Curing Cancer Network newsletter
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We have created a strategic plan to substantially reduce U.S. cancer deaths. Although we support the efforts of the American Cancer Society, the U.S. National Cancer Institute and others, we think that it is also important to stress:
We need to dare greatly, to determine our actual goals and think hard about how to achieve them, particularly since we don’t know how to do so. Most institutions and individuals fear the personal repercussions of failure; we are more concerned with finding possible solutions.
Curative treatment for aggressive adult cancers most likely requires combinations of combinations of treatment. This means multiple treatments for each target of therapy. These targets include (a) different aspects of the primary cancer, (b) the cancer microenvironment (i.e. cells and tissues surrounding it), (c) systemic chronic inflammation, (d) immune system dysfunction and (e) genetic factors promoting the cancer). In addition, risk factors promoting the cancer must be markedly reduced or countered to prevent additional cancers from arising.
Reducing early cancer deaths by identifying and countering physiologic changes that the cancer creates and which actually cause the patient to die.
Markedly increasing our prevention programs, including the American Code Against Cancer, to eliminate tobacco use, end the pandemic of overweight Americans, make healthy diets the norm and reduce alcohol use.
Change medical behavior to (a) focus on getting rational medical information from trustworthy governmental or academic sources and avoid medical misinformation, (b) ensure optimal medical treatment by being organized regarding medical issues and using good medical judgment, (c) get regular physical exams to detect possible problems, discuss risk prevention and get needed tests, screenings and vaccinations, (d) create a cultural norm of being as healthy as possible, both to benefit ourselves and to be a role model for others.