(16-12-10) Ovarian cancer screenings are essentially useless

by Jonathan Benson, staff writer

(NaturalNews) A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal of the
American Cancer Society (ACS) Cancer has found that current ovarian cancer
screening technologies do virtually nothing to decrease the overall death rate
from the disease. Laura Havrilesky, MD, MHSc, and her team from Duke University
Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, discovered that in many cases,
ovarian cancer progresses so fast that screenings are unable to detect a
problem until it is too late.

"If we assume ovarian cancers grow and spread at different rates, the best
screening strategy available will only reduce the number of women dying from
this cancer by 11 percent," Havrilesky is quoted as saying. "This is partially
because the slower growing cancers are more likely to be caught by a screening
test."

So the team has concluded that the best way to deal with ovarian cancer is to
try harder to prevent it, and develop better methods of treating it. Because
there is really one no way to determine the nature of ovarian cancer from
patient to patient, there is also no single conventional method that
effectively recognizes each unique type and its eventual progression rate.

Fortunately, there are many natural ways to fight ovarian cancer, and prevent
it from occurring in the first place. The Agaricus Blazei Murrill mushroom (ABM
mushroom), for instance, is a powerful cancer-fighting mushroom that studies
out of both the U.K. and Japan have identified as such. The ABM mushroom
contains high levels of powerful beta glucans that stimulate the immune system
and promote the mechanisms that fight and prevent cancer cells from being able
to take hold (http://www.naturalnews.com/025402_c...).

Other ovarian cancer fighters include bindweed (convolulus arvensis),
selenium, turmeric (curcumin), vitamin K, quercetin, astragalus, espinheira
santa, green tea and carotenoids.

Sources for this story include:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...

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