Breast Cancer Detected in Swedish Mammography Screening

By Diane Silverman | November 20, 2014 |

November 20, 2014 The natural history of screen-detected breast cancers is not well understood.  In this Swedish study, women aged 40-49 years were screened every year and women aged 50-74 were screened every 2 years.  All women were followed up after 6 years as well as the control group who went 4 years without screening.…

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Mammograms Enhance Cancer Transformation

By Diane Silverman | November 18, 2014 |

November 18, 2014 The Gamma rays from Hiroshima and Nagasaki are considered to have biological efficiencies equal to those of other low-LET radiations including mammogram X-rays.  Both the data available in the literature and the results of this study strongly suggest and increase in the carcinogenesis in animals, neoplastic cell transformation with decreasing photon energy…

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