“‘Recently, Dr. Otis Brawley, ACS chief medical officer, stepped up and said the most astonishing thing to the New York Times: “I’m admitting that American medicine has overpromised when it comes to screening. The advantages to screening have been exaggerated.”
That last sentence is the kind of thing you expect to hear from, well…me, but NEVER from ACS.
“The advantages to screening have been exaggerated.’”
That is a paragraph or two from HSI Research’s Jenny Thompson and I find them amazingly powerful. Is it possible that the American Cancer Society is admitting that they have been overscreening for cancers, possibly detecting tumors that might actually heal on their own? What, you say? What, to which question, that they have admitted overscreening or that some cancers can heal themselves if left alone. I believe both are true and the research is out there to prove the latter statement.
For instance, many breast cancers are now found when they are very small and everyone flies in to a panic but out of the other side of their mouth they talk about how great it was that it was found while small. However, that small tumor may have been an aberration, basically a few cells gone off course that would with a healthy immune system soon right their course and all would be well. Unfortunately, for the woman or man involved now that small, harmless tumor has been smashed by numerous mammograms (they must take many) exposed to radiation that would kill a horse and the unhealthy, aberrant cells have been spread throughout the breast tissue. What joy is there in that? None.
Whether PSA screenings or mammograms sometimes, and make no mistake I stress the sometimes, the screening or the results of the screening do more harm than good. We have been literally brain washed by our current allopathic nightmare of a medical system in to believing that lives have been saved, cancers cured when what we really want is cancer prevented and dis-ease of the body squelched.