Another great post Robyn. Many people have so much faith in cancer screening. I've noticed skin screening clinics are also very popular these days and every slight mark on the skin is hailed as being a budding killer melanoma. They give strict instruction to never let direct sunlight fall on your skin and slap on toxic 50+ at the mere thought of going outside, it's lunacy.
Makes me wonder how many other ‘scheduled’ screenings have a similar lack of usefulness. Thank you for the excellent reporting that you offer to you Substack community!
Well, that all vindicates my decision to blow off a colonoscopy after a positive FOBT test some three years ago (and here I am, still alive and thriving!). With a false positive rate of some 96%, the FOBT seems ill-suited for a mass screening test, particularly for someone with no family history of colorectal cancer, previous tests which were all negative and only one of the samples this time being negative (what are the chances of a cancer suddenly cropping up in the 24 hour gap between tests?) and with no risk factors for bowel cancer and, in fact, a very high fibre diet that is highly protective, I wasn’t keen on a colonoscopy that would reveal no cancer (more likely an anal fissure/tear) and subject me to the risk of perforation, or a tear, from the procedure, not to mention the risks from general anaesthesia (not to also mention being unable to eat anything fibrous pre-procedure whilst taking some gawd-awful concoction to evacuate the gut).
The invitation to take a colonoscopy was also signed by the Commonwealth Minister for Health, and the Chief Medical Officer, the turkeys who brought us the Covid debacle. They had by then blown anything left of their credibility by their embrace of medical pseudoscience and the policy of fear and panic over Covid. Oh, and the gastroenterologist and nurse (I did go to an appointment with them to discuss the issue) were both wearing masks (this was during a period of mask mania in South Australia) which further questioned their medical expertise.
The colonoscopy racket seems designed to funnel a whole bunch of taxpayers’ and private money into the cancer screening industry whilst allowing governments to look good - see how much money we are throwing at this cancer problem, and with KPIs to envy (test kits mailed out, samples analysed, colonoscopies performed, etc) which simply measure outputs and not outcomes which, as your interpretation of the study shows, DOES NOT SAVE LIVES.
Mind you, all my Covidian friends would have duly fronted up for a colonoscopy just as they did for the Covid jabs because ‘experts’, etc. I prefer to take my own counsel, however, especially when it is supplemented by informed and sensible sources such as your invaluable Substack.
I'm becoming increasingly wary and skeptical of the push for health screening. It's another means of gathering data and lining the pockets of the medical-pharma industry.
More fresh vegetables prepared at home, beans, whole grains, and less smoked meat, smoked cheese, soda, artificial sweetener, corn syrup , additives and refined food in general. Digging with your hands in your vegetable garden improves the health of your gut bacteria, and your whole body. Cabbage-family vegetables may be somewhat anti-cancer. Fermented foods are healthful.
Keep your vitamin-D level up in the upper normal range and avoid immune-system suppressants, such as mRNA gene-products, which allow cancers to grow more readily.
Another great post Robyn. Many people have so much faith in cancer screening. I've noticed skin screening clinics are also very popular these days and every slight mark on the skin is hailed as being a budding killer melanoma. They give strict instruction to never let direct sunlight fall on your skin and slap on toxic 50+ at the mere thought of going outside, it's lunacy.
Nice. Very nice. In some ways endorses my attitude of not seeing doctor’s because “they might find something”.
Makes me wonder how many other ‘scheduled’ screenings have a similar lack of usefulness. Thank you for the excellent reporting that you offer to you Substack community!
Well, that all vindicates my decision to blow off a colonoscopy after a positive FOBT test some three years ago (and here I am, still alive and thriving!). With a false positive rate of some 96%, the FOBT seems ill-suited for a mass screening test, particularly for someone with no family history of colorectal cancer, previous tests which were all negative and only one of the samples this time being negative (what are the chances of a cancer suddenly cropping up in the 24 hour gap between tests?) and with no risk factors for bowel cancer and, in fact, a very high fibre diet that is highly protective, I wasn’t keen on a colonoscopy that would reveal no cancer (more likely an anal fissure/tear) and subject me to the risk of perforation, or a tear, from the procedure, not to mention the risks from general anaesthesia (not to also mention being unable to eat anything fibrous pre-procedure whilst taking some gawd-awful concoction to evacuate the gut).
The invitation to take a colonoscopy was also signed by the Commonwealth Minister for Health, and the Chief Medical Officer, the turkeys who brought us the Covid debacle. They had by then blown anything left of their credibility by their embrace of medical pseudoscience and the policy of fear and panic over Covid. Oh, and the gastroenterologist and nurse (I did go to an appointment with them to discuss the issue) were both wearing masks (this was during a period of mask mania in South Australia) which further questioned their medical expertise.
The colonoscopy racket seems designed to funnel a whole bunch of taxpayers’ and private money into the cancer screening industry whilst allowing governments to look good - see how much money we are throwing at this cancer problem, and with KPIs to envy (test kits mailed out, samples analysed, colonoscopies performed, etc) which simply measure outputs and not outcomes which, as your interpretation of the study shows, DOES NOT SAVE LIVES.
Mind you, all my Covidian friends would have duly fronted up for a colonoscopy just as they did for the Covid jabs because ‘experts’, etc. I prefer to take my own counsel, however, especially when it is supplemented by informed and sensible sources such as your invaluable Substack.
Cheers,
Phil
Absolutely fascinating. It’s one of those things that seems logical or to make sense but when you dig into it, it doesn’t. Thanks for this.
I'm becoming increasingly wary and skeptical of the push for health screening. It's another means of gathering data and lining the pockets of the medical-pharma industry.
More fresh vegetables prepared at home, beans, whole grains, and less smoked meat, smoked cheese, soda, artificial sweetener, corn syrup , additives and refined food in general. Digging with your hands in your vegetable garden improves the health of your gut bacteria, and your whole body. Cabbage-family vegetables may be somewhat anti-cancer. Fermented foods are healthful.
Keep your vitamin-D level up in the upper normal range and avoid immune-system suppressants, such as mRNA gene-products, which allow cancers to grow more readily.
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