anecdotal from this week, i didn't go to jail...BUT, arrived for my annual mamo screening, and was given a mask, and ordered to wear...looking around, i saw that everyone had mask on...so i caved and put on the face diaper (on my upper lip to chin, not nose) cuz i thought it not worth risking my personal health at this exact moment if i were to cancel appt and hafta wait months for someplace else...30min in a mask no big deal, however have already changed my mamo service for next yr...insanity remains in the medical community...good news, mamo results clear!
You should have skipped the mask and cancelled the mammogram.
This was a Consumer Reports article from 2015-
Can radiation from mammograms cause cancer?
Radiation from CT scans, X-rays, and even mammograms can increase the risk of breast cancer
What do you think is more likely to cause breast cancer: chemicals such as BPA, phthalates, and pesticides or imaging tests such as X-rays and CT scans? The surprising answer: the imaging tests, particularly CT scans but also X-rays and even the mammograms used to detect breast cancer. The Institute of Medicine, the nonprofit health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, reviewed possible causes of breast cancer in 2012 and found that no product or chemical could be conclusively linked to the malignancy. Not so for radiation-based imaging tests. The report, "Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach," concluded that about 2,800 breast-cancer cases a year among U.S. women stem from medical radiation.
thanks for your reply...will give it consideration and more research, from here on out...when obamacare started saying older women didn't need annual mamo's, my antennae went up, not trusting THAT to be beneficial for women, if in obamacare...
anecdotal from this week, i didn't go to jail...BUT, arrived for my annual mamo screening, and was given a mask, and ordered to wear...looking around, i saw that everyone had mask on...so i caved and put on the face diaper (on my upper lip to chin, not nose) cuz i thought it not worth risking my personal health at this exact moment if i were to cancel appt and hafta wait months for someplace else...30min in a mask no big deal, however have already changed my mamo service for next yr...insanity remains in the medical community...good news, mamo results clear!
You should have skipped the mask and cancelled the mammogram.
This was a Consumer Reports article from 2015-
Can radiation from mammograms cause cancer?
Radiation from CT scans, X-rays, and even mammograms can increase the risk of breast cancer
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/02/can-mammograms-cause-cancer/index.htm
Archived link - https://archive.ph/GmTu0
thanks for your reply...will give it consideration and more research, from here on out...when obamacare started saying older women didn't need annual mamo's, my antennae went up, not trusting THAT to be beneficial for women, if in obamacare...