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Originally posted by lisa2012
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
Ive seen ton and tons of posts now in this thread where people are claiming that the pharmaceutical companies dont want there to be a cure because they will lose out on money. This just doesn't seem all that logical to me.
For a start they would be able to charge a hell of a lot for any effective treatment, also if someone did have their cancer cured then they will still be dying of something else at a later date. Whatever they eventually die from will probably require treatment and drugs of one kind . So the pharmaceutical companies are still going to make their money one way or another.
edit on 5-4-2013 by PhoenixOD because: (no reason given)
Hi Phoenix,
In a way i disagree because I work in the pharma industry and I can tell you that only in the chemo therapy part of the pharma they are cashing huge amounts of money. A cure will virtually eliminate this process. This process is a huge money making scheme.
Of course recently it is proven that the rate of success for chemo therapy is not that high and the risks are so great so in the near future they will try and do away with this. But like everything else I think it takes time.
A cure is bound to come on the market at one point. The problem is it should have been here already long ago. With all the science and research behind it is no reason that we do not have a cure yet. I think it was stalled or it is postponed. I absolutely find this disease very inhumane and I hope that in the near future will look back and ponder as to why we did not have a cure faster. So many people are dying because of this CANCER and even if the statistics do not reflect it I believe it to be the Disease of the Century ....
Originally posted by Gazrok
reply to post by rickymouse
Your new avatar looks cranky, maybe you need a little vacation.
Lord Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones. I tend to pick TV or movie characters I can relate to for avatars, and commonly of a show I'm currently invested in.
Back on topic though, the potential for this is kind of mind-boggling, though I have to wonder how they haven't thought of this line of approach before. I wonder if the company can be invested in?
Originally posted by Blazer
Yet another in an extremely long line of cures, free energy devices, etc that will change the world and yet are swept under the rug and never heard from again.
Isn't it interesting how everyone one of these stories, there is zero follow-up. This miracle treatment will never be developed, and months and even years from now the very people excited about it today (including yourself) will not ask anyone else "hey what happened to that miracle cure"? Very soon you won't care, or you will be distracted by the next big thing which will also never come to fruition.
Originally posted by the_philth
Consider this scientist dead within a few weeks ---- probably in a weird jogging accident or reports that he died in his sleep... you know... died of natural causes!
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
This is why I HATE all the pink ribbon BS and all these "fund raisers" for cancer. How many years now have people been donating and throwing money at the cancer societies? How much actual, tangible progress has been made?
It seems to me these organizations are nothing more than places for rich people to get tax write-offs.
Originally posted by 0bserver1
Great I'm happy , only one thing they wont sell it to us.....I think they already have the cure to cancer for maybe years now.. Why cure diseases if you can earn money on the infected...?
Originally posted by Blazer
Yet another in an extremely long line of cures, free energy devices, etc that will change the world and yet are swept under the rug and never heard from again.
Isn't it interesting how everyone one of these stories, there is zero follow-up. This miracle treatment will never be developed, and months and even years from now the very people excited about it today (including yourself) will not ask anyone else "hey what happened to that miracle cure"? Very soon you won't care, or you will be distracted by the next big thing which will also never come to fruition.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Hmm...
Very exciting.... but cancer chemistry research happens to be one of my personal 'hobbies', and I don't believe in silver-bullet one size fits all total chemical solutions to complexly diverse biological organisms inside of biological super-entities (humans) [biology being the highest order of chemistry]. The foundation of my perspective was built from months of day & night scouring www.pubmed.gov... (highly recommended), from reading the scholarly cancer research papers. It took me a couple weeks to get a good grasp on the language of the domain, but once I got it down it all became very elementary clear to me.
First, cancer 'killing' is 2 prong: There are 'choking mechanisms' (cutting off the food supply), and 'killing mechanisms' (inducing apoptosis being a key goal, but not quite a mechanism in of itself).
Next, there are hundreds of different 'types' of cancer. It isn't just 'brain cancer' or 'lung cancer', genetically (consider these 'species'). From there each type has numerous different 'cell lines' (sub-species) associated with them [over 36,000 different cell lines in one database alone], where in any given case these proginies may or may not be part of the lesion/tumor (collective organism of said cancer type and its lot of cell lines).
Now here's the kicker: While choking mechanisms tend to be rather universal (diabetes principles a good framework to follow), each cell line has different killing mechanisms. From there the killing mechanism for one cancer type or its various cell lines can actually empower others (perhaps within the very same 'organism'). To make matters worse, each has several different mechanism associated with it, that a full spectrum approach would entail about 5 or so different mechanisms and related pathway signals. Like a complex 3D puzzle where each piece that snaps into the main board has several pieces that attach to them to complete this puzzle, puzzle being the entire cancer killing effort, case by case, potentially 7 billion different puzzles on earth.
This is the same reason Big Pharm's approach stinks: Their lack of diversity in chem options has them vastly overkill dosing people with single chems where a complex array of chem's is needed. It's like waging a scorched earth military campaign on a small island that instead needed to have good crops planted. This is why 48% of all people diagnosed with cancer die within a couple years. That figure includes stage 1 & 2. What this means is Big Pharm's chems aren't necessarily 'bad', except they're being used entirely in the wrong way. They're dictating one size fits all shock & awe approaches to complex problems inside vastly diverse and complex human bodies. Compare to trying to FORCE everyone on earth to adopt the exact same religion + core religion-like political philosophies. Good luck with that.
I'm going to make big all-new thread about these challenges, as part of my overhaul of my old piece: "Cancer is DEAD: Cancer 'killers' from A to Z".edit on 5-4-2013 by IgnoranceIsntBlisss because: (no reason given)