Posted on 03/07/2017 2:06:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Since you were in the cancer cure business, why doesn’t everyone get a scan every year? That would find EVERYTHING and really be a cost savings for the medical community because cancers would be found in stage 1 and other aliments would be found and treated very quickly. It seems only the rich get it and that seems stupid to me. I can’t imagine it costing more then a MRI or the other one....lol. Begins with a “C” I think.
Nice idea, but I doubt it’s accurate. Try this - imagine what the news would look like if they announced a real cure for cancer. The headlines would take up the entire front page. Every newscast would lead with the story.
Now think of the last 50 years - we’ve run for the cure, danced for the cure, worn ribbons, donated at work or in radio or TV “cure-a-thons” and . . . those headlines have never been printed. In my lifetime, I have seen exactly Zero diseases for which fundraising has lasted for twenty years or more actually get cured. None.
Sure, there are more treatments like the article says. If that’s all that can be done, then fine - at least the author is honest. That’s also why fewer medical charities promise “cures.” Now they promise to “raise awareness.”
Me too, expecially on the interwebs.
Being in the cancer curing business meant looking at hundreds of thousands of slides over the years to find the precursors to cancers, or to find actual cancer cells themselves in cell samples. People would ask me how I could do that every day. I always believed that letting people know they had a cancer or a precursor would allow them to get help. It was always tough to go on the floors of the hospital to assist in needle aspiration biopsies, and then to know the person was not going to make it. I preferred not knowing the patients. The job was more bearable if I wasn’t familiar with the patient.
So depressing. I still think the new health care bill should have it as a requirement for every American to get one of those body scans that can pin point every problem in the body. Talk about money well spent and to find every cancer at stage 1 would be amazing. We can do it but both Republicans and Democrats are horrible. Their release of that crap today proves it.
If I were in Congress, I would say a scan for every American annually in their birthday month and go from there. We would save trillions a year just by this simple act. Idiots are running the Congress.
Don’t be sorry. She had a rich full life. You cannot make your statement because it is unknown. She was a very good RN. It was her choice which I honored
We cured smallpox.
But that was because we could eliminate the virus. Now it lives safely in the hands of government!
Since cancer involves the breakdown of DNA, the only “cure” would be able to keep a breakdown of DNA from happening.
That’d be like curing aging.
Diagnosed with my fourth breast cancer now. The drs say this one is going to get me. I’m fighting it for all I’m worth but it’s a mean ‘un.
It’s traveled to my lungs now. It thinks it’s going to kill me and it may, but by golly, I’m hanging in there for a while.
The most wonderful man in the world found me and we married last Sept (and 3 months later I was dxed) and I’m not done with him yet!!!! Grin.
Pot, on the facebook they will tell you that pot absolutely cures cancer.
www.cancertutor.com
Hang in. Fight the good fight. I found that Chinese herbalists offer some good things for those fighting such battles
May God bless you and yours
Several years ago, I recall reading that if all cancers were curable, the average lifespan would increase only about 5 years.
The reason?
Heart and vascular disease (including stroke) would kill most people before they reach 85 years of age.
Have you heard of essiac tea? I’m taking tea tablets and also Frankincense.
And oral chemo.
Firstly...I’ll pray for you. Secondly...I love your attitude!
I have read some about it. Have never used it myself
Walk down any street in America. People dont care about cancer until it strikes. They don’t care about their health or their looks, they only care about being able to go see a doctor and what it will cover.
Cancer and the other epidemics of disease are not the problem.
People are the problem.
That may be harsh, but the truth usually is. People cause their own cancers and people dont want there to be a cure because it would affect the bottom line (think share prices, for one, jobs for another) and they don’t want to do what it takes to avoid everything which might express as cancer with their genes.
I know people who have had cancer and died just like everyone else; I also know people who have had cancer and seen it reversed, never to return. Is that a cure? I have a logical question:
Is a healed broken leg evidence of a cure for a broken bone, or is the healing itself the tell for every disease out there?
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Just an FYI- cancer cells replicate in a mutant and uncontrollable fashion. Some intrinsic event in a cell causes it to start replicating out of control. The DNA in a cell is always 46 unless the person is a genetic anomaly. Cancer cells have abnormal numbers of chromosomes, 57, 63 (just examples). The tumors cause problems because they disrupt the normal function of the organ (or area of the body) where they grow. I never blame people for their cancers. So many people smoke, but do not get lung cancer. Why? Some people have never smoked and still get lung cancer. Why? Yes, there are things that we do to increase the chances of getting certain types of cancers, but many don’t get the cancers associated with their risk factors anyway. So, no blame assigned. Ever. Bad luck or actually a crapshoot. And no, a general body scan would not pick up everything that’s going wrong in the body. All we can really do is live the way we want, pray a lot and accept the consequences of living. Everyone will die of something and some things are worse than others. You can live the life the ‘experts’ recommend and you will still die. My point has been ‘don’t blame people for their cancers’. They feel awful enough already. Rant over.
bttt
Cancer is a *itch, there’s no other way of putting it. Your own cells mutate and run amok. There are probably cancerous cells in your body right now, but a healthy immune system prevents unchecked replication. How many types of cells in how many organs and specialized structures do you have in your body? That’s how many types of cancer you can get. And, if you live long enough, you’re going to get some variety of it. Immunotherapy holds great promise and has had some notable success, most visibly of late with former President Jimmy Carter. There’s a long way to go, however, and I honestly don’t believe a “cure” is even possible. Once it takes root there’s only keeping it at bay.
AFAIK, lung cancer is the number one cancer killer worldwide.
Amongst smokers AND NON SMOKERS as well.
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