{"id":735,"date":"2013-04-11T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=735"},"modified":"2013-06-09T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T13:14:06","slug":"generic-cancer-part-4-war-cancer-its-time-find-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/generic-cancer-part-4-war-cancer-its-time-find-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic Cancer part 4: The end of the “war” on cancer. It\u2019s time to make peace."},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"IMG_6148-GenericCancer-s\"<\/a><\/strong>There is no war on cancer.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a war on cancer patients.<\/strong> More victims are dying every year.\u00a0Even if your doctor issues a death sentence “you have three months to live”, you cannot choose your method of execution. You can only choose to wait, or to accept the treatments your doctor is allowed to use. This is a war on all cancer patients<\/strong> – not just generic cancer patients (which don’t usually die from their cancer). \u00a0But it does affect generic cancer patients as well. \u00a0Even if your cancer is not likely to kill you – you treatment choices are limited to those allowed by the so called “cancer war”.<\/p>\n

There is a war on cancer doctors<\/strong>, they are not allowed to offer, or recommend, a non-standard treatment, even one they would choose for themselves or their family. \u00a0They are not allowed to investigate alternatives. \u00a0They are not allowed to speak their mind. Oh, they are free to speak about politics, and religion, but not about medicine – not when doctoring a cancer patient.<\/p>\n

There is a war on cancer treatments.<\/strong> Many of them are illegal to make, to sell, and even illegal to give away. Information about them, their successes and failures is not published in medical journals.<\/p>\n

If the best, most effective, healthiest cancer treatment was discovered today, it is already illegal. \u00a0Does that sound ridiculous? \u00a0sorry… It’s perfectly true. As soon as you claim, rightly or wrongly, that it cures any illness, it is classed as a drug.<\/a> \u00a0And as soon as it is classed as a drug, you can’t use it until someone applies for, and receives, approval. \u00a0You can’t even use it in a clinical study until someone applies for and receives approval.<\/p>\n

If the cure for cancer has already been discovered – you can’t buy it, or sell it. \u00a0You can’t manufacture it, advertise it, or even give it away. \u00a0Medical science is in agreement that chemo, radiation, and surgery do not cure cancer. \u00a0And medical science is in agreement that you, the cancer patient, are not allowed to make your own decisions, to buy your own treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are selling a natural food, like bitter almonds or apricot seeds,<\/a> that contains chemicals used to treat cancer in some clinics – you are not allowed to state the cancer facts on the package, and if you do, your ‘food’ will be banned and confiscated.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/i>The war on cancer is a bunch of shit.<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 James Watson, discoverer of DNA, Nobe<\/span>l Laureate.<\/p>\n

President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971.\u00a0 Statistics consistently show a steady growth in incidence, severity, and death from cancers since that date.\u00a0 How can this be true?<\/p>\n

Sun Tzu,\u00a0author of <\/span>The Art of War<\/i>\u00a0said \u201c<\/span>There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. <\/i><\/b>\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people have declared that the war on cancer is a failure, or a fraud. Few bother to ask what\u2019s really going on.\u00a0 Conspiracy theories abound. Cancer, it seems, fills us with hate.<\/p>\n

PeopleAgainstCancer.com<\/a> gives a list of reasons the war has failed \u2013 and continues to fail, from the failure of early detection, to failures of current treatments, and failures to find or recognize treatments that work.\u00a0 But they\u2019re missing the key point. We need to make peace with cancer. \u00a0We need to make peace with cancer patients, and other victims, like their family members. \u00a0We need to make peace with cancer doctors. \u00a0And we need to make peace with cancer treatments. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We need to make peace with health. Not war with cancer.<\/p>\n

Harold Varmus, former director of the NIH and current director of the NCI, held a town hall meeting in 2010 in which he outlined his priorities for improving the cancer research program, including the following:
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 reforming the clinical trials system,
\n<\/span>–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 improving utilization of the NIH clinical center
\n<\/span>–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 readjusting the drug approval and regulation processes,
\n<\/span>–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 improving cancer treatment and prevention, and
\n<\/span>–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 formulating new, more specific and science-based questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also missed the key point.\u00a0We need to make peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

The site \u2018<\/span>The Best Years of Your Life<\/a>: articulates many statistical errors, or sins, committed by those who are fighting the war on cancer.\u00a0 But they also miss the point.\u00a0We need to make peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Cancer Research, a Super Fraud<\/a>, Robert Ryan, B.Sc. tells us that cancer is increasing and that cancer is preventable, but misses the important detail.\u00a0We need to make peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two important truths about the so called “war on cancer”. Everyone who does the least bit of research will see the first \u2013 few notice the second. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n