Let's Treat You As Though You Have Cancer To Prevent Cancer: More Cognitive Dissonance?
When someone gets cancer, doctors try to “eradicate” the cancer without asking what was going “wrong” inside the body in the first place, to allow a cancer to grow.
The thinking of why you got ill in the first place, to attempt to “right” this “wrong” is called “root cause” medicine. It’s not mainstream.
I had a patient. In her early 30’s. Had a breast biopsy that came out as not cancer, but a cellular type that increases her risk of getting cancer by many fold.
When they take a sample and the cells show a lot of nasty changes, called lobular hyperplasia, this woman now has 12 times the risk of getting breast cancer in her future.
If nothing else changes.
Typical women in the U.S. have a chance of getting cancer one out of 8 times over their life time. If nothing else changes.
In certain areas, like Darmouth or Long Island, these breast cancer “risk” stats are worse: one out of 7 women over a life time has a risk of getting breast cancer.
It’s been found/theorized that these areas have robust amounts of cadmium in their soil.
Cadmium is an estrogen disruptor. Blocks the normal and protective actions of estrogen. That is why we test Cadmium levels in all of our patients.
Back to this woman in her 30’s. She had lumpy bumpy breasts (cystic mastalgia or mastodynia) with cellular changes, lobular hyperplasia, but not cancer.
At that time she was referred to a new clinic in Houston that MD Anderson had opened next to their cancer center. Called the MD Anderson Cancer Prevention Center.