| Breast cancer cures is a topic of intense interest | | | | did not advocate the use of treatments such as |
| among women today because, according to the | | | | vaccines to prevent and cure illness as tantamount to |
| American Cancer Society (ACS), after lung cancer, it | | | | quackery and charlatanism." |
| is the second leading cause of cancer death among | | | | In the last 100 years, that marginalization has become |
| women. It is estimated that 40,480 women will die | | | | institutionalized, as the influence of these foundations |
| from breast cancer this year. | | | | and corporate interests have come to dominate both |
| Breast cancer is the second most common cancer | | | | the curriculum, and the research programs, of all |
| diagnosed among women in the US, after skin | | | | medical schools. According to researcher, G. Edward |
| cancers. Of American women who live to 85, one in | | | | Griffin, these foundations have invested over a billion |
| eight will develop breast cancer. This is up from one | | | | dollars in the medical schools of America, since 1910. |
| in 14 in 1960. The rising number of women afflicted | | | | The close connection between these foundations and |
| with breast cancer has lead to a huge increase in | | | | the corporations that profit directly from patented |
| fund raising for research into breast cancer cures. | | | | treatments has been researched and explained in |
| While estimates of the total amount spent on breast | | | | great detail by Griffin and a host of others. |
| cancer research vary considerably, there is no doubt | | | | It requires courage and determination to do your |
| that the amount is in the billions of dollars. According | | | | own research into alternative, or non-biomedical |
| to BreastCancer.org this research has lead to "...an | | | | treatments of breast cancer. You must fore-go the |
| overwhelming menu of treatment choices that fight | | | | security that is offered by conforming to the breast |
| the complex mix of cells in each individual cancer. The | | | | cancer cures of mainstream allopathic medicine. You |
| decisions - surgery, then perhaps radiation, hormonal | | | | must be willing to trust your own judgment. What |
| (anti-estrogen) therapy, and/or chemotherapy - can | | | | you will discover in your research is a century long |
| feel overwhelming." | | | | saga that is rich in drama, political and financial intrigue, |
| Breast cancer cures is a hotly debated topic today | | | | and genuine heroic geniuses who developed many |
| because more and more patients are seeking | | | | successful treatments for cancer, including at least |
| information on alternative cancer treatments that are | | | | two Nobel Prize winners. These treatments cured |
| less invasive than the standard protocols of surgery, | | | | many patients of cancer and extended the lives of |
| radiation and chemotherapy. In fact the demand for | | | | thousands of individuals before they were banned or |
| alternative treatments is growing every year, in | | | | discredited by the medical establishment. |
| every field of medicine. | | | | In fact, when you investigate the field with an open |
| To illustrate, consider this revealing study, published in | | | | mind, you'll discover an amazing variety of alternative |
| The Journal of Alternative and Complementary | | | | treatment options that have been demonstrated to |
| Medicine, in June 2000, by K. Allen Greiner, et al. This | | | | cure a wide variety of cancers. |
| paper reported on a survey of enrolled medical | | | | The "inconvenient truth", however, usually not |
| students. It reported that 84% of the students felt | | | | mentioned in mainstream discussions of breast cancer |
| that knowledge about alternative medical therapies | | | | cures, is that institutional research and treatment of |
| would be important to them as future physicians. | | | | cancer is a multi-billion dollar industry that is protected |
| However, only 6% felt they would get adequate | | | | by some of the largest and most powerful |
| exposure to these therapies during their medical | | | | corporations in the world. All cancer cures that use |
| school education. | | | | non-patentable, readily available substances, or low |
| To understand why alternative treatments and cures | | | | cost, tabletop technology, threaten the financial |
| are not taught in medical school, it helps to know the | | | | interests this industry. This is the real reason that |
| history of how modern medicine has come to be | | | | research into such cures is not pursued and that they |
| defined, and controlled. Modern medicine was first | | | | are discredited by mainstream medicine. |
| defined by The Flexner Report, published in 1910, | | | | This is a fact that you will do well to keep it in mind |
| under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation. This | | | | as you continue your research into breast cancer |
| report was adopted by the American Medical | | | | cures. Consider the interests behind all information |
| Association as a guideline for reshaping the curriculum | | | | that you research, mainstream as well as alternative, |
| of medical education throughout the country. The | | | | and, in making your choice of treatment, evaluate |
| Flexner Report led to a standardized curriculum in | | | | the risks versus the potential benefits of every |
| medical schools nationwide, with a single-minded focus | | | | option. |
| on the protocols of mainstream science. | | | | After nearly 2,500 years, the words of Hippocrates, |
| This was the beginning of the marginalization of | | | | still provide the clearest guidance in choosing our |
| alternatives to biomedicine because, according to | | | | medical treatments; "As to diseases, make a habit of |
| Wikipedia, "Flexner clearly doubted the scientific | | | | two things - to help, or at least to do no harm." And, |
| validity of all forms of medicine other than | | | | "Natural forces within us are the true healers of |
| biomedicine, deeming any approach to medicine that | | | | disease. |