Image courtesy of Flickr   The only option women have had for the past 45 years to check the health of their breasts is the screening mammogram.   Our doctors or friends didn’t really explain anything about the mammogram just that it was used to find breast cancer.   As I started to investigate the mammogram I discovered that there were some inconsistencies.  I was not going to trust my chances of finding breast cancer to a technology that was inaccurate.  Here are three facts I discovered:    1) only the breast tissue that “hangs off” the chest can be seen in the mammogram film, missing the upper outer quadrants of the…