Sunday, November 16, 2008

For concerns like cancer, which medical policy do you think is better, treatment or prevention

For concerns like cancer, which medical policy do you think is better, treatment or prevention?
The current official response to cancer is treatment, which you do or do not agree with ( compared to prevention ) ?
Cancer - 4 Answers
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1 :
prevention is better, a lot of people get cancer cause of bad habits like smoking, they need to stop making cigarrettes.
2 :
It is not a one or the other answer. Yes Prevention includes not smoking, protecting you skin, eating right, etc. But non smokers get lung cancer. Then there are cancers with no known causes e.g. what is the prevention of breast cancer? Cancer like cells are created all the time in your body and most of the time your immune system takes care of them. The various cancers have unknown triggers that turn them out of control. The treatment is to kill them through treatment.
3 :
Its an obvious choice-prevention! To start with, it would be a whole lot less expensive for the insurance companies to pay for checkups and testing than to eat the hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer treatments! But then the poor drug companies would lose money, because healthy people don't take drugs! I'm biased because I was diagnosed with stage 3 malignant melanoma two years ago, after suspecting the mole might be bad for a few years. My gp thought I was too young, so he wouldn't send me to a dermatologist and I had to have a referral for insurance. Needless to say, after $75,000 in surgeries and taking the insurance company to court to pay it, I definitely think I would have preferred to have it cut off years ago than to go through this nightmare!
4 :
Cancer can be prevented in the majority of cases, so I vote for prevention. (See research by T. Colin Campbell) The science is unequivocal. Former president L B Johnson quipped that the NIH is owned by industry. The same can be said of all major departments within the US Federal government. Our national policy in the US is treatment oriented and very little money has been spent on research of causes. We know that there are many type of toxic chemicals that cause the initiation of cancer. X-Rays and other injuries to cells can precipitate cancer when cell multiplication goes incorrectly. Most of these problems are corrected by the body's own immune system shortly after cancer initiation. There was one outstanding long-term study that received funding from NIH called the China project. This project showed that the growth of cancer (after initiation) is fed by consumption of animal proteins. Excess milk protein is particularly bad. Sadly, the most important health information is lost in a sea of industry disinformation with media help. Read for yourself a book written by T. Colin Campbell: "The China Study" You can find an online version of many chapters through Google books.



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