Many doctors believe an annual mammogram is mandatory for women over thirty-five. However, an increasing number of doctors are refuting the claim that annual mammograms decrease women's risk of dying from breast cancer.

Dr. Peter Gotzsche, a Danish research, was the first to make this claim in a study published in "The Lancet" in October 2006. Gotzsche re-analyzed the original studies done on the benefits of mammograms and found them unconvincing.

Subsequently, other doctors have asserted that in addition to failing to offer protection, mammograms, which involve exposing women to radiation, may, in fact, increase a risk of cancer.

Dr. Michael Baum of University College in London, stated, "The latest evidence shifts the balance towards harm and away from benefits." Canadian columnist Dr. W. Gifford -Jones, wrote that women between the ages of 40 and 49 who have regular mammograms are twice as likely to die from breast cancer as women who are not screened. "Experts say you have to screen 2,000 women for 10 years for one benefit," he stated.

Gifford-Jones points to other risks, from the physical to the psychological. Many authorities believe that, squeezing women's breasts during mammograms may rupture blood vessels, causing cancer to spread to other parts of the body and thus increasing a woman’s risk of death.

Gifford-Jones pointed to the emotional trauma suffered by women who receive false positives from a mammogram, and to the dangerous sense of security engendered by those who receive false negatives.

Studies reveal that mammograms fail to detect cancer 30 percent of the time in women aged 40 to 49. Furthermore, it can take as long as eight years before a breast tumor is large enough to detect, by which time the cancer could have spread to other parts of the body.

"Mammograms actually harm far more women than they help," Mike Adams, author, "The Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D," a free report that teaches prevention strategies for breast and prostate cancer. Adams believes, "They are used more as a recruiting tool to ensnare women into a system of medical control based on false diagnosis and fear tactics. Most women then give in to chemotherapy, surgery or radiation treatments that may ultimately harm them or even kill them."

So what is one to do, since, mammograms are only 70% accurate and seldom detect cancer in an early stage?

There are other tools for cancer detection—albeit the medical and pharmaceutical industry does not want you to know.

A medical intuitive can see the emotional patterns and beliefs that affect your body. How does a medical intuitive work? Some form a mental picture of an illness by visualizing organs in the person’s body, even if this person is thousands of miles away. Many need only the name and age of a person to do a reading and recommend remedies.

Iridology also offers a highly effective detection system. Iridology is the science of analyzing the delicate structures of the iris of the eye. It reveals inflammation, where located, and in what stage it is manifesting. The iris reveals body constitution, inherent weaknesses, levels of health, and the transitions that take place in a person’s body according to the way he/she lives. The eyes have been proclaimed throughout the ages as the windows of the soul. We now acknowledge them as the mirrors of the body.

In knowing nutritional, vitamin and mineral imbalances the person can readily remedy these imbalances before an illness or disease takes root.