Posted on 07/29/2013 2:00:26 PM PDT by neverdem
Are we really losing the war on cancer? Clifton Leaf’s provocative new book, “The Truth in Small Doses,” claims we are. He’s a bit off-base there — but his prescription is dead on: The key to success is scrapping bureaucratic science and embracing tools that can attack cancer at the speed of life...
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Bottom line: Much of the money for cancer research is poured into an approach that is as deadly as the disease. And we stick to this approach because Food and Drug Administration rules for testing new drugs, and National Cancer Institute guidelines for getting grants to do the research, both insist on it.
Ultimately, Leaf calls for what amounts to a biological counter-insurgency against cancer — targeting tumors and individualizing care.
We’ve made much progress in the war on cancer — but today’s approach to researching, developing and using treatments can’t finish the job. We’re missing the targets by design. Sometimes, to win the war, you need new approaches and new leadership.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Cancer is a war. I won my battle. Others may lose but as a whole we are slowly winning more than we lose. Cancer is us so we need to quit looking at or even thinking of it as a single disease. One single type can have many different genetic causes. As long as we require cellular reproduction we will have cancer. That can be stated with many of our ailments/deficiencies.
Stay free!
http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/investigations/cmp/docs/cmp_report.pdf
The importance of reproductive factors in affecting breast cancer risk has been known for a long time. Women who have never given birth (or had a full-term pregnancy) are at a higher risk for breast cancer compared to women who have carried a pregnancy to term.It's the top of page 26. It was a study about a presumed cluster on Long Island, NY. It's not repressed, but people have to look for it. They acknowledge it, but not explicitly as abortion. The risk is the same in women who had miscarriages or never were pregnant, IIRC. They don't make a big deal about it.
Check comment# 10.
As am I, but if I got cancer again, I doubt I’d have chemo again.
God bless her. I went through that last year (breast cancer surgery) Didn’t lose any parts (except for nodes) and I’m past it now.
govt’s control over all research
Exactly! And how many of those in government have stock or other interests in the companies doing the research? DEregulation would improve our health care industry.
Chemo is brutal. I’d go through it again, but I’m still relatively strong, and I have people depending on me. As my body ages, there will come a time when I won’t be strong enough to survive chemo. I hear radiation is worse. I hope I never find out first hand.
Not to refute what you said, just can’t help thinking if we treat them as separate diseases, we run the risk of missing the forest for the trees.
First, we have different types of cancer according to where in the body it started, e.g., lung cancer, liver cancer. Then, depending on exactly where in the organ it started, e.g., on the lining or deep within, we have the finer types of cancers. These classifications do not preclude the possibility of a common pathogen behind them all.
And different types of cancers behaving differently should not be too surprising because cells belonging to different organs have different structures and physiology to begin with. A cancerous cell is apparently still able to bind to the various substances carried in the blood like it used to, though the effects of those substances are now changed.
Anyway, what do I know? Still, I am very hopeful a cure will be found.
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I almost don’t see how we could possibly win when our ‘front line troops’ in the fight are earning gazillions on the perpetual war.....
(normally not so conspiracy minded - but this one makes ya wonder......)
I almost don’t see how we could possibly win when our ‘front line troops’ in the fight are earning gazillions on the perpetual war.....
(normally not so conspiracy minded - but this one makes ya wonder......)
The FDA procedures grew out of the legal system that allows lawyers to troll for clients on TV.
My radiation was nothing. I mean it, nothing. It was so easy to get through. Made me a bit tired, maybe a little unsteady on my feet. (which I was already struggling with because of chemo)
Chemotherapy affected me so bad. They cut my dose in half and extended the times, but it was still so hard and tough on me, they cut it to 35%, then I said, what good is it then and I told them I wasn’t having the last dose and they said ok.
It’s been 8 months since and I’m still struggling.
Strangely though....My lower back pain quit during chemo, my rosacea disappeared and my complexion was perfect. Odd huh! That didn’t help when I lost my toenails and my molars broke and I couldn’t walk from extreme tiredness and lack of balance and other stuff. It was bad.
Medical liberty now!
All these licensing and regulating schemes do is slow the process and cause net harm to the medical industry. There’s way too much licensing/regulating of medicine at the federal, state, county and local level.
It is essentially regulatory capture.
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