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.In their release of statistics for that year we find this:such treatment.His findings were electric:It is estimated that over 10 million Americans alive today have aThe net value of surgery or caustics was in prolonging life twohistory of cancer, 7 million diagnosed five or more years ago.Mostmonths for men and six months for women.But that was only in theof these 7 million can be considered cured.(3)first few years after the initial diagnosis.After that period, thoseThis is the position of orthodox medicine.Therefore, let uswho had not accepted treatment had the greater survival potentialtake a look at the results and benefits of the so-called curesby about fifty percent.(1)obtained through surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.Recent surveys have produced similar results.Patients withSurgery is the least harmful of the three.It can be life-saving,breast cancer used to have, not only their tumor removed, but theparticularly where intestinal blockages must be relieved toentire breast and the lymph nodes as well.The procedure oftenprevent death from secondary complications.Surgery also hasremoved the ovaries also because cancer is stimulated by thethe psychological advantage of visibly removing the tumor andhormones they produce.Finally, in 1961, a large-scale survey wasoffering the temporary comfort of hope.However, the degree tobegun, called the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project.Afterwhich surgery is useful is the same degree to which the tumor isseven-and-a-half years of statistical analysis, the results werenot malignant, The greater the proportion of cancer cells in thatconclusive: There was no significant difference between thetumor, the less likely it is that surgery will help.The mostpercentage of patients remaining alive who had received themalignant tumors of all generally are considered inoperable.smaller operation and those who had received the larger.1.As quoted in College of Marin Times (Kentfield, Calif.), April 26,1972.1.Walter H Walshe, The Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology and Treatment of Cancer,2.Letter from Mabel Burnett dated Dec.18,1972; Griffin, Private Papers, op- cv-(Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1844).'3.Cancer Facts & Figures 1996, p.1. "PROVEN" CANCER CURES 141140 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part Oneof the disease.Thus, those cases in which the neoplastic processIt was to be expected that an effort would be made to discreditprogresses slowly [and thus automatically favors a long-termthis study.Teams of auditors combed over the records of 5,000survival] are more likely to become "treated" cases.For the samephysicians at the 484 medical centers which participated.In 1991reason, however, those individuals are likely to enjoy longerit was announced that the study was not reliable.Why? Becausesurvival, whether treated or not.Life tables truly representative ofone of the doctors (out of 5,000) had falsified his data and two ofuntreated cancer patients must be adjusted for the fact that thethe medical centers (out of 484) could no longer locate all theirinherently longer-lived cases are more likely to be transferred to thepatients' lab tests or consent forms.(1)"treated" category than to remain in the "untreated until death."But the evidence could not be buried.At the University ofThe apparent life expectancy of untreated cases of cancer after suchCalifornia-Irvine College of Medicine, a similar study conducted adjustment in the table seems to be greater than that of the treated cases.[Emphasis added]between 1984 and 1990 produced this conclusion: "All otherfactors being equal, there is no difference between BCS [breast-What, then, is the statistical chance for long-term survival ofconserving surgery] and total mastectomy in either disease-freefive years or more after surgery? That, we are told, depends onor overall survival."(2)the location of the cancer, how fast it is growing, and whether itOne of the nation's top statisticians in the field of cancer ishas spread to a secondary point.For example, two of the mostHardin B.Jones, Ph.D., former professor of medical physics andcommon forms of cancer requiring surgery are of the breast andphysiology at the University of California at Berkeley.After yearsthe lung.With breast cancer, only sixteen percent will respondof analyzing clinical records, this is the report he delivered at afavorably to surgery or X-ray therapy.With lung cancer, theconvention of the American Cancer Society:percentage of patients who will survive five years after surgery isIn regard to surgery, no relationship between intensity ofsomewhere between five and ten percent.(1) And these are optimis-surgical treatment and duration of survival has been found intic figures when compared to survival expectations for someverified malignancies.On the contrary, simple excision of cancersother types of cancers such as testicular chorionepitheliomas.has produced essentially the same survival as radical excision andWhen we turn to cancers which have metastasized to secon-dissection of the lymphatic drainage.(3)dary locations, the picture becomes virtually hopeless surgeryThat data, of course, related to surgery of the breast.Turningor no surgery.As one cancer specialist summarized it bluntly:his attention to surgery in general, Dr.Jones continued:A patient who has clinically detectable distant metastases whenAlthough there is a dearth of untreated cases for statisticalfirst seen has virtually a hopeless prognosis, as do patients whocomparison with the treated, it is surprising that the death risks ofwere apparently free of distant metastases at that time but whothe two groups remain so similar.In the comparisons it has beensubsequently return with distant metastases.(2)assumed that the treated and untreated cases are independent ofeach other.In fact, that assumption is incorrect.Initially, all cases areAn objective appraisal, therefore, is that the statistical rate ofuntreated.With the passage of time, some receive treatment, and thelong-term survival after surgery is, on the average at best, only tenlikelihood of treatment increases with the length of time since originor fifteen percent.And once the cancer has metastasized to asecond location, surgery has almost no survival value.The reason1.See Ravdin, R.G., et.al [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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