Isn’t it crazy that all the people who create something— actually WARN us that “hey what I created shouldn’t be used this way!”
I feel like we have Albin in this article, then we have:
- the guy who created the PCR test
- I think, don’t quote me, the guy who created the diagnosis of “adhd”
- I think as well, the guy who created the 401K, who committed suicide
— and so many others.
It’s as if they create something, but then what they create goes into the wrong hands — those wrong hands exploit it — which was never the inventors original intention.
Thankful for more truths like these — especially against cancer. I’m going to have to deep dive here and produce some work on this topic becuase this is the next frontier to be tackled.
We’re winning the war with vaccination as we’re seeing decrease in vaccine rates. When we begin to see decrease in cancer screenings— and ultimately cancer products utilizations (eg, drugs), then we know the tide is turning.
This is our next health frontier — the true : Make Humanity Healthy Again
My man! Thanks for this post and thanks for this charge.
Seeing my 3rd neighbor diagnosed with cancer and seeing them frail away due to chemo made me write this post on drugs as poison— but I can definitely go a lot harder on cancer overall:
Also the guy who came up with the RICE method. Rest, ice, compress, elevate. He was wrong, admitted it, but the nurses still operate by it. Repeated theme for sure
So they call it a "human error" and now she wants AI to take over! Wow how much did they pay this woman? Are we also assuming AI will be 100% accurate, I doubt it.
Sandy: I do not understand the letter system i.e does ICE stand for internal combustion engine or something to do with Immigration ??. What is VCR?, what is PCR?
Hi David, as Kary Knudtson said, PCR is polymerase chain reaction, developed by Dr. Kary Mullis. Basically it uses specific markers in a cellular soup to replicate the cells the scientists are looking for. But as Kary Mullis said, if you cycle the process enough times, you can "find anything in anything." That's why they cycled PCR so many times to "identify" "Covid." It has been criticized many times.
VCR is some kind of video recording used with televisions. I've never owned a TV, so I sure can't explain that one!
ICE deals with immigration in US. But remember that the powers-that-shouldn't-be like to not only change definitions, but contradict themselves in the same freaking paragraph. A confused populace is easier to manipulate.
Another facet which is not discussed is the medico-legal profession which will use any deviation from "accepted" standard of care as grounds for a suit. A doctor facing a time consuming, demeaning, aggressive and costly suit compared to going along and being able to live peacefully will choose the latter. Hospitals and licensing boards require insurance and insurance companies will require conforming to" standard of care" dictates. The result is no different than the Nuremburg excuse that "I was just following orders". Doctors are selected for medical school by ability to follow orders and regurgitate "facts". There is no "art" in the practice of medicine anymore. It is strictly by the book, (their book).
As pointed out in another comment, breast cancer has a similar method and over-treatment. Once tiny calcifications which are mostly benign could be seen on imaging the approach was a six month follow up to access for change which mostly did not occur as most were benign. Then, breast malpractice lawsuits became the most frequent type accusing delay in care. It was not long before all calcifications needed to be biopsied "just because". This is a designed controlled medical system top to bottom. No one is going to change it because they will be beaten into submission and no one who has spent their life and money to get to today is going to throw all that effort away.
They must keep the system going for profit, not good healthcare practices. Same with the childhood vaccine debacle. We’d rather poison our kids then face the fact that we are. Can’t we find ways to profit by teaching medical professionals how to treat patients holistically so we don’t get sick. We can make money on those remedies, more exercise facilities, more healthy people able to vacation, do sports, eat out and live their lives well. Our current system instead relies on lies and deceptive practices to injure us and profit from our health issues. Seems we should be doing just the opposite. Also we need to remove poisons from our food systems, drinking water and air! A perfect world of healthy long living people. Sounds like a dream! The more I read articles like this, the more I keep exercising daily, watch what I eat, keep loved ones close, and stay away from doctors, medical tests, medications and all medical facilities. Thanks for this informative and educational article. It’s great info most men would never question! Now maybe some will!
In Canada, if as a parent you take your child to the hospital and a doctor decides on a medicine or protocol that you disagree with, refuse to allow for your child and attempt to leave the hospital with your child to find other means of help, you will be put on a country wide amber alert for abducting your own child and you will be pursued as a criminal and your child will be taken from you once you are apprehended. It's been like this since pre covid. Parents need to think twice.
technically, the law in the United States too, but it’s not quite as simple as this makes it out to be. if the child is at risk of death, a physician recommends a life-saving treatment and the family refuses. The physician is obligated to get a court order to perform the treatment anyway. The basic concept is that parents do not have the legal right to choose harm for their child. I don’t know about nationwide Amber Alerts, but if the parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses and don’t want their child to receive a blood transfusion, and the child needs a blood transfusion to survive, I’m obligated to give that child blood. The child does not have capacity to decline that treatment. This is as it should be, though of course there’s lots of room for abuse in both directions.
I am sure that you can. I have listened to a few interviews from parents who were being hunted by the RCMP for taking their child out of the hospital because they didn't want to give their child the treatment that the hospital staff/doctor decided upon. While at the same time their names and their child's name is on the amber alert for child abduction. Obviously mainstream news is not going to tell the real truth ....but it's out there if you search for it.
I’m a surgeon. Because of that, my experience is largely around the issue of blood transfusion for Jehovah’s witnesses. I’ve watched consenting adults die from lack of blood and I’ve given blood to children when their parents declined. Thankfully, I don’t currently operate on children, but have had the issue arise once or twice in my career, most recently with a profoundly handicapped 70 year old man, a “child” in the eyes of the state. I will say, that if the treatment relationship devolves to the point that courts and police are involved, everyone loses.
I do not doubt your information. I think it is a sad statement on our broken world.
Thank you for your reply Brandon, it gives me a perspective I did not have. What a path you've walked in caring for others, I feel a deep appreciate for that and how it is obvious that you care very deeply about doing a great job and truly helping others. Thank you. 🥰🙏🌹
Still, in the last 100 years, Rockefellerian "Madicine" (sic!) has invented new illnesses by the week, mostly to cover up industrial or radiation poisoning; "allergies" and "autoimmune conditions" are most likely in the lead, but peptic ulcers have been surging since 2020 as well. A major contributor is the synthetic and foreign proteins introduced directly into the body in "vaccines" for mostly invented, misinterpreted, or harmless illnesses.
No, this article is intended to pull that finger out of the dike. If people understood this article, the mainstream medical and pharmaceutical rackets would collapse. All these kids going to medical schools so that they can make their $$$$$$$ and get their hotties. Big houses, travel, and the good life by diagnosing and testing and treating HYPOCHONDRIACS.
And if you aren’t a hypochondriac now, a lifetime of advertising is designed to make you go to a doctor for testing.
Thank you for this post. Every man should read it.
I was diagnosed with Gleason 6 eight years ago. I went through 3 biopsies and 3 mris and nothing changed. I then read the Prostate Hoax and Prostate Snatches books and those sent me down a different path.
Between finding out what a scam the prostate cancer industry is and then living through the long, long Covid hoax I learned to not trust the medical industrial complex and to question everything about standard medicine.
Given I am in good physical shape, strength train and don't either smoke or drink, I have a way less than 1 percent chance of this metastasizing and my dying from it.
The urologist who first diagnosed me with 6 at least was honest enough to point out that many pathologists and oncologists don't believe that 6 is even cancer because you can't die from it. Like benign skin growths, Gleason 6 has to turn malignant for you to die and most don't do that. I should have gotten off the prostate train at that point.
Yeah, my doctor, who just retired due to jab issues, was always on to me about getting a PSA. First time he mentioned it I of course researched it and said to myself nah. If it wasn't for the Internet I'd probably be dead, no kidding.
Thank you for the great article of information. It is like the old saying “ If you own a hammer, everything is a nail”. Same applies to the medical industrial complex whether it’s a scalpel or a biopsy needle. If they see it the want to poke it, cut it out, or poison it. The creation of the “diagnostic test” be it mammogram, psa or pcr for that matter is the classic Problem/Reaction/Solution. The quality of life during the Reaction/Solution phase is usually nonexistent.
Psa screening has harmed many people, but your information is inaccurate. Active surveillance doesn't "work for 99% of low risk cancers" it works for roughly 2/3. The remaining 1/3 will progress. As a urologist, I don't offer prostatectomy for low risk cancer, I start everyone on active surveillance. Incontinence rates requiring pads are not 20-30% after prostatectomy, they are more like 5%. Transectal biopsies do have a 1-4% risk of infection but many of us are performing our biopsies transperineal now which has an almost 0% infection rate. Urologists do not use a PSA cutoff of 4 to trigger a biopsy, actual cutoffs are age and race adjusted and biopsies are performed based on all data available, including the patient's health and ability to benefit from diagnosis. MRI is commonly used to guide biopsies and is useful because it helps select out low risk cancers. PSA is a bad screening test, but no reputable urologist is still practicing the way your article implies, though I'll admit that was the norm a decade or two ago. I teach at the local medical school and I tell the students it is a sin to screen patients without a 10 year life expectancy. Urologists don't treat men in the nursing homes with low risk disease. We don't tell patients active surveillance is "doing nothing". Active surveillance is not lost revenue, and surgery is actually the cheapest way of treating cancer, since active surveillance requires frequent MRIs and repeat biopsies. Honestly, urology is a critical shortage specialty. All of my time is filled and doing fewer prostatectomies just means I'll be doing more kidneys or stones or something else. Prostatectomy is not exactly a cash cow.
The USPSTF recommended against psa screening a decade or so ago. We saw a stage migration to later presentation of higher grade, incurable disease. We are still playing catch up from that debacle.
Honestly, if you had written this article in 2005, it would be spot on. It is not accurate today and urologists are at the forefront of trying to manage patients in a "post psa" world. I tell all my men that the number needed to treat with radical prostatectomy to save one life is 48 for all comers. That is somewhat irrelevant though as we don't do prostatectomy for low risk disease like we did two decades ago. when you select for men with high risk disease, the math makes a whole lot more sense.
Prostate cancer remains the number two cause of cancer death in men. High risk prostate cancer is real disease. My own grandfather died from prostate cancer, and I have patients each year dying from it. The real problem is not that PSA is a bad test (it is), it’s that prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease, and we have not always done a good job of tailoring treatment to that heterogeneity.
if you really want to get upset about something, write about how Intuitive Surgical pushed the da Vinci robotic surgery platform based on extremely limited data, bought up all the competition and killed it, and created a system where essentially all prostatectomies in the country are performed on their machine at a cost of only $2000 more per case, plus the amortization of the robot. Now that they have market saturation, the latest model (DV5) has progressed to a machine learning model where they record every case and upload it to the cloud without Surgeon or patient consent, with the stated goal of creating a machine that can do the surgery without human input. Talk about how they have learned from big tech companies and created planned obsolescence, (three years after it’s first turned on the 2.5 million dollar machine bricks itself, and can no longer be used) and generational "enhancements" that most surgeons would rather go without. Full on enshitification.
I am so angry, I am shaking and crying as I type this, so please excuse any disjointedness and long windedness.
My husband of 42 yrs just passed away in July. He was diagnosed in 2015 with "aggressive stage zero" prostate cancer...which makes one wonder, what were they seeing/wanting to treat? They immediately started the fear campaign, recommending a series of daily radiation for minimum 6 weeks, citing the "aggressive nature" and "high PSA", which was under 10 at the time. This was followed by the necessity of having to undergo a procedure to insert of "plate" in between his colon and prostate, because the radiation was burning his colon/rectum, causing blood in the urine (which NEVER resolved over the yrs). They also inserted radiation seeds in the prostate. He had to carry a card stating this because he'd set off the alarm at airports, etc. (We have a few hilarious stories about this, haha).
He endured both IV and oral chemo, plus the horrible lupron shots. I finally convinced him to really look at the evidence of real harm all this was causing. He stopped conventional treatment after about 4 yrs.
There were some revealing moments in his oncologists office. He wanted my husband to take a certain drug for something which he would administer by injection (can't remember which one). We wanted to research it. He said fine. Next time in his office we told him we decided against this drug. He was perfectly fine with this, and said, "that's okay, I don't get paid for that one anyhow". My husband and I looked at each other...we couldn't believe he said that out loud. Then another time he wanted to inject a bone drug (can't remember which one), again we wanted to research. Fine by him. When we went back, he asked if my husband was ready for this injection, the reply was no, thanks. He asked why. We informed of the dangers/risks of bone "strengthening" drugs, which he said he'd never seen in all his yrs of practice. We insisted no, thanks. His demeanor changed before our very eyes. He went from the always-smiling, happy, joking, hugging doctor...to cold as ice. Turns out he gets paid for that one, handsomely.
After reading this and other articles on this subject recently, I'm convinced more than ever that they killed my husband...they GAVE him cancer. If I'd known this information years ago, he'd still be with us. The barbaric treatment also gave him a-fib, hypothyroidism, brittle bones (which caused a hip break/replacement), besides devastating his immune function, oh and let's not forget the cognitive issues, as well. All this in those 4 yrs of conventional treatment. I'm also convinced that OUR therapies enabled him to last as long as he did, despite the medical establishments best efforts to damage his body. He used to tell everyone, including all the doctors, that he'd have been dead long ago if it weren't for me, bless him.
I'm not sure what to do with this deep anger...rage, really. I pray and ask God for peace and to be able to forgive. I tell everyone that I would never go near this treatment if I were to ever receive such a diagnosis. I tell them there are better options. Whether they want to know or not is up to them.
My brother has just been diagnosed with stage 4 mets bladder cancer, out of nowhere. Only 2 weeks of symptoms, then stage 4 mets. Sounds like turbo, to me. He's taking their treatment, but he's also open to whatever else he can do, information of which I'm more than willing to share, exhausted though I am.
My hope and prayer is that more wake up to this horrific system, that only cares about milking us for all they can get, before killing us. There are better ways.
Isn’t it crazy that all the people who create something— actually WARN us that “hey what I created shouldn’t be used this way!”
I feel like we have Albin in this article, then we have:
- the guy who created the PCR test
- I think, don’t quote me, the guy who created the diagnosis of “adhd”
- I think as well, the guy who created the 401K, who committed suicide
— and so many others.
It’s as if they create something, but then what they create goes into the wrong hands — those wrong hands exploit it — which was never the inventors original intention.
Thankful for more truths like these — especially against cancer. I’m going to have to deep dive here and produce some work on this topic becuase this is the next frontier to be tackled.
We’re winning the war with vaccination as we’re seeing decrease in vaccine rates. When we begin to see decrease in cancer screenings— and ultimately cancer products utilizations (eg, drugs), then we know the tide is turning.
This is our next health frontier — the true : Make Humanity Healthy Again
My man! Thanks for this post and thanks for this charge.
Seeing my 3rd neighbor diagnosed with cancer and seeing them frail away due to chemo made me write this post on drugs as poison— but I can definitely go a lot harder on cancer overall:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/modern-medicine-as-poison
Also the guy who came up with the RICE method. Rest, ice, compress, elevate. He was wrong, admitted it, but the nurses still operate by it. Repeated theme for sure
Same with women and the BRAC gene. False testing, false positives, false outcomes and so many women get their breasts cut off just in case!
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-woman-cancer-chemotherapy-wrong-diagnosis-b2526861.html
One in our local newspaper -a woman in 30s ... both breasts off and 2 months of Chemo -- oops sorry .. false positives ... WTF
That is so horrific, what they get away with. Just tragic.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-25-double-mastectomy-chemo-17506023
So they call it a "human error" and now she wants AI to take over! Wow how much did they pay this woman? Are we also assuming AI will be 100% accurate, I doubt it.
Reminds me of something else that was a marker turned diagnostic con....rhymes with VCR....🤔😉🤫
Oh yeah, and it never was logical but yet he got awarded for it....
http://robc137.substack.com/p/pcr-fails-logic-from-the-start-sorry
What rhymes w/VCR???
PCR
Sandy: I do not understand the letter system i.e does ICE stand for internal combustion engine or something to do with Immigration ??. What is VCR?, what is PCR?
Hi David, as Kary Knudtson said, PCR is polymerase chain reaction, developed by Dr. Kary Mullis. Basically it uses specific markers in a cellular soup to replicate the cells the scientists are looking for. But as Kary Mullis said, if you cycle the process enough times, you can "find anything in anything." That's why they cycled PCR so many times to "identify" "Covid." It has been criticized many times.
VCR is some kind of video recording used with televisions. I've never owned a TV, so I sure can't explain that one!
Your knowledge overwhelms me, seriously. My TV has not been used for about 10 years.
ICE deals with immigration in US. But remember that the powers-that-shouldn't-be like to not only change definitions, but contradict themselves in the same freaking paragraph. A confused populace is easier to manipulate.
Polymerase Chain Reaction...
Another facet which is not discussed is the medico-legal profession which will use any deviation from "accepted" standard of care as grounds for a suit. A doctor facing a time consuming, demeaning, aggressive and costly suit compared to going along and being able to live peacefully will choose the latter. Hospitals and licensing boards require insurance and insurance companies will require conforming to" standard of care" dictates. The result is no different than the Nuremburg excuse that "I was just following orders". Doctors are selected for medical school by ability to follow orders and regurgitate "facts". There is no "art" in the practice of medicine anymore. It is strictly by the book, (their book).
As pointed out in another comment, breast cancer has a similar method and over-treatment. Once tiny calcifications which are mostly benign could be seen on imaging the approach was a six month follow up to access for change which mostly did not occur as most were benign. Then, breast malpractice lawsuits became the most frequent type accusing delay in care. It was not long before all calcifications needed to be biopsied "just because". This is a designed controlled medical system top to bottom. No one is going to change it because they will be beaten into submission and no one who has spent their life and money to get to today is going to throw all that effort away.
They must keep the system going for profit, not good healthcare practices. Same with the childhood vaccine debacle. We’d rather poison our kids then face the fact that we are. Can’t we find ways to profit by teaching medical professionals how to treat patients holistically so we don’t get sick. We can make money on those remedies, more exercise facilities, more healthy people able to vacation, do sports, eat out and live their lives well. Our current system instead relies on lies and deceptive practices to injure us and profit from our health issues. Seems we should be doing just the opposite. Also we need to remove poisons from our food systems, drinking water and air! A perfect world of healthy long living people. Sounds like a dream! The more I read articles like this, the more I keep exercising daily, watch what I eat, keep loved ones close, and stay away from doctors, medical tests, medications and all medical facilities. Thanks for this informative and educational article. It’s great info most men would never question! Now maybe some will!
In Canada, if as a parent you take your child to the hospital and a doctor decides on a medicine or protocol that you disagree with, refuse to allow for your child and attempt to leave the hospital with your child to find other means of help, you will be put on a country wide amber alert for abducting your own child and you will be pursued as a criminal and your child will be taken from you once you are apprehended. It's been like this since pre covid. Parents need to think twice.
Wow, that’s so horrible. Mostly keeping your family healthy is your only option! Yikes!
Can someone verify this?
technically, the law in the United States too, but it’s not quite as simple as this makes it out to be. if the child is at risk of death, a physician recommends a life-saving treatment and the family refuses. The physician is obligated to get a court order to perform the treatment anyway. The basic concept is that parents do not have the legal right to choose harm for their child. I don’t know about nationwide Amber Alerts, but if the parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses and don’t want their child to receive a blood transfusion, and the child needs a blood transfusion to survive, I’m obligated to give that child blood. The child does not have capacity to decline that treatment. This is as it should be, though of course there’s lots of room for abuse in both directions.
I am sure that you can. I have listened to a few interviews from parents who were being hunted by the RCMP for taking their child out of the hospital because they didn't want to give their child the treatment that the hospital staff/doctor decided upon. While at the same time their names and their child's name is on the amber alert for child abduction. Obviously mainstream news is not going to tell the real truth ....but it's out there if you search for it.
I’m a surgeon. Because of that, my experience is largely around the issue of blood transfusion for Jehovah’s witnesses. I’ve watched consenting adults die from lack of blood and I’ve given blood to children when their parents declined. Thankfully, I don’t currently operate on children, but have had the issue arise once or twice in my career, most recently with a profoundly handicapped 70 year old man, a “child” in the eyes of the state. I will say, that if the treatment relationship devolves to the point that courts and police are involved, everyone loses.
I do not doubt your information. I think it is a sad statement on our broken world.
Thank you for your reply Brandon, it gives me a perspective I did not have. What a path you've walked in caring for others, I feel a deep appreciate for that and how it is obvious that you care very deeply about doing a great job and truly helping others. Thank you. 🥰🙏🌹
I just want to thank you for publishing so many relevant and insightful articles! 🙏 🧐
Only the breast cancer industry comes close to the prostate hoax... Oops! Colon cancer screening is also a disaster...
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/colonoscopy-as-another-invasive-process
Still, in the last 100 years, Rockefellerian "Madicine" (sic!) has invented new illnesses by the week, mostly to cover up industrial or radiation poisoning; "allergies" and "autoimmune conditions" are most likely in the lead, but peptic ulcers have been surging since 2020 as well. A major contributor is the synthetic and foreign proteins introduced directly into the body in "vaccines" for mostly invented, misinterpreted, or harmless illnesses.
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-symbiotic-human-body
Why do I feel that this article is a finger in the dike of the medical industrial complex?
No, this article is intended to pull that finger out of the dike. If people understood this article, the mainstream medical and pharmaceutical rackets would collapse. All these kids going to medical schools so that they can make their $$$$$$$ and get their hotties. Big houses, travel, and the good life by diagnosing and testing and treating HYPOCHONDRIACS.
And if you aren’t a hypochondriac now, a lifetime of advertising is designed to make you go to a doctor for testing.
Thank you for this post. Every man should read it.
I was diagnosed with Gleason 6 eight years ago. I went through 3 biopsies and 3 mris and nothing changed. I then read the Prostate Hoax and Prostate Snatches books and those sent me down a different path.
Between finding out what a scam the prostate cancer industry is and then living through the long, long Covid hoax I learned to not trust the medical industrial complex and to question everything about standard medicine.
Given I am in good physical shape, strength train and don't either smoke or drink, I have a way less than 1 percent chance of this metastasizing and my dying from it.
The urologist who first diagnosed me with 6 at least was honest enough to point out that many pathologists and oncologists don't believe that 6 is even cancer because you can't die from it. Like benign skin growths, Gleason 6 has to turn malignant for you to die and most don't do that. I should have gotten off the prostate train at that point.
Yeah, my doctor, who just retired due to jab issues, was always on to me about getting a PSA. First time he mentioned it I of course researched it and said to myself nah. If it wasn't for the Internet I'd probably be dead, no kidding.
Cliché Alert: "Follow The Money..."
Thank you for the great article of information. It is like the old saying “ If you own a hammer, everything is a nail”. Same applies to the medical industrial complex whether it’s a scalpel or a biopsy needle. If they see it the want to poke it, cut it out, or poison it. The creation of the “diagnostic test” be it mammogram, psa or pcr for that matter is the classic Problem/Reaction/Solution. The quality of life during the Reaction/Solution phase is usually nonexistent.
Every cancer screening is a crime. So is every vaccine. Every statin. Every psyche med. Every antibiotic. Every eyeglass prescription. Break time
Psa screening has harmed many people, but your information is inaccurate. Active surveillance doesn't "work for 99% of low risk cancers" it works for roughly 2/3. The remaining 1/3 will progress. As a urologist, I don't offer prostatectomy for low risk cancer, I start everyone on active surveillance. Incontinence rates requiring pads are not 20-30% after prostatectomy, they are more like 5%. Transectal biopsies do have a 1-4% risk of infection but many of us are performing our biopsies transperineal now which has an almost 0% infection rate. Urologists do not use a PSA cutoff of 4 to trigger a biopsy, actual cutoffs are age and race adjusted and biopsies are performed based on all data available, including the patient's health and ability to benefit from diagnosis. MRI is commonly used to guide biopsies and is useful because it helps select out low risk cancers. PSA is a bad screening test, but no reputable urologist is still practicing the way your article implies, though I'll admit that was the norm a decade or two ago. I teach at the local medical school and I tell the students it is a sin to screen patients without a 10 year life expectancy. Urologists don't treat men in the nursing homes with low risk disease. We don't tell patients active surveillance is "doing nothing". Active surveillance is not lost revenue, and surgery is actually the cheapest way of treating cancer, since active surveillance requires frequent MRIs and repeat biopsies. Honestly, urology is a critical shortage specialty. All of my time is filled and doing fewer prostatectomies just means I'll be doing more kidneys or stones or something else. Prostatectomy is not exactly a cash cow.
The USPSTF recommended against psa screening a decade or so ago. We saw a stage migration to later presentation of higher grade, incurable disease. We are still playing catch up from that debacle.
Honestly, if you had written this article in 2005, it would be spot on. It is not accurate today and urologists are at the forefront of trying to manage patients in a "post psa" world. I tell all my men that the number needed to treat with radical prostatectomy to save one life is 48 for all comers. That is somewhat irrelevant though as we don't do prostatectomy for low risk disease like we did two decades ago. when you select for men with high risk disease, the math makes a whole lot more sense.
Prostate cancer remains the number two cause of cancer death in men. High risk prostate cancer is real disease. My own grandfather died from prostate cancer, and I have patients each year dying from it. The real problem is not that PSA is a bad test (it is), it’s that prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease, and we have not always done a good job of tailoring treatment to that heterogeneity.
if you really want to get upset about something, write about how Intuitive Surgical pushed the da Vinci robotic surgery platform based on extremely limited data, bought up all the competition and killed it, and created a system where essentially all prostatectomies in the country are performed on their machine at a cost of only $2000 more per case, plus the amortization of the robot. Now that they have market saturation, the latest model (DV5) has progressed to a machine learning model where they record every case and upload it to the cloud without Surgeon or patient consent, with the stated goal of creating a machine that can do the surgery without human input. Talk about how they have learned from big tech companies and created planned obsolescence, (three years after it’s first turned on the 2.5 million dollar machine bricks itself, and can no longer be used) and generational "enhancements" that most surgeons would rather go without. Full on enshitification.
I am so angry, I am shaking and crying as I type this, so please excuse any disjointedness and long windedness.
My husband of 42 yrs just passed away in July. He was diagnosed in 2015 with "aggressive stage zero" prostate cancer...which makes one wonder, what were they seeing/wanting to treat? They immediately started the fear campaign, recommending a series of daily radiation for minimum 6 weeks, citing the "aggressive nature" and "high PSA", which was under 10 at the time. This was followed by the necessity of having to undergo a procedure to insert of "plate" in between his colon and prostate, because the radiation was burning his colon/rectum, causing blood in the urine (which NEVER resolved over the yrs). They also inserted radiation seeds in the prostate. He had to carry a card stating this because he'd set off the alarm at airports, etc. (We have a few hilarious stories about this, haha).
He endured both IV and oral chemo, plus the horrible lupron shots. I finally convinced him to really look at the evidence of real harm all this was causing. He stopped conventional treatment after about 4 yrs.
There were some revealing moments in his oncologists office. He wanted my husband to take a certain drug for something which he would administer by injection (can't remember which one). We wanted to research it. He said fine. Next time in his office we told him we decided against this drug. He was perfectly fine with this, and said, "that's okay, I don't get paid for that one anyhow". My husband and I looked at each other...we couldn't believe he said that out loud. Then another time he wanted to inject a bone drug (can't remember which one), again we wanted to research. Fine by him. When we went back, he asked if my husband was ready for this injection, the reply was no, thanks. He asked why. We informed of the dangers/risks of bone "strengthening" drugs, which he said he'd never seen in all his yrs of practice. We insisted no, thanks. His demeanor changed before our very eyes. He went from the always-smiling, happy, joking, hugging doctor...to cold as ice. Turns out he gets paid for that one, handsomely.
After reading this and other articles on this subject recently, I'm convinced more than ever that they killed my husband...they GAVE him cancer. If I'd known this information years ago, he'd still be with us. The barbaric treatment also gave him a-fib, hypothyroidism, brittle bones (which caused a hip break/replacement), besides devastating his immune function, oh and let's not forget the cognitive issues, as well. All this in those 4 yrs of conventional treatment. I'm also convinced that OUR therapies enabled him to last as long as he did, despite the medical establishments best efforts to damage his body. He used to tell everyone, including all the doctors, that he'd have been dead long ago if it weren't for me, bless him.
I'm not sure what to do with this deep anger...rage, really. I pray and ask God for peace and to be able to forgive. I tell everyone that I would never go near this treatment if I were to ever receive such a diagnosis. I tell them there are better options. Whether they want to know or not is up to them.
My brother has just been diagnosed with stage 4 mets bladder cancer, out of nowhere. Only 2 weeks of symptoms, then stage 4 mets. Sounds like turbo, to me. He's taking their treatment, but he's also open to whatever else he can do, information of which I'm more than willing to share, exhausted though I am.
My hope and prayer is that more wake up to this horrific system, that only cares about milking us for all they can get, before killing us. There are better ways.
My dad had prostate cancer for 30 years. I spoof the PSA by taking baking soda the night before the test. I refuse to get a biopsy.
https://go2.thetruthaboutcancer.com/final-chapter/replay/
That whole series is excellent. 🙏