Are you curious? If so then you may find this presentation by Dr. John McDougall quite interesting. In it he shows why decreasing probability for developing detectable cancer in the first place is so desirable an idea and practice.
File this under an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure:
And then, after watching, if you presented this information to your medical doctor (if you could get their attention long enough in the first place...an unlikely scenario) the response you'd probably get would be along the lines of harrumphing and sputtering. One thing they would not be able to produce is science countering the science presented here.
Information like this can be very unsettling. We do not want to know the man behind the curtain is no wizard after all. The truth is the responsibility for your health cannot be handed over to others, and you are, in fact, almost solely responsible for it yourself.
Information is power. The purpose of misinformation is to persuade one to give control of one's destiny over to others, in this case, for profit, at the expense of your health.
And how big a cost is that exactly?
It seems that one benefit of testing might be scaring you into changing your lifestyle once you get a negative diagnosis
ReplyDelete....although unfortunatley more often the response is to just get on the medical marry go round...if a cancer diagnosis occurs.