Can Breast Cancer Heal Naturally?

There has been a stunning conundrum facing medical researchers and doctors for around 8 years now, which arose because of a Norwegian study into breast cancer. The study showed that among women who had regular mammograms, once every two years as recommended by many developed countries’ governments, the incidence of breast cancer was actually higher.

This raises some very interesting questions, including whether some percentage of breast cancer treatment in Thailand, Norway and other countries is actually warranted. We balance out the risks of obtaining false positives from mammograms, and possibly failing to detect a fatal cancer.

The study that has raised so many questions involved just under 120,000 women, aged between 50 and 64. The group had three rounds of regular screening mammograms between 1996 and 2001, or one every two years.

The number of malignant breast cancers was then compared to those in a control group of just under 110,000 women of the same ages, and the results revealed that the incidence of invasive breast cancer was around 22 percent higher in the group that was regularly screened.

It went on to find that cancer incidence is higher among women who have regular mammograms at any age, making for great demand for Thailand breast cancer treatment and placing perhaps unnecessary demands on public health systems.

For some, the reason for the results of this study seem obvious. Dr Frank Rauscher was director of the National Cancer Institute in the late 1970s, and stated that for each radiation absorbed dose (with between five and ten delivered at each mammographic screening for breast cancer in Thailand), the risk of developing breast cancer is increased by around one percent.

There have been other controversies over mammography also. A Swedish study of 60,000 women showed that up to 80 percent of tumors that are identified by mammographic screening are not actually tumors – let alone malignant tumors.

Concurrently, mammograms are known for having a high rate of false negatives – in other words, a mammogram reveals that a woman is cancer free, when there is actually a malignant breast cancer tumor present. Cancer centers in Thailand test many women who turn out not to have any malignancy, or indeed any tumor every year.

The most exciting implication of the study, though, is that the body is actually able to heal itself of a significant percentage of cancers that are detected. Remember, the Norwegian study looked only at invasive breast cancer, and ignored false positives or negatives.

One logical conclusion, albeit one which needs further investigation, is that some cancers which the mammograms detected would have regressed naturally, without Thailand cancer center treatment.

This is the case with some other cancers also – skin cancer centers in Thailand and reproductive cancer centers in Thailand know that keratoacanthoma, a particular type of skin cancer, is actually characterized by the ability to spontaneously regress. Uterine polyps and fibroids have been known by Thai institutions to clear up without treatment in some cases, also.

However, the controversy mainly centers around screening for women under 55. It is widely recognized by cancer centers in Thailand and elsewhere that regular screening mammograms for over 55s are of immense value in preventing breast cancer.

Also, early detection is known to save lives – the five year survival rate for breast cancer caught at early stages is 98%.

Experts are still divided on the spontaneous regression issue, too: Robert Smith, director of breast cancer screening at the American Cancer Society, says "Their simplification of a complicated issue is both overreaching and alarming", and Thailand breast cancer centers agree that safe is always better than sorry.

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