ANY CANCER SCREENING FAILS…We are so incredibly focused on treatment in this country that our definition of “prevention” has become so skewed as to believe that by finding something early we are “preventing” it. What’s smarter…moving the gas can without a cap from next to the gas water heater or putting up a smoke detector […]
Another Cancer Screening Fails – We are so incredibly focused on treatment in this country that our definition of “prevention” has become so skewed as to believe that by finding something early we are “preventing” it. What’s smarter…moving the gas can without a cap from right next to the gas water heater or putting up […]
IS MAINSTREAM MEDICINE’S IDEA OF “PREVENTION” FALLING APART? While there is a clear distinction between early detection and prevention, mainstream medicine does not seem to recognize this. Mammography, colonoscopy, PSA screening…these are all designed to catch disease in its early stage, but they are all catching the DISEASE (or at least the precursor to the disease […]
The link between breast cancer and alcohol intake has bounced back and forth between no risk and increased risk. The past few years has seen this association settling in on the recommendation that alcohol intake does increase your risk for breast cancer. The mechanism relates to the fact that alcohol raises the level of sex-steroid […]
It goes without saying that preventing prostate cancer in the first place is the better idea. But there are clearly times when the cat is out of the bag and you need to do whatever you can to increase your odds of prostate cancer survival. Increasing your odds of surviving prostate cancer as well as […]
