Discussion Board

Another great newsletter. I only hope that this concession on the part of the ACS will lead to a better message than the best prevention is early detection......
I sure appreciate these newsletters and am finding the next line up of speakers in feb almost too good to resist....do I go again to Cali?????

Dear Dr. McDougall,

You've said over and over again that breast cancer screening was not a wise idea. Even though I heard it, I still didn't understand why.

My mother died of cancer at 45, so even though I am only 48 I've already had about 5 or 6 mammograms.

Because of your latest newsletter, I now "get it." I understand now that breast cancer screening really does not relate to fewer deaths. I will NOT go for another mammogram.

Thank you so much for printing this.

Yvie

The cancer screening article was great. And I learned a new term.

Indolent Cancer: A type of cancer that grows slowly and is not necessarily life-threatening.

Dr. McDougall used it in the article so I looked it up.
Letha

Awesome newsletter as usual! Thanks Dr. McDougall! I am so glad that we have a Doc that is brave enough to tell the truth!

I also was grateful to read the article about mammograms.

I do have a question. This is the first time I am posting on this site. So not sure if anyone will reply to me. Or how it works.

I am 60 years old and only had one mammogram when I was 40. This past year I was diagnosed with fallopian tube cancer. It was diagnosed originally from the CA 125 blood test (which I know is unreliable). I agreed to surgery (which was considered exploratory). Cancer was found in the tubes, in the ovaries and in abdominal lymph nodes. After surgery and chemo I am "cancer free." I have become a vegan and have changed other aspects of my life. However, the doctors are encouraging me to have a mammogram.
I wonder if Dr McDougall or another medical person would have advice for me as to whether, given my circumstance, it would be a good idea.
Thanks for reading this.
Sylvia

I only wish my husband had read your warnings sooner. His father died of prostate cancer and so he dutifully went in for screenings yearly after the age of 40. Cancer has never been found, but he did have an enlarged prostate. His doctor recommended a urologist who said he needed to have laser surgery. Well you can guess what happened. Let's just say we sleep on opposite sides of the bed. We both love each other dearly after 40 years of marriage but things would have been better if he had just said no to laser surgery.

Even a radical lifestyle change cannot "treat" a hormone cancer that has already escaped to the brain, so obviously prevention is the best.

But, it seems to me that the tests aren't what's bad but the recommendations of the medical establishment to deal with the results of the tests are what's horrifically bad. With a cancer found "early" via mammogram or PSA test, the only possible cure seems to be a radical lifestyle change, esp to a vegan starch-based fat-free diet. That's what the medical community should be recommending-maybe forced by law to at least inform the patient of it.

I am still a bit confused about the "early screening". I understand the part about cancer taking a long time to develop, and when it is discovered through screening, it is not "early". Like Letha, I learned the term "indolent cancer" by reading this.

So, Dr McDougall is saying that many cancers are indolent cancers and will do no harm (maybe you will die naturally, of other causes before the cancer could kill you?) yet "early screening" leads to unnecessary treatment? Is that correct?

The most confusing thing to me is this: how does one know s/he has cancer, and when does one actually need to get medical treatment?

I also understand that the SAD is a cause of cancer, but does that mean people following a healthy eating plan like McDougall do not have to worry about getting cancer? Aren`t there other things involved? Just for example: the enviroment (air quality) and what one ate as a child and up to the time of starting to McDougall?

I get the feeling from reading this that if you get cancer, it would either be slow-growing so that you do not have to worry about it, or that if it were fast-growing, it would just be too late to do anything about it.

I seem to be missing something. Please help me understand!

Thanks,
Linda

McDougall's Hot topics on Breast And Prostate Cancer


I suggest starting with this article, regardless of the type of cancer.

http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougal ... cancer.htm

Hot Topics Breast Cancer

http://drmcdougall.com/med_hot_breastcancer.html

Hot Topics Prostate Cancer

http://drmcdougall.com/med_hot_prostatecancer.html

After these I think the advance study series went in depth on cancer, especially helpful was teh T. Colin Campbell DVD http://drmcdougall.com/store_advanced_study_series.html

Thanks Steve,

I will read through them!

Linda