Macklin Medical Mission
Death Rate due to Cancer
The Real Story
Cancer has been a fact of life in all its forms ever since life began on planet earth and has been one of the major limiters of life in general and why so many died long before they turned 40. In some countries on this planet – remains true to this very day.
A Little History Lesson
1. Radiology
This cancer treatment such as it is actually started in 1896. Interestingly enough this “therapy” turned up ten years after the founding of the Macklin Medical Mission to China in 1886. The treatment was developed by Mr. Arnold Feldman PhD in biochemistry at the department of radiation at the Methodist Medical center at the general hospital in Peoria, Illinois where they experimented with the use of X-Rays to treat cancer. Their initial treatments dealt with skin cancer and from there moved deeper into the body with some horrific side effects from the high energy form of radiation. The abrasive nature of this form of treatment is legendary in all its forms and yet we raise billions of dollars for this hundred year old plus form of cancer treatment. The modern “adjunctive form” of this treatment radiation treatment is now called machine-readable information magnetic resonance imaging or MRI. And while is it is much touted as a cancer treatment, the exposure to the skull has a proven increase in the rate of cancer by 50 percent especially brain cancer. [Again we refer you to Wikipedia to read on the side effects of MRI treatment - “it is still possible to deal with some of the side effects of the MRI treatment” – nice!
2. Chemotherapy
This cancer therapy if you can call it that is a little newer. This era of cancer chemotherapy began in the 1940’s [seventy years ago] with the first use of nitrogen mustard and folic acid antagonist drugs. This highly abrasive cancer treatments based on chemical based drug therapies development has exploded since then into a multi-billion dollar industry. The “targeted therapy” revolution had arrived, but many of the principles and limitations of chemotherapy discovered by the early researchers back in the 1940’s during the war still apply. The use of chemicals is simply nauseating in all their many forms. It’s as effective then as is it is now – i.e. “not very” [This from Wikipedia in 2011]
3. Mortality Rate due to Cancer in Canada
Again a little history. As he set off on his “Marathon of Hope” in 1980, Canadian icon Terry Fox imagined what could happen if Canadians put their support behind cancer research. Since then, Canada has made great strides in cancer care. But unfortunately maybe we haven’t due to the misdirection of funds raised in Canada.
Cancer is still the leading cause of premature death in Canada. The rising number of Canadians diagnosed with cancer continues to put significant demands on health systems. After al these years, progress on preventing cancer and improving its management is still a somewhat unpredictable process, making it an ongoing health-care challenge for governments at home and abroad. This should no longer be the case.
The impact that cancer has on the lives of patients especially the young, their families, and the health-care system cannot begin to be overstated. The long-term emotional, physical, and psychological strain on individuals diagnosed with cancer—and their families—is as tragic as it is profound. Just about everyone in Canada has been touched by cancer in some way.
Even today, one in four Canadians will die of cancer, with a slightly higher risk among men than among women and tragically the highest risk being to the children. In 2009-10, an estimated 171,000 Canadians will be diagnosed and 75,300, roughly half will die of cancer — an increase of 4,600 newly diagnosed cases and 1,500 deaths from the year before.
We aren’t moving ahead we are moving backwards due to outdated technology and treatments are largely to blame. The treatment of cancer is an industry in Canada and the vested interests of many in it is also largely to blame considering the salaries and the perks and the “prizes” and the consultants. Yes we are moving backwards the children who should be living are dying because of it and because of a lack of vision.
The cost of cancer care also places a heavy burden on the health-care system. One estimate finds that over the next 30 years beginning in 2012, 2.4 million workers will get cancer and 872,000 will die from the disease. Meanwhile, cancer will cost the Canadian economy an estimated $177.5 billion in direct health-care costs, $199 billion in corporate profits, $250 billion in taxation revenues, and $543 billion in wage-based productivity.
Cancer continues to exact a huge toll on the lives of Canadians; the country must not lag behind its peer countries in its efforts to reduce the incidence and mortality of cancer.
Canada is not a leader – it is a follower and a far distant follower at that – we stand 12th in all the western counties – that is absolutely disgusting and says a lot about the medical fraternity in Canada. Try telling that to your family physician and watch his or her face – then tell that to parents of children as they watch their children die in their arms, as Sunnybrook, Toronto Sick Kids, Mount Sinai and on it goes – its is truly nauseating in the extreme.
Canada gets a “B-” grade and ranks 12th among 16 peer countries. (Recent data are not available for Belgium.) In 2004—the most recent year of published data for Canada—there were 169 deaths due to cancer per 100,000 population. That rate rose – yes rose to an estimated 166 deaths per 100,000 population in 2006-7. That is absolutely pathetic.
The top performer — Finland a fraction of the Canadian GDP — had 135 deaths per 100,000 due to cancer; while the worst performer — Denmark — had 199 people die of cancer for every 100,000 population.
The Canadian Cancer Society reported recently that cancer will continue to place an increasing burden on Canadian society. Although the cancer mortality rate has dropped, the number of new cancer cases and deaths attributed to cancer actually continues to rise steadily as the Canadian population grows and ages.
Although some of the risks that lead to some cancers are very well documented, other cancers (and their related risk factors – spread ) continue to be something of a mystery. Whatever the current state of research and general knowledge, Canadians need to make the link between behaviours — such as poor eating habits, weight control, inactivity, alcohol, and tobacco consumption — and cancer. Most importantly, they need to adjust their lifestyles to reduce risks.
Even more importantly, Canadians need to make the link between behaviours of those raising funds for cancer research and where all the money is going. After all these years as I have said before cancer research is an “industry onto itself with vested interests in staff and outdated machines and outdated treatments – all of this would collapse if a cure was actually found and proven in clinical trials.
At one time it was heresy to say the world was round or that blood flowed in the human body or that he sun was the center of the galaxy - well the cure for cancer has arrived and it arrived in April of 2011 and using “adepts” from T-Cells combined through translational therapy in the lab with white blood cells and given them the cancer “codex” – all cancer can be treated at what ever stage and yes “cured” – without side effects and without any invasive treatments and yes without surgery.
The Macklin Medical Mission – Children’s Oncology Group [COG] is just the first and will be the only center in Canada to bring this treatment to Canadians once the trials are finished and once it has been approved by the Federal Government of the United States and Canada.
To do that we need to raise $23 million to build the oncology center – and to put an end to all those outdated cancer treatments which belong in the Rue Morgue or Madame Toussaud’s Wax Museum. The center will take a few years but it will be well worth it. Just ask the children who are dying still by the thousands. Better still ask their parents.
In our next Blog we will list all those corporations in Canada who refuse to help and who are tied to the existing forms of cancer treatment through their executive networks.
When the Macklin Medical Mission does become a reality- remember you first heard about while blood translational cellular cancer therapy from us. The “me-too” syndrome will quickly become apparent to coin a phrase all too soon by those using radiology and chemotherapy – after all they have a huge monolithic industry to preserve and staff to maintain – as usual.
12th place eh! …. Its time to be first! For the children, I say those who are last shall be first- and those who are first at the money trough shall be last.
One last thing … while Canadian doctors will want to know about this treatment, they will be among the very the last to support this new treatment financially.
We, at the Macklin Medical Mission, the oldest medical mission in the world, ask for your financial assistance to support our expanding efforts in this exciting new and highly successful field of white blood cells combined with T-Cell oncology research supported by the Nancy-Griffon Foundation Inc of Canada.
So, donate, support and invest in our cancer research – save a life.
Thank you.
Eric J. Macklin B.Com., FICB, FCSI, FMA, UE
Macklin Medical Mission [Est 1886]
Chairman
The Nancy-Griffon Foundation Inc [Est 1975]
Canada
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