“I think you are right. It may turn out to be the biggest, deadliest scandal of all time.”
My grandfather died in 1962 while being treated for leukemia. The oncologist at the time told my mother he actually died from the drugs, not the cancer. In those days determining the dose for an individual was a guess, essentially each person was a trial. Of course a that time malpractice suits were rare so doctors could be more open with patients and families about the nature and risk of treatment.
Ten years later my grandmother died a horrible death from breast and lung cancer enduring surgery and extensive drug therapy under the care of the same oncologist. By that time, the doctor was much less open about the options and risks.
I had cancer over a decade ago and opted for surgery and low dosage radiation which seems to have worked. Later I had a neurological condition for which drug therapy was prescribed. After enduring horrible side effects for three months from the drugs, I opted to discontinue the treatment and live with the condition. If I had a recurrence of cancer today, I would not undergo chemotherapy. No one I know personally, who has undergone chemotherapy, has survived more than two years. The experience of each one undergoing chemotherapy has been horrible.
Big pharma controls the medical industry, most medical research, and heavily influences health care legislation by government through huge campaign contributions. Over the last 10 years I’ve seen doctors become primarily pill pushers while the cost of drugs keeps going higher. Big pharma is poisoning the population and making huge profits doing so.
Cancer is an apex evil. Everyone has horrible experiences or knows of someone who did. Barbaric chemo treatment has barely changed in decades. There have been some wonderful advances in other areas but not that. We here about new things all the time like biologicals tailored to the individual. Where are they in the field? I think the FDA is corrupt. Europe and Asia have made great advances and actually use them. Here the approval process drags on forever. A curse on the guilty.