Sunday, April 28, 2013

NYT pushing toxic cancer drugs for healthy women who have no cancer

(NaturalNews) A taxpayer-funded government task force has issued new guidelines that literally urge healthy women to take toxic cancer drugs "preventively" in order to allegedly decrease their risk of developing breast cancer. As recently promoted by The New York Times (NYT), these shocking new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) have been issued despite a complete lack of evidence that the dangerous cancer drugs being recommended have any preventive efficacy whatsoever.

Fortifying earlier recommendations from 2002 that encouraged both tamoxifen and raloxifene as so-called preventive breast cancer treatment, USPSTF now says that healthy women with either a personal or family history of breast cancer, or who are considered "high risk," should consider taking either of the two drugs for at least five years, even though doing so could cause major side effects like blood clots or stroke. USPSTF is also now pressing doctors to being actively prescribing such drugs to their healthy female patients, and particularly those between the ages of 40 and 70.

The task force says it recently evaluated a host of new data on the subject of breast cancer prevention and determined that taking either tamoxifen or raloxifene while healthy may help block estrogen, a hormone that feeds roughly 75 percent of the type of breast cancers that women today face. The group estimates that for every 1,000 healthy women who take either of the two drugs, roughly eight of them will avoid developing breast cancer in the following five years.

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