I will never get a mammogram or a colonoscopy again.
Not because I don’t care about prevention. Because crushing breast tissue under massive pressure, forcing a scope through the colon, or sticking a needle into a mass is not prevention—it’s provocation.
A tumor is often the body’s way of containing what it cannot safely eliminate. When you smash, cut, or biopsy that containment, you can rupture it. Bacteria, debris, or cancer cells get driven into surrounding tissue. Lymph nodes that were already overloaded get disturbed. Then the next scan looks “worse,” and everyone acts shocked.
Why do we still treat these invasive procedures as the gold standard when they can create the very problems they claim to catch early?