The 50 year war on cancer was a joke and still is. There is no way the drug industry is going to come up with a cure and give up their cushy domain of inventing very high priced cancer drugs that promise the world and deliver nothing better than the last drug (except higher profits).
We do not need more drugs for anything. What we really need is intensive study of what causes disease and sickness. What is causing cancer? Diabetes? Heart disease? Modern medicine is one huge failure based on giving more and more drugs to a patient. It seldom considers the causes and that is where we need to focus. Then the drug industry would all but vanish and millions would be saved from being drugged to death...every year!
That is why I am staying away from the medical system as much as possible. Many of real doctors of old were healers, not drug pushers. And that is why the AMA, big pharma and other groups have all but decimated their existence. There are just as many quacks in modern medicine as there ever were in pre-modern medicine.
I'm a mushroom foraging fan: and I love my mushrooms. Some allegedly have all kinds of amazing properties: anti-oxidant, cancer busting, you name it.
But there is a clear problem: most mushroom foragers spend many days a year walking through lovely woods and pastures searching out our favourite delicacies: and who is to say whether it is the mushroom or the walking that prolongs our lives ;-)
Our son passed away almost 7 years ago after a 4 1/4 year battle with ALL Ph+ leukemia. When he relapsed 1 1/2 years after his first bone marrow transplant, the doctors really did not have any more options for him. We had been reading about the CAR T therapy, and Jason was patient number 24 at Sloan Kettering. That worked for awhile, when he relapsed the second time, I had been studying every possible clinical trial and option.
I found the ASH conference and plenary materials to be some of the most current information.
We went to M.D. Anderson after the second relapse for a trial of Inotuzumab and Bosutnib which put him in remission and got him to a second transplant. He relapsed a few months later, and unfortunately developed a GI bleed which could not be stopped.
While I have learned more of the dark side of clinical trials the last 3 years of Covid, we knew that doctors are usually too busy to know of the most current treatments, and that some of the new treatments are very important.
After Jason passed, we worked with Be The Match to set up the Jason Carter clinical Trial and Search and support program, which helps people find needed treatments and have some financial support to get to them. The trials bring hope and sometimes success and another chance at life.
Thanks honestly is appreciated, having spent 6 years in and out of oncology wards it’s difficult to fathom that this has happened.. and is happening still..,difficult to see that these mongrels would do this to precious kids.. my child.. you have no idea the levels of anger this evokes ..
Up front you noted the key to pervasive biomedical racketeering, about which prescribers are so proud. Not the scary old world chemo being prescribed anymore. Lower cost options don’t let the patient feel special or the prescriber to be a financial hero.
The quiet secret is that the MD is committing their trusting patient to the best possible experience of a disease presumed deadly... so what a deal for $10s of $1000’s per month... symptom free progression. Modern tech!... Symptoms are so suppressed the patient doesn’t know how close to death they are.
What BS. It all makes for Dr applause for being accurate in predications. The newer the product patent the narrower the range of uncertainty about timing and quality of the dying process.
I lost my doctor of a partner to a Canadian atypical chemo treatment for an inferred brain tumour secondary to lung cyst. The secret is that the best pathology equipment still can’t tell you if the tumour containing non-human DNA is really just an intracellular microbial infection. With my partner, we used a radical shift in diet to shrink the tumours 80% in two months while the heroic MD set up government funding to pay for the novel chemo that allowed symptom free progression.
Family agreed with the MD who said the tumour shrinkage was just luck so my partner needed the chemo ‘just for a sense of security’. No need to gamble. People with that (inferred) diagnoses were expected to last 18 months. Brilliant doctors got the funding and then hands off as six different specialists tracked his regrow (progress) through 18 months of having his body silently ruined by the drug. Ok few other real cancer symptoms other than feeling weak with less and less energy... for a perfect 18 months and he was gone.
Perfect prediction. The drug is like the money ball,
If high paid MDs and specialists don’t play the money game and take their role as the person who controls suffering through death, they can be replaced. It’s about the money and predictability ‘baby.’
Sounds like that cancer drug trial has turned up another winner... money making drug that is. But heck, it’s no worse than COVID treatments. Standard protocol.early on defied known medical literature and common sense. Tell people they’ll die if they don’t go to the hospital fast. Overwhelm EDs with people distressed by difficulty breathing. So put them on a ventilator and give them one or two palliative drugs to suppress their distress... and breathing. That was the 2920 protocol. All cause mortality drops, COVID takes the count.
Yep- And we still assume doctors are kind and think beyond their mechanical guidelines. Big emerge pay if you take the Faucian bargain:
Cancer? AIDS? HIV? Heart problems? Sane deal: The inexpensive remedies and effective vaccines have been held off the market. So the worried people asume that COVID is deadly to everyone and the emergency declared by Americans (funding viral patents), is true. Declare a pandemic! Scare the public and doctors. It warrants palliative meds as the basis to care... everybody dies eventually. Suppress breathing so there’s no distress.
The sales of breathing suppressants spiked in parallel with hospital admissions and deaths...and the drug sales creeped up with each less lethal variant so people are still lost because they feel they have to go to hospital.
If you haven’t found the COVID paper publishing that data showing death correlated with use of inappropriately deadly drug regimes... please look it up.
Then tell us again how this isn’t quite what you signed up for as a doctor.
I am sad and horrified by it all... and not sure I am patient anymore with medical pros who keep following deadly money grubbing protocols. Thankful for any conscientious doctors’ expression of concerns. Yet... wonder:
What do you and thoughtful MDs do about it? Start using age-old therapies to reverse conditions by supporting health? Nah... we know there’s no money in it. Gun free peace and widespread health just doesn’t keep universities funded or media stars going, nor keep employed the best minds in the most technologically advanced nation in the world. Just ask Bing or ChatGPT. AI garbage-in-garbage out and we know the predictive tech works. Lets automate treatments that fail to lengthen life, and we can be perfect in our predictions. It’s ‘like’ US HSS and Medicate is a military operation.
Thanks for writing about it. Seriously. Sad it’s new to some, yet the same old since the Flexner Report. 110 years back and big money paid for that report to say doctors responsibility was to families of sick people. MDs need to be able to tell them how their loved one died. If it’s a tumour, they died of cancer... meantime someone can claim to try helping the person by prescribing the drug.
When and how do you say NO?
No liability to admit... there’s a good life for players in the iatrogenic extravaganza. Capitalism at its best! Disease driven discovery in American style patent BioWars. MDs are proud proxy marketers.
As the adult son of a surgeon with a 40 year career and counting I'm beginning to think that most drug-based treatments are a scam. I'm not talking about antibiotics and well-worn medications but rather all of these 'innovative" drugs.
I am only involved in medicine as a software engineer and data analyst.
Am I correct that while cancers have decreased slightly since smoking was canceled that despite that small reduction the overall increase in cancer since the late 1700’ has been astronomical? Is it true that the few hunter gatherer tribes left have almost no cancer?
I think we are barking up the wrong tree looking for a pharmacopeia solution. The cure for cancer is staring at us from the pot roast.
Great post. When your intellectual prodding evokes retaliatory lashing out, it’s cuz you hit on one of their “tender points”. I’d keep pushing, and harder.
I echo Dr. Schaeffer’s comment (and of course Dr. Mandrola has made this point eloquently on numerous occasions). New drugs (or therapies) need to show benefits in “real” clinical outcomes, and not just in meaningless surrogate endpoints. This is becoming a recurring issue in cardiology as well.
It means even more trials (and therapies) will fail to pass that test. That does have implications for encouraging industry investment. Perhaps the reward (eg. Patent protection) for a truly game changing therapy needs to be more substantial. I don’t know the answer. But the status quo is most troubling.
Ditto for many Cardiology trials. After enduring several head-scratching conclusions and overtly biased and flawed trials, I cancelled my subscription to NEJM. The Boston school masking study was the final straw.
So where do we go now? When will Sensible Medicine begin offering to publishing original, well-done or at least honest trials?
The 50 year war on cancer was a joke and still is. There is no way the drug industry is going to come up with a cure and give up their cushy domain of inventing very high priced cancer drugs that promise the world and deliver nothing better than the last drug (except higher profits).
We do not need more drugs for anything. What we really need is intensive study of what causes disease and sickness. What is causing cancer? Diabetes? Heart disease? Modern medicine is one huge failure based on giving more and more drugs to a patient. It seldom considers the causes and that is where we need to focus. Then the drug industry would all but vanish and millions would be saved from being drugged to death...every year!
That is why I am staying away from the medical system as much as possible. Many of real doctors of old were healers, not drug pushers. And that is why the AMA, big pharma and other groups have all but decimated their existence. There are just as many quacks in modern medicine as there ever were in pre-modern medicine.
Follow the money. Always follow the money!
I'm a mushroom foraging fan: and I love my mushrooms. Some allegedly have all kinds of amazing properties: anti-oxidant, cancer busting, you name it.
But there is a clear problem: most mushroom foragers spend many days a year walking through lovely woods and pastures searching out our favourite delicacies: and who is to say whether it is the mushroom or the walking that prolongs our lives ;-)
Thank you for speaking up
Dr. Prasad, why would vaccine trials be any different? all medicine is corrupted by money
Our son passed away almost 7 years ago after a 4 1/4 year battle with ALL Ph+ leukemia. When he relapsed 1 1/2 years after his first bone marrow transplant, the doctors really did not have any more options for him. We had been reading about the CAR T therapy, and Jason was patient number 24 at Sloan Kettering. That worked for awhile, when he relapsed the second time, I had been studying every possible clinical trial and option.
I found the ASH conference and plenary materials to be some of the most current information.
We went to M.D. Anderson after the second relapse for a trial of Inotuzumab and Bosutnib which put him in remission and got him to a second transplant. He relapsed a few months later, and unfortunately developed a GI bleed which could not be stopped.
While I have learned more of the dark side of clinical trials the last 3 years of Covid, we knew that doctors are usually too busy to know of the most current treatments, and that some of the new treatments are very important.
After Jason passed, we worked with Be The Match to set up the Jason Carter clinical Trial and Search and support program, which helps people find needed treatments and have some financial support to get to them. The trials bring hope and sometimes success and another chance at life.
Thanks honestly is appreciated, having spent 6 years in and out of oncology wards it’s difficult to fathom that this has happened.. and is happening still..,difficult to see that these mongrels would do this to precious kids.. my child.. you have no idea the levels of anger this evokes ..
Up front you noted the key to pervasive biomedical racketeering, about which prescribers are so proud. Not the scary old world chemo being prescribed anymore. Lower cost options don’t let the patient feel special or the prescriber to be a financial hero.
The quiet secret is that the MD is committing their trusting patient to the best possible experience of a disease presumed deadly... so what a deal for $10s of $1000’s per month... symptom free progression. Modern tech!... Symptoms are so suppressed the patient doesn’t know how close to death they are.
What BS. It all makes for Dr applause for being accurate in predications. The newer the product patent the narrower the range of uncertainty about timing and quality of the dying process.
I lost my doctor of a partner to a Canadian atypical chemo treatment for an inferred brain tumour secondary to lung cyst. The secret is that the best pathology equipment still can’t tell you if the tumour containing non-human DNA is really just an intracellular microbial infection. With my partner, we used a radical shift in diet to shrink the tumours 80% in two months while the heroic MD set up government funding to pay for the novel chemo that allowed symptom free progression.
Family agreed with the MD who said the tumour shrinkage was just luck so my partner needed the chemo ‘just for a sense of security’. No need to gamble. People with that (inferred) diagnoses were expected to last 18 months. Brilliant doctors got the funding and then hands off as six different specialists tracked his regrow (progress) through 18 months of having his body silently ruined by the drug. Ok few other real cancer symptoms other than feeling weak with less and less energy... for a perfect 18 months and he was gone.
Perfect prediction. The drug is like the money ball,
If high paid MDs and specialists don’t play the money game and take their role as the person who controls suffering through death, they can be replaced. It’s about the money and predictability ‘baby.’
Sounds like that cancer drug trial has turned up another winner... money making drug that is. But heck, it’s no worse than COVID treatments. Standard protocol.early on defied known medical literature and common sense. Tell people they’ll die if they don’t go to the hospital fast. Overwhelm EDs with people distressed by difficulty breathing. So put them on a ventilator and give them one or two palliative drugs to suppress their distress... and breathing. That was the 2920 protocol. All cause mortality drops, COVID takes the count.
Yep- And we still assume doctors are kind and think beyond their mechanical guidelines. Big emerge pay if you take the Faucian bargain:
Cancer? AIDS? HIV? Heart problems? Sane deal: The inexpensive remedies and effective vaccines have been held off the market. So the worried people asume that COVID is deadly to everyone and the emergency declared by Americans (funding viral patents), is true. Declare a pandemic! Scare the public and doctors. It warrants palliative meds as the basis to care... everybody dies eventually. Suppress breathing so there’s no distress.
The sales of breathing suppressants spiked in parallel with hospital admissions and deaths...and the drug sales creeped up with each less lethal variant so people are still lost because they feel they have to go to hospital.
If you haven’t found the COVID paper publishing that data showing death correlated with use of inappropriately deadly drug regimes... please look it up.
Then tell us again how this isn’t quite what you signed up for as a doctor.
I am sad and horrified by it all... and not sure I am patient anymore with medical pros who keep following deadly money grubbing protocols. Thankful for any conscientious doctors’ expression of concerns. Yet... wonder:
What do you and thoughtful MDs do about it? Start using age-old therapies to reverse conditions by supporting health? Nah... we know there’s no money in it. Gun free peace and widespread health just doesn’t keep universities funded or media stars going, nor keep employed the best minds in the most technologically advanced nation in the world. Just ask Bing or ChatGPT. AI garbage-in-garbage out and we know the predictive tech works. Lets automate treatments that fail to lengthen life, and we can be perfect in our predictions. It’s ‘like’ US HSS and Medicate is a military operation.
Thanks for writing about it. Seriously. Sad it’s new to some, yet the same old since the Flexner Report. 110 years back and big money paid for that report to say doctors responsibility was to families of sick people. MDs need to be able to tell them how their loved one died. If it’s a tumour, they died of cancer... meantime someone can claim to try helping the person by prescribing the drug.
When and how do you say NO?
No liability to admit... there’s a good life for players in the iatrogenic extravaganza. Capitalism at its best! Disease driven discovery in American style patent BioWars. MDs are proud proxy marketers.
Go Dog Go.
(And still, thank you for your writing).
You are the courageous MDs we need more of. Lead on...with conviction in the fact that you are supported and loved!!
As the adult son of a surgeon with a 40 year career and counting I'm beginning to think that most drug-based treatments are a scam. I'm not talking about antibiotics and well-worn medications but rather all of these 'innovative" drugs.
I am only involved in medicine as a software engineer and data analyst.
Am I correct that while cancers have decreased slightly since smoking was canceled that despite that small reduction the overall increase in cancer since the late 1700’ has been astronomical? Is it true that the few hunter gatherer tribes left have almost no cancer?
I think we are barking up the wrong tree looking for a pharmacopeia solution. The cure for cancer is staring at us from the pot roast.
And what of Jim Tippens cancer protocol therapy that is based on Fenbendazole treatment with various supplements?
Is anyone aware of this? Is it valid information?
Has anyone seen the new Substack entitled "Fenbendazole Can Cure Cancer" with all it's documentated case studies of cancer cures?
Is there any validity to the claims made on this Substack?
Apparently the similar anti-parasitic Ivermectin also has the capacity to cure cancer. Does anyone know anything about this?
Great post. When your intellectual prodding evokes retaliatory lashing out, it’s cuz you hit on one of their “tender points”. I’d keep pushing, and harder.
I echo Dr. Schaeffer’s comment (and of course Dr. Mandrola has made this point eloquently on numerous occasions). New drugs (or therapies) need to show benefits in “real” clinical outcomes, and not just in meaningless surrogate endpoints. This is becoming a recurring issue in cardiology as well.
It means even more trials (and therapies) will fail to pass that test. That does have implications for encouraging industry investment. Perhaps the reward (eg. Patent protection) for a truly game changing therapy needs to be more substantial. I don’t know the answer. But the status quo is most troubling.
Ditto for many Cardiology trials. After enduring several head-scratching conclusions and overtly biased and flawed trials, I cancelled my subscription to NEJM. The Boston school masking study was the final straw.
So where do we go now? When will Sensible Medicine begin offering to publishing original, well-done or at least honest trials?
Thank you. Please stick to this thinking.
And you don’t see the similar problems and manipulations in the “official” ivermectin trials?