(NaturalNews) Ah ... ladies ... can you imagine the freedom of
life without mammograms? That yearly dread - the compression,
the anxiety, the direct radiation to delicate tissue - may all
be a thing of the past.A new blood test is in development that
may prove to be even more effective than mammograms. Mammograms
give false negatives 10% of the time, false positives 20% of the
time. In addition to false positives, there is increasing
concern regarding possible harm from mammograms. In a study
involving 5,685 women, published in the July 15, 2000 issue of
the International Journal of Cancer, the association between
diagnostic radiation exposure and breast cancer was examined.
The results of this study conclude that some forms of low-dose
radiation may increase the risk of breast cancer. The study also
found that women who underwent diagnostic chest x-rays for
pneumonia or tuberculosis had more than twice the normal risk of
breast cancer. An article published in the January 28, 2009
Journal of the American Canc