Breast Cancer = big business

Anonymous

How do you feel about GM foods......also the brain child of the pharma companies.

snowyday

Hi Yazmin:  Whenever I get really stressed I watch Animal Planet and that lead me to finding out about the Rain Forests being chopped down for palm oil plantations and that in turn is leaving Orangutans without their forests, it's completly wrong and it's affecting our whole world but for the animals it's making me so angry. So now I watch for and refuse to buy any foods or makeup,lotions etc with palm oil in it, also called steric acid among other names.  If you look up BBC and organgutans you can read about it as well.  This might sound crazy buy my dream all my life is to spend a year or more volunteering with primates in any way I can. So learning about this happening in Indonesia has really upset me.  I'm babbling sorry, but I know your an advocate for things that are wrong and just wanted to share this with you.pearl49

Yazmin

Indeed, snowyday: I also watch the Animal Channel, because I love animals (they have no hidden agendas and they are pure love). And the situation with the Orangutans (and the gorillas) drives me crazy. Those are intelligent, sensitive, and social "animals" (animals only in the sense that humans are animals, too). And it is true that mankind will pay dearly for what we are doing to them.

Isn't it amazing that cancer rates are so much lower in under-developed countries, where people might live in mud houses, but eat a natural diet all their life (perhaps millet for breakfast, a stew made of antioxydant-filled leaves and a little bit of onion, no meat because they cannot afford it, and if they are lucky, another natural porridge for dinner).

Food for thought, indeed.

Yazmin

And Twinkly wrote:

"...The golden question is.....Are we ever going to be able to prevent breast cancer, when the pharmaceutical companies that profit from treating it are driving the research fundraising agenda?"

• I am not going to go beating around the bush here. The answer is 
•                               NO, indeed 

Anonymous

This is always an interesting topic to me.  Prevention is an interesting concept.  That does seem to be the focus lately.  And Im happy, cause it will affect those who are not yet diagnosed with cancer.  Yet, whenever my PCP orders a test, my insurance company will frequently say they wont cover "preventitive medicine." 

Now that I have breast cancer - Im beyond the prevention part.  Im looking for a cure!! 

Cancer is BIG business.  But my hope is that more money goes into research for a cure. 

Pharmaceutical companies?  Goodness, I dont even want to go there.  Im so sick of the millions of dollars they are spending on Marketing.  Seems like there is a commercial for one medication or another everywhere you go.  When you go to your physicians office.  Take a look at all the gifts and lunches they receive.  Pens, kleenex boxes, cups and every other gadget you could think of. 

There are now colored ribbons for each kind of cancer.  And I wonder where the profit from buying these ribbons goes to.

I pray for a cure.

Nicki