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In
1971-when President Richard Nixon declared "war on cancer" the
chance of a woman getting breast cancer over her lifetime was 1 in
20, which was up from 1 in 30 in 1960. Today--after hundreds of
millions of dollars of research money spent fighting the
disease--the odds have dropped to a shocking 1 in 8. Every three
minutes, a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast
cancer; every 12 minutes a woman dies from it.
 According
to the American Cancer Society, more than 180,000 women will be
diagnosed with breast cancer in the coming year, and about 46,000
women will die from it. Breast cancer has become the second
largest cause of cancer deaths in women (next to lung cancer), and
the leading cause of death for women between 35 and 54. Ever since
the "war on cancer" was declared, more women have died of breast
cancer than the total number of Americans who lost their lives in
World War I & II, the Korean war, and the Vietnam war combined!
The Campaign
For Earlier Diagnosis Of Breast Cancer
The escalating
breast cancer rate (1.8% per year since 1973) has occurred in
spite of major efforts in the past 24 years by the government and
the American Cancer Society to convince women to go in for regular
mammograms and to perform more frequent self breast examinations.
The purpose of this massive propaganda campaign has been to
promote the early diagnosis of breast cancer in an effort to
increase the odds of curing the disease.
 The
result of this campaign has been a substantial increase in the use
of mammography. Only a small decrease in mortality from breast
cancer, which has, obviously, been grossly insufficient to stem
the tide of the increasing incidence of the disease. It is
responsible for killing middle-aged women at an unprecedented
rate, and striking terror into the hearts of women of all ages!
The problem with early diagnosis as a means of preventing breast
cancer is that even "early" diagnosis may often be too late. By
the time most breast tumors are found through mammography, they
are already teeming with a hundred billion cancer cells after 8-10
years of development. Moreover, in about 50% of cases, metastasis
has already occurred by the time the tumor is detected.
The Failure Of
The Medical Establishment
In the face of
the vast, rapidly-growing number of women who have been mutilated,
made ill, and died as a result of the breast cancer epidemic. Tens
of millions of women who live in abject terror that they may soon
become victims of this horrific disease the behavior of the
medical establishment has been pitiful and absolutely appalling!
In spite of new and exciting alternatives for the treatment of
breast cancer, the establishment has refused to budge from its
exclusive use of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy to treat
women with breast cancer. Although these modalities cause severe
pain, disfigurement, and terrible illness with only a modest
"cure" rate, very few oncologists have even considered the use of
alternative immune-system-boosting cancer therapies.
Even more shocking, however, has been the failure of the
establishment to consider the prevention of breast cancer, which
is a far better alternative than any type of treatment. This utter
abdication of moral and medical responsibility has come in the
face of a vast and rapidly growing body of scientific evidence
that every woman can reduce her risk of breast cancer
significantly!
At the Life Extension Foundation, we never give up on any of our
members, no matter how sick or close to death they may be. We've
presented vital, Potentially lifesaving INFOrmation about
innovative new treatments for cancer (including breast cancer) in
past issues of
LIFE EXTENSION MAGAZINE, and we will continue to do so in the
future.
In this issue of the magazine, however, we focus on the critical
issue of preventing breast cancer. The INFOrmation and advice in
this article has been derived in part from a new book on the
subject:
How To Prevent Breast Cancer by Ross Pelton, Ph.D., Taffy
Clarke Pelton, M.A., and Vinton C. Vint M.D. You can purchase this
book
On-Line.
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