Improved cancer survival rates may be related to shifting diagnostic patterns. "Pre-cancer" might not have deteriorated into full-blown cancer, but since it was

Improved cancer survival rates may be related to shifting diagnostic patterns. "Pre-cancer" might not have deteriorated into full-blown cancer, but since it was caught it was treated, and marked as a success. > most of the gains have been slow, incremental improvements that add up over decades. I read something 1 to 2 years ago about how breast surgeons aren't recommending prophylactic mastectomies anymore. The message hasn't spread very far. The official approach to breast health is at odds with what's actually been discovered by physiologists. I know a lady who had "colon cancer". I think her actual problem was emotional stress about her son... But she had her colon shortened, and is probably counted as a success by the official medical statisticians.