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Michael Plunkett's avatar

A pleasure to read. We physicians have oversold screening. Especially oversold its ability to prolong a happy life. We’re great at diagnosing and labeling based on screening. We’re much less successful at using screening to meaningfully prolonging life and we always ignore the problems we have created by trying to screen, and screen, and screen. The future for populations is not screening, it’s lifestyle, aided by therapeutics.

The Canadian breast cancer screening study shows the limits in screening in a modern population while the marvelous achievements of our oncologist colleagues are the answer.

Likewise no more Pap smears. HPV vaccines +HPV self screening every 5 years or less as we move forward.

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Mason's avatar

HPV vaccines? Have you read the book "The HPV Vaccine On Trial: Seeking Justice For A Generation Betrayed"? This book is an eye-opener, describing the serious and sometimes deadly side affects of HPV vaccine whose health value has apparently never been properly clinically proven.

From the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS): Since Gardasil came on the USA market in 2006, there has been >450 deaths reported and over 61,000 serious medical conditions from HPV vaccines.

Further, in 2009 HPV vaccines were administered to tribal girls in India, as part of clinical trial without informed consent. This led to major side effects including death.

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Michael Plunkett's avatar

Thanks. Good ideas. I put more specifics in but site ate them. Serious AE 2 per 100,000–in range for a cancer vaccine.

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