Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
The techs are behind lead shielding because they would recieve many times beyond the PEL or TLV through a day of work were the shielding not in place.

The person doing the mammogram does it repeatedly throughout the day, day after day, year after year.

As radiation damage is cumulative, they need the shielding.
Gosh LH...Think I might have said that tongue in cheek?

But...first - annual mammograms have not been around long enough to know conclusively the effects of the exposure.

And...I am not sure how many mammograms you have had (joking again! ) but earlier this year I had a "positive" mammogram. So back I went. For TWO HOURS I was pulled, pushed and repositioned. "Now put your left leg over your right ear"....etc...etc. They could not "see" anything. But I was to go back in six months. Again I did. And again I was pushed and pulled. And again they could not "see" anything.

They tell me I should go again in four months. I highly doubt I will do so. At this point I feel they are trying to prove they were right.

So in less than a year I have had over two decades of "once a year if that" exposure.

And a false positive.

And all those millirems concentrated in one part of my body - unlike what I receive enviornmentally.

I lost an aunt to breast cancer and one grandmother had breast cancer.

But I still think for myself. And decide for myself. And I don't listen to lay people who try to stir up hysteria by misreporting studies for their own political agenda.