Eliminating the Suffering Wrought By Breast Cancer Utilizing the Lavender Way and Development of a National Breast Center

Abstract

We are all seeking a cure for breast cancer, right? 30 years of treatment and research has unfortunately shown us something else. Breast cancer portends that the patient’s life will never be the same and, in fact, may will include permanent physical harm, unrelenting psychological distress, including an unending sense of futility, to a devastating financial catastrophe. As noted by MedStar Health, in a recent survey of women over 40 it found that 59% said they would not adhere to mammographic guidelines and 23% said they had never had a mammogram. In addition, there is a burgeoning number of women who refuse to even come in for evaluation because of heightened sense of fear that if something is found, disaster will follow. This has led to women being so afraid that they let a cancer grow out of the skin but still won’t come in. What if it were possible to eliminate almost all the suffering wrought by breast cancer? In our caring for over 14,000 women over 30 years, we learned a lot. Not everything, but enough to know what works and what doesn’t and how ultimately women want this issue dealt with. There is an unrelenting push by the medical-industrial complex which now owns over75% of physician practices in the U.S. to claim the idea of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation as the only answer, and any alternative is summarily dismissed. With the advancement of scientific discovery such as a genetics test that can predict within ten years when a breast cancer will manifest. With advancement in non-radiation diagnostic modalities such as infrared, which is not the technology of the 1970s, it becomes possible to ferret out nascent cancers before they have attained the capacity to metastasize. This is based on individual imaging needs, not guidelines. This manuscript will explore ways to eliminate the suffering by eliminating surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and no hospital while humanizing this issue so ALL women benefit. It’s called The Lavender Way. Further, entities like ‘Race for the Cure’ and ‘Pink Ribbon’ have had over 40 years to put breast cancer suffering into the history books. Yearly, an increasing number of women die from breast cancer, now over 43,000 in the U.S. It’s time for change. More specifically, the United States needs to have a fully functioning National Breast Center with adequate satellites in each state and let the women decide where and who they want to care for them to preserve mind, body, and spirit. The overriding question is why won’t the medical-industrial complex pursue the ultimate in non-invasive technologies instead of the same old slash- poison-burn. It is beyond the authors understanding why women continue to suffer needlessly. If women only knew, the breast cancer sections of hospitals would be empty.