Preventing Bladder Cancer Is Now Easier Than Ever
Preventing Bladder Cancer Is Now Easier Than Ever If you?ve read Second Opinion for very long, you know I’m not a big fan of most screening tests for cancer. Why don?t I endorse cancer screens? Because almost all of them detect cancer after it has developed. By then it is usually far too late. I?m not one who subscribes to the theory that early ?orthodox? detection will save you. In most cases, by the time our methods can detect cancer, it has been present for years and most likely has spread. Your chances then will depend on your own immune system to mount a defense, not on conventional slash (surgery), poison (chemotherapy), and burn (radiation) techniques. However, there are exceptions. If you can detect a lesion before it spreads, medical intervention makes sense. An example is a colon or bladder polyp. Colon polyp detection requires a complicated procedure, such as a colonoscopy or X-ray ?virtual? colonoscopy. Removal at this stage can prevent colon cancer, which is the best thing you can do. While checking for colon cancer is complicated, checking for bladder cancer couldn’t be easier. And this is a test we all should do. A recent study showed how easy it is. The researchers said you can significantly reduce your risk of invasive bladder cancer simply by checking your urine for blood. That?s right! It is that easy. The researchers followed 1,575 men for 14 years. They agreed to do daily home testing for two 14-day cycles, nine months apart. If positive, the researchers sent the men for routine investigations for hematuria (blood in urine). This evaluation would include a cystoscopy. That?s where a small scope is placed through the urethra into your bladder. With this test, the doctor can have a bird’s eye look at where the blood is coming from. About 16% of the men tested positive. Of those, the tests found 8. 1% actually had cancer. What?s important is that none of the men died of bladder cancer during the study. In contrast, a large control group had 104 bladder cancer deaths out of 509 cases. The difference in mortality was the greater likelihood (in the screened group) of discovering the cancer before it had invaded. Bladder cancer, while not especially common, is not rare. If it has invaded and spread, doctors will often seek to remove your bladder and make a pouch out of part of your colon. The effects of this ?re-plumbing,? as well as the small chance of surviving cancer-free, are pretty dismal. It?s much better to prevent! The good news is that you don?t have to see a doctor for the screen. Hemastix is a readily available (at your drugstore or online) way for you to screen your own urine for blood. It?s real easy. If the indicator turns blue, that suggests blood. If it’s positive, I definitely recommend a visit to a urologist for more definitive testing. Premenopausal women should avoid testing around their periods, as that could lead to a false positive. Ref: Family Practice News, July 15, 2006.
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Dr. Robert Jay Rowen, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University and graduate of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine is internationally known for his work in the field of complementary/alternative/integrative medicine. He is affectionately known as the Father of Medical Freedom for pioneering the nation?s first statutory protection for alternative medicine in 1990 in Alaska, against a concerted opposition from the organized medical community and an imported quackbuster.
A few years later, the Alaska governor appointed him to a term on the state medical board against overwhelming opposition from the medical establishment. His appointment was ultimately confirmed by the legislature with overwhelming public support. The rare medical freedom he enjoyed in Alaska enabled him to greatly expand knowledge and experience in a multitude of disciplines and therapies not normally found in medicine.
Jumping into alternative medicine in 1983 through a practice in acupuncture, he quickly expanded to nutritional medicine, chelation therapy, oxidation therapy, homeopathy and herbal medicine, and took intensive training in neural therapy and prolotherapy to help treat and eliminate acute and chronic pain. Alaska?s laws enabled him to work extensively with innovative cancer therapies, ozone, and ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy. He is internationally known and respected for training hundreds of open-minded physicians in these techniques from around the world.
In 2001, he became editor in chief of Second Opinion, one of the nation?s leading monthly publications revealing the frontiers of medicine. Thus, he reduced his practice load considerably to write and teach, and relocated from Alaska to California where he works part time with his like minded talented wife, Terri Su, MD at her Santa Rosa office, Radiant Health Medical Center, in the north Bay area.
You are cordially invited to journey with him into the frontiers of medicine with a free past issue of Second Opinion. Dr. Rowen has authored numerous articles and some of which may be read online.
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