RAIN TO SUN

CANCER MISTREATMENT?

	Percentage of cancer patients whose lives are predictably saved by chemotherapy - 3%Conclusive evidence (majority of cancers) that chemotherapy has any positive influcence on survival or quality of life - none.
	Percentage of oncologists who said if they had cancer they would not participate in chemotherapy trials due to its "ineffectiveness and its unacceptable toxicity" - 75%Percentage of people with cancer in the U.S. who receive chemotherapy - 75%.
	Company that accounts for nearly half of the chemotherapy sales in the world - Bristol-Meyers Squibb. Chairman of the board of Bristol-Meyers - Richard L. Gelb. Mr. Gelb's other job: vice chairman, board of overseers, board of managers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, World's largest private cancer treatment and research center.Chairman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering's board of overseers, board of managers - John S. Reed. Reed's other job - director, Philip Morris (tobacco company). Director, Ivax, Inc., a prominent chemotherapy company - Samuel Broder. Broder's other job (until 1995) - executive director, National Cancer Institute.

from Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing by John Robbins (publisher: H.J. Kramer, P.O. Box 1082, Tiburon, CA 94920)

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