{"id":83,"date":"2007-02-07T03:50:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/feeling-cynical-and-disenchanted\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:44:35","slug":"feeling-cynical-and-disenchanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/feeling-cynical-and-disenchanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling cynical and disenchanted about what&#8217;s being done for breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>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.\u009d &#8211; Dale Carnegie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe Dale Carnegie forgot some other strong motivaters &#8211; money and prestige. Let&#8217;s not forget community spirit, as in &#8211; <em>we&#8217;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.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And yes, some of the money goes into research, but maybe for some researchers it&#8217;s like &#8211; <em>heh, let&#8217;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&#8217;t really want a cure to be found. I like things just the way they are.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jonathan Cainer Sagittarius forecast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cainer.com\/\">https:\/\/www.cainer.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And some physicians may be like &#8211; <em>heh, it&#8217;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 <\/em><em>why don&#8217;t we make it mandatory for some women to have mammographies, even pre-menopausal women. Make it sound like they&#8217;re doing the right thing.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.preventcancer.com\/patients\/mammography\/ijhs_mammography.htm<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dangers and Unreliability of Mammography: Breast Examination is a Safe, Effective, and Practical Alternative<\/p>\n<p>Samuel S. Epstein, Rosalie Bertell, and Barbara Seaman<\/p>\n<p>International Journal of Health Services, 31(3):605-615, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;secondary prevention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DANGERS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY<\/strong><br \/>\nMammography poses a wide range of risks of which women worldwide still remain uninformed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u009d &#8211; Dale Carnegie I believe Dale Carnegie forgot some other strong motivaters &#8211; money and prestige. 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