Off topic: Oncologists paid 350 dollars per patient-month to use less effective and more toxic cancer drugs

Life Extension Magazine Oct 2014

• Wall Street Journal May 2014 has the $350/ month information

• Oncologists are paid to use the insurance company’s “recommended regimen”

• An oncologist having 100 patients on the “recommended regimen” is paid $420,000 per year

• Oncologists are NOT paid for such things which have been proven to treat cancer such as aspirin and vitamin D

• Not on the list is cimetidine – with a proven 2.7X better 10 year survival outcome for colon cancer.

• If an oncologist is caught prescribing metaformin he could lose his $350/month for the patient (14 references for metaformin)

• US paid $37 billion for cancer drugs in 2013

• 5,800,000 Americans died due to Cancer in the last decade vs < 100 due to terrorism

• Adriamycin is one of the “recommended regimen” drugs which is often no longer used due to excessive toxicity (3 references)

See also VitaminDWiki

• Proof that Vitamin D Works proof includes Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer as of Oct 2014

• Cancer - After diagnosis

• 85 percent less risk of death from Breast Cancer when vitamin D levels higher than 30 ng – May 2012

• Vitamin D improves Cancer survival – Nov 2013

• Cancer Chemotherapy and vitamin D – Review March 2013

• Vitamin D and Immune Function – Review July 2013 immune system is needed to fight cancer

• Overview Cancer and vitamin D has the following summary chart

Overview Breast Cancer and Vitamin D contains the following summary and sections

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Cancer patients 64% less likely to die if have high level of vitamin D – Dec 2011 has the following chart

See also web

• Cancer Intervention Trials with Vitamin D 197 as of Sept 2014