Epidemic of Melanoma OVERDIAGNOSIS!

Dermatologist Prof. Richard Weller describes the massive explosion in incidence of cutaneous melanoma over the past 40 years...and explains it is most likely to reflect overdiagnosis by Dermatologists 'creating an epidemic'.

This is an excerpt from my excellent podcast with Prof. Weller.

#sun #melanoma #skincancer

[HiloBoiz]

How about that certain medical intervention everyone was asked to take? Turbo cancer anyone?

[btudrus]

All cancers go up due to our sugar and seed oil consumption and a more plant-based "diets".
It is not just about UV, it is about what drives the cancer metabolism / rapid growth and sugar (fructose/sucrose) has been proven to do exactly that.
Also eating less meat means less skin protection against the UV...

[johnkeepin]

What there does appear to exist is the opportunism for the sale of suncream and the like. Not only that, but there is not much said in the trade for that product about the benefit of exposure to UV for the automatic manufacture of vitamin D in us.

[sdjohnston]

Anecdotally, it does seem like everyone I know who visits a dermatologist ends up with something getting cut out of their skin. (I'm in the U.S.)

[potatouser]

So 40 years ago when it wasn’t a “melanoma”, was the protocol the same? To do a 1 cm wide margin excision?

[jeremyashford]

I managed to avoid the covid shenanigans unscathed (no masks no jabs no sniffles) but am currently nursing a one inch wound in my arm, within a year of getting a two inch scar on my chest.

My mother died a quarter century ago at just 53 years of age, with both melanoma and breast cancer, and the horrific consequences of cancer treatment, a blowout in her bowel which required creation of a stoma and paraplegia.

I am wary of the medicine industry despite having a wife who is a physician and a son who is a medical intern.

Unlike the covid stuff which never had supporting science—just a narrative and official abuse of statistics—there is some science for the melanoma narrative and I am going along with it for the moment.

Cancer was never an issue in my family, both sides, until my mother's death but now, post jabs, I have lost my mother in law (no blood relation of course) and have an aunt and a cousin at death's door. Turbo cancers with death sentences acquired within a year of getting jabbed.

As someone who had heart issues before the covid narrative and toxic jabs arrived, and a familial history of melanoma and a huge and growing collection of dark spots, while I have not been directly affected by the covid narrative, the availability of medical and surgical treatment has been compromised by the fabrication of iatrogenic illness.

I await the biopsy of my latest excision, and am pondering how far to go with potential treatments after watching my best friend die a horrible ugly death from inoperable but heroically treated (hormones, chemo, radio) prostate cancer (diagnosed pre-narrative) during the running of the narrative. Whether the treatments prolonged his life is questionable but there was definitely a cumulative effect when it came to the quality of what life he had remaining.

That lays out the options I have to consider for my future.

[charlesw]

Medicine is a business and always has been.

[kimbanyc]

UGH. then where do we go for a second opinion? or a third?

[mystrength]

Prof Dalgleish (British) oncologist/ Dermatologist has stated many ( numbers unknown to me) of his Melanoma patients who were in remission..
past away. Post “ The injection.. “ from within 6 months to 12 months!

[seans]

Does this guy work for the insurance company?

[bobthrasher]

Are there early blood markers for melanoma?

[lr]

My guess is that this is true for all cancers.

[inregionecaecorum]

Was referred for a suspected melanoma about 3 years ago, turned out not to be.

[Meathead-]

The last few years I have been burning my moles off with vinegar and spending lunch time in the full sun :)

[GraceG-yg]

It's misleading for this guy to not define overdiagnosis before he talks about it. Overdiagnosis is when there is a real disease present, but it won't cause any morbidity or mortality if it remains untreated. He's talking about overdiagnosis as if it means a false positive diagnosis, which is not what it means. From reading the dermatology literature, derms are concerned about over diagnosis, but right now there is no way to identify which lesions will become problematic and which won't with the current imaging technologies available, and so leaving a cancer in situ would be unethical unless it can be shown objectively to be a cancer with a very low likelihood of metastasis. In fact, some derms have suggested leaving lesions like lentigo maligna, which have a very long horizontal (low metastatic risk) growth phase in situ rather than removing them, as they typically occur in very elderly patients, who will probably die naturally before the lesion enters the vertical growth phase. I'm also suspicious of the idea that money making is that significant a cause of overdiagnosis, as the trends of increased incidence and stable mortality have also been found in countries with public health systems, where physicians aren't given extra compensation for performing procedures, and, in fact, are discouraged from over burdening the public system.

[grug]

I do take issue with the premise that melanoma diagnosis is as you say. Histopathologic microscopy diagnosis is very accurate & advanced in this era.