Feeling cynical and disenchanted about what’s being done for breast cancer
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity. – Dale Carnegie
I believe Dale Carnegie forgot some other strong motivaters – money and prestige. Let’s not forget community spirit, as in – we’ll all get together and walk and raise money for a common cause because it makes us feel good and gives us all a reason to cheer.
And yes, some of the money goes into research, but maybe for some researchers it’s like – heh, let’s drag this thing along as long as possible cause this way I continue to have my prestigious job and earn big bucks, and no, I don’t really want a cure to be found. I like things just the way they are.
Jonathan Cainer Sagittarius forecast: https://www.cainer.com/
Some people are suspicious of medical research. When millions are raised in an attempt to find a cure for a malaise, entire industries grow dependent upon this income. Thousands of people end up in the strange position of searching for something that it is against their own best interest to find.
And some physicians may be like – heh, it’s not my problem if women want estrogen birth-control pills and menopausal women are demanding estrogen. Besides, we can always blame it on genetics. Lay people always fall for that one. And why don’t we make it mandatory for some women to have mammographies, even pre-menopausal women. Make it sound like they’re doing the right thing.
https://www.preventcancer.com/patients/mammography/ijhs_mammography.htm
Dangers and Unreliability of Mammography: Breast Examination is a Safe, Effective, and Practical Alternative
Samuel S. Epstein, Rosalie Bertell, and Barbara Seaman
International Journal of Health Services, 31(3):605-615, 2001.
Mammography screening is a profit-driven technology posing risks compounded by unreliability. In striking contrast, annual clinical breast examination (CBE) by a trained health professional, together with monthly breast self-examination (BSE), is safe, at least as effective, and low in cost. International programs for training nurses how to perform CBE and teach BSE are critical and overdue.
Contrary to popular belief and assurances by the U. S. media and the cancer establishment- the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and American Cancer Society (ACS)- mammography is not a technique for early diagnosis. In fact, a breast cancer has usually been present for about eight years before it can finally be detected. Furthermore, screening should be recognized as damage control, rather than misleadingly as “secondary prevention.”
DANGERS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Mammography poses a wide range of risks of which women worldwide still remain uninformed.
