Dr. Klock argues mammography was never formally FDA-cleared through clinical trials and misses many cancers, especially in dense breast tissue. He says worldwide adoption hasn't happened because trials haven't shown survival benefit. Women should assess their personal risk and consider alternatives like QT scanners that have undergone clinical trials.
I want to get back to the statement that says that it's not intended to replace a mammogram. Can you just say more about that? Because that is another sticking point that is coming from the anti QT narrative.
I think people need to understand that mammography was never cleared by the FDA in the formal sense, that it went through a trial or it went through a testing period. My personal opinion is it would not be clear cleared for use today based upon the fact that it misses so many cancers, especially in dense breast. So I think people need to understand that it's being. What you're doing here is being compared to something that was never put through a clinical trial in the sense that other things like QT scanner were put through a clinical trial. Yes. Number two, I think that the FDA recognizes that mammography is a standard, community standard. There are a lot of countries that don't do mammography. Why don't they do mammography? Because the clinical trials and their interpretation don't alter survival. Now, I'm not saying that breast cancer shouldn't be diagnosed and treated. Of course it should be. That's how we get the high survival rates. Right. But I think that it's important for people to understand that mammography is not universally worldwide accepted as a community standard. It's accepted here. You know, it is what doctors say. It's what doctors think. But I think a woman has the right and the hopefully knows how to find out what mammography actually does, what the statistics actually shows. Again, that's part of what my recommendation is women should be doing, is they should be trying to figure out, what do I need for me, what is my risk, what is my family history, what is my environmental risk. As you know, in your book, you talked about a lot of the environmental factors that affect the development of breast cancer. Women need to know that.
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And if they're doing things in their lives that are increasing their risk of breast cancer, that's something they should also be absolutely.
