Letter to Time Magazine

July 16, 1998

To the Editor:

Christine Gorman writes with optimism in her article "Managed Care 1998" that "more women are getting mammograms than ever before."

Her optimism may be misplaced.

In his book Preventing Breast Cancer (1996), Dr. John Gofman, M.D., professor emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at U. Cal. Berkeley and co-discoverer of protactinium-232/-233 and uranium-232/-233, concludes:

"[A]bout three-quarters of the current annual incidence of breast cancer in the United States is being caused by earlier ionizing radiation, primarily from medical sources."

Mammograms are a prime source of ionizing radiation.

How did carcinogenic radiation come to be an accepted tool in cancer diagnosis?

In 1913, Memorial Sloan-Kettering accepted huge donations from a wealthy businessman named James Douglas.

As a basic condition of his contributions, Douglas, who owned vast numbers of radium mines, insisted that Sloan-Kettering routinely use radiation in its cancer treatments.

Breast cancer is a cultural disease.

The day Christine Gorman writes, "More women than ever before are breastfeeding and adopting raw vegetable diets," then we may have cause for optimism.

Yours faithfully,

Jock Doubleday

Director

Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc.

http://www.SpontaneousCreation.org

director@spontaneouscreation.org