Yesterday I put up a report on papillary thyroid cancer.
And the point was if you count papillary thyroid “cancer” you over count thyroid cancers.
The cancer phobia and chemo phobia business is fed by scare numbers. Policy making and expenditures for medical research are driven by numbers of cases and allegations of epidemics. For example many people in America think there is a cancer epidemic–not true, but counting cancers if rife with charlatanism by self-serving individuals involved in programs on cancer. Environmentalists claim there is a cancer increase caused by their pet toxin or pollutant.
If you allow people in public health/cancer studies/chemical toxicology studies to exaggerate the dangers or the impacts of their pet monster, you end up misleading the public.
But we know that, don’t we?
So, here are some hints, there are tumors and there are malignancies. Different. A lipoma is a tumor but not a cancer
Cancer of the prostate is a benign slow-growing, late to metastasize cancer that does not kill from metastatic invasion. Some types of prostate cancer act more aggressively.
Melanoma can be benign or very malignant, papillary cancer of the thyroid can be counted as a cancer, but it does not kill, like the cancers that are aggressively malignant.
When melanoma is miscounted, there is cheating afoot.
Last year in a series of articles, Milloy exposed the cheating on tanning and the alleged epidemic of melanoma.
Cheating for an agenda happens all the time, and in the business of public health, the source of the data and the definitions make a difference, don’t they.
Heres a summary of the Melonoma cheating that caught Milloy’s eye. He called me after he saw a panicky report about increases in melanoma and I worked with him on why the campaign was fed by deceptions on Melanoma. As for the deceptions on tanning beds and non melanoma skin cancers, that’s interesting too. The squamous cell cancers and basal cancers of old people are not tanning bed cancers–they are from a lifetime of sun exposure and susceptability, for example your skin color.
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NO… melanoma is not the leading cause of cancer death among 20-somethings
Posted on July 31, 2013 by Steve Milloy | 1 comment
Today’s tanning misinformation comes courtesy of the Sioux City Journal’s Dolly Butz.
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Myth: Melanoma is epidemic among teenage girls
Posted on July 29, 2013 by Steve Milloy | Leave a comment
While the melanoma rate for teenage girls does seem to have increased somewhat over the past 35 years (see chart below), it’s quite likely that this increase is due to the well-recognized phenomenon of increased detection of benign melanomas/misdiagnoses of … Continue reading →
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Myth: There is an epidemic of melanoma among teenage girls
Posted on July 29, 2013 by Steve Milloy | Leave a comment
Boston Globe business editor Mark Pothier displays what he doesn’t know about skin cancer.
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NO… sunbathing is not behind the rise in melanoma rates
Posted on July 22, 2013 by Steve Milloy | 1 comment
Rather than parroting anti-tanning talking points, here’s a ray of light the Richmond Times-Dispatch can catch.
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Massive Decline in Malignant Melanoma, says Cancer Research UK
Posted on July 22, 2013 by Steve Milloy | 1 comment
This could be due to increased diagnoses and treatment of benign lesions as Stage 1 melanomas — the 5-year survival rate of which is 92-97%. The Austrian Tribune reports:
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Myth: UV radiation causes melanoma
Posted on July 21, 2013 by Steve Milloy | Leave a comment
Although anti-tanning advocates are fond of claiming that ultraviolet radiation “causes” melanoma, such a statement grossly misrepresents what is known about human exposure to ultraviolet radiation and melanoma. First, we know that the vasty majority of people exposed to ultraviolet … Continue reading →
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Myth: The World Health Organization has determined that indoor tanning increases the risk of melanoma
Posted on July 21, 2013 by Steve Milloy | Leave a comment
In its 2006 Tanning 2006 IARC – ArtificialUVRad&SkinCancerreport, the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded, Epidemiologic studies to date give no consistent evidence that use of indoor tanning facilities in general is associated with the development of melanoma … Continue reading →
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Myth: All studies show that indoor tanning increases the risk of melanoma
Posted on July 19, 2013 by Steve Milloy | Leave a comment
Twenty-three epidemiological studies (i.e, studies of disease patterns in actual human populations) have been published looking for a potential link between indoor tanning and melanoma. Of these 23 studies, 18 failed to report any association between indoor tanning and melanoma. … Continue reading →
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Myth: Indoor tanning increases the risk of melanoma by 75%
Posted on July 19, 2013 by Steve Milloy | Leave a comment
The claim that indoor tanning increases the risk of melanoma by 75% was first presented in a 2006 report from the International Agency for Carcinogenic Research (IARC), which reported a 75% increase in melanoma incidence among sunbed users whose first … Continue reading →
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Myth: Melanoma is epidemic among young women
Posted on July 19, 2013 by Steve Milloy | Leave a comment
Below is a chart of melanoma incidence among white 20-49 year olds (“young women”) during 1975-2010, from the National Cancer Institute. Note that the reported incidence of melanoma among young women has increased from about 10 cases per 100,000 young … Continue reading →
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Myth: There is an epidemic of melanoma
Posted on July 19, 2013 by Steve Milloy | Leave a comment
There is no apparent “epidemic” of melanoma so much as there seems to be an epidemic of melanoma diagnoses. As you read this section, keep in mind that the numbers of cases are per 100,000 people. When talking about incidence … Continue reading →
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NO… there is no link between indoor tanning and melanoma
Posted on July 13, 2013 by Steve Milloy | 15 comments
KTHV-TV (Little Rock) reports:
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PETA’s dangerous jun