Maybe I'm not understanding all of this.. this doesn't seem that remarkable to me... and I have read over and over again that Tumor shrinkage in no way correlates to survival . So I guess my initial reaction is so what, Big deal.

There is a drug which has been shown to be successful in treating cancer but you are not allowed to use it!

Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia discovered that this drug is incredibly successful in reducing many types of tumors, both benign and malignant (cancerous). The DEA and other federal agencies had ordered these tumor studies done after hearing erroneous reports of possible immunological problems associated with this drug. But, in 1975, instead of health problems, an apparent medical breakthrough occurred and successful tumor reductions were recorded!

Following this remarkably positive discovery by the Medical College of Virginia, orders were immediately handed down by the DEA and the National Institute of Health to defund all further research and reporting regarding this drug!

Millions of Americans who might be alive today are dead because of these and other DEA orders regarding the drug. Since 1996, the Medical College of Virginia has again applied to receive grants to do further research on the drug and has been turned down by the DEA.

What is this drug that you are not allowed to use?

Go to Google Video and watch: "Run From The Cure - The Rick Simpson Story".

And read "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer, available online at:

http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/CHAPTERS.HTM

Prepare to be astounded.

I think that tobacco use is the primary indicator for Lung Cancer. I am tracking a 1.1cm pulmonary nodule with a follow up PET scan scheduled in Dec. I grew up in a smoking house and smoked from my teens until my 40's when I had a stroke. I have been tobacco free for 4 years, but my father died a horrible death from Lung Cancer attributed to smoking and I hold tobacco companies responsible for his death and my worry. If smoking was eliminated worldwide then we would see lung cancer incidents decline by approximately 90%. It is great that we can develop drugs that ease the suffering of even a few. But the real cure is to eliminate tobacco use in all forms from the planet and take all holdings/profits/investments/and any other identifiable assets from the tobacco companies to care for and treat the plaque they have rendered upon us.

Whoopie!!! Yoo hoo! So sick of this @!$%#. My whole family has died of cancer and what the hell is being done? Nothing!

I hate to waste money even when it is the insurance company's money. 6 extra painful months and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not for me. Ken Krieger Cape Coral, Florida

We lost a very special man in our family to lung cancer and begged for trials and pills that may or may not work. We prayed cried told lies to him to keep him fighting and his body could not keep up. We pray that someday others can keep their loved ones and not suffer like we did or he did. We cant bring him back and will forever be scared. I will be checking in on this and hope doctors can be kinder then his. We battled insurance ., Doctors and Cancer. please keep trying as this is an awful cancer and should not take so many lives.. also we were always so turned away as if lung cancer is deserved.. and those who dont understand that a smoker is not the only ones who get it.. its also in bodies of those who never smoked. either way no one deserves it. Glad to hear their is hope. Now to find more caring doctors to care for our loved ones.

could you send it right now to my dying father?

thank you heartbroken i feel your pain

my husband died of small cell lung cancer in 2002, he was 58 yrs old. Our family is still suffering his loss. Again profits before the people. If anyone finds a cure , it will be a third world country, because the U.S. is too greedy to admit they have a cure...Yes, it is a shame, I just had two other people in my family diagnoised one with panacratic and the other lung .....It just seems to go on and on. Very sad...God Bless all the people who have lost loved ones to this horrible disease, and God Bless all of the ones that are fighting for their lives......And God forgive the ones that continue to put profits ahead of people!!!!

There is a cure for cancer and you can grow it yourself. If your state has laws that allow it. Go to pheonixtearsmovie.com.

I think thats just Great,The sooner the better.

Yes sir, Thats Just wonderful You guys are the best. All that time you`all spent in medical schools paid off. I hope you can get through the food and drug administration I wonder how long that will take? I`d talk to the President if I was You all Have a good day so long for now

I fought with my Mother for 30 years about her smoking. She would state that it was okay for her, because she did NOT inhale. Gee whiz, Mom, "the smoke is all around you"! Even, the cat would stick his nose in the huge ashtray filled with cigarrette butts on the table.

I would "hide" the lighters. "Forget" to buy the cartons. Argue with her about "dying". She did not care, she was addicted and would get furios with me for bothering her.

When, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's/Dementia, I thought "surely" she would not smoke? She started dropping burning cigarrettes on the floor. When, she was quizzed, she would just blame the issue on "someone" visiting her...."boyfriend", the man that delivered pizza and she felt sorry for as he told her about his troubles.

At 83 years old, my Mother needed to live where she could be watched and protected. As she moved into a elder-care facility, she would scream at the caretakers who kept her cigarrette pack for her in a drawer until she would go outside to smoke.

The only thing that "cured" my Mother of her long endured habit, was when she had an infection and the subsequent incorrect medicine dosage nearly killed her. She became catanoic and when she finally improved, she had "forgotten" that she smoked!!! What a way to get a cure!

Two years later, because of her constant issue about coughing and spitting-up, I finally convinced doctors to put Mom in the hospital for evaluation. With all of the tests that she had to endure, the final diagnosis was adeno-carcinoma of the lung. At 85, no doctor would perform any surgery.

The only time that my Mother asked me what was going on with her health, I sat next to her bed in the dark room and leaned in to tell her why she had the scar on her chest from a needle.

I told her that she had lung cancer from smoking. Mom's last words on the subject were: "I didn't inhale".

Tobacco is addictive and for those young people sitting in the New York nightclubs in the early 1940's having a cigarrette and a drink, the final death came years later with a lot of pain for all involved.

For 60 years cigarettes packs have had a warning printed on the pack from the surgeon general explaining if you smoked this product it will kill you!!!I I smoked for thirty years and stopped my mother smoked for 35 years and stopped but she developed lung cancer 25 years after she stop she is 86 now and dealing with it.Our decisions that we make thru out life are our own and if someone finds cure thats great but we all lit our own cigarettes one at at time, that was our choice.We all knew what would happen if we smoked. if medical science can find a cure that is great but the only one to blame is the person looking back at you in the mirror

"Kwak's team projected that 72 percent of the patients would have ENJOYED six months without their disease worsening..."

"Enjoyed"? How does someone with lung cancer "enjoy" even one day with lung cancer- even if he/she knew the disease wasn't getting worse?

A poor choice of words by the author.

In the late 1930's there was a country western song that went like this, "Smoke Smoke that cigarette, smoke smoke it until you smoke yourself to death". Even back there everyone knew that cigarettes kill. If you smoke it is your own fault. Put the blame where it belongs on yourself. My father died with lung cancer, his was probably caused by welding with stainless steel and being in the shipyards during WWII.

Remember, no one can make another adult do anything, and take responsibility for your self.

I definitely appreciate your open mind. My father smoked for over 40 years. He quit once or twice due to fear from a pneumonia, but usually resumed his habit about a month later. He watched his own father die a horrible death due to cancer twenty years after he had quit smoking(his primary site was not his lungs). Six years ago my father was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Upon further investigation his primary tumor site was his R lung. he was first said to be stage 4 inoperable for the lung. A brain surgeon had immediately removed the brain tumor but told us the appearance of the tumor was not good for his prognosis. Long story shorter he did eventually have the lobe out and 2 rounds of chemo w/ radiation initially. He is still here today and is a nonsmoker. His WIFE STILL SMOKES(she does go outside after being told she had to. Initially she smoked in the house. I am VERY lucky to still have my father but a smoker is a smoker is a smoker. You could warn till you're blue in the face and most will smoke no matter what. We all have to accept the consequences of our actions.

By the way--my uncle is fighting for his life battling renal adenocarcinoma that has gone to his lungs. He is hanging on sometimes in a miserable way taking one of the drugs that reduces tumor growth. He Never smoked a day in his life, and did not live with anyone smoking.

There is no money in a cure,go figure.

That's kind of over-simplyfying the whole thing to say, just don't take the drug, smoke the cigarette etc.  I agree that tobacco should be made illegal.   In what universe would anyone think that lighting tobacco with a match, and breathing the smoke into your lungs would do anything but compromise your health?  Tobacco is marketed all over the world, and back in the 50's and 60's was made to look as if it were 'cool' to smoke.  Yes, we all have choices, but given the destruction of lives and the resources spent (including time, research, and money), why do we not make this an illegal drug?  Quick answer: there is too much profit to be made by tobacco companies, pharmaceutical companies, and yes, oncologists.  Heroin is illegal, cocaine is illegal, so should tobacco be..  YES, Americans should take responsibility by evolving and putting and end to drugs like tobacco that clearly kill people.

I wonder what the cost of this new drug is going to be. It seems that the latest and greatest is at the mercy of the drug companies. Like so expensive, you have to take out a second mortgage to get a month's supply. I know, because my wife who died from lung cancer three years ago was taking Tarceva. The pills cost $4300.00 for a 30 day supply. Her insurance paid for some of the cost but she had a copay of $1300.00 per month. That's almost a mortgage payment. The kicker is, the drug really didn't work at all. I hate to see what the cost would be today. The drug companies got you in a bad spot because they know that most people will pay whatever it takes get rid of the cancer.

My brother was exposed to asbestos in the US Navy, fighting for our country. He now has lung cancer from that. He has been fighting a little over a year with a very grim diagnosis. He is 41, with a 12-year-old child. He has undergone radiation and 3 rounds of chemo. It is spreading like wildfire throughout his body. The doctors say there is nothing else they can do. He is going to a holistic healer now, as he refuses to give up. It's difficult to watch his fight and agony. If there is a cure, it should be made available to everyone immediately. I know he would try anything that would give him a snowball's chance in hell.

Tobacco companies are not to blame, you are a person with a mind of your own. YOU decide to smoke- the tobacco company doesn't come to your house, put a cigarette in your mouth and light it up. That's like saying the LCBO made me become an alcoholic. These companies give labels/warnings of what the products can do- the harm they can cause. Are you really telling me you thought cigarette's were healthy, or that no one ever told you before the age of 40 years old, maybe you should quit? Don't get me wrong, I feel great empathy for all of the people and their families that have suffered loss from cancer or other health related issues due to tobacco, but take responsability. Say No to smoking and stop blaming everyone else. Look in the mirror and make changes/prevention yourself! You only have one body- take care of it, or do the best you can to fix what you didn't know then, that you do know now!...

My husband, 63, was diagnosed with non small cell lung cancer in July, 2008. He had 1 round of chemotherapy that was fairly successful however the primary tumor did not completely disappear. In March, 2009, he had an upper lobectemy that was successful. In June, 2009 he went back for a CT scan and was discovered that another tumor had begun to grow as well as a "questionable" spot on his spine. I had addressed this "other" tumor prior to his surgery and his "oncologist" did not think it would be problematic. As it turned out it was. In July, 2009 we sought a second opinion at a cancer center where he was given two more rounds of chemotherapy with minimal results. He did not take the last dose of the chemo as he was tired of feeling sick and the side effects.

He decided to look into the treatment that was being done in Mexico. I fought him hard on his desire to go to Mexico. Having said that, he did an EXTENSIVE amount of research on vitimins, supplements, etc. Being the smart man that he is, he put together all of the similar treatments from Mexico to Germany, bought them an started taking them (vitimins and supplements). Basically, he decided that modern medicine wasn't going to help him and was disgusted at the amount of money he was being charged and decided to take matters into his own hands. He completely blew off traditional medical treatments.

Here we are over a year later and other than the breathing difficulties (minimal) due to the absence of part of his lung, he is doing FANTASTIC with no outward signs of the disease. Granted, he is taking about 20 or so vitimins/minerals; B-17, Sovereign Silver, Curcurmin, Tumeric, to name just a few and it is amazing. His will to live is incredible and his medical doctors are amazed at how well he is doing. He just recently added high dose (75 grams) IV Vitimin C (cost is very low, approx. $150) once a week.

The bottom line is this.....there will NEVER be a cure for cancer as long as there is money to be made! Each treatment he received was billed at about $60,000 and the neulasta shot (to build up the white blood cells) that he received the next day after treatment was $11,000.00. It makes me sick!

How blessed I am to still have my husband!

I too have lost family members and loved ones to emphazima do to the smoking. They all admitted that they should smoke! But they did'n want to quit.

Why do we always blame the capitalism for the peoples woes? The USA has brought many technological advances with products , equipment medicines, drugs etc. just vbecause there is a proffit incentive doesn't mean bussineses don't care about people. Money and proffit is what is needed to pay the people to make and develop things! You don't see poor nations or poor people making great strides in technology or developing drugs!

Lets wake up people! Capitalism has helped the world more then socialism or communism, it is what made the world a better place.

We have to stop blameing the corporations and we need to have the US government reduce some of the regulations that restrict the drug makers. The government and some liability issues make things extra expensive!