Early Detection Is An Expensive Fraud

The chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society announced in the New York Times on October 21, 2009, "We don't want people to panic, but I am admitting that American medicine has over-promised when it comes to screening. The advantages to screening have been exaggerated." Oooops!

In 1976, it was announced to the Conference on Breast Cancer, sponsored by the White House, the National Cancer Institute, and the American Cancer Society that "Long before a breast carcinoma can be detected by present technology, metastatic spread may occur and does in most cases." This was later also published in the journal of the American Cancer Society, so it is not exactly a secret unknown to the profession.

If oncologists have known for thirty three years that, in most cases, by the time a cancer is detected by "early screening" it has already spread to other areas of the body, why have they been so slow to inform the public? Could it be the $20 Billion a year they pull in from one of the most successful marketing programs they've ever had? Could it be the hundreds of billions of dollars they've been raking in for mastectomies and prostatectomies every year made them reluctant to disclose the crucial knowledge that none of their surgeries would solve the real problem?

If the Cancer Has Already Spread, Why Push Radical Mastectomies?

This is a prime example of why our innocent public trust of the medical profession is misplaced in many cases. It is a prime reason why the patient must become conversant with the medical literature and all the options available to them for treatment. Obviously, they may not be informed of such by their doctor who has a strong financial interest in some courses of treatment that are far more profitable than others.

How else can we explain why the medical profession has taken so long to tell us the truth?

Cancer researchers also found out decades ago that tumor growth can be turned on or off by a very simple mechanism, accessible to any patient at no cost at all. Why haven't we heard more about this? Could it be that we don't want to offend the sacred cows of the American meat and dairy industry? Read all about it in Dr. T. Colin Campbell's book, The China Study.

Medical science knows a lot more about what causes cancer than it is telling us (or even what they are teaching in medical schools). Could it be because the real money in medicine is found in treatment over a period of years, with escalating expensive choices of weaponry?

There is no money in prevention of cancer.

Cancer diagnosis alone, however, is worth 20 Billion a year, and it's easy money when patients can be urged to come in for a mammogram or PSA test. The real money comes when the doctor finds the tiniest speck of a cancer that has been growing and spreading around the patient's body for ten or more years. Shouldn't "Truth In Advertising" preclude calling cancer screening "early detection"?

All across America, in my mind's ear, I can hear ambulance-chasing attorneys starting their engines after reading this admission from the American Cancer Society. They're racing off to file class-action lawsuits for the millions of women and men who have been scarred and mutilated by unnecessary cancer surgeries. The race is on -- who will get to the courthouse first with the largest group of plaintiffs?

Fortunately for the consumers of medical services, there are a growing number of doctors and cancer researchers who have identified what initiates cancer growth and therefore, can recommend more appropriate and less costly means to treat or even prevent cancer growth. A little reading can save the informed patient a lifetime of regret caused by the barbaric and life-threatening methods of mainstream medicine's standard cut-and-burn methodologies.

A good place to start reading is Dr. John McDougall's October, 2009, Newsletter. You can find it online.

Caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware! Good advice for dealing with the medical profession. There is a lot they know, as we see, that is not reflected in the treatment options they recommend to patients. Get an enlightened second opinion from Dr. McDougall before you or a loved one get stampeded into treatments that are of questionable necessity.