Do you beleive the cure for cancer in being kept hidden?

Question

They say the cure for cancer is being kept hush-hush becuase all the big companies that make billions of dollars from cancer research would go out of buisness as people would simply take the cure vs spending thousands of dollars on treatment.

What do you think?

Answer 1

No. The idea that the 'cure' is being hidden is one of the top ten cancer myths. Think about it for a minute . . . of what magnitude would this 'secret' be? Since all people get cancer including researchers, doctors, and pharmacy company board members . . and their families . . why would they want to keep this quiet only to die or see their families die?


Discovery: Cancer Myth Number Nine
http://health.discovery.com/centers/cancer/top10myths/myth9.html

Answer 2

First, it is impossible to cure cancer. Cancer by its very nature is cell mutations and every single type is different. Two people with the exact same cancer can have very different disease. You would have to find a drug that would be able to defeat all the ways cancer can mutate. Every cancer acts and effects different cells, different body parts and replicates in its own special way. Finding a cure for every cancer is impossible.
Second, how exactly would they keep this secret? Researchers have family and friends, wives and kids, parents etc who die of cancer. Researchers themselves die of cancer. They wouldn't use it on themselves if it existed? People very rarely die for something when they can save themselves. if there was a cure, they wouldn't say anything? Are they all bought off? Every single researcher throughout the world? All these people are in on it? Who organizes this little conspiracy? The same ones who did the WTC? Hate to disappoint you, but there is not money being made on cancer research either. Drug companies lose money developing drugs. They only gain some of it back if the drug works and goes to market. Holding back a drug that works would be counter productive.
The money spent on treatment is also not coming from people secret bank accounts. It comes from gov't funds like medicaid and medicare. Health insurance companies spend billions on claims for cancer. I think they would have a vested interest if a cure was available.
Anyone who claims there is a cure for cancer being kept hush-hush is being silly.

Answer 3

Absolutely. Several books indicate cancer is caused by a Selenium deficiency and other nutrient deficiencies. You cannot find these minerals in regular foods, except Nutritional Yeast, Blackstrap Molasses, Brazil nuts, etc. (who eats these foods, anyway?). I don't believe in single mineral supplementation as this method is not taken up by the body well (it is considered synthetic to the body for the most part). Food is your best medicine, in my opinion. Anyway, I am referencing a book called "Rare Earths: Forbidden Cures by Joel D. Wallach, who has been not only a Veterinarian and cured cancer in animals, but also became an M.D. and got the same results. On page 463, he mentions cancer being the result of selenium, tin, zinc, gallium, vitamin E (all types) and beta carotene deficiencies. Anyway, excellent book to say the least. The other thing to look at in cancer is a toxic bowel. "As above, so below" goes the Chinese saying. If you have a toxic bowel, you will have toxicity in the body somewhere else. This is very true of cancer. Detoxify by cleansing the bowels, and get these rare minerals found in "Nutritional Yeast" or Blackstrap Molasses and you will see improvement. Anyway, just my spin on things as I see it. No expensive and possibly dangerous method here......

Answer 4

that's rediculous for so many reasons I won't mention them all just a few.

1) if there were a cure they'd be able to charge you more for it than the treatment so why not get a repeat customer by giving you the cure.... you can't continue to buy if you're dead.

2) Cancers vary and cancer treatments vary. They're caused by various things so there will be various treatments. If there ever is a cure for cancer it will probably vary across all different types of cancer.

3) There are so many scientists working collaborating doing research to find treatments, and all of the research is public, these scientists are really dedicated to their research and it wouldn't just be one guy who found a cure it'd be an entire group of people. Not only would these people instantly become rich by discovering a cure and exposing it to the world but they'd also become instant celebrities.

Basically you're retarded if you believe that.

Answer 5

i don't think there is necessarily a "cure" for cancer because cancer isn't really a disease, it is more of a problem that your body created, whereas a disease is easier to "cure" because it is usually something foreign that affects your body.

With that said, i do believe that there is a successful "treatment" for cancer that the government and the FDA is openly NOT supporting and this can be for many reasons:

one, this relates to what you said about the profit that the drug companies make: the "cure" or "treatment" may be something of natural descent--meaning it's not something that you can put a label on and make thousands of dollars from.
for example, some people say that cancer is rooted in one's mental health--so if you were stressed all the time it would be somewhat related to the way your cells develop and divide (since the cell cycle itself acts in an uniform, on-time style...so if you were extremely stressed, that could definitely make an impact)
some people believe that happiness and a stress-free life (with a healthy diet) can prevent or make cancer slowly fade away. (there is no support for these arguments..but it is one side of many theories out there)

this is controversial because when you find out that you have cancer, it gets you even more stressed which can aggravate cancer and make it more extreme. but some people can also argue that, cancer, when diagnosed, is usually in later stages in which a tumor is prominent enough to bring attention to the patient...

in addition to the mental health, others have argued that the way your cells divide is affected by an unhealthy diet (which is common in America where people are known and stereotyped to indulge in large amounts of tasty carcinogenic trans-fat-preservative-filled foods).

People have talked about the Master Cleanser, Vitamin-C therapy, aloe vera, mangosteen, essiac tea, promegranate juice, etc as POSSIBLE "cures" or "long-term treatment" to slow-down cancer-cell growth and finally perhaps ridding the body of these.

the FDA's problem with these "mental health 'treatment'" or the naturopathic way to a "cure" is that you can do this by yourself or by usage of nature's plants and herbs, which therefore means drug companies and capitalistic countries would not benefit much from this, if, in fact, that IS the treatment to cancer.
i mean, if you think about it, why would America spend so much money testing FOREIGN drugs (THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE FATAL) on humans (back when it was newly created) like Tamoxifen, or like injecting chemo into our blood stream in which long term effects were unknown (back then), when they could have tested out treatments with natural herbs/plants or meditation (that is NOT foreign and definitely not poisonous)?

a plausible answer is that it is like investing--how you ask? once you develop a drug that you know would kill some cancer cells but not necessarily FOREVER cure you ...that is NOT (at the moment) hazardous or fatal, , you have in your hands a temporary cure...and since its temporary, patients would need to continually buy the drug if they don't want to take the chance of getting cancer again. (i believe you are required to take Tamoxifen 5 years after chemo and radiation therapy has ended?)

and the second plausible reason, which relates to the other reason why the FDA and the government is not supporting or promoting naturopathic "cures" is because it is not something that people can supervise AND because these treatments will take a lot time (and supervision once again), and most people want quick relief of symptoms or else they will feel that it is not working. So, say the FDA promotes aloe vera as a treatment for cancer, what if that is a secret carcinogen that causes cancer cells to metastasize like crazy? It is wrong for the fda to recommend something that they are not completely knowledgable on and something that they have not done many tests on.
Also, by the FDA supporting naturopathic "cures", they are putting themselves in a position in which they can be blamed and flamed for killing a life, or for bad suggestion. By sticking to the routine treatment and drug, and seeing there HAS been some people who were cured, it is a safer for the FDA to suggest a treatment that is justifiable by an amount of people who were cured by it.

It is hard to take sides..you can be optimistic and believe that the government is just taking the safer road or you can be cynical and believe that they are immoral money-hungry beings and that the cancer drugs are all a scam to keep us unhealthy and make money from us while we're still alive.
In the end, who knows?

Answer 6

No, you can't keep something like that a secret. A cure would be of immense value anyway and make lots of money for the drug companies. Besides, even without cancer drugs (and those aren't the most profitable drugs anyway) they make a lot treating heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, digestive problems, depression and anxiety, colds, pain, etc.

Answer 7

the only big companies that do/ fund medical research are pharmeseutics compaines, so they only make money if treatments are found. that being said i say 'treatments' instead of cures, because if they cure everything they will go out of business - i don't think that means they are hiding a cure, but they would prefer to work on disease/disorders or whatever that are not cureable but 'manageable' like arthritis

Answer 8

What you talk my dear -

Billions and Billions of dollars of money are being spent by all the countries and several thousand people are suffering and dieing every year due to Cancer-

No one will do what you say. Of course the business people has their share of profit, but there are many philanthropic minded people they do not worry for profits and they do the service.

I think you have to kindly change your idea.

Answer 9

Cancer patients cost the healthcare system billions of dollars each year. The government wouldnt hide something that could save lives, and save them money.

Answer 10

It has been known for researchers to delay showing successful results to maintain their receiving funds, so I understand your question, but I do not think this is happening in cancer research.