The Cancer Industry

When patients aren’t scared-to-death and rushed into treatment by their doctors, rates of spontaneous regression can be seen as high as 7% in renal carcinoma patients,[62] up to 15% in melanoma patients[63] and up to 20% in patients with low-grade lymphoma.[64] Some studies have recorded even higher rates of spontaneous regression.[65-68]

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2015 investigated the 20-year mortality rates of more than 108,196 women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ. Results showed that 20-years after diagnosis, treated or not, only 3.3% of the women died of breast cancer.[37] The results of this study prompted Laura Esserman, M

Breast Cancer More than 60,000 women in the United States are diagnosed every year with a type of early-stage breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).[34] Between the years 1983 and 2003 there was a 500% increase in the number of women diagnosed with DCIS,[35] most of whom underwent damaging and unnecessary surgical procedures.[36] And

Cancer surgery: “The conclusion from the previous analysis, that surgery has not been shown to reduce mortality for any form of cancer, is therefore still valid.”

Early detection: “No correlation was found between reduced breast cancer mortality and earlier surgical intervention. In fact, the trial with the most earlier surgical intervention had the smallest reduction in mortality; and that with the least earlier surgical intervention had the largest reduction in mortality. This demonstrates that the earlier

A 2012 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that one in three women (33%) diagnosed with breast cancer from a mammogram are misdiagnosed, and that a whopping 1.3 million women have been overdiagnosed by mammography in the past 30 years.[32]

Over the course of 10 mammograms, women in the United States have between a 58-77% chance of being falsely diagnosed with breast cancer.[30] Another study found that for women with multiple breast cancer risk factors, like a strong family history, prolonged use of the contraceptive pill, etc. – the ones most strongly urged to have annual mammograms

Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment One of the major failures of mammography is how frequently it results in misdiagnosis of breast cancer.

The 25-year combined follow-up of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study 1 and 2 was one of the largest and most meticulous studies ever conducted on mammography. Published in the British Medical Journal in 2014, results showed that “Annual mammography in women aged 40-59 does not reduce mortality from breast cancer beyond that of physical ex