War on Cancer
The Cancer Research Gravy Train
The American people, desperate for a cancer cure, contribute millions of dollars each year to the American Cancer Society. Sadly, only about 15 percent of this money goes directly into programs for cancer patients. The lion’s share goes to overhead and drug research, which means that the American Cancer Society is in fact a gravy train for research facilities, pharmaceutical companies, bureaucrats and lobbyists.
False claims of progress
Claims of progress in the fight against cancer are false, and the statistics are skewed. The Cancer Establishment’s statistics include many people with benign diseases, and patients in remission for more than five years are listed as cured, even though a large percentage of these supposedly cured patients will die from cancer, or ironically, from toxic therapies, after the five years.
Lead-time Bias
Lead-time is the length of time between the point at which a cancer is detected by current technology and the point at which it was previously have been clinically detected using yesterdays technology. Lead-time bias accounts for the majority of the illusory “improvement” seen over the last few decades in treating breast, prostate, and a few other kinds of cancer. Lead-time bias makes the statistics look much better because the sooner you find the cancer the longer the patient survives after the discovery has been made.
Toxic cures
A striking example of a toxic therapy is the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen, a widely prescribed drug for prevention of cancer in at risk women and treating existing cancers. Unfortunately Tamoxifen is highly carcinogenic itself, causing high incidences of uterine and liver cancer not only in already ill women, but also in healthy women who are urged to take Tamoxifen for prevention.
Petrochemical poisoning
Runaway cancer rates correspond precisely to the rise of the petrochemical industry after the Second World War, when massive pesticide use promised better, cleaner yields of food to feed the growing masses. Between 1940 and 1990, total annual production of synthetic agricultural chemicals went from 1 billion to over 600 billion pounds. Despite this horrendous cancer epidemic, the Cancer Establishment has shown no inclination to focus on the real culprits, namely poor diet and the poisoning of the planet by the petrochemical industries. Instead of preventing disaster, the focus stays on highly profitable and toxic therapies such as Tamoxifen.
Time to think outside of the box
Since finding the cure for cancer would put the pharmaceutical industry out of business and would end the careers of countless doctors and so called researchers, it is in their interest suppress all knowledge of real, proven cancer cures that do exist and have existed for thousands of years. But we don’t necessarily have to go along with that. We don’t have to continue to be Big Pharma’s willing puppets. It’s time to think outside of the box. Instead of supporting the American Cancer Society, you can support research dealing with alternative medicine and folk wisdom. Because it is in precisely this direction that we must turn if we are to find the long-awaited cure for cancer.