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An earlier German comparison found that untreated post- Two years after diagnosis and treatment, this excess death rate had menopausal women with breast cancer live longer than treate fallen to 50%. The most common cause for the excess death rate women, and the recommendation was not to treat postmenopausal was listed as heart and respiratory failure. This means that, instead women for breast cancer.° This conclusion confirms a finding by of dying several years later from cancer, these patients died from the Emst Krokowski, a German professor of radiology. He demonstrated _ effects of the treatment and helped greatly improve the cancer conclusively that metastasis is commonly triggered by medical inter- _ statistics because they did not strictly die of cancer. '* This vention, including sometimes even by a biopsy or surgery unrelated — misleading reporting of cancer deaths has led to demands for more to the cancer.’ Disturbance of a tumour causes a greatly increase honest statistics." number of cancer cells to enter the bloodstream, while most medical After an analysis of several large mammogram-screening studies intervention (especially chemotherapy) suppresses the immune sys- found that mammography leads to more aggressive treatment with tem. This combination is a recipe for disaster. It is the metastases no survival benefits, even the editor of the Lancet had to admit that that kill, while primary tumours in general, and those in the breastin _ there is no reliable evidence from large randomised trials to support particular, can be relatively harmless. These findings have been con- | mammography screening programs.’ The significance of this state- firmed by recent research which shows that surgery, even if unrelate: ment goes far beyond the use of mammograms. to the cancer, can trigger an explosive spread of metastases and lead It is openly acknowledged by the proponents of conventional to an untimely end. medicine that they have no effective way of helping patients with This follows earlier reports that radical surgery for prostate cancer advanced cancer. Until now, the catchcry has always been "Detect it also tends to spread the disease. Actually, prostate cancer was early, then it can be cured". These mammogram evaluation studies investigated in the first randomised clinical trials for any type of | demonstrate that it does not matter when cancer is detected; the cancer. After 23 years, there was no conventional methods are useless, as is difference in the survival rates of those the whole multibillion-dollar cancer who had surgery and the controls who industry (my conclusion). did not have surgery, but those with A 13-year Canadian study involving surgery suffered more morbidity such as After 93 years, there was no 40,000 women compared physical impotence or incontinence. breast examinations with examinations The late H. B. Jones, Professor of difference in the survival rates plus mammograms. The mammogram- Medical Phi , was a leading US can- Jus-examinati had ma cer statistician, He said in a speech | Of those who had [prostate P funpectomies and surgeries, with a before the American Cancer Society in cancer] surgery and the death rate of 107 compared with 105 1969 that no study has proved that early intervention improves the chances of sur- vival. On the contrary, his studies proved conclusively that untreated can- cer victims live up to four times longer and with better quality of life than treated deaths in the physical examination group." Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a common, non-invasive form of breast tumour. Most cases of DCIS are detected through the use of controls who did not... ones.” Needless to say, he was not invited again. mammography. In younger women, 92% of all cancers detected by mammography are of this type. Nevertheless, on average, 44%— Massaging Statistics and in some areas 60%—of these are treated by mastectomy. As An epidemiological study confirmed the questionable value of most of these tumours are harmless, this needless treatment makes conventional therapy by concluding that "medical interventions for _ survival statistics appear to be better than they actually are.” cancer have had a negligible or no effect on survival".'' Even the While conventional diagnosis is invasive and may help to spread conservative New England Journal of Medicine had an article with the cancer, a kind of electrodermal screening—called the Biofield the headline, "Cancer Undefeated". test—developed by a team from eight European hospitals and uni- Common ways to make medical statistics look more favourable versities, was reported in the Lancet as being 99.1% accurate in are as follows. Patients who die during prolonged treatment with diagnosing malignancy in breast tumours." chemotherapy or radiotherapy are not counted in the statistics A large meta-analysis of radiotherapy results for lung cancer because they did not receive the full treatment. In the control group, showed that after two years there were 21% more deaths in the everyone who dies is counted. group that had radiotherapy in addition to surgery as compared to Furthermore, success commonly is judged by the percentage of those who had surgery alone. The Lancet article’’ stated that the shrinking tumours, regardless of patient survival; but if the rate or _rationale is to kill any cancer cells remaining after surgery, but it is a length of survival is measured, then it is usually only in terms of shame that the facts do not agree with this theory. a Te ally, h tha # of those who had [prostate cancer] surgery and the controls who did not ... Massaging Statistics An epidemiological study confirmed the questionable value of conventional therapy by concluding that "medical interventions for cancer have had a negligible or no effect on survival".'' Even the conservative New England Journal of Medicine had an article with the headline, "Cancer Undefeated". Common ways to make medical statistics look more favourable are as follows. Patients who die during prolonged treatment with chemotherapy or radiotherapy are not counted in the statistics because they did not receive the full treatment. In the control group, everyone who dies is counted. Furthermore, success commonly is judged by the percentage of shrinking tumours, regardless of patient survival; but if the rate or length of survival is measured, then it is usually only in terms of dying from the treated disease. It is not normally shown how many of the patients die due to the treatment itself. The current trend is to pick up pre-cancerous conditions very early and treat them as cancer. While this statistically increases the number of people with cancer, it also artificially prolongs survival times and lowers death rates, thereby making medical treatments appear to be more successful. However, there may also be a genuine component of improved survival, as increasing numbers of cancer patients opt for additional natural therapies. An investigation of the records of 1.2 million cancer patients revealed that the death rate attributed to non-cancer death shortly after treatment was 200% higher than would normally be expected. Chemotherapy: Medical Russian Roulette Chemotherapy for children with leukaemia and Hodgkin's disease is the proud showpiece of the arguably only apparent success of orthodox cancer therapy. Now a long-term follow-up study shows that such children develop 18 times more secondary malignant tumours later in life. Even worse, girls face a 75 times (7,500%) higher risk of breast cancer by the time they are forty.” A main problem appears to be the development of deep or systemic Candida albicans infections shortly after commencement of chemotherapy.” If these infections are not appropriately treated, then relapses or future health problems are likely to occur. 26 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com