WHO's NEWSY?

I just read yahoo’s e-headline today, Wednesday 10th of December.

The World Health Organization (WHO) discloses that cancer would be the world's leading source of death by 2010, Associated Press medical writer Mike Stobbe reports (9 Dec. 2008). The existing staggering diagnosis approximations impacted gravity to readers like myself especially when populations of China, India, and Russia were added. Smoking is pinpointed as main causal of cancer.

While reading that news something rings in my mind, a gut-feel, that's near to “danger”. The cortical feeling arises not only out of my cancer mode or hypothyroid state. Or because I read a well-documented book about an industry’s greed at the expense of human’s well-being, even of life itself. Or due to the economic recession here in USA.

The story sounds newsy, a PR marketing prep to "create disease" in our emotionally driven minds, to quote pharmaceutical products advertising gurus themselves, Robert Chandler and Gianfranco Chicco. They also said that the “ultimate goal” is “to sell the consumer a message or product without the consumer even being aware that a ’sell’ is taking place” (Melody Peterson, Our Daily Meds, 2008; Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux: USA).

Although I take conspiracy theories with the tongue in my cheek, I'm beginning to open my mind to what others are saying (even from Kevin Trudeau) about the pharmaceutical industry's influence on the FDA, politicians, medical institutions and its practitioners, health and medical insurance companies, medical/health educational and research institutions, and other (public/private) organizations that share this industry's profits (directly and indirectly) through bribery, gifts, donations, funding, grants, "extras", "fringes", payroll, exchange deal, samples, aid, sponsorship, advertisement fees, and the likes. For one, pharma products and their ads are all over the place. Two,so many new diseases keep coming out that some of them sound stupid like, restless legs syndrome.

So why wasn’t I impress to know that WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer director Peter Boyle released this not-so-novel-cancer-update at a news conference and appearing together with officials from the American Cancer Society, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Cancer Institute of Mexico? Why am I not move by their statements: “If we take action, we can keep the numbers from going where they would otherwise go," from the cancer society officer John’s Seffrin. Or “Cancer is one of the greatest untold health crises of the developing world," according to president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Dr. Douglas Blayney, and "Few are aware that cancer already kills more people in poor countries than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined. If current smoking trends continue, the problem will get significantly worse” And I didn't wonder on Komen’s chief executive Hala Moddelmog comment, “Where you live shouldn't determine whether you live.”

Why is smoking the lone cause marker for cancer? I think they targeted the cigarette industry because it is a dying industry in well-developed countries. The failure to mention and emphasize other variables that lead to cancer (and other illnesses and diseases)that are more prevalent and more damaging in terms of market duration availability and usage by humans - indeed make WHO story a twitter that plays on people‘s fear primarily. Another is the absence of a “real” view of cancer and prevention tips to organizing steps to stop both global corporations and small local businesses from manufacturing hazardous or harmful products and technologies that create or tweak illnesses in human genes of this generation to future generations.

The following are the most cited factors that cause cancer or chronic illnesses: 1) The accumulation of toxins (types: cellular toxicity, heavy metal and chemical toxicity, and toxic build up in the colon) that creates metabolism imbalance in the human or animal body - making fertile environments for cancer growth; (2) stress; and (3) unhealthy lifestyle. I suggest that when you do your search regarding these matters or any type of perceiving (this blog included) always check the presence of patron(s)and funding agencies or organizations behind faces, names, titles, stories, activities, content, and shadows. A little dose of cynicism would make us healthy and wise.

Oh, cancer is considered a chronic illness (not disease) like diabetes. Meaning, some treatment may always be required. Cancer is considered too, like many other illnesses, by respectable physicians and scientists curable if the body's affected organ(s) or system(s)is not severed and compromised to a point of no return. And yes, there are inclusive cancer cures that work as combination of conventional and alternative(s) do like, healthy nutrition and conventional radiation treatment or alternative therapy and traditional surgery (last resort please).