Introduction
If you have read my articles on Cancer you will know by now that conventional modalities are, for the most part, ineffectual toward cancer, but only to poison the body leaving it defenseless.
Despite the questionable origins of the weapons, conventional medicine use to fight the disease, they continue to use these mechanisms even though they do nothing.
Cancer is big business enveloped in mass sums of money providing very little benefit to those who have the disease.
This is not about selling sickness, it is about selling hope where there is none.
I know of only one cancer clinic that has some sense of ethics and moral code, which is the Mayo clinic.
If they think chemotherapy will not work for some types of cancer they won’t promote it according to Dr Nicholas Gonzalez.
This article discusses the Cancer industry.
I wanted to discuss these types of drugs at some point but the sad news that I received yesterday (2017) spurred me on to write about this topic now.
The sad news concerned a young friend of my daughter who passed away on Monday from pneumonia as a result of immunosuppressant drugs that suppressed his immune system leaving him defenseless against anything that attacks the body on a daily basis.
Just over a year ago he was diagnosed with Leukemia and against my advice chose to follow chemotherapy treatment which did temporarily eliminate the cancer, but as in most blood cancers the treatment tends to wipe out the bone marrow and the cancer goes with it.
The stem cells that are the cancer origin are far more resistant to chemotherapy drugs than the mature cancer cells that were destroyed by the chemo.
What tends to occur is that the cancer returns more aggressively, which is what happened and he went through another bout of chemotherapy treatment which ultimately weakened his body and led him to his demise.
I might add that suppressing his immune system was the correct direction to go, however, suppressing the immune system and toning the immune system down are two different things.
Unfortunately this course of action led him to expire.
21st Century Oncology
I previously mentioned that Medicare pays 25% over the top of the actual cost of cancer drugs because oncologists receive some financial benefit from prescribing these drugs.
If that were not enough the department of justice brought an indictment in March 2016 against the US largest physician led integrated cancer care provider 21st Century Oncology inc concerning false claims allegations on procedures they alleged to have performed and billed that were medically unnecessary.
The firm agreed to pay $34.7 million to settle the lawsuit that involved a medical procedure called the ‘Gamma Function’ which measures the exit dose of radiation from patients receiving radiation treatment.
Despite physicians and physicists who were improperly trained to interpret and utilize the gamma function results, delayed result analysis ( 7 or more days after the last day patients had received the radiation treatment ) and no gamma results available due to the technical failures in the imaging equipment, the firm still billed patients.
This was another example of a filed lawsuit under ‘Qui Tam’ or Whistleblower provision of the false claims act by Charles Ting a former physicist.
To top it all, this same firm had already paid $19.75 million to settle another false claims litigation in December of the previous year concerning the billing of medically unnecessary laboratory urine tests, promising bonuses to all physicians that ordered such tests.
Cancer Drug Approval
The pharmaceutical industry has got it made, especially with cancer drugs, since so many people are dying of this disease with virtually no effective treatment, no matter what cancer drug cocktail the oncologists can put together.
Regulators are blind and ignorant to the fact that they are rushing through approval processes without adequate clinical trials hoping aimlessly that the next cancer wonder drug will make a difference.
You can do this for the next 500 years and it’s not going to make a blind bit of difference..CANCER CANNOT BE CONTAINED USING POISONOUS DRUGS..how many times do I have to say it.
So with more lenient approval processes, the drug companies are laughing all the way to the bank, concocting their useless medicine while government agencies are paying through the nose for this ineffective medicine.
This ‘juggernaut’ of ineffective medicine is also being pushed by the end-of-line cancer patients desperately waiting for the one drug that they hope will rid them of this terrible disease….it is sad for me to say that hopeful cancer patients under conventional medicine care are simply ‘cannon fodder’.
This accelerated approval process for cancer drugs is highlighted by John Abraham. British professor of sociology in the department of social science University of Sussex, who concluded, fast tracking of approval is a consistent part of deregulation for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry.
In May 2003 the FDA approved Gefitinib ( brand name Iressa ) made by AstraZeneca, used for the treatment of lung cancer patients who had failed 2 or more courses of Chemotherapy.
The accelerated approval process was given, based on the outcome of clinical trials where the drug showed tumor shrinkage in approximately 10% of patients..big deal.
One requirement of the accelerated approval process is that the drug maker must conduct further studies to verify expected clinical benefit.
The drug maker further experimented on 1700 patients to verify survival prolongation which it did not.
At this point the FDA had the power to withdraw the drug upon failure after the approval process..did it ?…no of course not, Iressa is still available as ‘advertised’ on Drugs.com.
Iressa is a selective inhibitor of epidermal growth factor receptor’s (EGFR) tyrosine kinase domain which in plain language is a trans-membrane protein found in bacterial cells and the plasma membranes of eukaryotic or mammalian cells. Their function as we have covered before is to activate the cellular membrane as a gateway to move substances in/out such as nutrients (in) and waste (out). The tyrosine kinase part refers to the enzymes that transfer phosphate groups from ATP within the process of phosphorylation ( as in the energy transport chain ) which we have covered in previous articles. For some reason scientists have identified EGFR as being overexpressed and associated with cancer of the lung due to mutations or oncogenes. Furthermore, inflammatory disease is also associated with aberrant EGFR signaling that is implicated in psoriasis,eczema and atherosclerosis. This analysis of identifying EGFR as an oncogene led to the development of anticancer therapeutics which includes drugs such as Iressa (Gefitinib), Erlotinib ( trade name Tarceva used to inhibit EGFR signaling in lung and pancreatic cancer) , Afatinib (Trade name Gilotrif used for lung and breast cancer), Brigatinib ( Trade name Alunbrig also used for lung cancer )and Icotinib ( Lung cancer use), all ‘Me to’ drugs that have no effect long term since they, like most drugs, are targetting the symptoms not the cause. This is blatantly clear when inflammatory conditions are implicated as being due to aberrant EGFR signaling..nonsense, this again is a symptom not a cause..I have made it abundantly clear that Psoriasis is an auto immune condition caused by a gut imbalance.
Bevacizumab (Brand name Avastin)
The Not So Wonder Drug
This very expensive drug ( $100,000/year or $10,000/month) is again a worthless ineffective drug that received its approval in 2004 as a combo drug with chemo for metastatic colon cancer, lung, renal, ovarian and Glioblastoma multiforme cancer of the brain. As I stated in previous articles on cancer this drug was manufactured by Genotech (Roche) after the Folkmans laboratory discovered 2 endogenous antiangiogenic inhibitors Endostatin and Angiostatin, which are proteins that are thought to balance regulation between pro and anti-angiogenic activity outside epithelial and endothelial cellular structures. In 2006 the NCI fast tracked a study with this anti-angiogenesis drug using 42 cancer patients and not one responded to the drug. The drug interferes with the body’s normal process of producing new blood vessels for wound healing, and the theory on cancer is that it prevents the cancer in developing new blood supply, but guess what, it does the same to normal healthy tissues, so patients can fatally bleed out, as well as running the risk of perforations in the bowel, nose,stomach and intestine. Even Roche admitted in 2013 that the drug was associated with 52 cases of necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating infection) from 1997 to 2012 where 17 patients died. Even more ludicrous is this drug is approved to treat macular degeneration by injecting it directly into the eye. I think I will stick with the blood suckers and mercury treatment thank you. To prove its uselessness, a study involving 600 patients conducted by US researchers found the drug to extend survival by 3.8 months for ovarian cancer ( I think I stated this before that 90% of the time cucumber can prevent ovarian cancer ) especially when you consider that chemo supplemented with Avastin costs approximately 30 times as much as chemo without Avastin.
In 2009 the FDA approved the drug to treat Glioblastoma multiforme ( an aggressive brain cancer that kills within 12-15 months with fewer than 3% surviving more than 5 years, and statistics state it affects 3 in 100,000 people normally in their 60s) and 2 clinical studies failed to determine if the drug relieved symptoms or indeed extended life, however the side effects were serious, including bleeding/hemorrhage, hypotension, nosebleeds, blood clots in veins and arteries, holes in the stomach and intestines and wound healing complications. Kimm Fletcher a young woman of 41 died from Glioblastoma multiforme 4 years after her diagnosis and the Ontario government in Canada understandably refused to pay the high price for avastin since they knew it was a highly priced, no-better than a placebo drug that might extend somebody’s life 2 months.
Furthermore, if you have a desire, or you just don’t have a life..lol, you can troll through the UK’s government clinical trial database ( Clinicaltrials.gov ) and find what trials were performed on Bevacizuma, and since I don’t have a life..ha ha, I can tell you there are some 954 clinical trials in the US, 81 in the UK and hundreds of other trials in other various countries. Many results/outcomes are missing and the results that have been published on this database are obscure and disheartening, and for a drug that hit sales of $2.7 billion in 2010, what did the millions of patients pay for. This money would have gone a long way in irrigating parts of Africa to help people live and not die resting on empty hope. Ben Acre in his book ‘Bad Pharma’ informs us that in 2010 2 Greek researchers went on a mission to track down the studies on Bevacizuma, concentrating their search on large phase 3 trials comparing this drug with a placebo. They found 26 that were completed, of these 9 were published ( representative of 7,234 patients ), and 3 that were presented at a conference ( representative of 4,669 patients ), but 14 ( representative of 10,724 patients ) were never published. Their summation,whatever cancer this drug was trialed for had marginal (at best ) benefit. Can you imagine the money spent conducting these hundreds of trials involving thousand of patients, plus the cost of the drug itself only for it to result in nothing useful…how many times do you need to trial a worthless expensive drug before you conclude that its..well..worthless. Its Einstein’s definition of madness again..’Doing the same thing over and over again hoping the outcome will change but it never does’.
Methotrexate
This is another example of lunacy in the first order, to develop a drug that inhibits the process of normal metabolism, where dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) is inhibited creating a suppression of folate acid (since the body uses the dihydrofolate reductase enzyme to convert dihydrofolate into tetrahydrofolate needed for cell proliferation and growth) in a desperate attempt to suppress cancer cell growth. The healthy body uses Folate acid (Vitamin B9) to copy and synthesize DNA to produce new cells and support nerve and immune functions. Folate acid protects against cancer, not to speak of the crucial need for the methylation cycle. A deficiency of DHFR is linked to megaloblastic anemia ( a condition triggered by DNA synthesis impairment leading to continuing cell growth without division leading to macrocytosis or enlarged erythrocytes(red blood cells). No wonder the drugs side effects include hepatotoxicity ( liver damage ) and kidney failure. This drug is also used to treat autoimmune conditions specifically Rheumatoid arthritis, but the mechanism of action is more complex interfering with immune system system function by altering B cell behavior and changing T cell activation. At least it is recognised that this drug is teratogenic ( can cause birth defects ) so it is not advisable for prospective parents..wow thats good..and do you want to know why ?. Well first of all Methotrexate is an abortifacient ( induces miscarriages ) and if for some reason it is not successful, the suppression of folate acid in the human will increase the likelihood of a birth defect a hundredfold.
Irving Azoff the manager of the eagles, the 1970s band (signature song ‘Hotel California’..and if you remember this song you must be really old like me, although they were not my cup of tea, I preferred something more raunchy like the ‘James Gang’ and ‘Grace slick’) commented on the passing of Eagles co-founder and lead singer Glenn Frey who died Jan 2016 from rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and pneumonia aged 67, that the medications he was taking ( not specified ) were partly blamed for his death. He was advised by his lawyer not to specify the drug but I will leave it to you readers to guess.
Conclusions
Once you become aware of the mechanism of action the more you understand why cancer drugs ( and drugs in general) are ineffective because they are targeting symptoms and attempting to alter natural physiology. Especially with killer conditions like cancer the poor wretches that are talked into taking this poison become ballast off a sinking ship. Peter Gotzsche in his book ‘Deadly medicines and organized crime’ informs us that in his calculations 33 years of randomised trials in solid tumor cancers sponsored by the Medical Research Council in the UK has led to 0 progress toward successful pharmaceutical treatment against cancer. Twelve new cancer drugs introduced onto the European market from 1995 to 2000 showed that none offered any significant progress toward treating cancer despite the fact that one of the drugs cost 350 times more than its competitor. Thirty two trials comparing one cancer drug to another, 6500 deaths and on and on.
So although conventional medicines attempt to successfully treat cancer has failed miserably, some alternative naturopaths that have proven methods of reversing and curing cancer continue to be terrorized and threatened by the establishment and in some cases driven out of their country of work. This tyranny has been going on since the turn of the century and even before that. One example was Dr Koch who was a medical professor at the University of Michigan from 1910 to 1919 who created a substance called ‘Glyoxillide’ a non toxic oxidative catalyst that had the means to convert anaerobic cells ( a non oxygen environment that the body produces so as cells can still exist ( although cancerous) when the body is depleted of nutrients required for healthy aerobic cellular energy production) to oxygen driven aerobic cells. A novel idea and by accounts worked but once the FDA got wind of it he was forced to flee to Brazil in fear of his life while one patient Janet Worsley was nearly strangled death by an undercover FBI agent..I guess that did not want her talking about the success of Koch’s therapy. George Orwell wrote:
‘In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.’
References/Acknowledgments:
- Bad Pharma book Ben Goldacre
- Racketeering in Medicine James P.Carter
- US settles false claims act allegations against 21st Century Oncology inc for $34.7 million Dept of Justice office of public affairs Tuesday March 8 2016
- Deadly Medicines and Organized crime Book Peter Gotzsche 2013
- Methotrexate, Epidermal growth factor receptor, Wikipedia
- Jonathan Kay: Kimm Fletcher’s death was tragic but Ontario was correct not to pay for her Avastin Jonathan Kay April 2014 National Post
- Methotrexate Trust Pharmacy
- Glenn Frey’s medication contributed to his death Manager says The Wrap Jan 18 2016
- George Orwell quotes Brainyquote
Author: Eric Malouin