Many have speculated that the government has had these cures for years and simply don't share this vital information. Some call them the worlds biggest drug dealers because if there is no cure we continue to buy medicine that only prolongs the inevitable.
I'm curious what the publics concensus is. Of course there is a cure, for HIV infection at least. But, it's more profitable for pharmaceutical companies to sell medications/drugs to people.
Think about it, modern humans have been on this planet for tens of thousands of years. Think about all of the serious illnesses and viral infections that have infected the human species throughout history. Did any of those things wipe us out? We're still here. I'm sure that there are natural ways of "curing" certain conditions that the government doesn't want people to know about. I am not sure if I believe there is an exisitng cure, but I do think a cure is definitly possible but its not going to happen because the money is in the treatment not the cure. I believe in natural cures and the power of God. With the way this country is going, it wouldn't shock me to find out that the government has a cure hidden.
However, I just think that science hasn't figured out a cure just yet. I definitely think it's out there somewhere. I just think it'll take a while to figure it out. It's a matter of theorizing and constantly conducting studies to develop some kind of cures for these diseases. I just need to know this
Do you know what cancer and AIDS are?
as far as what the disease does to the body and how it works, etc?
If you knew this, then you would know that
No there is no cure
and maybe one day we will have one
I don't know but the government pays for most of the people that are sick and the ones getting rich are drug corporations, if anyone
and with good reason
It costs so much money for research, I don't know if you have any idea how I really believe there is a cure for these diseases people have to live with or conquer. It's a really sad world we live in and for the most part, what the government is capable of doing and getting away with. First, our current tests today simply cant detect the single cancer cell. You cant label something a cure if you have no way of proving the patient is cured, which they clearly are not if there are still cancer cells present. We dont even completly understand most of the cancers or what causes them. How do you cure something you dont understand?
Second, they wont loose money with a cure, they will make more than they could ever hope to make now.
Think about a couple things.
How many people would they have had to treat to determine it was a cure? How many people would be keeping their mouths shut? By occums razor, that itsnt likely. People talk.
Second, any idea how much the current possible cures cost compared to reg chemo and rad? I have leukemia. I went through 6 rounds of chemo over 10 months the first time, spent the majority of the 10 months admitted. Then after I was done with chemo, I had to still see the docs, first weekly, then monthly for blood tests and biopsies and other such post treatment care. I relapsed a year ago. Went through 2 rounds of treatment, 2.5 weeks in critical care in ICU (that 2.5 weeks alone cost more than anyone on this board makes in a single year).
I then went through stem cell transplant this past summer, which is the possible most likely cure for leukemias, lymphoma, and possibly every single autoimmune disease or disorder we know abuot.
The unit of blood that contained the stem cells alone, cost more than the rest of my combined medical treatment over the previous 2.5 years, and thats not counting the mandatory 6 week hosp stay in a critical care unit, the chemo, radiation, other blood transfusions, all the meds, and the extensive post treatment care (my monthly meds total about 5000 per month). All of this btw, has been paid for by the American working public.
Now, based on that info, are they gonna make or loose money there when the transplant can be labeled a cure (which it cant be, bc bone marrow biopsies can only detect the leukemia when there are more than 3% blast cells I believe. And by the time it shows up on blood work, your marrow is entirely blast cells.)
We wont be donating as much to research, but rather to agencies who help the patients who are in the 99% of the worlds population that cant afford the treatment get it. Insurance wont cover it, because no one would pay the premiums at the level they would have to raise it to. Medicaid and Medicare wont cover it bc the American working public wont give up the tax money that would require. More money would be spent on awareness.
No one is going to loose money off a cancer cure, I promise
I would like to add some insight as to why cancer treatment does cost so much. The treatments spend 10-20 years in the lab before they ever even reach clinical trials. Then another 10 years or so in trials. Some treatments make it to the end of clinical trials, then something comes up that proves it to not work or not be practicle or something like that. They have to recoup the money in some way so that they can continue to research No there isn鈥檛.
Cancer is hundreds of diseases, not just one. Different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them, and different cancers respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them all. There will never be a magic bullet that cures all cancer
And some cancers can already be cured Seven out of ten children are cured of cancer. Testicular cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery, and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer of the larynx are cured with radiotherapy.
Many other types of cancer are also cured if they are found early enough. Yes, there is still a long way to go, especially with some of the commonest types of cancer such as lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancer, and there is much research and dedicated hard work going on in all types of cancer to try and find cures..
There is no hidden cancer cure, no conspiracy to hide a cancer cure from us to maximise profits as you suggest. The conspiracy theory is an urban myth, a sort of game played by those who have not had cancer or close experience of it.
Just think about it for a moment - if there were such a conspiracy drug companies would be keeping quiet about the cure even though it would bring them fame and fortune. Any drug company discovering a cure would make far more money than they can have dreamed of making up till now.
And doctors, scientists, researchers etc would be watching their relatives die and dying themselves (they and their families develop cancer at the same rate as the rest of the population) rather than co-operate to find a cure or revealing the existing secret cure
And in order to prove that any secret, hidden cure worked, thousands of people would have to have been cured by it. They鈥檇 all be keeping quiet too 鈥?not a word to the media from any of them either. Wouldn鈥檛 you be shouting it from the rooftops if it were you?
Most unlikely of all, every medical professional in the whole world would have agreed to keep existence of a cure secret. Every single one. One blabbermouth, one disgruntled researcher or sacked nurse and the whole conspiracy鈥檚 blown. Newspapers and other media wouldn't have got a sniff of it. Likely?
Existing treatments aren't perfect - very far from it. One day people will look back on them with horror, much the way we look back on blood-letting now.. But they are all we have at the moment, and we know, because they have been tested and proven in double-blind clinical trials, that they save many lives and prolong many, many more..
Treatments will continue to improve and cures will be found. There is no one "cure" for cancer, just as there will be no one antibiotic to cure all infections.
However, there seem to be an inordinate number here who don't seem to recognize that many people are cured of cancer. All cancer is not fatal. Used to be every one with testicular cancer died, now ~99% don't. So progress is being and will be made.
Please don't be paranoid or conspiratorial. If I had a nickel for every time someone mentioned the old "too much money in the treatment" line, I would be rich. I take a little offense to it at times, as an oncologist; if anyone thinks I would withhold life-saving therapy from a patient for monetary reasons then be willing to watch them suffer so with this terrible disease, that is plain sick.
Trust me, if there was a cure out there, the capitalistic principle would still apply--whoever had the cure would make so much money there is no way one would be able to stop a company from developing it (don't worry about the government, they are not the drug developers here, big pharmaceutical companies are). Plus, this "cure" would help those with cancer, not prevent it from arising, so there would continue to be new $$ to be made (for you cynics out there). if there was a cure for cancer than tobacco companies would know about it and have it out to keep their smokers and chewers alive |
