American Cancer Society Says Benefits of Early Detection Often Overstated

The chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society now says that the benefits of early detection are often overstated. The article, "Benefits and Risks of Cancer Screening Are Not Always Clear, Experts Say"
by Tara Parker-Pope for the New York Times, October 22, 2009 said, "You would have to screen 1000 women ages 50 and older for 10 years in order to avert one additional death from breast cancer, compared to a similar number who are not screened." Other highlights included ...

"In the case of prostate cancer, for every 100 men with diagnoses, as many as 70 have cancers that if left untreated would never have harmed them."

"...the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society now says that the benefits of early detection are often overstated."

The cancer society says it will continue to revise its public messages about cancer screening as new information becomes available.

Author T.S. Wiley (Lights Out and Sex, Lies, and Menopause) has been saying this for years based on her extensive research, and many of the doctors attending her Two Days Back on Earth environmental endocrinology seminars agree. Quoting from her book, in Chapter 5, p. 97," she stated, "As researchers and journalists, we looked back 150 years at the numbers. The statistics Rose Kushner unearthed also proved that early detection is worthless because breast cancer, statistically, kills half of all women diagnosed with it within five to ten years after diagnosis, no matter how early it’s detected. The statistics have never changed. If women never experienced the hormonal fall-off known as menopause, these cancers might never develop.”