by Gwynn Alcorn

Created on: May 06, 2009   Last Updated: May 07, 2009

Let's Not Wait For a Cure for Cancer

Some harsh things need to be said about the efforts to cure cancer, and therefore I want it clear up front that my father, grandfather, several uncles and aunts died of cancer. I have the utmost compassion for people with cancer and especially those who love them and stand/stood at the bedside feeling helpless.

No one has to feel helpless in the face of a degenerative illness, despite what the existing accepted medical profession has to say, and despite continual appeals for more money to find a cure for cancer.

For 50 years, the medical system has been working on finding a cure or so they say. I no longer believe it and I refuse to contribute money to organized cancer research. I myself weep when I see what Canadian Terry Fox went through to raise millions for cancer research; all that money has produced practically nothing to cure cancer.

The Canadian Cancer Society is the wealthiest charity in Canada, with an $80 million take in 1997. Only $32 million was spent on research and $10 million was used for more fund raising.

Despite the fact that cancer is a preventable disease (which the Canadian Cancer Society acknowledges), less than five per cent of its budget is spent on "education" and none of its research money is devoted to prevention.

I was diagnosed in November of 1996 with a degenerative illness that could have meant the end of a productive life for me. My own doctor told me he dared not recommend even so much as a chiropractor to help relieve my pain because he would be reprimanded by his college of physicians and surgeons and could lose his license to practice medicine for doing so. Even though I was in terrible pain because all 18 of my pelvic ligaments had been torn, my doctor could not write a letter absolving me from wearing a lap seat belt that pressured my hips beyond my endurance because his insurance company would not allow him to.

And my chiropractor, who was tremendously successful in treating patients others could not help, was continually hounded by his Chiropractic Association for practicing methods that were not precisely what he had been taught at university many years before.

Where is the common sense?

May I suggest you read a book titled The Cancer Conspiracy by John J. Moelaert? You will find out why common sense went out the window about curing cancer. Greed. Cancer is good business.

Practitioners of even accepted forms of medicine dare not deviate from protocol to help someone who

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