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Old 15th June 2008, 02:22 PM   #1
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Cancer survival rates continue to improve

Those nasty allopathic doctors and the evil moneygrubbing drug companies
are at it again:
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/ne...b-1a74b35cb819

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Today, 62 per cent of people diagnosed with cancer survive their disease compared with a survival rate of one in three in the 1960s.
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Old 16th June 2008, 12:29 PM   #2
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It was bound to happen. Development in evidence based medicine would sooner or later take the lead from the unchangeable woo therapies practiced for hundreds of years.
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Old 16th June 2008, 06:37 PM   #3
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Joke is on you. There was never cancer before evil toxins and allopaths. Oh sure, we didn't live past 30 before all that, and had no idea what cancer was either, but there was no cancer, nuhhhh uhhhh.
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Old 16th June 2008, 06:45 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Eos of the Eons View Post
Joke is on you. There was never cancer before evil toxins and allopaths. Oh sure, we didn't live past 30 before all that, and had no idea what cancer was either, but there was no cancer, nuhhhh uhhhh.
Ya gotta use those smiley thingies else people will quote you on the "darkside" boards.
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Old 16th June 2008, 06:51 PM   #5
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Oh, the admission that we didn't live as long and didn't label illness correctly kinda alludes to my sarcasm The woo woos would never entertain those variables, not in a gazillion years.

I'm just glad to see some good news. Thank you for posting the story and linky
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Old 17th June 2008, 07:09 AM   #6
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Joke is on you. There was never cancer before evil toxins and allopaths. Oh sure, we didn't live past 30 before all that, and had no idea what cancer was either, but there was no cancer, nuhhhh uhhhh.
Not so sure about that. By checkking the pulse and tongue acupunturists are able to (they claim) detect mucous in the brain . Since no cell in the brain is capable of producing mucous something else must. And that can only be an adenocarcinoma (a type of cancer). So if there were mucous in the brain when acupuncture was invented there certainly was cancer.
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Old 17th June 2008, 09:14 AM   #7
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And that can only be an adenocarcinoma
I meant a metastasis from one
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Hilarious irregardless
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