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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning. How are you guys? Welcome to another live here this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. I got a few things here that I want to talk about. Which one do I want to do first? Anyway, somebody asked me this on Monday and Friday, the Q&A. "Dr. Martin, what do you like better? A mammogram or ultrasound?" And I didn't answer the question. I saw it again today and I realized, you know what? I didn't answer that. Well, look, I just got to give you facts, guys. Okay? Just the facts, man. For those of you old enough to remember dragnet, just give me the facts, man. And the facts are mammograms a lot of radiation compared to ultrasound.
Now, just so happens I read an article. In the last 35 years, here's the article. The last 35 years, 1.3 million women have been misdiagnosed with breast cancer. And let me elaborate a little bit on this. Look, and I call it the cancer industry. And I know there's good people, okay? So it's really important you understand where I'm coming from this morning. Okay? The screening for cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, especially. So those three cancers, prostate in men, breast cancer, women, and skin cancer. And the cancer industry, in my opinion, has been overzealous in the screening of cancer, overzealous. Guys, you know me where I come from and I don't want to lead anybody astray here. Where I come from, I love prevention of cancer. And I'm not saying we shouldn't screen for cancer. I'm not saying that.
What the research is showing is that we're overscreening, meaning that people are falling into categories of cancer when they don't have cancer at all. And it's happening because this article is going into the research and they said in the last 35 years... I'm just talking breast cancer here. In the last 35 years, 1.3 million women have been misdiagnosed. If they're misdiagnosed, they're mistreated. They're overzealous. And the idea is if we can find it so they put 14, this is men with prostate. Their PSA is up. Well, the guy who invented the PSA test, the prostate test looking for the antigen, he repented in saccloth and ashes. He wrote a book about it called the Great Prostate Scam. And what he said is they're overusing it. If you've got a high PSA, that doesn't mean you have cancer.
So what they do, doctors in their head are trained, well, look, now you need a biopsy. Here's the problem. They stick 14 needles into the men's prostate to find cancer because in a doctor's mind, most doctors, not all doctors, they see, well, this screening is saving lives possibly, but you wonder how many men, how many women with the breast cancer have gotten biopsies and radical chemotherapy, radical mastectomies, radical prostate, whatever you call it, ectomies, take it out the whole prostate. And I saw this hundreds of times in my office, guys. No more than that. Men and women. And I had a few men say, "Well, I wish I'd have never had my prostate taken out. I'm wearing a diaper. My sex life is finished." And the doctor will say, "Yeah, but we saved your life." The research is not showing that.
If you look at research honestly, and guys, you know me, I'm just bringing you the other side. You've got a decision to make. Here's Susie Q. Okay, let's just follow her for a minute. I saw this so many times in my office, you have no idea. Here's Susie Q. She feels a little lump. She goes to her doctor and the doctor said, "Yeah, well, let's get a mammogram on that." They get a mammogram. "We see something there. We don't know what it is. We don't know if it's good, but there's a lump there." And now they do a biopsy and you wait. Suzie Q is very anxious and results come up. "Well, we found some cancer. Show up tomorrow at the oncologist's office." Now everything. I'm going to rant for a second. Okay? Try and get to a doctor. Okay. Good luck. Try and get to your fat. How many patients are people today even? Call your doctor. Well, good luck unless you have cancer. And now, man, it's a hundred miles an hour. They go in there and Susie Q has been told, "You know what? The biopsy, we found cancer. And now we're going to take out your lymph nodes because we got to see if the cancer is spread."
I look at that differently, guys. I think you know me enough. I'm not trying to lead anyone astray. You got a decision to make, but the cancer industry is an industry. Oncologists are aggressive by nature. It's what they do. It's what they know. It's how they've been trained. You get immediately and here's Susie Q sitting in an office and she's been told she's got cancer and we better get going immediately. We better get going immediately. You know what, guys? The reason I'm bringing this up today is because now we've had a lot of years of looking at the cancer industry and it ain't pretty guys. It ain't pretty. The results aren't good. It's like cholesterol and heart disease. It ain't pretty because there's so much treatment, there's so much overtreatment. And guys, listen, this is an article. They're looking at research and they're saying 1.3 million women have been misdiagnosed. Did I say that? No, I didn't say that. They said it. They've been misdiagnosed.
Guys, when you have a little capsule, a small little polyp of cancer, like tiny, almost microscopic. In my opinion, it's one of the worst things you can do is biopsy it. Is there cancer cells in there? Yep. But they were contained. Your body's smart. Your body knows how to contain. Okay? And again, I'm giving information and I admit I see things differently. I'm not in with the majority. I'm in a minority and I know that. But I can't help myself when I read these articles. I read this book on the big prostate scam. I'll show you that book tomorrow. I have it and I didn't write it. The guy who invented the PSA test wrote the book and he called it the Great Prostate Scam. He says it's just hundreds of thousands of men have been overtreated for a test that was never, ever, ever meant to detect cancer. He said what never meant for that. It was meant to detect inflammation of the prostate and they used it. The cancer industry used it and still today uses it for overtreatment in my opinion and his opinion too on cancer.
I'll give you another one. Okay? I'm going to give you another cancer because we talked about breasts. They said 1.3 million people in the last 35 years. Women have been overdiagnosed and misdiagnosed, they said. Okay. I'm just going to give you and underwent many of the mastectomies, chemo and radiation. And they're saying they were misdiagnosed. The cancer was contained. There was no cancer spreading anywhere. And doctors justify it in their minds because they said, "Well, we found cancer. We got rid of it." Another one is melanoma. Here's another article. The incidence of melanoma has tripled. Why? Why is there so much melanoma? I'll give you two things, but one thing this article says, they overscreen. Right here in Sudbury. There was a truck. Come and get your skin screened at the mall. Well, they're finding more melanoma. Now, I think there's two reasons. They're over screening. Secondly, sunscreen. Now, where have you heard that before? Here. I've said it for 40 years now on sunscreen.
You put chemicals on your skin like I was reading 400. This is a study. 470,000 person study. It's a big study. And sunscreen, this study says sunscreen is linked to a 292% increase in skin cancers. So overscreening, overscreening. And then they put you into the system and sunscreens. So they're finally catching up to what I've been telling my audience for the last 30, 40 years. I've been in the media guys for a long time, even though I was in private practice for almost 50 years. I was in the media because I wrote books and I had my own radio show and I got interviewed thousands and thousands of times and I had radio shows and was a weekly or monthly guest in radio stations across Canada. And I did, I don't know, a thousand interviews in radio and TV in the United States. You write books, you get a publicist, you get on TV and now it's podcasts. Okay?
But guys, I've been saying this about sunscreen for a long time. I said, "People are scared skinny of the sun. They're scared skinny of it. Brought to you by Johnson & Johnson. That's what I used to say all the time. 35 years ago I said that. This is brought to you by Johnson & Johnson. Why? They were the number one makers of sunscreen. And even today, if I go to the beach, now I won't go today. Okay. Not here because it's raining. But you folks in Florida, go to the beach, you'll see a lot of people using sunscreen. As a matter of fact, the vast majority will because they've been taught, they've been ingrained, they've been bamboozled to put on sunscreen and then sit in the sun.
Guys, the FDA pulled hundreds and hundreds of sunscreens off the shelves because they said, okay, let me quote them. They contain carcinogenic. And guys, if you want to put something in your body, the fastest way is to swallow it. Second and a close second is put it on your skin. And then even worse, add heat. Add heat to chemicals and you don't get something good out of that. Well, I protected my skin. No, you didn't. No, you didn't. You blocked your skin from getting UVB, which is what you need. Plus you put carcinogenics right on your skin. Guess what happens? They get right into your body. They do what fructose does. You know what fructose does? High fructose corn syrup. It goes directly to your liver. Why do you think I hate the sugar today so much? Direct root to your liver to give you fatty liver. Do you know what sunscreen does? You put it on? "Oh, I'm protecting myself." No, you're not. You are sending that, especially when you add heat to it directly to your liver. Yep. Toxic. It's toxic.
And guys, I'm telling you, when you read a label and you can't pronounce the names, run Forrest, run, because that's what your people are doing. And I see it on beaches. I see them lathering up those little kitties. Again, I always put a little disclaimer here and a little asterisk. Why? Because I don't want you to burn in the sun either. Okay? I don't want that. Cover up. Cover up. But I'm telling you 292% increase in skin cancers. The last 35 years, 1.3 million women have been misdiagnosed and I'm not going to tell you how many other women have been misdiagnosed, but maybe diagnosed with cancer, but I wasn't going anywhere and now they've been not misdiagnosed. They have been overtreated.
Now I'll tell you, let's go back to Susie Q for a minute. Okay. Susie Q. She's in the oncologist's office and the oncologist is sitting there with their arms crossed and going, "Here's what we're going to do and we're starting tomorrow or next week at the latest. We got to get at this right now." And so can you imagine Susie Q? What's going through her head? I'm not a doctor. And my doctor says the oncologist, she's a specialist and I got to have a chemo and radiation and I got to have a mastectomy and man, I got to have Joe Blow, not Susie Q. Joe Blow goes, "Gee, doc, you did the biopsies and yeah, one of them came back and it's got cancer in it, cancer. And I guess the best thing to do is to you, Doc, what are you saying? Yeah, best thing to do. Let's take it out. If you take it out, you're not going to get... prostate cancer is gone.
How many women have had mastectomies? Round. It's in the system and you can hardly ask questions. I used to tell my patients because they'd call me. I got diagnosed like I had a mammogram. And what do you think, doc? Look, I can't tell you what to do. Bring a notepad. Try not to panic and ask some tough questions. Can we just watch this cancer for a bit? See if we can keep it contained? So hard. It's so hard. Joe public. What do you know? That's why I try and educate people. Well, be your own doctor. I'm not telling you to dismiss other doctors. I'm not. These are stats. These are stats. The incidence of melanoma, which is a dangerous cancer, but they're overdiagnosing it. And people, by the way, okay, just you guys know this, but I'm going to say it again. People who get melanoma are not people that have lived in the sun. It's the opposite. And that's them there. Just the facts, man.
Again, the facts are people that get melanoma. Usually melanoma is where the sun don't shine. That's where they find it. It's usually where the sun don't shine. That's one. And two, people that don't get in the sun. I've been bringing that statistic to you for a number of years. People that don't get in the sun are the people that get melanoma. Inside workers and that, they're the ones that get melanoma. Not sunbathers. They don't get melanoma. Oh, Dr. Martin, I heard of someone. I remember a lady, she was mad at me on the radio because her husband got melanoma and he was a farmer. He was outside all the time. I said, "Man, there's always exceptions. I'm just giving you stats. I didn't make these stats up. Don't get mad at me. Your husband wasn't accepted. There's always exceptions. I didn't tell your husband to go out and burn in the sun. I didn't tell him to do that.
Anyway. Okay. I'm going to show you that book tomorrow on the prostate. I just got it. Brand new. It's hot off the presence guy. I just got it in. I just started reading it and it made me angry, upset for all the men. Okay. We love you. I mean it. Sometimes I go on little rants, but anyway, guys, don't take it the wrong way. I'm just giving information. Okay guys, we love you dearly, sincerely, and every other way. We love you because you're the greatest audience in the world, the smartest. You know what Friday is? Q&A. Send your questions in Friday morning. Question and answer. I answered a question today. Still answering questions. I missed one the other day. I didn't mean to miss it. Somehow I was reviewing and I said, oh, I didn't answer that question. Okay. On mammograms versus ultrasound. Okay. Love you. Talk to you soon.
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