October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we are reminded of our numerous friends and family members whose lives have been lost to this and other forms of the horrible scourge of cancer which has now reached epidemic proportions in our country. Although most would agree that it would be vastly preferable to prevent this scourge rather than treat it after it has already occurred, I take note of the fact that the month has been designated National Breast Cancer Awareness Month rather than National Breast Cancer Prevention Month.

I believe this is directly due to the fact that the cancer industry is now run by corporations that profit from cancer. With nearly all breast cancer nonprofits being subjugated by drug companies, the FDA (Federal Death Administration) censoring alternative medicine approaches, and the mainstream media wildly exaggerating the benefits of near-useless cancer drugs like Herceptin, there's hardly a message heard about cancer today that doesn't have a profit motive behind it.

When you try to talk to the conventional medical establishment about cancer prevention, they immediately switch the subject to the detection of cancer. And so it is that they place emphasis on breast cancer "screening," and the circus of holding breast cancer awareness months which, of course, is all about recruiting more women into a system of treatment that generates profits for oncologists, cancer centers, drug, biotech, and medical equipment companies. Using fear-based tactics of recruitment ("You'll die in six months if you don't undergo chemotherapy...") the breast cancer industry manages to coerce women of all races and ages into treatments that actually harm far more women than they help.

Researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Center in Denmark studied 500,000 women to determine the results of breast cancer screening programs. They found that for every one woman helped by breast cancer screening, ten were harmed through false diagnosis or unnecessary treatments that devastated their health.
 
In other words, breast cancer screening is surprisingly harmful to women. That's partly because the procedure itself irradiates the breast tissue and actually causes cancer, but also because practically any screening result producing a questionable blur on the final image may result in a woman being manipulated through fear into undergoing aggressive, toxic cancer treatments even when they never had breast cancer in the first place. False positives are extremely common in breast cancer screening, and in some cases, the machinery is incorrectly calibrated and doesn't even meet radiology standards. But hey, can’t a guy make a buck? Breast cancer screening centers, like free-standing MRI centers, make obscene profits for the people who own them. It’s a pretty slick deal. The machines are expensive, but the purchase price can be deducted on an accelerated depreciation schedule and the cost is fixed. The machine doesn’t care whether they run one person or 1,000 persons per day through it. The cost remains the same. Just hire a few minimum wage staff to run the women  through the process and fill out the insurance forms and you’re all set. These operations are money printing machines for the owners.

And of course, breast cancer screening does nothing to educate women about how to change their diets and lifestyles so that breast cancer never develops in the first place. In fact, the strategy of the cancer industry today can be best described as waiting for women to get cancer, so they can then treat it with toxic drugs, mutilating surgery, and deadly radiation because that’s what pays the most.

While tens of millions of women are developing undetectable, early-stage breast cancer right now, the cancer industry does nothing. They will not tell women how to halt the growth of cancer tumors; they will only wait until the cancer becomes large enough to see on a screening test, and then they will scare the women to death with authoritarian medical demands and start them on chemotherapy -- a treatment that causes permanent, irreversible harm to the brain, heart, liver, kidneys and other organs.

The World Health Organization admits that 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple changes in food and lifestyle. That number is probably conservative. It is likely that 90 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple food and lifestyle changes. Yet no one in the cancer industry is interested in teaching any of these strategies to women. The cancer industry thrives on more cancer, not less cancer. If cancer rates plummeted by 70 percent or more, the industry would be devastated. The incomes, egos and power positions of cancer industry operators depend entirely on the continued spread of cancer among the population.

There's no program in place to teach women about the increased cancer risk of wearing a bra more than 12 hours a day, the anti-cancer effects of sunlight and vitamin D3 (in fact, cancer industry groups like the American Cancer Society run public service ads warning people to avoid 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 properties of estrogen (another highly profitable industry promoted by unscrupulous hormone huckstering doctors that includes so-called “bioidentical” hormones), cancer promoting Omega-6 polyunsaturated grain and seed oils, the cancer promoting qualities of dietary grain and sugar, and carcinogenic chemicals in perfumes, laundry detergent, cosmetics, personal care products and our municipal water supply.

In other words, when it comes to preventing cancer, the cancer industry is silent. Why should they say anything? If they teach women how to prevent breast cancer, they lose customers. Besides, the scheme they're running right now is working brilliantly. They maximize revenues and profits by preventing prevention, waiting for women to get cancer, then treating them with high-profit pharmaceuticals, radiation and surgical procedures. They have the simplest business model in the world: All they have to do is keep their mouths shut about what causes cancer, and wait for new customers to fill the cancer centers. And to help them out, corporations, media organizations and volunteers (many are women!) actually help them raise more money! It makes about as much sense as holding a charity fundraiser ball for Warren Buffett.
 
Recommended book:
Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy by Samantha King.

Recommended web sites:
www.preventcancer.com
www.cancerdecisions.com

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Dr. Walter Goodpastor