About time the goverment started to concentrate on cancer?

with the government talking about spending billions on weapons and space research I think its about time they used that money to provide the scientists with more equipment and facilities to strengthen the battle against cancer. what do you think? there is nothing out there in space but people down here dying

About time the goverment started to concentrate on cancer?
Garry, I agree with you.





Mark, you don't say whether you have/had cancer, but your horse looks pretty lofty from where I'm standing.





I had a healthy diet (vegan, loads of organic fruit and veg), exercised, never smoked and got cancer.





I can't be the only one who gets a wee bit tired of people who usually haven't had cancer coming on this forum to tell us we're somehow to blame for our own cancer.
Reply:You are right, we need to spend some time and money on cancer research. Here is something you can do to help. Call your congressmen. Ask that they co-sponser the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act S 911. This act will alot money to research treatment for approx. 15 types of childhood cancers at 200 different research and hospital facilities.
Reply:hear hear !!!
Reply:Isn't it time the people started concentrating on their own health. The government spend millions (or billions) on research telling us what is healthy and what's going to kill us, and still we keep on smoking, and drinking to excess, and eating fatty foods.





There's be 1/3 fewer cancers if we took care of ourselves...





p.s. I eat (reasonably) well, drink occasionally and I do smoke - so please don't accuse of me of jumping on some high horse!!
Reply:In answer to your question, I think its about time this government butted out of peoples lives. If it breathes we must legislate for it.


As for the waste of money on 'space programmes', I think there is far more waste in the 'war effort'. People are dying on a daily basis from things other than cancer.


I myself am a cancer survivor, only to be diagnosed 4 years later with another serious illness, this time incurable and auto-immune.


I would like to see MY MONEY I pay in taxes being spent on things here AT HOME - - not on just one pet project, but spread around.


The only way to change things is to get to meet the people making the policies. That doesn't mean your MP necessarily, but the civil servants behind him/her.


Perhaps you could start an investigation to find out who those people are and write to them.
Reply:i quite agree with you forget messing about in space who cares whats up there when there is so much suffering down here .I nursed my dad who had throat cancer for 12months. I also watched my mum die of cancer at the age of 58.what does annoy me is its left up to us to help these charities out .There always collecting round here no that i begrudge them but as you say they can fund the money for space but not for the people who's taxes have gone to fund this research
Reply:I find it rather ironic since they still take in revenue from selling tobacco!!!
Reply:I am actually more offended that certain illnesses (cancers) get all the press while others get the "tough luck your going to die" routine.
Reply:yea i definatly agree with the guy that said rather than them spending money on teaching us about cancer how about money to cure it?


It's like why would you waste money telling us and teaching us that smoking is bad, rather than banning smoking, or curing lung cancer.

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