People get bent out of shape with me.

Yes, some people get bent out of shape and act all righteously indignant and offended when I mention that cancer is an industry.  (Their reactions are rather amusing, actually.  Either that, or I'm a completely evil bitch who gets a kick out of shattering people's misconceptions about all things cancer related.)

Yes, that's what it is, though.  An industry.

Let's play with numbers here and then you can just ponder that I might actually be correct.

You see, back when I was doing chemo, a year of legal abuse and torture, I accidentally found out about how much money a particular component of chemo I was doing actually cost.

$60,000.00 USD

That's right.  Sixty grand.

I'm ONE person.  Sure, I get that there are costs related to this, such as paying business expenses to manufacture said chemo, such as paying employees (who probably need and deserve hazardous pay because chemo is poison), their insurance, utilities costs such as water and electricity, etc. and then there's the cost for the doctor who is overseeing the legalized poison, the people who are giving it need to be paid, operating expenses, etc.

Get comfy for a few minutes.  We're going to do some basic math here.

Me, HorseDoovers,  $60,000.00 USD.

Now when I found this out, there was also two other women who were on the same path to legalized torture that I was, both of which were not as far down that path that I was, but who were undergoing very similar, if not the same, chemo poisonings, and as sick as I got from multiple kinds of chemos, chemo is poison, poison is chemo.  Just saying this from my perspective.

Me, HorseDoovers, $60,000.00 USD, plus two other women who were likely the same amount of money, $60,000.00 each, which would make them "worth" $120,000.00 USD together.  Now you add that up.

Me:    $60,000.00  +  Them:   $120,000.00   =   $180,000.00

Now people, that is in one small "clinic" in the middle of BFE Deep South.

Let's keep going with this.

Say there are three other patients in ten clinics scattered state wide who are given the same chemo worth $60,000.00 per patient.

Let's do this the easy way.  

$180,000.00 for three patients X  ten clinics in any given state  =  $1,800,000.00

Yes, you read that correctly.  One million, eight hundred thousand dollars.

Let's keep going, since there are fifty states.

$1,800,000.00 X  fifty states  =  $90,000,000.00

That's right.  Ninety million dollars on any given day.  Shall we continue?

90 million  X five days a week = 450 million dollars.

450 million dollars  X  fifty-two weeks    =   $23,400,000,000.00

(450,000,000.00      X  fifty-two weeks    =   $23,400,000,000.00)

Count the zeros.  That makes it twenty-three billion, four hundred million dollars a year.

"But HorseDoovers, you have to make adjustments for population, blah, blah, blah, etc." This is probably what you're thinking.

Well, no, not really on the adjustment thing.  Because if there was just one patient in the middle of BFE Small Town in a Generic MidWest State, how many others are there who are in Highly Populated Large Amount of People States that balance that out?  Factor in multiple locations who are "treatment centers" and then ponder this further.  See what I'm getting at here?  That does, indeed, balance out.

This is a fucking INDUSTRY, people.   Numbers don't lie, so is it any wonder that the big pharma industry doesn't want people to be better?  Healthy people don't line their pockets.  Sick ones do.  Don't fix the cause, treat the symptoms.

Don't believe me?  Have a read.  Go run a search on "cost of chemo for cancer" and see what comes up.  At least some people are finally figuring this out.

(Lest some of you think I'm a completely evil bitch who hates all doctors, no, there's a few out there who genuinely want to help people, but they seem to be few and far between.)

So, where's all that money going?  It's sure as fuck not funding a cure.