by Marika Sboros (FOODMED.NET)
Cancer is big business, a global industry that makes billions for drug companies and doctors. It’s so lucrative, cynics say it’s ‘too prosperous to allow for cure’. Sure, there have been advances, even cases of ‘cures’. Cancer treatment can be less harsh than in the past. Surgery is also less disfiguring. But cancer is now pandemic. Cancer Research UK says that’s because we’re ‘growing older’. It subscribes to the fatalistic, genetic model of cancer as the result of ‘random errors’ in DNA codes that ‘kick start a cell’s journey towards becoming cancerous’.