Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

podcast. Today the hard truth about mammograms, radiation, cancer, dense breast tissue,

and why more women are being screened with ultrasound. Megan Smith is the director of

Boobs, The War on Women's Breasts.

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before we get to the news. A little bit of going over what your documentary is about and why

it matters and then we'll get to what's happened since then. Can you give us sort of a summary

or a few bullet points? Sure so I've had three of my friends pass of breast cancer I think we all

have at this point and that was one of the impetus for doing this film. I felt like the information

of on mammograms was not being put out into the public all of it and sometimes not truthfully

they were skewing information for whatever reason and I felt that that needed to be changed and

also there's a lot of concern about mammograms in the scientific community and the medical community

about the radiation and some other things I'll go into and there's another way we could be

doing screening without radiation and that is ultrasound in conjunction with thermograms

and I can explain that later. Well it's just so interesting because all the things and I think

we spoke about this before that you raise some of them are kind of common sense and I've raised

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