Quack Doctors and Supplements

My husband's grandma thinks that there is a cure for cancer, but the people won't put it out because they make so much money from the funding. Also, radiation and chemotherapy kill people and that there are natural remedies that would cure a person's cancer.

There are so many things wrong with that idea. First, there is no such thing as "cancer." There's leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, sarcoma, non-squamous small cell lung cancer, etc, etc. You could get breast cancer and I could get breast cancer and they are probably going to be caused by two different mutations.

Second, while organizations like Susan G Komen certainly make money off of breast cancer money, it's not because they are getting all the research grants, it's because they only donate very little money to research.

Third, no researcher is getting rich off of research money. Because it's actually not that much and there are checks and balances to make sure that they are actually doing what they say they are doing.

Fourth, people research cancer because their dad had it or their grandma or their son or their niece, etc. If there was a cure for all cancer, you can bet that we would know about it.

Fifth, radiation and chemotherapy are actually pretty bad, but certainly better than the cancer they are working to cure. There have been leaps and bounds in cancer treatments and they target it much more exactly than ever before.

Sixth, supplements and natural remedies may help some people, but they are certainly not going to cure cancer. Especially, not the way my husband's grandma takes them. She takes pills and vitamins, which use the natural stuff and put it together in a completely different way than was ever proven to be effective(most of the time, the herbs or whatever were used by tribal societies for years are powders, teas, or even just the whole form). Also, there's a huge placebo effect here and confirmation bias from women and men like her. Well, my friend did chemo and took supplement A and it was the supplement A that cured her...

This is a woman who has such high blood pressure she had to go to the ER at least 4 times a year. You can bet that she doesn't tell her doctor about all the supplements she is taking. If there were a cure for