The term "breast cancer" refers to a malignant
tumor that has developed from cells within the breast. It does not
cause early symptoms but neither is it a mysterious disease that strikes
you suddenly.
Cancer occurs as a result of abnormal changes in the genes
responsible for regulating the growth of cells and keeping them healthy.
This could be attributed to genetics, an unhealthy lifestyle or simply
the everyday "wear and tear" in life. For a number of reasons any women
above the age of 20 years can fall a victim to this dreaded disease,
though the majority of advanced breast cancer cases are found in women
over the age of 50.
It is common knowledge that those women who educated themselves about why breast cancer occurs, either avoided it completely or combated it with confidence.
It is estimated that in the US alone 1500 women die of breast cancer
every day and over the course of a lifetime, 1 in 8 of all women will be
diagnosed with breast cancer. Surveys show that more and more women in
the US are undergoing a Mammogram or a MRI everyday.
Practitioners of non-conventional medicine (naturopaths and alternate
medicine experts) maintain that mammograms do far more harm than good.
Eighty percent of the million breast biopsies performed each year in the
US are in fact negative, but not detected as such, because of
inaccurate mammography. Why, then, does conventional medicine keep
recommending mammograms?
In Sweden alone, according to the medical authorities the proportion
of false "positive" results was alarmingly high in women under 50 years
and this is considered a serious and costly problem. Presumably the
better alternate, Breast Thermography, was approved by the FDA in 1982
for breast cancer detection and risk assessment but is seldom talked
about these days.
Mammography, like MRI and sonography, looks at anatomical changes of
the breast. It may take years for the tumor to grow to a sufficient size
to be detectable by either a mammogram or a physical examination. By
that time, the tumor may have already spread to the other parts of the
body.
Whereas the risk of breast cancer to women over 55 justifies the risk
of mammography, most medical experts are of the opinion that the risk
of breast cancer for women under 40 years is not high enough to justify
the risk of radiation exposure.
The National Cancer Institute has recommended chemotherapy for all
breast cancer patients, whether or not they have any visible signs of
cancer after surgery. Being unable to distinguish between cancerous and
healthy cells, this toxic drug ends up killing both. Chemotherapy, with a
dubious 3% success rate and horrible side effects does not cure cancer
or extend life beyond 5-7 years, with a totally destroyed quality of
life.
Radiation therapy, unlike chemotherapy, is considered a local
treatment. This means that cancer cells are only killed at the location
in the body where the radiation is delivered. If cancer exists outside
the targeted field, those cancer cells escape destruction.
So far, the effort to control cancer with conventional medicine has
failed to obtain its objectives. We are obviously losing ground with
conventional treatment because the death rates keep going up. This is
because modern methods are based on the faulty premises that only
aggressive and toxic methods can cure the body of cancer.
It is this complete lack of certainty as to the outcome of
conventional treatment that virtually pleads for more flexibility in the
area of cancer therapy. For obvious reasons, conventional medicine has
looked down upon any other forms of medicine that offers cheaper and
better treatment but the fact remains that only alternate medicine is
known to cure breast cancer with success for close to a century now.
So, forget what you may hear about breast cancer being a death
warrant and how you'll be subjected to the ravages of chemotherapy and
radiation--- the real cure lies before you.
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