In spite of the advancements made by medicine over the years, the treatment of cancer remains adrift, buffeted by political tides and conflicting approaches. It is a disease that has been hijacked by a very large and powerful pharmaceutical drug industry, an industry capable of altering the historical course of medicine.

Once receiving a diagnosis of cancer, the patient wears a price tag of approximately $300,000. Cancer is BIG business.

To put this ill-conceived power in perspective, consider the words of the novelist Upton Sinclair who once said of such danger,