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With a heavy heart, we share the news of Dr. John McDougall’s passing. A visionary physician and author, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, mentor and friend, Dr. McDougall died peacefully at his home on Saturday, June 22nd, at the age of 77.
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Dr. H. Gilbert Welch Publishes Large Study Showing Mammography Does More Harm Than Good

Updated October 17, 2016

Please watch his compelling YouTube Video explaining his recent findings.

NEJM Screening Mammograms II

H. Glibert Welch, MD – Publishes large study showing mammography does more harm than good in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Welch has been a very popular speaker at the McDougall Advanced Study Weekends. (Not just once, but twice).

The treatment benefits that Dr. Welch notes on several occasions in his video, causing a breast cancer mortality decline by about a third since 1990, are largely (if not exclusively) due to the reduction of the cancer promoting affects of hormones produced by the ovaries. This is accomplished in 3 ways: 1) The ovaries are surgically removed 2) The effects of the ovary’s hormones are blocked by medications (tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors) 3) By chemically castrating a woman with commonly prescribed chemotherapy. Surgery and/or radiation have little to no benefit on breast cancer survival. October is breast cancer “awareness” or “industry” month. You will find the research I published on this subject in a chapter in my “McDougall’s Medicine” book.

John McDougall, MD

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