I see so many thoughtful Kansans asking how they can fight cancer that I expect interest in this article “CANCER: Are We Too Busy Tracking Problems To Spot Solutions?” by Tony Lobl via The News Hub. Sometimes the questions we don’t ask are more important than the ones that we ask. So I am grateful that someone thought to ask cancer patients in remission about their experience. I have included an excerpt and, at the end, a link to the full article.
Last month it was breast cancer, this month it’s prostate cancer – the calls keep coming to screen our bodies. But might there be a potential for healing if we look away from our bodies into our thinking?
To screen or not to screen?
That is the question – and it’s a controversial one. Many medics feel screening can too often be a slippery slope to potentially damaging and invasive treatments for something that might never actually develop.
That has proved to be the case for prostate cancer screening in men,according to researchers in Canada. They have recommended scrapping PSA (prostate-specific antigen) testing, even for those considered high risk.
Their study tracked 1,500 men aged 50-69 years over two decades. It found between 11 and 19 percent of those diagnosed with prostate cancer didn’t actually have it, while another 40 to 56 percent ended up being “over diagnosed”. That means they were told they had the disease, yet were not destined to experience any of its symptoms nor suffer an early death from it.
Nevertheless, they could still end up having surgery they didn’t need as well as complications from it.
But what if we took a breather from looking for potential problems and actually looked for alternative solutions?
That is, what would happen if we tracked down people who have experienced “the disappearance, complete or incomplete, of a disease or cancer without medical treatment or [with] treatment that is considered inadequate to produce the resulting disappearance of disease symptoms or tumor.” This is how “spontaneous remission” is defined in an Annotated Bibliography of such cases compiled by the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
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