Do you really think there isn't constant ongoing research to make cancer therapies more effective and less invasive?
The problem is that people nowadays rather eat apricot seeds than trust their doctor.
While researching this, I encountered countless studies about alternatives to chemotherapy and radiation. It's likely that I'll do cancer research myself at one point in the future, because it's very likely I'll get cancer myself.
It's very likely for all of us.
My mom went though chemo for Hodgkin Lymphoma and she suffered considerably. But she survived and is well now. If she had relied on the "cures" many people proposed under my last post, she'd be long dead.
The problem is that all this fear and mistrust towards the pharma industry leads to people who die of curable or at least treatable diseases.
I 100 percent agree with you, though I do mistrust the pharma industry and the poor education standards of doctors. You'd be lucky if you doctor knew anything about how food effects one's health let alone emerging compounds found in appreciable quantities in food. Go ask an esteemed doctor about polyamines and they'll look at you crosseyed. If someone has high cholesterol yet low endogenous synthesis of neurohormones, a doctor will prescribe you a drug that lowers blood cholesterol yet futher limits your production of neurohormones. Oh your hormone levels are messed up now? Let's just slap you with some testosterone cream that further messes up your bodies natural hormone balance. You'd be lucky if they even gave you crysin to block aromatase. Or coq10 with statins. If you have issues with your bone health, a doctor will prescribe you a drug that increases your risk of bone fractures. It's not like big pharma is telling doctors to recommend their patients vitamin k2 instead of phosamax...
The list is endless, whens the last time you heard of histamine for arthritis or niacin for anxiety? Of niacin and folate and tyrosine for depression? Doctors don't treat patients for chronic diseases, they pump you full of pharmacueticals that eventually lead to more problems. Don't get me wrong, without a proper diet your better off taking the pharmaceuticals than doing nothing at all. But that's a really low bar
I already told you what I really think. The amount of money and research behind cheaper therapies is tiny compared to the big three and it is obvious why that is. Ask yourself why people find it difficult to trust their doctors. Is it because of they are sane? Trust has been eroded in all the central pillars of western civilisation, why? Because of blatant, obvious, massive corruption. I don't like it any more than you do but to imply that people who have lost trust and are searching for alternatives are anything other than sensible is unhelpful and ignorant.
I'm so very very happy that your mum recovered from cancer. It is an absolute joy. Though I don't believe anyone could tell you what would have happened if she had taken another path. It's possible she got better in spite of her treatment, not because of it.
All I'm saying is that mistrust of an untrustworthy system is entirely rational. I hope, one day, a community like Steem's will be able to crowdfund and share cancer therapies that work and are very cheap to produce. Instead of ignoring the problem of corruption in the medical industry, let's acknowledge it, acknowledge the rational reaction of people and pursue something better. It is every person's individual choice to learn what they can and make choices for themselves.....especially where interventions are concerned.
Is it possible to acknowledge the corruption and acknowledge that natural remedies are not working? Because things are rarely black and white.
I hope for such a thing too, In the mean time I pray that monsanto, pharmacuetical companies, and other chemical manufacturers refrain from further altering our food supply and our bodies enzymology. Give me seeds back in my watermelons while we're at it