I truly believe that we have cured cancer what the hell is the deal! We have the cure why can we use it?

Question

We spend mass dollars on treatments that treat. People survive cancer thet dont get cured. Why wont they release the information i have read about it in canada they cured cancer at the microbal level in a lab. We have some evidince that cayenne peppers shrink tumors because of the chemical compounds they contain. Even tough some research is going on it just gets called promising new findings. Its like when billions of dollars is at stake no amount of human life matters unless its an epidimec or an outbrak that can spread quickly.
It's a shame cancer is a slow disease the needs treatment.
This treatment makes medical companys billions why the hell would they change to a drug that could kill the tumor and cure cancer when they have chemo?

I have researched cancer my mom has it i know lung cancer is different than breast cancer. We have specific drugs that treat each different cancer. MY mom has breast cancer and take tamaxofin it blocks estrogen yet the real cause of the cancer is not estrogen its cancer. The cancer uses estrogen estrogen does not cause the cancer. So blocking estrogen slows sown/treats the cancer it does not shrink or kill the cancer that uses estrogen to travel and spread within the body!

Answer 1

Right. I nearly forgot, during the final year of medical school, we had a class called "How to Cure Diseases We Don't Want the Public to Know About". We learned how to cure cancer, HIV, halitosis, and micropenis.

Since you seem like a nice guy, I'll let you in on a little secret: the cure for cancer is not & never will be cayenne peppers.

Answer 2

I get upset when I read questions like this, so here's my response.
I'm a PhD student and my project is working on basic research relating to bladder cancer. I'm spending the best years of my life (i'm 25) on low pay, long hours and very little thanks working in the lab. Why? because I want to help. I truly believe there is no cure all for cancer, because as pointed out already, cancer is an umbrella term for many different diseases. All those "evil" people working in drug companies are people like me....yeah, of course there are a few bad apples, but I can tell you, if I could figure out how to cure cancer, I would prefer to leave that as a legacy to the world rather than a few euros. Honestly, the people who actually WORK in science are not in it for the money.

Answer 3

There is no conspiracy to hide a miraculous cancer cure. Cancer is many different diseases, not just one; no single treatment is effective for all of them so there will never be a single cure for all of them.

If there was a secret cure:

*the person/people who discovered it would be keeping quiet despite the fact that it would bring them fame and fortune

*the thousands of people who had been cured by it in order to prove it worked would be keeping quiet about it because ...er...why?

*doctors, scientist, researchers etc would be watching their relatives die (they and their families develop cancer at the same rate as the rest of the population) even though they knew of a cure

*every single medical professional in the whole world would agree to keep the secret. Likely?

In my experience 'Is there a conspiracy to cover up a cancer cure?' is a game played by people who have never had or studied cancer, or had family affected by it.

If you want thorough, considered and sensible answers to your question please follow these links
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/conspiracy.html

http://health.discovery.com/centers/cancer/top10myths/myth9.html
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are not perfect, far from it, but we know, because they have been clinically tested and proven, that they save some lives and extend many others. Cancer treatments are improving all the time thanks to dedicated hard work by those professionals you accuse of concealing a cure.

Answer 4

It is hard to determine if the treatment is a cure or not bc the cancer can lay dormant for years undetected and relapse at any time.

Stem cell transplants are a possible cure for leukemias and lymphomas. And the treatment is being used - I just got done with my transplant and am currently 'cancer free'.

Plus what happens in a lab on the rats or even on human cells does not mean it will work once tested on humans.

Answer 5

I don't believe there is a cure for all cancer. They have come close with identifying what works and they continue to do research to find a cure. If they did find a cure, someone would let the cat out of the bag. They couldn't keep it that quiet. Besides, the one who found the cure would be screaming it to the world.

Answer 6

I understand your anger, but it is not justified. You are confusing money with cure . . you are saying that we have spent so much money on finding a cure and we havn't gotten a total cure for over 200 cancer disease yet. It's really not about the money . . that is the public thinking that everything revolves around money.

If you step back for a few seconds and think about it . . the overwhelming amount of money for research into cancer goes to four common cancers (breast, lung, colon, leukemia) . . that leaves about 196 cancers underfunded and underresearched. Cancer is actually underfunded . . the amount of money raised by charitable organizations needs to raised EVERY year in order to meet the research demands of 200 different types of cancer. The majority of that raised money is hardly enough to fund breast cancer research and that is the one with the most progress. The government funds the majority of cancer research and that funding has been cut on a yearly basis. There is not enough money available for cancer research . . safe cancer research that is.

People also forget that a 'cure' is not going to be found in a laboratory petri dish treating mice . . it will be found using real live human subjects. Every drug that we have now was tested on humans . . through trial and error because no one knows if it will work or not unless it is tried. Testing and research for hundreds of drugs and effective treatments for 196 different types of cancer. Just who do you think must test all these drugs? Would you let your mother be experimented on to see if the drugs worked or not? That's the hold up . . human subjects to test all the drugs. And, what if the drug that was once promising on lab rats . . fails in humans . . you must start all over again, in the meantime the cancer is progressing.

Finding a cure has little to do with money . . it has more to do with logistics and finding people willing to sacrifice their lives in order to find effective treatment for all people with that one cancer. Clinical Trials are very specific and must follow strict protocol in order to protect the safety and dignity of the patient.

People who rant about the drug companies do not generally have cancer or have an understanding of this monster. Drugs cost money . . for research . . and research involves the real lives of extremely sick people . . do we hurry them along using trial and error . . or do we proceed with caution in the hopes of discovering exactly what the drug will do to the human body and the cancer . . these powerful untested drugs have the potential to kill these ill people during the testing process . . but they also offer the promise of slowing the progression of disease, remission, and cure.

One such trial occured just a few years ago when patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia were placed on a Clincial Trial for imatinib mesilate. The response was dramatic for most of these patients. The same drug also proved effective treating a rare cancer called Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor . . again dramatic results. You can look all these facts up about this drug on PubMed. Imatinib is the first of a whole new line of treatment for many different types of cancers. It is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor that works by blocking an abnormal enzyme found on these specific types of tumor cells. It does not work for everyone and thus a whole new wave of drugs using the same principle is being examined for all types of cancers.

Where this might be of benefit to your mother is the fact that research is leaning more and more towards controlling cancer and finding a way to block the development of the tumors in the first place. They are looking for a treatment that will stop the progression of disease and prevent the growing of new metastasis. Treatment would be medication taken daily, much the same way that diabetics use insulin to control their disease. My son is currently on such a treatment and doing well. There are no side effects associated with the experimental drug he is on. We understand there is no guarantee, but so far, so good.

Remember there is no cure for many other diseases besides cancer. And, despite thousands of years there is still no cure for the common cold.

Answer 7

You should also read the fine-print. Even if they find a new method of curing cancer, it won't work on everybody, nor will it work on every type of cancer. Any cure, old or new, is far from being 100% sure to cure.

Answer 8

chemo is a treatment not a cure. what sucks is that cancer medications are either in it for the profit or to fight cancer...nano-bots will cost millions but think about it, soo many scientists world-wide are working on it...if someone found a cure-all there would be no way to cover it up...unless there's a cover up...but cancer itself is actually 180 different diseases...with a wide range of symptoms

Answer 9

I don't quite follow, cayenne pepper. You mean to tell me that I could have had cayenne pepper rubbed on my moles and I wouldn't have had to get two malignant melanomas cut out.

Afeasfa I'm with you there are a lot of different types of cancer all requiring different treatment.
In my own experience early detection is key!!

Answer 10

You're right. I have read about it too. I am about to lose a good friend next door because she has it in 3 different places. Its more profitable for pharmaceutical companies and hospitals to keep giving cancer patients chemo and radiation because they have to keep coming back. If they gave cancer cures to everyone who has it then it would ony be profitable one time only. If they got cured, then there goes all the surplus profits from repeated treatments. The medical professional cares very little about pain and suffering they only care about money.
Hope I helped