Quote Originally Posted by Pedal Wench View Post
If it finds a cure to prevent the thousands of cases developed in the day that we've been having this discussion, and if that research prevents just one of the eight women having this conversation from having parts of their bodies cut away because we have no better options, then I'm buying every pink mop and yogurt top I can find.
Buy away, but beware of "pinkwashing." There are many, many companies that sell products known or suspected to cause breast cancer, that once a year donate a couple of nickels to breast cancer research. Sometimes they're the very products that they paint pink each October.

If funding prevention seems as important as funding a cure, there's the Breast Cancer Fund.

Radiation is by no means the only problem I have with screening mammography, as I noted. But if you're comparing procedures, modern digital mammograms deliver about triple the dose of a dental X-ray or 70 times the dose of a DEXA screen, directly to glandular tissue. Dental X-rays do have the potential to irradiate the brain, thyroid and parathyroid, but the beam isn't delivered directly to those organs. Each type of view exposes the patient to a different amount of radiation, depending among other things on the density and the thickness of the tissue being studied, and each type of tissue has a different level of sensitivity to radiation.


(((((((beccaB))))))) So sorry about your mom.