
There are few illnesses as terrifying in the public consciousness as cancer. With up to a third of us getting cancer at some stage in our lives, it is almost impossible to remain untouched by the disease. As an ominous reminder of our mortality, cancer scares us to the point that discussions about it are often avoided and the language we use is couched in euphemisms.
While it would be impossible to address all the legends on the subject, David Robert Grimes – physicist and researcher at Oxford University – dispells some of the more persistent misunderstandings:
- Cancer rates are rising
- Sharks don’t get cancer
- Cancer is a modern disease
- Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are poisons
- There is a cure, but big pharma is suppressing it
- Cancer can be cured by X
Read Six stubborn myths about cancer, TheGuardian, 30 Aug 2013
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Tom
cheers Tom
The link to the Guardian article is broken, but I just saw something germane to the “chemotherapy is poison” that was listed as one of the six myths in the article. There was a citation made by a website to a journal with an article about chemo triggering cancerous tumors to grow. The Guardian story would be of interest in this matter should you be able to repair the link 😉 Yes, the internet can be a dangerous place!
mary
Hi Mary. The image link was working 😛 but thanks to your comment, I have now fixed the text link 🙂 have a great day !
Thanks for fixing that — it was a good read 🙂
thanks to you Mary 🙂
I am not going to draw any conclusions but I thought you and your readers may consider the following presentation – Dr Burzynski movie: Fight to cure cancer the FDA don’t want to be cured – quite interesting. I don’t know whether much attention has been placed on this subject in your local media but feel that this deserves to be shared to facilitate fully informed decision making.
Henry
Thanks for the link Henry
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patrice
thanks Patrice
Great article! I put it in my buffer. 🙂
Kevin
cheers Kev