We Must Not Accept Cancer As We Do!

I believe we as a society have come to accept cancer as a given in life. Presently there are very few people who are untouched by this disease, whether it is a close family member such as a mother or aunt, or distant family relatives or even close friends and/or a neighbour. We all know of someone who is either battling this scourge or have suffered and died because of it.

What I find unacceptable is that we are accepting it! Yes, we donate billions of dollars to the various cancer societies/charities, and they spend quite a lot of our money on research but they spend more of it on developing ways to live WITH the disease. Yes, how to make your life more comfortable while suffering with cancer! Why? why do they insist on spending donated funds to help us learn to live with it!

Is not the point to eradicate it? stop it from permeating even further, into our lives?

Yes, it is nice to be able to live more comfortably, if the prognosis is hopeless; but the fact is the cancer societies are getting carried away with funding which does nothing to stop cancer from killing us or are loved ones!

The pink ribbons! now there are clothes and key chains and trinkets! It is turning into an economic windfall, a consumerist nightmare! Its becoming an exclusive club for some! who would really rather not be a member, if that were possible. It has become almost acceptable to say, “yes,!I have cancer and I am not ashamed, I am fighting this battle with dignity and grace!”

These cancer charities are making certain that all can live in dignity with this disease! They provide you with real human hair wigs! when your hair falls out because, after all these years and billions of dollars, they still use chemotherapy as the best line of defense! although that treatment is worse than the disease!

Not much has changed regarding treatment! radiation therapy, chemotherapy or both! not to leave out the other method, mastectomy or amputation of the tumour along with whatever body part is affected! Sounds just as barbaric as it always has, not much in the way of advances, is there?

What are they doing regarding the environmental hazzards which cause cancer?

The head of one cancer society was asked by and investigative news reporter what the cancer society was doing about a certain cleaning product which contained an ingredient known to be a carcinogen (cancer causing) chemical? The head person in charge said that it was up to consumer and corporate affairs to take responsibility on what products where being allowed to be sold safely to consumers. In fact this cancer society had no knowledge of what the product was or what the carcinogenic chemical was! So, what good are they doing? They have no lists of carcinogenic chemical ingredients to offer the public! They do not even ask companies to stop using certain known carcinogens for public health and safety!

Why are we letting these cancer societies pretend they are doing everything they can to stop this disease?

We should be educating ourselves as to what is safe and what to stay away from as these cancer charities are of no help whatsoever!

Cancer charities give our money to the big pharmaceutical companies who are getting rich, by offering us better drugs to help us live more comfortably with cancer! Why should we live with it at all? They are developing ways to tell if your offspring have a gene that makes them more predisposed to certain cancers! Well, thats’ all fine and dandy but… why do we not try to find ways to stop it in its tracks? Stop the poisoning of the environment, the air, the water with pesticides,fungicides,chemical preservatives, dioxins,phalates etc.etc.

They are quite aware of the many cancer causing chemicals we are now being born with in our bloodstreams. They are quite aware that the rates of breast cancer are on the rise, as is prostate cancers! Is it not unusual and pretty suspicious that these cancers are affecting the human reproductive systems?

They understand what the link is, but they choose to use our money to find ways to live more comfortably with cancer! better treatments, better quality of life, maybe even live longer with cancer!

Why live with cancer at all! Why do we sit idly by and let them get away with this incredibly greedy, morally corrupt, irresponsible, despicable charade?

If cancer was a contagious disease, we would call this an epidemic of monumental proportions! Worse than H.I.V./A.I.D.S!

In my family alone there has been more than 5 deaths due to cancer beginning in the 1960’s and continuing on even now as my father was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. The treatment is, radiation therapy, which is destroying his intestinal health, his body has lost most of its muscle mass and he is losing weight for no apparent reason, other than the treatment!

If this is the best the cancer charities can come up with after decades of help and billions of dollars in donations?

Is this all they can come up with? It seems so! and it is a great tragedy, a catastrophe we are choosing to accept!

We must not remain so complacent! We must demand action! They must do more! They have the capabilities, they have the funding, they have the science, they have the brains, all they lack is the will!

When its your father being exposed to radiation 5 days a week for 10 weeks to try and kill prostate cancer, getting tired and weaker by the day, you tell me… is that good enough?

Is that the best they can do?