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151 sats \ 11 replies \ @kepford 10 Jan \ on: We're winning the war on cancer HealthAndFitness

Call me skeptical. Not of the statistics but of the winning aspect.

Based on my experience we are no where near winning. It seems to me that modern medicine doesn't even understand the disease at this point and the main treatments for it are barbaric. Poison your body to kill the cancer and how the poison doesn't kill you first. Cut the cancer out and hope it doesn't come back.

Very little focus is applied to what actually is causing it and how we can reduce its occurrence.

Lost my mother to cancer and currently have two friends in traditional treatment and one doing non-traditional methods. To me it still feels like we are in the blood letting stage of fighting cancer.

67 sats \ 0 replies \ @charonnakamoto 11 Jan

Indeed, we are in the bloodletting phase of curing cancer. Modern medicine is good when it comes to surgeries- oh, you have a blocked valve, so let me open that up. Biological plumbing fixes for specified systems(cardiology vs nephrology). It's never good for multi-systemic issues such as metabolic disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, cancer, etc. Modern medicine is also tuned more for immediate life-threatening situations (heart attack) instead of chronic diseases(cancers).

We need a ground-up overhaul of modern medicine!

PS: Dont even get me started on perverse pharma incentives.

73 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bell_curve 11 Jan

aren't childhood cancers rare to begin with?

lung cancer is down among 20 year olds... this is cause for celebration?

edit: regarding non traditional treatments, is it Ivermectin?

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @398ja 22h

The use of ivm against cancer is still very new, and not well understood, though promising, afaik. Non-traditional is usually with diet (keto), and absolutely no sugar. Lookup Pr. Thomas Seyfried on YouTube, it's a fascinating and very promising subject. Also, if interested, here's the YouTube channel of a patient who's documenting his experience after a stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis. He beat the cancer, was cancer-free for several years but then relapsed and is again fighting it with the same method, and apparently quite successfully. His next test results are due in march this year, and everyone is hoping for another "miracle". https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT_qgyKHNU5V5FVmeeGjdhw

18 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 21h

Just read this, re ivm vs cancer: https://voxday.net/2025/01/10/ivermectin-and-cancer/

Amazing stuff!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 11 Jan

No, that's new to me.

179 sats \ 4 replies \ @DEADBEEF 10 Jan

This. A few years ago my sister-in-law died of cancer just before her 29th birthday. It was devastating to watch her wither away due to the cancer and “medical treatments.”

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 10 Jan

I don't have answers. I have many questions. There are people pushing cures and diets. I don't know if any of them work but I do know this... the focus is on drugs and expensive treatments and not prevention. Its once again an incentive problem.

If you have a company that sells drugs you research drugs, not dietary or environmental changes.

Over and over again I hear from people that are diagnosed with cancer that their doctors have zero advice about diet. Its absurd. I'm no expert but I have read of research showing that cancer feeds off of sugar. This has been known for a very long time. So why do they give patients "food" and drinks full of sugar in the hospital?

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @DEADBEEF 10 Jan

Yeah it is crazy. My sister-in-law died of what is considered a childhood cancer. It is particularly deadly because it is usually not detected until it is already stage 4. The unbelievable thing is my wife’s family are health nuts compared to mine and they avoided sugary and ultra processed foods yet she wound up with cancer.