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Dateline NBC devoted an entire hour to Somers and her somewhat controversial beliefs in alternative medicine and therapies when it comes to all forms of cancer. Unfortunately, the report was so one sided it was hardly watchable. This is the state of our media today. It must fit the agenda or you aren't going to get a fair shake at all. See some of Suzanne Somers on Dateline here. One of the doctors Suzanne Somers endorses and interviews in her book was also taken to task because of his high fees. Patients are said to be required to pay some $15,000 up front before Dr Stanislaw Burzynski will take them at his clinic in Houston, Texas. No doubt, curing cancer and going the alternative route is quite expensive. Now let's look at the cost of conventional cancer treatments. Let's see what cancer medication cost from big pharmaceutical companies. One of the supposedly more promising medicines for colon cancer is Avastin which costs an astounding $8,300 per month for a prescription. But Avastin isn't even the most expensive pharmaceutical for cancer treatment. Another drug known as Erbitux sells for around $9,600 per month, yes, that's not a typo, it is nine thousand six hundred dollars per month. But because insurance is used to pay a majority of these costs, the real costs of conventional cancer treatments are somewhat hidden to the public. Isn't that interesting, 40 days cost of Erbitux developed by ImClone LLC, owned by Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers Squibb, pays for 1 year of alternative supplemental therapy mentioned earlier and about 45 days worth of Erbitux pays for the up front fee to Dr Burzynski's clinic. I am not vouching for the effectiveness of the supplement treatment or treatments at Dr Burzynski's clinic because I know nothing about them, but the NBC report seemed to be harping on the cost of alternative treatments without even mentioning that conventional treatments for cancer are many times more expensive than what they were bashing and trying to expose as quackery. Cancer medicines are the biggest selling pharmaceuticals on the market today and are expected to cost around $75 billion per year by 2012. With those kind of costs and that kind of money going to, as they say, big pharma, it begs the question, who's running the scam here? A little side note to the cost of these conventional drugs is that this is only the cost of the medicine, and does not include the cost of doctors visits, tests, additional treatments, hospital stays, additional drugs to counteract the effects of cancer drugs and on, and on. The bottom line is that cancer is big business and anything that's a threat to that system is never going to get serious scrutiny and may even be legislated, threatened or sued out of business. Suzanne Somers made a huge point during her interview with Dr Snyderman and is probably the biggest point of this article. Suzanne stated that $60 billion per year is spent on cancer treatment in the USA (in my research I found that it was more like $125 billion per year), but there isn't a cure and the rate of people getting cancer is just about the same as it has been for decades. Alright cancer industry, you've taken individuals, the country, insurance companies and government for a ride for years (you are all part of the industry) and yet we still don't have a cure and we still can't prevent cancer... Where's the cure?
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