Posted on 01/04/2014 8:08:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The cancer industry is much too big to fail.
I read once that researchers that made strides in curing cancer got their funding cut off. Big money in treating cancer.
Disagree. There is an enormous effort underway to find effective treatments. Unless the government completely screws up the health care system, in 15 years many tumor types will be managed successfully by drug therapy, similar to the way that CML or NHL are managed today.
I agree. A lot of members of the pharmaceutical industry have died of cancer. No one is hiding some secret cure.
I'm about as cynical as anyone can be, but I can't see the big "cancer conspiracy" as something real. The execs as the drug companies have watched their wives die of cancer, the researchers have children with leukemia, the corp. lawyers have mothers who died much too young. These people want the cure just as much as anyone else.
>>No one is hiding some secret cure.<<
That’s the one reason why I am such a firm believer in trying every ‘cure’ that has a decent history behind it. Many of the homeopathic cures have helped keep a lot of cancer patients alive for many more years than they otherwise would have lived. Just because a treatment plan doesn’t cost a lot of money is not to say it will be ineffective. Never quit fighting.
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I hope many blessings are bestowed upon all of you and your loved ones in 2014!
My regular MD told me of one of his patients who refused chemo. Why? I don’t know but the Doc told him to change his lifestyle. Exercise more , eat better. Cut out the stressful things in his life. Six months later the guys tumors had shrunk to 25% of their original size.
You mean it is going to cost a lot of money to win. Losing can be accomplished quite easily and inexpensively.
What will be the next thing for people to die from? As there become more medicines and treatments more people are brushing up against the maximum number of years our personal mental and physical factories can operate. Life expectancy has doubled since 1850 but maximum human life span hasn’t changed much in 3,000 years. In the future the aged will just fade away.
drug companies aren’t interested in curing cancer any more than the cancer charities are. of course people with cancer and their loved ones are used as cover for them, but they aren’t gong to cure a moneymaker for them.
most docs won’t do chemo. they would go the route of that patient, or resign themselves to die.
“In the future the aged will just fade away.”
That happens now. I have watched as patients in their 90’s were going along just fine and then they developed what I call “the Dwindles” and they died within a few months. The key sign is always that they can no longer stand on their own. Their relatives wanted me to tell them why and all I could come up with was “old age”. They human body just poops out eventually.
“I’m about as cynical as anyone can be, but I can’t see the big “cancer conspiracy” as something real.”
Agreed. The reason it seems that more people are getting cancer is that we live longer which gives cancer cells more time to start their mischief. The reason we don’t cure it is that it is an extremely complex set of diseases and none of us are God.
I cannot understand people who believe the “cancer conspiracy” propaganda. Do they really believe that people in the health industry are THAT evil? I could believe that about a government but I don’t believe it about healthcare and pharmaceutical companies.
Do they really believe that people in the health industry are THAT evil?
YES!
RE: drug companies aren’t interested in curing cancer any more than the cancer charities are.
First question that comes to mind when I read this -— aren’t he CEO’s and employees of drug companies people too? Don’t they have loved ones who have cancer?
If so, why should we think that they would value profit above the lives of their parents, wives or children?
The FDA controls the cancer industry. They control the testing and require Chemo (with destroys the immune system) before testing a patient with a new drug. I remember the FDA's 1970's war on Laetrile. I talked to a doctor from Mexico who saw cancer patients cured with it. And he had no financial incentive to tell me that.
They believe that many thousands of people go to work every day saying to themselves, "I know that my company is sitting on a cure for cancer, but I'm not going to mention it to anyone, just to protect my company's profit margins. To hell with my friends and relatives who are dying of cancer."
By the way, what ever happened to the 200 mpg carburetor? I guess the evil big oil companies must have succeeded in killing it.
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