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Shocking History
The
of
Today, the surgical removal of a tumor is widely accepted by the public as beneficial
and necessary.
Yet it wasn’t long ago that the prevailing public attitude towards tumor resection (and
other cancer treatments used today) was so disapproving and hostile that it can be
difficult for people to imagine.
The great 15th century renaissance physician Paracelsus once wrote,
“It should be forbidden and severely punished
to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery
and other fiendish tortures.”
INTRODUCTION
1. Loss of Common Sense
2. Lack of knowledge
1500 2020
Disapproving
and Hostile
Accepted as
Normal
Public attitudes towardsCancer Surgery
What happened?
Reason #1: Loss of Common Sense
1500 2020
Year
Common
sense
When was the last time you were cut with a
knife and it made you healthier?
A few years ago I accidentally cut my
finger while trying to pry apart two frozen
chicken breasts with a kitchen knife.
Horrible idea, I know.
Anyway, the knife ended up slicing into
my finger causing some bleeding and
leaving a piece of skin hanging.
I thought I might have needed stitches so
I went to the hospital, and ended up
sitting in the waiting room for 4 hours,
thanks to Canada’s horrendous socialist
medical system.
When I finally received medical attention,
all they did was give me a bandaid for my
finger and sent me on my way. Waste of
time!
After the knife cut me I was in much worse health
unhealthy cutting? healthy cutting?
Reason #2: Lack of knowledge
Did you know?
The IcepickLobotomy
A procedure in which an icepick-like instrument is inserted underneath the orbital bone just above
the eyeball and in a quick scrambling motion, tissues in the prefrontal lobes of the brain are
severed.
Finally in 1967, after performing 50,000 lobotomies and causing a brain hemorrhage that ended up
killing a patient, the egomaniacal butcher Freeman was banned from performing the procedure.
In the 1960s, a surgeon named Walter Freeman crisscrossed the United States performing the “Icepick
lobotomy” on mental health patients in what he called “The lobotomobile.”
history of cancer surgery
The rapid rise of cancer surgery is best illustrated by the early history of what is now
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, according to Dr. Ralph Moss in
his book The Cancer Industry.
The spiritual founder of Memorial Sloan-
Kettering was a famous 19th century
“women’s doctor,” J. Marion Sims. Sims
received only a brief medical training before
turning his hand to surgery. Looking to
extend the boundaries of surgery, Sims
gathered a group of slave women, upon
whom he performed experimental operations
in a kind of makeshift hospital behind his
house.
Some of these women received as many as
thirty operations in a four-year period.
According to his sympathetic biographer,
these operations were said to be “little short of
murderous.”
J. Marion Sims
Sims then moved to New York City where
he founded Women’s Hospital, which still
exists to this day. He continued
performing surgeries on large numbers of
women, many of whom were recent
European immigrants and he even
developed a select clientelle of wealthy
ladies.
According to Moss, The Lady Managers
(trustees) of the hospital became
convinced that “the lives of all the patients
in the institution were bring threatened
by… mysterious experiments.” Sims was
expelled from the hospital, but was later
reinstated to his position.
In 1884, Sims went on to establish the first private cancer hospital in the United States,
The New York Cancer Hospital, known today as the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center. Sims was to become the first director of the hospital, but died before he had a
chance to fulfill this goal.
history of cancer surgery
“public enemy number one is the profit-before-patient
ethos of the medical industry.”
- Dr. Richard Ablin
The profit-before-patient ethos
You cannot trust a surgeon
Overtreatment
Excessive butchering
• A surgeon gets paid to cut people; if
he doesn’t perform any surgeries,
he can’t pay the bills.
• The more extreme the surgery
and the more cuts involved, the
more money the surgeon makes.
• The more procedures a surgeon
performs, the more money she
makes.
Facts: Implications:
Excessive Butchering
1. The Commando
2. The Whipple
3. Total Exenteration
4. Hemicorporectomy
The Commando
The Commando was performed on patients for tongue cancer and involved the
removal of a patient’s entire mandible, or jaw.
According to one surgeon, The Commando
“derived its wideacceptance and popularityfrom the fact that itbrought to
mind the slashing attack of the WorldWar Icommandos.”
(Crile, 1974)
The whipple
The Whipple was a procedure for the treatment of pancreatic cancer, developed by
president of the American Surgical Association and clinical director at Memorial
Hospital, Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple.
This surgery involved the removal of many organs adjacent to the affected gland,
on the theory that they might be harboring nests of cancer cells.
(NCI, 1976)
Total Exenteration
In 1948, Dr. Alexander Brunschwig from Memorial Hospital invented an operation called
Total Exenteration, which involved the removal of:
• Therectum
• Thestomach
• Thebladder
• Part of theliver
• Theureter
• All internal reproductive organs
Brunschwig himself called the operation,
“A brutal and cruel procedure”
(New York Times, April 8, 1969).
• Thepelvic floor and wall
• Thepancreas
• Thespleen
• Thecolon
• Many blood vessels
The hemicorporectomy
The ultimate operation was the
hemicorporectomy, which was literally,
the removal of halfthe body.
The hemicorporectomy was developed
for the treatment of bladder or pelvic
malignancy by Theodore Miller, another
Memorial Hospital Surgeon, and
involved the amputation of everything
below the pelvis.
Many patients chose death over
submitting to Miller’s operation.
(New York Times, November 30, 1969)
all of those surgeries are still being
performed to this day
A Message From Surgeon Dr Ian Harris
In 2018 I had the pleasure of interviewing Australian Surgeon Dr. Ian Harris, author of the book
Surgery: The Ultimate Placebo. At the end of the interview, I asked him his most important
message that he’d like everybody in the world to know, and he said:
“What evidence do you have that doing this procedure to me
is better than not doing it to me?”
Always Ask Your Doctor
“The effectiveness of medicine is overestimated by those who are making the decisions
and the harms are underestimated. The doctors that sell are overestimating the benefits
and underestimating the harms. The way to correct that is to make doctors be more
scientific about what they do, and also to educate the public to be more scientific about
what they will have done to them. Don’t be afraid to look up the evidence. Ask your doctor
questions. The simplest question of all, and it sounds dumb but so many unnecessary
procedures could’ve been saved by asking this single question:
How to Support my work
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The Shocking History of Cancer Surgery

  • 2. Today, the surgical removal of a tumor is widely accepted by the public as beneficial and necessary. Yet it wasn’t long ago that the prevailing public attitude towards tumor resection (and other cancer treatments used today) was so disapproving and hostile that it can be difficult for people to imagine. The great 15th century renaissance physician Paracelsus once wrote, “It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery and other fiendish tortures.” INTRODUCTION
  • 3. 1. Loss of Common Sense 2. Lack of knowledge 1500 2020 Disapproving and Hostile Accepted as Normal Public attitudes towardsCancer Surgery What happened?
  • 4. Reason #1: Loss of Common Sense 1500 2020 Year Common sense
  • 5. When was the last time you were cut with a knife and it made you healthier?
  • 6. A few years ago I accidentally cut my finger while trying to pry apart two frozen chicken breasts with a kitchen knife. Horrible idea, I know. Anyway, the knife ended up slicing into my finger causing some bleeding and leaving a piece of skin hanging. I thought I might have needed stitches so I went to the hospital, and ended up sitting in the waiting room for 4 hours, thanks to Canada’s horrendous socialist medical system. When I finally received medical attention, all they did was give me a bandaid for my finger and sent me on my way. Waste of time! After the knife cut me I was in much worse health
  • 8. Reason #2: Lack of knowledge Did you know? The IcepickLobotomy A procedure in which an icepick-like instrument is inserted underneath the orbital bone just above the eyeball and in a quick scrambling motion, tissues in the prefrontal lobes of the brain are severed. Finally in 1967, after performing 50,000 lobotomies and causing a brain hemorrhage that ended up killing a patient, the egomaniacal butcher Freeman was banned from performing the procedure. In the 1960s, a surgeon named Walter Freeman crisscrossed the United States performing the “Icepick lobotomy” on mental health patients in what he called “The lobotomobile.”
  • 9. history of cancer surgery The rapid rise of cancer surgery is best illustrated by the early history of what is now Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, according to Dr. Ralph Moss in his book The Cancer Industry. The spiritual founder of Memorial Sloan- Kettering was a famous 19th century “women’s doctor,” J. Marion Sims. Sims received only a brief medical training before turning his hand to surgery. Looking to extend the boundaries of surgery, Sims gathered a group of slave women, upon whom he performed experimental operations in a kind of makeshift hospital behind his house. Some of these women received as many as thirty operations in a four-year period. According to his sympathetic biographer, these operations were said to be “little short of murderous.” J. Marion Sims
  • 10. Sims then moved to New York City where he founded Women’s Hospital, which still exists to this day. He continued performing surgeries on large numbers of women, many of whom were recent European immigrants and he even developed a select clientelle of wealthy ladies. According to Moss, The Lady Managers (trustees) of the hospital became convinced that “the lives of all the patients in the institution were bring threatened by… mysterious experiments.” Sims was expelled from the hospital, but was later reinstated to his position. In 1884, Sims went on to establish the first private cancer hospital in the United States, The New York Cancer Hospital, known today as the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Sims was to become the first director of the hospital, but died before he had a chance to fulfill this goal. history of cancer surgery
  • 11. “public enemy number one is the profit-before-patient ethos of the medical industry.” - Dr. Richard Ablin
  • 12. The profit-before-patient ethos You cannot trust a surgeon Overtreatment Excessive butchering • A surgeon gets paid to cut people; if he doesn’t perform any surgeries, he can’t pay the bills. • The more extreme the surgery and the more cuts involved, the more money the surgeon makes. • The more procedures a surgeon performs, the more money she makes. Facts: Implications:
  • 13. Excessive Butchering 1. The Commando 2. The Whipple 3. Total Exenteration 4. Hemicorporectomy
  • 14. The Commando The Commando was performed on patients for tongue cancer and involved the removal of a patient’s entire mandible, or jaw. According to one surgeon, The Commando “derived its wideacceptance and popularityfrom the fact that itbrought to mind the slashing attack of the WorldWar Icommandos.” (Crile, 1974)
  • 15. The whipple The Whipple was a procedure for the treatment of pancreatic cancer, developed by president of the American Surgical Association and clinical director at Memorial Hospital, Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple. This surgery involved the removal of many organs adjacent to the affected gland, on the theory that they might be harboring nests of cancer cells. (NCI, 1976)
  • 16. Total Exenteration In 1948, Dr. Alexander Brunschwig from Memorial Hospital invented an operation called Total Exenteration, which involved the removal of: • Therectum • Thestomach • Thebladder • Part of theliver • Theureter • All internal reproductive organs Brunschwig himself called the operation, “A brutal and cruel procedure” (New York Times, April 8, 1969). • Thepelvic floor and wall • Thepancreas • Thespleen • Thecolon • Many blood vessels
  • 17. The hemicorporectomy The ultimate operation was the hemicorporectomy, which was literally, the removal of halfthe body. The hemicorporectomy was developed for the treatment of bladder or pelvic malignancy by Theodore Miller, another Memorial Hospital Surgeon, and involved the amputation of everything below the pelvis. Many patients chose death over submitting to Miller’s operation. (New York Times, November 30, 1969)
  • 18. all of those surgeries are still being performed to this day
  • 19. A Message From Surgeon Dr Ian Harris In 2018 I had the pleasure of interviewing Australian Surgeon Dr. Ian Harris, author of the book Surgery: The Ultimate Placebo. At the end of the interview, I asked him his most important message that he’d like everybody in the world to know, and he said: “What evidence do you have that doing this procedure to me is better than not doing it to me?” Always Ask Your Doctor “The effectiveness of medicine is overestimated by those who are making the decisions and the harms are underestimated. The doctors that sell are overestimating the benefits and underestimating the harms. The way to correct that is to make doctors be more scientific about what they do, and also to educate the public to be more scientific about what they will have done to them. Don’t be afraid to look up the evidence. Ask your doctor questions. The simplest question of all, and it sounds dumb but so many unnecessary procedures could’ve been saved by asking this single question:
  • 20. How to Support my work Handheld device Bodylight Mini Full Bodylight EndAllDisease.com/store
  • 21. order my books Red Light Therapy: Miracle Medicine The Cancer Industry Cancer: The Metabolic Disease Unravelled EndAllDisease.com/books
  • 22. Check out the Show Notes For the show notes and to sign up to our mailinglist, Go to: EndAllDisease.com/episode7