{"id":399943,"date":"2010-03-07T11:54:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T16:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/pricey-screenings-make-no-difference-treatment-40475\/"},"modified":"2010-03-07T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T16:54:54","slug":"pricey-screenings-make-no-difference-in-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/399943","title":{"rendered":"Pricey screenings make no difference in treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pricey screenings make no difference in treatment<\/p>\n

<\/b>Breast cancer survivors are routinely held up for thousand- dollar MRI exams… but a new study shows they don’t make a dime’s bit of difference. <\/p>\n

Of course, if you’ve been listening to me, you already know that. <\/p>\n

The new study looked at women who’d been conned already by the breast cancer scam — patients who were treated once (almost certainly unnecessarily) and facing the possibility of going under the knife again. <\/p>\n

Nothing like a repeat customer, right? <\/p>\n

British researchers followed 1,623 breast cancer patients at 45 clinics who were put through the ringer of the standard "triple assessment." That’s the unholy trinity of an exam, an X-ray or ultrasound, and a lab test used to trick more women into unnecessary cancer treatments. <\/p>\n

Roughly half of these women got MRIs as well… while the other half didn’t. <\/p>\n

In the end, 19 percent of the women in both groups were told they’d need another operation within six months of their first surgery. That’s 19 percent \u0096 whether they had that big-money MRI or not, according to the study published in Lancet. <\/p>\n

And a year later, there was no difference in the quality of life of either group. I’m sure a few MRI owners had a boost in their quality of life, though — with breast scans that can cost up to $1,500 a pop, the machines are like giant ATMs. <\/p>\n

Yet the American Cancer Society is STILL pushing these pricey exams on supposedly high-risk women… with no real evidence that they add anything to the already-questionable breast cancer diagnosis. <\/p>\n

Other studies have found that women who get expensive breast MRIs are more likely to undergo aggressive treatments, yet neither live longer nor have a lower rate of recurrence. <\/p>\n

But since most breast cancer survivors don’t realize the only thing they really survived was a battle with a greedy doctor, they’re more than happy to line up outside these machines like pizzas waiting to go into an oven. <\/p>\n

In fact, most of these women never needed surgery in the first place — and more than a few had cancers CAUSED by all their routine mammogram screenings and X-rays. <\/p>\n

If you’ve been hit with a cancer diagnoses, don’t rush in for surgery. You can beat the Big C without chemo. Click here and I’ll tell you how.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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