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Cancer Screening
How Useful?
Total Health April 7, 2013
Helke Ferrie
Vitality Magazine and Kos Publishing
Cancer Statistics 2012
LEADING cause of death in Canada
40% of all deaths: LUNG and COLORECTAL
DEATH RATES DECLINING (grab the salt
…)
LIVER & THYROID significantly continuing
to INCREASE
No change in survival since 1950s
Five-year relative survival ratio (RSR) for most common cancers, by sex, Canada, 2004-2006
RSR (%)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Tier 1
(>80%)
Thyroid
Testis
Prostate
Melanoma
Breast
Hodgkin lymphoma
Body of Uterus
Bladder
Tier 2
Cervix
Kidney
Larynx
Oral
Colorectal
Non-Hodgki lymphoma
Leukemia
Ovary
Multiple myeloma
Tier 3
(<50%)
Stomach
Brain
Liver
Males
Lung
Females
Esophagus
Pancreas
Data source: Canadian Cancer Statistics 2011
100
ILLUSIONS
Cancer is inherited/familial/genetic
Mammography/PSA are preventive
Cancer a local problem – remove it
Cut-Burn-Poison improves survival
FACT
Early detection is NOT prevention
Early detection is either diagnosis …
or false alarm not unacknowledged
often leads to unnecessary surgery,
chemotherapy, and radiation
May CAUSE cancer
SICKNESS INDUSTRY
CORRECT Q: What does health depend on?
CORRECT A: Optimally functioning liver
Cytochrome P450 - glutathione, P 53 spell
check = tumor suppressor gene
BAD SCIENCE & BAD ECONOMICS: What
chemical will stop symptoms? Can this
intervention be patented? Can government be
made to pay ?
BUT ….. !!!!
My sister’s life was saved by a mammogram …
my life was saved by a PSA test & surgery!
My doctor surely must know …
Health Canada couldn’t allow harmful
procedures and drugs to be sold!
“Faith is the enemy of reason.” P. Gotzsche
Cochrane Collaboration
P53 TUMOR SUPRESSOR
GENE
Produces a protein that forces cancer cells to commit suicide =
apoptosis
Robert A. Weinberg of MIT
The Biology of Cancer
p53 pathway: In a normal cell p53 is inactivated
by its negative regulator, mdm2. Upon DNA
damage or other stresses, p53 will allow either
cell repair and survival or apoptosis. How p53
makes this choice is currently unknown.
CA: most p53 dependent
Esophagus, ovary, colorectal, head& neck, pancreas, lung,
skin, stomach, bladder, brain, liver,
breast
CA: less p53 dependent
Uterus, lymphoma, endocrine, bones, soft tissues,
prostate, cervical
CYTOCHROME P450
Toxins (drugs, carcinogens, radiation) stress out
the liver’s super-detoxer, glutathione
Glutathione is a tripeptide that protects every
cell in our bodies from damage by free radicals
and
orchestrates the elimination of anything - loose
glutathione and you die
All immune function depends on P450
PSA
Prostate specific antigen enzyme
FDA approved 1994 - now $ 3 billion/y
80%+ not invasive – die with it not from it
Rapid-growing prostate CA – no treatment
PSA only useful after confirmed CA surgery
At least 2/3 “diagnosis” false positive*
HIGH RISK of impotence & diapers
Dr. ABLIN
New York Times March 10, 2010:
“I never dreamed that my discovery [in
1970] would lead to such a profit-driven
public health disaster. The medical
community must confront reality and stop
the inappropriate use of PSA screening [to]
save billions and rescue millions of men
from unnecessary, debilitating treatments”
MAMMOGRAPHY
Gotzsche, Mammography: Truth, Lies
and Controversy, 2012 Cochrane Collab.
S.S. Epstein, R. Bertell, B. Deaman,
Dangers and Unreliability of
mammography, Intern. J. Health Serv. 31
(3) 2001
CMAJ editorial Nov. 22, 2011 “Time to
stop mammography screening?”
CMAJ 2011 quote:
“The main effect of screening is to produce patients
with breast cancer from among healthy women who
would have remained free of breast disease for the rest
of their lives, had they not undergone screening… the
best method we have to reduce the risk of breast
cancer is to stop the screening program… if screening
had been a drug, it would have been withdrawn from
the market. Thus, which country will be first to stop
mammography screening?”
“…. 99.75% of the women screened unlikely to
benefit” from Epstein, Bertell, Seaman study 2001
COLORECTAL CANCER
Warning signs: constipation, blood in stool,
weight & appetite loss, nausea, vomiting, fever
Causes: 95% no genetic link – high fat diet, red
meat, alcohol, obesity, smoking, lack of exercise
P53 incapacitated, oncogenes over-expressed
Surgery imperative when bowel obstructed
Screening has not improved survival
COLORECTAL CA TESTS
Invasive, high radiation, high false positives
even in discovered polyps
Bowel prep and “conscious sedation” can
be very traumatic and cause memory loss
No better than PSA and mammography
Screening will not prolong life
Mortality unchanged since the 1950s
INFLAMMATION 1
Virchov 1863 noted puss in all CA
Inflammation 500 mill y.o. defense:
all living things have inflammation
enzymes, from fruit fly to us
1986 Harold F. Dvorak/Harvard:
Cancer = “wounds that do not heal.”
INFLAMMATION 2
R. A. Weinberg revised The Biology of Cancer
2006*
Gene damage “the match that lights the fire, and
inflammation is the fuel that feeds it” (S.A.2008)
On/Off inflammation switch NF-KB (nuclear
factor-kappa B) are disabled & “immune police”
p53 *
P53 can no longer” digest” tumors
Inflammation turns H. pylori, Hep C etc to CA
INFLAMMATION 3
Inflammation = code for
proliferation = metastasis
Inflammation = enemy of surgery
Biopsies risk CA cell spread
Tissue pressure in mammograms
HELPFUL TESTS
C-reactive protein - shows
INFLAMMATION
Thermography - pinpoints
INFLAMMATION
Hair analysis - reveals many
CARCINOGENS
ALL cancers require exposure to carcinogens
Screening should serve inflammation
C-REACTIVE PROTEIN
Released in response to injury,
inflammation, infection = leading blood
marker of inflammation
Diagnostic for both CA and
HEART/STROKE
Helpful to prevent these by making lifestyle changes, start detox, change diet
THERMOGRAPHY
Body temperature: Hippocrates 5th cent. BCE
For breast cancer since 1956
FDA approved 1982 –as adjunctive tool
Thermograms = physiology – noninvasive 90+% accuracy and CA seen
up to 10 years earlier
J. Obstetrics & Gynecology 1983 : 61% increased survival
HAIR ANALYSIS
Developed by WHO – used in forensics too
Provides a profile of last 3 months of 37
toxins and mineral deficiencies in the body
Correction of mineral needs and detox
permits prevention of CA, stroke, heart
attack, chronic diseases
Various laboratories – naturopaths/physicians
can order
CAUSES OF CA
FOOD & DRUGS
Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, food coloring, MSG,
preservatives, stabilizers, “natural” flavors, fluoride,
amalgams
GM foods, antibiotics, hormones
HRT, anti-depressants, cancer drugs, cholesterol drugs
etc
Sources: CPS, www.responsibletechnology.org
ENVIRONMENT
www.preventcancer.com
The President’s Cancer Panel Report May
2010
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals – 2012 by
WHO UNEP IOMC, March 2013
American Academy of Environmental
Medicine & IAOMT
CANCER CAUSES ARE
KNOWN
CA research based on animal models
ALL cancers can be induced artificially with
absolute specificity by carcinogens and/or
genetic modification
ALL conventional cancer treatments derive from
causing and treating artificially induced cancers
in animals
CA treatments are themselves carcinogenic
Dr. G. Welch, Overdiagnosed, 2011
Peter Goetzsche, Mammography Screening,
Cochrane 2012
Alan Cassels, Seeking Sickness, 2012
PLoS online-free
Total Wellness by Dr. Sherry Rogers
Helke Ferrie, Creative Outrage, Kos 2013
CONTINUED:
D. L. Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer,
2007
S. S. Epstein, National Cancer Institute and American
Cancer Society: Criminal Indifference … 2011 & The
Breast Cancer Prevention Program
N. Gonzalez, What Went Wrong, 2012
G. Faguet, The War On Cancer – Anatomy of Failure,
2004
CA – MAINSTREAM SUCCESS
Uterine & cervical & skin only surgery
Some breast CA – surgery only
Kidney (localized adenocarcinoma)
Some leukemias then detox & diet
Some thyroid cancers
Localized colon CA then detox & diet*
Burton Goldberg & Ralph Moss
CANCER TREATMENTS
THAT REALLY WORK
Gerson Institute California
Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez New York
Dr. Stanislav Burzynski Texas
BEWARE!
“New”, “breakthrough”, “experimental”,
“expensive”*
INVITATION TO A TRIAL Q: Who pays for this?
Does your doctor get a recruiting fee? Drug
compared to what?
ROUTINE TEST – Q: By what guideline?
Guideline members?
Research on internet: “The
there!”.
truth is out
SUMMARY
Screening serves industry, not patients
Prevention = life style & clean world
House of Medicine has “many
mansions”.
No external authority – do your own
research