Abstract:
Breast cancer is one of the last things that bring to mind the word beautiful. But what if there was something beautiful about breast cancer missing from the equation of diagnosis and treatment for all this time? What if there was a way to diagnose nascent tumors before they attainted the capacity to metastasize, kill it in-office in 20 minutes (no huge cancer center needed) with the patient fully awake with her significant other by her side, and normal activity is resumed immediately? It was all accomplished for $2,500.00.
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) saw fit years ago to decree that women in the US need not start mammography until age 50, and only recently lowered it to 40 but still biennial. Medicare and insurance companies take these pronouncements as gospel so obtaining a mammogram outside these parameters is very difficult. How dare they make these decrees implying a correct blanket statement for all women.
A case in point is the prestigious group, The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, published a paper in 2009 which at the time was the largest study of outcomes in breast cancer for African American women. One of the main conclusions was that these women get breast cancer much earlier (in their 30s) and it’s much more aggressive (triple negative). Does anyone care?
To think for one second that blanket statements can be made in such a complex disease as breast cancer and apply those statements to all women is ludicrous, shameful and as it turns out extremely harmful. An individual surveillance plan is needed.
So, what’s beautiful about breast cancer? Here, diagnosing nascent tumors, killing it in-office with the patient awake, the breast looking untouched with normal activity resumed immediately, no surgery. no chemotherapy no radiation. Lavender is being actively suppressed.
