When I hear the words CANCER I hear lots of B and S.  If you read
many of the top news wires they vary the story slightly, but all
give the universal idea that the war on cancer is still going O.K.

Headlines vary between
“Cancer death rate down but 565,650 seen in 2008″

“Once-sharp decline in cancer death rates easing
U.S. deaths up by 5,000 suggesting that screening has hit limit”

“Cancer rates up 5400 in 2005″

“So it was big news when the rate dropped by 2 percent in both 2003
and 2004, enough to cause the total number of cancer deaths to fall
for the first time since 1930.

President George W. Bush and others hailed that as a sign that
federally funded research was making strides against the disease.”
—Associated Press

—Dr.Altman here…I say B and S…give me a break.  The Amercian
cancer society is claiming a drop because of colorectal screenings.
If you remember the news from last year.  Oh, how quickly they
forget.
The REAL reason death rates fell the most dramatically in 2003 and
2004 was because medical doctors STOPPED prescribing hormone
replacement medications to women in 2002 because of the large study
that came out saying the hormone medications were killing too many
women with heart disease and strokes.

So now things are apparently leveling off and still dropping a bit.
Don’t get too excited.

The AP states that “In 2005, there were just under 184 cancer deaths
per 100,000 people, down from nearly 186 the previous year.”

That’s .002%  thats 2 one thousands of a percent.

Because of the population growth the overall number of deaths is
actually up by more than 5000.

So what can we assume.  The information about preventing cancer to
pure crap.  That will make the colorectal people happy.

I have a number of articles on cancer and real solutions to
prevention because that is the ONLY way to win that war.  Treating
cancer is not the answer.  http://www.docaltman.com/category/cancer/

According to Forbes Magazine Cancer is the 3rd most expensive
condition costing America 69 BILLION dollars a year.  You wonder why
you can’t get cheap insurance.

Read the posts above and don’t be a statistic.
Live happy and healthy now so you can tomorrow.
Dr. Altman

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