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CASHING IN ON CANCER Year after year, decade after decade, the public is conned into believing the battle against cancer is being won when in fact more people get and die of cancer today than ever before, far beyond population growth. For example, the incidence of cancer in Canada has doubled in the past fifteen years contrary to all the hype and hoopla generated by the cancer establishment. Here is some factual information to put the matter into focus: In 1971 then US President Richard Nixon officially declared
"war on cancer" and a cure was predicted within five
to ten years. Now --thirty-two years later-- we have a cancer
epidemic instead of a cancer cure. Forty per cent of Canadians
get cancer (excluding skin cancer) and of those 62 per cent die
of the disease according to Statistics Canada. 1. Millions of dollars are raised every year for "cancer research." Almost all of that money is aimed at treatment and then only if it is potentially profitable for the pharmaceutical industry. Research projects are chosen by members of the cancer establishment which ignores the most effective cancer reduction strategy: prevention. It also blocks any innovative research that has no potential benefit for pharmaceutical interests no matter how promising such research may be. Money raised for cancer research is largely an employment/profit scheme. It includes salaries for executives of cancer organizations as well as research scientists and their staff. It is interesting to note that while it is public knowledge how much politicians make since they are paid out of public funds, the incomes of Canadian Cancer Society executives and research staff who also get paid out of public funds are not disclosed. Clearly they should be. Moreover, claims of medical breakthroughs in cancer research often coincide with fundraising campaigns, never to be heard of again. To understand the dismal failure of the cancer industry to reduce the incidence and deaths of cancer consider this: If the billions of dollars spent on cancer research ($30 billion during the past 25 years in the US alone) had been effective and if all the so-called cancer-breakthroughs had been true, then obviously fewer and fewer people would get and die of cancer instead of more and more (far beyond population growth). Clearly the public is being misled by the cancer establishment. 2. Very little has changed in cancer treatment during the past half centutry. Conventional treatment is still limited to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy (also known as slash, burn and poison). The Canadian Cancer Society's own statistics show that in most cases conventional treatment fails. In fact, the consequences of cancer treatment are often worse than the disease itself and frequently hasten death rather than prevent it. A 33-year study by the late Dr. Hardin Jones, Professor of Medical Physics University of California, found that "untreated cancer victims live up to four times longer than treated individuals." (The Betrayal of Health by Dr. Joseph Beasley) The prestigious British medical journal The Lancet in its summer 1998 issue reported that studies have shown that lung cancer patients who undergo radiation therapy have a 20 per cent higher mortality rate than non-radiated ones. This helps explain the results of a McGill University study which revealed that most doctors in Ontario who prescribe chemotherapy for lung cancer patients said they would refuse such treatment for themselves and members of their family if they had lung cancer. (CBC interview Feb. 1, 1996). Cancer patients subjected to both chemotherapy and radiation get secondary tumours 25 times the normal rate (The Cancer Industry by Ralph Moss, Ph.D.) 3. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) at least
80 per cent of all cancer is environmentally caused and can therefore
be prevented, but prevention is largely ignored by the cancer
establishment in favour of treatment which fails most of the
time, but unlike prevention is very profitable. John Moelaert is the author of The Cancer Conspiracy which is accessible at: http://members.shaw.ca/cancerconspiracy |