by Robert Ryan, B.Sc. "Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them." - Linus Pauling PhD (Two-time Nobel Prize winner).
Have you ever wondered why, despite the billions of dollars spent
on cancer research over many decades, and the constant promise
of a cure which is forever "just around the corner",
cancer continues to increase?
Once quite rare, cancer is now the second major cause of death
in Western countries such as Australia, the U.S.A. and the United
Kingdom. In the early 1940s cancer accounted for 12% of Australian
deaths. (1) By 1992 this figure had climbed to 25.9% of Australian
deaths. (2) The increasing trend of cancer deaths and incidence
is typical of most Western nations. It has been said that this
increase in cancer is just due to the fact that people now live
longer than their ancestors did, and that therefore the increase
of cancer is merely due to the fact that more people are living
to be older and thereby have a greater chance of contracting cancer.
However, this argument is disproved by the fact that cancer is
also increasing in younger age groups, as well as by the findings
of numerous population studies which have linked various life-style
factors of particular cultures to the particular forms of cancer
that are predominant there.
"My overall assessment is that the national cancer programme
must be judged a qualified failure" Dr. John Bailer, who
spent 20 years on the staff of the U.S. National Cancer Institute
and was editor of its journal. (3) Dr. Bailer also says: "The
five year survival statistics of the American Cancer Society are
very misleading. They now count things that are not cancer, and,
because we are able to diagnose at an earlier stage of the disease,
patients falsely appear to live longer. Our whole cancer research
in the past 20 years has been a total failure. More people over
30 are dying from cancer than ever before . . . More women with
mild or benign diseases are being included in statistics and reported
as being 'cured'. When government officials point to survival
figures and say they are winning the war against cancer they are
using those survival rates improperly."
A 1986 report in the New England Journal of Medicine assessed
progress against cancer in the United States during the years
1950 to 1982. Despite progress against some rare forms of cancer,
which account for 1 to 2 per cent of total deaths caused by the
disease, the report found that the overall death rate had increased
substantially since 1950: "The main conclusion we draw is
that some 35 years of intense effort focussed largely on improving
treatment must be judged a qualified failure." The report
further concluded that ". . . we are losing the war against
cancer" and argued for a shift in emphasis towards prevention
if there is to be substantial progress. (4)
According to the International Agency for Research in Cancer "...80-90
per cent of human cancer is determined environmentally and thus
theoretically avoidable." (5) Environmental causes of cancer
include lifestyle factors such as smoking, a diet high in animal
products and low in fresh fruit & vegetables, excessive exposure
to sunlight, food additives, alcohol, workplace hazards, pollution,
electromagnetic radiation, and even certain pharmaceutical drugs
and medical procedures. But unfortunately, as expressed by medical
historian Hans Ruesch, "Despite the general recognition that
85 per cent of all cancers is caused by environmental influences,
less than 10 per cent of the (U.S.) National Cancer Institute
budget is given to environmental causes. And despite the recognition
that the majority of environmental causes are linked to nutrition,
less than 1 per cent of the National Cancer Institute budget is
devoted to nutrition studies. And even that small amount had to
be forced on the Institute by a special amendment of the National
Cancer Act in 1974." (6)
According to Dr. Robert Sharpe, " . . . in our culture treating
disease is enormously profitable, preventing it is not. In 1985
the U.S., Western Europe and Japanese market in cancer therapies
was estimated at over 3.2 billion pounds with the 'market' showing
a steady annual rise of 10 per cent over the past five years.
Preventing the disease benefits no one except the patient. Just
as the drug industry thrives on the 'pill for every ill' mentality,
so many of the leading medical charities are financially sustained
by the dream of a miracle cure, just around the corner."
(7)
In fact, some analysts consider that the cancer industry is sustained
by a policy of deliberately facing in the wrong direction. For
instance, in the late 1970s, after studying the policies, activities,
and assets of the major U.S. cancer institutions, the investigative
reporters Robert Houston and Gary Null concluded that these institutions
had become self-perpetuating organisations whose survival depended
on the state of no cure. They wrote, "a solution to cancer
would mean the termination of research programs, the obsolescence
of skills, the end of dreams of personal glory, triumph over cancer
would dry up contributions to self-perpetuating charities and
cut off funding from Congress, it would mortally threaten the
present clinical establishments by rendering obsolete the expensive
surgical, radiological and chemotherapeutic treatments in which
so much money, training and equipment is invested. Such fear,
however unconscious, may result in resistance and hostility to
alternative approaches in proportion as they are therapeutically
promising. The new therapy must be disbelieved, denied, discouraged
and disallowed at all costs, regardless of actual testing results,
and preferably without any testing at all. As we shall see, this
pattern has in actuality occurred repeatedly, and almost consistently."
(8) Indeed, many people around the world consider that they have
been cured by therapies which were 'blacklisted' by the major
cancer organisations.
Does this mean that ALL of the people who work in the cancer research
industry are consciously part of a conspiracy to hold back a cure
for cancer? Author G.Edward Griffin explains ". . . let's
face it, these people die from cancer like everybody else. . .
[I]t's obvious that these people are not consciously holding back
a control for cancer. It does mean, however, that the [pharmaceutical-chemical]
cartel's medical monopoly has created a climate of bias in our
educational system, in which scientific truth often is sacrificed
to vested interests . . . [I]f the money is coming from drug companies,
or indirectly from drug companies, the impetus is in the direction
of drug research. That doesn't mean somebody blew the whistle
and said "hey, don't research nutrition!" It just means
that nobody is financing nutrition research. So it is a bias where
scientific truth often is obscured by vested interest." (9)
This point is similarly expressed by Dr. Sydney Singer: "Researchers
are like prostitutes. They work for grant money. If there is no
money for the projects they are personally interested in, they
go where there is money. Their incomes come directly from their
grants, not from the universities. And they want to please the
granting source to get more grants in the future. Their careers
depend on it." (10)
A large portion of money donated to cancer research by the public
is spent on animal research which has, since its inception, been
widely condemned as a waste of time and resources. For instance,
consider the 1981 Congressional Testimony by Dr. Irwin Bross,
former director of the Sloan-Kettering, the largest cancer research
institute in the world, and then Director of Biostatistics at
Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research, Bufallo,
NY: "The uselessness of most of the animal model studies
is less well known. For example, the discovery of chemotherapeutic
agents for the treatment of human cancer is widely-heralded as
a triumph due to use of animal model systems. However, here again,
these exaggerated claims are coming from or are endorsed by the
same people who get the federal dollars for animal research. There
is little, if any, factual evidence that would support these claims.
Indeed, while conflicting animal results have often delayed and
hampered advances in the war on cancer, they have never produced
a single substantial advance either in the prevention or treatment
of human cancer. For instance, practically all of the chemotherapeutic
agents which are of value in the treatment of human cancer were
found in a clinical context rather than in animal studies."
(11)
In fact, many substances which cause cancer in humans are marketed
as "safe" on the basis of animal tests. As expressed
by Dr. Werner Hartinger of Germany, in regard to cancer-causing
products of the pharmaceutical-petro-chemical industry, "Their
constant consumption is legalised on the basis of misleading animal
experiments . . . which seduce the consumer into a false sense
of security." (12)
The next time you are asked to donate to a cancer organisation,
bear in mind that your money will be used to sustain an industry
which has been deemed by many eminent scientists as a qualified
failure and by others, as a complete fraud. If you would like
to make a difference, inform these organisations that you won't
donate to them until they change their approach to one which is
focussed on prevention and study of the human condition. We have
the power to change things by making their present approach unprofitable.
It is only through our charitable donations and taxes that these
institutions survive on their present unproductive path.
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