-----A little aside here. But then again, now that I've written it and am looking back over it, it turned out to be a rather long 'aside.' So if you skip it I will understand...and which you can do by clicking here. But let me tell you, I wouldn't skip it if I were you. Its knowledge and understanding of what I personally went through in gynecologic practice years ago gave me the insights I needed to keep my body as young appearing as it now is, almost twenty years later...with my looking almost 20 years younger! Like I told you, none of this web site is a 'quick fix'...but it isvery sincere, and real, and the information is 'life-saving.' So if you want to skip it fine...that'll be your problem...

-----When I used to practice gynecology many decades ago I'd become fascinated by a diagnostic instrument called a colposcope. It was sort of like a glorified magnifying glass, used to look at the surface of the female cervix. The cervix is the lower portion of the female uterus which can be seen via a speculum placed within the vaginal opening.

-----The cervix is the commonly known area where female cancer is known to arise, and the pap smear is the usual diagnostic test most people are familiar with in this regard, for the so-called early detection of cancer. I say 'so-called' because I'd rather get at the cancer before it's become a cancer. That's early detection!

-----At any rate, the pap smear is supposed to help with early detection, for it can pick up cells from the cervix before the cells have become cancerous. Many of these cells are called 'dysplastic' cells (a commonly used term for certain types of pre-cancerous cells for various cancers throughout the body). -----[Voila!...Hence my interest in cervical dysplasia as a looking glass to the etiology and potential prevention of almost all cancers!]

-----But a pap smear is only as good as the nature of the particular cells 'picked up' from the surface (and from within the opening of) the cervix. And downline the pap smear is only as good as and dependent upon the accuracies of the staining techniques utilized, and especially upon how good the technician who reads the pap smear is at detecting cancerous and precancerous cells by looking at the pap smear. Believe me. there's no sign under their microscope saying, "Here I am. You're looking at cancer!" It's clearly open to experience and interpretation and the time allotted for the technician to look at the pap smear slide. Is the technician rushed or in a hurry, trying to check as many pap smears as possible in a given time? How is he or she getting paid, per papsmear read or by the hour no matter howmany pap smears are read in an hour? And how much is he or she being paid, and who's looking over his shoulder. Can he or she feel completely free to take whatever time need be to get accurate readings? I'll let you answer these questions in these 'economically' motivated and dictated times!

-----I know this all sounds so ludicrous, but I remember years ago--and I'm sure it's especially occurring in one form or another nowadays, because economic pressures are even greater than they were years ago...the way it was laboratories reviewing pap smears had to be scrutinized because they were oftentimes found to be 'sink testing' the pap smears. Basically, what this means is that the technicians were limiting the time allotted to them to read ach pap smear. The ole 'time is money' routine.

-----So, like it or not, the accuracy and reliability in the reading of the pap smear is a direct reflection-- among other factors downline as noted above--of the expertise of, and time allotted, the technician doing the reading of the pap smear. So, even if the pap smear is a wonderful ife-saving diagnostic test, the practicalities of the accuracy of its final results is another matter.

-----Remember, I was there. I went through it first hand as the doctor caught in the middle of this shameful nonsense, so I cannot even begin to tell you how many pap smears were giving false results, often underdiagnosing, and sometimes overdiagnosing. If you knew medicine then and the way society an dpeople thought and worked, you knew it was happening, or at least you had to fctor it into your results.

-----What to do? What to do? You shake your head in frustration. How can this be happening? As a younger doctor idealistic and all, the way society works in all this...it's actually been so painful to the mind, especially when you care so much and you want to do the right thing. Either you crumble and be weak and give in and discard your ideals just to keep in the game to make your livelihood, or you end up sacrificing yourself to do the right thing. I could do no other way. To do wrong, in more ways than one, is to die.

-----So what to do as in this instance when you're a gynecologist and you know things are going on. Back then if you told firends or members of your family they'd think you're nuts. Today it's par for the course, which is even more incomprehensible to me. That these potentially harmful practices are accepted so readily, as if they're the norm...while people are dying as a result!? Give me a break. I can figure out things no human being has been able to figure out, but when it comes to things like this, understanding how is it possible for one human being not to do right by another for selfish motives of their own economic survival...I ahve never been able to figure it out, even though I now know it's the way of the world. But I'll forever be trying to se it straight.

-----At any rate, the way it was then, years ago, what do you do when you have to factor into your diagnosis and medical evaluations and so on the very nature of other human beings, their honesty, their integrity or self-centered motivations. My goodness. It's difficult enough just to do the right thing medically.

-----What to do when you have a patient's life potentially in your hands as a medical doctor in this prevailing climate of practice (which went on in all fields of health care yesteryear and does so nowadays). So you decide you have no choice but to scrutinize the pap smear laboratory yourself without their knowing it. An obvious thing to do. Spot check their results by sending for random slides or otherwise and having other laboratories or pathologists independently read them to see if there is agreement inthe two readings of the same slides..

-----Nowadays we would call this sort of thing a second opinion. It's evidently become commonplace not to trust the doctor or the laboratory or the hospital or clinic or whatever. That's what our society has come to. A mass sort of health care paranoia. We've forgotten the true nature of right and wrong as seen through the dictates of our Creator. And I mean 'dictates.' If we do otherwise, we pay, since these dictates are built into our genetic makeup which is in turn interrelated with the way we think.

-----At any rate, whenever I 'spot checked' the slides I never charged the patient extra. That was my own doing. That was for me. For my mind. For my well being. I was designated to care for the patient as a medical doctor, and that's what I was going to do. If I saw something wrong that might have jeopardized the patient, even though the patient might not have understood it or taken it out of context or misinterpreted it, I went the extra mile for the sake of the patient's health...and mine.

-----I'm still doing that...as your reading of this web site might give you the inclination to realize my sincerity in what I write and where I'm coming from. If I don't have the reader's well-being at heart, then all I am doing is for naught...and all I've done throughout my life would be meaningless.

-----So, not meaning to get off track, but you'll soon understand the significance of my personal feelings on these matters in terms of your own well-being. You'll begin to understand how the mind and the way we think has so much to do with our body physiology and our well-being and even with the way we age, and how it's all so cleverly genetically been pre-determined by Nature...by our Creator...already having been 'laid out' so to speak by the very nature of the way we think.

-----At any rate, I mention this pap smear business only because of that other diagnostic procedure I mentioned above-colposcopy--which is intended to complement the pap smear. As I said, the colposcope is sort of like a glorified magnifying glass wherein the surfce of the female cervix can be viewed by way of the vaginal opening via a magification of let's say 10 or 20 or 50 times the actual size.

-----You see, a pathologist usually checks the cells of the cervix under a microscope wherein the magnification varies, but is often in the range of 900 times. So the beauty of the colposcope is that the surface of the cervix looks sort of like looking down from a helicopter viewing the surface structures of mountains or hills.

-----You can see detail you can't see with the naked eye, but not magnified to such a great degree as with the microscope that you lose the ability to see the 'surface terrain' (or topography) of the cervix, if that's a proper word to describe what it looks like.

-----Again, the amazing beauty of all this is that in all the fields of medicine and the diagnosis of cancer there are few places wherein the topography of potentially cancerous tissue can be so well observed as via the colposcope. Dermatologists can look at the exposed surface of the skin, but they haven't done so as a diagnostic procedure to the degree the colposcope was used. The urologist can look into the bladder and the gastroenterologist can look into the esophagous and intestinal tract, both via various endoscopy methods, but nothing has been as easy to perform and as well documented as the colposcope.

-----So I often had the colposcope beside the examination table. And many times I just threw the colposcopy procedure in with the routine examination because, among other reasons, it served as a backup to the pap smear and allowed me to more accurately do colposcopically directed cervical biopsies, when needed, so as to increase the likelihood of not missing cancerous or pre-cancerous areas of the cervix.

-----Okay, my enthusiasm is still running away with me as I write these words...because I saw in the colposcope even decades ago the answer to the very nature of cancer itself...to the very nature of most all cancers. It became more and more of a reality to me after years of practice.

-----You see, over a period of many, many years cervical cancer is known to occur, some cancers taking longer to change from normal tissue into cancerous tissues, and other cancers making the transition sooner. But the key is that with the combination colposcope and pap smear I was able to see the surface structure of the cervix and actually see in magnified form the actual changes which occurred, the progression, from normal to pre-cancerous tissue...or into what would otherwise be considered to be various degrees or stages in the devlopment of 'dysplasia,' the stages through which normal tissue went in order to change into outright cancer!

-----The continuing beauty of all this...no guarantees of course...few things in medicine can be guaranteed... but the doctor should be doing the best he or she can do. At any rate, the beauty of all this, with this combination pap smear and colposcopy and directed cervical biopsies which were then checked microscopically by the pathologist, the location and extent and degree of the various stages in the development of cancer can be observed.

-----So, knowing me, always looking beyond just making a living and doing only what I had to do to make a living...and over many years of practice, I began to see and recognize the progression in the stages of cancer from normal to mildly dysplastic to moderately dysplastic to severely dysplastic percancerous cells and then on to localized cervical cancer (called carcinoma-in-situ) to outright cancer, the kind we all hear about and which kills.

-----This other pre-cancerous stuff, the 'dysplasias' and so on, they don't spread...and the progression to cancer can take years or even reverse itself or never progress at all and remain the same, unchanging for years, but doing nothing else that would be overtly harmful.

-----Whatever, the continuing beauty of these methods, sometimes all it took was a few minute long and almost completely painless, benign office procedure called cryotherapy...wherein the dysplastic surface structures of the cervix were frozen, and the precancerous cells thereby destroyed in minutes...and voila, there goes the cancer well before the cancer is ever formed, let alone able to kill.

-----At any rate, now we're ready to take this thinking one step further. I started looking into cancers throughout the body, all kinds of cancers, and I found it was routinely reported that many of them went through similar stages from normal to precancerous or dysplastic cells and then to cancerous cells, but only oftentimes after many years of progression, ample time if you could diagnosis the dysplastic stages, to effectively bring about cure. But of course, it was easy for the gynecologist, as it is for the dermatologist. The precancerous areas are therein often exposed so you can ready and easily get to them routinely as with the colposcope for diagnostic purposes and therapeutically with benign procedures such as cryotherapy.

-----I highly doubt most women reading these words have colposcopy routinely performed as part of their gynecologist office visit. If I ever thought there were 'bad' things going on years ago with 'sink testing' of pap smears and that sort of thing, forget it. Money and the high cost of medical care, even if life-saving, is nowadays often taking precedence over what is 'right' for the patient, another reason I could never practice the way things are done these days. I would have to do what I know is medically right for the patient. If I'm to be part of a profession wherein I am being 'forced' or pressured in one way or another to do things other than for the good of the patient, which is what is occurring rampantly throughout society nowadays, I could not be a part of it, even if it meant I could not pay my bills, which oftentimes happened...but few people around me those days ever understood. I'm not even so sure they'd understand it today. But no matter, I'm sixty years old now and evidently I'm being rewarded by Nature by the way I've 'felt' inside about these matters...

-----For you see, as you will find in this paper and beyond in other articles and papers on this web site and in my books and videos, etc, the way I've 'felt' inside is the major reason why I am now looking so young for my age and why I have managed to survive surgery that most other people would have died from.

-----The short of it all, one of the main points I've been getting at:

-----Not only do most all cancers go through this progression I've been talking about from 'normal' to 'diseased states of the body' over a period of years, but most diseases in general also go through these same progressions over many years, from heart disease, to diabetes, to emtional illness, to bone demineraliation, to the frailty and weakening of the body with age, and to the aging process itself.

-----And that progression, which I've also come to further clarify in my mind over the years of observation since the days of my prior gynecologic practice and insights...that progression of disease in general I've since also come to realize often stems from various lifestyle factors to which we as human beings are being continuously exposed, both physically and mentally, ever so subtly that we'd hardly ever know it, but yet relentlessly over a period of years...and finally to the points of our deaths, even though we'd little recognize the mechanisms of our misfortunes secondary to our ignorance on these matters.

-----At any rate, enough said as per this long-winded aside. I don't expect you to feel my enthusiasm. Whenever I can see into something that can save peoples' lives...I light up in my mind with an exhileration that ironically has been keeping me young and alive! Who would ever know it let alone believe it or even know how to methodically and willfully tap into it?

-----But then again, isn't that what this web site is all about. Opening one's eyes to the little known truths of life...to save lives!

-----Just in case you changed your mind about reading it, you can click here to go back to the beginning of this commentary.

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