The two million American men and women who are leading the fight against cancer: I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is and so it will be. The best is lost. The honest look, the laughter, the love, they are gone, they are gone to feed the rose. I know but I do not approve. And I am not resigned. Joan Crawford
I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma,
Which kills more chaps, in fact,
Than were bumped off when Troy was sacked. J B S Haldane, Cancer’s a Funny Thing
Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level ... Any time I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of. Kurt Cobain
I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process. Christopher Hitchens
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs. Paul Davies
I know of absolutely no, and I mean absolutely no, means of prevention that would save so many lives as simply to stop fluoridation, or don’t start it where it is otherwise going to be started. There you might save 30,000 or 40,000 or 50,000 lives a year – cancer lives. That is an awful lot of lives a year. Dr Dean Burk, National Cancer Institute
In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer death, and causes it faster than any other chemical. Dr Dean Burke, Congressional record
Ten people under the age of twenty-four will be diagnosed with cancer today. Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day I, BBC 2013
Although cancer remains Britain’s biggest killer, survival rates are better than ever. Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day V
It’s estimated around 90,000 die every year after being placed on the LCP on the NHS. It was designed for cancer patients. Dispatches: Death on the Wards, Channel 4 2013
And even food and drink can be stopped. ibid.
The LCP is close to legalised euthanasia. ibid.
Can doctors accurately tell when someone is dying? ibid.
Marion died after twelve days on the Liverpool Care Pathway. ibid.
The Liverpool Care Pathway is accepted practice in most hospitals. ibid.
It would surprise me enormously if in twenty years the treatment of cancer had not been transformed. Dr Mike Stratton, Cancer Genome Project
Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, ‘Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.’ Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward. There are no cocky souls in a cancer ward. But there’s a lot of pain, not just of the excruciating physical kind that they shoot you full of morphine to smother. There are a lot of tears. All round. It is hard to say goodbye to the people you love. And it’s scary. Cancer wards have a way of knocking the cockiness out of you. And for what? Another cigarette? Tony Parsons
The claim is that the State Department also targeted [Hugo] Chavez, and by knowing his DNA the CIA was then able to develop a weapon that would cause him to develop a virulent form of cancer. Kennedy Killings: The CIA Conspiracy, Channel 5
Claims that seven Latin American presidents developed cancer around the same time as President Chavez. ibid.
There’s a community of people in Britain that’s growing every day. It’s big. There are two and a half million of us … We all have cancer … Nearly a thousand more join us every day. The Big C & Me, BBC 2016
At least half of us will survive. The Big C & Me II
One that’s always near the top of the watch list is losing our hair. ibid.
Some cancers are not as bad as you might think. The Big C & Me III
The death sentence that cancer once handed out to us has been reduced to life. ibid.
Conventional cancer therapies are producing cures in certain cancers. Other cancer conditions cannot yet be cured. Essiac and Cancer: The Story of Rene Caisse and Essiac Tea, 2010
A drug developed over the last fifty years by Miss Rene Caisse can benefit the body and decrease pain while a patient undergoes conventional therapy … Essiac is not in use. ibid.
Cancer, Health Disease and Dementia … ‘can be traced back to cells’ … by curing these illnesses we should be able to extend our lives even further. Sir Paul Nurse, How to Live Longer: The Big Think, BBC 2017
Half of us will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in our lives. ibid.
GcMAF removes a number of diseases from the body including cancer, without side effects. Our regulatory consultants in the UK call it the God Protein … For 25 years governments, Big Pharma, regulatory authorities and the medical industries have denied you access to GcMAF. And they are ruthlessly determined to keep it that way. David Noakes, lecture Alternative View 6 conference, ‘Big Pharma and the Cancer Scam’
If a cancer cure were discovered outside of formal medical institutions, would these doctors ever know about it? Would it ever reach the general public? Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime aka Quacks Who Cured Cancer? introduction, 1987
The story of the Hoxsey cancer treatment is a classical case history of these medical politics; many patients believe the Hoxsey treatment cures cancer. ibid.
Medical authorities claim Hoxsey is a hoax; they outlawed the therapy in the United States without a scientific investigation. ibid.
The clinic uses two treatments: an internal and an external. The internal treatment is the Hoxsey tonic … a non-toxic herbal tonic, a nutritional programme, an attitudinal approach to healing … It started a cancer war. ibid.
Ex-coal miner with an eighth-grade education. ibid.
Hoxsey started his first clinic in Illinois in 1924 and he immediately incurred the wrath of organized medicine. ibid.
The AMA attack was relentless. ibid.
Harry Hoxsey generally opposed conventional treatment but when he himself developed prostate cancer he faced every patient’s dilemma. He took his own tonic but it didn’t work for him. Finally, he had the very surgery he criticised. He lived on for seven years. ibid.
The conflict of medical opinion between Hoxsey and the doctors is a competition between two old medical traditions … doctors called allopaths or natural healers called empirics or homeopaths. ibid.
Thousands of us who die of cancer every year could be saved if British diagnosis and screening were up to the standard of comparable countries around the world. Yet the National Health Service bowel cancer’s screening is second rate. Exposure: Too Late to Save Your Life, ITV 2013
Britain has a history of poor cancer survival rates. ibid.
Bowel, prostate and lung cancer kill almost 60,000 people in Britain every year: that’s almost 40% of our cancer deaths. ibid.
There’s no lung cancer screening programme. ibid.
A man who callously conned his local community out of more than £200,000. In true psychopathic fashion Glenn Rycroft cold-heatedly manipulated his friends, his family and his community by doing the unthinkable: pretending he had cancer. Conmen Case Files s1e2: Glenn Rycroft: The Cancer Con
Working as an air steward, Rycroft approached his friends, family and neighbours with an amazingly lucrative but completely fictitious British Airways investment. ibid.
His dramatic and unfounded claims of an inexplicable cult controlling his every whim were rejected by the judge, and the callous cancer conman received a custodial sentence … ‘a four year sentence.’ ibid.
I have cancer. Lung cancer. It’s bad. Breaking Bad s1e4: Cancer Man, Walter’s dinner table confession, AMC 2008
Early decisions, accurate diagnoses and effective treatment have brought about marked reductions in mortality. Our knowledge of cancer has grown tremendously in recent years. War in the Blood: A Cure for Cancer, old black and white information film, BBC 2019
Dr Martin Pule is a pioneer on ‘Car T-Cell Therapy’ which he believes could provide a historic breakthrough in cancer treatment. Phase 1 trials are only an option for terminally ill patients who have exhausted all other treatments. ibid.