Thread by @daniel_corcos

We need help! Radiation from medical exams may be a major cause of cancer.
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In 2016 I've discovered while working at the @Inserm (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) that mammography screening is a major cause of breast cancer, due to X-ray induced-radiation. I was harassed by the INSERM and lost my permanent position in 2018
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I received support from Archie Bleyer, Professor Emeritus at OHSU, and we could publish in the New England of Medicine some data on the consequences of nationwide mammography screening in France and in the USA (Corcos & Bleyer, NEJM, 2020).
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We now have large evidence that mammography screening is a major cause of breast cancer in developed countries and that the risks of medical X-rays have been minimized.
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We have evidence that the cover-up of the risk of medical radiation is based on denial and harassment rather than scientific arguments.

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In addition, the domain of mammography screening is already a battle field between two camps, each one rejecting evidence coming from the other. bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
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The solution provided by radiation-induced cancers has not been understood as a mean to put an end to this debate, because each camp has its own interest in keeping its position, and we have suffered many rejections from partial reviewers for specious reasons.
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We wouldn’t like to be in the same situation as Ignaz Semmelweis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelwei…
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What we would need is to gather epidemiologists from different fields to co-author a manuscript that we intend to submit to a major (preferably science than medicine) journal in order to alert the people of the risks of mammography screening.
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The manuscript will be available upon request.
More information on this work can be find here:
John Gofman's work:
ratical.org/radiation/CNR/…
ratical.org/radiation/CNR/…
ratical.org/radiation/inet…
Mammography:
researchgate.net/project/A-mamm…
linkedin.com/pulse/maintain…
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