Mainstream media appears to view the cancer industry much the same way as conventional medicine. Both seem to view it with a sense of entitlement, closed mindedness and greed. This became especially apparent to me while watching Dateline on February 20th. The program was titled- "A Dose of Controversy". It was a weak attempt at what was intended to be an unbiased expose featuring Suzanne Somers and her book "Knockout". Suzanne has long thrust herself into the age old battle between conventional and alternative medicine practitioners on such topics as: cancer, bio-identical hormones, etc. I am sure Dateline would have succeeded in a well balanced program had the subject matter been anything other than diet, nutrition, or disease related. The specific disease that the book Knockout references is cancer. It describes some specific M.D.'s "unorthodox" treatment methods for cancer. I say "unorthodox" because anything other than chemo, radiation or surgery is frowned upon by conventional medicine as well as by their hired mouthpiece, mass media. You see the cancer industry is a multi billion dollar industry, a machine, with the triad of treatment options providing an unlimited income stream. Anyone or anything outside of this unholy trinity is viewed as a threat and the attempt to discredit or label it "quack" medicine is the main goal of the machine. This ostracization of innovations in the treatment of cancer by alternative practitioners has been a long running battle. For many years, the AMA (American Medical Association) and the ACA (American Cancer Association) have coordinated their "hit" lists of innovative cancer researchers and Md's. Incidence of payouts to top FDA officials provided in order to fast track certain drugs, goes back to the 1950's. Conflicts of interest within the FDA as well as the NCI (National Cancer Industry) were identified back in the 1970's by a prominent investigative team from a Long Island newspaper. In 1986, Congressional hearings uncovered an organized NCI cover-up of an effective alternative cancer treatment. A Senate investigation as far back as 1953 reported a conspiracy existing to suppress effective cancer treatment. The Senator in charge of the investigation "mysteriously" died, causing the demise of the investigation. This wasn't the only strange death of people who were in a position to do damage to the money making cancer machine. This is just a small sampling of stories which I have unearthed to prove a point. The point being, the cancer industry, a.k.a. business, is one rife with corruption and incompetence. In my opinion, the goal should be to eradicate existing cancer and prevent future cancer, anything falling short of what should be a unanimous goal, is heinous and criminal! Vast amounts of people have suffered and will continue to suffer horrible pain and ultimately death due to these morally devoid groups of so called humans. Most conventional cancer treatments simply add insult to injury as they do more long term harm than good. One such example of this is a drug called Avastin used in breast cancer protocols. This ONE drug produces 855 million annually and costs the user about 8,000 dollars a month. This is hard to believe since this drug has not proven to be of benefit to cancer patients and has a laundry list of deadly side effects. The benefits do not outweigh the risks by any means, yet, news programs such as Dateline interviewed critics of the alternative practitioners in Suzanne Somer's book, many claiming that the alternative treatments were costly as well as ineffective. Costly? What is more costly than mainstream cancer treatments? One practitioner's program mentioned in Suzanne's book cost about 12,000 a year! Not only that, but, this practitioner has had success in treating patients who were deemed hopeless by conventional doctors. I would pay 12,000 in a year in order to live, rather than 8,000 in a month to die faster. In fact, the majority of drugs that conventional practitioners utilize in their cancer fighting arsenals, actually have the main side effect of causing cancer in healthy people!
The BOMB....chemotherapy, is a huge profit center in and of itself, yet has an average five year survival success rate of slightly over two percent! Big Whoop! Unbiased and true research points to the fact that chemotherapy is only effective, which by the way, in cancer speak, defined by the ethical people at the FDA as reducing a tumor in size by fifty percent in twenty eight days in two to four percent of cancers! In fact, chemotherapy ultimately helps hasten one's demise by destroying one's immune system and its ability to respond to the cancer.
I for one, will take my chances and if I were to ever develop cancer, would utilize every alternative medicine therapy at hand without question. All one has to do is spend some time researching on the Internet, as I did for this article to come to the stark realization that the main motivating forces behind conventional cancer treatment are power and the generation of endless income streams-not to cure the cancer patient.
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