Guest guest Posted March 12, 2008 Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 A friend who forwarded the article: Breast Cancer Industry A Scam? Support Education, Not Medication http://www.naturalnews.com/022157.html to a relative got the following response. Anyone have any comments?: " If you want to buy into this natural crap, that's your choice. But the other side of the story that this bonehead isn't telling you is that women with breast cancer now have a 95% chance of long term survival because of improved drug and diagnostic products, as well as early screening and education. The odds were far lower 20 years ago. Education helps, but the single most important thing you can do to prevent diseases like cancer is to pick better parents. Most diseases have a genetic basis. Based on statistics from the Center for Disease Control, you have a far greater risk of heart disease killing you. You have as good of a chance of dying from breast cancer as from an unintentional accident. Breast cancer isn't the scariest monster out there. http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/statistics/ Top 10 Causes of Death for Women in the United States‡ The graph below shows how breast cancer compares to other common causes of death in women of all ages . . . " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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