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 "Both herceptin and Avastin are made by Genentech Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area company that is doing very well, thank you. The reason they are so expensive is that they are new, and there are no generic versions available. So Genentech can charge whatever it wants, without competition, for these life-saving drugs....As a result of the high cost of herceptin and Avastin, I am going to hit my lifetime max of $1 million on my health insurance before the end of 2007."
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Do Arthritis Drugs Cause Cancer?"- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
| "The women who got herceptin experienced 58% fewer cancer recurrences during the three-year follow-up than those who did not get the drug, the researchers report.
FINDING THE OPTIMAL DURATION
According to Joensuu, this study supports previous research. "A few prior studies have shown that administration of adjuvant [Herceptin] for one year reduces the rate of breast cancer recurrence by approximately 50%" in women who have aggressive cancers, he says." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) |
 "Even today's most over-hyped cancer drug, herceptin, which is being heralded as a "miracle cancer drug" for women, only produced a 0.6 percent absolute reduction in breast cancer risk in one study. That's less than one woman out of a hundred actually being helped by the drug, and yet doctors are raving about the drug like it's some sort of miracle. (It's really just pharmaceutical quackery.)
Herceptin holds nothing to the power of this information to prevent and even help cure cancer."- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "When you look at drug claims, especially new miracle-sounding claims on drugs like herceptin, be aware that these statistics are routinely given as relative statistics, not absolute. The numbers are distorted to make the drugs look more effective than they really are. herceptin, for example, produced only a 0.6 percent absolute reduction in breast cancer risk in one study, yet the medical hucksters pushing this drug are wildly screaming about it being a "breast cancer cure!" and demanding that practically all breast cancer patients be immediately put on it." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
| "A study reported at a recent American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting confirms the benefits of herceptin. HER2-positive women who were given herceptin after surgery, along with standard chemotherapy, had a 52% lower rate of tumor recurrence than women who weren't given the drug. Women who have invasive breast cancer routinely have tumor cells tested for HER2.
New finding: Exercise fights breast cancer. Previous research showed that physical activity—a 30-minute walk, five days a week—can help prevent breast cancer, cutting risk by 20%." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "In another part of the study, a subgroup of 232 women who had more aggressive cancers were assigned either to receive nine weeks of herceptin infusions or a placebo. The women who got herceptin experienced 58% fewer cancer recurrences during the three-year follow-up than those who did not get the drug, the researchers report. FINDING THE OPTIMAL DURATION According to Joensuu, this study supports previous research. " - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) |
| "As a result of the high cost of herceptin and Avastin, I am going to hit my lifetime max of $1 million on my health insurance before the end of 2007."
Beware of arthritis drugs
Do Arthritis Drugs Cause Cancer? This is the title of an article published in the New York Times, June 5, 2008. As stated in the article, the FDA has received reports of 30 cases of cancer among children and young adults treated with drugs for rheumatoid arthritis psoriasis, Crohn's disease, and other immune system diseases. The drugs involved are:
1. Enbrel, sold by Amgen and Wyeth
2." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "Anastrozole could have been compared with later breast cancer drugs, such as herceptin. This costs £20,000 ($36,000) a year and works spectacularly well in the one in five women that carry the particular genetic flaw it addresses. So well in fact there are calls for women who are known to have this flaw, as expressed in a protein known as HER2, to take it at much earlier stages, putting more strain on limited budgets.41
If the comparison had been with herceptin, anastrozole would not have looked so good."- Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) |
 "This practically makes the sun an instant healer, far more effective than even the most aggressively hyped cancer drugs, such as herceptin.
The second study showed that the same amount of sunlight corresponded with a two-thirds lower risk of contracting colorectal cancer. For any doctor or friend who asks for proof for the "outrageous" claim that sunlight can prevent or cure cancer, you may want to refer him or her to the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2006.12."- Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
 "Herceptin, only about 8 will die
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Patients have a different view of the costs of cancer treatment. They feel they are facing a disease that poses a mortal risk, they paid for their health insurance or Medicare, and the insurers need to do battle over costs, not the patient."- Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) |
 "At the time of this writing, herceptin (trastuzumab), a drug for breast cancer patients, costs $3,200 per month. Avastin (bevacizumab) for colorectal cancer can cost $4,400 per month. Revlimid (lenalidomide), a treatment for multiple myeloma, could cost more than $70,000 per year. And Erbitux (cetuximab) for head and neck or colorectal cancer might exceed $110,000 annually.
Two decades ago we spoke with a drug company insider. This former executive related a top-level meeting in which this question was raised: "If you found a cure for cancer, what would you charge for it?"- Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) |
| "HER2-positive women who were given herceptin after surgery, along with standard chemotherapy, had a 52% lower rate of tumor recurrence than women who weren't given the drug. Women who have invasive breast cancer routinely have tumor cells tested for HER2.
New finding: Exercise fights breast cancer. Previous research showed that physical activity—a 30-minute walk, five days a week—can help prevent breast cancer, cutting risk by 20%. A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association shows that exercise helps prevent a recurrence." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) |
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Universal dietary and supplement regimens to successfully fight cancer drugs like herceptin, Avastin, Erbitux that temporarily infuse targeted antibodies into a tumor. Anticancer mechanisms within your own body can be activated to put a stop to cancer in a continual manner that exceeds that of anti-cancer drugs.
Cancer authorities now speak of universal mechanisms that can be manipulated to block the growth, spread and recurrence of cancer." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) |
| "The numbers are distorted to make the drugs look more effective than they really are. herceptin, for example, produced only a 0.6 percent absolute reduction in breast cancer risk in one study, yet the medical hucksters pushing this drug are wildly screaming about it being a "breast cancer cure!" and demanding that practically all breast cancer patients be immediately put on it. Yet it's not even effective on one person out of a hundred." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
| "Criticism has been raised over the use of herceptin among women with less invasive forms of breast cancer. A British newspaper wanted to know why one top
Breast Cancer Surgery - Mastectomy
The scenario is a familiar one: the surgeon exits the surgery suite, locates the patient's family, and promptly declares, "/got it all." It is difficult to understand the reasoning why surgeons carefully excise breast tumors with wide surgical margins. The spread of most breast tumors is via the blood circulation, not by direct extension of the tumor itself." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) |
| "The recently hyped breast cancer drug herceptin mirrors this exact scenario. One study showed it to help only 0.6 percent of women avoid recurring breast cancer, yet doctors, oncologists, and breast cancer non-profit groups have been hyping up the drug as a miracle "cure" for breast cancer and demanding that all at-risk women be treated with it.
To make matters worse, the FDA refused to enforce scientific standards with DTC advertising, and to this day, there is still no law that requires the FDA to pre-approve drug advertising at all." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
| "As for herceptin, a new drug which had been heralded as a cure, the best that can be said about its efficacy and safety for the treatment of early breast cancer is that the available evidence is insufficient to make reliable judgments. It is profoundly misleading to suggest, even rhetorically, that the published data may be indicative of a cure for breast cancer. [Lancet 366:1673, 2005]
Phytoestrogens are being used by women who do not want to rely on modern medicine for hormonal regulation, but their use is generally unguided." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) |
| "If the comparison had been with herceptin, anastrozole would not have looked so good. But Tamoxifen gives a more direct comparison to glean what we are paying for: £100 million ($180 million) for the advances since Tamoxifen as outlined above. In affluent countries, that may seem like a good use of taxpayers' money, because what is more precious than health? But no one knows what taxpayers think because there is no way of knowing and very little serious debate beyond simply demanding greater access to life-saving drugs." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) |
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