Aug 1,2009
It really strange to be told that you are dieing of cancer in 2009 because there is no cure for the cancer you have. Almost weekly you hear of people walking or running or doing any myriad of things to get money to help cure this disease. One often wonders where does all this money goes. Although cancer hasn’t always been the disease affecting to most people through out my life, it has always been up among the leaders. I do believe that almost every family can tell you of close relatives that have been stricken by it and died. Wouldn’t one think that this ailment would have gone the way of polio or small pox by this time?
Since I’m going to be the one dieing of the big C, I’ve spent some time wondering and thinking of the reason for this. I can come up with three logical reasons and no more. First, the people researching this group of disease have no idea what they are doing and are all incompetent (this I really don’t believe although probably many of the dabblers in cancer are). Second, the type of cure that will cure this disease is so cheap that the money will not fund the real research (I tend to think this way). Third that the companies that deal with cancer make too much money and they are vested in not curing this disease lest the cash cow will dry up (I believe there is LOT OF TRUTH IN THIS).
Try doing research on cancer money and where it goes and you actually find a confusing jumble of non-facts. There is really no place one can go just to find out where the money for a cure is being spent and on what. Often what you get is a bunch of web sites telling you to buy some miracle cure. The web sites come to you fast and furious but most of them make no sense or are so convoluted that you know the person who runs them are truly nuts. You can go to the individual cancer organizations but each of these have their own agenda and do not add to the general knowledge because they are only interested in their very narrow part of the disease. Its not to say the people whom run these organizations are not sincere and caring people. Trouble is they are only interested in a narrow part of a cancer cure and therefore they can’t see the forest of the trees. A cure will not come in my lifetime, but maybe this short writing will start things moving in the right direction.
