Report concludes: Less Cure please, more Preventoin

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jenrio
jenrio Member Posts: 558
edited June 2014 in Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results

Delightful report!   We don't need cure any more.   We just need Prevention!   Thousands of chemicals, new ones being released into environment every year with NO research.   We will delve into all of them and immediately see how it will prevent or cause breast cancer (the kind of information that says newly invented chemical YZT78444 will cause 5% breast cancer over 10 years in women now undergoing puperty).    Too much money into cure already, total waste.   Anyone who got BC mets, tough luck!   All seeing surveillance data will recommend everyone else to go live in antarctica or wear gas masks for 1 year during fetal period, 5 years during puberty and 1 year for each pregnancy AND exercise every day AND eat no meat or diary instead just eat like a rabbit.   If after 20 years, the now 35 year old still gets breast cancer, she could go back to the equally composed committee and ask for a refund?    

"Prevention can be accelerated", how?   Maybe through immediate death by another cause?  LOL

"A lot of money, by both government and non-government agencies, has been dedicated to research in diagnosing and curing breast cancer, the committee found. Very little has been spent on research to prevent breast cancer from occurring in the first place."   

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/health/report-faults-priorities-in-breast-cancer-research.html?_r=0

http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/health/20130212-federal-report-recommends-more-research-in-breast-cancer.ece

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  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited February 2013

    Surprised

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited February 2013

    #snerk

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  • Raili
    Raili Member Posts: 435
    edited February 2013

    There needs to be a big increase in money spent on prevention efforts, but NOT at the expense of research for a cure.  I propose that we cut the bloated military budget and divert some of THAT funding towards prevention efforts!

    It is ridiculous that there are 80,000+ chemicals in use today that have not been tested for safety.  Carcinogenic and endocrine-disrupting chemicals should not be allowed in food, household and bodycare products.  I fully support the Safe Chemicals Act .  We all deserve protection from environmental toxins that increase our risk of cancer or a recurrence of cancer. 

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  • jenrio
    jenrio Member Posts: 558
    edited February 2013

    We live in the world of tablets and smart phones. How many chemicals went into manufacturing of these?   Which ones will bio-accumulate in what plant or animal food we ingest?   Which ones will cause toxic effect in human body from fetus on?           In addition to the millions of NOT tested or sparsely tested chemicals already in the environment.    You won't know until it's too late no matter how many billion you use to support the safety.

    Meanwhile,  apple is working on iWatch that uses flexible glass.   What goes into the making of flexible glass?   Other companies are working on 3-d printing and robotics and space technology, radiological equipment to treat cancer, etc etc.   What goes into the making of these?    Are you sure you know?   Will you pay billions to know even though the knowledge will come too late for you and could not save anyone even with the knowledge?

    Inventors will continue to invent.   Consumers will continue to consume.    Scientists will continue to understand cancer and perhaps find the cure.   Prevention?     You are trying to find and prevent a million moving targets, why not work on time travel instead?

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  • Raili
    Raili Member Posts: 435
    edited February 2013

    There's some good news here -

    http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2013/01/121-a16/

    Creating safer chemicals is A) possible, and B) increasingly good for business!

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  • Raili
    Raili Member Posts: 435
    edited February 2013

    If more money and time was spent on chemical reform - e.g. seriously reducing, if not banning, the use of chemicals like BPA - it would benefit ALL of us who have ever received a breast cancer diagnosis, right now.  Studies have shown that chemicals like BPA reduce the effectiveness of breast cancer medications. 

    OF COURSE there needs to be more time and money spent on research for a cure for breast cancer, or at the very least, medications that are simultaneously more effective and less toxic than the current ones.  But this work must be done in conjunction with reducing endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the environment.  What if scientists create an awesome new drug to treat breast cancer.....

    ....but the chemicals in the environment increase and block the drug from working??

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