Chemotherapy Effectiveness and Profit Motives

Cancer a little bit. Um,

various types out there.

What are some of the things that you've seen i-in terms of your

patients and what some of the things that you've been able to do?

A better thing to talk about i-in relationship to ca-- Well,

I will talk about

that,

right? A better thing to talk about, however, is the

relationship between profits and cancer in the United States.

And there was a study that was published, I believe it was in nineteen

ninety-four. It was a twelve-year program, twelve-year

study. They looked at adults

who had developed cancer as an adult, not childhood cancer, but

adult cancer, right? And this is the main types of cancer

that we get here in the

United States.

They did a meta-analysis of these people all around the world who developed

cancer as adults for twelve years and were treated with chemo.

And they looked at the results, and they published the results in the

Journal of Clinical Oncology. And the results,

ninety-seven percent

of the time, chemotherapy does not work.

Ninety-seven percent of the time it doesn't work.

So why is it still used? It's one reason and one reason only,

money.

If you go to a medical doctor, an MD,

with a sinus infection, and that doctor prescribes an antibiotic,

he gets no financial kickback.

Now, if he prescribes five thousand,

you know,

of that antibiotic in one month, the drug company

that makes it might send him to

Cancun for a conference, right?

Mm-hmm.

But he gets no direct remuneration.

It's not with, with chemotherapeutic drugs,

it's different.

Chemotherapeutic drugs are the only classification of drugs

that the prescribing doctor gets a direct cut of.

So if your doctor prescribes chemotherapy for you, here's how it goes more

or less.

The doctor buys it from the pharmaceutical company for f-five thousand

dollars, sells it to the patient for twelve

thousand dollars,

insurance pays nine thousand dollars, and the doctor pockets

the four-thousand-dollar difference. And there ought to be a law.

The only reason chemotherapy is used is

because doctors make money from it, period.

It doesn't work ninety-seven percent of the

time. If Ford Motor Company made an automobile

that exploded ninety-seven percent of the time, would they still be in business?

No.

This is, uh, the tip of the iceberg of the

control

that the pharmaceutical industry has

on us