I just finished reading the editorial published a few days ago in The Oncologist about how cancer statistics get censured. It’s disheartening but also very hopeful for those of you who are not convinced that conventional oncology treatments are the way to go and stand alone in your view. You may have now another powerful reason to support your position.
Conventional oncology uses statistics to convince you that Chemotherapy and Radiation are your only path to treat cancer. I’ve written of the reasons of why you should resist such treatments here. Data manipulation becomes another reason why you should stand up to those treatments. It turns out that all information published in major medical journals has been altered to showcase success and cover up failure.
This new investigative work exposes the fact that less than one out of five medical human trials gets published (exactly only 17.6 percent). The rest of the human trials gets lost somewhere and never sees the light. Why? You could argue that something went wrong about the trials, but then up to 90% of the trials that end up being published are always positive towards the application of conventional cancer therapies. Sounds fishy? That’s because it is fishy! What’s wrong about the 82.4 percent of the trials about conventional cancer therapies that never see the light? Why don’t you and your oncologist know about those?
It turns out that they are kept out of circulation because they show too many negative side effects and also because of the pressure from publishing entities to show data that has positive impact. Who wants to read bad news all the time?
To make matters worst, it seems that whoever conducting a trial is influencing the likelihood such data would see the light of day… or not. Studies sponsored by industry (such as drug companies) had the lowest publication rate: just 5.9 percent, leaving 94.1 percent of data in the dark! So for example, when pharmaceutical industries begin developing novel chemotherapy cocktails — mixtures of drugs initially tested on their own — and toxic reactions may emerge, as low as just 5.9% of such toxic reactions get published and read by the conventional oncology community. The rest, who cares?
What happened to those never seen results? Did they involve treatments that didn’t work? Did they have disastrous side effects? Did they cause dangerous irreversible damage? Neither you nor your oncologist will ever know… But in the meantime you might be laying in the hospital getting the dose of chemo your uninformed doctor prescribed…
James H. Doroshow, director of the National Cancer Institute’s division of treatment and diagnosis, notes that last year alone some 50,000 patients took part in trials that his institute funded. The “apparent lack of access to the final efficacy and toxicity data for cancer clinical trials from all sponsors, but especially for industry-sponsored studies, poses multiple scientific and ethical questions.” No kidding!!!
It doesn’t matter what reasons drug company’s have in hiding bad data. What’s important is that Chemotherapy and Radiation are not backed by statistics, the main reason why conventional oncologists encourage them. And guess who pays the price for such cover up?
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October 2, 2008 at 8:27 pm
It’s a sick world, in more ways than one, ain’t it?
Ellie Katz