No Cure now. No cure ever.

No Cure now. No cure ever.

Ever wonder why they haven’t announced a cure for cancer, diabetes, or MS along with a slew of other diseases which we deal with everyday. My grandmother sends money every year to the American Cancer Society, because her son, my father, died of cancer at the age of 22. She feels it’s her duty as a mother to help in finding a cure for the disease that took her son. The scary thing about it is not that they haven’t found a cure, but that they haven’t told any one. You may think I am crazy that I think there is a know cure for cancer and other diseases, and you may think that they are still desperately searching for a cure. But think of this, the economic impact of finding a cure for just cancer. The pharmaceutical companies make huge amounts of money in not curing people but in medicating them.

One example of this is a drug by Avastin which helps in the treatment of lung cancer. It’s not a cure. The monthly treatments for a patient averages $8800 per month (according to an ABC report) and about 100,000 people are diagnosed with this cancer every year. That equates to 8.8 billion if they could get all those people to take the one drug. This company made $555 million last year.

Think about the revenue lost by this company never mind all the other pharmaceutical companies if they found a simple cure. Drag it out and make a ton of money. Now think about this, The American Cancer Society, has been in business since 1913. So over 90 years they have been working on a cure! And all the money they are donated they still are looking. Think about it, they too would be out of business. They have over 2 million people working with them. Their income for 2003 was $836.3 Million! (This is according to Hoover business information). And there are a number of other non-profit cancer research institutions. This is big business for many and a cure would end it all. The economic impact on our country would be catastrophic. Especially since the rest of the world is depending on the US less and less (a whole topic in itself).

Cancer along with the other diseases need to continue for our economy to perpetuate. I don’t agree with what I think is being done, but it rather makes sense. Think about it.

So, I almost want to tell my grandmother who donates to the American Cancer Society, that she is donating a hopeless cause, but at the same time I don’t want to break her heart.