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An explosion of new technologies and treatments for cancer coupled with a rapid rise in cases of the disease worldwide mean cancer care is rapidly becoming unaffordable in many developed countries, oncology experts said on Monday.

Comments: This report published in the recent Lancet Oncology, states that approximately 12 million people worldwide get cancer every year. According to the 2009 report, the cost associated with new cancer cases was at least $286 billion. Adding the cost of productivity due to premature death and disability, the number rises to $895 billion. This report is compiled from the data available from countries which include the UK., the US and Germany. In 2010, global spending on oncology drugs alone was $56 billion.

At present, cancer is the third most common cause of death in the developed nations. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, 7.5 million die worldwide because of cancer. It is estimated that by 2030, approximately 22 million people will be diagnosed cancer annually.

While the experts in this report concede by stating that, “Cancer diagnosis and treatment is becoming more complex, with a mix of imaging, surgery, radiation and drug therapy involved in fighting tumors”. Despite the intermittent media-hyped news stories, the annual death rates for most types of cancer continues to increase and the skyrocketing costs are financially ruining not only the individual cancer patients, but entire countries. One of the experts confessed that “We are at crossroads for affordable cancer care, where our choices, or refusal to make choices, will affect the lives of millions of people.”

It is indeed unfortunate that when millions of lives are at stake, corporations such as insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and such are called into action to decide the ways to reduce the cost. It will not be surprising that there will not be further discussion on policies for prevention, or addressing the root cause of the rise in cancer or the cost of cancer. Nor will there be discussion of why a diagnosis of cancer has become a death sentence, and after so many decades of research funding cancer is still considered untreatable despite the continuous push for cancer screening and vaccines. Why is it that cancer has reached such pandemic proportions that even the economies of the most developed nations are feeling the burden?

Dr. Rath and Dr. Niedzwiecki have raised these and many thought provoking questions, in their recently published books, “Victory Over Cancer! Part 1 and Part 2.” These books outline the decades long cancer research conducted by the scientists at the Dr. Rath Research Institute and the simple, proven, safe, effective and affordable solutions to this economically challenging problem of cancer.

Following Dr. Rath’s original discoveries, and the fact that most chronic diseases result from chronic deficiency of essential nutrients, the scientific team at the Dr. Rath Research Institute provided the basis for the development of strategies to inhibit cancer development, progression, and metastasis with a synergistic combination of vitamins and other natural substances. In our laboratory studies, cellular nutrient synergy is shown to slow down tumor growth, immobilize cancer cells and prevent their spread by multiple mechanisms, decrease blood supply to a tumor by limiting the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) and selectively kill cancer cells without affecting healthy cells. Any one of these steps may be able to stop cancer. Dr. Rath’s Cellular Medicine approach is shown to be effective in all four steps in the laboratory research. Although these results are accepted and published in several peer reviewed medical and scientific journals, this life saving information has not yet received appropriate media attention.

While a significant percentage of cancer cases could be prevented by simple modifications, there’s no fame and fortune in prevention, and that’s what needs to change. Please read more about Dr. Rath’s cancer breakthrough in “Victory Over Cancer! Part 1 and Part 2” and at www.drrathresearch.org/

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/26/us-cancer-costs-idUSTRE78P26B20110926