Telos Journal Edition Four November 2013 | Page 19

super and hypermarkets instead of purchasing fresh local food daily, and we ‘drivethrough’ for faster, bigger, cheaper, highly mechanized stuff.
And when our health spirals out of control or we simply ignore our bodies’ messages, we
by default seek professional advice from practitioners once schooled by a massive
industry, a trillion-dollar medical, pharmaceutical, and technological conglomerate
that maintains prejudicial leads over other means of medicine. Why would the cancer
industry support cancer prevention anyhow? Administering preventive care is bluntly
methodologically incoherent with the monetary interest of treating cancer. And
doctors that treat cancer patients already have their hands full-enough than to
belatedly cry ‘prevention’ through the hospital halls.
All conspiracies and certainties as to who orchestrates and lavishly profits from cancer
aside, Western doctors have been trained to be disease-orientated, not patient-based
practitioners; that is, patients are given diagnoses and treatments once illnesses have
already arisen, and medicinal focus is then directly placed on what external methods
can destroy the disease. Sadly, most Western doctors who are trained in preventative
care, especially nutritional care, have learned such methods independently from their
medical education and training.
Conspiratorial considerations now included: it seems as though mythology has
entertained and influenced the methodologies of the sedentary planners that
orchestrate the medical industry. Whether we attribute this to heroic amounts of Star
Trek reruns or an inane drive of wealth-creation is irrelevant, however, to our dear
malignant carriers who simply need to be healed. Nevertheless, an exposé of the
industry can help transparently organize our thoughts on the matter. Samuel Epstein,
M.D., chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, reveals that the American Cancer
Society (ACS) is the world’s wealthiest ‘nonprofit’ institution, generally spending about
75% of their income for “generous salaries, pensions, executive benefits, and
overhead,” and only about 25% on medical research and programs.
Furthermore, the ACS’s methodology is narrow. “The American Cancer Society is fixated
on damage control—diagnosis and treatment—and basic molecular biology, with
indifference

or

even

hostility

to cancer prevention,” he

says. Missions

and