The American Cancer Society is the richest charity in the world with assets of over $1.3 billion. Their executives in several states earn 6 figure salaries, including fringe benefits, travel expenses and pensions. After extravagant salaries, overhead and marketing, the rest of their budget goes to "research", much of it spent on fradulent animal experimentation which cannot be extrapolated to human beings but it is a huge part of Big Pharma's multi-billion dollar vivisection industry. Over 35 billion dollars have been spent on animal experimentation in search of a cancer cure in spite of the fact that vivisectors know that finding a cure to cancer by torturing animals is scientifically impossible. Nevertheless, ACS continues to solicit donations purporting to be looking for a "cure" which is always "just around the corner" of only the public will give them more money.
Even though political donations from a charity are illegal, ACS donates tens of thousands of dollars a year to both political parties and spends in average of $5 million in lobbying expenses.
Contrary to claims by the American Cancer Society, The National Cancer Institute and The Center for Disease Control that incidences of cancer have decreased, the opposite is true. According to NCI's own data, cancer ratesr increased dramatically in 2011:
In Violation of the 1971 National Cancer Act, ACS and NCI refuse to inform the public regarding avoidable causes of cancer, including:
ACS has close ties with the petrochemical/pharmaceutical industry and board members include executives of mammogram companies, the president of Lederle Laboratories/American Cynamid and the CEO of Amgen, producer of the chemotherapy drug Neupogen.
The relationship between ACS and Amgen is the quintessential example of the hypocrisy of ACS, and reinforces claims by critics that ACS has no interest whatsoever in a cure to cancer but is only interested in making money---the higher the cancer rates, the more money Amgen makes from their drug Neupogen
ACS continues to dispute studies that have concluded that mammograms can cause cancer, do not increase breast cancer survival rates and that false positive diagnoses are resulting in healthy woman being given toxic therapies which harm and sometimes result in death. Their close ties to the mammogram industry drives their relentless campaigns to encourage all women, young and old to have mammograms.
Their relationshop with AstraZeneca caused them to recruit 16,000 perfectly healthy women to take part in a 5 year clinical of a highly toxic drug tamoxifen in spite of the fact that it can cause uterine cancer.
Formation of the ACS Foundation allows ACS to receive donations in excess of $100,000. Among the $100K plus donors are producers of carcinogenic products:
DuPont, a leading mamography company as well as producer of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals is a sponsor of the ACS Breast health Awareness Program. AstraZeneca, a massive polluter and producer of carcinogens, founded Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
ACS spends appoximately 2 percent of their budget on prevention,
ACS denied for decades that smoking causes cancer, changing their stance only when statistics, medical opinion and overwhelming public pressure forced them to do so.
Obstruction of ACS in admitting causes cancer has been going on for many years. Some of the instances are:
ACS has waged a continuous war on alternative therapies because they conflict with the products produced by their Big Pharma sponsors. ACS formed a commitee on "unproven methods" comprised of supporters of toxic therapies and drug companies. They call doctors who use alternative cures to cancer "quacks" then blackball them and do everything and do everything they can to put them out of business.
When the U.S. government's Office of Technology Assessment published a report identifying 200 promising alternative therapies, ACS remained resistant and hostile and continued to persecute doctors like Dr. Burzynski and attack and denigrate the Hoxsey therapy and many other therapies which are healing people of cancer.
Suggested Reading: "National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society: Criminal Indifference to Cancer prevention and Conflicts of Interest" by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein. For more information about cancer and the cancer industry go to www.naturalnews.com/index-books.html