{"id":124504,"date":"2013-06-11T04:20:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=124504"},"modified":"2013-06-10T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T04:28:22","slug":"tumor-its-in-the-system-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2013\/06\/11\/tumor-its-in-the-system-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumor: It&#8217;s In the System Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Tumor: It&#8217;s In the System<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directors: Valerie McCaffrey and Cindy Pruitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent Los Angeles premiere at the 16th annual Dances With Films, &#8220;Tumor: It&#8217;s in the System&#8221; joins a considerable slate of contemporary documentaries &#8212; inclusive of Peter Nicks&#8217; raw, verit\u00e9-style &#8220;The Waiting Room&#8221; &#8212; offering up a damning assessment of different elements of the American health care system. Here it&#8217;s a look at how potential alternative treatments and even cures for cancer have been suppressed since the early 1900s &#8212; the implication being that some combination of the bureaucratic regulatory system and the rapacious self-interest of capitalism have combined to incentivize managed treatment of symptoms over the long-term health of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Such material has the capacity to tip over into &#8220;black helicopter&#8221; territory fairly quickly, but co-directors Valerie McCaffrey and Cindy Pruitt, despite a fevered sense of advocacy that sometimes gets the better of their editorial plotting, do a generally good job of interweaving testimonials from an array of open-minded physicians and unusual survivors whose stories belie the myth that chemotherapy is the only &#8212; or indeed, even the best &#8212; way to combat cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Singer and cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge may be the film&#8217;s biggest celebrity &#8220;get,&#8221; but &#8220;Tumor: It&#8217;s in the System&#8221; is buoyed by talking head academics who do a good job of making a case for the fact that chemotherapy (which, despite an array of advances in modes of deliverance, has not much improved the odds of survival since President Nixon&#8217;s Cancer Act of 1971, which allocated $200 million in federal money for research) is generally as destructive and deadly if not more so than many forms of cancer. Tying these facts into Big Pharma&#8217;s $162 billion annual profit makes for a sometimes speculative but never spurious connect-the-dots case against the health interests of the average citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Divisive Gerson therapy &#8212; one feature of which is coffee enemas, used to cleanse especially the liver &#8212; is nominally the alternative remedy that &#8220;Tumor&#8221; advocates, but the film isn&#8217;t an unblinking infomercial for that rehabilitation. It presents a good bit of troubling evidence about suppressive methodology and attitudes toward so-called alternative medicine. 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