How it is Incredibly Difficult to Learn About Ineffective Chemotherapy Drugs

ByShaun Snapp

Executive Summary

  • In addition to many cancer drugs not working, there is a notable lack of coverage of this topic.
  • This article investigates this coverage issue.

Introduction

In the article How the FDA Constantly Performs Ineffective FDA Oncology Approvals to Score Points with Big Pharma, we cover how the FDA routinely approves cancer drugs that do not work. However, the sad fact is that this topic is very little covered. This article will demonstrate how difficult it is to find this information.

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Searching for Ineffective Chemotherapy Drugs

Doing a search for ineffective chemotherapy drugs online is a curious experience.

It was curious to do a web search for ineffective cancer drugs and find so few relevant results. This last article by KHN is one of the few that is related to my actual search. That article is very good, but there are very few like that, and it presents the issue of ineffective cancer drugs as more of a mistake than something deliberate on the part of the FDA and pharma company partnership. 

Why Not Focus on Google?

For those wondering why I am not showing search results from Google. I do research for a living, and after analyzing Google, I am suspicious of Google results because Google is aligned with commercial interests and the US government and other governments and is increasingly censoring and pushing commercial results above all others.

This is a topic I cover in the article Why is There no Manual Adjustment or Preference Adjustment in Google Search?, and this article Are There Any Search Engines That De-Emphasize Poor Accuracy Commercial Results?

The problem is that many search engines base their results on Google’s results, leading to more censorship among nearly all search engines.

Is the FDA Shown as Responsible?

Let us now type in a slightly different search term related to the FDA’s involvement in approving ineffective drugs to see if we get any results.

A search for the FDA approving ineffective cancer drugs also yielded few results.

The top results most went to health authorities, who appear to sidestep the issue. The articles are about when a drug becomes less effective. This addresses the issue of drug resistance, which is not the same thing as drugs that are simply ineffective.

See the explanation at the NIH.

But nearly all current treatments face the same problem: for many patients, they ultimately stop working. Commonly known as drug resistance, this phenomenon is one of the most challenging problems facing cancer researchers and patients today. Resistance can occur when cancer cells—even a small group of cells within a tumor—contain molecular changes that make them insensitive to a particular drug before treatment even begins.  – Cancer.gov

This is not what I typed into the search engine.