- The great deceit began in the early 1970s. It was concocted
by insiders at the American Cancer Society (ACS) and their "friends"
at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
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- The number of women who were put "at risk"
or who died as a result of this nefarious scheme is not known but estimated
to be huge.
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- The Director of the NCI at the time of this massive abuse
of the public trust later left government service and took a high paying
position at ACS (sort of a payoff).
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- The American Cancer Society's self serving program (financial
scheme) continues to the present day (1999) and probably into the 21st
century until enough women realize the stakes and force an end to the lie
and the terrible dangers.
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- The American Cancer Society (ACS) particularly wanted
to push mammography because it could be tied in with the Society's own
financial objectives (keep in mind the ACS slogan "a check and a checkup").
And the radiologists, of course, loved the ACS program. There were few,
if any, powerful voices individual or institutional which cried out, "No!"
or "God No! Don't do this. NO. NO. NO."
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- The collusive attack on healthy American women happened
because "the fix was in."
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- Powerful politicians and the media were silent.
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- Silent as sleeping sentinels while a determined, aggressive,
self serving gang of sophisticated operatives manipulated the nation's
entire cancer program to suit its own interests. And to hell with the millions
of American women who would pay the price for the next thirty years or
more, well into the 21st century.
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- In 1978, Irwin J. D. Bross., Director of Biostatistics
at Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research commented about
the cancer screening program: "The women should have been given
the information about the hazards of radiation at the same time they were
given the sales talk for mammography... Doctors were gung ho to use it
on a large scale. They went right ahead and X rayed not just a few women
but a quarter of a million women... A jump to the exposure of a quarter
of a million persons to something which could do more harm than good was
criminal and it was supported by money from the federal government and
the American Cancer Society." (P1)
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- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) was warned in 1974
by professor Malcolm C. Pike at the University of Southern California School
of Medicine that a number of specialists had concluded that "giving
a women under age 50 a mammogram on a routine basis is close to unethical."
(P2)
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- Repeat... The experts in the government were told not
to do this to healthy women in the YEAR 1974! The warning was ignored because
Mary Lasker (whose husband was the dark advertising devil behind the Lucky
Strike cigarette advertising campaigns) and her advertising / promotional
/ corporate power types at the American Cancer Society (ACS) wanted mammography.
Everyone else could go to hell. What Mary and her powerful political allies
wanted in the cancer world, they got. Everyone else, including the public,
was ignored.
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- By the early 1980s, NCI and ACS were at it again. They
jointly put forth new guidelines promoting (again!) ... annual breast X
Rays for women under age 50. They just simply refused to give up their
lucrative racket. (One official candidly admitted the publicity brought
in more research money for both institutions.) They refused to do what
was not in their personal, empire building interest no matter the cost
in human lives.
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- ".doctors and their patients assumed that there
was good evidence supporting those recommendations. But at the time, only
one study showed positive benefit and the results were not significant."
(P3)
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- In 1985, the respected British medical journal The Lancet,
one of the five leading medical journals in the world, published an article
which ripped the NCI-ACS propaganda to shreds. It not only (again!) exposed
the original onslaught by the high level ACS NCI conspirators in the early
middle 1970s against a quarter million unsuspecting American women, but
reviled the continuing 1980s ACS NCI propaganda.
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- "Over 280,000 women were recruited without being
told that no benefit of mammography had been shown in a controlled trial
for women below 50, and without being warned about the potential risk of
induction of breast cancer by the test which was supposed to detect it
... ... in women below 50... mammography gives no benefit..." (P4)
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- But nothing happened. Mammography was known to cause
cancer but the media and the "health officials" in the government
stayed silent! The mammography policy pushed by the American Cancer Society
to fill its bank account remained the U. S. government policy for ten more
years until a massive Canadian study showed conclusively what was known
20 YEARS before but what was not in the interests of ACS and NCI to admit:
X raying the breasts of women younger than age 50 provided no benefit and
probably endangered their lives.
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- In February 1992 Samuel Epstein, professor at the University
of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago, a tireless opponent of the "cancer
establishment," along with 64 other distinguished cancer authorities
opposing the status quo thinking, warned the public about the ACS NCI shenanigans.
The ACS and NCI (like long married felons caught in a crime together) were
outraged, terming Dr. Epstein's reference to the breast studies as "unethical
and invalid."
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- The next month, the Washington Post broke the story into
the mainstream media (finally!). It published an article by Dr. Epstein
which exposed what the ACS and their insider "friends" at NCI
had done to countless women twenty years earlier and continued for twenty
years until 1992. Dr. Epstein wrote:
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- ".The high sensitivity of the breast, especially
in young women, to radiation induced cancer was known by 1970. Nevertheless,
the establishment then screened some 300,000 women with Xray dosages so
high as to increase breast cancer risk by up to 20 percent in women aged
40 to 50 who were mammogrammed annually.
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- Women were given no warning whatever; how many subsequently
developed breast cancer remains uninvestigated.
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- ".Additionally, the establishment ignores safe and
effective alternatives to mammography, particularly trans illumination
with infrared scanning.
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- ".For most cancers, survival has not changed for
decades. Contrary claims are based on rubber numbers." (P5)
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- The crimes described were crimes. They were not errors
of judgment. They were not differences of scientific opinion. They were
conscious, chosen, politically expedient acts by a small group of people
for the sake of their own power, prestige and financial gain, resulting
in suffering and death for millions of women. They fit the classification
of "crimes against humanity."
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- In December of 1992, the New York Times published facts
about the Mammography scam. The story included the following:
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- "Dr. I. Craig Henderson, director of the clinical
cancer center at the University of California in San Francisco, said, 'We
have to tell women the truth' ...
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- "Dr. Robert McLelland, a radiologist at the University
of North Carolina School of Medicine, said... 'In our zeal to promote mammography,
we as radiologists and I'm one of them haven't looked at the evidence.'
" (P6)
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- In July 1995, the prestigious British medical journal
The Lancet blasted (again) the whole ACS NCI mammography scam into global
awareness:
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- "The benefit is marginal, the harm caused is substantial,
and the costs incurred are enormous..." (P7)
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- But the spreading knowledge of what was going on made
no difference to the bureaucrats "protecting the public" at the
NCI and the FDA who had their empires to protect. And of course the American
Cancer Society (ACS) furiously fought every attempt by those with any
honor in the federal agencies who sought to restrict the number of mammography
examinations for individual women or to extend the age at which a woman
had her first one. Mammography was the American Cancer Society's ".sacred
cow" (cash cow) and they wanted legions of women to begin having annual
exams as early as the ACS could brainwash them into doing ("a check
and a checkup").
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- By 1999, even celebrity poet Maya Angelou was shamefully
and ignorantly promoting Mammography in public service ads on television,
parroting the American Cancer Society's propaganda spiel. Nothing had changed.
Those "protecting the public" at NCI and FDA were doing the exact
opposite. They were hiding, protecting their little empires, while American
women were being needlessly exposed to dangerous, cancer causing X rays.
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- In September 1999, the full depth of the decades long
deceit was explicitly described in an article in the journal Alternative
Medicine. It would reach relatively few mainstream American women who were
being brainwashed by the "interests" through the mainstream media
and pliable state and federal legislators representatives of the people")
but it did provide a torch glow in a dark night.
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- Here's the awful truth it stated baldly like a screaming
American eagle to any American woman fortunate enough to read the hard
facts:
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- ".Mammograms increase the risk for developing breast
cancer and raise the risk of spreading or metastasizing an existing growth,'
says Dr. Charles B. Simone, a former clinical associate in immunology and
pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute...
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- ".the annual mammographic screening of 10,000 women
aged 50-70 will extend the lives of, at best, 26 of them; and annual screening
of 10,000 women in their 40s will extend the lives of only 12 women per
year." (P8)
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- So there's the lie and the depth of the Mammography Deceit
spelled out: mammography will extend at best 2 women's lives for 10,000
women put at risk in order to benefit radiologists, the American Cancer
Society, assorted bureaucrats, and other "interested" parties
who profit off the vast, well organized mammography deceit when safe alternatives
exist but are ignored!
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- And that brings us back to the essential issues and fundamental
principles which once guided the American nation into greatness. Which
of course forces us to look again at the cancer empire's tyranny and threat
to everything once held sacred in America.
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- The fine political thinker Hannah Arendt who studied
the Nazi and Soviet tyrannies, and wrote brilliant works on the evil at
the core of fascism and communism, scolds those of us who today surrender
to the bureaucrats, conscious, unaccountable deceits and tyrannies. Hannah
Arendt's words:
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- ". Bureaucracy... the rule by Nobody. Indeed, if
we identify tyranny as the government that is not held to give account
of itself, rule by Nobody is clearly the most tyrannical of all, since
there is no one left who could even be asked to answer for what is being
done.
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- ". Bureaucracy is the form of government in which
everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act. It enables
him to get together with his peers, to act in concert, and to reach for
goals and enterprises which would never enter his mind, let alone the desires
of his heart, had he not been given this gift to embark upon something
new."
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- It is time for women to try something new, such as the
Thermal Image Processor (TIP) and to toss dangerous mammography, toss the
American Cancer Society, and toss the ACS's lackeys at NCI into the dustbin
of history. (P10) BBC News HEALTH New concerns over breast screeningSubject:
BBC News HEALTH New concerns over breast screening. htm
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- New Concerns Over Breast Screening
- Spotting cancers: But do mammograms save lives? A fresh
row has broken out over controversial claims that screening for breast
cancer may not actually be saving lives. The research was first published
last year, but has been re-examined following a series of protests from
cancer organisations over the findings. Now one of the world's leading
medical journals, The Lancet, agrees that there is not enough evidence
from large-scale trials to support breast screening. However, cancer charities
and the UK cancer screening programme disagree strongly with their verdict.
At present, there is no reliable evidence from large randomised trials
to support screening mammography programmes
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- By Richard Horton,
- Editor,
- The Lancet
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- All UK women aged between 50 and 64 are currently offered
screening once every three years. It is hoped that tumours may be spotted
earlier, making treatment more likely to provide a cure. Currently, it
is reckoned that as many as 300 lives are saved a year by breast screening
- and more recent estimates suggest this annual figure is climbing rapidly.
However, two Danish researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen
have re-examined the seven large-scale studies looking into the effectiveness
of breast screening. They say that the studies which support breast screening
are either flawed or weak, with the only two high quality studies showing
no benefit at all. In addition, they suggest that screening may result
in women receiving more aggressive treatments for cancer, increasing the
number of mastectomies by approximately 20%. They write, in The Lancet:
"We hope that women, clinicians and policy-makers will consider these
findings carefully when they decide whether or not to attend, or support
screening programmes." Flood of criticism The Danish pair, Peter Gøtzsche
and Ole Olsen, first voiced these criticisms last year, and provoked a
flood of protest as a result. In the light of this, they say, they have
thoroughly reviewed their work - and reached the same conclusion. "We
found the results confirmed and strengthened our original conclusion,"
they wrote. However, cancer organisations in the UK have repeated their
attacks on the conclusions. We found the results confirmed and strengthened
our original conclusion
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- By Peter Gøtzsche and Ole Olsen
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- Many are worried that any adverse publicity about breast
screening will dissuade women from coming forward.
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- Stephen Duffy, an expert in breast screening from the
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, said that the five studies which supported
the use of mammograms should not have been excluded.
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- He said: "Studies in the UK and Sweden by ICRF
and others have shown breast cancer screening substantially reduces women's
risk of dying of breast cancer.
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- "Research published only in May demonstrated that
women who attend regular breast screenings may reduce their risk of dying
by more than 50%." Disagreements
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- A spokesman for the UK Breast Screening Programme agreed:
"The way Gøtzsche and Olsen classified studies was based on
criteria that would not be agreed by many experts in the field. Studies
in the UK and Sweden by ICRF and others have shown breast cancer screening
substantially reduces women's risk of dying of breast cancer
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- Stephen Duffy, Imperial Cancer Research Fund "Indeed
many researchers would classify all seven studies as of similar quality,
and when the results from all seven studies are combined, there is clear
evidence of the benefit from mammography."
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- If existing studies are too weak to support the use
of breast screening, then the chances of organising large-scale replacements
are slim, as these would have to involve a sizeable "control"
sample who would not be screened for the purposes of comparison.
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- As most clinicians already feel that breast screening
offers a significant benefit, it would probably be felt ethically unsound
to leave so many women without it.
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- However, the fact that The Lancet now backs the Danish
team is a significant move in supporting those who question the benefits
of breast screening. Editor Richard Horton wrote: "Women should expect
doctors to secure the best evidence about the value of screening mammography.
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- "At present, there is no reliable evidence from
large randomised trials to support screening mammography programmes."
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- Professor Michael Baum, from the Portland Hospital in
London, says that it is now right that women should be presented with all
the evidence about screening before they give their consent.
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- He said: "Even with the most optimistic estimates
on saving lives, you would still have to screen 1,000 women for 10 years
to save one life.
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- "If you have one significant adverse event which
costs a life in this group over this period, all that benefit is cancelled
out.
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- "The Lancet is a highly influential journal and
if they are backing this review, it's highly significant." WATCH/LISTEN
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- ON THIS STORY
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- The BBC's Karen Allen "The scientists are being
backed by one of the most respected medical journals" Cancer surgeon
Professor Michael Baum "The statistics have to be taken very seriously"
On the BBC's Today programme: Ole Olsa, one of the authors of the report,
and Julietta Patnick of the NHS screening programme
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