Hopefully Dr. Mercola will actually effect a change and get people to start making their own choices about their health instead of listening to their doctor. I'm 54 and have never had a mammogram, and will never have one. Thermography is the ONLY option for me. Why use a tool that only tells you when you already have a tumour when you could use one that can tell you 7-10 years before the abnormality becomes cancerous? It's not rocket science.
@adwise1 First they need to stop making mammograms almost mandatory both in the US and the UK. In the UK though they are used less frequently (women over 50 rather than over 40 and once every three years instead of annually) they are carried out in the most humiliating way possible. First you are given a date, time and place and it's usually in a mobile unit in a car park. This is treating you like a child and you have to jump through hoops to avoid them or reschedule another appointment.
If women were given the choice whether to have them or not it would be interesting to see how many of them will take up the opportunity. In the UK you are not even given a front opening gown to wear for modesty. This is shameful. Women are shown on television news over breakfast having them from the back and it's never shown on television what actually happens in detail and how the breast is squashed. I only saw this in a BUPA video on You Tube in a series of animated diagrams.
To continue I live close to a major teaching hospital but did not get invited to attend there even though there is a mammography unit there but to a mobile unit in a car park further away where people passing by can see you go inside and for what reason as Breast Test Wales is plastered over the outside of the unit in large pink letters. Most people in the city where I live can easily get to this hospital as there are direct bus services there from all over the city.
Sorry malayanbob, I accidently "voted down" your comment, but there was no way that I can "unvote down".
bananachillipepper 1 year ago
Intriguing!! What Dr Mercola doesn't reveal is two things:
1)what's the cost of the thermogram relative to mammogram? The much MUCH bigger question is:
2) do US health insurance companies cover this procedure?
I'd love for my wife to take advantage of this procedure... anybody got insight on this?
malayanbob 1 year ago
Hopefully Dr. Mercola will actually effect a change and get people to start making their own choices about their health instead of listening to their doctor. I'm 54 and have never had a mammogram, and will never have one. Thermography is the ONLY option for me. Why use a tool that only tells you when you already have a tumour when you could use one that can tell you 7-10 years before the abnormality becomes cancerous? It's not rocket science.
adwise1 2 years ago
@adwise1 First they need to stop making mammograms almost mandatory both in the US and the UK. In the UK though they are used less frequently (women over 50 rather than over 40 and once every three years instead of annually) they are carried out in the most humiliating way possible. First you are given a date, time and place and it's usually in a mobile unit in a car park. This is treating you like a child and you have to jump through hoops to avoid them or reschedule another appointment.
lemsip 11 months ago
If women were given the choice whether to have them or not it would be interesting to see how many of them will take up the opportunity. In the UK you are not even given a front opening gown to wear for modesty. This is shameful. Women are shown on television news over breakfast having them from the back and it's never shown on television what actually happens in detail and how the breast is squashed. I only saw this in a BUPA video on You Tube in a series of animated diagrams.
lemsip 11 months ago
To continue I live close to a major teaching hospital but did not get invited to attend there even though there is a mammography unit there but to a mobile unit in a car park further away where people passing by can see you go inside and for what reason as Breast Test Wales is plastered over the outside of the unit in large pink letters. Most people in the city where I live can easily get to this hospital as there are direct bus services there from all over the city.
lemsip 11 months ago