The great cancer bizmess

It is breast cancer awareness month! Across the globe 'events' and mammoth advertising campaigns are on. A dear friend who thinks like me sent me a link to an article in French! For those of you who can read French it is a must read. For the others I would still request you to go to the page and click on the links given which are mostly in English! The article questions the relevance of mammography. A study that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes with this statement:  Our study raises serious questions about the value of screening mammography. It clarifies that the benefit of mortality reduction is probably smaller, and the harm of overdiagnosis probably larger, than has been previously recognized. And although no one can say with certainty which women have cancers that are overdiagnosed, there is certainty about what happens to them: they undergo surgery, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy for 5 years or more, chemotherapy, or (usually) a combination of these treatments for abnormalities that otherwise would not have caused illness. I draw your attention to the highlighted words: the harm of over diagnosis.

The obsessive 'marketing' of screening mammographies must have had some very sad consequences. Imagine having to poison yourself for something that nature and your body would have taken care of is criminal in my lexicon. More so if it is given to someone who has been to use the politically correct word: Overdiagnosed. If you have the gut to see the ravages chemo and other therapies can do here are some images that are not easy to see.

Same is the case with prostate cancer where the only test marketed is the PSA. This again has been misused by the cancer industry and subjected painful, expensive and life threatening treatments to patients who never needed it. This became so bad that Richard Ablin the person who discovered the PSA test had to listen to his conscience and write a book called: The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster. The book cover states: Every year, more than a million  men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently grows so slowly that it never even leaves the prostate. 

Need I say more!

But let us get back to the awareness week. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to see that all the products who have got pinkwashed are those that are known to cause cancers! A tongue in cheek article writes: Breast Cancer®, the America's Sweetheart of deadly, disfiguring diseases that it is, inspires a deluge of pink junk for sale every October. Some of that pink junk, in addition to being ugly, cloying, and infantilizing, contains chemicals that have been linked to boobs full of tumors. What do you say to that!

I will not go into a long apology of my feelings and beliefs! I just let you decide and would love to have your thoughts.

I am now a self appointed rabid researcher on cancer healing!