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Nov 3rd 2025
Breast Cancer and Radiation
. . . Thermography is safe and more accurate than mammography
October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and women everywhere were prompted to run out and get mammograms “to prevent breast cancer.” However a December 2011 report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) warned women to avoid ionizing radiation (which mammograms expose them to) if they wanted to prevent breast cancer!
What to make of this conflicting advice? It would seem to be a no-brainer: skip the mammogram and get tested with thermography, which is completely safe and more accurate. But conventional medicine is still recommending mammograms!
Based on the IOM report, a recent article in the Weill Cornell Medical College newsletter,
Women’s Health Advisor, advises women to avoid unnecessary x-rays and CT scans. However, elsewhere in the same newsletter women are advised that getting mammograms is still worth the risk! They argue that radiation exposure from mammograms is very small compared to naturally occurring radiation. Radiation exposure is measured in millisieverts (mSv). It’s estimated that the average American is exposed to 3 mSv of naturally occurring radiation per year, whereas a mammogram will expose you to only 0.4 mSv (equal to 40 days of naturally occurring radiation).
I agree with the Physicians for Social Responsibility and many other members of the scientific community that there is no scientific proof of a safe level or radiation. So how can anyone say it’s “worth the risk” to expose yourself to harmful radiation when there is a way to test for breast cancer that poses no risk at all and is, at the same time, more accurate?
Thermography is a way of measuring the temperature of the breast and of detecting changes in temperature as a tumor begins to receive its own blood supply. A cancerous tumor will be warmer than the surrounding tissue and will stand out when the temperature of the breast is measured. Not only is thermography completely safe, it can detect breast cancer as much as ten years earlier than a mammogram. According to the National Cancer Institute, in 95% of cases, a tumor found by mammography or physical examination is already eight years old and has had ample opportunity to metastasize. Thermography can also differentiate between a cancerous tumor and a fibrocystic growth.
It behooves everyone to avoid any and all sources of radiation whenever possible, including mammograms.