The role of mammography in causing cancer is not a scientific issue: it is a major issue on the functioning of scientific institutions.
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@HealthWatchUK @ICIJorg @thackerpd @TranspariMED @mattwridley @ASTRO_org @ianbirrell @NaomiOreskes @deb_cohen @fastlerner @KatherineEban
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There is large evidence showing that ionizing radiation creates DNA damage, the main mechanism of cancer. X-rays used in radiology are ionizing radiation.
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Last year, Archie Bleyer and I published in the New England Journal of Medicine epidemiological evidence showing that a large increase in breast cancer incidence occurred following mammography screening (Corcos & Bleyer, NEJM, 2020).
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Others have shown in unbiased studies that there is a perfect correlation between mammography screening and breast cancer incidence (Harding et al., JAMA Int. Med., 2015).
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5 years ago, I tried to publish a manuscript showing that the excess cancers which was observed after mammography screening in the UK was not related to detection but to the previous mammograms.
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This manuscript was serially rejected without valid arguments and can be seen as a preprint. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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As this is a major medical question, one would at least expect some kind of rebuttal with some counterargument as in any scientific issue.
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Instead, I was dismissed from my permanent position at the @Inserm after putting my manuscript online in BioRxiv.
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Similar problems were encountered by John Gofman when he found that «low » doses of radiations were causing a lot of cancers.
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Actually, most of the data from the scientific literature support Gofman’s results, but it is forbidden to reach this conclusion.
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Radiological examinations continue to be a leading cause of cancer and medical authorities refuse a scientific approach to the issue.
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As our data are now in the NEJM, we did not expect a cover-up with the complicity of the media.
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