“If a woman follows the 10-year protocol of getting a mammogram every year or every six months she is getting as much radiation as a woman had at Hiroshima the atomic bomb if she stood a mile ...

but no knowledgeable person believes there is any lingering health risk from living in Hiroshima or Nagasaki." Today, both cities are bustling urban centers and radiation levels there are on par ...

She told us the Hiroshima claim was based on mammograms in the past, which she said would have used higher levels of radiation. We have not verified if the claim would have been accurate with older ...

Breast cancer screenings reduce deaths from breast cancer and have considerably lower radiation levels than nuclear ... as much radiation as a woman had at Hiroshima, the atomic bomb, if she ...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still represent ... “liquidators”) were subsequently exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. The Soviet government covered up the incident for some ...