Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If it seems surprising to you that the American Cancer Society -- which claims to be against cancer -- would dissuade people from taking supplements that slash their cancer risk by 77 percent, then you don't know much about the acs. In my opinion, the acs is an organization that actually prevents prevention and openly supports the continuation of cancer as a way to boost its power and profits. The acs is the wealthiest non-profit in America and has very close ties to pharmaceutical companies, mammography equipment companies and other corporations that profit from cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The acs gives the extent and statistics of the experimental drug trials, based on its own records, and contracts the Vera Institute of Justice to conduct "an independent review of acs policy and practice regarding the enrollment of HIV-positive children in foster care in clinical drug trials during the late 1980s and 1990s" (New York City acs). |
| AIDS drug trials, but says that the last trial took place in 2001 and thus the trials are not continuing, as BBC reporter Jamie Doran claims. The acs gives the extent and statistics of the experimental drug trials, based on its own records, and contracts the Vera Institute of Justice to conduct "an independent review of acs policy and practice regarding the enrollment of HIV-positive children in foster care in clinical drug trials during the late 1980s and 1990s" (New York City acs). |
Bill Sardi
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 The acs says mortality rates (in 1998-99) were the lowest since 1950 in white men, and the lowest since 1969 (when those rates were first recorded) in black men. [ACS March 31, 2003]
Since there is no effective treatment that prolongs life, just how could the American Cancer Society have come to the conclusion that the PSA test prolongs survival? Experts agree there has been no significant drop in prostate cancer mortality rates for decades. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Michael Thun, head of epidemiology at acs, questioning the science on phthalates. "There are real uncertainties about animal studies," Thun said.24 However, expert panels at the US National Toxicology Program have said the animal studies on phthalates are likely to predict human reproductive health effects.25
ACS also dismissed a report by the California EPA, based on an exhaustive analysis of two decades of research, that second-hand smoke is linked to premenopausalbreast cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In my opinion, the acs is an organization that actually prevents prevention and openly supports the continuation of cancer as a way to boost its power and profits. The acs is the wealthiest non-profit in America and has very close ties to pharmaceutical companies, mammography equipment companies and other corporations that profit from cancer. Notice the name, too: It isn't the American Anti-Cancer Society, it's the American Cancer Society! What they really stand for is right in the name! |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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Cappugi P, Zippi P, Isolani D et al. Topical capsaicin as useful therapy in the treatment of chilblains. Pain Clinic; 8(4):347-351. |
Dan Buettner
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 As we now would expect, the subsequent data (collected from 1958-1966) revealed that Adventists contracted lung cancer at a rate of only 21 percent of that of the original acs group. But what caught even early anti-smoking advocates offguard was that the Adventists also had a much lower incidence of other cancers, as well as less heart disease and diabetes. Even when compared to nonsmokers in the original acs group, the Adventists produced generally healthier outcomes.
The results were intriguing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, the acs recently restructured its own priorities to focus more on screening and treatment, and less on cancer prevention.
What's missing from the risk factors list?
Hilariously, the acs now says there are only four major modifiable risk factors that impact your risk of breast cancer. They are:
Weight
Alcohol use
Smoking
Exercise
Where is vitamin D on the list? It remains suspiciously absent.
Strange, don't you think? |
Dan Buettner
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| Because the overwhelming majority of Adventists were nonsmokers, they provided an ideal control group, and they were promptly folded into the acs study.
As we now would expect, the subsequent data (collected from 1958-1966) revealed that Adventists contracted lung cancer at a rate of only 21 percent of that of the original acs group. But what caught even early anti-smoking advocates offguard was that the Adventists also had a much lower incidence of other cancers, as well as less heart disease and diabetes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| American Cancer Society opposes vitamin D
This research on vitamin D is such good news that the American Cancer Society, of course, had to say something against it. An acs spokesperson, Marji McCullough, strategic director of nutritional epidemiology for the American Cancer Society, flatly stated that nobody should take supplements to prevent cancer.
If it seems surprising to you that the American Cancer Society -- which claims to be against cancer -- would dissuade people from taking supplements that slash their cancer risk by 77 percent, then you don't know much about the acs. |
Bill Sardi
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| The acs says: "The use of sunscreen on a daily basis is a good practice for reducing skin cancer risk. The problem with it is that it can sometimes give a false sense of security. Sunscreen needs to be reapplied, and even then it still only confers a certain amount of protection."
Yet, when researchers scrutinized the issue of whether sunscreen use prevents skin cancer, they found that there is no association between sunscreen use and the development of malignant melanoma, the most feared form of skin cancer. |
| According to the ACS:
This misconception may be based in part on a misunderstanding of positron emission tomography (PET) scans. Doctors use PET scans to help determine the location of a tumor and see if it has spread.
During a PET scan, your doctor injects a small amount of radioactive tracer — typically a form of glucose — into your body. All tissues in your body absorb some of this tracer. But tissues that are using more energy — exhibiting increased metabolic activity — absorb greater amounts.
Tumors are often more metabolically active than healthy tissues. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Children's home employees are unaware that they are giving the HIV-infected children experimental drugs, rather than standard AIDS treatments (New York City acs, Doran).
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The United States sends 1.7 million members of the armed forces, 22 percent of whom are African-American, to the Persian Gulf for the Gulf War ("Desert Storm"). |
Bill Sardi
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| The acs goes on to say: "Your doctor and the FDA, which must approve new drugs before they can be marketed, are your allies. As such, they make your safety a high priority." However, recent revelations show the FDA approved relatively unsafe drugs (Vioxx COX-2 inhibitor) and at least five other drugs and continues to do little to remove these drugs from the marketplace.
Public Citizen, the Ralph Nader group, indicates 1 81 FDA-approved drugs should be recalled because they are not as safe as other drugs or are ineffective. An FDA drug reviewer, Dr. |
Devra Davis
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 Finally the acs and NCI had a champion who spoke the four-letter word that few had dared to utter: cure. Sometimes personal enthusiasms, even for scientists, are hard to hold in check. Haunted by what had happened to his young wife, Strax became an ardent advocate for mammography He believed it had to work. He likened the failure to get a mammogram to walking into a busy street without looking both ways. A woman who ignored the risk of breast cancer faced disaster. |
| Women had always been enthusiastic supporters of the acs. As cervical cancer rates were dropping, breast cancer was growing in importance. Here was a chance to do something about it. If screening worked for cervical cancer, and did so for women at all ages, why should mammography be any different?
Economists were not widely engaged in such matters at the time. They ask questions such as, "Are the costs of using this procedure on women of certain ages in line with the benefits?" Costs are the simple part. Benefits are harder to measure. |
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| The ultra-wealthy acs non-profit, with all its ties to pharmaceutical companies and mammography machine manufacturers, still refuses to openly urge women to prevent breast cancer by getting more vitamin D through nutritional supplements or sensible sunlight exposure. In fact, the organization continues to warn people away from sunlight, actually contributing to the mass vitamin D deficiency that's now rampant in western nations (including the U.S., Canada and the U.K.).
Vitamin D deficiency greatly reduces the body's ability to halt the growth of cancer tumors. |
Devra Davis
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| A relatively recent report based on information provided to the stalwart volunteers of the acs has shown that the chance of getting lung cancer, a disease that can take decades to develop, is greatest for those who have lived in places with the dirtiest air in the United States.2 Of a half million volunteers sampled in recent years, those who lived in cities with the highest levels of air pollution had about 30 percent more lung cancer. Similar work has been done in Sweden, England, and more than twenty other nations. |
| When he signed the National Cancer Act officially launching the war on cancer in 1971, President Nixon was riding a public ground-swell that it had taken the acs over twenty-five years to build. He was also trying to head off his political rival, Sen. Edward Kennedy, who was viewed as a champion of medical research. The president would lead a war everybody could love, a popular war that would divert the public from the one America was then losing in Southeast Asia. Nixon had been well briefed by scientists and leaders of the American Cancer Society. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 I commented that this charge was well-based, particularly in view of the heavy acs promotion of chemoprevention of breast cancer in healthy women with the highly profitable cancer drug Tamoxifen, manufactured by Zeneca with whom the acs has a close and long-standing relationship; at best, Tamoxifen is arguably effective, besides being responsible for serious lethal complications, including undisclosed risks of liver cancer.
Of interest was the absence of questions regarding my charging Monsanto with "white collar crime" with regard to its policies and practices in promoting the use of rBGH. |
| Dairy Coalition stated that they "kept in close contact with the acs whose experts have already been briefed—to help them prepare for questions from reporters. The information we gave them was distributed to their offices around the country."
¦ February, 1997: Dr. C. W. Heath, Telephone Conversation with Jane Akre. I wrote information statements for the acs. Any claim of support by Monsanto is an exaggeration. We just felt there was no substance to the claims of cancer. We do not endorse products! We felt the idea that growth factors may play some role in cancer promotion is tenuous. |
| I commented that this charge was well-based, particularly in view of the heavy acs promotion of chemoprevention of breast cancer in healthy women with the highly profitable cancer drug Tamoxifen, manufactured by Zeneca with whom the acs has a close and long-standing relationship; at best, Tamoxifen is arguably effective, besides being responsible for serious lethal complications, including undisclosed risks of liver cancer.
Of interest was the absence of questions regarding my charging Monsanto with "white collar crime" with regard to its policies and practices in promoting the use of rBGH. |
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| An estimated one in six men will receive a prostate cancer diagnosis in his lifetime, and more than 30,000 Americans die of the disease each year.
The acs now recommends an annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test as well as a digital rectal exam (DRE) for healthy men older than 50. The organization advises that men at higher risk—such as African-Americans and patients who have a history of prostate cancer in their family—begin such testing at age 45. |
| In the acs survey, 41% of the respondents said they believe that cancer spreads through the body during surgery.
In reality, the risk of cancer spreading during surgery is close to zero. This myth probably started in the days before early detection. It was common for doctors to find advanced cancers during surgery—even in patients who may have had only mild symptoms. Patients and their families concluded that the surgery itself made the disease worse.
Some cancers in the abdomen or ovaries produce large amounts of malignant fluid. |
| More than one-third of the respondents in the acs survey thought that injuries such as a bruised breast or a hard fall could cause cancer later in life.
These types of injuries don't cause cancer. What may happen is that people hurt a part of the body, see a doctor about the injury and then learn that they have a tumor—but the tumor was already there. The injury just triggered the discovery.
Only a few cancers are caused by certain types of injuries. A serious sunburn during childhood, for example, increases the risk of skin cancer later in life. |
Devra Davis
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| Holleb, a senior acs official, ardently believed in what they were doing. This would not be the last time fervent beliefs got in the way of scientific research. The campaign for mammography became wrapped in military metaphors that resonated with a public already wearied of the failed conflict in Southeast Asia.
Holleb urged putting this life-saving technology into broad operation as soon as possible.
"No longer can we ask the people of this country to tolerate a loss of life from breast cancer each year equal to the loss of life in the past ten years in Viet Nam. |
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