Comments on: Let's Talk About Breast Cancer

By: Owen M.

Owen M. — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:58:27 +0000

Starting a site relevant to yours got me to start some research and I found your post to be very helpful. My site is centered around the idea of starving cancer by halting the angiogenic process. I hope of you good luck with your writing in the future and you can be sure I’ll be following it.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:43:18 +0000

I just happened across this excellent presentation by Dr. Harriet Hall (MD); it’s rather long but well worth reading since she does discuss issues with low probability events (though of course not in the detail you can get from standard statistical texts):

http://www.skepticstoolbox.org/hall/

By: TomJoe

TomJoe — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:59:13 +0000

I grew up in Orange County, just north of Rockland County. I wouldn’t go back there if my life depended upon it.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:06:29 +0000

It looks to me like a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics and a tendency to ‘cherry pick’ data in support of some paranoid thought. The incidence of breast cancer is low enough that the populations being considered are not large enough to produce the “expected” results without showing large annual variations. Do not consider a mere few years; look at the whole record or else you are ignoring valuable information. This is especially important when the effect you are investigating (breast cancer) has a very low probability to begin with.

By: toby lee

toby lee — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:05:29 +0000

Every woman should know about the data on vitamin D and breast cancer prevention. Over two years ago the Canadian Cancer Society started recommending that everyone take vitamin D to prevent cancer, an event that has received very little coverage in the press. Take a look at http://www.vitaminD3world.com for some good summaries of the data

By: Paha Arkkitehti

Paha Arkkitehti — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:32:52 +0000

1119 cases reported and 1060 expected. So, what, exactly is your point in posting such thing? Other than be timely with ACS but with data that does not…uhhmm…

By: Sven DIMilo

Sven DIMilo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:45:58 +0000

I realized my county was unusual

? You know, right, that the data you posted show those zipcodes have incidences at or below the statewide rates…?

By: Julian Lieb

Julian Lieb — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:13:06 +0000

Databases such as Medline and Pubmed contain more than sixty articles on the remarkable anticancer properties of antidepressants. Antidepressants kill cancer cells, inhibit their proliferation, convert multidrug resistant cells to sensitive, protect nonmalignant cells from damage by ionizing radiation and chemotherapy toxicity, and target the mitochondria of cancer cells, while sparing those of health ones. Antidepressants can arrest tumors even in advanced stages, occasionally eradicate them, and significantly extend life. Depression significantly increases the risk of cancer, and of dying of it. Media inormed of the new paradigm are ethically obligated to disseminate it to their readers.

By: Curious Wavefunction

Curious Wavefunction — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:32:27 +0000

Breast cancer is one kind of cancer which we might stand a realistic chance of eradicating or at least reducing to negligible levels. I was part of a team that designed a new potential breast cancer drug. We published the work this year and very soon the compound may enter clinical trials. We are hoping it would be successful.