3 Things You Didn t Know About Future Cancer Research
Матеріал з Луцький НВК "Гімназія №14"
"Fight cancer", "Beat cancer" are very popular expressions these days, and it is good so. Although October, the Breast cancer research and treatments Awareness Month is over, one can still see many people wearing pink ribbons on their own jackets, which is a demonstration of their will to help those women who have problems with this disease. Which can be very much appreciated and should be acknowledged. Fundraising and information events, web sites, donations, merchandise, advertisements all over the media, groups on social networking sites, individuals spreading the phrase - attention will be given to the topic and considerable amount of cash is collected.
On the flip side, looking just a little bit closer, as a cancer survivor myself who studied the subject from the most various resources available for public, I personally have some questions, doubts and reservations about these research programs and might be a bad person, but I did not donate one single cent and not intend to do so. Tell you why.
Fight. A key word when speaking about cancer.
How do you best fight to ensure that you win? You know your enemy.
A problem - any problem - can be only handled if one knows the exact cause of it. This will be clear - how else do you solve a situation, if you don't know what is it exactly?
Let's take cancer of the breast, it looks like this: on a yearly basis $ millions are spent to find out the causes of cancer And a lot more importantly, develop new treatments. Let me suggest: treatments can be only effective once they target the root of the problem... "The exact causes of cancer of the breast are not known." In reality, based on the publicly available statements, causes of cancer are a mystery for the medical field.
The theory of changed or damaged genes is wide spread, and an information video on the Medical News Today site gives just a little hint on why does it occur: "Damage or change within the genetic material of cells by environmental of internal factors sometimes results in cells that don't die and continue to multiply until a huge cancer cell or tumor develops."
Excellent. The next step would be then to investigate these environmental or internal factors that damage or change the genetic material of cells, wouldn't it?
The environmental factors are virtually known for the scientists and then for the public: bad nutrition, tobacco, certain chemicals that we use, etc. Cancer research should go then in the direction of eliminating these factors: educating the population on correct eating habits, cutting back the usage of harmful chemicals, and so on. And cancer treatment would primarily consist of targeting the cause of cancer, the main reason why those genes got changed or damaged: increasing certain vitamins and other nutrition supplements, cleansing and physical exercise that can help the human body push out the accumulated toxins, boosting the own self defense of one's body, the immune system and so forth.
But this is not how it goes. Cancer researches deal mostly with developing the conventional therapies by official medicine: new drugs, radiation, hormones and surgery. And cancer treatments obtainable in hospitals are mainly about giving chemotherapy and such to the patients. Can anyone see how adding extra chemicals in to the already overwhelmed and weakened system would help the body to recover? Because it will not.
