I don't take any of them seriously anymore. They've cried wolf too many times.
You don’t see any progress?!? I’m surrounded by friends and relatives who have recovered from different kinds of cancers that they would not have survived ten or fifteen years ago. True, people still die; cancer has not been cured. But far more people beat it than ever used to in the past. Science marches on. What do you want?—you think we should just give up, stop funding research, and just let people die without a fight?
As the husband of. 2 time cancer survivor, I am admittedly biased. However, I will say that while a cure is indeed the desire, the new treatments are leaps forward. Our oncologyst says there’s new, more effective treatments about every 3 years. And, we actually experienced just that. Your donations are greatly appreciated by this FReeper. You’ve given me my wife back. Bless you.
No offense but you’ve been misled by cycles of hype and hysteria, plus much over-simplification in the media.
There has been enormous progress in many areas of research and treatments for various cancers, but it is a vast and varied set of targets. Many lives (including my own) have been saved and/or dramatically extended. A lot depends upon the specifics of diagnosis, cell types involved, stage of the cancer etc. but there has been much progress indeed.
However, “cancer” refers to well over 100 different major illnesses with many sub-categories and varied types of cell pathologies.
Expectations for some one or few “magic bullet” types of treatment to cure all cancers have always been myopic at best.
That does not mean there are not great strides made, usually by intense focus upon a specific category or sub-category involving one particular type of cell.
In my own case (8 year cancer survivor now) I owe my life to a combo of chemo drugs that did not exist too many years ago. 30+ years ago I would have died rapidly and horribly of the type of carcinoma I was dealing with. Everyone in human history (before the past 30 years) who had my specific condition would have died within 12-18 months.
Large numbers of patients have been saved and/or had lives much extended, but we tend to hear/read mainly of fatalities and of the most horrific choices people may face (take on the most brutal chemos for possibly only a few months more life and/or in horrible misery etc.).
I can’t tell anyone how to donate their money, but the idea that there has been no significant progress is simply mistaken.
Trying to find link, but with little success. The combo may have been Fluconzole, Nystatin and (?)itraconazole. Not sure on last one. All three were given in large doses to three children that were suffering thrush in chemo, and not only did it clear up the thrush, but all three simultaneously suffered spontaneous remission of Leukemia.
The second was a study done in England where they already have Obama care in place. Many hundreds of women who were diagnosed with “terminal” cancer were put on a study. (There it is almost always terminal, as by the time you get to the cancer treatment through the red tape its way too late.) All of them were given a bran muffin every morning, half of them had flax seed oil added to the muffin half plain. Of the plain muffins, 100% died, of the ones with flax seed oil, 60% “spontaneously remitted all traces of cancer”.
Flax seeds are 78% Omega 3. The problem is an imbalance of Omega 6 to Omega 3. In grass fed beef, the ratio is 1:1 in grain fed beef (not finished, but feed lot cattle) it is 12:1 Omega 6.
I suspect the Cancer industry is more of a hindrance than a help. Spending Billions on the known wrong angle is worse than spending nothing.
Now this is the odd question of the day, If chemotherapy drugs are known carcinogen’s, and radiation is a knows carcinogenic, why do they use them both to “cure” cancer? Is it because it costs six figures?