7 WARNING SIGNS OF BREAST CANCER.

Thanks for the inputs Mr. Chandra. More inputs on early detection of different kinds of cancers can be obtained from the American Cancer Society's website. We have also tried to list down initial symptoms of more than 15 types of cancers in our website www.winovercancer.net Regards Arrun more  

Mammography and general health checks are not evidence based rather harmful and wasteful. See below:- Mammography Breast Screening Doing More Harm Than Good “We have done research on using mammography screening for breast cancer for over 15 years and have documented that mammography screening does more harm than good. I am only waiting for the first country to stop mammography screening in wake of the existing strong evidence. We found that mammography screening leads to 50% over diagnosis. All these additional 50% women diagnosed with breast cancer (which probably they do not have) are just harmed by getting a cancer diagnosis. Many times we have found that breast disease disappears by itself and it would not have bothered many of these additional women who got detected by mammography screening. Radiotherapy is very good if you have a real dangerous breast cancer not detected by screening. But when we use radiotherapy on healthy women we kill some of them through increasing their likelihood of developing lung cancer, heart disease and other cancers. Radiotherapy is lethal when we use it on healthy women,” said Dr Gotzsche. Mammography screening does not seem to have any mortality benefit because even if it had any effect on breast cancer deaths, the increase in deaths due to treating additional 50% over-diagnosed women far outweighs any benefit. “We also have false positives if we use mammography screening for breast cancer. If we screen 10 times for over 20 years, a quarter of all women will get at least one false positive diagnosis. What my colleagues at Copenhagen found was that even 3 years after false positive diagnosis, the women are still worried and anxious about it, and their anxiety lies between those who have breast cancer and those who were told that everything is fine on screening. So we should factor-in the psychological harm that hits one quarter of all women who go to such screenings. Also, it is likely that it has no mortality benefit. Mammography screening is definitely harmful and it should definitely be stopped,” he said. Is this another manifestation of gender-based inequalities in our patriarchal society? “It is a gender issue too. Males have been honestly informed that screening for prostate cancer is a very bad idea (because of no evidence that it has any benefit). We do not do prostate cancer screening in Europe but women have never been honestly informed about harms of breast screening. They have just been told: ‘come to screening’. This is a patronizing attitude that I do not understand but which women have accepted,” said Dr Gotzsche. General Health Check-up Is Not Beneficial Either! “People think general health checks are like sending your car for servicing every year. But it is not the same because human beings can heal themselves at times, which a car can never do. We did a Cochrane review on general health checks and to our big surprise there were actually a number of very large trials out there. When we analysed them we found that it does not work at all and does not decrease mortality. It leads more healthy people to get diagnosed that would not help them, but that might harm them. Because of our review Danish government decided not to introduce general health checks,” said Dr Gotzsche. He added: “We were in a fortunate situation because new Danish government had plans to introduce general health checks and then it is much easier to say ‘no’ when you have the evidence. Whereas in the UK they had introduced general health checks few years back and they did not pay any attention to our reviews, which came later — because that is how politics is — when you have introduced something like that it is almost impossible to stop it again. Issue of general health check-up has come up again in Denmark because soon we will have general elections. The health minister has not paid any attention to the Cochrane review based upon evidence from 240,000 individuals! The whole idea is political – as it is popular to offer something to the population that they think will help them. This can give them votes. We have reacted strongly citing strong evidence against general health checks.” People Before Profits When It Comes To Information “I and my PhD students were the first in the world who got access to unpublished clinical studies at the European Medical Agency — no one had ever gotten access to such studies anywhere in the world. The agency would not give us access because they wanted to protect commercial interests. Our health authorities do not think about protecting patients but they think about protecting the health industry, which is very bizarre. We complained to the European Ombudsman and the process took three years, after which the European Ombudsman accused the European Medical Agency with maladministration. Then they needed to do something and they changed their policy and we got access,” said Dr Gotzsche. “I am also working in the European parliament trying to influence the European trials directive which in its final form was much better than what was proposed by the European Commission. We will now have access to much more data, from all trials from 2016. If we do not have access to all the data we may be harming our patients as we do not know what the value of our treatments are.” more  

Foul discharge from Vagina is sure indication of beginning of cancer , so cleaning inside, even upto uterus with hydrogen per oxide is advisable , once a week , it will prevent from all sort of problems . more