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As long as a billion dollars are donated for cancer research every year the cure will be forever on the back shelves of the labs. What are the benefits to the thousands of people drawing huge salaries to put a cure on the shelves of your local drugstore? Unemployment!
If the money stopped coming in, it would leave only one way for the companies to continue making money... start selling the cure!
With thousands of top scientist, provided with the best technology known to man kind, working daily for over 50 years... should'nt someone have came up with something by now... or have they? Job security appears to be more important than saving a relatives or close friends life.
Cures for smallpox and other deadly diseases were developed without the money and technology available today. So with the all of the tools provided to these brilliant researchers why are they still looking through microscopes everyday at the same things they looked at 10-50 years ago? Again.... UNEMPLOYMENT!
When the big money stops coming in, the cures for all types of cancer will be available!
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Cures for smallpox and other deadly diseases were developed without the money and technology available today. So with the all of the tools provided to these brilliant researchers why are they still looking through microscopes everyday at the same things they looked at 10-50 years ago? Again.... UNEMPLOYMENT!
When the big money stops coming in, the cures for all types of cancer will be available!
Comments? Put them on the blog: (New)
http://cancer-research-rip-off.blogspot.com/

Cancer and smallpox are worlds apart. Smallpox can be "caught" cancer can not. Cancer is the body reproducing cells which fight against its own host. If no intervention is made, the body usually succumbs. Often times, with treatment the body heals.

A cure will never be found for cancer. But they will eventually learn how to boost the bodies own immune system in order for the body to heal itself.

Sorry there is no magic cure and never will be.

Should we give money for further research, I believe so.

Worlds apart now that smallpox is not an issue. Maybe I am mistaken but I thought thousands of people died from smallpox before the shots.
Hmmm... how small an issue is a disease once a cure is available and the profit is gone.

Worlds apart now that smallpox is not an issue. Maybe I am mistaken but I thought thousands of people died from smallpox before the shots.
Hmmm... how small an issue is a disease once a cure is available and the profit is gone.

I am not trying to minimize the devastating effect that small pox had or that it could have in the future. Like TB it may have merely gone to ground. It is not so much that they can cure small pox for I do not believe that they can. They used to inoculate against it.

But I do not believe that one can compare a virus which attacks the body to something such as cancer which is the bodies own cells reproducing too quickly. One is a foreign agent, the other, our own immune system gone awry.

Please don't take my comments wrong I appreciate your interest in the subject.

I'm pasting the same answer I gave to the same thread on the Politics page:

Cancer is almost a catch-all for many varied conditions and syndromes.
Some have had great measures of success, such as leukemia, while others have not.

Cancer researchers are not a large group of united conspiratorial companies. They are competitive individual companies and research groups vying for the same limited funding and trying to get positive results before the others do.

If a "cure" were to be found, the finder and his company could probably afford to have Bill Gates mow their lawns. I don't think anyone is holding anything back.

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Smallpox was the first "vaccination" process to be developed. The Turks were actually immunizing their people about 150 years ago while it devastated western Europe..

Exposure to a small amount of smallpox triggers the body's immune system to develop the antibodies to drive it away forever.
Scientists still don't know what triggers cancer cell mutation so the problem is much more complex than a vaccination process.

Kind of reminds me of the arguments you hear about more efficient cars or room temperature superconductors - if we just try hard enough we can do it. Maybe it's not actually possible.

hey Relax - don't spam the boards. In fact I'm asking you to go and delete all your other threads that are exactly the same as this one.