Your Money And Your Life: Britain's cancer charities are a multimillion pound industry, but they are no nearer to 'curing' cancer than they were half a century ago. Quite the opposite-much of their time and money is spent avoiding awkward questions about what causes the disease.

Martin J Walker

Everybody knows what causes cancer. Bad diet; too much sunlight, cigarettes, faulty genes, and of course, that virus which pops up near nuclear power installations. Modern science has told us so and now it must tell us how it can be cured. But we are getting there. Diligent research, largely carried out by Britain's cancer charities , means that a cure for cancer is now probably nearer than ever.

That, at least, is one side of the cancer story; the side you can hear from establishment scientists, drug companies and media science correspondents. But the other side is hidden from history and the public record. For, in truth, we do not know what the main causes of cancer are, now why the disease is escalating. Apart from the continual propaganda about cigarettes, there is no public discourse about the chemical or environmental causes of cancer.

And it is unlikely that the public will ever be informed about them while cancer research in Britain is is dominated by a cabal of unaccountable doctors, scientists and surgeons-a 'cancer club' which garners some of its funding and much of its philosophy from an industrial infrastructure which independent scientists believe is itself the cause of rising cancer rates. For cancer research in Britain is a misnomer. As science and medicine have become increasingly interlocked with industry, the motivation, initiative and funding for for preventative cancer research has all but dried up.

Throughout the postwar years in Britain, industry, government and science have tried to tackle the cancer epidemic by searching for miracle cures rather than investigating causes, by playing with gene sequencers rather than looking at environmental pollution; and by taking industry's money rather than looking at its record. The conclusion today is inescapable; Britain's cancer research charities are part of the problem, not the solution.

Dr Mercola's Comment:

I am always reluctant to donate money when someone requests it for medical foundations. I know that most of that money will always be directed to funding traditional paradigms that do not address the real cause of the disease.