the word cancer. Each concept of cancer has different representations for each
person; thus when cancer is discussed, in general or in particular, people are often
talking about different things, she tells me. “Cancer is a term that refers to many
different diseases, over 150, granted they have the common thread that cells with
normal growth start to become uncontrolled.”
Without pointing any gnarled fingers, she reveals the dim result, that the public suffers
from an umbrella term instead of the information it needs to prevent the deadly
disease, preventions which she says are overwhelmingly possible in different types of
cancer, for example, smoking’s connection to lung cancer.
Moving beyond mere terms, she is more interested in what really, actively sparks this
uncontrolled growth of cells that run rampantly beyond the body’s regulatory power.
For Dr. Cathirose, it is unconditionally imperative that we not only gain a sense of
mindfulness but that we utilize it to make measurably deliberated choices—choices
whereby we weigh all apparent options and conditions, internally orchestrated and
externally introduced—when it comes to our very own health and futures.
She also has a bone to pick with those in her field who stake claims of universal
remedies without irrefutable verifications. The aim of all reasonable data testing is to
seek a robust methodology by exposing the difference between correlational data
and evidence. There’s a key difference; and the key to evidential data is uniformity, she
adds. Risk factors have strong correlations with certain diseases, but correlational data
is premature evidence, so it’s not evidence at all. For medical evidence to hold its own
water, and for malignant causes to be unquestionable causes, it must reduce all tested
factors to one causal effect. Her professional field looks for a 95% rate of statistical proof
for a cause to be deemed universally true and used with confidence in the medical
literature.
But no one offers any treatment with such substantiated confidence. This is why patient
trust in their treatments is so utterly vital; this is where mindfulness ought to come into full
play. When therapy promoters don’t harness enough evidence, they rashly exercise
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