New poster here: Colleen Huber, 2nd year D.O. student, mother of 7-month old boy. Greetings. Please be cautious regarding mammograms, for yourselves and your patients. In recent testimony before the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, Dr. Burton Goldberg cited research that mammography causes cancer in a significant number of women. A better technique is advanced thermography for breast cancer screening, which is a non-invasive, safer way to detect the early formation of pathological angiogenesis related to tumor growth years before mammography can image the tumor itself. Remember all ionizing radiation is cumulative over the course of your life. Women who begin their doctors' recommended mammograms at 40, who otherwise have every reason to expect good longevity, are facing 40-60 years of cumulative x-rays directed at their breasts, if they continue to obey such instructions. As Andrew Weil. M.D. says in Natural Health, Natural Medicine: "There is no such thing as a safe dose of radiation. Your risk of genetic and immune system damage correlates with the total amount of radiation you have received over your lifetime, and any amount, however small, adds to that cumulative total and risk. Never believe anyone who tells you that the amount of radiation coming at you from any source is too small to matter." Let's not be so fearful of breast cancer that we incur increased risks of it in our attempts to detect it. Colleen Huber *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html