Lumps & Bumps – Risky Biopsies Spreads the Disease
This is good information for everyone to consider. There is a lot to read on the site’s page with many references. I tried to narrow down the most pertinent information on biopsies; it was difficult to narrow down or guess what people can digest at one time. The below is a long read, but worth it.
In reading this, it is very scandalous how the cycle of events takes place, and how the pharm companies perpetuate the profit machine by scaring people!
“So this treatment deliberately causes the cancer to change from a slow-growing mass to a much faster growing mass! Hurray for drug logic!”
On the site, he mentions a story of a young woman who ran away from her family because they were going to force her to cut off her breasts because she wanted alternative treatments instead. “Well intentioned” family members force people to do things at the doctor’s insistence, not knowing that they are sending someone to a possible early death. At the end of this, the author suggests an alternative to biopsy for detecting cancers.
Included below is a brief mention of the author’s story. He believes that their cancer was from a parasitic insect bite 30 years ago when they were in Africa . One never knows what will or will not affect them until years later. Something left “inactive” turned into a growing problem.
Best of Health!
DD
A note: The author emphasized some things in blue that came directly from the site. I emphasized a few things but mine are the yellow highlights.
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http://www.karlloren.com/biopsy/
Check The Lump With A Biopsy? Start The Spread Of Cancer!
Because if there IS cancer there, the biopsy is likely to cause it to start spreading.
It just makes sense. The word "biopsy" comes from "bio-" which means "life," and "-psy" which is from the larger Greek word, "opsis" meaning "vision" -- thus, a "biopsy" is a look at life, or an examination of living tissue. One way or another, a "piece" of your flesh, or of some part of your body, is cut out so that it can be examined under a microscope.
Typically the doctor who does the actual biopsy will place a color stain on the sample tissue -- a stain that makes the cells easy to see. Then he treats the sample with paraffin so that the individual cells won't be moving around, or changed. By this time, of course, the cells are no longer alive. He then SLICES the paraffin into thin slices -- about the thickness of a few cells.
THIS is what he looks at. When it is done this way several people can look at the same sample and come to an agreed conclusion.
Different parts of your body will have different rates of cell division. For instance, brain cells never divide. You got what you got! Other cells might divide every three weeks. Different rates. The biopsy examination looks at the cells of the sample and can detect how many of them are in the process of cell division. If the sample shows that 10% of the cells are in the process of cell division, and that type of cell ought not to show more than 1% of them going through cell division, then that sample shows abnormal growth -- cancer.
Even though cancer is considered abnormal and rapid growth of cells, the entire mass of a cancer is normally rather slow growing -- because it is "encased." It grows inside a wall, or shell. The body is trying to protect itself from the cancer -- because cancer would otherwise spread throughout the body. So, the body tries to protect itself by building a wall around the cancer to keep any of its cells from "leaking out." (Actually, some cancers are very slow-growing [breast and prostate] while others are very fast [liver cancer].)
The least dangerous type of cancer is usually considered "skin cancer," or "basal cell carcinoma." This type of cancer hardly ever spreads through the body. It "spreads" by just affecting the tissue right next to it -- and growing that way. For this reason a biopsy of basal cell carcinoma is not dangerous at all -- but, of course, you don't know it is basal cell carcinoma until you do the biopsy. An experienced doctor can usually tell by inspection and a history from the patient whether or not it is skin cancer. Generally, these are safely removed with simple surgery, and even if some of the cancer cells are "missed" there is no need for radiation or chemotherapy -- just a bit more surgery to get the remaining cancer cells.
When the cancer DOES leak out there is a special word -- the cancer is said to metastasize -- start spreading into other parts of the body. It grows like an octopus -- reaching its tentacles throughout the body.
The doctors all know this, but there is a special reason why they don't tell you that a biopsy is likely to cause the cancer to start spreading.
They will tell you that the biopsy is painless, not expensive, and that it can be done during an office visit. They will tell you that it is covered by insurance.
They will tell you that if there is cancer in this lump, it is vital that you know about it so that you can start treating it quickly. They will tell you that if you start treating it quickly the chances of winning the battle over cancer are tremendously improved.
They will explain, in detail, the "fine needle biopsy," where the needle is tiny, and is inserted through the flesh into the lump, a very small amount of material is withdrawn into the needle, and there will be no scar -- no pain.
If there is cancer there, of course, they will then tell you that you should move VERY quickly to start treatment. You may not realize it, but there are only three legal treatments for cancer in most of the
So, you discover the lump. You go to your doctor. No doctor would ever recommend AGAINST a biopsy -- he must be safe or he can lose his license and perhaps millions of dollars in a malpractice lawsuit. So, he tells you, "You need a biopsy, right away. They are safe and not painful. I can do it right now." or, he says, "Go see Dr. Smith, dermatologist, he can do a biopsy in his office, immediately."
We are all hoping, at this point, that it is NOT cancer. The doctor may even say, "Well it doesn't look malignant to me, I don't think it's cancer, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Get the biopsy to find out."
Here is what he DOES NOT tell you BEFORE the biopsy: "Once you have had the biopsy, if the doctor finds that there is cancer, then you must start your treatment immediately."
Even if he tells you before the biopsy that you would have to start treatment immediately, he won't tell you "WHY." The reason, he will admit if you ask, is that the biopsy, itself, can start the spread of the cancer from the inside of the casing it was in. Remember, the body is protecting itself from having the cancer spread -- it builds a wall around the cancer. Once you penetrate that wall, even with a very tiny needle, the cancer cells (they are certainly smaller than the needle) can leak out through the hole and enter the body. These cancer cells can enter the blood stream and within a few seconds they have been distributed throughout the entire body.
Perhaps your immune system is strong enough to handle these stray cancer cells. Perhaps they just won't find a good place to "live." But, perhaps you have just allowed the doctor to cause the metastasizing of your cancer.
Obviously if the leak continues for only a day or so it is much less dangerous than if the leak of those cancer cells continues for weeks or months. So, the doctor does the biopsy, discovers cancer, and then tells you that you must start treatment immediately. I think it is medical malpractice for a doctor to fail to warn a patient that a biopsy can cause an immediate spreading of the cancer, and that such "spreading" then would appear to greatly limit your choices of treatment.
What had been, possibly, a slow growing cancer with no metastasis, has in one split second become a cancer which might be spreading throughout your body -- calling for urgent and immediate treatment. Before the biopsy it was a suspicious mass and you had time to learn about the many alternatives to chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.
After the doctor's malpractice, you no longer have time to learn.
The minimum a doctor should do, in my opinion, before he does a biopsy, is to lay out the treatment options in great detail IF he finds cancer. You should not expect a doctor to lay out alternative forms of treatment because it would be illegal for him to use those -- but at least he can give you the details of the surgery, the chemotherapy and/or the radiation he would use in the event the biopsy shows cancer.
After this article had been published for a while I have received many comments and compliments about the information.
Rush To Judgment! Rush To The Knife!
Usually the person is so frightened that he doesn't begin to question the doctor. He schedules the next possible appointment, the doctor utters the soothing words, "Don't worry, we've caught it early. etc. etc."
You then start learning about the treatment.
Incidentally, the rate of cancer is INCREASING, not decreasing. Click here for that story.
Since writing THIS page I have done very extensive research on cancer and have several hundred more pages -- starting HERE. I have discovered that cancer can be prevented! Click on that link to learn how.
I swear to God! It is not unusual for a person to learn about the forms of treatment ONLY after the biopsy. You've had the biopsy -- the biopsy which is now causing the cancer to spread. The doctor now tells you that you must get chemotherapy, surgery or radiation. His exact diagnosis and treatment plan will depend on the type of cancer, its location and how far it has advanced, but your only choices are these three -- and, really, it will NOT be your choice usually -- it is the doctor who tells you that your only choice, given your condition (and given that the cancer has now started to spread because of the biopsy) is xxx!
So, you start the XXX treatment that day, or the next.
Did he recommend radiation? Well, the latest study, which he won't read, reveals that radiation does NOT increase long term survival for breast cancer victims.
One of the longest-running studies of breast-cancer treatments in the
The study, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, also found that the survival rates of patients who had radiation treatments were about the same as those who didn't. The study measured survival rates 25 years after initial discovery of the breast cancer. (Source -- Wall Street Journal article)
Now I think an HONEST doctor would tell you about the radiation, chemotherapy and surgery BEFORE he does the biopsy.
He would say something like this: "You have a lump and I think you should have a biopsy. But, I want you to know that the lump does not appear to be growing fast and that if you took another month to think about this it would not be dangerous. But, if you DO the biopsy, and it's cancer, then you can't afford to wait a month for anything. Oh," he should say, "if it comes up as cancer, here are the only three legal treatments I can offer (radiation, surgery and chemotherapy) and this is what each of them would be like for you."
He would describe how you might lose your hair, lose weight, start vomiting. He would tell you that the "cancer treatment" will destroy your body's natural immunity to cancer. If this is a breast lump, he would tell you that there is a chance that, with the biopsy showing cancer, you might have to lose one or both breasts, even including surgery up into your armpits to remove lymph nodes. (Remember that the lymph nodes are important sources of the manufacture of your immune system.)
Why does the doctor not tell you this before the biopsy? Because he "knows" that the ONLY treatment that is legal, the only treatment that can help you is one or more of these three. Why should he make you worry about these treatments -- perhaps the biopsy will show "no cancer." He thinks, "We'll wait until after the biopsy to give the bad news on treatment, if it is necessary!"
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So, I started this research with some considerable personal motivation. Click here to read about my personal medical situation. My medical situation started, as far as I can figure, with an insect bite in
I had this very light colored spot on my chest -- left over from one of those fly episodes in
I am quite willing to experiment on myself. When it comes to researching a new vitamin product, or any new health product, I figure I should be willing to use it on myself before I sell it to others. So, I had this product, called Agrisept, and one of its uses was to remove warts or moles. (Click here to read about removing moles.) I tried it on a wart. The wart went away, just like it was supposed to do!
So, I applied it to this red spot on my chest -- to see what would happen.
Well, perhaps I should not have done that? But, I did. About two years ago. At first the red spot reacted in the same way the wart did -- and I thought I was going to be successful in removing this slightly thickened part of skin from my chest. But, instead of healing over, as the wart had done, the red spot got bigger and didn't heal.
That was about 18 months ago.
There were periods when I would forget about it. It would mostly dry up and I would forget about it. But, there was generally always a small scab, and sometimes some bleeding. It had turned into an unhealing wound!
I finally agreed to see a doctor -- one I trusted. He gave me the diagnosis: "I don't think there is any chance of cancer. I would say that there is an 80% chance that it is 'Granuloma' and a 20% chance that it is "basal cell carcinoma."
Granuloma is never malignant, and 95% of all Basal Cell Carcinomas are NOT seriously dangerous -- so it looks like I am almost 100% sure that a biopsy would not be dangerous.
Basic Information On Two Very Common Problems
GRANULOMA
The "-oma" part of the word means "swollen." The "granul-" part of the word relates to "granule" or small piece. Many words related to cancer include the ending "-oma." Granuloma is the only word in this usage where the "-oma" is NOT related to cancer. Granuloma is NOT a cancer, but the affected area can spread to adjoining tissue. It cannot spread by moving through the blood stream, as a cancer can.
A special type of INFLAMMATION characterized by accumulations of macrophages, some of which coalesce into "giant cells." Granulomatous inflammation is especially characteristic of tuberculosis, some deep fungal infections (like histoplasmosis and coccidioidomycosis), sarcoidosis (a disease of unknown cause), and reaction to foreign bodies. (Source)
Another good description of the granuloma is here.
BASAL-CELL CARCINOMA
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer. It is so-named because it originates in the deeper (basal) cells in the skin. It is usually not dangerous if it is diagnosed and properly treated in its early stages when the cure rate is in the range of 95 percent. It rarely spreads (metastasizes) to lymph nodes or remote locations. If neglected, however, basal cell tumors may invade adjacent tissues and produce large ulcers or require extensive and sometimes disfiguring surgery in an attempt to remove all of the tumor. In some instances when the cancer has spread deep into vital areas, it may not be curable. (Source)
Basal-cell carcinoma (BCC) is humankind's most common malignancy or cancer. Nearly one million Americans will develop a BCC this year alone. Amazingly, one out of every three new cancers in
I'm not trying to cover every type of cancer in this article. But, you can follow my research protocol and find out for yourself about any other type of cancer. Nonetheless, much of the information in this Article, and in the linked pages, will apply to any type of cancer.
The doctor suggested I get a biopsy, and then get a simple laser surgery to remove the "bump."
I was not eager.
The Terrible Dangers Of The Biopsy!
I felt that if it WERE cancer, under no circumstances would I accept radiation, chemotherapy or surgery. I felt that I had too much experience with the success of alternatives to accept the slash/burn/poison methods.
So, knowing what I believed to be true, I argued with the doctor about the biopsy. He said, "Get the lightest possible type of biopsy -- called a 'shaved tissue sample,' and if, as I expect, it turns out to be non-malignant, go ahead with the full laser surgery to get rid of the problem."
I might be willing to do that -- and might, yet, but I decided to do some research first -- thus this article.
So, my main frame of reference was that biopsies were dangerous and that I could find an alternative form of treatment for my bump.
One of my first findings, on my research quest, was when I did a search among the scientific studies relating to biopsy,
"spreading" and cancer.
I found the following report:
Abstract
The risk of tumour spread at aspiration biopsy of pulmonary tumours through the needle track has been analyzed by reviewing the case histories of 1,264 patients with a malignant tumour demonstrated by needle biopsy. Only in one case did metastatic tumour growth develop at the site of the biopsy. The history of this case is presented and the available literature on the subject discussed. http://www.karlloren.com/biopsy/p21.htm#1
This report was ONE of one hundred, and came on a search for what I considered the relevant words. I figured that if NONE of the 100 reports described the spreading of cancer because of a biopsy, perhaps my opinion was wrong. I found only similar reports among these 100 scientific studies.
A famous biopsy specialist who I contacted told me the same:
Original Message-----
From: Ed Uthman [mailto:uthman@neosoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 5:02 PM
To: karl@karlloren.com
Subject: Re: Your article on biopsies
Hi, Karl,
The danger of a biopsy spreading a cancer is not known and can never be known with certainty. This is because no one can be diagnosed with cancer until they have had a biopsy that shows it. Well-documented cases of so-called "needle-track metastasis" are very rare, and in practice the risk is thought to be very small and is therefore ignored. The risk of morbidity and mortality from doing major cancer surgery on a patient who actually has something other than cancer is considered much, much greater.
Best regards,
I erred in my search technique, however, because the word "spread" was not the right word to search for. "Spread" was used in these scientific reports to describe how a biopsy could be used to detect the spreading of cancer. This was quite different from a biopsy causing the spread of cancer.
July 5, 2000
Dear Ed,
Thanks.
Here is an example:
Additionally, doctors and researchers have noted that biopsy of a cancerous tumor can cause spreading or "seeding" of cancer cells along the path or track made by the biopsy needle. This could cause a cancerous condition which had been confined solely to the prostate capsule to spread into surrounding tissues, making a serious health concern even more problematical.
http://www.karlloren.com/biopsy/p30.htm#1
[Note the use of the phrase, "prostate capsule." This is a reference to the fact that the body will try to "encase" or "wall off" a cancer. Here the term is "capsule."]
But, then I found many, many more reports of cancer spreading because of biopsy. Click here, for instance, to look at 47 scientific reports of which many described the spreading, or "seeding" of cancer because of a biopsy.
And, click here to find another 73 such reports -- most of which describe a real danger of cancer spreading throughout the body just because of a biopsy.
Final Judgment!
Then I found several individual doctors, or reports, on the web, describing the dangers of biopsy. These are generally described and linked from my summary page on biopsy -- click here.
The decision is final! Biopsies are often dangerous -- despite what your doctor might tell you!"
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Here is another type of test for cancer:
Stunning proof of this claim is readily available. All trophoblast cells produce a unique hormone called the chorionic gonadotrophic (CGH) which is easily detected in urine. Thus if a person is either pregnant or has cancer, a simple CGH pregnancy test should confirm either or both. It does, with an accuracy of better than 92% in all cases. If the urine sample shows positive it means either normal pregnancy or abnormal malignant cancer.
http://www.karlloren.com/biopsy/p76.htm#1
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