Millions Wrongly Treated for �Cancer,� National Cancer Institute Panel Confirms.
by Edward Morgan.
A devastating new report commissioned by the National Cancer Institute reveals that our
40-year long �War on Cancer� has been waged against a vastly misunderstood �enemy,�
that in many cases represented no threat to human health whatsoever.
If you have been following our advocacy work on cancer, particularly in connection with
the dark side of breast cancer awareness month, you know that we have been calling for the
complete reclassification of some types of �breast cancer� as benign lesions, e.g.
ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), as well as pointing out repeatedly that x-ray based breast
screenings are not only highly carcinogenic but are also causing an epidemic of �overdiagnosis�
and �overtreatment� in US women, with an estimated 1.3 million cases in the past
30 years alone.
This week, a National Cancer Institute commissioned panel�s report published in JAMA online
confirmed that we all � public and professionals alike � should stop calling low-risk lesions
like DCIS and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) �cancer.�
There are wide-reaching implications to this recommendation, including:
Millions of women in this country have been diagnosed with DCIS, and millions of men with
HGPIN, and subsequently [mis]treated.
Are they now to be retroactively reclassified as �victims� of iatrogenesis, with legal
recourse to seek compensation?
Anyone engaged in a cancer screening will now need to reconsider and weigh both the
risks and benefits of such a �preventive� strategy, considering that the likelihood
of being diagnosed with a false positive over 10 years is already over 50% for women undergoing
annual breast screening.
The burgeoning pink ribbon-bedecked �breast cancer awareness� industry will be forced
to reformulate its message, as it is theoretically culpable for the overdiagnosis and overtreatment
of millions of US women by propagating an entirely false concept of �cancer.�
As reported by Medscape:
The practice of oncology in the United States is in need of a host of reforms and initiatives
to mitigate the problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment of cancer, according to a working
group sanctioned by the National Cancer Institute.
Perhaps most dramatically, the group says that a number of premalignant conditions,
including ductal carcinoma in situ and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, should
no longer be called �cancer.�
Instead, the conditions should be labeled something more appropriate, such as indolent
lesions of epithelial origin (IDLE), the working group suggests.
The Viewpoint report was published online July 29 in JAMA.
Fundamentally, overdiagnosis results from the fact that screen-detected �cancers�
are disproportionately slower growing ones, present with few to no symptoms, and would
never progress to cause harm if left undiagnosed and untreated.
As you can see by the graph above, it is the fast-growing tumors which will be more difficult
to �detect early,� and will progress rapidly enough to cause symptoms and perhaps even
death unless treated aggressively.
But even in the case of finding the tumor early enough to contain it through surgery,
chemotherapy and/or radiation, it is well-known that the minority subpopulation of cancer
stem cells within these tumors will be enriched and therefore made more malignant through
conventional treatment.
For instance, radiotherapy radiation wavelengths were only recently found by UCLA Jonnsson
Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to transform breast cancer cells into highly
malignant cancer stem-cell like cells, with 30 times higher malignancy post-treatment.
What this means is that not only are millions of screen-detected abnormalities not �cancer�
in the first place but even those which can be considered fast-growing are often being
driven into greater malignancy by the conventional chemotherapy, radiation and surgery-based
standard of cancer care itself.
Our entire world view of cancer needs to shift from an enemy that �attacks� us and that
we must wage war against, to something our body does, presumably to survive an increasingly
inhospitable, nutrient-deprived, carcinogen- and radiation-saturated environment, i.e.
Cancer As An Ancient Survival Mechanism Unmasked.
When we look at cancer through the optic of fear and see it as an essentially chaos-driven
infinitely expanding mass of cells, we are apt to make irrational choices.
The physiological state of fear itself has been found to activate multidrug resistance
proteins within cancer cells, explaining how our very perception of cancer can influence
and/or determine its physiological status and/or trajectory within our body.
The NCI panel report opined:
�The word �cancer� often invokes the specter of an inexorably lethal process; however,
cancers are heterogeneous and can follow multiple paths, not all of which progress to metastases
and death, and include indolent disease that causes no harm during the patient�s lifetime.�
For more details on what our founder Sayer Ji calls the �Cancer Malignancy Meme,�
see his video presentation at the Mind Body Week DC conference, wherein he discuss the
�Rise of Biomedicine� within the context of the mind-body connection, and breast cancer
overdiagnosis in particular.
We must keep in mind that this proposed redefinition of cancer is no small academic matter, but
will affect the lives of millions of women.
Consider that every year, approximately 60,000 women in this country are diagnosed with DCIS,
a diagnosis so traumatic that it results in significant psychiatric depression 3 years
after even a �false positive� diagnosis.
For those less fortunate women, numbering in the millions over the past 30 years, who
were told they had �cancer� and needed to undergo lumpectomy, radiation, chemotherapy
and/or mastectomy, the NCI panel�s recommendation is a hard pill swallow after the damage has
already been irrevocably done.
So, what�s the solution?
There is a growing movement towards the use of thermography as a primary diagnostic tool,
as it uses no ionizing radiation, and can detect the underlying physiological processes
that may indicate inflammation, angiogenesis, cancer-specific metabolic changes, etc., many
years before a calcified lesion would appear within an x-ray mammogram.
Also, the mainstay of any truly preventive strategy against cancer is diet, nutrition,
exercise and avoiding chemical and radiation exposures � the things that we can do in
our daily lives to take back control of and responsibility for our health.
For related research read �Hidden Dangers� of Mammograms Every Woman Should Know About
ayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfo.com, a reviewer at the International Journal of Human
Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Co-founder and CEO of Systome Biomed, Vice Chairman of
the Board of the National Health Federation, Steering Committee Member of the Global Non-GMO
Foundation.
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of GreenMedInfo or its staff.
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