MYTH #5: Massive research is underway to determine how to
prevent cancer. FALSE: Cancer is the basis for a huge
industry dominated by very large corporations that exist for the
primary purpose of earning profits and creating dividends for
stockholders. In the U.S. alone, cancer is a $200 billion per
year industry. There are more people in the UK, Australia,
Canada and the USA, earning a living from cancer than currently
dying from it each year. This trend even though the cancer rate
is continuing to escalate looks set to continue. The simple
facts of the matter are that a lot of money is being made in the
"Cancer Industry" and will continue to be made for a very long
time yet. Eliminating cancer or dramatically reducing the
procedures required to treat cancer would create a very large
economic loss for the "Cancer Industry" with the loss of many
thousands of jobs. It is very sad to think possibly millions of
lives could have been saved if proper, fully funded research was
poured into cancer prevention and the education of the public,
rather than pouring the money down the drain into this highly
profitable, palliative care industry. There are two main sources
of funding for cancer related research in the United States.
The largest is the National Cancer Institute, which distributes
about $3 Billion of tax money for cancer research annually. Of
this huge sum, only 2-3% is allocated to researching the
prevention of cancer. The other organization funding cancer
research is the American Cancer Society, which collects about
$700 Million in donations annually. However, they spend
virtually NOTHING on cancer prevention. Pharmaceutical
companies, which fund their own research, have ABSOLUTELY NO
INCENTIVE to research cancer prevention, because all the profit
potential is in treating cancer and not in preventing it. You
may be shocked to learn, at the time of writing, that officers
and directors of pharmaceutical companies, petrochemical
companies, and tobacco companies serve as officers, board
members, or directors of some of the largest cancer research
organizations. Some are either current or former directors of
the American Cancer Society also. From these positions of
power, they are able to guide and control how cancer research
money is spent. To understand how vested interests work, you
really need to read this in depth report on a page at
http://bodiorganic.com/cannot_trust.htm. I'm sure after you have
read the report you will have quite a different view of the
fundamentals of big business. Despite massive evidence that
cancer is a metabolic disease which can be effectively treated
with specialized nutritional therapy, and despite extensive
documentation over many years of numerous cancer types
responding extremely favorably to nutrition based protocols,
there is virtually no public or private funding available for
research in this area. In fact, professionals who have spoken
out in presenting such information or who have advocated a
nutritional approach to treating cancer patients have been
ridiculed, slandered, and in some cases, even driven from their
practice. One needs to ask why? The cancer establishment is
opposed to nutrition based cancer treatment for the same reason
it opposes researching cancer prevention. There is no
significant money to be made with either approach.
Pharmaceutical companies' motives are profit driven, and to
control profits, they only market formulas they can patent.
Natural ingredients, as found in nutritional products, cannot be
patented so therefore any treatment involving natural products
is ignored by the vested interests as it would be highly
detrimental for the shareholders profits if a pharmaceutical
company went down this road. Any company director who doesn't
push for the maximum profits to be attained from the company
operations could well find themselves being sued by
shareholders. So it certainly isn't in individual directors
interests to do anything else except to toe the line as far as
ensuring company profits are the mandatory reason for their own
existence. To protect their profitable business of making
patented cancer drugs, their solution, the medical people and
powerful vested interests in collusion with government
departments, has been to harass anyone promoting a non-drug
therapy. Government regulators and leaders of medical
associations who owe much of their existence to the
pharmaceutical companies fall right in line to create a united
front of opposition to virtually all natural approaches to
treating not just cancer, but all metabolic disease in general.
To many, it borders on criminal neglect. Emphasis is on cure -
not prevention One result of this opposition is that the
emphasis in cancer research is almost NEVER on prevention and
always on CURE. The people who are directing cancer research
have a vested interest in keeping the scientists away from the
study of cancer prevention and focused on drug cures that can be
patented, marketed, and huge obscene profits made from them by
the corporations. Some people believe the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) is in total collusion with this because
they have set up a system that requires hundreds of millions of
dollars and 10 years or more of testing to get a new drug
approved. (The same protocol is followed in the UK and
Australia) This high cost prohibits all but the few largest and
richest pharmaceutical companies in the world from participating
in the FDA approval process. For individuals or small
companies with limited funding, it is a financial impossibility
to even consider trying to develop an entirely different
protocol for cancer treatment based on a natural approach. It
appears obvious that the cancer establishment is focused on
making huge profits from treating cancer rather than on helping
people with prevention and low cost therapies. If we want to
live healthy disease free lives, then we must each take personal
responsibility for preventing cancer in our lives in the first
place and educating our families and loved ones to the
preventative approach, rather than the cut out and destroy
approach of the medical profession. To do so, we must ask,
"What is cancer, what causes it, and how can it be prevented?"
I will be exploring aspects of prevention in the forthcoming
Articles.