2007-03-17 09:51:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Nope. but the poor people with cancer would die in droves because they couldn't afford the treatment, and they don't have insurance.
2007-03-17 09:55:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Last year, Americans shelled out 2.1 Trillion dollars for health care, and only 200 Billion was for cancer--but the lion's share of it was for the drugs for cancer treatment, so the people who would feel the bite if cancer were cured are the Big Pharma stooges, not the hospitals.
But, not to worry--there is so much drug money flowing in Washington that the cures that are being used effectively in the rest of the world don't stand a chance of being accepted here.
2007-03-21 00:27:01 · answer #2 · answered by Dorothy and Toto 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How would that happen? Have you ever been to a hospital where they treat cancer? Obviously not. My son is often an inpatient at the local children's hospital. There are only about 10 rooms for cancer pediatric patients, the rest of the hospital is for everyone else. Cancer patients generally are out patients and go to clinics anyway. The last 9 months my son had his treatment at home. So, hospitals would be fine if they cured cancer . . they would adapt. Hardly an issue to worry about. ;-D
2007-03-17 17:13:52 · answer #3 · answered by Panda 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.
2007-03-17 23:58:15 · answer #4 · answered by David M 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Of course not. There are MANY other illnesses and diseases than cancer, and just because there is a cure for something, doesn't mean the disease is eradicated, just that if someone contracts it, they can be cured. So there would still be cancer, and some people would not respond to treatment (as with treatments for just about any disease there is).
2007-03-17 17:00:03 · answer #5 · answered by . 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, there are still too many trauma victims, drug overdoses and other diseases and illnesses to keep them busy. Not to mention the new virulent strains of hospital acquired infections, like the on which killed my father. Cancer gets alot of headlines, and affects many people, but it is only one part of a hospital's clientele. I think heart disease is more common of a problem than cancer, and about as deadly.
2007-03-17 17:00:26 · answer #6 · answered by franstuff 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I worked in a hospital for 6 years and the majority of patients had heart related diseases, next would be orthopedics after that geriatrics, cancer patients were the smallest group in the building.
2007-03-17 20:41:42 · answer #7 · answered by livlafluv 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
nope. They would still make money from the medicine to cure it and there are many more illnesses out there to keep them in business and unfortunately something new is always coming around.
2007-03-18 02:10:06 · answer #8 · answered by talk2bobbie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO.
People go to hospitals for other things besides cancer.
2007-03-17 16:59:22 · answer #9 · answered by Tara662 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Thats so untrue there are many other things that hospitals take care of...like births of babies, that will never stop!
2007-03-17 17:28:42 · answer #10 · answered by shorty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋