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How not to run a cancer screening clinic

Outside of state-of-the-art cancer screening clinics in the U.S., Britain and other industrialized nations, the equipment and the expertise needed to operate and summarize seem to be lacking.

At least, this is the case in South Africa. That country, widely considered to be quite advanced in many ways, is having a problem at its Johannesburg Helen Joseph Hospital. Yes, there are some pieces of high-tech digital imaging and screening equipment in use there. But nobody knows how to use the machines.

What does that do? Makes cancer screening very ineffective and makes the timing of such screenings way behind the times for hundreds of female patients looking for fast results for answers to the possibility of breast cancer having invaded their bodies. I'm not sure I would want to wait months and months for answers to cancer screening results, but this is normal there it appears.

Folk Medicine: Essiac Ojibwa shaman's herbal tea

In 1922, when a patient claimed her breast cancer had been cured by an Ojibwa medicine man, Rene Caisse, a public health nurse from Ontario, Canada became interested in learning the herbal formula for the tea. After obtaining the recipe, she is reported to have successfully cured her aunt's stomach cancer. Two years later, Caisse opened a cancer clinic and began treating thousands of patients with the tea, which she named Essiac, Caisse's name spelled backwards.

In 1977, one year before her death, Cassie gave the formula for the tea to a Toronto manufacturer, with a promise that the tea be sold at an affordable price to cancer patients. The original formula for Essiac included burdock root, slippery elm inner bark, sheep sorrel and Indian rhubarb root. Watercress, blessed thistle, red clover, and kelp were later additions to the formula and sold as Flor Essence.

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