Melanoma Melodrama
CategoriesI 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 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/07/13/melanoma_melodrama.htm
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