A misleading video of a chiropractor claiming that mammograms expose women to as much radiation as standing a mile away from the Hiroshima atomic bomb has resurfaced on social media. This isn’t true.
has estimated the absorbed radiation dose at 1600m from ground zero of the Hiroshima bomb at 403mSv. So it’s false to say that six monthly mammograms give a larger dose of radiation.is spread. A dose received in one go is generally considered more dangerous than the same dose spread over a longer period.In the video, Dr Desaulniers then mentions a Canadian study, claiming it “found that mammograms did not decrease breast mortality rate at all.
The study also did not show that mammograms were just as effective as self-exam. The mammograms picked up a significant number of tumours that couldn’t be felt on examination.
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