The Cancer-Industrial Complex

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” — Audre Lorde

If anything, all these words so far have made it clear that the current strategies in the War on Cancer are not working for the…

“Capitalist growth entails constantly searching for ways to convert ever-increasing elements of the natural world into commodities” — Michael Friedman

“Social inequalities in health care, as in other aspects of social life, are structurally inherent to the capitalist economy” — M. Norman Oliver

Time and time again, it has been shown that non-white racial/ethnic groups, especially…

“It is now conceivable that our children’s children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars” — President Bill Clinton

The drug development pipeline that stretches from bench to the clinic begins with basic biomedical…

“…tell everyone they have cancer, and survival rates will skyrocket” — Gilbert Welch

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,735,350 new cancer cases and 609,640 cancer deaths. It is common knowledge that…

“Unregulated Growth: A neoliberal’s wet dream” — Keguro Macharia

Cancer is commonly known as a problem of cellular proliferation. It is a disease that arises when cells grow out of control, resulting in disruption of the tissue where…