Wednesday September 19, 2007, 2:12 am

Here is the email address for letters to the editior: letters@post-gazette.com Please write from all over and point out how animal research PREVENTS actual progress because the results do NOT correlate to functions and processes in the human body! Artificially induced cancers in animals will NOT cure human cancers. We don't get the same types nor do they respond the same way to drugs and medications. I'll post additional information below.

Wednesday September 19, 2007, 2:15 am
http://www.siav.org/illness/cancer/index.htm - info below from this website of seriously ill people against vivisectio and specifically related to cancer "research":

Animals have been used by the thousands in attempts to study cancer.

The differing nature of the cancer, the failure of the animal cancer to proceed to mastasis (spreading) and the reaction to treatment have all meant that animals have played NO part in the advancement of our knowledge regarding cancer.

The tumours developed by experiments on animals are not reliable for human study. Professor Sikora (a cancer specialist) wrote in 1990 about a tumour virus he had come across: “These organisms, of little relevance to human cancer, cause a wide range of tumours in cats, rodents, monkeys and birds.”

The medical journal The Lancet has stated “…no animal tumour is closely related to a cancer in human beings…”. Even a past chairman of the Research Defence Society (RDS), an organisation with one role - to defend animal experiments, has stated “it could be argued that this is a field of research which has consumed an enormous number of animals without any tangible result.”

An entry in the magazine of Hoffman-La Roche, a drug company in the 1980s admitted “A human being is neither a large rats nor a large mouse, and can always react in a different way.”

Still popular is the use of animals to ‘screen’ chemicals, to check for the threat of causing cancer in humans. This has been unsuccessful.

Benzene causes leukaemia in humans, but did not in mice, so it was still used.

Glass fibres was found to be carcinogenic by human studies in 1991, but for years had been believed safe thanks to experiments of baboons, rats, mice, guinea pigs, hamsters and monkeys.

Arsenic was suspected to cause cancer for years, but animal experiments contradicted this.

Asbestos couldn’t be made to produce cancer in lab animals, so more people were exposed to it as it continued to be used.

Tests showed that chemicals which caused cancer in rats, did so in mice only about half the time. Guessing would have had similar results. If rat results are so unreliable for as similar an animal as a mouse, how can humans rely on them ?!

Using rats and mice to check what’s carcinogenic (cancer causing) for humans has a success rate of about 37%, far below what could be expected through chance.

In 1995 Tony Chu of Hammersmith hospital reported experiments where mice had been given cancer by exposure the coal tar, and commented “ But how that relates to the human system, nobody actually knows”.

Thursday September 20, 2007, 8:23 am
You might also point out that the 'cancer business' has successfully suppressed many treatments for cancer as they cannot make money from them! By giving these charities your money you are helping to keep the real cures away from the public.

Thursday September 20, 2007, 8:31 am
Writing to them NOW! I doubt my letter will ever get posted though as the media is heavily funded by big pharma!