Breast cancer that is prevented doesn't need to be cured. Cures are expensive, prevention is free. We now know how to prevent most breast cancer! Eighty two year old John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., author of "Preventing Breast Cancer" is one of the premier scientists of all time with medical and scientific credentials that fill five pages. Gofman states in an epic 1999 (699 page) study that "Between 83 percent and 90 percent of all breast cancer can be attributed to medical radiation (X-rays). (For an executive summary see: http://www.ratical.org/radiation /CNR/RMP/. Gofman is the author of many books and more than a hundred articles in scientific peer-review journals. He will not accept a royalty or commission of any kind for his books about preventing cancer. This selfless humanitarian has done more to save lives (present and future) than anyone since Semmelweis and Lister. Gofman's research will be a very "bitter pill" for modern medicine to swallow. Without it, healing of the health care system cannot occur. Many will discount Gofman's latest work without reading it. Most doctors will concede that X-rays are harmful but challenge the numbers. Some would rather their patients not know about X-rays causing cancer. Others will continue to ignorantly repeat the "safe-dose" claim. Though The World has always crucified it's saviors, the day will come when no one will question Gofman's research (the same as no one today questions the connection between cigarettes and cancer). Criticism of Gofman's research, judges the critic, not Gofman. The above Study and his book "Preventing Breast Cancer" constitutes one of the two most important cancer discoveries of the last century (the other being the Cigarette/Cancer Connection). We cannot hope to win the war on cancer without recognizing the major cause of breast cancer which Gofman so eloquently presents. "Peventing Breast Cancer" is a must for everyone concerned with the disease.

I am a professor of radiation biology at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-University in Muenster, Germany. German Television sent me an advanced copy of this book and asked for my evaluation of it. My opinion is that this book is a new great contribution to the scientific knowledge. The book is didactively very well organized. A must for every radiologist in the world. Gofman's results are in excellent agreement with the latest findings of scientists at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima. They report in the October issue of Radiation Resaerch that in the exposed population deaths due to stroke and ischemic heart disease are significantly increased and dose related. Thus ionizing radiation is not only inducing cancer and mutations but also non malignant diseases like stroke, heart, digestive and respiratory diseases, just as Gofman's results indicate.