Thursday October 22, 2009, 9:56 am
I am a bit skeptical as they can promote cancer where given to excessively, and they do not always spot the problems.. other forms of detection should be implemented

Thursday October 22, 2009, 10:00 am
Thank you, and good point, Chaz...I hope that newer tests can result with reduced or no radiation, like ultrasound, etc.

Thursday October 22, 2009, 10:25 am
Very true, ladies, but don't put yourself at risk waiting for the newer and better testing methods. The bigger problem with the current testing isn't the test themselves but rather how they proceed once detection is made and it is for that reason better testing methods are need; so they will have a better understanding of how to proceed.

Thursday October 22, 2009, 11:30 am
A better way to prevent breast cancer than having your breasts put in a metal vise and shot through with radiation is to make sure you get enough iodine. Lack of iodine is also implicated in prostate cancer and fibrocystic breast disease.
If you live where there is fluorine in the water supply, you are at greater risk because fluorine substitutes for iodine in the thyroid gland.

Research suggests that some breast cancers may be an
iodine deficiency disease.

As iodine consumption has gone down, breast cancer rates have gone up. But
the research goes far deeper, exploring the effects of iodine supplementation on
breast disease and breast cancer. This important breakthrough has been in the
research pipeline for years but only recently found momentum. After sifting
through 50 years of iodine research and corresponding with researchers around
the world, the editors report that abnormal iodine metabolism, due either to
bromide dominance in the environment or a dietary deficiency of iodine, must be
addressed as part of a preventive and or a therapeutic strategy.

Iodine Deficiency Growing Worse

* Iodine consumption by Americans has dropped 50% since the 1970s as breast
cancer rates have risen (1). In the US Goiter Belt, where iodine in the soil is

lower, breast cancer is higher (2).


* By contrast, the incidence and severity of breast cancer are less in Japan than

in Europe and the US, attributable to the diet (3). Japanese women consume 25
times more dietary iodine than North American women and have lower breast
cancer rates (4).

* Meanwhile, since the 1970s, in the US and several other countries, iodine-
blocking bromides have been added to flour, some sodas, and medications,
exacerbating the iodine deficiency.


* Fluoridated drinking water also depletes iodine absorption. Thus, as women

consume less iodine and excrete more due to toxic elements, our risk for breast
cancer grows(5).

Iodine and Benign Breast Disease

* Blocking iodine in rats' food supply led to progressive human-like fibrocystic

disease (atypia, sclerosing, calcifications, dysplastic changes) as the rats aged
(6). Supplementing patients with fibrocystic disease with iodine helped to resolve
fibrosis and reduced breast size (7).

* For women with painful breasts accompanying fibrocystic disease, iodine

improved symptoms in more than 50% of the women who took 6.0 mg. of iodine for
6 months (8), and brown sea alga improved pain and nodularity in 94% of the
women (9). From the editors' observations of the Iodine Investigation Project
participants, depending on the kind of iodine agent used, painful breast
symptoms have resolved in from 24 hours to two months.

* Since benign breast disease increases the risk of breast cancer (10), and iodine
improves fibrocystic disease, we at Breast Cancer Choices propose studies to
see if iodine supplementation decreases the risk of getting breast cancer and
the risk of recurrence.
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http://www.breastcancerchoices.org/iodine.html