Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  Along with trials evaluating the health benefits of available cancer screening modalities," the authors conclude, "investigations into potential undesirable consequences of cancer screening are also warranted."31
Iatrogenesis is an issue. It is a mistake to assume the safety of a procedure, especially if it is even minimally invasive.32 Any and all screening that uses radiation increases the patient's risk of cancer.33 The 1996 Task Force admits that radiation probably contributed to "a small number" of new cases of cancer. | | 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. For this second most dangerous of all cancers, screening appears to improve survival rates. Fecal blood screening could reduce mortality by 15 to 21% over ten years, meaning that annual testing of 500 to 1,000 people for ten years might prevent one death. But at what price? | | Along with trials evaluating the health benefits of available cancer screening modalities," the authors conclude, "investigations into potential undesirable consequences of cancer screening are also warranted."31
Iatrogenesis is an issue. It is a mistake to assume the safety of a procedure, especially if it is even minimally invasive.32 Any and all screening that uses radiation increases the patient's risk of cancer.33 The 1996 Task Force admits that radiation probably contributed to "a small number" of new cases of cancer. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
See book keywords and concepts |  Serum lycopene, other carotenoids, and prostate cancer risk: A nested case-control study in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian cancer screening Trial. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 16, 962-968.
289. Clinton, S. K., Emenhiser, C, Schwartz, S. J., Bostwick, D. G., Williams, A. W., Moore, B. J., and Erdman, J. W. Jr. (1996). cis-trans lycopene isomers, carotenoids, and retinol in the human prostate. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 5, 823-833.
290. Bertram, J. S. (1999). Carotenoids and gene regulation. Nutr. Rev. 57, 182-191.
291. Williams, A. W., Boileau, T. W., Zhou, J. R. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Breast cancer is so frequently misdiagnosed that for every one woman helped by cancer screening and treatment, ten are harmed by it (click here for the story), and Restless Legs Syndrome is so routinely marketed and hyped that people who hadn't even heard of the disease two years ago now think they need patented chemicals to treat it.
By any honest assessment, pharmaceutical medicine today is all a grand hoax. (Click here to read my article exploring the massive "hoax" of drug advertising. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Breast cancer screening harms ten women for every one it helps: http://www.newstarget.com/020829.html
Mammograms cause breast cancer (and other cancer facts you probably never knew) http://www.newstarget.com/010886.html
Cancer diagnosis doubles suicide rate in patients http://www.newstarget.com/020827.html
Nutrients in cruciferous vegetables found to induce death of cancer cells http://www.newstarget.com/020839. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | Smith, PhD, director of cancer screening, American Cancer Society.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Ateam of researchers has developed a prostate cancer "risk calculator" that they say is better than the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test alone. The calculator adds age, race, family history, prior biopsy findings and digital rectal exam (DRE) results to PSA levels to assess a man's risk of prostate cancer.
THE STUDY
Study author Dr. Ian M. | | Smith, director of cancer screening for the American Cancer Society.
However, although the availability of digital mammography screening is increasing, it is still limited, and it is unclear how soon—or even whether—it will entirely replace film mammography, he adds.
"The important thing is that women receive mammograms on a regular basis, regardless of which technology they use," Smith says.
"Younger women and women with denser breasts should not forego their regular mammograms if digital mammography is not available. | | Julia Smith, MD, PhD, director, Breast cancer screening and Prevention Program, New York University (NYU) Cancer Institute, and director, Lynne Cohen Breast Cancer Preventive Care Program, NYU Cancer Institute and Bellevue Hospital, New York City.
Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Most breast cancer patients who choose to have their unaffected breast removed along with the diseased one say they don't regret their decision, a recent study has found. Furthermore, their quality of life equals that of women who chose not to have a preventive mastectomy, according to researchers. | | Smith, director of cancer screening for the American Cancer Society.
Other, less uncomfortable screening techniques, such as fecal occult blood tests (FOBT) and flexible sigmoidoscopy, may also be effective, Church adds. liifQ You can learn more about colorectal can-— cer from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at www.cdc.gov/colorectalcancer.
Cholesterol Drugs Don't Prevent (or Cause) Colon Cancer
C. Michael White, PharmD, professor of pharmacology, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Eric J. Jacobs, PhD, epidemiologist, American Cancer Society. | | Smith, director of cancer screening at the American Cancer Society, says the new model has its pros and cons. "It does not distinguish between significant and not-significant disease. The calculator provides some help but not enough," he says.
"But it also allows an individual to take his PSA level and actually interpret it in the context of some other information based on the experience of a large number of men, [so he can] understand what the likelihood is that he has prostate cancer. So, I think it could actually be useful," Smith concludes. | | Smith, PhD, director of cancer screening, American Cancer Society.
The Journal of the American Medical Association.
For people who are younger than 80 years, the benefits of a colonoscopy might last more than 10 years—the period of time currently recommended before the procedure is repeated. However, this screening, which looks for colon polyps that could become cancerous over time, may provide only a minimal benefit to people who are age 80 or older. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts | | Aside from the Pap Smear test, it is unfortunately difficult to demonstrate the worth of cancer screening.
Lung Cancer. Cancer of the lung leads all other cancers in causing death in the United States. 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. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts |  In the dozen countries that had set up national cervical cancer screening programs earlier, rates had plummeted to one-fourth of what they had been before screening. Japan was an early adopter of the Pap smear, initiating it in 1962. Finland followed in 1963. In Japan, rates dropped from 12.1 to 4.0, and in Finland, they fell from 14.8 to 3.4 per 100,000 women." For younger women, rates declined three times more in these countries than in England and its former colonies.
Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the overall rates of cervical cancer increased in the British Isles from 13.1 to 13.8. | | As a result of these views, cervical cancer screening in England was not mandated by the government and was carried out episodically. Deaths from the disease continued to rise.
As evidence mounted from the United States and manv different j countries of the life-saving value of the Pap smear, England's National
Health Service finally endorsed regular screening for cervix cancer in 198 8.26 In the first ten years of the official British screening program, both deaths and new cases of cervical cancer fell by more than a third. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts | | D" (routine thyroid function tests). For cancer screening, false positives not only cause considerable anxiety, but also generate possible risk from follow-up intervention. Only for cervical cancer is screening effective.
The Task Force gives only a few grades of "A" for screening that is routine. In some of those cases, testing often can be and is done in settings other than physician's offices by qualified persons with much less training than medical doctors. |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts |  The only cancer screening test that has been shown unequivocally to decrease mortality is the venerable Pap smear for cervical cancer. Yet even that is not a fail-safe talisman for warding off premature death. Howard Brody, a primary care physician at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, recalls a tragic case of a young woman who put her faith in the Pap test:
One of the saddest cases I ever took care of was a woman in her late thirties who died of cervical cancer. She'd had an abnormal Pap smear four or five years earlier.
A [biopsy] found some abnormal cells. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |  An interesting fact surfaces in the cancer screening game. If adult smokers are screened annually for five years, there is a 75% chance of finding a lung abnormality. [European Journal Radiology 45: 2-7, 2003] But is that because of the radiation from the CT screening or the long-lasting effects of smoking?
If a 50-year-old female smoker undergoes annual CT lung screening until age 75, she would incur an estimated radiation-related lung cancer risk of 0.85%, in addition to her otherwise expected lung cancer risk of approximately 17%. If 50% of all current and former smokers in the U.S. | | 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. The head of this consumer group was formerly employed by an unnamed Fortune 500 company and had worked for various Congressional leaders. Has she been planted to head this consumer group? How would this leader represent smokers? | | Cancer screening: more treatment, not longer survival... 127 Plant food diets disappoint... 127 Chemoprevention ... 129 First, identify high-risk patients ... 130 Chemoprevention of stomach and colon cancer... 131 Chemoprevention of breast cancer... 131 Chemoprevention of prostate cancer... 132 Chemoprevention of skin cancer ... 133 Why not prevent them all? ... 133
Case report... 135
Cancer prevention
No matter how efficient we may become at delivering health care, we must also seek to reduce demand by keeping people from developing diseases in the first place. | | 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. | | In effect, screening is simply a scouting mission to find more disease to treat and bill insurance companies for, not prevent cancer from occurring in the first place. cancer screening assumes treatment is effective. It is not.
1 /\. Contrary to what you may read elsewhere, while a good diet is desired, the best diet (5 servings of fruits and vegetables) has utterly failed to prevent cancer. The National Cancer Institute's 5-A-Day Program has been abandoned in favor of 9 tol 3 servings of fruits and vegetables, which is still an unproven approach to reduce cancer mortality. | | Most cancer patients will never recognize the dangers posed by cancer screening and treatment. The list includes: heart failure due to chemotherapy, radiation damage due to mammography and CT scans that can lead to cancer years later, the seeding of cancers into surrounding tissues due to biopsy, and following cancer surgery the triggering of growth factors that heal surgical wounds, but which also spur the growth of residual tumor cells. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Virtually every message broadcast to the public is underwritten by some commercial interest such as a drug company, cancer screening equipment manufacturer, or wealthy "non-profit" disease organization. There no longer seems to be anything resembling honesty or professionalism in conventional medicine. It's all a self-reinforcing orgy of junk science, disease marketing, and drug pushing, with an inexcusable disregard for nutrition and disease prevention. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Additional reading:
Breast cancer screening harms ten women for every one it helps: http://www.newstarget.com/020829.html
Mammograms cause breast cancer (and other cancer facts you probably never knew) http://www.newstarget.com/010886.html
Cancer diagnosis doubles suicide rate in patients http://www.newstarget.com/020827.html
Nutrients in cruciferous vegetables found to induce death of cancer cells http://www.newstarget.com/020839. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Early cancer screening performed by the National Cancer Institute in 1976 indicated that an alcohol extract of simarouba root (and a water extract of its seeds) had toxic actions against cancer cells at very low dosages (less than 20 mcg/ml).16 Following up on that initial screening, scientists discovered that several of the quassinoids in simarouba (glaucarubinone, alianthinone, and dehydroglaucarubinone) had antileukemic actions against lymphocytic leukemia in vitro and published several studies in 1977 and 1978. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Were you a victim of a false positive cancer screening that scared you into treatments you didn't need? Tell us what happened.
Are you a parent who's fighting the public school system because you're being pressured to drug your child with Ritalin or other drugs? We'd like to hear about it and, with your permission, share your story with the world. Click here to contact us or call us at (520) 232-9300.
Was your child harmed by prescription drugs? Did he or she nearly commit suicide or become violent after taking antidepressants or other psychotropic drugs? |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  Colorectal cancer screening A chemically-impregnated toilet paperthat changes color on detecting tiny invisible blood in the stools. Nail Tests Send to Dr. Carl Moore, Dept. of Chemistry, Loyola University, Chicago,
Illinois fortestsofCopper,Zinc, Chromium, Calcium, cadmium and lead. Ovulation Predicting Test Measures Luteinizing Hormone in the urine 12-24 hours before ovulation.
Pregnancy Test Uses monoclonal antibodies todetect Human Chorionic Gonadotropin shortly after conception.
Strep Throat (Group A) Test Strep A OI A, by Biostar Inc., Boulder, Colorado. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Box 7.4 cancer screening TESTS
The earlier that cancer is detected, the more likely that it can be effectively treated. Here are some guidelines on cancer screening tests:
Colon and Rectal Cancers
The American Cancer Society recommends three tests for the early detection of colon and rectum cancer in individuals without risk factors:
• A digital rectal examination, which is performed by a physician during an office visit, should be done every year after the age of forty.
• A stool blood test is recommended annually every year after fifty. |
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