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Originally posted by Quantum_Squirrel
4.from my position in the UK where the national health has to pay for these cures it would be more cost effective to cure conditions rather than providing heavily expensive medication to customers ( tax payers expense) for 10.20 or 30 years of thier life ? the former has to be cheaper.
Originally posted by Quantum_Squirrel
...2, They have cured plenty of diseases in the past eg small pox .
3...
The total bill for each treatment session at the cancer center is something north of $20,000. The annual cost of my cancer care is more than $300,000. That’s three hundred thousand dollars a year.
Almost $30,000 a month to keep me alive.
Here’s how the cost breaks down.
My bill from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (where I got my treatment until recently) for September 1, 2006—for three drugs, Herceptin, Avastin, and Zometa—was for $20,052.19.
The Assertive cancer patient
This year, about 156 people every hour will learn they have cancer, and by the end of 2004 scientists predict 563,700 people will have died from cancer in the United States, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. Evidence from the report shows that obesity and little exercise can cause as many as one-third of the United States’ cancer cases.
Source
Originally posted by Equinox99
Yes a medical breakthrough that you will not hear of in about 1-2 weeks. How will the hospitals make money if they found a cure for cancer?
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
So they are using the humans immune system to cure cancer huh?
Wow, you mean all we have to do is improve our immune system to get rid of cancer? ...