PROSTATE CANCER
In the New York Times
Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, but How?
By Gina Kolata FULL ARTICLE click below
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/health/27canc.html
By GINA KOLATA
Published: October 26, 2009
Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened.
Cancer Society, in Shift, Has Concerns on Screenings (October 21, 2009)
Health Guide: Cancer
But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that view into question. Besides finding tumors that would be lethal if left untreated, screening appears to be finding many small tumors that would not be a problem if they were left alone, undiscovered by screening. They were destined to stop growing on their own or shrink, or even, at least in the case of some breast cancers, disappear.
“The old view is that cancer is a linear process,” said Dr. Barnett Kramer, associate director for disease prevention at the National Institutes of Health. “A cell acquired a mutation, and little by little it acquired more and more mutations. Mutations are not supposed to revert spontaneously.”
So, Dr. Kramer said, the image was “an arrow that moved in one direction.” But now, he added, it is becoming increasingly clear that cancers require more than mutations to progress. They need the cooperation of surrounding cells and even, he said, “the whole organism, the person,” whose immune system or hormone levels, for example, can squelch or fuel a tumor.
Cancer, Dr. Kramer said, is a dynamic process.
It was a view that was hard for some cancer doctors and researchers to accept. But some of the skeptics have changed their minds and decided that, contrary as it seems to everything they had thought, cancers can disappear on their own.
“At the end of the day, I’m not sure how certain I am about this, but I do believe it,” said Dr. Robert M. Kaplan, the chairman of the department of health services at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, adding, “The weight of the evidence suggests that there is reason to believe
Now bottom line is, there are incredibly good Doctors out there. First I don't go against medicine; I don't think medicine is all bad. The problem with medicine today is because they've looked at it as a business rather than a service and I'm a major believer in free enterprise, I don't think socialism works, I've lived in Europe. It doesn't work. It breaks people's spirit, and it crushes people. It's that simple. But where I'm a flaming socialist is in healthcare. This should be the sacred area. This should the one foremost area that I don't care if you're the poorest person, I don't care if you're the richest person, we get the finest quality care. In this country we are very capable of doing that. If we just precluded wasting money on a lot of other unnecessary harmful things. With that said, these poor Doctors are in a position, even though they think they're free thinkers and they're quite bright thinkers by the way, you don't go to school for twelve years and get good grades and get a Medical degree unless you're a fairly sharp woman or man. They literally believe in their own craft. Now let's go back...
If you we're dealing with Prostate Cancer in a lot of civilized places in the world where profit isn't first, they don't touch you a lot. They don't poke with you do things like they're doing today. There's different theories, different philosophies out there, but the bottom line is in general, most civilized countries in Europe wouldn’t touch you. Because they realize that Prostate Cancer isn't quite what we think it is. Not too many years ago they said a five was quite normal, and it wasn't a disease that all the men thought they had called Prostate Cancer. All at once they created a whole new industry. They brought it down to two. Overnight men who didn't even know they had a prostate, now all they're worrying about is their prostate. They even put tricky little things out and they said, you live long enough and you're gonna get Prostate Cancer. Now, bottom line is the prostate is called male Breast Cancer. The most hormonally right place on a woman is her breast, the most hormonally rich place on a man is prostate. It's a big part of your sexual organ system. The problem with that is that's where most of the hormones are. Hormones are messengers that go from one cell to another. All at once they start to cut into this and the hormones start to give very interesting messages. Now the typical classic thing I've seen in thirty eight years, with Prostate Cancer you start to play with it and you start to mess with it, you start to cut it, you start to burn it, and then it goes into the hip bones, it goes into the liver, and then we have a real problem.