well, i think you are talking semantics. they consider it cured you if you are alive in 5 yrs. but, we know it doesn't solve the problem of why cancer grew (we all have 2% i am told). when i read that, i thought of the juiceman who says he cured himself of liver cancer by drinking all the apple and carrot juice he could get his hands on. i do not think it was the juice, but the nutrients. i have read a few things saying that story is not true and that he was a boy when he had it and he worded it to sell books, so i don't know. but, the 2nd person i thought of was lorraine day, didn't she cure herself through diet? gerson also has cured people of cancer is my understanding. as far as mainstream protecting itself, well, yes they are protecting their degrees and future, but mostly they are ignorant and believe what they are fed by the ADA