Quote Originally Posted by starmom View Post
The FDA is always releasing pharmaceuticals into the population without rigorous testing or with testing that has been paid for by the very corporation that owns the drug. It is very sad. I do not believe that there does not exist a cure for some of the cancers we have had for so long....there has just been too much research monies poured into cancer for there not to have been enormous gains in treatments; and yet none exist that we are allowed to be aware of. Why not? Because cancer is a big money making machine for a lot of businesses in this country and in the world. It's gotten so bad that my daughter's house is being foreclosed upon because they have gone into the hole over the cost of her cancer meds. She isn't taking them anymore in order to salvage what is left of her children's security. Health care in this country is a sad joke for anyone not fabulously wealthy who is unfortunate enough to become really ill.
I don't know about that. Think of how long humans went without antibiotics, and then randomly one day Alexander Fleming found penicillin growing in his trash can, and everything changed. Although there isn't a cure, we have come a very long way in cancer treatment. One of my biology professors said that in future years we are going to look back at chemotherapy and see it as barbaric and primitive, and by then we will have far more effective and less harmful treatments. And when the "miracle" drug or treatment does come about, you better believe it will be on the market.

Another reason to save the rainforests! As they say, the cure to cancer could be in a rainforest plant or fungus that has yet to be discovered...

By the way, I completely agree... our healthcare system is a total mess I'm so sorry about your daughter's predicament... I feel like that kind of injustice is way too common in America...