Breast Cancer and Susan G. Komen

Pink ribbons and year-round fund raising have caused breast cancer to be front and center in the minds of both men and women as never before. To avoid obsessive fear of breast cancer, misdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment, here are a few statistics:

• The actual ten year risk of a 50 year old woman dying of cancer is about half a percent. (0.53%).
• Some factors implicated in younger women developing breast cancer are: receiving radiation to the chest as a child, parabens found in personal care products such as shampoo, lotions, and deodorants, etc., synthetic hormones found in birth control pills, alcoholic beverages, vitamin A and D deficiency, and bovine growth hormone found in dairy products.
• Mammograms are radiation and if a woman’s breasts are exposed to radiation from mammograms, annually, for a period of years, it can cause breast cancer.
• The risk reduction of dying from breast cancer by receiving mammograms is only 0.07%.
• 20% to 50% of woman who receive mammograms will be misdiagnosed with cancer at least once.
• Women who are misdiagnosed with breast cancer are often treated with chemotherapy and radiation, which can be deadly.
• Ductal carcinoma in situ lesions (DCIS) are usually benign and rarely, if ever, develop into breast cancer, but they are often treated with toxic drugs which may cause cancer to spread throughout the body.
• Women who have benign DCIS lesions and are intimidated and frightened into submitting to chemotherapy and radiation and manage to survive these toxic therapies, form the majority of Komen’s “survivors”.
• Thermograms are more effective in locating tumors in the breast and are non-toxic and do not cause cancer as do mammograms.

Komen is in business with several corporations and chemical companies which produce cancer-causing products and emissions:

• General Electric is co-designer and co-owner of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, which was destroyed by an earthquake/tsunami in 2011 and continues its massive release of cancer-causing radiation into the Pacific Ocean 24/7.
• GE is one of the largest makers of mammogram machines.
• DuPont is a chemical company and major polluter which supplies most of the film used in mammography machines.
• Because Komen is in business with the mammogram industry, they relentlessly push women to have mammograms, and skew statistics regarding the benefit of mammograms to suit their own purpose.
• Monsanto is the biggest producer of genetically engineered seeds (GMOs), and developed DDT, Agent Orange, Round-Up herbicide and rBGH (bovine growth hormone) which is implicated in breast, colon and lung cancer.
• Komen owns stock in AstraZeneca which produces cancer-causing pesticides and drugs and is a major polluter.
• AstraZeneca is one of the founders of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
• Chevron, a Komen sponsor, is a petrochemical giant which is responsible, along with other oil companies, for climate change and the destruction of the environment.
• Komen receives over $55 million a year in corporate sponsorships regardless of whether or not these companies produce cancer-causing pollution or toxic products.

Susan G. Komen has been in business since 1982, has assets totaling over $400 million, generated $342,373,526 million in 2012, and has been talking about “looking for a cure” for over 30 years.

• Komen CEO Judith Salerno earns $257,000 a year.
• In 2013, Komen paid out almost $400,000 in severance pay to former executives.
• Hala Moddelmog, Komen president between 2006-2009, earned $459,406 in her final year.
• Nancy Brinker earned $549,380 in 2013 as president and CEO.
• As Chairman of the Board, Brinker earns around $700,000 a year.
• Brinker billed Komen $133,000 for expenses from June 2007- June 2009, preferring 5 Star hotels and First Class travel.
• Komen spends one million dollars a year suing small charities which use the word “cure” in their name or advertise in pink.

Komen’s “research” dollars fund fraudulent animal experimentation. Their vivisectors inject cancer cells into rats’ brains, bombard them with radiation, inject needles under their eyes, causing blood vessels to burst, and perpetrate other cruel, brutal experiments which cannot be extrapolated to humans because of the differences in physiology, metabolism, biochemistry and genetic make up between human beings and any other species.

Komen spends 39% of their budget on pinkwashing products and on other propaganda campaigns designed to induce people to donate and take part in fund-raising events like walks/runs for the “cure”.

Komen pinkwashes every product they can get their hands on from vacuum cleaners to alcohol to dog leashes in order to make more money. Some contain cancer-causing chemicals:

• Perfumes which have cancer-causing chemicals.
• Alcohol
• Ford vehicles, which produce cancer-causing emissions and contribute to global warming.
• Until public outcry forced them to stop, Komen pinkwashed Kentucky Fried Chicken products which contain MSG and other harmful chemicals.
• When Komen first pinkwashed Yoplait yogurt it contained harmful rBGH which was removed after intense pressure from consumers.

In February, 2013 a Congressional panel made up of advocates, scientists and government officials, called for increasing the share of resources spent studying environmental links to breast cancer, including behaviors like alcohol consumption, exposure to chemicals, radiation and socioeconomic disparities.

Komen downplays the importance of environmental factors as causes of cancer and does not talk about real prevention: eating an organic, plant-based diet, exercising, avoiding food additives and GMOs, and avoiding over-exposure to the sun. Because Komen is in partnership with the mammogram industry, they push mammograms and call it prevention. Because Komen is an integral part of the petrochemical/pharmaceutical industry, they push toxic cancer drugs and refuse to promote cleaning up the environment, which is understandable since the culprits are their own corporate partners.

Contrary to what the cancer industry contends, there are many doctors – both naturopathic and allopathic, who are successful in using non-toxic therapies to heal cancer. At the annual Cancer Control Society Convention at the Sheraton Universal in Los Angeles, scores of former cancer patients and their cancer doctors share their experiences of natural healing and healthy living, cancer-free. For more information about cancer and the cancer industry go to www.naturalnews.com/index-books.html