The Medical Journal of European Urology has recently published a study which says than 20% of men who are told to remove their prostates to stop their cancers regret it afterward. Why? The study suggests these patients had high expectations after being told of the amazing ease and sophistication of such radical procedure, to later realize in the privacy of their homes of the devastating consequences of such dramatic organ removal. The solution proposed: to better inform the patient of what life after a prostatectomy looks like. But, is this the right solution?
I’ve heard many times the term “surgical cure” applied to certain types of cancer. Conventional oncologists use this term when cancer hasn’t spread and the “contained” tumor is removed from your body. This term is a dangerous fabrication and I’m going to try to expose a few facts about cancer hoping to stop the spread of misconceptions and fallacies about what cancer is and what it’s not.
- Tumors are not made exclusively of cancer cells.
- Cancer cells cannot form tissue.
- Cancer cells reside within the tissue of the tumor. The tumor contains them.
- If you kill the cancer cells, the remaining tissue is harmless.
- The tumor is not the cancer, the cells within are.
- The size of the tumor is unimportant. The cancerous cells in the tumor are critical.
- The spreading of the cancer cells is what’s paramount.
- Reducing the size of the tumor does not reduce the cancerous cells in it, just the tissue which may contain them.
- Nothing in modern oncology manages the spread of the cancer cells successfully, just the size or the existence of the tumors.
On top of this, there is a new study that suggests cells may break off from a tumor even before they become cancerous, seeding the body with premalignant cells that evade detection, bypass chemotherapy, side step surgery, and lie dormant indefinitely before turning into tumors of their own. Apparently this seeding can happen even before the tumor becomes cancerous.
Today’s tumor-oriented oncology is brainwashing the rest of us into thinking that the tumor is the cancer. Doctors only discuss what patients intend to do about their tumors. Patients are rushed into taking radical preemptive measures to manage the spread of tumors, not the spread of cancer. What’s the best way to surgically-cure a cancer? To remove the organ that might be affected by it? Is this the smartest way to cure cancer after 60 years fighting the disease?
The raw truth is that there is not a thing in surgery today that will hamper the expansion of cancer. If this was not true, survival statistics today would not be the same as 50 years ago. And guess what? They are pretty much alike. Modern oncology has improved the way to attack, reduce, remove, and destroy tumors but has not been able to reduce the cancer mortality. I ask myself this question, then? Are they treating the right thing?
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