Another standard Cancer surgery shown to be UNECESSARY
As a cancer survivor I always tell people to be cautious when taking their doctor's advice about how to treat their cancers. Most doctors will exaggerate the risks of their conditons, and will mutilate them in
"standard practice" surgeries with no clinical data AT ALL supporting their necessity.
In particular, this week it's been widely reported that the REMOVAL OF LYMPH NODES as standard anti-breast cancer surgery is now shown to be totally useless and unnecessary.
In fact the courageous researchers who undertook this study, in which some patents were spared removal of their lymph nodes, were harshly criticized by most clinical surgeons as irresponsible because their study would "deprive these patients of the proven benefits of this procedure, which has been our normal practice for decades."
The simple truth is that there never was any scientific data of any kind supporting the necessity of the removal of the lymph nodes. NONE.
Yet that didn't dissuade all surgeons in the US from doing so until perhaps now that the first real study of this procedure has been successfully published.
When I was a cancer patient I asked my physicians not only for evidence of the effectiveness of the treatments they insisted on doing, but I also asked for evidence of necessity.
They usually had none to offer.
Be careful. Just say "no" if you have to. Do your own research and make up your own mind. It's your health and your body..not theirs.
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