http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/the-cancer-industry-is-too-prosperous-to-allow-a-cure/
We have lost the war on cancer. At the beginning of the last century,
one person in twenty would get cancer. In the 1940s it was one out of
every sixteen people. In the 1970s it was one person out of ten. Today
one person out of three gets cancer in the course of their life.
The cancer industry is probably the
most prosperous business in the United States. In 2014, there will be an
estimated 1,665,540 new cancer cases diagnosed and 585,720 cancer
deaths in the US. $6 billion of tax-payer funds are cycled through
various federal agencies for cancer research, such as the National
Cancer Institute (NCI). The NCI states that the medical costs of cancer
care are $125 billion, with a projected 39 percent increase to $173
billion by 2020.
The simple fact is that the cancer industry employs too many people
and produces too much income to allow a cure to be found. All of the
current research on cancer drugs is based on the premise that the cancer
market will grow, not shrink.
John Thomas explains to us why the current cancer industry prospers while treating cancer, but cannot afford to cure it.
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