The Grey Lady begins its hopelessly naive article as such.
About 400 cancer drugs from 178 companies are in clinical trials, according to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association. That is twice the number of drugs in trials for illnesses like Alzheimer's disease and depression and nearly three times as many as for heart attack and stroke.
400 drugs! Wow! Bigger numbers MUST mean better treatments.......
For patients, the flood of drugs is generally good news because it means a better chance of finding one, or a combination, that will work for them. "From the standpoint of the patients there is never too many," said Dr. Robert J. Motzer, a kidney cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Does Motzer have stock in Pfiser and Glaxo? He sounds like one of these big pharma whores, er, I mean cheerleaders.
Sarcasm aside -- listen up cancer patients. These people view you as a customer, not a patient. They will try any and all drugs on you -- as long as they get paid for the drugs.
They will prey on your fears -- they will prey on your ill-health. Be very, very skeptical. Be strong.
And don't forget new return-of the-living-dead HPV vaccine campain, debunked by Peter Duesberg way back in 1992. (see virusmyth.net "Latent Viruse and Mutated Oncogenes" paper).
Posted by: Gene Semon | June 13, 2006 at 05:27 PM
Also available right here!
Peter Duesberg => Scientific Papers
Duesberg, P. H. and Schwartz, J. R. (1992) Latent viruses and mutated oncogenes: no evidence for pathogenicity
(Prog Nucleic Acid Res Mol Biol 43: 135-204)
Posted by: Gene Semon | June 13, 2006 at 05:33 PM
Hey Gene Semon,
Great citation to Duesberg:
"In a controlled study of age-matched women 67% of those with cervical cancer and 43% of those without were found to be HPV positive. (Reeves et al, Int. J. Cancer 40, 450 (1987). These cancers are observed on average only 20-50 years after infection. (zur Hausen, Cancer Res. 49, 4677 (1989)."
Sounds like ubiquitous viruses, to me. Dare I even ask whether HPV has satisfied Kochs' Postulates?
Welcome, Gene -- hope to see you here often!
HankBarnes
Posted by: HankBarnes | June 13, 2006 at 05:49 PM