of overdiagnosis and overtreatment risk after mammography, U of M study finds – MinnPost
- ~ Mammograms cited in breast cancer overdiagnosis – Fox News
- ~ Mammograms lead to breast cancer -overdiagnosis- in 1 million women, study finds – CBS News
- ~ Mammograms May Cause Breast Cancer ‘Overdiagnosis’ – WebMD
- ~ Mammograms may lead to breast cancer “overdiagnosis” for some women – CBS News
- ~ Mammograms May Lead To Breast Cancer ‘Over-Diagnosis,’ Study Finds – NPR
- ~ Mammograms tied to overdiagnosis of breast cancer – NBC News
- ~ Mammograms tied to overdiagnosis of breast cancer – Fox News
- ~ A study of overdiagnosis due to mammography reported during Breast Cancer Awareness Month – ScienceBlogs
- ~ How Mammograms Lead To Invalid Diagnoses & Cause Harm – Collective Evolution
- ~ Mammograms Linked To An Epidemic of Misdiagnosed Cancers – GreenMedInfo
- ~ One In Three Women With Breast Cancer Treated Unnecessarily, Study Concludes – Kaiser Health News
- ~ Accepting the Existence of Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis – Annals of Internal Medicine
- ~ Breast Cancer Screening in Denmark- A Cohort Study of Tumor Size and Overdiagnosis- Annals of Internal Medicine
- ~ Breast Cancer Screening, Incidence, and Mortality Across US Counties – Breast Cancer – JAMA Network
- ~ Breast Cancer: Tumor Size and Overdiagnosis – Annals of Internal Medicine
- ~ Effect of Three Decades of Screening Mammography on Breast-Cancer Incidence – NEJM
- ~ Effectiveness of and overdiagnosis from mammography screening in the Netherlands- population based study – The BMJ
- ~ Overdiagnosis in screening mammography in Denmark- population based cohort study – The BMJ
- ~ Overdiagnosis of Invasive Breast Cancer Due to Mammography Screening- Results From the Norwegian Screening Program – Annals of Internal Medicine
- ~ Women’s Awareness of and Responses to Messages About Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment: Results From a 2016 National Survey – Insights.ovid
1 in 3 Breast Cancer Patients are “Overtreated”, i.e. Given Completely Unnecessary Treatment
~ ‘Stage Zero Breast Cancer’ Patient Believes She Was Over-Treated – YouTube
~ Some breast cancer patients treated unnecessarily, study says – YouTube
- ~ 1 in 3 breast cancer patients overtreated, study suggests – tucson.com
- ~ 1 in 3 breast cancer patients treated unnecessarily- study – CTV News
- ~ Breast cancer screening causes more damage than previously thought – The Guardian
- ~ Breast cancer treatment unnecessary a third of the time, says new Danish study – AJC
- ~ For every life that is saved by breast cancer screening up to TEN women suffer ‘unnecessary treatment’ including breast removals – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Mammograms: For 1 life saved, 3 women overtreated – USA Today
- ~ Mammograms leading to unnecessary treatment, study finds – The Washington Post
- ~ Mammograms lead to unneeded treatment for some breast cancers – USA Today
- ~ More than 1 million women given unnecessary and invasive treatment for breast cancer, study finds – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Patients deserve the truth: health screening can do more harm than good – The Guardian
- ~ One in three women may receive unnecessary mammograms, study says – PBS NewsHour
- ~ One-Third of Breast Cancer Patients Are Getting Treatment They Don’t Need – Newsweek
- ~ Study: 1 in 3 Breast Cancer Patients Given Unnecessary Treatment – Fox News
- ~ Study: 1 in 3 breast cancer patients overtreated – The San Diego Union-Tribune
- ~ Study: 1 in 3 women with breast cancer treated unnecessarily – Daily News
- ~ Study: Many getting unnecessary breast cancer treatment – USA Today
- ~ Study: one third of breast cancer treatments are unnecessary – wqad.com
- ~ Third of breast cancer patients get unnecessary treatment, study finds – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Third of breast cancer patients treated unnecessarily, study says – CNN
- ~ 1.3 million wrongly treated after false positives from mammograms – NaturalNews.com
- ~ 30 Years of Breast Screening: 1.3 Million Wrongly Treated – Activist Post
- ~ 30 Years of Breast Screening: 1.3 Million Wrongly Treated – GreenMedInfo
- ~ More Than 30 Percent of Breast Cancer Cases Are Misdiagnosed Due To Mammography and Causing Unnecessary Treatment – Prevent Disease
Mammograms Can Induce Breast Cancer
~ Mammograms Cause Breast Cancer – Dr. Ben Johnson – YouTube
- ~ ‘False-Alarm Mammograms’ Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk – Live Science
- ~ False Alarm Mammograms May Still Signal Higher Breast Cancer Risk – NPR
- ~ False alarms delay future mammograms, linked to later diagnosis – Reuters
- ~ False positive mammograms linked to slight cancer risk increase – Fox News
- ~ False-positive mammogram may hint at later cancer risk – CBS News
- ~ False-Positive Mammograms May Indicate Increased Risk of Breast Cancer Later – NewsWise
- ~ Higher Risk for Women With False-Positive Mammogram Results – TIME.com
- ~ Increased Risk of Developing Breast Cancer after a False-Positive Screening Mammogram – Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
- ~ Mammogram False Alarms Linked to Later Breast Cancer – Newsmax.com
- ~ Hidden Dangers of Mammograms Every Woman Should Know About – Wake Up World
- ~ How Mammograms Increase Your Risk of Breast Cancer – Why Are They Promoted As A Prevention Tool? – Collective Evolution
- ~ How X-Ray Mammography Is Accelerating The Epidemic of Cancer – GreenMedInfo
- ~ Mammograms Send Women To Their Deathbeds Faster And Increase Their Risk of Breast Cancer As Much As 30 Percent – Sagacious News
- ~ Study of 1.8 Million: Breast Screening Increases ‘Lethal’ Breast – GreenMedIno
- ~ Current perspectives on radiation-induced breast cancer – PubMed
- ~ Effect of Three Decades of Screening Mammography on Breast-Cancer Incidence – NEJM
- ~ Recent radiobiological studies have provided compelling evidence that the low energy X-rays as used in mammography are approximately four times – but possibly as much as six times – more effective in causing mutational damage than higher energy X-rays. – GreenMedInfo
Mammograms are Doing More Harm than Good
~ Mammograms: More harm than good? – YouTube
~ The downsides of mammography – YouTube
~ The Truth About Mammography – YouTube
- ~ Mammography: the war on women’s breasts – Nexus Newsfeed
- ~ Researchers Reveal Horrendous Facts About Breast Screenings (Mammograms) – Collective Evolution
- ~ Surgeons Admit That Mammography is Outdated and Harmful to Women: 7 Mammogram Dangers Every Woman Should Know About – Daily Health News
- ~ Surgeons admit that mammography is outdated and harmful to women – Thermography Clinic Ireland
- ~ The Breast Cancer Screening Mistake Millions Make – Healthier Talk
COVID Vaccine is Causing False Positive Readings on Mammograms
~ COVID vaccine may cause false positive on mammograms – YouTube
~ Doctor warns of false positive readings on mammograms following vaccination – YouTube
~ How the COVID-19 vaccine could impact a mammogram – YouTube
~ Marissa Bagg has the latest on why some experts are sounding the alarm about false positives on mammograms after someone has received a coronavirus vaccine dose. – NBC Miami – VIDEO
~ More women are coming in for mammograms after receiving the coronavirus vaccine and experiencing a scary side effect. – ABC 15 – VIDEO
~ New mammogram guidelines for women recently vaccinated for COVID-19 – YouTube
~ Possible vaccine side effect could result in false-positive mammograms – YouTube
- ~ COVID-19 Vaccine: Can It Affect Your Mammogram Results? – Johns Hopkins Medicine
- ~ COVID-19 vaccine can impact mammogram with ‘false positive’ – New York Post
- ~ COVID vaccinations could prompt false positive readings of mammograms – CBS News
- ~ Doctor Explains Link Between Covid-19 Vaccine and False Positives in Mammograms – NBC 6 South Florida
- ~ Doctors warn of false positive mammogram results after vaccine – wltx.com
- ~ Don’t schedule mammogram near COVID-19 vaccine, doctors warn – Fox News
- ~ How Your COVID Vaccination Could Affect Your Mammogram Reading – US News
- ~ Mammograms detect false-positive breast cancer results for some vaccinated women – ABC 15
- ~ New mammogram guidelines for women recently vaccinated for COVID-19 – FOX 13 Salt Lake City
- ~ VERIFY: Why you should wait to get a mammogram if you’ve gotten a COVID-19 vaccine – wusa9.com
Presentations
~ Overtreatment of Stage 0 Breast Cancer DCIS – YouTube
Documentaries
~ bOObs: The War On Women’s Breasts – Official Trailer – 2020 – Documentary – YouTube
~ The Promise. Trailer. Truth about the breast screening program – YouTube
Books
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