Easier to beat than "you think", but not "easier to beat"
I wholeheartedly agree that most of the true success gains against cancer has come due to people looking outside the mainstream box. I think though that you were referring to cancer death rates as opposed to actual incidence of cancer rates. As you know, H, cancer rates are INCREASING - the the point that 1 in two or 1 in three people can now expect to have cancer in their lifetime.
Yes, cancer death rates have been showing decreases for some cancers in some parts of the world. But even that is deceptive, even when you eliminate the self-serving statistical juggling by those with vested interests who have been telling us that cures and victories are just around the corner for almost half a century now. For sure, little credit can be given to mainstream medicine, other than earlier detection, as they cling to their outmoded, but highly profitable, practices of surgery, chemo and radiation - all which have been shown to increase the spread of cancer and weaken the body to pave the way for further cancer, particularly the latter two (chemo and radiation).
I bet most people are unaware that virtually all chemotherapy drugs are themselves classified as Class 1 carcinogens! And radiation merely destroys our bone marrow that is the heart of our immune system.
People do not beat and avoid cancer nor get other illnesses due to a deficiency in chemotherapy or deficiencies in mainstream medicine. They get cancer and become ill because toxins and diseases beat their immune systems. As data from the CDC and others have shown, our immune systems are becoming progressively weaker, the same as male sperm count is progressively declining. Though more poeple may be finding out about alternatives, our overall health and vitality continues to decline.
In 1981, Dr. H. F. Pross did a study of the average Natural Killer (NK) count of average Americans. NK count is measured in lytic units (LU), and Dr. Pross found that the average LU count in 1981 was 152. In 1991, Dr. R. B. Herberman did a similar study and found that the LU count had dropped to 135. In 1997, Dr. Gerald See did another study and found the count had dropped to 108. In other words, we are dropping at about the rate of 1 LU per year. Which means that the average LU count in 2009 is likely to be somewhere around 96.
With declining immune systems in an increasingly polluted, poorly nourished, overmedicated and increasingly toxic world, cancer is not getting easier to avoid and neither is it getting easier to beat. Cancer may be easier to learn how to beat and easier to beat than most people think, but that is only because most people still do not know a fraction of what good diet, nutrition, herbal supplementation and alternative treatments have to offer. The more people who educate themselves about alternatives and who turn away from ineffective toxic therapies, the more that will be saved.
But, one more time here, it is not because cancer itself is getting easier to beat, just the same as it is not becoming easier to avoid. Quite the opposite.
DQ