Why Is It Still So Hard to Talk Honestly About Cancer?

  • Why Is It Still So Hard to Talk Honestly About Cancer?

    Posted by IMA-HelenT on July 21, 2025 at 10:35 am EDT

    Yesterday I heard an incredible story shared by @VigilantFox on X (link in discussion)—a man diagnosed at 28 with a rare, terminal cancer. The Mayo Clinic told him to gather his family and say goodbye. But someone recommended a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico.

    He took the chance.

    They treated him with integrative therapies and lifestyle changes. That was 50 years ago—and he’s still here.

    But when he began to speak out, the most shocking thing happened, the Cancer Care Association of America publicly branded him a liar.

    Why?

    Why is the Cancer Care Association of America trying to shut someone up that has a lived experience, that has a very positive story to tell? Why is it afraid of conversations around cancer?

    Reminds me of COVID and the people that were injured by the jab, then called liars when they wrote about it. Or the conversations about treatment options being shut down.

    I still see discussions that tell people it’s dangerous to talk about alternative or complementary cancer treatments—especially when they save lives? Why are people accused of giving “false hope,” while chemo and radiation—painful, symptom-based treatments—are protected from scrutiny?

    We’ve seen the failure rates. (In fact, a large Australian study published in Clinical Oncology found that chemotherapy’s 5-year survival contribution was just 2.3% in the U.S..) We know cancer thrives in certain environments—and treating the root matters.

    That’s why we at the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA) are doing this work.

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    Have you had trouble starting conversations about alternative cancer treatments?

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    IMA-HelenT replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • IMA-HelenT

    Organizer
    July 21, 2025 at 10:37 am EDT

    Here’s a link to the ‘Vigilant Fox’ thread on X https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1946691822128099823?t=0BQryji5onMqt9Ct2b2etQ&s=08

  • Jeff Gerber

    Member
    July 21, 2025 at 11:40 am EDT

    “Why is the Cancer Care Association of America trying to shut someone up that has a lived experience, that has a very positive story to tell?”

    You know, that question brings me back to the Tucker Carlson Show interview of Dr. Soon-Shiong https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-patrick-soon . Dr. Soon-Shiong is a self-made billionaire because he is an expert in cancer, and in that video he explains how the current approach to cancer is absolutely wrong.

    Over the past few years, anytime I read about something from nature that has anti-cancer properties, those things are always on the list of “don’t take this if you’re being treated for cancer because it interferes with the medications.” That always sounds the alarm bells in my head. But the confirmation that there is something wrong with how we approach cancer really came to me when I watched that interview with Dr. Soon-Shiong.

  • IMA-HelenT

    Organizer
    July 21, 2025 at 12:42 pm EDT

    That was a fantastic interview, he is very a very credible ‘expert’.

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