I've heard recently that the V Foundation has raised $80 million dollars for cancer research. But we have 1 out of 2 men and 1 out of 3 women who still get cancer. Didn't it used to be much less? Isn't all this money doing any good at all or is it just a profit front? It upsets me that so many people are dying of cancer , at the tune of 553,091 people a year! And we supposedly spent over a trillion dollars on health care 10 years ago! If we're spending all this money shouldn't people be getting better? And why in the world are the oncologists telling people that cancer was caused by chance/fate when everybody knows that's not right? Anybody with half a brain knows it's our affluent lifestyle! Why aren't they telling people that?
Why is all this money being spent on cancer?
different cancers are caused by different things.....I am pretty sure if I was poor I would still have the breast cancer I currently have.
Reply:Yes there are lots of people that die each year from cancer, but you fail to realize that there are many more that survive and live with their cancer. If there weren't all that research, the death number would be much higher.
What's happening now is that more people are dx'ed with cancer b/c of better detection/testing and awareness to name a few.
...and I'm sure it's my lifestyle that gave me a 1000 higher chance of getting a rare cancer that affects .001% of the general population w/o the defective gene I have. Some cancers are caused by lifestyle or might attribute to the cancer developing from a predisposition.
You think people in less affluent countries don't get cancer? They do, but they might die without ever getting dx'ed or treated.
Reply:You need to stand back and look at the big picture. Cancer is an ancient disease . . it's always been around. It is not new at all and has nothing to do with lifestyle . . people thousands of years ago died from cancer . . there are fossilized remains. There are mummified remains of Egyptians with breast cancer. The difference is not that there is more cancer in today's world . . the biggest difference is that due to research and better treatment options more and more people are surviving cancer. That is why you know so many people with cancer! And, yes, people still die from cancer . . but look at their age . . and their overall health as contributing factors. Far more people are living with cancer than they ever were in the past.
And, your comment about having a half a brain is offensive to those of use with children and teens fighting cancer. My son did nothing that caused his type of cancer. He has a rare abdominal sarcoma that presents as multiple tumors within the abdominal cavity. It is a childhood disease that predominately strikes males . . what in the world does that have to do with his lifestyle. He was athletic. Worked weekends. Went to school and was a healthy teen. No one knows exactly what causes his type of cancer but it is suspected that the normal growth spurts that occur during puberty have something to do with it. It has nothing to do with how anyone lives. I know four year old with this disease and it is absolutely devastating.
I could probably fill you in on current research that is taking place with targeted therapy, but I don't think you are interested.
ACS: the history of cancer
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/conten...
Reply:first of all cancer is a business look up how much the docs are makeng on it a year, how do we get cancer well each and ever one of us has the cancer cell in us the difference is that some people don't develope the cancer and others do because of there immune system is low or out of wack. how does this happen well by the thing we eat the cemicals we com in contact, floride in water and toothe paste. we are like sponges. when you combine all those things that cause cancer it adds up, to where our body cant fight off all ofthe negitave effects puts our immune system in overdrive. much so to the point it can't handle the load. and the cancer cell over power our system. look up Transfer Factor Plus.
Reply:Some of us may not be aware of it, but we have a much bigger impact on our health than we'd think. The bottom line is that we do have more than half a million cancer deaths a year, second behind heart disease. There's a reason that's happening.
Many say diet doesn't cause cancer, but that's wrong. The WHO says 30% of cancers in western civilizations could be avoided with diet alone here - http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/... . Tobacco use is the number one cause for cancer.
The book A Cancer Battle Plan quotes Dr. Peter Greenwald, director of cancer prevention and control at the National Cancer Institute on page 47: "The Japanese in Japan have one fifth or one sixth the rate of breast cancer that we do. When they move to Hawaii, the rate goes up."
And on page 33, "Dr. Ernest H. Rosenbaum, M.D., among other things the chief of oncology (the study and treatment of tumors) at French Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco, wrote, "It appears that our affluence - our 'good' life - is the major contributor to the high death rates we have from cancer, as well as heart disease, stroke, emphysema, and obesity."
And later on page 33, "The great mystery disease of modern humans, the number two killer moving quickly toward number one, is in large part a nightmare that we've brought on ourselves. We are, in effect, poisoning ourselves to death."
Page 33 and 34 - "As the scientists and researchers behind Prevention Magazine Health Books observe, "80 - 90% of all cancers are the result of things we do to ourselves."
Page 34 - "Patrick Quillen, Ph.D, concurs, pointing toward diet as the chief culprit:
New estimates say that 90 percent of all cancer is environmentally caused and hence preventable. Environmental factors include foods, pollutants, sunlight, tobacco, etc. Of these environmental factors, nutrition (diet) is probably the most important. A conservative estimate states that 30 - 60 percent of all cancer is nutrition-related. The U.S. has 500 percent more breast and colon cancer than other areas of the world, and much of this dubious distinction is caused by poor nutrition."
Page 36 says, "Dr. Wheeler goes on to observe that "the ability of your immune system to successfully prevent [or in our case, reverse] cancer is directly dependent on your state of nutrition." In other words, diet has a great deal to do with the strength and well-being of our immune system, which in turn has a great deal to do with how well our bodies are able to fight off the occurrence and spread of cancer cells."
Page 34 says, "There is a cause-and-effect relationship between the environment we've created - the lifestyles and diets we've chosen - and the health problems we're experiencing as a country. When it comes to identifying the chief cause of cancer, we have met the enemy and he is us!"
Later on page 34, "Coming from a family history of breast cancer, I was aware of my increased risk. In light of that, I breast-fed my babies, stayed away from coffee and alcohol, and did all that I knew to do at the time. What I didn't know, however, was the link between cancer and the typical American diet. Unfortunately, cancer does not wait for its potential victims to become educated. In my ignorance I gave it an open door to develop in my body."
I could continue, but I think that's plenty of evidence. Page 45 says, "I had always thought I was eating a good, healthy diet." The key is that a lot of people in the US are eating in such a way that causes disease, and it's not easy to figure out how to eat properly. There's a lot of confusion on the topic of nutrition as well as disease because there's a lot of money to be made on both.
There's other lifestyle causes I identify here from a reliable source - Guyton and Hall's Textbook of Medical Physiology - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... .
Reply:Hi,
My name is Ariel, I'm a Nutraceutical Consultant living in FL. One of the reasons I joined this industry is because I am passionate about this subject and at the same time as frustrated as you are. But the truth those figures you referenced will only get bigger. I have many local survivors and current people in Fl doing extremely well on Glutathione enhancers like the bonded cysteine in Immunocal, the protein my company makes. Yet it is 0.05% of a current cancer treatment from diagnosis to full recuperation. The key is "Cellular level control". Doctors can’t usually provide an early enough diagnosis. So the right science is to have your own body do the work, and that's where glutathione comes in. If you have high levels of it, you’re chances of developing cancer are slim to none. It's been called the super-antioxidant. It knows how to neutralize carcinogens before the start the cell mutation through the DNA.
As far as why this is not better preached, well I think you know the answer to that. In the last 5 years there is a great interest from the medical community in Glutathione levels in the cell, and its role in cancer prevention. So things are looking up.
Immunomail@yahoo.com www.immunocall.com
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