What would you do if you had the cure for cancer?
What if you came up with a product that cures one of the most widespread diseases in the world (effective in all cases, legal, non-toxic, no side-effects... other than curing cancer)?
It's time to take the whatifyouhadthecure challenge, and pretend quite seriously that you have indeed discovered the cure for cancer.
What will you do?
Where will you go? Who will you tell?
You think it will be easy, right? "It works," you say, "so people all over the world will take notice, investors will come flocking, the product will go to market immediately and everyone will be cured!" Right? Right?
Wrong.
But don't take our word for it. Try it yourself. Seriously, try it.
We tend to trust the world to magically produce useful stuff. Nevermind if the people who come up with these things are normal people like you and me, who don't have every resource at their fingertips, let alone lots of money and a maybe the help of a public relations firm. Nevermind the fact that there are countless "cures" out there (some fake, some half-real, some real), their websites flooding the Internet, and that everyone in the world has been so numbed to the term "the cure for cancer" that they roll their eyes at the mere thought.
Yet, yours works. Without any adverse side-effects. And it works on all cancers. The product itself did not appear overnight, in fact, it took years to actually formulate. And it's expensive to make. But besides that, it works.
Have you called up a friend yet?
First you start with the obvious places, the cancer research organizations, the American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, Livestrong Global Cancer Initiative, Katie Couric's NCCRA, the American Association for Cancer Research. But they tell you they're not interested in the cure, they're interested in research. Get it? They don't want the cure. None of them does. If you don't believe it, give them a call yourself.
Close friends believe you, because they know you're not crazy, but that's as far as it goes. Friends of friends don't believe you. Acquaintances don't believe you. You have photos, stories, but nobody believes you. Some of them say that if it were really real, it would have received national attention immediately. And since it hasn't, it isn't real.
You call up a few journalists. They don't believe you.
You call bigger news organizations. They don't believe you. Not interested.
In the meantime (meaning years later), you've treated hundreds of people with all sorts of different cancers. Skin cancer, primarily, but also breast cancer, brain cancer. You've watched tumors break up and, over a period of weeks, sometimes months, literally fall out of people's skin. They visit their physicians and are declared cancer-free. They are cured.
Still, the product is not on the market.
We aren't saying we have the cure. We aren't saying we don't have the cure, either. We're just posing a hypothetical question, which is, what would you do if you had the cure for cancer?
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Answer to your hypothetical question: We would be frustrated.
We agree with the concerns expressed in your posting thought-thread.
Virtually everything written in your post concurs with our experience and findings - in writing, with dates and names and phone numbers of humans, of individuals "in charge" of these entities; documented, and defendable. Facts.
Since 1972, the U.S. has allocated and spent over $250 Billion dollars to fund agencies with the hope and intention of finding a-cure for cancer, the-cure for cancer. Fact. And while some "advancements" have been made, to date, no remarkable cure has come from these entities. $250 Billion dollars spent, with virtually no return on the investment, no ROI, no potent cure. Fact.
We could complain that NIH receives over $30 Billion in funding in 2008 or that NSF receives over $8 Billion or that Livestrong has $80 Million in revenues or NCCRA or AACR or a dozen more research, humanitarian, 501(c)3, non-profit, or government agency, or government corporation, etc. have been funded to pursue a cure, but we won't.
We could call the heads of the recent TV and Non-Profit entities that are promoting the search for a cure for cancer, but they have very pre-defined agendas and missions, hence engaging them is fruitless. (Yes, we tried. No, they did not respond. No, Katie C didn't answer, nor did Bill G, nor did Warren B, nor Steve C, .... nor 100 others. But then everyone knows, they make themselves unreachable.)
We live in a highly litigious World today. A World so driven to filing suits at the drop of a statement, no matter how factual, how documented, how true and valid and indisputable, that to provide specific names and titles and position responsibilities would unleash decades of courtroom hours and millions of dollars. But, know, we could. There is not much use taking on that battle. There are tens of thousand of people employed in those entities and they will fight, to the death, to keep their jobs and paychecks and careers in good stead. And you might ask: Even if there is a positively stunning cure that exists external to their entity? Yes.
Is that a revolting condition? A surprising one? No. It's human nature.
Every day 1,500 U.S. Citizens die of cancer. In 2008, over 9,000,000 individuals have cancer. Worldwide, far far more.
If 4,500 Americans died in 9-11, we essentially repeat that horrific event every three days, in cancer deaths. A reasonable person may therefore conclude that finding a cure for cancer has a significant priority. Yet, there is much evidence to the contrary.
There is an extremely powerful negative mindset associated with a remarkable cure for cancer. A stunning level of "disbelief", of "cynicism". The last 35 years of hard pressing to find the cure has only led to a deeper, even more cynical disbelief in some. Or in many.
After decades of Crying Wolf by those who have hinted they may be on the verge of a cure, the public, researchers, those in command of the institutions responsible for vetting and validating and "regulating" the cure, have moved near to the point of total deafness when any such declaration is vocalized. Fact? Yes. Evidence? Yes. Defendable? Yes.
Have those at the top, those in command of these institutions been contacted or notified that a remarkable cure exists? Yes. In writing? Yes. With dates, names, and phone numbers and titles? Yes.
What has the response been? Silence. Non-responsiveness. Shunning. Rejection. Declarations of: "Not my job" "We need to research it ourselves." "We don't deal with cures, only pure research." "We do two things, one is research and two is helping people die." And so on.
The systems in the medical research community are so tight, so process-driven, so "fraternity club-centric" that only the elite, special-class are allowed to discover, to be recognized, or to be responded to by the powers-that-be.
In defense of these institutions, they state these regulations are imperative, in order to protect the public, the nation, and the individual against the charlatan, the snake-oil salesman, and the con-artist that might promote a false cure for monetary or similar gains. And some of those protections are good and appropriate and welcomed.
But what of the legitimate researcher that truly has discovered a remarkable and highly effective cure for cancer? What happens to him? What happens to his discovery? Answer: It is impeded, blocked, buried, ignored, and is never recognized or brought to light and to market.
A known example of frustration is probably well exemplified by the individuals working on the DCA product in Canada. They all too likely know of the extraordinary barriers that exist - the shunning and rejection they've surely faced. It is interesting to look at their difficulties and DCA product. To see the parallel impediments they've faced. (They have a different product from a different discovery effort.)
But back to the legitimate researcher, the remarkble mad-sciencist: What if he has treated 1,000 people and all 1,000 have been fully cured? Is that of interest or importance or relevance? How about 1,000 animals with cancer and all 1,000 cured? Is that of signficance?
Put your "buyers" hat on for a moment. Put your "survivors" hat on instead if you wish. Which would you prefer to have?:
1. A fully certified FDA approved, government blessed, 10 year trialed, $5 Billion dollar cancer treatment product that has a 5% efficacy ... and a 95% mortality rate
or
2. A newly discovered, we need support, we need agency fast-tracking, we need special handling and approvals cancer treatment product that has a 99.9+% efficacy where 1,000 out of 1,000 treatments have been fully successful?
The answer is clear: You, as a nation have chosen product #1. You have chosen #1 or at least those you've voted for have ensured #1 is the product you will be able to access.
If #1 pleases you, you have your wish. If you like #1 very much, I would enjoy seeing your post to that effect.
If by chance #2 is your preference, then you may join the high-frustrated club. Your agencies and your nation have chosen against you. They prefer #1. If you strangely prefer #2, we would enjoy seeing your post and explanation as to why.
I will put a caveat here: There is evidence that a division of the NCI may, and we repeat may, have the ability and willingness to consider an independently discovered, highly effective cancer treatment. Until they act, we will not know if this is a genuine capacity they possess or if it will simply fizzle into bureaucratic oblivion. Time will tell.
To return to your single question: If "...what would you do if you had the cure for cancer?"
- We would be extremely frustrated.
- We would lose sleep.
- We would realize that every day we fail, 1,500 more citizens die, unnecessarily.
- We would feel very alone in our efforts to vet the cure in-hand and ensure it was moved to market to save lives as quickly as possible.
- We would engage over 200 major U.S. investment and medical / research institutions, only to be rejected by virtually all of them. To be rejected often due to deal-breaking greed on their part or from not-invented-here syndrome or due to the intense egos of a number of high-end researchers or due to simple bureaucratic incompetencies, where the organizations are so unable to digest anything new, novel, or remarkable, they are incapable of ingesting or handling ANYTHING externally created.
[For those of you who think "money" or think "capitalistically" this business condition is really quite simple:
The est'd cancer market is about $500B. So if "someone else" discovers the cure for cancer, it is going to make a lot of "competitive" research firms and agencies very very very unhappy. It is just possible, they may be a tiny bit upset if "they" are not the ones to find the solution. Outrageous? Get real.
- We would go to Congress and to the White House and find individuals who were both stunned to see the remarkable and successful treatments, but who were also totally unable to affect support or forward action. Or equally frustrating, would state that a bill to support the cure "might be possible" next fiscal year.
- We would go to the President, to the VP, to the Science Committees and to the Administrators of all of the aforementioned agencies, request a hearing, a meeting, and forward critical treatment and cure findings (and have) only to find they were generally non-responsive and unwilling to accept any discovery external to their own domain. (not invented here syndrome and ego and laws and bureauocracy and more)
- The last hope would and will perhaps be, that an "angel" with great financial, philanthropic and humanitarian powers and competencies will learn of us, will engage us (that means call us!), recognize the value and the remarkable discovery that has been found, and he or she will ACT to help us move the cure for cancer to the market and to the people. Finally.
The cure for cancer isn't missing, it is here. What is missing is the one individual, the one heroic and capable human, that will empower the discoverer and enable it to be moved to the market and the World.
Beyond greed and self-interests and the like, there is hope. Hope that there is one, just one angel that will rise to support this discovery.
Most of the readers of this posting probably know someone who has had cancer. Or has a family member who has had cancer. Or has had it themselves.
It is one thing to know of someone that has cancer and that "there is no sure cure" and that consequently either fate or the hand of God or the like will govern their demise.
Imagine holding a positively remarkable cure for cancer in your hand. KNOWING it has cured a 1,000 in a 1,000 without fail. Knowing you have that, shouting it to hundreds and thousands of people - ones in power, in authority, with the resources, able to act, only to find they are deaf, numb, unable, cynical, disbelieving of you, jealous, competitive, wrapped around legal axles, irresponsible, bureauocratically crippled, or the like. It might be frustrating for you.
Epilogue:
If success is in time realized, if an angel perhaps reads this posting or comes forward: someday you will see a remarkable material that is capable of curing and of treatment with high efficacy. It will possess a triple efficacy - an efficacy that unmasks cancer, an efficacy that enables the body to act on and destroy it, and an efficacy that leads the cancer to self-destruct through its own, 'greedy' process mechanisms.
We will see the end of 1,500 deaths per day and a profound empowerment and increase in the quality and enjoyment and of life, knowing and confident in our ability to remove this malady from our world forever.
Thank you for your posting.
I hope that answers your question.
Just The Facts
If it is extremely frustrating to have the cure for cancer and no one believes you, you would want to get it out to as many people as possible so that word spreads, etc. etc. yes?
So why not post your findings here along with the proof?
Those findings are on another page. I've seen it, little doubting Thomas.
While your passive-aggressive devil's advocate thing is incredibly helpful, it's...
Wait. Actually, it's not helpful at all. Your energy and resources could be used to help, but since you don't believe in it, you choose to step back and poke at it with a stick.
Perhaps you should just keep your anger focused on whatever it is you're really angry about and continue living your life, praying you or any members of your family don't end up getting any diseases that have cures you don't believe in.
I'm not meaning to start a flame war. Everyone's an anonymous superman online or in the car.
I prefer to fight in person. So I'm going to stop now.
It's just that the cure exists. I've used it. I've seen it.
While I understand everyone's doubt, it, uh, riles me up a mite.
Are you talking about clone cells?
Thank you for starting this discussion. It is a very important one. Cancer is not just one disease, it is a term that refers to hundreds of different diseases, all of which relate to the cells of the body going a little crazy, turning malignant and multiply like rabbits or guppies on steroids with the attitude of a perimenopausal woman. The billions of dollars of research that tax and philanthropic dollars have paid for have shown that the earlier a cancer is detected, the better ones chance of long-term survival, that prevention is almost completely possible - through lifestyle. After all these years, and funding, the government experts will tell you that we can only claim to have found a 'cure' one type of cancer, Stage I testicular cancer. The key is long-term survival for all of the rest (five years is considered the goal.)
There are a lot of very promising natural approaches to preventing and treating cancer, but most have not been subjected to the same type of evaluation (although some have). Sadly, the first time a doctor agreed to work with the NIH on a head to head comparison of his protocol against chemotherapy, the NIH staff allowed the chemo doctor to run the study and to destroy the study (by failing to fairly assign patients, putting patients in the study who did not qualify, and by failing to obtained written informed consent 2/3rds of the time)..the study has no usable data.
The FTC operates Operation CureAll to look for companies making claims that deliberately false, unsubstantiated, or posted without being in compliance with federal law. In 1994 when Congress clarified the laws for dietary supplement regulations at the FDA (yes the FDA really does have the authority to regulate substance and it only took them 15 years to put all the steps in place), the compromise between industry and government was that dietary supplement manufacturers cannot make disease claims with their products - they cannot, unless they have a health claim approved by the FDA claim their product prevents, cures or mitigates any disease. In the same way that Quaker oats got the cholesterol claim cleared for oatmeal.
There are some very good approaches to treating and preventing cancer. Respected experts like Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez in New York, who has long term pancreatic cancer survivors (and other cancers as well); Dr. Dean Ornish in California are two. Anyone faced with cancer should read the book, The Journey Through Cancer by Dr. Jeremy R. Geffen. His description of how to live your life and move towards healing is the most complete of any book I've ever seen.
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