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#102 The Cancer Episode
Strange & Unexplained
English - July 25, 2022 04:00 - 27 minutes - 50.3 MBTrue Crime Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The medical field is a multi trillion dollar industry. In 2020 the U.S healthcare spending increased by 9.7 percent, reaching 4.1 trillion dollars. That averages out to be about $12,530 per person. With profits like that to be made, is it out of the realm of possibilities that there are cures for diseases that are being withheld? When you realize that almost 50% of people will face some type of cancer in their lifetime, the theory doesn't seem so far-fetched.
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Sources:
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
https://www.burzynskiclinic.com
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cancer/in-depth/cancer/art-20046762