Mammograms

Aajonus understood cancer as the body's inability to dissolve dead cells and remove them from the body. When cells die and the lymphatic system, liver, and other eliminative systems cannot break them down and discharge them, the body collects those dead cells into tumors. If cancer cells are present, they are specialty cells containing a solvent fluid that dissolves the surrounding mass of dead cells; they are not the disease itself but part of the body's attempt to resolve the accumulated damage. Any exposure that adds to the burden of dead, damaged, or hardened cells works against the body's capacity to resolve this accumulation.

Radiation, including the radiation delivered by mammographic x-ray equipment, damages cells. In Aajonus's framework, this means mammograms contribute directly to the pile of dead and damaged cellular material the body then has to manage. Repeated mammograms over years compound this effect. Rather than catching cancer early in a way that saves the patient, the procedure adds to the cellular debris that creates the conditions for cancer to develop in the first place.

Rather than mammographic screening, Aajonus recommended gentle manual palpation of the breast and armpits as the appropriate method for checking breast tissue. His exact guidance on this was stated in the newsletter material: "If you want to check, gently palpate breast and armpits."

He explained the rationale for this alternative by grounding it in his understanding of lymphatic function. The lymphatic glands concentrated in the breast area, the armpits, and the surrounding torso are doing their normal job when they are swollen. They are collecting toxins, neutralizing them, and working to dissolve dead cellular material. Swollen glands in the breast area are not, in his framework, a sign of cancer requiring intervention. They are a sign that the lymphatic system is actively working. When a woman finds lumps in her breast, his counsel was not alarm but recognition that the lymph glands are doing exactly what they are supposed to do in a toxic environment.

The critical diagnostic distinction he made was hardness. A swollen lymph gland, even a large one, is not cancerous. The only indicator of actual lymphatic cancer, in his framework, is a lump that is hard as rock, not rubber-hard, not firm, but rock-hard. Out of what he described as approximately 99 out of 100 lymphectomies he had observed, the glands being removed were not cancerous. They were swollen and doing their job. The women undergoing those procedures were being subjected to unnecessary and harmful surgery based on findings that would have been visible on mammograms or biopsies but that did not represent actual cancer of the lymph or breast tissue.

Aajonus stated that 85 percent of the breast cancer cases sent to him never actually had breast cancer. The lymph glands in the breast area are responsible for eliminating waste and dissolving dead cells throughout the torso, particularly from the lungs. Because they are constantly doing this work, they will always contain cancer cells to some degree. Cancer cells are present wherever the body is dissolving dead tissue; finding them in lymph glands is expected and normal. The medical profession's threshold of 50 cancer cells per million cells as the point of diagnosable, treatable cancer was, in his view, an absurdly low threshold that guaranteed vast numbers of false positives and unnecessary treatment.

Mammograms make this misinterpretation easier by generating images that can show any density variation in breast tissue, including swollen but functional lymph glands, as suspicious findings warranting biopsy and then surgical intervention. The chain from mammogram to biopsy to lymphectomy or mastectomy proceeds with each step appearing medically justified, while in his view each step was based on a fundamental misreading of what the body is doing and why.

The danger he emphasized most strongly was not the radiation from the mammogram itself, though that was real, but the cascade of interventions that follow from mammographic findings. When glands are removed from the breast and armpit area, the lymphatic network that cleans the lungs, the heart tissue, and the surrounding torso loses a critical portion of its capacity. There are 11 lymph glands in each breast and approximately 20 or more in each armpit. Those glands are the primary lymphatic network responsible for processing toxins that enter the lungs from air pollution, industrial chemicals, and other environmental exposures. Removing them does not protect the woman from cancer; it removes the very infrastructure that was protecting her from cancer developing in the deeper tissues of the lungs and surrounding areas.

He described seeing this outcome repeatedly. Women who had lymphectomies or mastectomies based on mammographic findings later developed lung cancer, underarm cancer where the tissue hardens and immobilizes the arm entirely, or cancer elsewhere in the torso where the dead cells had nowhere to go after the lymphatic system was surgically dismantled. He stated he would far rather have breast cancer than lung cancer, because breast cancer with intact lymphatic function can be addressed nutritionally, while lung cancer leaves the patient unable to breathe as dead cells accumulate in tissue that has no functional lymphatic support remaining.

Aajonus cited two specific sources when addressing the cancer-promoting nature of mammograms. The first was the research of Dr. Hardin Jones at the University of California, Berkeley. The second was "The Healing of Cancer" by Barry Lynes. He offered these not as starting points for further investigation but as established documentation of what he considered an already-proven fact.