"For several years now, the medical community has been talking about the great strides they’ve been making in treating breast cancer, and as evidence they point to declining incidence and mortality statistics. But, once again, we’ve been "Disraelied." A recent study found that virtually all of the reduction seen in breast cancer incidence and mortality is the result of a reduction in the use of hormone replacement therapy by the medical community. In other words, the reductions have almost nothing to do with improved treatment but rather are the result of fewer doctors using a treatment that gives their patients terminal cancer. The medical community continues to brag about their “success” with breast cancer as though this new information never existed. It seems that chutzpah is now a medical term.
The medical community also promotes the fact that people are living longer with cancer than ever before. But if better testing is diagnosing cancer earlier than ever before, then, by definition, people would be living longer than ever before after diagnosis, even with no real change in the effectiveness in treatment or the actual survival rate, would they not? The truth is that people are not really living longer (not much, anyway) -- they’re just being given a longer death sentence. Now, those producing these statistics claim to have accounted for this quirk, but they haven’t really. For one thing, they don’t account for the number of people who die from the side effects of treatment."
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The medical community also promotes the fact that people are living longer with cancer than ever before. But if better testing is diagnosing cancer earlier than ever before, then, by definition, people would be living longer than ever before after diagnosis, even with no real change in the effectiveness in treatment or the actual survival rate, would they not? The truth is that people are not really living longer (not much, anyway) -- they’re just being given a longer death sentence. Now, those producing these statistics claim to have accounted for this quirk, but they haven’t really. For one thing, they don’t account for the number of people who die from the side effects of treatment."
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