Cancer cost 'crisis' warning from oncologists

[malaise]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15032862
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The cost of treating cancer in the developed world is spiralling and is "heading towards a crisis", an international team of researchers says.

Their Lancet Oncology report says there is a "culture of excess" with insufficient evidence about the "value" of new treatments and technologies.

It says the number of cancer patients and the cost of treating each one is increasing.

It argues for reducing the use and analysing the cost of cancer services.
About 12 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer each year. That figure is expected to reach 27 million by 2030.

The cost of new cancer cases is already estimated to be about £185bn ($286bn) a year.
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We serfs will die - life is only for the rich!

[ixion]

1. And yet no one is asking the question

"What is causing the dramatic rise?"

[xchrom]

3. +1

[malaise]

6. Of course - it's their fundie gawd's will

:puke:

[Raschel]

9. They talk about death panels, and it's the corporations who don't give a rip whether someone has

care or not.

How can they not see this? :shrug:

[Raschel]

7. I can tell you that companies have stopped making some of the cheapest chemos, like Taxol. It's used

frequently.

The drug companies just want to make the drugs that give them more profit (yay capitalism!) and they are free to do so without notification.

Those people/corporations aren't very nice.

[MadHound]

2. Not just cancer, but all life threatening health issues,

Not to mention health care itself.

[Eddie Haskell]

4. We serfs will die - life is only for the rich!

Maybe so, but if we change our diets we can cut our chances of getting cancer and heart disease in half. Watch the documentary Forks over Knives.

[formercia]

5. I choose to die

rather than give what little I have to the Medical Industrial Complex. I will not bankrupt my family to survive a few more months.

Life goes on without me.

[Raschel]

8. I've been around for three years on and off chemo. Three years with my family and friends is well

worth it.

[bemildred]

11. Ditto that.

We are all going to die, it is not necessary to bankrupt your family to do it.

[FarCenter]

10. According to "The China Study", the high rate of cancer is likely due to our high-protein diet

The epidemiological study of cancer rates in various provinces in China showed that cancer was correlated with a high rate of protein intake.

Later studies in the lab showed that a low protein diet made mice more resistant to carcinogens.

http://www.thechinastudy.com/

In the US, we eat diets that have levels of proteins suitable for puppy chow or other juvenile carnivores. This is entirely too high for adult or senior primates.

Recent results have shown that restriction of the amino acid methionine, which is present in the proteins of most foods, results in life extension similar to that of a calorie restricted diet.

http://kaeberleinlab.org/501/miller.pdf

Since there is no way for a practical diet to be restricted in methionine, the best approach is to keep protein to about 10% or less of the diet.