I do not know it
the claim of millions is accurate, surely not, but the bombshell is that
attempts to treat early have led to over diagnosis and an increase in induced
cancers. This teeter totter is then an
awfully bad idea.
What we get here
though is a superior understanding of the biological role of cancer and a
strong hint to focus on improved nutrition which is a pandemic to start with
and a prime driver of obesity as nutrition deficiency drives food hunger.
You get my point.
Millions Falsely
Treated for Cancer says National Cancer Institute Report
(Health Secrets) A significant number of people who
have undergone treatment for cancer over the past several decades may not have
ever actually had the disease, admits a new report commissioned by the U.S.
National Cancer Institute (NCI). Published online in the Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA), this
government study identifies both over diagnosis and misdiagnosis of cancer as
two major causes of the growing cancer epidemic. These two together
have led to millions being falsely treated for cancer with surgery, radiation
and chemotherapy, who in reality had no such cancer.
The report drops a few major bombshells on the way
that many cancers are diagnosed. For example, breast cancer, is sometimes not
breast cancer at all but rather a benign condition such as ductal carcinoma in
situ (DCIS). However, untold millions of women with DCIS have been misdiagnosed
as having breast cancer, and subsequently treated for a condition that likely
never would have caused them any health problems. And similarly in men,
high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN), a type of premalignant
precursor to cancer, is commonly mistreated as if it were actual cancer.
“The practice of oncology in the United States is in
need of a host of reforms and initiatives to mitigate the problem of
overdiagnosis and overtreatment of cancer, according to a working group
sanctioned by the National Cancer Institute,”
explains Medscape.com about the study. “Perhaps most dramatically,
the group says that a number of premalignant conditions, including ductal
carcinoma in situ and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, should no
longer be called ‘cancer’.”
Conventional cancer treatments once again shown to
be a leading cause of cancer
These are shocking admissions, considering that NCI
is a government-funded agency that tends to favor the conventional cancer
diagnosis and treatment model, even though it has been shown to be a failure. But
even worse is the inference that untold millions of healthy people have been
treated with poison and radiation for conditions they never even had, which
likely caused many of them to develop real cancer and even die as a result.
As it turns out, the entire concept of “early
diagnosis” itself is fundamentally flawed, since many of the methods used to
diagnose fail to differentiate between benign and malignant cancer cells. This
means that many people who are falsely diagnosed with cancer will end up
developing cancer anyway, as a result of getting treatment for cancers they did
not have, a phenomenon that proves the absurdity of the entire model.
“Even in the case of finding the tumor early enough
to contain it through surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation, it is well-known
that the minority subpopulation of cancer stem cells within these tumors will
be enriched and therefore made more malignant through conventional treatment,”
explains Sayer Ji for GreenMedInfo.com.
“For instance, radiotherapy radiation wavelengths
were only recently found by UCLA Jonnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
researchers to transform breast cancer cells into highly malignant cancer stem-cell like
cells, with 30 times higher malignancy post-treatment.”
Cancer is really the body’s attempt to survive, not
an outside attack
In Ji’s view, the underlying issue is that the
conventional cancer model erroneously views cancer as some kind of outside
attack on the body that must be aggressively fought with rigorous treatment,
rather than the survival mechanism that it actually is. When the body is
perpetually deficient in nutrients, for instance, or when it becomes
overburdened by radiation, carcinogens and other toxins from the environment
and food, cancer can develop as a response to this harmful onslaught.
“Our entire world view of cancer needs to shift from
an enemy that ‘attacks’ us and that we must wage war against, to something
our body does, presumably to survive an increasingly inhospitable,
nutrient-deprived, carcinogen- and radiation-saturated environment,” adds Ji.
Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment in Cancer An Opportunity for Improvement
Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA1; Ian M. Thompson, Jr,
MD2; Brian Reid, MD, PhD3
Over the past 30 years, awareness and screening have
led to an emphasis on early diagnosis of cancer. Although the goals of these
efforts were to reduce the rate of late-stage disease and decrease cancer
mortality, secular trends and clinical trials suggest that these goals have
not been met; national data demonstrate significant increases in early-stage
disease, without a proportional decline in later-stage disease. What has
emerged has been an appreciation of the complexity of the pathologic condition
called cancer. The word “cancer” often invokes the specter of an inexorably
lethal process; however, cancers are heterogeneous and can follow multiple
paths, not all of which progress to metastases and death, and include indolent
disease that causes no harm during the patient’s lifetime. Better biology alone
can explain better outcomes. Although this complexity complicates the goal of
early diagnosis, its recognition provides an opportunity to adapt cancer
screening with a focus on identifying and treating those conditions most likely
associated with morbidity and mortality.
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