(NaturalNews) Ever since President Nixon declared the "war on cancer" in 1971, cancer rates have been continuously rising. The incredibly expensive cancer treatments which promised to save the world don't seem to be able to give us a solution.

Over $100 billion a year is spent on toxic chemotherapy, and even more money goes into the chemical research to find new treatments. Whenever the pharmaceutical industry comes up with a new promising drug or technique, the media jumps on the news declaring that the end of the "war on cancer" may be in sight. However, one of the biggest cancer stories was kept quiet and didn't even make the headlines.
 

Decades of wrongful cancer diagnoses and treatments

In 2013, a report commissioned by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) revealed how over 1.3 million people were wrongly misdiagnosed with cancer. For years, the focus has been on early diagnosis of cancer, resulting in millions of people being falsely treated for cancer with damaging surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, to cure a disease thatthey actually did not have.

The government study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), reported both overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis of cancer as the two major causes of this growing epidemic.

This medical negligence has led to useless, harmful treatments for millions of healthy people. However, the media kept silent about it. No apologies to patients or their families were made, and nothing has changed in the conventional practice of cancer diagnosis, prevention or treatment.

Only now, the NCI and high impact journals like JAMA are finally coming out with the news and they admit they were wrong all along.
 

Cancers that are not cancers

One of the most common misdiagnosed cancers is breast cancer. Often mistaken for a benign condition such as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), thousand if not millions of women around the world have been treated for a condition that likely never would have caused them any harm.

The same is seen in men, where high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN), a type of premalignant precursor to cancer, is commonly mistreated as if it were an actual cancer.

"The practice of oncology in the United States is in need of a host of reforms and initiatives to mitigate the problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment of cancer, according to a working group sanctioned by the National Cancer Institute," explains Medscape.com about the study. "Perhaps most dramatically, the group says that a number of premalignant conditions, including ductal carcinoma in situ and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, should no longer be called 'cancer'."