It’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month making this episode highly relevant and enormously essential. Today, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. After losing her husband to cancer, filmmaker and investigative journalist, Megan S. Smith, suddenly lost three friends to breast cancer and began asking questions. In her newly released documentary, bOObs: The War on Women’s Breasts, Megan questions the controversy surrounding the most widely used breast cancer screening tool today, mammography.

No stranger to controversial topics, Megan interviews doctors who disclose how mammography can affect the lives of women through over-diagnoses, radiation-induced cancer, trauma-generated metastases, and unnecessary treatments such as chemo, radiation, and mastectomies — and how and why safer screening tests of thermography and ultrasound are being kept from wider use.

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