Are Cancer Treatments Effective - The Real Story © By Lena SanchezI do not wish this article to be discouraging and I do offer an alternative at
end, so do not despair half way through reading.
Let's look at 2000 sad stats on American Healthcare's $1.3B industry. 1 out of 3 people get cancer, 1 out of 2 get heart disease, obesity is at epidemic levels, 70% of children are getting hardening deposits in their arteries as early as 12 years of age. And here is worst one of all, 62% of accidental deaths are attributed to prescriptions. 2001 found prescription deaths greater than illegal drug deaths. In 2000 109,000 people died from prescription drugs another 2.2 million survive but have illnesses or severe debilitation caused by prescription use. So what does that tell you about how well we are doing as a westernized medical society? The figures for 2001 & 2002 aren't in yet but believed to be even more severe.
"Deadly Medicine? Every year over 500,000 people worldwide die from illness or organ diseased from side effects of pharmaceutical products," says Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA). These pharmaceuticals are used to treat most deadly diseases known to Western Man: heart attack, cancer, and stroke."
I shudder when reading reports like these, even though most are from a few years back, sadly story is that healing rate has not increased but actually decreased in some areas! I wonder how many people have lost their lives early because of money and medical mess that has been created by perpetuating cancer cures in medical community that aren't really cures but money producers?
Harvard University's published cancer mortality for 2,000 excluded non-melanoma skin cancer, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, stomach cancers and other rare cancers. Their death figures from top fourteen cancers were 216,700 men and 197,600 women, children were not reported. Aside from certain rare cancers, it is impossible to detect any sudden changes in death rates for any of major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy.
Whether any of common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established. In most common solid tumors-lung, colon, breast, etc. chemotherapy is NOT curative.
Why growth in chemotherapy in face of such failure? A look at financial intercourse between a large cancer center such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and companies that make billions selling chemotherapy drugs makes for revealing why.
James D. Robinson III, Honorary Chairman of MSKCC Board of Overseers and Managers, is a director of Bristol-Myers Squibb, world's largest producer of chemotherapy drugs. Richard Gelb, Vice-Chairman of MSKCC board is Chairman of Board at Bristol-Myers. Richard Furlaud, another MSKCC board member, recently retired as Bristol Myers' president. Paul Marks, MD, MSKCC's President and CEO, is a director of Pfizer.
Very few know that chemotherapy drugs are not FDA approved. They are legally administered under Rule of Probable Cause" states that experimental drugs may be used if side effect of drug is no worse than end effect of disease. In fact, every chemotherapy bottle is stamped "For Experimental Use Only" and patient must sign a release before doctor will prescribe or administer it.
Multiple papers have been written stating that while some oncologists inform their patients of lack of evidence that treatments work...others may well be misled by scientific papers that express unwarranted optimism about chemotherapy. Still others respond to an economic incentive. Physicians can earn much more money running active chemotherapy practices than they can providing solace and relief...to dying patients and their families."
