War on Cancer

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Since Richard Nixon's 1971 declaration of a War on Cancer, more Americans than ever have died of the disease. Cancer has become the fastest growing major disease in every industrialized nation, with lifetime risks approaching an unbelievable 50%. (Cancer was only the eighth leading cause of death at the beginning of the 20th century.) There are also astounding rises in domestic pet, wildlife, and marine cancers. Yet, there remains to be a serious focus on diet and toxic poisoning from well funded government agencies like the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and wealthy charities like American Cancer Society (ACS). Sadly, the purported "War on Cancer" is by and large, a for-profit, lucrative industry and includes government agencies, corporations and charities with vested economic interests in promoting and maintaining toxic, harmful and expensive "therapies".

Overview: Cancer for profit & toxic treatments

In 1971 when the U.S. declared war on cancer, scientists still hadn't identified the immune defense system. Doctors and scientists, along with the American Cancer Society, continue to refer to a non-contagious condition with no incubation period or identifiable foreign invader as a "disease". Scientists have requested and received billions in grants from the federal government, non-profit organizations, corporate and private donors. However, according to critics, like the New England Journal of Medicine, the "war on cancer" is a failure. According to John C. Bailar III, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McGill University:

"Despite $30 billion spent on research since 1970, cancer remains undefeated, with a death rate not lower but actually higher than when they started. The effect of new treatments for cancer has been largely disappointing. The failure of chemotherapy to control cancer has become apparent even to the oncology establishment."

The late Professor of Medical Physics, H.B. Jones, was a leading U.S. cancer statistician. In a 1969 speech to the American Cancer Society, he stated that studies had not proved that chances of survival were improved by early intervention. In fact, according to his studies, untreated persons with cancer lived up to four times longer and with a better quality of life than treated ones. He was not invited back. According to the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet:

"If one were to believe all the media hype, the triumphalism of the medical profession in published research, and the almost weekly miracle breakthroughs trumpeted by the cancer charities, one might be surprised that women are dying at all from breast cancer."

According to the oncologist, Glen Warner, M.D.:

"We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three doses of that poison."

American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society is largest non-religious charity in the world. As of the fiscal year ending in August of 2007, the ACS had a net revenue 1.17 billion dollars. ACS's daily expenditures exceed one million dollars with only approximately 16% going into patient cancer programs. The rest is funneled into expensive research and bureaucratic overhead. Meager prevention programs are designed not to offend the industry. The average American diagnosed with cancer spend upwards of $25,000 of their savings on cures to save or lengthen their lives. However, claims of 'progress' include many people with benign diseases. Those in remission for longer than 5 years are declared cured, although many of those will die from either cancer or treatment after five years. Corporate donors include processed food and pharmaceutical industry giants like Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, AstraZeneca, Novartis and Walmart as well as Metropolitan Life Insurance.

National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Act of 1971 propelled the War on Cancer by tapping vast government resources. As a result, all federally funded cancer initiatives were channeled through the restructured National Cancer Institute. Some predicted a conquest of cancer by the nation’s bicentennial. Yet, over the next three decades; cancer remains incurable. Dr. Guy B. Faguet is a Professor of Hematology and Oncology at the Medical College of Georgia and author of The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure, A Blueprint for the Future, ISBN 1402036183. According to Dr. Faquet, our current cancer control model cannot eradicate most cancers. He discredits the "kill-cell" approach of drugs and radiation and argues in favor of prevention and other means.

According to "The $200 Billion Scam", published in Penthouse in 1997:

"In the 25 years since the federal government declared War on Cancer, an estimated $200 billion has been spent by U.S. taxpayers and private investors on research that has produced so little bang for the buck that it makes the Pentagon's $600 toilet seats look like bargains for every American home. The cancer industry has become a huge jobs program for brilliant, even highly motivated, doctors and other scientists, whose efforts are misguided by the economic forces behind the industry. Directly put, it's in the interests of all the fat cats in government and private enterprise who earn their living and status from what is largely a failed enterprise, to stick with it. That is why a drug like hydrazine sulfate is dumped on by the cancer establishment, instead of given legitimate support and honest evaluation."

Clinical trials for hydrazine sulfate

The General Accounting Office (GAO) defied logic, reason, and science to give its blessing to the National Cancer Institute's deliberately biased testing of hydrazine sulfate; producing false results which made it appear to be without merit. What is also damaging is the fact that GAO investigators did their fact finding. It was NCI higher administrators which wrote the report and whom avoided and ignored the evidence pointing to rigged clinical trials. The NCI betrayed the medical community and cancer patients everywhere by rigging clinical trials.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

A look at financial relationships between large facilities such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and corporations making billions in profits from chemotherapy drugs, is extremely telling as to its continued use in the face of such failure. Furthermore, expensive laboratories and diagnostic equipment have already been paid for by large corporations. James Robinson III, Chairman of the MSKCC Board of Overseers and Managers, is also the director of Bristol-Myers Squibb, the world's largest producer of chemo drugs. Paul Marks, MD, MSKCC's President and CEO, is the director of Pfizer. Another board member, Richard Furlaud recently retired as Bristol Myers' president. The late Richard Gelb was Vice-Chairman of the MSKCC board as well as CEO of Bristol-Myers. ,

Cancer United

Cancer United is a pharmaceutical industry front group established by the Weber Shandwick public relations firm. It is funded entirely by Roche.

Animal testing

More is spent on cancer than any other medical problem. There are more people living off of cancer than cancer sufferers. Millions of laboratory animals, including rats, mice, monkeys, guinea pigs, cats and dogs have been injected with cancerous material or implanted with malignancies., Charities which fund animal testing include the American Cancer Society. See also animal testing, sections 1 & 2. Agencies funding animal testing include the National Institutes of Health. See also National Institutes of Health, section 3.

Articles & sources

SourceWatch articles

• American Cancer Society
• American Institute for Cancer Research
• Animal testing
• National Cancer Institute
• National Institutes of Health
• Meat & Dairy industry
• Pharmaceutical industry
• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
• TGen
• World Cancer Research Fund

External links

• Ralph Moss, "Questioning Chemotherapy", Equinox Press, 1995.(Article) (Authors Website)
• Erik Marcus, "Fighting the wrong war", Salon, October 14, 2000.
• Michael Horwin, "War on Cancer": Why Does The FDA Deny Access To Alternative Cancer Treatments?", California Western Law Review, Volume 38, Number 1, 2001.
• Ralph Moss, "Our Futile War on Cancer", New Scientist (pg. 19), December 16, 2006.
• Andrew Nikiforuk, "Malignancies: Cancer research: misspent money, wasted efforts and unconscionable profits", Znet, November 20, 2007.
• Devra Davis, "The Secret History of the War on Cancer", Basic Books, October 2007. [1]
• Samuel S. Epstein M.D. American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest "Nonprofit" Institution”, Cancer Prevention Coalition
• Iris Atzmon The American Cancer Promoting Society, August 2007
• Organic Consumers Association Is the American Cancer Society More Interested in Cancer Profit than Cancer Prevention?, Sept 2005
• Cancer Prevention Coalition The American Cancer Society: Ties to the radiology industry, accessed May 2009
• Cancer Prevention Coalition The American Cancer Society: Indifference and hostility to prevention, accessed May 2009
• Mary Ann Swissler "Is silence golden? California grassroots activists get a big win, but where was the American Cancer Society?", Sacramento News & Review, November 3, 2005.
• Anne Landman Pinkwashing: Can Shopping Cure Breast Cancer? Center for Media & Democracy, June 2008
• Micheal Berens Conducts Failed Brain Tumor Research on Female Dogs and their Puppies, In Defense of Animals, accessed February 2009

External resources

• Therapies: Cancer Suppress Alternatives, Whale accessed February 2009
• Chemotherapy, International Wellness Directory accessed May 2009
• Christopher Anderegg, M.D., Ph.D., Kathy Archibald, B.Sc., Jarrod Bailey, Ph.D., Murry J. Cohen, M.D., Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D., John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C. A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation: A. Selected Diseases: 1. Cancer, Medical Research Modernization Committee, 2006