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Some Cancers May Just Go Away

womenA group of researchers who track breast cancer rates have proposed the controversial notion that some tumors found with mammograms might naturally disappear on their own if left undetected.

Dr. Per-Henrik Zahl and his colleagues examined invasive breast cancer rates among nearly 120,000 women age 50 to 64 who had a mammogram over a six-year period. They compared the number of breast cancers detected with another group of about 110,000 women of the same age who were screened just once at the end of the six-year period.

The researchers said they expected to find no differences in breast cancer rates -- but instead, they found 22 percent more invasive breast tumors in the group who had mammograms every two years. This raises the possibility that some cancers somehow disappear naturally.

Mammography and breast self-examination for tumors are standard methods used for early detection of breast cancer.

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This landmark study suggests something that most doctors, even oncologists, would never consider: that cancer can go away on its own. Typically when this happens it’s brushed off as a fluke, but the new study found that even invasive cancers may go away without treatment, and it may happen more often than anyone thought.

In reality, your body has a remarkable capacity to heal, and that ability is fueled largely by your lifestyle. If you eat well, exercise, get enough sleep and sun exposure and address your emotional stress, your body should be able to maintain a healthy balance.

The problem with cancer often lies not only with ignoring these health principles but also with the invasive and highly risky treatments that conventional medicine relies on to treat it -- surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. The alarming rates of cancer deaths across the world -- cancer has a mortality rate of 90 percent, according to Italian oncologist Dr. Tullio Simoncini -- speak volumes about the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of these treatments, yet they are still regarded as the gold standard of cancer care.

Chemotherapy is a classic example of a cure that is worse than the disease. In fact, many experts now say that cancer patients are more likely to die from cancer treatments than the cancer itself.

“The majority of the cancer patients in this country die because of chemotherapy, which does not cure breast, colon or lung cancer. This has been documented for over a decade and nevertheless doctors still utilize chemotherapy to fight these tumors,” said Dr. Allen Levin, MD, author of The Healing of Cancer.

It is indeed exciting that researchers are now pointing to the possibility that cancer may be better off left alone, especially if the patient commits to leading a healthy, restorative lifestyle. But there could also be another culprit in this study.

Did Mammograms Fuel the Cancer Rates?

In the study Dr. Robert M. Kaplan, the chairman of the department of health services at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues found 22 percent more invasive breast tumors in the group who had mammograms every two years, compared to the group who had just one mammogram over a six-year period.

Because they had expected cancer rates between the two groups to be very similar, this is what led them to believe that some cancers disappear naturally.

Could it be, perhaps, that the mammograms themselves also contributed to the skewed results?

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends women get a mammogram every year or two after age 40.

But I strongly disagree.

There is no solid evidence that mammograms save lives. In fact, research demonstrates that adding an annual mammogram to a careful physical examination of the breasts does not improve breast cancer survival rates over getting the examination alone. 

Meanwhile, the technology carries a first-time false positive rate of up to 6 percent. False positives can lead to expensive repeat screenings and can sometimes result in unnecessary invasive procedures including biopsies and surgeries.

Just thinking you may have breast cancer, when you really do not, focuses your mind on fear and disease, and is actually enough to trigger an illness in your body. So a false positive on a mammogram, or an unnecessary biopsy, can really be damaging.

Not to mention that women have unnecessarily undergone mastectomies, radiation and chemotherapy after receiving false positives on a mammogram. But perhaps the biggest danger of mammograms comes from the screening itself.

Mammograms expose your body to radiation that can be 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray, which poses risks of cancer. Mammography also compresses your breasts tightly, and often painfully, which could lead to a lethal spread of cancerous cells, should they exist.

“The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade"s screening,” points out Dr. Samuel Epstein, one of the top cancer experts.

Dr. Epstein, M.D., professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, and chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, has been speaking out about the risks of mammography since at least 1992. As for how these misguided mammography guidelines came about, Epstein says:

“They were conscious, chosen, politically expedient acts by a small group of people for the sake of their own power, prestige and financial gain, resulting in suffering and death for millions of women. They fit the classification of "crimes against humanity."”

A Safer Screening Option for Women

The option for breast screening that I most highly recommend is called thermography.

Thermographic breast screening is brilliantly simple. It measures the radiation of infrared heat from your body and translates this information into anatomical images. Your normal blood circulation is under the control of your autonomic nervous system, which governs your body functions.

Thermography uses no mechanical pressure or ionizing radiation, and can detect signs of breast cancer years earlier than either mammography or a physical exam.

Mammography cannot detect a tumor until after it has been growing for years and reaches a certain size. Thermography is able to detect the possibility of breast cancer much earlier, because it can image the early stages of angiogenesis (the formation of a direct supply of blood to cancer cells, which is a necessary step before they can grow into tumors of size).

To find out everything you need to know about the risks of conventional breast cancer screening (mammograms) and the benefits of thermography, please read the free report on the topic in Breast Cancer Prevention’s Dirty Little Secret.

Safer Options for Treating Cancer

Many people turn to conventional cancer treatments like chemotherapy because they think they are the ONLY option. Well, there are other safer options to consider, including one that you may have in your kitchen pantry: baking soda.

Sodium bicarbonate delivers a natural form of chemotherapy in a way that effectively kills cancer cells -- without the side effects and costs of standard chemotherapy treatments. The only problem with the treatment, according to Dr. Mark Sircus, is that it’s too cheap. Since no one is going to make money from it, no one will promote it.

Dr. Simoncini’s quite amazing experience has shown that 99 percent of breast- and bladder cancer can heal in just six days, entirely without the use of surgery, chemo or radiation, using just a local infiltration device (such as a catheter) to deliver the sodium bicarbonate directly to the infected site in your breast tissue or bladder. You can watch actual before and after footage of the treatment working in this video.

Another such approach is Dr. Hamer’s German New Medicine (GNM), which operates under the premise that every disease, including cancer, originates from an unexpected shock experience, and that all disease can be cured by resolving these underlying emotional traumas.

Despite a 95 percent success rate, Dr. Hamer has spent time in prison for refusing to disavow his medical findings and stop treating his patients with his unorthodox techniques, and is currently living in exile, seeking asylum from persecution.

It is also very important for cancer patients to optimize their vitamin D levels into a high range, and you can find out the correct levels by watching my one-hour vitamin D lecture.

Of course, even better than a safe treatment is preventing cancer in the first place. I’ve outlined my top tips for cancer prevention in this past article, and I highly suggest you look them over and begin to implement these natural strategies in your life.


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Posted On Nov 27, 2008
Mammograms use X rays. X rays can cause cancer. Perhaps some, or possibly all, of that 22% increase could be due to the number of X rays the women in the monitored group were receiving.

 
Aaltrude
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Dr.jeffrey dach
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Posted On Nov 29, 2008

Limitations of Screening Mammography


An eminent radiologist, Leonard Berlin MD, says we have failed to disclose the limitations of screening mammography, namely that mammography will miss 30-70% of breast cancers, and leads to over diagnosis and over treatment.


Dr. Berlin says disclosures of these limitations should be mandated, just like the cigarette and drug warnings that appear on their ads.


Dr. Berlin also points out that 57% of the American women believe that mammograms prevent breast cancer, a misleading message from Breast Awareness Month.


Mammograms are designed to detect cancer, not prevent it. Thinking that a mammogram can prevent breast cancer is like thinking that checking your house annually for broken windows prevents robberies.


To read more: http://jeffreydach.com/2007/11/04/the-untold-message-of-breast-cancer-awareness-month.aspx


The Untold Message of Breast Cancer Awareness Month by Jeffrey Dach MD


Jeffrey Dach MD



KelleyEidem
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Posted On Dec 18, 2008

As Dr. Mercola points out, there are two factors. Radiation CAN cause cancer AND rancidity of the tissue. Dr. Revici (The Doctor Who Cures Cancer) discovered that the radiation particles move the angle of one of the hydrogen atoms on a fatty acid by 90 degrees.

The result is three hydrogens in a row along a fatty acid chain. It's called a "trienically conjugated" fatty acid, instead of the original "Twin Formation"

This is VERY bad.

The middle hydrogen that has moved into place blocks the ability of the fatty acid to transport oxygen into the cell, causing rancidity! Of course, once meat goes rancid, it doesn't get better.

Revici was able to measure the rate of rancidity with what he named the "oxalic index." Your oxalic index should be zero. When the oxalic index reaches 17 the lab rat or person dies. He was successful in reversing the oxalic index in patients suffering from radiation poisoning.

Yes, cancer can go away seemingly "by itself." It was just that type of event that led Revici to find a cure starting back in the mid 1930's. A pregnant woman who had ADVANCED incurable cancer was found to be inoperable. So she was closed up from exploratory surgery.

Two years later she showed up, and stunned Revici with her baby. She was cancer free. From that, Revici determined that the combination of the lipids in her placenta combined with the metabolic shock of the surgery CHANGED her metabolism.

That is how cancer goes away "by itself," namely by changing the metabolism. Fortunately, no surgery or pregnancy is needed to alter the metabolism.

I altered my metabolism to help cure my stage 4 cancer ten years ago. The early responses indicate it's helping others as well:

itsnotjustforsex.blogspot.com/.../she-said-my-knife-piercing-pain-is.html

Dr. Mercola, if you'd like a copy of "The Doctor Who Cures Cancer," please contact me, and I'll send it to you.

The best to you.

Kelley Eidem

Together we can cure can cure cancer - one person at a time



RN Mendez
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Posted On Dec 18, 2008

I agree with Aaltrude.  RNM.


 
 
 
Posted On Nov 29, 2008
The sheer number of women that would submit to a research project requiring a mamogram at the end of it, or during it is overwhelming.  It would appear that many people do not think for themselves, they know X-rays are potentially harmful, and yet just meekly go along with it.  It seems obvious to me that having your breasts "sandwiched " and X-rayed cannot possibly be good for them or your body as a whole.  X-Rays obviously have a place and a use, but I don't believe that this is a good one, and therefore I don't think that anyone should be surprised to hear about a 22% increase in cancer.  Possibly diet and lifestyle were also contributing factors. 

A number of years ago I remember my mother, then in her sixties, complaining that she found the mamogram uncomfortable, and didn't like having it done, but that she got a notice in the mail from her Doctor telling her it was time to call and book another, so she had better do it.  She put it off, and a few weeks later the Doctor's office called, reminding her that she hadn't called, and she told them that she didn't want to have another one, and they responded by telling her that she had to have one.  I told her it was ridiculous, that she didn't have to, but she didn't want to upset the Doctor, and "if he said she should", then she would have it done, and did, and still does, but still doesn't like it.

When did the medical system take over decision making, and obviously not in everyone's best interests, and why do so many people allow them to do it?

 
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Posted On Dec 18, 2008

Hello jellesmere,

Gurdjieff tells us that this is the Chief Weakness of human beings; believing just any old tale we are told provided the source has some credibility, like a doctor, an elected official, or the host of a TV talk-show. Advertising thrives on this weakness when they claim, "most doctors recommend Camels for their patients who smoke." One only has to hear it once to believe and accept it as fact.

What humanity really needs to discover is a way for each of us to become critical of everything we are told. In other words to believe nothing but verify everything. Can we really stay on top of everything we are told?

We believe doctors because we ourselves do not know. They are the trained professionals and we allow them to make bad decisions for us because we do not know any better. They themselves often do not know any better. They believe in over-powering the body with artificial drugs and chemicals while we here in Dr. Mercola's group believe in giving the body what it needs so that it can do its job. We trust that Dr. Mercola's research is accurate and when I have verified it, it has been.

How modern medicine was able to take over decision making is a long story, but basically it was about putting out of business alternative medicine so as to destroy competition all under the ruse of protecting the public from frauds and snake oil salesmen. Some lives might have been saved from this. But how many more were lost because of being forced into a medical system that dismisses alternative treatment all together? A system that will not even look at the evidence?



Islander
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Posted On Dec 18, 2008

We are accustomed to consulting experts. We take their advice because they supposedly know more than we do; that is what we pay them for. But sometimes it is necessary to think critically. If your auto mechanic tells you your car needs blinker fluid, you will walk away and take your business elsewhere. Sadly, we tend to put more faith in the doctor's authority and are less likely to think critically about his advice. We need to practice critical thinking skills not only about advertising and other propaganda, but about every "expert" we consult. Where is that "challenge authority" generation when we need them?



Julieanne
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Posted On Dec 20, 2008

You can question the experts - but they don't know either! :)


 
 
 
Posted On Dec 18, 2008

This is exactly what I've been guessing. I am 55 and had my last medical examination 16 years ago. I decided then to take care of myself, and I don't take medicines other than some homeopathy. So my theory is that whatever I might have had over these years, it went away for sure, because I feel great. And whatever may show up in the future, I will let it go too. Tests are not preventive, a healthy lifestyle is. Tests can only detect a problem in order to initiate a treatment (some tests are dangerous too), because for changing our lifestyle we don't need a test... only the right attitude and the right information.


 
Salud
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Posted On Dec 18, 2008

Years ago when I was about 47, I had a "suspicious something" perhaps a calcification, in my right breast.  The Kaiser HMO doctor suggested I rush into a biopsy. I didn't know better, so agreed to a barbaric wire-localization biopsy where I had to be awake for the first part when they put needles into my breast in 3D to try to locate the area since the calcifications were so deep & not palpable.  They kept inserting big needles like knitting needles and then having me have mammograms with the needles in me until they found the spot, at which point, they put me under and did surgery to remove the suspicious tissue.

I don't know how many mammograms I had in that one day with the needles being inserted, xrayed, pulled out and reinserted, xrayed again, etc. but it was probably more than most women get in a lifetime.  My breast was terribly bruised, brutalized. I didn't understand how they could do this procedure in the 20th century.

I was so relieved by the good news that there was no cancer & no pre-cancerous cells.  It was no shock to me that 5 years later a routine mammogram (which I kept rescheduling) showed a small suspicious something in that same deep area of my breast.  I would not have the same horrible biopsy.  I researched and found a gentler procedure. This time, it was malignant.  Could it have been the trauma to that breast, and all those mammograms.  I went through breast cancer several years ago, and the doctors keep calling, writing, and talking to me about getting an annual mammogram.  I haven't had one since my recovery from cancer, but I get frequent thermograms, and work with a holistic MD outside the HMO system, whose mentor is Dr. Klinghardt and have been in good health.  My HMO doctor was ordered to write a letter acknowledging that she religiously recommends mammograms to me, as they are the "right" thing to do.  For whom?  I am pleased with my health, and my network of "alternative" loving and caring providers. Get thermography.  It works!


 
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Posted On Dec 18, 2008

triple OUCH!

I have had mammograms, and in spite of my breasts being polycystic I keep on getting reminders. From recollection the most recent reminder says that two of the reasons to NOT get a mammogram are existing benign cysts and also previously treated breast cancer.

Don't the clinics keep records?

The mammograms broke my breast ligaments, so now I wear a bra because I must.

I would like the inventor of this torture device to experience it for himself - preferably at the hands of someone who has suffered the experience!


 
 
 
Posted On Dec 18, 2008

It would be hard to find a more dedicated proponent of Thermology/Thermography than me but it is important to mention that Breast Thermography does NOT detect cancer per se (see PaulaBob post).   Thermography as a study of physiology will detect active breast disease earlier than an anatomical test  but the diagnosis of cancer can only be established following further tests and a laboratory confirmation.   Thermography is looking for change over time.   If lifestyle changes are made and other associated action is taken (Dietary, nutritional, holistic, homeopathic etc), Thermography can be used to monitor the efficacy of the action and probably the disease will dissipate to complete exclusion.   If there is an advanced condition it may  be neccessary to have an anatomical test (MRI, U/Sound, Mammo, biopsy etc).   Thermography is NOT a standalone diagnostic test for breast cancer but it does remove the exposure to serious radiation for healthy women until and if further tests are needed.   It is adjunctive.   There is another simple benefit with breast thermography compared to Mammography for:  Small breasted women, men (around 1% of breast cancer is in male patients), women with implants, post surgery monitoring etc.   No contact, no pain, no radiation and very reliable.   Please do not forget that Thermography is also very effective in many other pain related applications to detect the causal centre of pain whether it is Vascular, Visceral, inflammatory, neurological.   It is used in Podiatry (very effective at early detection of  the onset of neuropathic foot ulcers in diabetic patients),   Dentistry/TMJ,  Carotid test (pre & post stroke treatment).   Finally, remember that all breast tests are precisely that - they do not prevent cancer but simply give the patient/healthcare provider the opportunity to intervene and possibly resolve the problem without recourse to surgery ('last resort' and NOT a 'just in case action').   Happy Christmas and a Healthy New everyone


 
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