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24Jun

Help Relay for Life fight cancer

acs%20logo.JPGI want to call everyone's attention again to the American Cancer Society's annual Relay for Life this year on July 19-20.

I know last year a similar post set off a long and spirited debate on corporate-versus-alternative medicine and I don't mind if that occurs again.

I just know that the medical industry that ACS supports has helped many people I know survive cancer, and has helped others I know lead better lives with cancer, so I support ACS and encourage others to support it as well.

Visit my Relay for Life Web site and see how you can help.


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Yes, the ACS has helped many people. But its always good to get both sides of the story.

http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id336/pg1/index.html
June 26, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKELIIPIO
http://www.naturalnews.com/022157.html

"New research, for example, shows that certain classes of chemotherapy drugs are so dangerous to human health that they cause heart failure in many women who use them. The drugs are called anthracyclines, and the research was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (October, 2007)."
June 26, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKELIIPIO
http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/wealthiest_links.htm

"In 1992, in conjunction with the NCI, the ACS aggressively launched a " chemoprevention" program aimed at recruiting 16,000 healthy women at supposedly " high risk" of breast cancer into a 5-year clinical trial with a highly profitable drug called tamoxifen. This drug is manufactured by one of the world's most powerful cancer drug industries, Zeneca, an offshoot of the Imperial Chemical Industries. The women were told that the drug was essentially harmless, and that it could reduce their risk of breast cancer. What the women were not told was that tamoxifen had already been shown to be a highly potent liver carcinogen in rodent tests, and also that it was well-known to induce human uterine cancer (6, pp. 145– 151)."
June 26, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKELIIPIO
My wife had a bad case of lymphoma (not that any case is good). Being children of the 50's, when we heard lymphoma we thought she had received a death sentence. We were wrong!!!! Cancer Researchers have made great strides in treatment. So much so,that she has been in remission for 9 years. The cure was Nuke and Puke. It wasn't pretty,but it was pretty damn effective.
June 26, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBrian
ACS supports the use of aspartame (a chemical sweetener) in our foods. Aspartame is a KNOWN carcinogen and is linked to brain tumors and lymphomas.

"http://www.aspartamesafety.com/aspartame_study_14july2005.pdf

When you "fight" cancer, you want to make sure that you truly understand what you are "fighting" for because "fighting for the cure" AINT GONNA WORK when they're dumping carcinogens like aspartame in our food supply.
June 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKELIIPIO
Just so we know, there was a bill to ban aspartame that was introduced by Senators Kalani English and Mele Carrol this past legislative session and guess what?? When it came before Dr. Josh Green's Health Committee, he would not hear it even with all the choke testimony that came with it. How do you like that? One would think that an MD like Josh Green would be very concerned but NOPE he OBVIOUSLY didn't give a hoot about our health when it comes to poisoning our food supply. He won't get my vote for sure.

http://www.naturalnews.com/022686.html

The "true fight" is not about "finding the cure" but rather about fighting against big businesses like the ACS and the FDA who promote policies that allow corporations to poison our environment and our food supply.
June 29, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKELIIPIO
Remember young Chef Grant Achatz? the one with tongue caner? Wonder if his cancer had anything to do with his Diet Coke? Isn't Diet Coke sweetened with ASPARTAME?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25020696/

"Gone is the once ever-present can of Diet Coke. These days he downs protein drinks, trying to build back some of the weight he lost. He carries a little bottle of lidocaine, which he sips to numb the pain."

June 29, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKELIIPIO

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