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To: Alighieri who wrote (538414)	12/23/2009 5:31:54 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) of 1577552

We think of prevention as expensive screening and testing for diseases in their early stages, but huge savings are promised by lifestyle and life sciences "discoveries" such as these. It is actually even worse. Under the guise of prevention, and preventive screening, hospitals are trolling for patients to for whom they can sell expensive "cures". Some of the great results for "curing" patients that the US health care advertises are curing diseases that were never diseases in the first place. Breast cancer screening falls in this category, BTW. The breast cancers apparently roughly fall to 3 types: 1. the ones that will never go anywhere. Disappear on their own or never progress 2. slowly progressing ones, where treatment makes a difference 3. fast advancing ones, where there is no hope for the patient. Never even testing will make no difference in #1 and #3. The cases that fall under #2 are actually a minority of cases. A lot of "cures", and joyful "cancer survivors" are in category #1. The same is the case for prostate cancer, BTW.

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