Let's Kill Cancer

[rangerrebew]

Let's Kill Cancer      Print
By Stephen Moore
Wednesday, April 01 2026

Lowering the death rate by 80% in 20 years adds a value to the U.S. economy of $130 trillion.
   
There are few things in life more terrifying than a cancer diagnosis, as any victim of this horrible disease will tell you.

So let's kill cancer before it kills us.

This crusade could be similar in size and scope to our national commitments to developing a polio vaccine in the 1950s and the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020-21, both of which saved millions of lives.

We know this is not an impossible dream. Over the past four decades, we've made stunning progress in cutting death rates of many forms of cancer in half. But there is still a long way to go, especially in eliminating death from pancreatic cancer, lung cancer and childhood cancers. More than 600,000 Americans die from cancer each year; worldwide, that number is closer to 25 million.

There is an old saying that the first wealth is good health. When one is faced with a dreadful disease or shortened lifespan, the value of material assets or consumption rapidly becomes second in order of magnitude. Most parents would give up nearly every material resource they have to prevent the death of their child.

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[Smokin Joe]

A friend got his PSA back about a year ago: 800.

Not good. Metastatic prostate cancer, and it had spread. He'd lost about 50 lbs. and wasn't looking good.

After one dose of chemo left him out on his floor for a couple days, discovered by another friend, and hospitalized until he was rehydrated and back on his feet, He said NO to more chemo.
As a bit of a 'Hail Mary' (because it was experimental, even though there were numerous accounts on the web of efficacy), his doctor gave in and prescribed Ivermectin, 24 mg/day.

Last I heard, his PSA was at 40, he had gained back 30 lbs of body weight, and was feeling good. It has been over a year since his diagnosis.

So much modern medicine is wrapped up in treating symptoms or "managing" the disease, the idea of a cure seems forgotten.

[rangerrebew]

Congress will never be part of the cure.  They need something to lie about, like cancer, and blabber golden platitudes about wanting to see and end but no one can prove they don't care.  Its exactly what they did with "global warming."  Make glorious speeches and doing nothing meaningful to end it until Trump proved it was all a hoax.  They still don't do much.  Even Greta Thunberg, the autistic girl, came to the realization it was a hoax and found another gig.  The same can't be said for congress.

[jmyrlefuller]

We know this is not an impossible dream

Then where's the cure? If we KNOW it's not impossible, then we KNOW how to stop it. We don't. It could, and likely very much IS, impossible. "Cure for cancer" is about as likely as stopping the chain of infection of the common cold.