Cancer - Are They Hiding The Cure For Profit?

[Rosalind]

I can assure you as a medical researcher: NO, absolutely not.

The accusation is, quite frankly, offensive to those of us who went to university for many years and worked for wages that wouldn't feed a canary in the name of training, and who spend far more than 40 hours/week trying to find the right target, the right chemical, that would work in humans.

Do people not think that medical researchers, including pharmaceutical executives, get cancer? Do they think our loved ones don't get cancer, or heart disease, or anything that kills people? We sure do. I've had cancer myself, and I have survived these past eight years because of the dedicated work of my wonderful colleagues. The treatment I received, by the way, was the standard treatment which is given to everyone with that type of cancer--which has a >85% cure rate when detected before stage III. It was not a super-secret treatment carried out in a remote mountaintop castle. It was regular outpatient surgery performed routinely by oncologists all over the world.

Many, many cancers are now curable. Cancer is not one disease, that would be like saying fever is just one disease--it's many diseases with many causes. Skin cancer, cervical cancer, many types of lymphoma and leukemia, prostate cancer, are now curable. Breast cancer treatment has made great advances and is likely to be curable in the next couple of decades. Colon cancer has had wonderful advances over the past three years with new drug combinations.

I have said it before, will repeat it: If you want to keep your money out of Big Pharma's pockets, there are many sensible things you can do. Eat your greens, eat lots of veggies, get plenty of exercise (60 minutes/day is recommended by the American Heart Association, who have no profit motive at all), turn off the teevee and go for a walk outside to get your vitamin D, quit smoking, get up to date on hepatitis vaccines so you don't get liver cancer. It's not exciting advice, it requires people to eat a salad instead of deep-fried Twinkies, and it may even involve sweating in the outdoors. But Big Pharma will profit very little from you.

Sorry for the rant, but it irks me oh, so much when people assert these sort of things.

 

[sundance]

I hope your wrong that they are hiding a cure for cancer, I had 2 sisters die from breast cancer and 2 grandchildren with cancer in remission

marrie

 

[sundance]

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK

MARRIE

 

[redhen]

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Yes, thanks so much for all that you do!

 

[GrayDragon]

'They' are indeed hiding the cancer cure.

'They' also trained the rabbits to eat my sweet corn plants the day before I was planning on harvesting them.

'They' insured a book as poorly written as Twilight reached absurd levels of popularity.

'They' also broke the caliper on my rear brakes.

'They' made a tree branch fall on my garage.

'They' seeded my flower garden with weeds.




When I find 'them', I am so kicking 'their' butts.

 

[speckledhen]

From the BYC forum rules:

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Debates of this nature rarely end well, so this is the first friendly warning to play nice or this thread will be locked up tighter than a drum. Carry on.​

 

[Whispering Winds]

All I know is a teacher that we had in jr. high back in the 60's had a husband with a deadly cancer. He was a chemist, and had been told more or less that there was nothing more they could do for him. He made his own chemo, treated himself, and is alive today.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, does make you wonder. We are different in the USA about medical care. It's all about the almighty dollar. We have a thrift store near where I live that gives HUGE checks (I am talking over $200,000 a year) to the hospital board and the way they price stuff is just crazy. . .and its all about that BIG check to the hospital. Remember Frank Zappa said on the Tonight Show years and years ago that Aids was created in a lab to do away with a certain group, or that is what he was meaning I think . . .I am happy to hear that the Asians have possibly created a vaccine that will eliminate Aids at least up to 31%. Let's see if the US lets it in. They will make them do testing on it for 10 years first. Don't get me started. My husband is on disability. He now has Medicare part A and B, plus the same insurance plan he had when he was an active employee. He got a call from the company day before yesterday telling him that it makes the insurance co. mad when they see someone on Part A and B and still being able to use the medical insurance also. So, scared us to death, thought he was losing his medical coverage through the company, but what they are going to do is give him the Supplemental insurance. If something isn't done, people literally will be dying in the streets. They have a sign in the hospitals that say they are obligated to treat ANYONE regardless of their race, color, creed, or insurance and that is a bunch of bull too. They might "treat" you, but it will be bare bone treatment in most cases. I am not trying to start an arguement, but I know a lot of medical people, and they tell us what the insurance companies force them to do. We are like sheep being led to the slaughter. We are definitely living in "days of sorrow." I am off track, didn't mean too . . .but I know there was a doctor a long time ago who actually found a cure and he died right after he started talking about it. Hmmmmmmmmmm!!!

 

[Nana2KJS]

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I, too, appreciate all your hard work and dedication. I'm sure that there are many more like you - dedicatated to your work and always searching for the best answer. Thank you for the many miracles that are now possible through your persistence.

Unfortunately, many doctors, in our area of the country, at least, do NOT treat the person as quickly as they treat the disease. Much easier to just pop the pill than to follow your own most excellent advice and TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF! That is part of why I maintain that our society has been programmed to believe that doctors know best and a pill will fix everything. Not always the best advice, but one we are conditioned to believe.

Even our own insurance companies are more likely to pay for the standard treatments and the prescription medicines, than they are to support an individuals decision to take better care of themselves.

I agree - take charge of your life and keep yourself out of the statistics. Unfortunately, this seems to be the exception rather than the rule. We just don't have many forward thinkers in this part of the country.

 

[Shannon's Chix]

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I respectfully disagree. I worked in a hospital as an RN for 11 years...6 of those in critical care (where the BIG money is paid out). Not once did I ever see anyone, doctor or otherwise, give "bare bones" treatment to those who did not have insurance.

Furthermore, I worked in risk management in a hospital and IMHO the people taking advantage of the signs posted in hospitals FAR outweigh the number of doctors trying to get rid of patients because of inability to pay...

 

[Jennyhaschicks]

I don't know what to think now a days.