Cancer research - do you really know where your donations are going?

August 22nd is Daffodil Day, an annual fundraising initiative by the Cancer Council, for "research" into cancer.

But first, some statistics - over 145,000 Australians are diagnosed with cancer each year, in one in every two men and one in every three women, which is increasing. The most common types of cancers are prostate and breast cancers, mainly being hormonally caused, and bowel cancer, melanoma and lung cancer too.
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Tragically, cancer rates have massively skyrocketed in the last 4 years, for many different types of cancers. I have experienced this in my clinic. I wonder what change happened in the last 4 years to cause this?

In reality, cancer affects everyone - family, friends, children, and colleagues of those who know those who have been diagnosed and are suffering through their typical medical treatments.

What is cancer? The usual definitions say "cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body". But this definition is wrong, as cancer is NOT a "disease"!

My more correct definition is “cancer is a SYMPTOM of chronic and systemic dysfunction, toxicity and disease, which causes the cells to lack the ability to perform normal functions such as growth, metabolism and programmed cell death”. Therefore cancer is the result of whole body disease, not just of the tumour or cancer cells, which is the symptom of the condition. Hence treating the whole body is key to beating cancer and recovering! Treating each person as an individual is also needed, and treating all the root causes in each person as everyone’s causes of cancer are different.

It is a shame that a diagnosis of cancer is such a stressful, traumatic and scary one, when it really shouldn't be. Modern cancer treatments are built on fear of the worst possible outcome, and the suffering that we all see those undergoing treatment are experiencing. Again, a treatment really shouldn't be like this.

Today the Cancer Council want your money. Allegedly for research into improved understanding of cancer and for novel medical and pharmaceutical treatments to "cure" it. With the cancer industry making a $200 billion a year just in cancer medicines, I don't think we will see a medical "cure" anytime soon. But they still want your money to fund "research" to keep this industry going.

What will the Cancer Council do with your money? See the profit and loss statement in the attached pictures... in 2023, the Cancer Council Australia had over $31 million in income, from grants, bequests, donations, and products, but they spent just $305,113 or 0.96% of their income on research! That is utterly pathetic. They wasted 99% of their income and your donations on themselves and marketing to keep the organisation going... Your money is not going towards cancer research.

So no, I won't be contributing to Daffodil Day, or any other cancer "research" organisation.

I will instead, help my cancer clients by finding and treating the root causes of cancer, which are well known - and helping them with safer, less damaging, natural treatments instead.

Stay healthy.

References:
Cancer Council Australia. (2024). Cancer Council Australia Full Financial Report. Retrieved 22nd August 2024 from www.cancer.org.au/assets/pdf/cca-financial-report-2022-2023