What we're not told about cancer

The medical industry knows something about cancer and its treatment that it seems to me that the public is not really aware of.

Most people I've spoken to about this react as though I am saying 2+2 = 7. But it is a well known thing in medical circles.

The issue is called "overdiagnosis". This is the reason the NHS doesn't screen for all cancers.

When a tumor is found, the medical team will attempt to predict how that tumor will progress.

The thing that the public doesn't seem to know, is that the medical team will often get it wrong.

The other thing people often don''t seem to realise, is that chemo and radiotherapy are extremely harmful to the body, and particularly the immune system.

The effect these treatments have on the immune system is a real issue.This is because one of the primary roles of the immune system is to snuff out precancerous growths.

At any one time, a healthy person will have many precancerous cells in their body. This is normal. Mutations occur, and most of the time they are detected and eliminated by the immune system. The immune system continually mops up precancerous cells.

So what happens when you give chemo and radiotherapy to a person who has many precancerous cells in their body?

Their white cell count drops dramatically, leading to massively increased vulnerability to infections.... But also, critically, to cancer itself.

The chemotherapy may destroy the primary tumor. This will be hailed as a success for the medical team. But if it also destroys or disables the immune system, and secondary tumors appear as a direct result of this, no one blames the medical team.

This is where the issue of overdiagnosis becomes really concerning.

There are many tumors, that get diagnosed as cancer, that would not have ever progressed fast enough to cause any significant harm to the patient. What will cause significant harm however, is chemotherapy.

This means that many, many people will have died as a result of cancer treatment that they didn't need. But their death is recorded as a death from cancer, not an iatrogenic death caused by immune dysfunction secondary to chemotherapy. Their relatives are not told that the medication disabled the patients immune system, which is the body's natural defense against cancer. Relatives are not told that when your immune system goes down, you get cancers. This is why AIDS patients often die of a type of fast growing cancer.

When the doctors make the diagnosis, you have to put your faith in them that they are accurately predicting how fast that tumor will progress. But a lot of the time, they are wrong. They have a vested interest in treating the tumor because they will be congratulated if the chemo works, and no one will blame them if it kills the patient. It's a win win. Cancer gets the blame either way. Even if that "cancer" never would have posed any threat to the patient if it had just been ignored.

We will never be given any statistics about the number of times chemo saves lives vs the number of people it has killed, because when it kills people it is recorded as a cancer death anyway. We will never know how the tumor will have progressed after we have killed the patient with radiotherapy.

This isn't even a conspiracy theory. The medical industry knows this. They just don't talk about it. To patients anyway. Or "laypeople" as they call them.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/screening/overdiagnosis