Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The cancer industry tries to promote this "recruiting & profit-taking" propaganda through lies like, "Early detection saves lives." Oh really? Actually, early detection generates more profits, since 9 out of 10 "early detection" positives are, in fact, completely bogus. The cancer detection technology today is so incredibly advanced that it can even detect cancers that aren't there! (And then the patient is urged to undergo chemotherapy "just in case.")
Prevention is the only real solution
The only way out of this cancer madness is through prevention. As Dr. |
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| If screening using the PSA test (followed by other tests, such as biopsy, when indicated) catches most cancers—and early detection is generally desirable—why do many experts question whether men should have the PSA test?
The answer is not simple. Most prostate tumors grow very slowly—if at all—and are best left alone because they are unlikely to lead to death. Other prostate cancers need aggressive treatment to keep them from spreading. In these cases, early detection can mean the difference between life and death.
How can you tell the difference? You can't with certainty. |
Stacy Malkan
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 They've also got control over the public message of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which focuses on early detection — in other words, find out if you've already got the disease. "The awareness is about getting your mammograms and getting pills," said Brenda Salgado. "It focuses all our attention on 'early detection' and 'cure,' which is important for women who currently have cancer, but it keeps us from the equally important effort of preventing women from getting the disease in the first place. It also avoids the critical questions the breast cancer epidemic raises. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Actually, early detection generates more profits, since 9 out of 10 "early detection" positives are, in fact, completely bogus. The cancer detection technology today is so incredibly advanced that it can even detect cancers that aren't there! (And then the patient is urged to undergo chemotherapy "just in case.")
Prevention is the only real solution
The only way out of this cancer madness is through prevention. As Dr. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The media cited early detection to be a major cause for the lower mortality rates. In a sense, they are actually right about this, but for the wrong reasons. early detection has not been shown to change overall mortality rates from cancer. Earlier diagnosis following screening merely starts the survival clock earlier. In other words, a patient can still die at the same time but appear to have lived longer.
For example, two women at age 45 develop the same type of breast cancer. The tumor size is exactly the same—small and just about detectable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Actually, early detection generates more profits, since 9 out of 10 "early detection" positives are, in fact, completely bogus. The cancer detection technology today is so incredibly advanced that it can even detect cancers that aren't there! (And then the patient is urged to undergo chemotherapy "just in case.")
Prevention is the only real solution
The only way out of this cancer madness is through prevention. As Dr. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The net result of this number game is that, with early detection of cancers, mortality rates seem to go down, although the exact opposite is true. More and more people develop cancer each day, and this trend remains unchanged.
The cancer industry uses early detection methods as a way to "extend" the number of years of cancer survival after treatment to beyond the crucial 5-year benchmark and thereby "lower" mortality rates and "increase" the number of survivors. As a result, orthodox cancer therapy is now being heralded as bringing about the medical "breakthrough" we all have been waiting for. |
Devra Davis
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 Or, she may be constantly on her guard, aware that she may be affected, but with the assurance that early detection may save her life. Which course should you follow?"4
Some four decades after the start of the American Society for Cancer Control, leaders in cancer research were ecstatic. They felt sure they finally had a technology that could deliver on the old promise that finding cancer early saves lives. The mammography demonstration project was massive and without precedent: more than a quarter million women between thirty-five and seventy-four would be provided mammograms every year. |
| The laboratory lacked early detection alarm systems and/or continuous personal monitoring to find leaks in their earliest stage.
Yelena had never worked with ethylene oxide before. A single parent with a family to support, she did what she was told. Eventually, she learned the state of California, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the World Health Organization all consider ethylene oxide carcinogenic in humans. Unlike some things that have only been shown to induce cancer in animals, ethylene oxide is considered proven to do so in humans. |
| The suggestion that early detection could prevent deaths provided a radical and hopeful solution for a problem that had come to be fatalistically accepted. If women could be mobilized against this devastating disease, the world would be better off.
Under Little's direction, the ASCC set aside $100,000 to forge a new entity for women only in the struggle against cancer—the Women's Field Army. Illig became its national commander. |
| Folks began to believe the claim that early detection was the key to treating the disease, but such claims raised serious questions. Why were cancer rates increasing when more people were seeing their doctors sooner? Why was so little real progress being made against finding and treating the disease? Why were more and more women dying of cervical cancer? Significant numbers were beginning to question what "cancer control" really meant.
Little was nothing if not confident. |
| Based on this pilot study, a government program for the early detection of cervical cancer was established in British Columbia in 1949. The soaring cancer rates were stabilized and within three decades had dropped by a third.
British physicians, meanwhile, sided with the American medical establishment throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In the suppressed history he completed in 1977, Lester Breslow wrote,
The British just did not believe that Pap smears could be carried out by having non-physicians examine cells from the cervix. |
Marshall Editions
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 Stretch your fingers and press your palms together. early detection and treatment is essential as chronic RSI is often irreversible.
• Stiffness
• Muscle spasms
• At the outset, symptoms may only be experienced towards the end of the day
• Eventually they may progress, and affect the sufferer all day
SYMPTOMS
TREATMENT GOAL
• Pains in the neck, shoulders, arms, and hands
• Localized tenderness in the affected area
• Tingling sensation like pins and needles
• Aching
Prevention through correct exercises and using the right equipment at work is essential to RSI treatment. |
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| The five-year survival rate of this deadly disease is just 4% because symptoms rarely appear until the tumor grows large enough to interfere with the function of nearby organs, such as the stomach, small intestine and liver. early detection can raise the five-year survival rate to nearly 40%.
Test: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) can detect abnormalities of the pancreas, including a precancerous condition known as dysplasia, approximately 90% of the time. |
| In these cases, early detection can mean the difference between life and death.
How can you tell the difference? You can't with certainty. That's why a substantial number of prostate cancers will be treated even though they are not life threatening. Treatment generally means surgery to remove the prostate and/ or radiation to kill the tumor. These treatments carry significant risks for impotence and urinary incontinence.
Proponents of PSA testing point out that prostate cancer deaths have declined in the years since the test has been widely used. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Some practitioners recommend screening women with heel ultrasounds, but by and large the heel test is not yet considered an accurate test to replace DXA scans for either early detection or monitoring.
The more risk factors you have for osteoporosis, the greater the need to have laboratory and bone density testing. Women are especially encouraged to seek a licensed health-care practitioner who is well educated in the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis. |
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| It [still] leaves women with other avenues, such as early detection," she notes.
Representatives of the supplements industry downplayed the results. The studies "showed disappointing outcomes inconsistent with the large body of scientific evidence and the prevailing wisdom about the beneficial effects of these two nutrients," according to John Hathcock, vice president for scientific and international affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition.
^ - To learn more about vitamin D, visit the National Institutes of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements at http://ods.od.nih. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 As a medical writer, recent widow, and cancer survivor, Jacqueline was keenly aware of the importance of early detection. When she was thirty-five, she noticed a small lump in her breast. Luckily, that growth turned out not to be cancer, as was also the case with several others she found during the next fifteen years. But she remained extremely watchful and cautious. In 2001, three months after her husband Ed's untimely death from a heart attack, she kept an appointment for a mammogram and a malignant growth was found.
Jacqueline credits vigilance with saving her life. |
| The good news is that with early detection and treatment, survival rates for testicular cancer are very good.
#ln 1996, world champion cyclist Lance Armstrong was diagnosed at age 25 with testicular cancer. Not only was his treatment successful, but he went on to establish the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a not-for-profit cancer support and education organization. And he won the Tour de France for 7 years running, from 1999 through 2005.
WARNING SIGN
All men—especially those between the ages of 15 and 35—should perform monthly testicular self-exams. |
Stacy Malkan
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| The nation's largest breast cancer charities fall in line with similar messages about early detection and cure, and divert public attention away from prevention strategies in ways that are sometimes not so subtle. The American Cancer Society (ACS), for instance, is frequently quoted in the press urging cautious interpretation of evidence linking chemicals to disease. As one example: a July 2005 New York Times story entitled "Should You Worry About the Chemicals in Your Makeup?" quoted Dr. Michael Thun, head of epidemiology at ACS, questioning the science on phthalates. |
Andreas Moritz
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| In a sense, they are actually right about this, but for the wrong reasons. early detection has not been shown to change overall mortality rates from cancer. Earlier diagnosis following screening merely starts the survival clock earlier. In other words, a patient can still die at the same time but appear to have lived longer.
For example, two women at age 45 develop the same type of breast cancer. The tumor size is exactly the same—small and just about detectable. One of the two women (woman A) is diagnosed with and treated for her early-stage breast cancer. |
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| 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. In those cases, it's theoretically possible for cancer cells to spread if the fluid leaks into the abdomen during surgery, but there is no actual evidence that that has happened.
Myth: Injuries cause cancer. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 There are clear and undisputed benefits associated with early detection, resulting in superior outcomes when compared with delayed identification and treatment.
Diabetes emphatically meets all of these criteria, yet you may be surprised to learn that up until 2002, there were no major, randomized, controlled studies that showed just how valuable diabetes screening is at reducing the onset of overt diabetes in people at risk. That was the year the Diabetes Prevention Program trial results were published. |
Bill Sardi
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 This runs contrary to the widely practiced program of mass cancer screening and early detection.
Do chemotherapy drugs cause cancer?
The answer is yes. Chemotherapy drugs are carcinogens. They are toxic to cancer cells and healthy cells. Researchers have also found that chemotherapy drugs meant to kill existing malignant cells can cause breaks in chromosomes of healthy cells which sets the stage for future cancer growth. |
| Most lung cancer cases involve smokers, and since early detection is difficult, treatment is largely ineffective.
The five-year survival rates are dismally low - about 14% in the United States. About 6 out of 10 people with lung cancer die within one year of being diagnosed with the disease. Between seven and eight out of ten will die within two years.
Your doctor is not likely to inform you that most of the treatments you will receive for lung cancer are ineffective and in fact have been disproven. The latest heralded treatments are costly and only add a month or two to life expectancy. |
| Many smokers know that early detection is their only hope for successful treatment. Smokers are eager to hear of any new technology that can detect lung tumors when they are still only a few million cells in size, small enough to remove surgically before they spread.
A so-called consumer group that represents smokers is suing Philip Morris to pay for yearly cancer screening. The group wants the tobacco company to pay for low-dose CT scanning of the chest. But the funding for this group is undisclosed. |
| Cancer, June 12, 2006 online] Much of the decline in mortality rates is imagined, extrapolated from manipulated statistics and the contrived idea that years of life are gained by early detection of cancer, when in fact most cancer patients succumb to their disease on the same calendar day whether their diagnosis is early or late.
Robert Bazell, NBC News chief science and health correspondent, says the National Cancer Institute has been too eager to claim success in the war on cancer and that medical reality doesn't match news releases issued from the agency. |
| Lab-on-a-Chip promises early detection of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's and other ills. Patients will one day walk into their doctor's office with this handheld device, give a few drops of blood, and in minutes, receive a complete health diagnosis.
Therapeutic systems destroy cancer cells non-inva-sively, without harming healthy cells; these include the following:
* Gold Nanoshells enters into cancer cells, and when exposed to infrared light, explodes, killing cancer cells without harming healthy cells. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Despite our best efforts—huge expenditures which led to early detection and diagnosis, our efforts to control and hopefully reduce mortality from breast cancer have also failed. This is a significant finding for our book.™
WHAT IF?
What if primary care medicine disappeared?
Ironically, we are not the only ones considering this possibility. In 2006, the American College of Physicians warned that "primary care, the backbone of he nation's health care system, is at grave risk of collapse. |
| Routine radiography increases early detection, but there is no evidence that screening reduces mortality. The 1996 Task Force does not recommend (the lowest grade, "D") screening. They also assign sputum cytology a grade of "D." The entire chapter on lung cancer screening is but three pages in length (about one-quarter the length of other chapters) and offers a grim assessment for lung cancer screening. The implications for our book are clear: that for this most dangerous of all cancers, medical prophylaxis accomplishes little.
Colorectal Cancer. |
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