Preventing Breast Cancer The Story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease

This book, for women & their physicians, is not about early detection of breast-cancer. It is about PREVENTION. Dr. Gofman shows that past exposure to ionizing radiation---primarily medical X-rays---is responsible for about 75 percent of breast-cancer cases (USA). Learning that the major cause of a disease is PREVENTABLE represents an enormous step toward controlling the number of future cases. The task is NOT to reject medical uses of radiation, which are often very beneficial. The task is to obtain those benefits with vastly less harm. Radiation levels from mammography have been reduced by 30-fold since 1970. "It would be criminal not to make the SAME serious effort to reduce doses in other radiation procedures, including fluoroscopy" says Gofman, a world renowned physician & researcher. "Instead of just wringing our hands over the breast-cancer problem, its time to USE the knowledge that X-rays are a major, proven, preventable cause of this disease. Incubation times vary. Cases to be diagnosed 10 to 50 years from today, are being generated NOW. Every action which reduces unnecessary breast-irradiation, at any age, is GUARANTEED to prevent a share of future breast-cancers which would otherwise occur."Gofman, John W. is the author of 'Preventing Breast Cancer The Story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease' with ISBN 9780932682949 and ISBN 0932682944.