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July 13, 2003
Melanoma Melodrama
I wrote about the "sunlight scare" in the last Daily Dose (7/8/3). But there's a lot more you need to know.
Every summer, the news media performs the annual rite of the Aztec Chicken Littles: The sky isn't falling, but the sun is - right on your cancer-prone skin. The headline on healthday.com: More than One Million New Cases in U.S. This Year.
OooohWEE! If that's true, people must be dropping like flies in a Raid storm! Malignant melanoma, which is causing all this mayhem, must be conquered. Well, not exactly. That is, malignant melanoma does need to be eradicated; it can be a nasty cancer. But, of the "million new cases" of skin cancer, only a small percentage are actually malignant melanoma, which is not caused by sun exposure. The rest are basal cell cancer, which may or may not be caused by excessive sun exposure but is easily cured.
Here's the kind of propaganda that keeps Americans (and others) on edge about the evil Sun God: "...that's more than twice the number who will hear they have prostate or breast cancer, making skin cancer the most common cancer in the United States." Comparing a benign form of cancer, basal cell, with deadly breast cancer is like comparing herpes to hepatitis or conjunctivitis to encephalitis. The people who write this distorted nonsense don't know they are snowing people. But the medical professionals who review their articles can't be that uninformed and/or dumb. They are guilty of the worst possible misfeasance and, like crooked stockbrokers, should be jailed and kept in a sun-free environment - where they'll probably catch melanoma since it almost always goes "where the sun don't shine."
And there's more: "While prostate and breast cancers kill far more people, skin cancer - usually caused by excess sun exposure - can be deadly, too. The American Cancer Society expects about 7,600 deaths this year from melanoma, the most virulent of skin cancers."
Get the clever wording here? The first sentence does not say "sun exposure causes melanoma" because the experts do not know what causes melanoma but they know that the sun is not the cause. They pretend not to know this by ignoring it - a conspiracy of silence. To be fair to the dermatologists, they are not all conspirators; some of them are just ignorant. The second sentence nails down the semantic subterfuge: "The American Cancer Society expects about 7,600 deaths this year from melanoma, the most virulent of skin cancers." (This is flat-out wrong. Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is far more deadly.)
William Campbell Douglass II, MD
See also: Sunlight emerging as proven treatment for breast cancer, prostate cancer and other cancers
posted by Chris Gupta on Sunday July 13 2003
updated on Saturday September 24 2005
URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/07/13/melanoma_melodrama.htm
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Readers' Comments
Intersting view, and to a large degree I concur that over-reaction to sun exposure is neither useful nor healthy. That said, the lessons of the previous generation in the flagrant disregard for the potential of sun damage (inlcuding but not exclusively cancer) should not be ignored.
It is just as well that the little known fact that, in a significant number of cases, the primary melanoma remains undetected, is indeed a little known fact. Solar paranoia would be rife.
Posted by: Andrew Mowat on November 4, 2004 12:09 PM
Intersting view, and to a large degree I concur that over-reaction to sun exposure is neither useful nor healthy. That said, the lessons of the previous generation in the flagrant disregard for the potential of sun damage (inlcuding but not exclusively cancer) should not be ignored.
It is just as well that the little known fact that, in a significant number of cases, the primary melanoma remains undetected, is indeed a little known fact. Solar paranoia would be rife.
Posted by: on February 6, 2005 05:59 PM
Intersting view, and to a large degree I concur that over-reaction to sun exposure is neither useful nor healthy. That said, the lessons of the previous generation in the flagrant disregard for the potential of sun damage (inlcuding but not exclusively cancer) should not be ignored.
It is just as well that the little known fact that, in a significant number of cases, the primary melanoma remains undetected, is indeed a little known fact. Solar paranoia would be rife.
Posted by: Lee on December 2, 2005 07:00 PM
Intersting view, and to a large degree I concur that over-reaction to sun exposure is neither useful nor healthy. That said, the lessons of the previous generation in the flagrant disregard for the potential of sun damage (inlcuding but not exclusively cancer) should not be ignored.
It is just as well that the little known fact that, in a significant number of cases, the primary melanoma remains undetected, is indeed a little known fact. Solar paranoia would be rife.
Posted by: John on June 21, 2006 04:32 PM
As a melanoma survivor who has no risk factors except growing up in South Florida, I can not believe you are spreading such outright lies. Not all cases of melanoma can be traced to sun exposure, but the rates are much higher in tropical areas where people spend a lot of time in the sun. My uncle died of melanoma. Another uncle has had to have his ear removed. I live in constant pain from having a lesion removed from my shoulder. I was diagnosed late because I have dark hair and eyes. My brother has basal cell carcinoma. Don't spread lies that can kill people. Some sun exposure is good. Overdoing it can kill you.
Posted by: L Collins on March 7, 2008 10:22 PM
Melanoma tracks with childhood sunburn rates.
Posted by: anon on July 29, 2010 01:16 AM
I won't address the presentation of material here, but I will say that we have more information at our fingertips via the Internet than ever before in our history. This can be a good thing, and it can also be our undoing. Why you ask? If you want to believe that every person in the world has your best interest at heart, then you'd probably believe the advent of the Internet is the best thing that's ever happened to mankind. For the rest of us who think independently, ask questions, and don't follow the masses because it's easier than living by a more educated philosopy, then you'd begin to understand that the Internet and more importantly its content should never be considered truth until you've examined and evaluated its source, motivation behind it, and scrutiny by those considered professionals with intact integrity and moral ethics.
What does that mean? For the simpletons who dominate the general makeup of our society, this means that you don't matter in the scheme of things. What matters is the ability to have you think what others want you to believe; to remain complacent, to not seek validity of things, to sadly reiterate what you hear with no further supportive knowledge other than it being repeated by someone else...should I continue?
It's not a conspiracy; that takes too much groundwork. The saddest of all is that we will always have a choice in all aspects of our lives. A choice to accept everything as truth, and the choice to question what we is presented to us. We've somehow learned to simply NOT seek out our own answers, and accept someone elses as easily as if you'd experienced it first-hand.
This translates to many people who have learned to count on most of you believing everything that you are told, read, and see. That makes them powerful, and it keeps the rest of you ignorant, unlikely to see the truth, and an asset to whatever campaign they have elected for themselves.
I have nothing to gain by telling anyone to educate yourselves, don't believe everything that is told or presented to you, seek answers to your questions, and don't participate in presenting material whether spoken or written until you're convinced it in founded on truth and you've verified that yourself.
Until you can do that, you perpetuate and enslave yourself to propaganda, dispel the truth, and harm not only yourself, but all those who do the same.
Never settle for the path of least resistance. That's when you'll begin to truly live...because you'll finally be awake and living your own life; not the dream forced on you by others.
Posted by: A. Stecker on August 29, 2010 08:43 PM
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