Cancer and Serious Disease
Although statistics are somewhat overwhelming regarding the numbers of people who contract and often die of cancer, our fears can be somewhat modified when we learn of other factors in other areas of the numbers game. These help us to gain a different perspective regarding the dangers that are out there influencing how long and how healthily we are likely to live in the ‘developed’ world.
For instance, Iatrogenic diseases (those created by modern medical treatment) is the third most fatal disease in the U.S with conservatively 100,000 patients every year die or are injured by prescribed drugs, surgical procedures gone wrong, hospital neglect, wrong diagnoses and the prevalence of medical ‘mistakes’. All these errors are generally considered to be due to some extent by the limitations of hospitals in coping with the vast numbers of outpatients and patients in waiting.
This problem is confirmed by the World Health Organization studies and respected medical specialists and journals. The matter is causing great concern, not least of all in the minds of prospective hospital patients, adding weight to the argument that it would be best to undertake all possible personal effort to avoid the need for medical care.
The reality is that in the U.S. the majority of people still die from heart disease, with cancer following in second place. Most western countries will have similar data showing that cancer is still a major cause of death.
In Australia the Bureau of Statistics quotes highest figures for heart disease and strokes. Next is cancer with lung cancer as highest amongst cancer deaths. Disturbingly these are followed by dementia. Deaths due to Iatrogenic causes are assessed at 14,000 in public hospitals. No figure is given regarding private practice.
However, both heart disease and cancer can be avoided by long term preventative means that relate directly to nutrition, oxygen intake, chemical pollution, stress and choice of lifestyle. This illustrates that if we wish to remain healthy we must face our responsibility by acknowledging cause and effect as a law of nature.
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