National Cancer Institute Continues Propaganda Campaign Against Supplements While Giving Toxic Drugs A Free Pass

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National Cancer Institute Continues Propaganda Campaign Against Supplements While Giving Toxic Drugs A Free Pass

Date: 7/29/06 Author: Christopher Barr Source: Naturally Speaking

National Charlatans Institute?

‘Diet, Supplements Do Little for Cancer Patients’ read last week’s bold ‘news’ headline about a current study from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Yet this week’s headline on the news that tamoxifen saves few lives according to the medical journal ‘Cancer’ did not read ‘Breast Cancer Drug Does Little for Cancer Patients’.

Tamoxifen has been the only drug approved for use in preventing breast cancer in women who have not yet reached menopause. Yet the mineral selenium was noted as preventing breast cancer in women by numerous studies (ignored then and now) many years before tamoxifen was ever approved decades ago.

It was also noted this week that the cancer drug gleevec may cause serious heart damage. Meanwhile the mineral selenium is cancer preventative and also protective of the heart according to the National Institutes of Health.

Diet and supplements – a closer look

Though last week’s bold ‘news’ headline (?propaganda?) denied importance of diet or supplementation for cancer the lead author of the study cited, Dr. Steven Thomas, noted that “encouraging a healthy diet is certainly important”. Yet the ‘news’ article then noted, “But physicians should not make this a priority for patients undergoing cancer treatments.”

If “encouraging a healthy diet is certainly important” then why does the bold ‘news’ headline deny that it is important? Why should diet not be a priority? Government researchers and mainstream media are speaking with forked tongue.

Dr. Thomas and his group admit to finding little evidence of any harm but then caution against noting of nutritional interventions “at least they do no harm”. More forked tongue …

Thomas’ group further notes “little evidence” of any benefit but conclude that physicians should advise patients that there is not “ANY evidence”.

Mainstream media reported the NCI study as “a major review of research”. However, the researchers noted “the limited number and quality of most of the trials studied”. Study researchers also noted that because of this “it would be tough to draw definitive conclusions on the effectiveness” of nutritional interventions. Also, only 59 studies out of thousands were examined at all.

Why are definitive conclusions being reached when researchers noted that the studies consulted are inadequate to “draw definitive conclusions”?

None of the multitude of selenium studies about cancer were noted to be considered by the researchers.

A brief newspaper column does not provide time and space enough to examine the many more holes in the NCI study that should sink this study to the depths of the sea of forgetfulness.

A “very good paper” for what?

The NCI study was called a “very good paper” by Dr. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, identified as a Harvard School of Public Health cancer specialist. He added that it is “also difficult to get study participants to comply with specific interventions over an extended period of time.”

Someone should inform Mr. Harvard-School-of-Public-Health bigshot Dr. Dimwit about the 12-year selenium study reported extensively more than 10 years ago. That study demonstrated the most dramatic cancer reduction figures of ANY cancer study EVER conducted on ANY substance whether drug or nutrient.

How about a study of more than 10 years as a “long enough” “extended period of time” with more than 1,300 “study participants” using the mineral selenium as a “specific intervention” Dr. Dimwit?

That study was also not with just any ol’ common, USP, pharmaceutical phavorite son phlavor of selenium but rather a 100 per cent whole food, grown, biological selenium in the amount of 200 micrograms daily!

A “very good paper” Dr. Dimwit?!? Maybe good for toilet paper.

Christopher C. Barr writes Naturally Speaking from Arkansas: The Natural State … naturally! You may write him at P. O. Box 1147, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455 or by e-mail at servantofYHVH@hotmail.com .