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- Kind of hard to make money off of dead people though..so that doesn't make sense actually to not find a cure. Image how much the cure would cost? The price of mapping these genes, finding a way to 'turn them off' will cost as much, if not more, then treating those with it..but in this case the person lives to continue needing medical insurance for other things. A dead person doesn't need medical insurance so actually those companies lose that profit if their consumers die. So the big medical insurers won't lose out by any means. I think also people need to quit being so cynical anyway. If this insurance things was really that big of an issue, they wouldn't have gotten this far in gene mapping. We have to remember too the stats on how long we live here in America keeps going up..compare that to those that have no medical services at all in third world countries. Where an ingrown toe nail infection leads to death or amputation of the entire leg! Here it can be easily treated.
Lets be thankful for what we do have because many others around the world have nothing and die over minor things all the time. - Reply to this comment
- I've been fighting stage IV cancer now for 2 years with chemo drugs that are just keeping me alive (if you can call it that). I'm happy to learn that the "traditional" medical community is finally looking at the source of cancer in gene mapping and research. Those I must agree with many of the other comments that BIG PHARMA will not allow a cure. There is no money in a "cure". With the FDA, Government and the media in their pocket there is little chance of a cure. 1,500 people die a DAY in the USA alone to this monster and it does not make the media??? I Wonder why?
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- They are mapping the cancer gene to find out just who is going to get cancer so they can drop their health insurance coverage.
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- On 1/9/2010 I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer,a tumor near my heart,and the cancer has moved into my bones.Happy Birthday, one year from the day I quit smoking. This hit me like a tons of bricks, I'm in shape,I work-out, eat right, don't drink. I was angry that I had ever smoked, was exposed to aspestos in the Navy, and worked in the Shipyards. This was not fair,I know people who smoke,are obese,drink a lot,eat fast food, their fine. Like some of you I too despise big pharma, I don't even like taking OTC medications. To some point I do think for the medical industry there is more money in R&D and drugs, than any cure for any disease. That's why so they are fighting against a National health plan or preventive medicine in this country. More money can be made from very sick people,then from preventive care,this is our system here. However now I have started chemo, because surgery & radiation are not an option for me. Also I am trying everything I can to support my body through the chemo and cancer. I will fight and beat this! Then I found out people get lung cancer who have never smoked like Beverly in the story on 1/28/2010. So for now I am taking part in a trial,and trying to figure out how my husband and I will pay for this, as we don't have insurance. So I don't know if the treatment is worse than the disease, but I guess like so many others I'm in the fight of my life against it all!
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- This is another way to make money off of cancer, there is no way finding a cure is on the table, Big Pharma as always remains in the background controlling everything. The are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars and with congress in their pocket as well as the mainstream media they fear no evil. Posted by baileyccc
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- Funny how dogma drones cherry-pick their science.
Any discipline that disproves dogma is "the devil's work" while they line up to avail themselves of medical advances..... - Reply to this comment
- What a joke, a Cure for Cancer! Big Pharma will never let that happen. Posted by Baileyccc
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- first known death to cancer, in family tree, dates back to 1961. to date, there is no cure only treatments and most often cancer returns and kills. tons of money has no doubt been donated, granted, for cancer research but still nothing. wonder how much has been given to cancer research, it's like a corporate business this cancer research. probably millions of jobs linked to cancer research, many with top of the line research labs. makes one wonder what the incentive is to find a cure and if one is found will it ever be revealed. there is more money to be made in research, treatments, than there is in finding a cure. polio is an example, a vaccine was discovered and tons of money evaporated, along with the jobs. just wondering, saying.
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- The best hope I have read about on this subject deals with the mystery of the chromosome trisomy on the 21st gene that exists in downs syndrome people. They rarely get cancer because large blood vessel growth is inhibited by the trisomy when one gene mutates to support it. The result is that tumors shrink on their own and dissolve away, naturally. The act of inserting gene spliced chromosomes inside tumors to dissolve them seams like a possibility, especially if it can be grown with a stem cell and a donor chomosome from the tissue under attack.
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- This scares me as much as getting cancer
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105680875 - Reply to this comment
