- Target:
- Governments, Research Centers, Cancer Organizations, Health Care Decision Makers, Media
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.crosettofoundation.org
Your action is needed!
“10 Million Preventable Deaths …Lost Every Year
(These people are younger than 75!):
• 6.5 million premature deaths from cancer
• 3.5 million premature deaths from malnutrition
You can be the change you want to see in the world by:
1. Signing the petition to create laws and regulations asking those who raise money to fight cancer to declare what they will give in return in terms of reduction of cancer deaths and costs. Each project should provide an estimate supported by scientific arguments of the percentage of cancer death reduction the project expects to attain, how much the project costs, when the first results can be expected, and the plan to measure results on a sample population.
2. Making a contribution to improve transparency, accountability, and reduce spending that does not yield results by comparing research projects in the fight against cancer from all over the world.
3. Dedicating some of your time to creating awareness by spreading the word about this document and its cause.
This document (available at www.UnitedToEndCancer.org/doc/100.pdf) has the objective to enlighten people on how to make smart informed choices, by:
• Analyzing together (provide any feed-back) the causes of premature deaths
• Identifying the top causes of premature deaths that can be PREVENTED
• Studying how to save the highest number of lives with the lowest cost
For example, data from the World Health Organization (see page 13) rank the mortality rate by cause of death, for the year 2008, from the highest (4.3 million death/year) to lowest (0.06 million death/year) in the following sequence: cancer, heart disease, accidents, respiratory infections, cerebrovascular disease, diarrhea, HIV/AIDS, respiratory disease, digestive diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, diabetes, was and civil conflict and Alzheimer-Parkinson-MS. Analyzing the first four causes of death: cancer, heart, malnutrition and accident, we have irrefutable data showing that early cancer detection can save lives in 90% to 98% of the cases. The money saved with a onetime surgery on a small tumor instead of the expensive prolonged painful chemotherapy treatments, could then be used to save lives from malnutrition which costs only $0.33 per person per day.
It is unlikely to reduce drastically the number of premature deaths from heart disease because its mortality rate has already been cut more than in half over the past 50 years and because we are not aware of new breakthroughs in this field. Similarly there are no known solutions to significantly reduce the number of deaths from accidents unless one invests huge sums of money to improve viability and educate drivers in the world. Using a similar logic, I continue the analysis of how different early cancer diagnosis projects around the world should be compared and the most cost-effective funded in order to save more lives, reduce cancer costs that currently have reached $1.4 trillion/year and use the money saved to reduce malnutrition in the world.
4. Requesting that administrators of your taxpayer dollars and donations provide the following:
a) A public list of those people determined to be the most competent in reducing cancer deaths and costs.
b) A description of the direction cancer research should take and what plan of intervention is needed to accelerate the reduction of cancer deaths and costs.
c) A list of the projects with the highest potential to reduce premature cancer deaths and costs, and how and when they were compared in a public debate to other projects claiming equivalent results.
This petition is proposing the creation of a bill and regulations that would save thousands of lives from premature cancer death by asking those who raise money to fight cancer, what they will provide in return in terms of reduction of cancer death and cost. (A separate request for funding and budget should address the issue to assist patients in their terminal phase or any other cancer project that is not targeted to reduce premature cancer death).
Cancer associations (or Governments) who asks for money to fight cancer (or the Government that uses taxpayers dollars) should provide a link to a document describing the project that is aiming to reduce premature cancer death.
The bill should request that each project should provide the following:
1. An estimate supported by scientific arguments of the percentage of cancer death reduction the project expects to attain
2. How much the project costs
3. When the first result showing the estimated cancer death reduction can be expected
4. The estimated cost reduction for each life saved compared to current costs
5. A document comparing the project under consideration with other projects that claim superiority in efficiency or which are already among the top ten projects claiming highest efficiency in percentage of cancer death and cost reduction. All claims should be supported by scientific arguments. In addition, the author of such project should be available to discuss publicly (via web or TV) in a transparent way his project as it compares with the top projects listed above and with the winners of any competition aimed at identifying projects with the highest potential to reduce premature cancer deaths and costs
6. A plan to measure results on a sample population of for example 10,000 people in the age group 50 to 75 taken from a location where in the previous 20 years the death rate was constant (e.g. 0.5%).
The petition also requests that a public list be created (for example Wikipedia style, where anyone can edit and add reliable information) where people who administer your taxpayer dollars and donations provide:
a) The names of those people determined (through scientific arguments) to be the most competent in reducing cancer deaths and costs.
b) A description of the direction cancer research should take and what plan of intervention is needed to accelerate the reduction of cancer deaths and costs.
c) A list of the projects with the highest potential to reduce premature cancer deaths and costs, and how and when they were compared in an open, public debate to other projects claiming equivalent results.
You can further help this campaign by sponsoring it
The Stop Preventable Deaths petition to Governments, Research Centers, Cancer Organizations, Health Care Decision Makers, Media was written by Crosetto Foundation and is in the category Health at GoPetition.