Women are often rushed into procedures before full analysis or support is offered, and this fear-based model erodes trust in the body’s own healing intelligence.
2. 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 (𝐄𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬)
• Women with dense breast tissue — a large percentage of younger, thinner, or hormonally active women — are up to 6x more likely to have a cancer missed by mammogram.
• On a mammogram, dense tissue and tumors both appear white, making it hard to distinguish between normal fibroglandular tissue and dangerous growths.
• Shockingly, many women are never informed of their breast density, even though this dramatically reduces the sensitivity of the test.
📌 As a result, women walk away with false reassurance — or unnecessary fear.
3. 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐬
• Mammograms often detect non-aggressive lesions like:
– DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), often labeled “stage 0”
– Small calcifications or fibrous nodules that never progress
• These may never cause harm, yet many women undergo:
– Chemotherapy
– Radiation
– Mastectomy
– Hormonal suppression therapy
• This phenomenon is called overdiagnosis — and some studies estimate that 20–40% of all mammogram-detected cancers fall into this category.
🎗️ This means many women are aggressively treated for “cancer” that might never have grown, spread, or harmed them.
4. 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞
• Each mammogram delivers a small dose of ionizing radiation — equivalent to about 2 months of natural background radiation.
• But over decades of annual screening, this accumulates — and can actually increase lifetime cancer risk, especially in younger women or those with BRCA mutations.
• Ionizing radiation is a Class 1 carcinogen, and is known to damage DNA, generate free radicals, and increase oxidative stress — especially in delicate glandular breast tissue.
📌 This cumulative radiation exposure is rarely discussed in detail by practitioners.
While mammograms focus on structural abnormalities (masses, asymmetries, distortions), they cannot detect the earlier, more subtle biological signals that often precede tumor formation.
