Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 In the student's defense, the American Medical Association, the american cancer society, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Academy of Family Physicians still support teaching breast self-examination, and the idea is widely supported by physicians. "The idea that breast self-examination is not worthwhile really defies logic," wrote one gynecologist in 2002. "I've been in practice about twenty-five years, and I have had a number of patients who have found things themselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's no program in place to teach women about the anti-cancer effects of sunlight and vitamin D (in fact, cancer industry groups like the american cancer society run public service ads warning people about sunlight!), there's no honest effort to teach women about the natural anti-cancer medicine founds in certain foods, and no one is telling women the truth about the cancer-causing chemicals in perfumes, laundry detergent, cosmetics and personal care products. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In addition, one study by the american cancer society involving 200,000 menopausal women found that those who stay on HRT for more than 10 years show a 70 percent increase in ovarian cancer over those who use HRT for a shorter period of time.
According to another study by Smith JS, Green J, "Cervical Cancer and Use of Hormonal Contraceptives: A Systematic Review," The Lancet, 2003 Apr 5, cervical cancer is closely linked to oral contraceptives. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The American Cancer Society's Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods calls ellagic acid a promising natural supplement, largely because in lab studies it caused the death of cancer cells while leaving normal, healthy cells alone.
Perillyl alcohol inhibits tumor growth in animal models of pancreatic, stomach, colon, skin, and liver cancer. It's so promising that the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center is currently running a multiple-dose trial of perillyl alcohol on healthy women who have a history of breast cancer. |
Anne Harrington
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 A poll of 957 Americans commissioned by the american cancer society in 2005 found that, while many "false beliefs" about cancer still abounded, 89 percent of those polled disagreed with the statement that "all you need to beat cancer is a positive attitude."68 It is possible that many who said this would still have agreed that positive attitude was one of several important factors in beating cancer, but the poll did not allow for that level of nuance. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 American Cancer Society. Cigarette Smoking, http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ PED/content/PED0io02X0Cigarette°Smoking.asp
3 Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. The Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada 2002. http://www.ccsa.ca/CCSA/EN/Research/Research0 Activities/TheCost
4 Hoffer A. Adventures in Psychiatry. The Scientific Memoirs of Dr. Abram Hoffer. Caledon, Ontario: KOS Publishing Inc. 2005.
5 Williams RJ. Nutrition and Alcoholism. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951.
6 Williams RJ. Alcoholism: The Nutritional Approach. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1959. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Fill one half full with hot water (bath water tem-
*Adapted from the american cancer society, September 2006, cancer.org. perature). Fill the other one half full with ice cold water. Sit in the hot water for three minutes and then quickly sit in the cold for 30 seconds. Repeat this three times in succession. Quickly get dressed or put on a robe or blankets so as not to become chilled. The room where you are doing the treatment should be comfortable and warm.
CASTOR OIL PACK
Materials needed:
1. Wool flannel cloth
2. Plastic sheet (medium thickness)
3. Bath towel
4. Two safety pins
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Michael Pollan
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 McGovern "Goals" but also in the National Academy of Sciences report, the dietary guidelines of the American Heart Association and the american cancer society and the U.S. food pyramid bears direct responsibility for creating the public health crisis that now confronts us.
Even if we accept the epidemic of obesity and diabetes as the unintended consequence of the war against dietary fat— collateral damage, you might say—what about the intended consequence of that campaign: the reduction of heart disease? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: When studying the actions of the FDA, the American Medical Association, the american cancer society and the behavior of doctors, medical journals and drug companies, the phrase "evil empire" quickly comes to mind. Modern medicine is a medical racket, a drug monopoly and disease treatment scam that has been foisted upon the people of western nations (America, Canada, United Kingdom, etc.) in order to maximize corporate profits. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| All this, we should add, comes with significant private and public expense. The American Cancer Society's recommendation— yearly digital exam and fecal blood screening, and signoidoscopy every three years after age fifty—would cost $1 billion annually. The 1996 Task Force estimated the cost-effectiveness of screening at about $30,000 per year of life saved.40 It gave the grade "A" for colorectal screening, concluding that it is "effective in reducing mortality" and is "underused by age-eligible adults. |
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| Baker and Kaprio both believe that studies that have shown a strong association between
Michael Thun, MD, vice president, epidemiology and surveillance research, american cancer society. British Medical Journal. specific genes and a higher risk for cancer may be biased.
However, they note that certain genes may increase the risk for very specific types of cancer—for example, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which doctors know are strongly linked to breast cancer. But genes that encourage cancer in general are less likely, they say. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Patient-advocacy groups, whether it's the National Sleep Foundation or the american cancer society, want people to take action on matters that affect their health, and one of the most common means they use to motivate people is to scare them, make them worry they have whatever condition it is that the group wants to stamp out. Getting people to worry about a disease also serves pharmaceutical companies, because it widens the potential market for their drugs. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 One of the key dietary recommendations of the american cancer society is to include these cruciferous vegetables in your diet on a regular basis.
So mustard seeds come from veggie royalty. Other members of the same plant family include horseradish (see page 43) and cress. Mustard seeds, like their relatives, are able to produce isothiocyanates, which are aggressive substances that have the function of a chemical weapon against the plant's predators. Since these isothiocyanates are dangerous to the plants as well, they are stored in the plant organism as glucosinolates, which are harmless. |
| Even the american cancer society recommends eating it and other cruciferous vegetables. Though there are many compounds responsible for its impact on our health, one that deserves special mention is the indoles. Broccoli contains indole-3-carbinol, which, in addition to being a strong antioxidant and stimulator of detoxifying enzymes, seems to protect the structure of DNA. It also reduces the risk of breast and cervical cancer.
Indole-3-carbinol is of particular importance to women. Estrogen has three basic metabolites, and they behave somewhat differently in the body. |
| One of the key dietary recom-
Imendations of the american cancer society is to include these cruciferous vegetables in your diet on a regular basis.
Brussels Sprouts May Ward Off Colon Cancer
Brussels sprouts contain a chemical called sinigrin, which suppresses the development of precancerous cells. The breakdown product of sinigrin (allyl isothiocyanate) is the active ingredient in Brussels sprouts and is responsible for the characteristic smell of sprouts. |
Devra Davis
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 Lois Mattox Miller and James Mona-han, the Reader's Digest reporters who wrote this article, would go on to receive an award from the american cancer society for the work, which included this big disclosure: "It is entirely possible to manufacture filter tips much more efficient than any now on the market."Their big scoop played right into the hands of the tobacco industry. They revealed that improved filters already existed, would cost no more to produce and would remove 40 percent or more of all of the tars. How did they learn this? |
| Once again, the fingerprints of Clarence Cook Little, the former chief of the american cancer society, who became director of the Tobacco Industry Research Council, are evident. Little came up with a policy modeled on a well-known axiom that continually resurfaces in the war on cancer: If you can't beat them, join them. He promised that if research did prove a direct relationship between cancer and smoking, "The next job tackled will be to determine how to eliminate the danger from tobacco."4
Little was not alone in this view. |
| Some of the early leaders of the american cancer society and National Cancer Institute left their posts to work directly for the tobacco industry, where they funded major academic research programs throughout the world to foment uncertainty about the dangers of their product right up to the 1990s. While people may think of the ACS as a foremost supporter of research, in 2005 it reported spending less than
10 percent of its nearly billion dollar budget on independent scientific studies. |
| When he died in 1971 at the age of eighty-three, his obituary in the NewYork Times made no mention of his life as a flack for j theTIRC or of his earlier work with the american cancer society. He was memorialized as a cancer researcher who founded the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory in 1929 and ran it until his retirement in 19 5 6.32 The family members who provided the summary of this remarkable man's life let his last twenty-five years, the time he spent masterminding ways to magnify uncertainties about tobacco products, go unreported. |
| To carry out the objective of crafting a safer cigarette, the industry tapped respected researchers at private institutions, including the University of London, Wynder's American Health Foundation in New York, the American Medical Association and the american cancer society, as well as the U.S. government. Not only did all of these groups work with the tobacco industry to engineer a better smoke, they also came up with methods by which the chemical engineering and epidemiological safety of the product could be evaluated. |
| Foote's first major initiative was a name change: ASCC became the american cancer society. If the earlier name had signaled an intent to contain or limit cancer, the new name conveyed a more direct and powerful message. The ACS would not seek to control cancer but to obliterate it. Drawing on the militaristic language then coursing around the world, cancer was to be attacked, destroyed, and wiped off the earth. The WFA also got a snappier name, becoming simply the Field Army—a decidedly more masculine entity that incidentally now included men in positions of leadership. |
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| Prostate Cancer Facts
According to the american cancer society (ACS), prostate cancer is the second-leading cancer killer of men. An estimated one in six men will receive a prostate cancer diagnosis in his lifetime, and more than 30,000 Americans die of the disease each year.
The ACS now recommends an annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test as well as a digital rectal exam (DRE) for healthy men older than 50. The organization advises that men at higher risk—such as African-Americans and patients who have a history of prostate cancer in their family—begin such testing at age 45. |
| Smith, director of cancer screening at the american cancer society, says the new model has its pros and cons. "It does not distinguish between significant and not-significant disease. The calculator provides some help but not enough," he says.
"But it also allows an individual to take his PSA level and actually interpret it in the context of some other information based on the experience of a large number of men, [so he can] understand what the likelihood is that he has prostate cancer. So, I think it could actually be useful," Smith concludes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If it seems surprising to you that the american cancer society -- which claims to be against cancer -- would dissuade people from taking supplements that slash their cancer risk by 77 percent, then you don't know much about the ACS. In my opinion, the ACS is an organization that actually prevents prevention and openly supports the continuation of cancer as a way to boost its power and profits. The ACS is the wealthiest non-profit in America and has very close ties to pharmaceutical companies, mammography equipment companies and other corporations that profit from cancer. |
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| Some medical groups, such as the American Urological Society and the american cancer society, advocate annual screening for all men age 50 and older—and starting at age 40 or 45 for men at high risk (African-Americans and men who have a family history of the disease). Other groups, including the American Medical Association, advise doctors to spell out the risks and benefits of PSA testing and let the patients decide. Unfortunately, few men have all the facts about PSA testing. What men need to know...
INTERPRETING TEST RESULTS
PSA is produced by the walnut-sized prostate gland. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Notice the name, too: It isn't the American Anti-Cancer Society, it's the american cancer society! What they really stand for is right in the name!
Click here to read more about the ACS and its financial ties to chemical companies, pharmaceutical companies and radiology equipment manufacturers.
The cancer industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and I've written extensively about the criminal organizations that protect and promote the industry. Just about everything the public is told about cancer by these cancer institutions is a lie. |
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| Michael Thun, vice president of epidemiology and surveillance research at the american cancer society. "The things we know that are bad for you are bad for you in so many different ways that they won't become OK just because you're less susceptible to one or another disease," he says. Most of the genetic changes that cause cancer happen during your lifetime, not at birth, he adds.
A pivotal study of cancer in twins also suggests that genes are not the key culprits in this disease. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Another of nearly 80,000 women conducted for the american cancer society found that artificial sweetener users gained more than nonusers. And still more researchers reported in the International Journal of Obesity that rats fed saccharin-sweetened drinks ate three times more calories than rodents given sugar. Scientists speculate that sugar substitutes could play tricks on our brains and bodies, interfere with our automatic process for regulating calorie intake, and play a role in our obesity epidemic.
Nutrition specialist David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 CANCERS OF THE LUNG, ESOPHAGUS, MOUTH AND PHARYNX: Fruits and vegetables that are high in carotenoids, including leafy greens like kale, lower the risk of lung cancer, esophageal cancer, and mouth and pharynx cancers, according to the american cancer society.
BLADDER CANCER: In a study of 130 bladder cancer patients and an equal number of control subjects, those who had consumed kale regularly had a lower risk for bladder cancer.
Tips on Using Kale
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Smaller leaves are milder-flavored. Choose deeply colored leaves for tenderness and optimum flavor. |
| The american cancer society states that apricots and other foods rich in carotenes may lower the risk of cancers of the larynx, esophagus, and lungs. heart health: Patients who had the lowest level of beta-carotene intake had almost twice the risk of having a heart attack compared to those with the highest intake. Those with the highest intake of beta-carotene had about one-third the risk of suffering a heart attack and about one-half the risk of dying from it if they did have one. |
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