Here is a story that should make you question everything you have ever heard or been told by your conventional doctor. Its the demise of one of the most promoted medical myths in history — the value of a breast self exam.
Several huge medical studies have challenged the dogma that self exam reduces breast cancer deaths. And worse, it may promote needless worry and worthless medical intervention. Doctors are split on the issue. So am I, but for totally different reasons than you might expect. Heres my take.
I think that a breast self exam is as worthless in saving lives as is a mammogram. But that is if the treatment you choose is the conventional medical paradigm of burn, slash, and poison. For this veteran of the trenches, detecting cancer early only to go through toxic treatment and disable your body to naturally protect you is an oxymoron. It is no wonder to me that positive results from conventional cancer therapy, no matter when the tumor is detected, have not progressed in 40 years.
You see, by the time you detect cancer with a mammogram or self-exam, its too late. The cancer is already there. And, by using conventional treatments, you are not addressing the factors that allowed it to take hold. That is why were seeing the almost total failure of conventional cancer medicine. That is not to say that conventional medicine does not help in specific isolated cases. I would be hard pressed to say otherwise. But in the big picture, I think it statistically has very little value.
On the other hand, I am not against early detection, if the treatment you choose promotes the God-given ability of your body to fight it off. That would include detoxification, nutritional support, exercise, and stress reduction.
The real answer, of course, is to stress prevention of cancer. Consider what we know about cancer causes today (nutrition, toxins, etc.). I say if we spent just 5% of our anti-cancer budget on educating the public on these matters, we would see a dramatic reduction in new cancer rates within 10 years.
Ref: McClatchy Newspapers, October 21, 2008.