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In 1971, many sponsors of the '''War on Cancer''' predicted a cure by 1976. Instead, this multibillion dollar research program has proven to be a failure. | In 1971, many sponsors of the '''War on Cancer''' predicted a cure by 1976. Instead, this multibillion dollar research program has proven to be a failure. | ||
| − | ==Overview | + | ==Overview== |
| − | The age adjusted total cancer mortality rate climbed steadily for decades until the early 1990s, when the rate started to fall slowly, due largely to reduced smoking. To encourage continued support for cancer research, now exceeding two billion dollars annually in the U.S. alone; researchers and administrators have misled the public. In 1987, the[[ U.S. General Accounting Office]] (GAO) found that the statistics from the [[National Cancer Institute]] (NCI) "artificially inflate the amount of 'true' progress", concluding that even simple five-year survival statistics were manipulated. The NCI termed five-year survival a "cure" even if the patient died of the cancer after the five-year period. Also, by ignoring well known statistical biases, the NCI falsely suggested advances had been made in certain cancer therapies. <ref> | + | The age adjusted total cancer mortality rate climbed steadily for decades until the early 1990s, when the rate started to fall slowly, due largely to reduced smoking. To encourage continued support for cancer research, now exceeding two billion dollars annually in the U.S. alone; researchers and administrators have misled the public. In 1987, the[[ U.S. General Accounting Office]] (GAO) found that the statistics from the [[National Cancer Institute]] (NCI) "artificially inflate the amount of 'true' progress", concluding that even simple five-year survival statistics were manipulated. The NCI termed five-year survival a "cure" even if the patient died of the cancer after the five-year period. Also, by ignoring well known statistical biases, the NCI falsely suggested advances had been made in certain cancer therapies. <ref>[http://www.mrmcmed.org/crit2.html#cancer A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation: A. Selected Diseases: 1. Cancer], Medical Research Modernization Committee, 2006</ref> |
===Failure of toxic "therapies"=== | ===Failure of toxic "therapies"=== | ||
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:"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." <ref>[http://www.tuberose.com/Cancer.html Cancer], Information for Transformation, accessed February 2009</ref> | :"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." <ref>[http://www.tuberose.com/Cancer.html Cancer], Information for Transformation, accessed February 2009</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Cancer for profit== | ||
According to the oncologist, Glen Warner, M.D.: | According to the oncologist, Glen Warner, M.D.: | ||
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:"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." <ref>[http://www.whale.to/a/warner_h.html Dr. Glenn A. Warner, M.D. (1919-2000)], Whale, accessed February 2009</ref> | :"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." <ref>[http://www.whale.to/a/warner_h.html Dr. Glenn A. Warner, M.D. (1919-2000)], Whale, accessed February 2009</ref> | ||
| − | ==NCI & clinical trials for hydrazine sulfate== | + | ===NCI & clinical trials for hydrazine sulfate=== |
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According to "The $200 Billion Scam", published in Penthouse in 1997: | According to "The $200 Billion Scam", published in Penthouse in 1997: | ||
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The [[General Accounting Office]] (GAO) defied logic, reason, and science to give its blessing to the NCI's deliberately biased testing of hydrazine sulfate which produced false results to make it appear ineffective. NCI higher administrators who wrote the report also and ignored evidence pointing to rigged clinical trials. <ref>Jeff Kamen, "[http://www.mindbodyhealth.com/cancerscam.htm The $200 Billion Scam]", ''Penthouse Magazine'', September 1997. (pp.52-57)</ref> | The [[General Accounting Office]] (GAO) defied logic, reason, and science to give its blessing to the NCI's deliberately biased testing of hydrazine sulfate which produced false results to make it appear ineffective. NCI higher administrators who wrote the report also and ignored evidence pointing to rigged clinical trials. <ref>Jeff Kamen, "[http://www.mindbodyhealth.com/cancerscam.htm The $200 Billion Scam]", ''Penthouse Magazine'', September 1997. (pp.52-57)</ref> | ||
| − | ==American Cancer Society== | + | ===American Cancer Society=== |
| + | The [[American Cancer Society]] ACS 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. <ref>[http://www.hoovers.com/american-cancer-society/--ID__43092--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml?cm_ven=PAID&cm_cat=INK&cm_pla=CO1&cm_ite=american-cancer-society American Cancer Society, Inc.], Hoovers, accessed February 2009</ref> 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. <ref>Katy Schiel [http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id336/pg1/index.html The war on cancer is a fraud: The 'Cancer Establishment' is lying to you.], Disinformation, July 2002</ref> Corporate donors include [[processed food industry]]and [[pharmaceutical industry]] giants like [[Pfizer]], [[Sanofi-Aventis]], [[AstraZeneca]], [[Novartis]] and [[Walmart]] as well as [[Metropolitan Life Insurance]]. <ref>[http://www.cancer.org/docroot/AA/AA_4_Corporate_Recognition.asp About ACS: Corporations Committed to the Cause], [[American Cancer Society]], accessed February 2009</ref> | ||
| − | + | ===Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center=== | |
| + | A look at financial relationships between large facilities such as the [[Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]] (MSKCC) 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. | ||
| − | + | Craig B. Thompson, MD President and CEO of MSKCC, is also on the Board of Directors for [[Merck]] Corporation.<ref>[http://www.merck.com/about/leadership/board-of-directors/home.html Board of Directors], [[Merck]], accessed January 2011</ref> | |
| − | + | [[James D. Robinson III]] Honorary Chairman, is also former Chairman of [[Bristol-Myers Squibb]], the world's largest producer of chemo drugs. Paul Marks, MD, MSKCC's former President and CEO, is the former Director of [[Pfizer]]. Another board member, Richard Furlaud, recently retired as Bristol Myers' president. <ref>[http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/shared/graphics/AR_2007/pdf/Boards_2007.pdf Boards of Overseers and Managers Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center], [[Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]], 2007</ref> | |
| − | The | + | The late Richard Gelb was Vice-Chairman of the MSKCC board as well as CEO of Bristol-Myers. <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E1D61F39F935A35757C0A9629C8B63 Paid Notice: Deaths Gelb, Richard L.], [[New York Times]], April 2004</ref>, <ref>[http://cancercure.ws/chemo.htm Chemotherapy Report: Do We Need a New Approach to Cancer?], Alternative Cancer Treatments, accessed February 2009</ref> |
| − | + | The [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH) is the primary agency in the U.S. government conducting and funding medical research. MSKCC Director Thomas Kelly, M.D., Ph.D. serves on the both the NIH Advisory Committee and Scientific Management Review Board. <ref>[http://acd.od.nih.gov/Roster.asp Advisory Committee to the Director], [[National Institutes of Health]], April 2009</ref> | |
| + | ===Cancer United=== | ||
[[Cancer United]] is a [[pharmaceutical industry]] [[front group]] established by the [[Weber Shandwick]] [[public relations firm]]. It is funded entirely by [[Roche]]. <ref>Sarah Boseley, [http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1924748,00.html Concern over cancer group's link to drug firm], Guardian, October 2006</ref> | [[Cancer United]] is a [[pharmaceutical industry]] [[front group]] established by the [[Weber Shandwick]] [[public relations firm]]. It is funded entirely by [[Roche]]. <ref>Sarah Boseley, [http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1924748,00.html Concern over cancer group's link to drug firm], Guardian, October 2006</ref> | ||
==Cancer & animal testing== | ==Cancer & 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.<ref>[http://www.tuberose.com/Cancer.html Cancer], Information for Transformation, accessed February 2009</ref>, <ref>Patricia Haight, Ph.D., Shaynie Aero [http://www.liberation-mag.org.uk/berens.htm The Failed Research of Micheal Berens], Liberation Magazine, accessed February 2009</ref> Why hasn't progress been commensurate with the effort and money invested? One explanation is the unwarranted preoccupation with [[animal testing]]. Crucial genetic, molecular, immunologic and cellular differences have disqualify animal models as an effective means to a cure. Mice are most commonly used, although "Mice are actually poor models of the majority of human cancers"; according to the | + | 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.<ref>[http://www.tuberose.com/Cancer.html Cancer], Information for Transformation, accessed February 2009</ref>, <ref>Patricia Haight, Ph.D., Shaynie Aero [http://www.liberation-mag.org.uk/berens.htm The Failed Research of Micheal Berens], Liberation Magazine, accessed February 2009</ref> Why hasn't progress been commensurate with the effort and money invested? One explanation is the unwarranted preoccupation with [[animal testing]]. Crucial genetic, molecular, immunologic and cellular differences have disqualify animal models as an effective means to a cure. Mice are most commonly used, although "Mice are actually poor models of the majority of human cancers"; according to the industry's own laboratory animal publication. According to leading cancer researcher, Robert Weinberg: |
:"The preclinical (animal) models of human cancer, in large part, stink… Hundreds of millions of dollars are being wasted every year by drug companies using these models." <ref>[http://www.mrmcmed.org/crit2.html#cancer A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation: A. Selected Diseases: 1. Cancer], Medical Research Modernization Committee, 2006</ref> | :"The preclinical (animal) models of human cancer, in large part, stink… Hundreds of millions of dollars are being wasted every year by drug companies using these models." <ref>[http://www.mrmcmed.org/crit2.html#cancer A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation: A. Selected Diseases: 1. Cancer], Medical Research Modernization Committee, 2006</ref> | ||
| − | A widely discussed 2004 article in Fortune magazine entitled | + | A widely discussed 2004 article in Fortune magazine entitled "Why We're Losing the War on Cancer" <ref>Clinton Leaf, Doris Burke [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/03/22/365076/index.htm Why We're Losing The War On Cancer (And How To Win It)], Fortune magazine, March 2004</ref> laid the blame on animal research. The basic approach in the 1970s was to grow human cancer cells in a lab dish, transplant them into a mouse whose immune system had been tweaked to not reject them and throw experimental drugs at them to see what happened. However, few successes in mice are relevant to people. According to Fran Visco, who founded the National Breast Cancer Coalition four years after being diagnosed with cancer in 1987, "Animals don't reflect the reality of cancer in humans. We cure cancer in animals all the time, but not in people." |
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| + | [[Newsweek]] combed through three decades of high-profile successes in mice for clues to why the mice lived and the people died. According to oncologist Paul Bunn, who leads the International Society for the Study of Lung Cancer: | ||
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| + | :"Animal models have not been very predictive of how well drugs would do in people. We put a human tumor under the mouse's skin, and that micro-environment doesn't reflect a person's—the blood vessels, inflammatory cells or cells of the immune system." | ||
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| + | Human tumors that scientists transplant into mice and then attack with their weapon du jour, almost never metastasize. For decades, scientists ignored metastatic cells (which are responsible for 90% of all cancer deaths) because metastasis didn't occur in animal models. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, researchers focused on increasingly detailed molecular mechanisms, instead of looking into the real problem. <ref>Sharon Begley [http://www.newsweek.com/id/157548/page/3 We Fought Cancer ...And Cancer Won. After billions spent on research and decades of hit-or-miss treatments, it's time to rethink the war on cancer.], [[Newsweek]], September 2008</ref> See also [[animal testing]]. | ||
| − | + | ==Cancer & diet== | |
| − | + | ===Food Additives & adulteration=== | |
| + | Today, over 6,000 synthetic chemicals are officially condoned for use in the [[processed food industry]]. These include some that are known carcinogens. Processed foods contain high levels of the debilitating, denatured ingredients such as white sugar, refined starch, pasteurized cow's milk, land mined salt and hydrogenated vegetable oils. The human immune system correctly recognizes chemical food additives as toxic foreign agents and attempts to rid the body of them; thus causing severe biochemical reactions and stress on the immune system. | ||
| − | + | After years of daily exposure to inorganic chemicals, the immune system breaks down and burns out, leaving the body vulnerable to microbes, toxins and cancerous cells. The food industry has duped the public and government health agencies into believing that their products are safe for human consumption; even in the face of abundant scientific evidence to the contrary. In fact, such information is in the public domain and openly available to anyone who seeks it.<ref>Daniel Reid [http://www.hps-online.com/foodprof13.htm Processed Food], Helping People Survive Online, accessed December 2010</ref> See also [[processed food industry]]. | |
| − | + | ===Animal products & health issues=== | |
| + | ''The China Study'' culminated a 20-year partnership of [[Cornell University]], Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. The survey of diseases and lifestyle factors in rural China and Taiwan is widely thought to be the most comprehensive study on nutrition and related diseases to date. The project produced over 8,000 statistically significant associations between diet and disease. The findings indicated that the consumers of the most animal-based foods suffered the most chronic diseases while those with the most plant based diets avoided these diseases and were the healthiest. Chronic diseases included heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Also studied were the effects of diet in reducing or reversing the risks of chronic disease. The study also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities and irresponsible scientists. <ref>Dr. [[T. Colin Campbell]], Thomas M. Campbell II [http://www.thechinastudy.com/about.html About], The China Study, 2005</ref> According to Dr. T. Colin Campbell of Cornell, "we're basically a vegetarian species, should be eating a wide variety of plant foods and minimizing animal foods." <ref>Jane Brody, ''Grand Prix of Epidemiology'', [[New York Times]], May 1990 </ref>, <ref> T. Colin Campbell, PhD [http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/campbell_brody_nyt.htm Correcting Nutritional Fictions from the New York Times], Vegsource.com, 2003</ref> | ||
| − | : | + | The focus of published reports on dairy consumption are infections, colic, intestinal bleeding, anemia, allergies and more serious issues of diabetes and viral infections of bovine leukemia, an AIDS like virus. Common childrens issues include ear infections, tonsil infections, bed wetting and asthma. Adult issues include heart disease, arthritis, respiratory distress, osteoporosis, leukemia, lymphoma and cancer. Overall health issues include milk contamination by pus cells and chemicals such as pesticides. <ref>Robert M. Kradjian, MD [http://www.afpafitness.com/articles/articles-and-newletters/research-articles-index/nutrition-wellness/the-milk-letter-a-message-to-my-patients/ The Milk Letter: A Message to My Patients], American Fitness Professionals Association, accessed September 2009 </ref> Most cows' milk contains toxins such as herbicides, pesticides and dioxins and up to 52 powerful antibiotics; blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. Both organic and non-organic milk contain fat, cholesteral and various allergens as well as 59 active hormones. This includes the powerful Growth Factor One (IGF-1) which has been identified in the rapid growth cancer. <ref>Dave Rietz [http://www.rense.com/general26/milk.htm Dangers of Milk and Dairy Products: The Facts], [[Rense.com]], July 2002</ref> It has been positively documented and affirmed that dairy consumption leads to clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes and exposure to contaminants. <ref>E. Koop [http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/NN/B/C/Q/G/ Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health], National Library of Medicine, 88-50210, 1988</ref>, <ref>Melvyn R. Werbach ''Nutritional Influences on Illness: A Source book of Clinical Research,'' December 1990, ISBN 0879835311 </ref> Research has demonstrated a calcium wash or a loss of calcium and other critical minerals like potassium, magnesium and iron from the blood stream as a direct result of dairy consumption starting at 24 ounces per day. <ref>Report of the Task Force on the Assessment of the Scientific Evidence Relating to Infant-Feeding Practices and Infant Health. Pediatrics, 74:579; 1984.</ref> Low animal protein diets create a positive calcium balance, whereas high animal protein diets create a negative balance resulting in bone density loss. While many have turned to low fat dairy products, these products contain higher concentrations of protein. Low fat and particularly non-fat dairy products have actually been shown to increase osteoporosis, kidney problems and some cancers. <ref>Mark J. Occhipinti, MS, PhD [http://www.afpafitness.com/articles/articles-and-newletters/research-articles-index/nutrition-wellness/does-milk-really-do-the-body-good-calcium-and-protein-a-mixture-for-disaster/ Does Milk Really Do The Body Good? Calcium and Protein: A Mixture For Disaster], American Fitness Professionals & Associates, accessed January 2009</ref> |
| − | + | See also [[meat & dairy industry]], sections 4 & 5 & section 6 on [[animal products & health issues]]. | |
==Articles & sources== | ==Articles & sources== | ||
===SourceWatch articles=== | ===SourceWatch articles=== | ||
| + | * [[AIDS industry]] | ||
| + | * [[Alternative Medicine]] | ||
* [[American Cancer Society]] | * [[American Cancer Society]] | ||
* [[American Institute for Cancer Research]] | * [[American Institute for Cancer Research]] | ||
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* [[Micheal Berens]] | * [[Micheal Berens]] | ||
* [[National Cancer Institute]] | * [[National Cancer Institute]] | ||
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* [[Pharmaceutical industry]] | * [[Pharmaceutical industry]] | ||
* [[Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine]] | * [[Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine]] | ||
| + | * [[Smoking beagles]] | ||
* [[Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research]] | * [[Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research]] | ||
| + | * [[The Jackson Laboratory]] | ||
* [[World Cancer Research Fund]] | * [[World Cancer Research Fund]] | ||
| + | *[[Cancer Research UK]] | ||
===References=== | ===References=== | ||
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===External articles=== | ===External articles=== | ||
| + | * Linda Greene [http://www.counterpunch.com/greene02042011.html The Environmental Causes of Cancer: How to Reduce the Risks], [[Counterpunch]], February 4-6, 2011 | ||
* Jarrod Baily, PhD [http://www.releasechimps.org/2008/10/29/neavs-responds-to-newsweek/ NEAVS Responds to Newsweek], New England Anti-Vivisection Society, October 2008 | * Jarrod Baily, PhD [http://www.releasechimps.org/2008/10/29/neavs-responds-to-newsweek/ NEAVS Responds to Newsweek], New England Anti-Vivisection Society, October 2008 | ||
| − | * Anne Landman [ | + | * [[Anne Landman]] [https://www.prwatch.org/node/7436 Pinkwashing: Can Shopping Cure Breast Cancer?], [[Center for Media & Democracy]], June 2008 |
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* Iris Atzmon [http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/american_cancer_society.htm The American Cancer Promoting Society], August 2007 | * Iris Atzmon [http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/american_cancer_society.htm The American Cancer Promoting Society], August 2007 | ||
| − | * Ralph Moss, "[http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/ht070104.htm#Our_Futile_War_on_Cancer Our Futile War on Cancer]", ''New Scientist'' (pg. 19), December 16, 2006. | + | * [[Ralph Moss]], "[http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/ht070104.htm#Our_Futile_War_on_Cancer Our Futile War on Cancer]", ''New Scientist'' (pg. 19), December 16, 2006. |
| − | * [http://www.organicconsumers.org/Politics/cancer091505.cfm Is the American Cancer Society More Interested in Cancer Profit than Cancer Prevention?], Organic Consumers Association, Sept 2005 | + | * [http://www.organicconsumers.org/Politics/cancer091505.cfm Is the American Cancer Society More Interested in Cancer Profit than Cancer Prevention?], [[Organic Consumers Association]], Sept 2005 |
| − | * Mary Ann Swissler | + | * Mary Ann Swissler [http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2005-11-03/news.asp?Print=1 Is silence golden? California grassroots activists get a big win, but where was the American Cancer Society?], Sacramento News & Review, November 3, 2005 |
| − | * Michael Horwin, "[http://www.ouralexander.org/war1.htm War on Cancer": Why Does The FDA Deny Access To Alternative Cancer Treatments?]", ''California Western Law Review'', Volume 38, Number 1, 2001 | + | * Heather Moore [http://www.impactpress.com/articles/febmar02/cigs2302.html Dying for a Cigarette], Impact Press, February-March 2002 |
| − | * Erik Marcus, "[http://www.salon.com/news/1998/10/14news.html Fighting the wrong war] | + | * Michael Horwin, "[http://www.ouralexander.org/war1.htm War on Cancer": Why Does The FDA Deny Access To Alternative Cancer Treatments?]", ''California Western Law Review'', Volume 38, Number 1, 2001 |
| + | * Erik Marcus, "[http://www.salon.com/news/1998/10/14news.html Fighting the wrong war], Salon, October 14, 2000 | ||
* Samuel S. Epstein M.D. [http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/wealthiest_links.htm American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest "Nonprofit" Institution”], International Journal of Health Services Vol. 29, No. 3, 1999 | * Samuel S. Epstein M.D. [http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/wealthiest_links.htm American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest "Nonprofit" Institution”], International Journal of Health Services Vol. 29, No. 3, 1999 | ||
| − | * Ralph W. Moss, PhD "[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0815/is_n194_v20/ai_17376342 Questioning Chemotherapy]", ''Equinox Press'', 1995.([http://www.mercola.com/article/cancer/cancer_options.htm Article]) ([http://www.ralphmoss.com/ Authors Website]) | + | * Ralph W. Moss, PhD "[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0815/is_n194_v20/ai_17376342 Questioning Chemotherapy]", ''Equinox Press'', July, 1995.([http://www.mercola.com/article/cancer/cancer_options.htm Article]) ([http://www.ralphmoss.com/ Authors Website]) |
* [http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/rejects_regulation.htm The American Cancer Society: Ties to the radiology industry], Cancer Prevention Coalition, accessed May 2009 | * [http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/rejects_regulation.htm The American Cancer Society: Ties to the radiology industry], Cancer Prevention Coalition, accessed May 2009 | ||
* [http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/acs_mammography.htm The American Cancer Society: Indifference and hostility to prevention], Cancer Prevention Coalition, accessed May 2009 | * [http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/acs_mammography.htm The American Cancer Society: Indifference and hostility to prevention], Cancer Prevention Coalition, accessed May 2009 | ||
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===External resources=== | ===External resources=== | ||
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* Ralph W. Moss, PhD [http://www.cancerdecisions.com/ Cancer Decisions], accessed November 2009 | * Ralph W. Moss, PhD [http://www.cancerdecisions.com/ Cancer Decisions], accessed November 2009 | ||
| − | * [http://www.whale.to/cancer/therapies.html Therapies: Cancer | + | * [http://www.whale.to/cancer/therapies.html Therapies: Suppressed Cancer Alternatives], Whale, accessed December 2010 |
* [http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/fraud/chemo.htm Chemotherapy], International Wellness Directory, accessed May 2009 | * [http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/fraud/chemo.htm Chemotherapy], International Wellness Directory, accessed May 2009 | ||
| + | * [http://anticancer.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/effectiveness-of-chemotherapy/ Effectiveness of Chemotherapy], Anti-Cancer, accessed March 2010 | ||
| + | * [http://preventcancer.com/ Who is Losing the Cancer War?], Cancer Prevention Coalition, accessed January 2011 | ||
| + | * [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samuel-s-epstein/ Samuel S. Epstein: Founder/chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition], Huffington Post (blog), accessed January 2011 | ||
| + | ====Books==== | ||
| + | * Guy B. Faguet [http://www.amazon.com/War-Cancer-Anatomy-Failure-Blueprint/dp/1402036183 The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure, a Blueprint for the Future]", November 2005, ISBN 1402036183 | ||
| + | * Robert N. Proctor [http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-War-Cancer-Robert-Proctor/dp/0691070512 The Nazi War on Cancer], Princeton University Press, November 15, 2000, ISBN 0691070512, ISBN 978-0691070513 | ||
| + | * Ralph W. Moss [http://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Industry-Classic-Establishment-Updated/dp/1881025098/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295329927&sr=1-1 he Cancer Industry: The Classic Expose on the Cancer Establishment], Equinox Press, January 1996, ISBN 1881025098, ISBN 978-1881025092 | ||
| + | *Samantha King, ''Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:36, 11 October 2017
In 1971, many sponsors of the War on Cancer predicted a cure by 1976. Instead, this multibillion dollar research program has proven to be a failure.
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Overview
The age adjusted total cancer mortality rate climbed steadily for decades until the early 1990s, when the rate started to fall slowly, due largely to reduced smoking. To encourage continued support for cancer research, now exceeding two billion dollars annually in the U.S. alone; researchers and administrators have misled the public. In 1987, theU.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) found that the statistics from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) "artificially inflate the amount of 'true' progress", concluding that even simple five-year survival statistics were manipulated. The NCI termed five-year survival a "cure" even if the patient died of the cancer after the five-year period. Also, by ignoring well known statistical biases, the NCI falsely suggested advances had been made in certain cancer therapies. [1]
Failure of toxic "therapies"
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." [2]
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." [3]
Cancer for profit
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." [4]
NCI & clinical trials for hydrazine sulfate
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."
The General Accounting Office (GAO) defied logic, reason, and science to give its blessing to the NCI's deliberately biased testing of hydrazine sulfate which produced false results to make it appear ineffective. NCI higher administrators who wrote the report also and ignored evidence pointing to rigged clinical trials. [5]
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society ACS 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. [6] 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. [7] Corporate donors include processed food industryand pharmaceutical industry giants like Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, AstraZeneca, Novartis and Walmart as well as Metropolitan Life Insurance. [8]
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
A look at financial relationships between large facilities such as the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) 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.
Craig B. Thompson, MD President and CEO of MSKCC, is also on the Board of Directors for Merck Corporation.[9]
James D. Robinson III Honorary Chairman, is also former Chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb, the world's largest producer of chemo drugs. Paul Marks, MD, MSKCC's former President and CEO, is the former Director of Pfizer. Another board member, Richard Furlaud, recently retired as Bristol Myers' president. [10]
The late Richard Gelb was Vice-Chairman of the MSKCC board as well as CEO of Bristol-Myers. [11], [12]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency in the U.S. government conducting and funding medical research. MSKCC Director Thomas Kelly, M.D., Ph.D. serves on the both the NIH Advisory Committee and Scientific Management Review Board. [13]
Cancer United
Cancer United is a pharmaceutical industry front group established by the Weber Shandwick public relations firm. It is funded entirely by Roche. [14]
Cancer & 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.[15], [16] Why hasn't progress been commensurate with the effort and money invested? One explanation is the unwarranted preoccupation with animal testing. Crucial genetic, molecular, immunologic and cellular differences have disqualify animal models as an effective means to a cure. Mice are most commonly used, although "Mice are actually poor models of the majority of human cancers"; according to the industry's own laboratory animal publication. According to leading cancer researcher, Robert Weinberg:
- "The preclinical (animal) models of human cancer, in large part, stink… Hundreds of millions of dollars are being wasted every year by drug companies using these models." [17]
A widely discussed 2004 article in Fortune magazine entitled "Why We're Losing the War on Cancer" [18] laid the blame on animal research. The basic approach in the 1970s was to grow human cancer cells in a lab dish, transplant them into a mouse whose immune system had been tweaked to not reject them and throw experimental drugs at them to see what happened. However, few successes in mice are relevant to people. According to Fran Visco, who founded the National Breast Cancer Coalition four years after being diagnosed with cancer in 1987, "Animals don't reflect the reality of cancer in humans. We cure cancer in animals all the time, but not in people."
Newsweek combed through three decades of high-profile successes in mice for clues to why the mice lived and the people died. According to oncologist Paul Bunn, who leads the International Society for the Study of Lung Cancer:
- "Animal models have not been very predictive of how well drugs would do in people. We put a human tumor under the mouse's skin, and that micro-environment doesn't reflect a person's—the blood vessels, inflammatory cells or cells of the immune system."
Human tumors that scientists transplant into mice and then attack with their weapon du jour, almost never metastasize. For decades, scientists ignored metastatic cells (which are responsible for 90% of all cancer deaths) because metastasis didn't occur in animal models. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, researchers focused on increasingly detailed molecular mechanisms, instead of looking into the real problem. [19] See also animal testing.
Cancer & diet
Food Additives & adulteration
Today, over 6,000 synthetic chemicals are officially condoned for use in the processed food industry. These include some that are known carcinogens. Processed foods contain high levels of the debilitating, denatured ingredients such as white sugar, refined starch, pasteurized cow's milk, land mined salt and hydrogenated vegetable oils. The human immune system correctly recognizes chemical food additives as toxic foreign agents and attempts to rid the body of them; thus causing severe biochemical reactions and stress on the immune system.
After years of daily exposure to inorganic chemicals, the immune system breaks down and burns out, leaving the body vulnerable to microbes, toxins and cancerous cells. The food industry has duped the public and government health agencies into believing that their products are safe for human consumption; even in the face of abundant scientific evidence to the contrary. In fact, such information is in the public domain and openly available to anyone who seeks it.[20] See also processed food industry.
Animal products & health issues
The China Study culminated a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. The survey of diseases and lifestyle factors in rural China and Taiwan is widely thought to be the most comprehensive study on nutrition and related diseases to date. The project produced over 8,000 statistically significant associations between diet and disease. The findings indicated that the consumers of the most animal-based foods suffered the most chronic diseases while those with the most plant based diets avoided these diseases and were the healthiest. Chronic diseases included heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Also studied were the effects of diet in reducing or reversing the risks of chronic disease. The study also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities and irresponsible scientists. [21] According to Dr. T. Colin Campbell of Cornell, "we're basically a vegetarian species, should be eating a wide variety of plant foods and minimizing animal foods." [22], [23]
The focus of published reports on dairy consumption are infections, colic, intestinal bleeding, anemia, allergies and more serious issues of diabetes and viral infections of bovine leukemia, an AIDS like virus. Common childrens issues include ear infections, tonsil infections, bed wetting and asthma. Adult issues include heart disease, arthritis, respiratory distress, osteoporosis, leukemia, lymphoma and cancer. Overall health issues include milk contamination by pus cells and chemicals such as pesticides. [24] Most cows' milk contains toxins such as herbicides, pesticides and dioxins and up to 52 powerful antibiotics; blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. Both organic and non-organic milk contain fat, cholesteral and various allergens as well as 59 active hormones. This includes the powerful Growth Factor One (IGF-1) which has been identified in the rapid growth cancer. [25] It has been positively documented and affirmed that dairy consumption leads to clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes and exposure to contaminants. [26], [27] Research has demonstrated a calcium wash or a loss of calcium and other critical minerals like potassium, magnesium and iron from the blood stream as a direct result of dairy consumption starting at 24 ounces per day. [28] Low animal protein diets create a positive calcium balance, whereas high animal protein diets create a negative balance resulting in bone density loss. While many have turned to low fat dairy products, these products contain higher concentrations of protein. Low fat and particularly non-fat dairy products have actually been shown to increase osteoporosis, kidney problems and some cancers. [29]
See also meat & dairy industry, sections 4 & 5 & section 6 on animal products & health issues.
Articles & sources
SourceWatch articles
- AIDS industry
- Alternative Medicine
- American Cancer Society
- American Institute for Cancer Research
- Health Care
- Micheal Berens
- National Cancer Institute
- National Institutes of Health
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Smoking beagles
- Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
- The Jackson Laboratory
- World Cancer Research Fund
- Cancer Research UK
References
- ↑ A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation: A. Selected Diseases: 1. Cancer, Medical Research Modernization Committee, 2006
- ↑ Cancer, Information for Transformation, accessed February 2009
- ↑ Cancer, Information for Transformation, accessed February 2009
- ↑ Dr. Glenn A. Warner, M.D. (1919-2000), Whale, accessed February 2009
- ↑ Jeff Kamen, "The $200 Billion Scam", Penthouse Magazine, September 1997. (pp.52-57)
- ↑ American Cancer Society, Inc., Hoovers, accessed February 2009
- ↑ Katy Schiel The war on cancer is a fraud: The 'Cancer Establishment' is lying to you., Disinformation, July 2002
- ↑ About ACS: Corporations Committed to the Cause, American Cancer Society, accessed February 2009
- ↑ Board of Directors, Merck, accessed January 2011
- ↑ Boards of Overseers and Managers Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2007
- ↑ Paid Notice: Deaths Gelb, Richard L., New York Times, April 2004
- ↑ Chemotherapy Report: Do We Need a New Approach to Cancer?, Alternative Cancer Treatments, accessed February 2009
- ↑ Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health, April 2009
- ↑ Sarah Boseley, Concern over cancer group's link to drug firm, Guardian, October 2006
- ↑ Cancer, Information for Transformation, accessed February 2009
- ↑ Patricia Haight, Ph.D., Shaynie Aero The Failed Research of Micheal Berens, Liberation Magazine, accessed February 2009
- ↑ A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation: A. Selected Diseases: 1. Cancer, Medical Research Modernization Committee, 2006
- ↑ Clinton Leaf, Doris Burke Why We're Losing The War On Cancer (And How To Win It), Fortune magazine, March 2004
- ↑ Sharon Begley We Fought Cancer ...And Cancer Won. After billions spent on research and decades of hit-or-miss treatments, it's time to rethink the war on cancer., Newsweek, September 2008
- ↑ Daniel Reid Processed Food, Helping People Survive Online, accessed December 2010
- ↑ Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II About, The China Study, 2005
- ↑ Jane Brody, Grand Prix of Epidemiology, New York Times, May 1990
- ↑ T. Colin Campbell, PhD Correcting Nutritional Fictions from the New York Times, Vegsource.com, 2003
- ↑ Robert M. Kradjian, MD The Milk Letter: A Message to My Patients, American Fitness Professionals Association, accessed September 2009
- ↑ Dave Rietz Dangers of Milk and Dairy Products: The Facts, Rense.com, July 2002
- ↑ E. Koop Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, National Library of Medicine, 88-50210, 1988
- ↑ Melvyn R. Werbach Nutritional Influences on Illness: A Source book of Clinical Research, December 1990, ISBN 0879835311
- ↑ Report of the Task Force on the Assessment of the Scientific Evidence Relating to Infant-Feeding Practices and Infant Health. Pediatrics, 74:579; 1984.
- ↑ Mark J. Occhipinti, MS, PhD Does Milk Really Do The Body Good? Calcium and Protein: A Mixture For Disaster, American Fitness Professionals & Associates, accessed January 2009
External articles
- Linda Greene The Environmental Causes of Cancer: How to Reduce the Risks, Counterpunch, February 4-6, 2011
- Jarrod Baily, PhD NEAVS Responds to Newsweek, New England Anti-Vivisection Society, October 2008
- Anne Landman Pinkwashing: Can Shopping Cure Breast Cancer?, Center for Media & Democracy, June 2008
- Iris Atzmon The American Cancer Promoting Society, August 2007
- Ralph Moss, "Our Futile War on Cancer", New Scientist (pg. 19), December 16, 2006.
- Is the American Cancer Society More Interested in Cancer Profit than Cancer Prevention?, Organic Consumers Association, Sept 2005
- 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
- Heather Moore Dying for a Cigarette, Impact Press, February-March 2002
- Michael Horwin, "War on Cancer": Why Does The FDA Deny Access To Alternative Cancer Treatments?", California Western Law Review, Volume 38, Number 1, 2001
- Erik Marcus, "Fighting the wrong war, Salon, October 14, 2000
- Samuel S. Epstein M.D. American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest "Nonprofit" Institution”, International Journal of Health Services Vol. 29, No. 3, 1999
- Ralph W. Moss, PhD "Questioning Chemotherapy", Equinox Press, July, 1995.(Article) (Authors Website)
- The American Cancer Society: Ties to the radiology industry, Cancer Prevention Coalition, accessed May 2009
- The American Cancer Society: Indifference and hostility to prevention, Cancer Prevention Coalition, accessed May 2009
- Micheal Berens Conducts Failed Brain Tumor Research on Female Dogs and their Puppies, In Defense of Animals, accessed February 2009
External resources
- Ralph W. Moss, PhD Cancer Decisions, accessed November 2009
- Therapies: Suppressed Cancer Alternatives, Whale, accessed December 2010
- Chemotherapy, International Wellness Directory, accessed May 2009
- Effectiveness of Chemotherapy, Anti-Cancer, accessed March 2010
- Who is Losing the Cancer War?, Cancer Prevention Coalition, accessed January 2011
- Samuel S. Epstein: Founder/chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Huffington Post (blog), accessed January 2011
Books
- Guy B. Faguet The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure, a Blueprint for the Future", November 2005, ISBN 1402036183
- Robert N. Proctor The Nazi War on Cancer, Princeton University Press, November 15, 2000, ISBN 0691070512, ISBN 978-0691070513
- Ralph W. Moss he Cancer Industry: The Classic Expose on the Cancer Establishment, Equinox Press, January 1996, ISBN 1881025098, ISBN 978-1881025092
- Samantha King, Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy (University of Minnesota Press, 2008).
