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My name is Yvette Wilson and I am a Research Nurse running clinical trials for people with Cancer. The purpose of the trials is to evaluate or compare the effectiveness of a particular chemotherapy drug or a combination of Chemotherapy drugs.

The drugs are very toxic, and cause many serious side effects from kidney and liver damage to death. All these drugs have been tested on animals or are produced using animals such as monoclonal antibodies, and proven safe to use on humans. If they are safe why do they harm so many people? If they work why is cancer on the increase? If animal experiments work why have we not found a cure for Cancer?

The fact remains that animal experiments are a total farce, they do not work. Most of the cancers suffered by humans would never be seen in an animal, and have to be artificially induced in a laboratory. How can any disease that has to be artificially induced replicate the complex nature of the real disease?

Cancer is a disease of cells and it is at a cellular level that we differ to other non-humans. It thus makes the data collected from animals inaccurate from the very start. It is also a total myth that the cytotoxic drugs available today were developed through animal experiments, the vast majority were found by accident, one example of that being the derivatives of mustard gas used during the first world war.

It was noticed that the gas lowered white blood cells, and today derivatives of these are being used to treat Lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system.

I have worked in the medical profession for many years and my stance on vivisection will never change. I have seen and witnessed the fraud and the hypocrisy of vivisection. I know that vivisection does not work, it harms humans and causes the unnecessary suffering of millions of non-humans. I also know that the very environment in which we live, and the lifestyles we choose are responsible for the increase in cancer.

The time has come when we have to take responsibility for our health, the sad thing is, there is no money in good health, well at least not for companies such as Huntingdon Life Sciences and the big pharmaceutical companies who are literally making a killing.

The countless millions wasted on animal experiments could be directed into prevention, which is the only way we will ever cure cancer. The most ironic and maddening thing is that behind the gates of Huntingdon Life Sciences they test the very chemicals that pollute our environment and give us cancer and then they test the drugs used to treat it, how bizarre is that? How wrong is that? How long will they get away with it?

The only way to cure cancer is to stop all animal experiments, and direct the money into real research that will find real cures. To improve and clean up the environment in which we live, and to take more responsibility for our own health, by not smoking, not drinking to excess, eating a healthy balanced diet and taking regular exercise. I believe it is as simple as that

I will continue my opposition to animal experimentation because I know it is scientifically flawed, it is very bad science and gives misleading and often fatal results. It also directs much needed money away from areas of research, that will find more accurate methods of dealing with human disease.

Vivisection should be relegated to the history books, where it belongs, and the concentration put into ethical, sound, scientific research where we all benefit human and non human.

Yvette Wilson, Research Nurse