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American Cancer Society Admits Cancers Overdiagnosed
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:56
Cancer screenings, namely melanoma, lead to over-diagnosis. Over-diagnosis is the practice of calling benign growths cancerous. A study in the September issue of the British Journal of Dermatology showed that the incidences of melanoma raised 38 percent from 1991 to 2004, similar to the 44 percent increase reported by the CDC over the same period for American caucasians. The British found that almost all of the increase was in the earliest stages of the disease when it is often difficult or impossible to malignant lesion from a benign mole. If melanoma rates were truly increasing, there would be an increase in diagnosis at all stages of the disease. It seems that practitioners are erring on the side of caution.
Unfortunately, these practices contribute to sun scare, which has led to a Vitamin D deficiency epidemic. For most people, the benefits of Vitamin D made as nature intended via moderate UV exposure far outweigh the risk. Vitamin D has widespread benefits, from osteoporisis prevention to blood pressure regulation to cancer prevention.
Read the article from the New York Times here.
Watch the YouTube video here which explains how 50,000 deaths could be prevented each year in the US and Canada from breast cancer, and the same for colon cancer.
Why the benefits often outweigh the risk:
Vitamin D - made daily from UVB, right here at The Sun Factory.
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