Comments on: Top 10 Misconceptions About Cancer

By: tyla

tyla — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:02:08 +0000

actually there was this guy in nz who was cured by the very thing doctors didnt want him to have look him up if you can sorry i dont remember his name

By: rik

rik — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:54:18 +0000

The c.e.o’s of pharmacutical companies dont take the hipocratic oath, they worship money

By: Satan

Satan — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:21:58 +0000

LOL Once my buddy at medical school put his cell phone in his back pocket. I asked him why, he replied: “Testicular cancer”

I punched him in the face

This moron is gonna be a doctor some day

By: Kenya M

Kenya M — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:44:33 +0000

Cancer must be the most misunderstood sickness of the time….I hope in the future we’ll find a cure..

By: Greg L

Greg L — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:13:33 +0000

A huge part of this list should be breast cancer awareness. Breast cancer happens to 1 out of 9 women, whereas prostate cancer affects 1 in 8 of men. 1 in 27 cases of EITHER cancers are fatal.
Around that time of year, we turn around and see pink ribbons and pink everything everywhere and even then some.
Both my grandfathers have been affected by prostate cancer, and one passed away from it before I was born. Whereas none of my family has ever contracted breast cancer.

Honestly, I find it very aggravating. Simply because of the fact that nobody talks about prostate cancer. You see women on TV with tears in their eyes because they do not feel like a woman anymore due to the fact that the treatment demanded their breasts be removed. My grandfather who survived prostate cancer once told me he wanted to die because he could no longer have intercourse due to his prostate having to be removed.

If I had a choice and gender would not come into play, honestly, bring on the breast cancer. I would much rather lose boobs over the ability to have an orgasm.

By: Vic

Vic — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:08:15 +0000

Pharmaceutical companies DON'T want a cure! They want to be like chiropractors and osteopaths, IE keep you coming back for ongoing and expensive treatments without ever resolving the problem. If they could cure you with one hit, how could they afford their boats and the private schools for their kids?
Anyone thinking the hypocratic oath makes a shred of difference to this is living in a dreamworld.

By: Spell Check

Spell Check — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:11:43 +0000

Pam, I know that you miss a lot of calories by using artificial sweeteners, but it doesn't seem to help some people. I suspect that many people get little value from using artificial sweeteners because the body recognizes sweetness and reacts AS IF it had gotten a blast of sugar. Reverse placebo effect. I don't think that's going to hold for everyone, though, probably not even a majority.

In the same way, cigarettes that have very low levels of tar are supposed to be useless because the smoker draws in more deeply attempting to get the same level of nicotine he's used to. In my experience that phase lasts a very short while, days to weeks.

By: Pam

Pam — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:05:27 +0000

Not sure if anyone has pointed this out already, but the huge amounts of chemicals fed to mice and other animals used in studies does not indicate that study results are invalid because no one would ever realistically ingest similar quantities in a similar timespan (why do members of the media and general public so readily conclude that scientists are dumbasses enough not to realize this?).

The huge amounts are given to compensate for the lifespan differences between humans and various lab animals. The idea is to find out what happens when amounts consumed over a lifetime are consumed. If a lab animal is smaller than a human, then an appropriate equivalent for the amount is used. If it lives an average of 70-75 years fewer than a human, you give it more in a shorter period.

So yeah, consuming typical amounts of artificial sweeteners over an average human lifespan will likely result in heightened risk for cancer, but a much better reason for shunning them is that they don’t taste good and don’t seem to contribute to healthy weight management (there are more artificial sweeteners on the markets in more products than ever, and the population is fatter than ever. There is some evidence that noncaloric sweeteners contribute to cravings and mess with your bodys ability to gauge satiety).

Not that I’m giving up diet dr.pepper any time soon, though.

By: 34E

34E — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:26:32 +0000

I like how this focuses on cancer, the vast majority of the public view it as one disease and don't realize the significant difference between the types… saying you have cancer is giving as much detail as saying you have an infection.

Fun calculation: 800 cans of diet soda a day is 50 cans an hour if you're awake 16 hours a day.

By: dearness

dearness — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:07:45 +0000

ok you guys who believe in the big conspiracy theory: comanies probably do want to actually find the cure. The cure existing would not completely stop the existence of cancer because THIS IS NOT LIKE POLIO (which, I understand still exists in third world countries but this is an example), which can be sealed away in a tube forever. "Cancer" basically means "cells gone bad", something that you can't contain in a tube or whatever. So whichever company finds the cure WILL make lots and lots and lots of money, so the conspiracy theory makes no sense, ethics or no ethics….