DANGERS AND UNRELIABILITY OF MAMMOGRAPHY: BREAST EXAMINATION IS A SAFE, EFFECTIVE, AND PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVE

Mammography screening is a profit-driven technology posing risks compounded by unreliability. In striking contrast, annual clinical breast examination (CBE) by a trained health professional, together with monthly breast self-examination (BSE), is safe, at least as effective, and low in cost. Interna...

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Aged
American Cancer Society
Breast cancer
Breast Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Breast Self-Examination - standards
Conflict of Interest
False Negative Reactions
False Positive Reactions
Female
Health
Health care
Health services
Humans
Mammography
Mammography - adverse effects
Mammography - economics
Mammography - standards
Mass Screening - adverse effects
Mass Screening - economics
Mass Screening - methods
Medicine
Middle Aged
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Palpation
Public health
reliability
Reproducibility of Results
Risk Factors
Safety
Screening
Selfexamination
Technology
U.S.A
United States
Women's Health
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