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Cancer the Business has access to a huge market full of opportunities If you ever wanted untold wealth enter into the world of cancer treatment. It costs the world economy nearly $3 trillion dollars every year. This costs study was carried out by The American Cancer Society and Livestronger®.

The report written by American Cancer Society researches Rijo M. John, PhD, director of international tobacco control research, and Hans Ross, PhD, strategic director of international tobacco control research, reveals that cancer has the largest economic impact.

Lets see how long has the war on cancer has been going on. Evidently not long enough. Cutting to the chase this is one heck of a profitable condition. With the stakes so high a cure isn’t around the corner. The state of the industry depends on this revenue stream.

Consumer confidence should be at an all time low. However, when this is the only game in town it is a sustainable business model. This comes from is having fostered a fear based culture around the condition. The entrepreneurial spirit lives and thrives in the creation of pharmaceutical products to treat this. The approach is the same old, same old one. It is fueled by the creation of one drug after another.

Product Development

New product development comes from the pharmaceutical companies that are looking to foster long term growth for the industry. People suffer, but are not top priority. For if they were the one thing they wouldn’t want are repeat sales.

But, feeling good is not the name of the game. Boosting the immune system wasn’t even a topic of discussion until recently. What treatment does at this time is escalate the cost and suffering. This is a doom and gloom outlook, considering that Cancer isn’t an external factor, but an inside job.

Cancer means some tough decisions, and you can’t go ahead and make them without all the facts. The whole purpose of Your Health Updates is to inform. We know who has some valuable information that needs to be seen and heard.

We need a shift in how we think about his condition, and the people on the front lines are the ones that teach about health and wellness. From Mike Adam, Doug Kaufmann, David Wolfe, and others who only talk about nutrition. The medical doctors, researches, and centers on the forefront of successfully helping people heal make up a whole other list.

Believe it or not, many people have turned this condition around themselves. They realized that lifestyle is the most important factor.

Cancer Treatment a Word of Caution

When we say cancer treatment a word of caution, we mean paragraphs full of cautionary warnings.

There is a relatively new medication for pancreatic cancer. It is a drug used for advanced liver and kidney cancer and appears to be effective against cancer stem cells in pancreatic cancer. The drug sorafenib inhibited typical properties of cancer stem cells from pancreas tumors and greatly reduced tumor growth. The effect lasted four weeks before new colonies of cancer stem cells formed that no longer reacted to a further treatment with sorafenib.

Well if that isn’t a breakthrough I don’t know what is. Except for these side effects we have a winner.

The drug manufacture claims that you will not get all the side effects, and they are almost always reversible, will go away after therapy is complete, and of course are quite manageable. It’s a promise that isn’t guaranteed in writing. These are the garden variety of problems.

Constipation; diarrhea; dry skin; hair thinning or loss; headache; loss of appetite; mouth, bone, muscle, stomach, or joint pain; nausea; tiredness; vomiting; weakness; weight loss.

These are the big boys. Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur when using Sorafenib:

Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); black, tarry stools; chest pain; confusion; coughing or vomiting blood; decreased sexual ability; decreased urination; depression; fainting; fever, chills, or sore throat; irregular heartbeat; mouth sores; numbness of an arm or leg; one-sided weakness; redness, pain, swelling, numbness, tingling, or blisters on the palms of hands or soles of feet; seizures; severe or persistent dizziness; severe stomach pain; shortness of breath; speech changes; sudden severe headache or vomiting; sudden weight gain; swelling of the ankles, hands, or feet; unusual bruising or bleeding; vision changes; yellowing of the eyes or skin.

This is just part one, wait there are more delightful surprises. Come back and see for yourself the drawbacks of these kind of drugs.

Medicine impending danger to the public is that it is going to take over every aspect of our lives.

Medicine

Medicine is the looming giant is our mists. There isn’t a human function that can’t be made better by a prescription. From pregnancy, ADHD, toenail fungus, erectile dysfunction, dry eye, pre-diabetes, pre-high blood pressure, pre-high cholesterol readings, behavior problems, bed wetting, pain relief, sleep aids, acid reflux, depression, addictions, constipation, and rashes.

The recent history of allopathic care is one that has evolved to define and treat everything as a medical problem. Most common conditions can be traced to lifestyle. As such are not meant to be treated as medical afflictions. The medical community is standing guard over every human function by introducing pharmaceutical solutions.

Research Into The Cost    

Researchers, let by Brandeis sociologist Peter Conrad, evaluated 12 conditions that have been medicalized by physical organizations, and for which there were medical spending data. The other conditions considered in the study were anxiety, and behavioral disorders; body image; male pattern baldness’ normal sadness, obesity, sleep disorders, and substance-related disorders.

Conrad and his colleagues analyzed medical spending on these types of problems. The payments to hospitals, pharmacies, physicians, and other health care providers, and discovered that they accounted for $77.1 billion in medical spending in 2005-3.9 percent of total domestic health care expenditures.  

 ”We spend more on these conditions than on cancer, heart disease, or public health,” said Conrad. “While medicalzation is unlikely to be a key driver of skyrocketing health care costs, $77 billion represents a substantial dollar sum.”

The Danger Of This Trend

The danger of this trend is in medicine’s growing jurisdiction.

Children can be taken away from parents and put into the states custody if the parents refuse certain treatments.

There is an increase in consumer demands for medical solutions for lifestyle generated problems. More Americans think that health is in an encapsulated, blister packed, shrink and cello wrapped substance. They want the fountain of youth coming from the latest technology. The new consumers think the right ingredients are in packaged cartons with label warnings. What’s in it  for the pharmaceutical company is unlimited opportunity to boost their bottom line. Novel approaches to health are not in a tube, pill, or formulation.

The pharmaceutical industry is expanding into the areas where they see a potential profit, and where there is the greatest opportunity for growth.

When $77 billion is considered unlikely to be a key driver of skyrocketing health care cost, than the spending is out of hand. Our dependence on a pharmaceutical solution is hands down one of the biggest threats to our physical and financial health.