Red Herring These important studies are forgotten. Medicine refuses to see it that way, claiming that cancer starts as localized tumor. In a different context this approach is known in medicine as Red Herring . It describes a patient who is brought to the emergency ward with prominent non life threatening manifestations for which he is promptly treated, while an undetected life threatening pathology leads to his demise. A similar red herring in cancer may account for the fact that treatment for the most obvious cancer manifestation, tumor, generally fails, while cachexia and para-neoplasia lead to the patient's demise.
Medicine maintains that the two manifestation are caused by tumor secretions.
On the other hand, some patients with minute tumors are already cachectic. Also, tumor removal generally fails to alleviate cachexia. Now you understand why marvelous technological innovations that advanced medicine to its fantastic accomplishments, leave the cancer patient suffering. They are applied for treating a Red Herring , while in reality patients die from a systemic disease. This is a harsh statement but vital to you.