Well, its breast cancer awareness month and that means we have to be bombarded with whats come to be called "Pink Washing". These are pointless ploys on social and mass media alike to raise awareness. Usually there's no obligation nor is there really any information passed. Its just a bunch of people and organizations jumping on the wagon to make themselves look better as if they're contributing to society.
We have to sift through cryptic jokes, endless adverstisements that hope to bank off of this movement, and finally misinformation regarding the disease portrayed.
Eventually you'll read, see, or hear something that sounds acutally beneficial to know. Such as, early detection and screening are key to preventing breast cancer, which is true. But then they go on to say that you need a yearly mammogram after 40 yoa or 30 if someone in your family has had breast cancer.
Its somewhat sad to say that mammograms are no good. Still considered the gold standard for screening for breast cancer, they have been proven to spread cancer if you already have it, produce cancer if you don't have it, and provide false positives to those reading the films. So, it causes cancer, spreads it, and tell you you have when you don't. Doesn't sound like something I want my wife to be subjected to yearly.
The good news is that there is a safe and more accurate alternative. Its called thermography.
Using a thermographic camera that is sensitive to body heat it can detect hot spots that could be potentially dangerous. All without smashing your breasts and putting you at risk of getting the disease that your were screening for.
Below is a local sight that can perform this safe and more accurate procedure for you.
http://alvanzasalonandspa.com/oklahoma-city-ok-metro-breast-thermography.htm
Posted on
Wed, October 5, 2011
by Adam Duncan
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