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"In addition to the episiotomy, consider the 494,000 operations to remove a woman's ovaries and Fallopian tubes and the 111,000 mastectomies performed in the year 2000. Most in this latter category are— and have been for at least twenty-five years—controversial. For localized cancers of the breast, it is well-established that removing the lump (lumpectomy) is just as effective and far less traumatic than removal of the entire breast, and perhaps the associated lymph glands (radical mastectomy) as well." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"When he started practicing medicine, radical mastectomies were still the order of the day; it was his vision that the surgery did not always have to be so extensive, and he devoted much of his professional life to developing less radical operations. But something besides medicine also ran in the family. Both my father and my father-in-law were living examples of the toxic American diet. Between them, they had diabetes; strokes; prostate, colon, and lung cancer; and coronary artery disease." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"In thinking about all the breast surgery he had done, the lumpectomies and mastectomies, he expressed disgust at the idea of "disfiguring somebody when you know that you haven't changed their chances for recovery" He began to do some soul searching. "What is my epitaph going to be? Five thousand mastectomies! You've disfigured more women than anybody else in Ohio!" Dropping the sarcasm, he said with sincerity, "I think everybody likes to leave the planet thinking that maybe... maybe you've helped a little." Dr. Esselstyn began studying the literature on the diseases he commonly treated." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"The women undergo many unnecessary biopsies and an unknown number of mastectomies (breast amputations). Many of the women suffer unnecessarily from depression, desperation, and fear of dying as a result of the diagnosis. In the United States, mastectomies have skyrocketed since mammography became the most popular "preventive" method for diagnosing breast cancer. The medical establishment is very nervous that the truth about the mammogram technology is finally beginning to surface. After all, it is a huge moneymaker. Peter Gotzsche, M.D." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Some went so far as to recommend random biopsies of the other breast, which revealed one or more foci of dcis in 50 percent and which therefore led to a recommendation of bilateral mastectomies. The "precancer" notion evolved to denote one focus of dcis as indicative of a predisposition to developing breast cancer. After all, as many as 70 percent of breasts removed for a single lesion were found to have multiple foci of dcis. If the label "precancer" is allowed such weight, mastectomy seems sensible, particularly given the surgical hubris of the day." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Each year, thousands of women unnecessarily undergo mastectomies, radiation and chemotherapy after receiving false positives on a mammogram. • In July 1995, The Lancet wrote about mammograms, saying "The benefit is marginal, the harm caused is substantial, and the costs incurred are enormous ..." As published in October 2007 by The Cochrane Library and PubMed (October 2007), self-breast exams don't benefit mortality rates from breast cancer either." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Most women with such DCIS cancers never suffer from full-blown breast cancer, as their "cancer" stays contained to a limited area, but because in a small number of cases such cancers may spread, doctors are often aggressive in their treatment, choosing to perform lumpectomies or even full mastectomies. Taking IPg with inositol will help to ensure that such cancers do not spread. Men's Reproductive Cancers Testicular Cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Hemorrhoid removal went from a rate of two per 10,000 to ten per 10,000; there were threefold differences in the rates of appendectomies and mastectomies and a fourfold difference in the rate of surgery for varicose veins. Baffled by their results, Wennberg and Gittelsohn came up with various hypotheses to explain the "small area variations." Maybe it was patient demand—people in some parts of Vermont were choosing to have more surgeries than people in other parts of the state." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Rather than choose to eschew mammography, she chose bilateral simple mastectomies (no cancer was found). The false-positive rate escalated, so that by the 1990s over a third of women in screening programs had been faced with false-positive results. That translated into one negative biopsy per woman screened per decade. The recall and negative open surgical biopsy rates are twice as high in the United States as in the United Kingdom with no trade-off in cancer detection rates. The screening experience was worrisome for many women a decade ago." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "Surgery for nearly all regional musculoskeletal pain has earned its place in the historical archives next to tonsillectomies, hysterectomies for retroverted uteruses, radical mastectomies (chapter 6), coronary artery bypass grafts (chapter 2), and other misguided empiricisms. Unfortunately and sadly, surgery for the regional musculoskeletal disorders has yet to be relegated to the archives. To the contrary, it is a booming industry. 10. We do not know what causes particular episodes of regional musculoskeletal pain." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Five thousand mastectomies! You've disfigured more women than anybody else in Ohio!" Dropping the sarcasm, he said with sincerity, "I think everybody likes to leave the planet thinking that maybe... maybe you've helped a little." Dr. Esselstyn began studying the literature on the diseases he commonly treated. He read some of the popular work of Dr. John McDou-gall, who had just written a best-selling diet and health book called The McDougall Plan." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Further investigation has shown beta-l,3-D-glucan to be a potent agent 7 A for healing sores and ulcers in women who have undergone mastectomies. Bifidobacterium Bifidum Bifidobacterium bifidum aids in the synthesis of the B vitamins by creating healthy intestinal flora. B. bifidum is the predominant organism in the intestinal flora and establishes a healthy environment for the manufacture of the B-complex vitamins and vitamin K. When you take antibiotics, the "friendly" bacteria in your digestive tract are destroyed along with the harmful bacteria. Supplementing your diet with B." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Hemorrhoid removal went from a rate of two per 10,000 to ten per 10,000; there were threefold differences in the rates of appendectomies and mastectomies and a fourfold difference in the rate of surgery for varicose veins. Baffled by their results, Wennberg and Gittelsohn came up with various hypotheses to explain the "small area variations." Maybe it was patient demand—people in some parts of Vermont were choosing to have more surgeries than people in other parts of the state." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"This latest study adds to scientists' knowledge about preventive mastectomies, an area that has garnered little research, Geiger says. "Most research has been done on bilateral preventive mastectomy—when no cancer is present," she says, but the woman is at high risk due to a strong family history of the disease. NO SURPRISE The study results come as no surprise to Dr." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"I have personally dealt with many women who have developed breast cancer after being on HRT, which resulted in radical mastectomies. HRT is not the wonder cure it is made out to be. Many women have found that their bone density is worse after being on HRT. A huge study observing more than one million women, conducted in the U.K. by Cancer Research U.K., National Health Services, and the Medical Research Council, indicated that chances of breast cancer are increased by 50 percent when on HRT." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"In the United States, mastectomies have skyrocketed since mammography became the most popular "preventive" method for diagnosing breast cancer. The medical establishment is very nervous that the truth about the mammogram technology is finally beginning to surface. After all, it is a huge moneymaker. Peter Gotzsche, M.D.—a researcher at the Nordic Cochrane Center in Denmark—and his associates recently published a peer-reviewed study that found major fault with the results of a large trial that reported a 31 percent reduction in breast cancer mortality as a result of mammogram screening." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Surgery for nearly all regional musculoskeletal pain has earned its place in the historical archives next to tonsillectomies, hysterectomies for retroverted uteruses, radical mastectomies, and other misguided empiricisms. Unfortunately, surgery for the regional musculoskeletal disorders has become an industry. • We do not know what causes particular episodes of regional musculoskeletal pain. The risk from specific tasks on or off the job is trivial, so we have no more reason to label a regional backache an injury than we have to label a spontaneous headache an injury." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.) "Some went so far as to recommend random biopsies of the other breast, which, in 50 per cent of cases, revealed one or more foci of dcis and, therefore, led to a recommendation of bilateral mastectomies. The "pre-cancer" notion evolved to denote one focus of dcis as indicative of a predisposition to developing breast cancer. After all, as many as 70 per cent of breasts removed for a single lesion were found to have multiple foci of dcis. If the label "pre-cancer" is allowed such weight, mastectomy seems sensible, particularly given the surgical hubris of the day." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.) "Rather than choose to eschew mammography, she chose bilateral simple mastectomies - and no cancer was found. The false-positive rate has escalated and, by the 1990s, over a third of women in screening programs had been faced with false positive results. That result translates into one negative biopsy per woman screened per decade. Even if the interpretation of the mammographic image could be rendered reliable, screening would still be highly inaccurate. All radiographic images reflect the ability of the tissue to interfere with the passage of the x-rays to the detector." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"Would you say 10 unnecessary mastectomies equal 10 years of life? I think different people would say different things. Obviously there is no right answer—and that is the point. The most we can expect from research is some feel for how big each of the terms in the equation is. Individuals will need to decide for themselves which numbers matter and how to put them together. GENETIC TESTING It is difficult to talk about medical research these days without saying something about genes. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm out there for genetic testing and gene therapy." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.) "While you can count the number of additional mastectomies done following a strategy of mammography screening, for example, how do you measure morbidity from the operation? And if you think that's tough, what about measuring the extent to which the promotion of mammography leads to general fear about breast cancer? Some researchers are at work trying to measure these hard-to-quantify outcomes. But even if they develop appropriate measurement tools, policymakers are left with a more basic problem: the numbers never add up." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.)

"One example is the case of "drive-thru" mastectomies where the guidelines advocated a one-day stay. Now, laws have been enacted to protect the health of patients who have mastectomies by requiring longer stays. If you have any question about the length of your hospital stay, ask your insurance company to provide you with the source of their decision and any other information on which that decision is based. Discuss the terms with your doctor and find out if she agrees that it is a realistic time frame." - Eric Rose MD, Second Opinion: The Columbia-Presbyterian Guide to Surgery (Get the book.)

"However, a review of the Colorado Central Cancer Registry records over 5 years shows that 72 percent of T1 breast cancer patients in Colorado chose modified radical mastectomies. The reason appears to be surgeon bias. B. Tarbox et al., "Are Modified Radical mastectomies Done for T1 Breast Cancers Because of Surgeon's Advice or Patient's Choice?" American Journal of Surgery 164, no. 5 (November 1992): 417. From 1977 to 1990, Dr. Roger Poisson falsified lumpectomy research data." - Dr. Gary Null, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"Some conventional doctors are pushing the genetic origins of breast cancer so much that some women who do not even have cancer are actually deciding to get "preemptive" mastectomies just because there is a history of breast cancer in their family. But according to Dr. Lee and his colleagues, only about 10 percent of all breast cancer cases in this country can be attributed to "inherited" genetic causes. And these genetic causes only predispose some women to breast cancer—they don't guarantee that cancer will develop. On the other hand, Dr." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"Milliman recommended that mastectomies be performed on an outpatient basis and that congestive heart failure patients be hospitalized for one day or less. For vaginal births, twenty-four hours in the hospital was their standard. And for a cesarean, forty-eight hours. Both the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Pediatric Society strongly disagreed, saying that the minimum hospitalization for both types of births should be doubled. The company's most infamous recommendation—though few in the public connected it to Milliman's name—also involved childbirth." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"Radical mastectomies are now used less and less as more women are given orthodox support to choose simple mastectomies and lumpectomies. (Women who choose breast-sparing surgery also have a mean survival of 15 years.) But where we gain one place, we lose another. Women who choose breast-sparing surgery are told that they must also use radiation or chemotherapy. It is not unusual for a woman to be told that if she refuses these, her doctor will refuse to treat her. But these therapies are hazardous and overused." - Susun S. Weed, Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (Get the book.)

"CHOOSE THE BEST SURGEON Only use a surgeon who is board certified in the specialty that is related to your operation —neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, etc. Look for the letters "FACS" (Fellow, American College of Surgeons) after his/her name. This means that the surgeon has been evaluated for competence and ethical standards. Helpful: Call the hospital anesthesiology department, and ask one of the anesthesiologists which surgeon he would pick. (Anesthesiologists often are free between 3 pm and 5 pm.) They know all the surgeons and have no reason not to give a straight answer." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Radical mastectomies and chemotherapies are unproven, disproven, and dangerous. 1000 United States citizens die every day of cancer; when the cancer rate was l%ofthepopulation in 1800; 3%in 1900; andhasmortallyrisento24%in 1989. The American Cancer Society keeps a black list of 63 "unproven" cancer treatments, over 40% of which have not been investigated (#63 is the 75% effective methods of Mr. Gaston Naessens). The blood supply is not as safe as medicrats would have us believe. With a lag-time of from three months to 1 year for detection of a carrier's antibodies to the A.I.D.S. vims, Dr." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"David Brown, Washington Post journalist we've discussed many common medical practices that proved to have no basis: long-term hormone replacement therapy after menopause, episiotomy for childbirth, pulmonary artery catheters for high-risk surgery patients, encainide for abnormal heart rhythms after a heart attack, expensive new drugs for high blood pressure instead of old-fashioned diuretics, bone marrow transplants for late-stage breast cancer, radical mastectomies for breast cancer, and many others." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.)

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