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The US Spends $200 Billion Each Year on Cancer Care – We Might Not Be Getting Our Money's Worth
SciTechDaily.com ^ | 18 July 2022 | Yale University

Posted on 07/19/2022 6:00:09 AM PDT by zeestephen

The high cost of cancer treatment in the US does not lower fatality rates...According to a recent study by researchers at Yale University and Vassar College, the United States spends twice as much on cancer treatment as typical high-income countries, yet its cancer death rates are only marginally better than average.

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1 posted on 07/19/2022 6:00:09 AM PDT by zeestephen
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Lots of Americans don’t take care of themselves. They also think it’s too expensive to get consistent screening.

When you start cancer treatment late in the process….you will have bad outcomes.


2 posted on 07/19/2022 6:10:17 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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We certainly know how to prevent it, and at least 50% is preventable. Does that count ?


3 posted on 07/19/2022 6:10:45 AM PDT by erlayman (i)
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To: zeestephen

Doctors are too busy navigating you.


4 posted on 07/19/2022 6:15:04 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: zeestephen

Somebody’s going to attract unwanted attention and possibly professional persecution for daring to point out what some of us have - for YEARS - been stating ad nauseam.

Same goes for heart disease and alzheimer’s, etc. (ESPECIALLY the latter: I have an unpublished 12k word article exposing the stark reality of AZ fundraising/research)


5 posted on 07/19/2022 6:25:40 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: zeestephen

When the primary tools in the toolbox to fight against cancer are chemo, and radiation and they both have a high failure rate, it is no surprise. See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852245/ Analyses of repeated failures in cancer therapy for solid tumors: poor tumor-selective drug delivery, low therapeutic efficacy and unsustainable costs. This meta analysis cites a failure rate of 90% (+ or - 5).

Also see: Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer Illustrated Edition
by Vinayak K. Prasad (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Malignant-Policy-Evidence-People-Cancer/dp/1421437635/ref=monarch_sidesheet


6 posted on 07/19/2022 6:27:45 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: zeestephen

The article actually calls out the high cost of the drugs in the US, which continues to show we are subsidizing the world’s use of them.


7 posted on 07/19/2022 6:32:10 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: logi_cal869

Imagine that there was miracle cure for all cancers tomorrow.

How many people would lose their jobs?

Cancer is a cash cow—no way they want to “cure” it.


8 posted on 07/19/2022 6:34:51 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: zeestephen

We are still in the stone ages in cancer treatment. Cut, burn, poison.

We have made some advances on certain cancers, but most forms are still taking lives with impunity.


9 posted on 07/19/2022 6:39:10 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: zeestephen

You can be sure,with a 200 billion a year industry there will never be a Cure from Big Pharma.


10 posted on 07/19/2022 6:41:20 AM PDT by babygene (hMake America Great Again)
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To: cgbg

EXACTLY.

Same for CVD, etc.

The major profit is in research.


11 posted on 07/19/2022 6:42:06 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: zeestephen
the United States spends twice as much on cancer treatment as typical high-income countries, yet its cancer death rates are only marginally better than average.

Imagine the hate the media would spew if the people saying this were not far-left academia Democrats.

12 posted on 07/19/2022 6:43:04 AM PDT by libertylover (Democrats are as determined to kill innocent people as the Nazis.)
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...he United States spends twice as much on cancer treatment as typical high-income countries, yet its cancer death rates are only marginally better than average.

Every step of the process is for profit. No surprise we spend more than countries with government medicine.

13 posted on 07/19/2022 6:44:18 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Mashood

Or grilling you about the coof.


14 posted on 07/19/2022 6:44:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: cgbg

I literally got an email YESTERDAY from a manufacturing principal on alzheimer’s research in promotion of donating to ‘the cause’.

I immediately found the ‘unsubscribe’ link and was taken aback by a ‘comment’ section.

I was not kind with my words about AZ research/fundraising. I predict that the comment section will disappear.


15 posted on 07/19/2022 6:45:09 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: zeestephen

The American taxpayer is lining the pockets of the CDC officials and other medical agencies by funding payoffs.


16 posted on 07/19/2022 6:45:37 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: mewzilla

Or advising you to get a vaxx that might just increase your risk of contracting cancer or suffering a recurrence.

Clap for carers!


17 posted on 07/19/2022 6:45:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Vermont Lt

We’ve seen how corrupt Big Pharma is. Why would the medical industrial complex be any different.


18 posted on 07/19/2022 6:54:03 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: mewzilla

There’s an inexpensive drug/supplement, Fenbendazole, that I’ve personality seen their cancer go away (one here on FR) that will never see the light of day because of the money involved. Google it... Fenbendazole & cancer


19 posted on 07/19/2022 6:59:52 AM PDT by babygene (hMake America Great Again)
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To: Vermont Lt

How does one “take care” of themselves in order to avoid brain or breast cancer?


20 posted on 07/19/2022 7:01:39 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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