Cancer Treatment: A Multi Billion Dollar Shakedown

In 2006 I heard those dreaded words: “I think it is cancer.” I was not surprised, but I was shocked. I was not surprised because so many people now days get that dreaded disease. But, I had not smoked for over 40 years at that time: and, I had read many articles on how the body starts to recover from smoking the moment you stop. I was shocked because the words were directed from my German doctor to me. But, it was bladder cancer: not lung cancer.

I came to the realization that something was dreadfully wrong with my health on the last day of school on June 15, 2006.  I had just finished preparing my class room for the summer.  All items were neatly stored and the principal of the Department of Defense School where I taught, had released me for the summer.

I drove the seven or so miles home with the bike trips I had so diligently planed swarming in my head.  “Wow!  What a great day to be alive.”

When I arrived home, around noon, my wife was cooking.  I went to the restroom to wash and pee.  “My gosh: what’s that”, I thought as I saw a muddy stream flowing from my body.

It  was only a matter of a few days and the German doctors had me on the operating table and back home.

I wish I could say that was my last and only brush with cancer:  but sadly, it was not.  My sister–four years older–had died of pancreatic cancer some years before.  Later, my wonderful and beloved son–Scott–of 40 was to be taken from us with that hateful and deplorable disease.

And, today: I’m sitting in a little room in Weimar, Germany mourning the death of–Dolores–my wife and life partner of 56 years.  She was taken from me at 0815 on the morning of 21 September 2024 by that monster:  liver cancer.

It is true: we all are going to die at some point. Hebrews 9:27 tells us:  “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment”:  But, to some degree, we have a choice of how we die.  It can be with dignity, and little or no pain.  Or, it can be with horrible and horrendous pain.  

We contribute to our choice of death daily by what we choose to put or not put into our mouths.  Our choices are structured around what we allow into or on our bodies.

What do we choose to eat?  What do we choose to drink.  What do we choose to bath or shower in.  On and on:  we make these choices daily, sometimes almost unconsciously. 

As I have said, in my wife’s eulogy:  there are two things I hate. I deplore them: illegal drugs–and most legal ones–and cancer.  They kill slowly and they are  so preventable. 

Why do I say I hate most legal drugs?  You may say “well if we didn’t have all our modern day medicine we would get sick and die.”

Well, that is only partially accurate.  But, I will give you this:  if we continue to do those things that made us sick in the first place, we may need to have some medications until we get our bodies back into such state it can repair itself.

Take a type one diabetic:  he or she must take insulin or die  On the other hand, a type two diabetic, at least initially, does not need to take insulin,  He or she already makes too much insulin.  The body has just stopped utilizing it properly.  This is called insulin resistance.  We will get into the reasons in a later article.

So on the one hand, you would be correct to assume that without the modern day drug, insulin,  the type one diabetic  would die.

In the other instance–the type two diabetic–needs to change lifestyles.  We will discuss this later as well.

Now, let’s take a look at big pharmaceutical’s most profitable drug, the various statins.

I am a retired biology, anatomy, health, and general science educator.  I have went on to become double certified in nutrition from the University of Florida and Cornell. I think it might follow that I have a very modest idea of how our body processes food.

Also being a double major, the other agriculture sciences, I do know somewhat how foods are grown and processed in our modern society:  and, it’s not a pretty picture.  But we will reserve that for a future discussion.

Why are we a nation of pill poppers?   Why do so many, most, people not achieve the bible’s and science’s estimated life expectancy of 120 years?

Modern medical facilities are big business: profit is the bottom line.  Doctors expend inordinate amount of money, time and effort achieving that sought after medical degree and licence. 

Many, if not most, are not in the business for self gratification or for thanklessly pursuing the original Greek oath: “I will apply dietetic and lifestyle measures to help the sick to my best ability and judgment; I will protect them from harm and injustice.” 

If you don’t believe me, go to any doctor and ask what you should be eating to cure type two diabetes.  Most will tell you it is not curable and make you an appointment with a diatition.  That is because most doctors get only three hours of nutrition in all their medical schooling.

So why the title of this article? “Cancer Treatment:A Multi Billion Dollar Shakedown”