Mammograms: Four decades of violence against women
by Barbara Minton
(Health Secrets) Almost any woman who has undergone the torturous compression and radiation of her breasts wonders instinctively about the damage mammograms really do. But the instincts of women have long been devalued, and most just assume they are being silly. After all, the medical establishment would never do anything to harm, right? All the propaganda about mammograms reducing the risk of death from breast cancer makes us continue to doubt what our common sense is telling us, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that radiation causes all types of cancer including that of the breast.