Why Choose Alternative Cancer Treatments? (4)
On cancer research and the power of your mind in "curing" cancer
Quotes
... cancer patients who refuse chemotherapy and radiation actually live up to FOUR TIMES LONGER THAN TREATED CASES...
Long-time cancer researcher Dr. Hardin Jones
Complementing Dr. Jones’ insights, welcome to page four of Healing Cancer Naturally’s “Why Choose Alternative Cancer Treatment?” series assembling statements by cancer and other specialists on cancer research as well as the power of the human mind.
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On Cancer Research
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Linus Pauling Ph.D. (1901-1994), two times Nobel Prize winner
There are repeated public fundraising appeals to ”help find a cancer cure”, such as the yearly US Postal Service’s release of a new "Fund the Cure" breast cancer stamp to help fund breast cancer research. Instead of the normal $.37 for a stamp in 2004, this one costs $.40, with the additional $.03 going to research. If all stamps were sold, it would raise an additional $35,000,000 for “vital” breast cancer research. Through email and other campaigns, well-meaning men and women are urged to ”go out and purchase some of these stamps” and ”e-mail your friends to do the same” ... ”It takes so little to do so much in this drive.” A lucid comment by Arthur C. Brown:
As critically important as the breast cancer effort is, the postage stamp initiative just isn't the answer... throwing money at the problem won't do a thing. I am very sensitive to this issue as my own mother died of breast cancer. What was done to her body in the name of "therapy" is something I will never forget. I won't go into details except to say here I am because of it. The problem is where the money raised will actually end up. To me, more funds taken from our pockets is simply throwing good money after bad. It usually ends up in improving the big three conventional treatments: radiation, drugs and surgery. Three extremely profitable ones, it must be pointed out. Virtually ALL of the billions poured into cancer research since president Nixon declared war on it in the 70's has been gone to developing new and improved versions of those three. That's not an answer. The money will also end up in the hands of the huge international medical corporations like Sandoz, Bayer, Pfizer and Ciba-Geigy by way of their cozy relationships with public and private research centers - those that eagerly produce patentable drugs and other kinds of treatments for them. Operational word: patentable. The money will filter down to a galaxy of state and federal bureaucracies, lawyers and private foundations that live large off the endless supply of cancer "research" funds. The cancer business is a major player in the world culture, an economic pillar. There are countless books on this disturbing issue. One of the best is "World Without Cancer" by G. Edward Griffin. My favorite example is the American Cancer Society. It has been around since 1913. OK, what does it have to show for all the millions donated? Correction, billions. Cancer rates are higher than ever. It's simply a mouthpiece for the federal bureaucracy. The answer lies in prevention and alternative treatments - what we talk about right here [note: the cancercured discussion group]. In other words, we are the answer, not them. YOU are the answer. Not huge, wealthy, government agencies, foundations, corporations, private societies and the like. They've had their day. The way out is PUBLIC PRESSURE on government and medical bureaucracies forcing them to open up to safe, proven, inexpensive, non-patentable, alternative treatments. Those that have quietly helped millions worldwide for decades. The kind they hate. They must learn them and use them. The answer lies in us working to raise the public awareness regarding all the options today - not just the big three. There are about 100 or so (yes, 100) alternative cancer treatments ignored, suppressed or unknown by the conventional system. This has to change. Bottom line? To me the cure for breast cancer - and all the others - is the INTERNET! No better tool exists for us. We are all co-contributors to the information pool and now can spread the word quickly and easily online - and off for that matter. They've had 100 years to deal with cancer and failed us. As Ted Turner said, "Lead, follow or get out of the way". They can't lead. They won't follow. It's up to us.
Arthur C. Brown, alternative cancer treatment consultant
The ably exploited fear of this dread disease, caused mainly by the products issuing from chemical and industrial laboratories, has become an inexhaustible source of income for the researchers, for the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical establishment. In the course of our century, so-called cancer research and cancer therapy have become a source of solid gold without precedent.
Hans Ruesch in Naked Empress or The Great Medical Fraud
Cancer is by no means a mystery disease, the secrets of which can only be discovered by scientists, armed with microscopes, ultramicroscopes, test tubes, etc. Unfortunately the researchers have obscured the causation of this commonplace malady by the investigation of countless relatively unimportant scientific details which they have discussed in papers and books, in language quite incomprehensible to the general public and to the great majority of medical men themselves... Cancer is a disease of civilisation. It is practically unknown to the primitive races leading primitive lives. Hundreds of medical men who have practised for decades among the South African negroes have never seen a cancer case... On the other hand, cancer is not uncommon among the South African negroes in the coast towns who for decades have lived more or less on the white man's diet... Cancer is essentially a nutritional disease. It is far more prevalent in the towns where people subsist on artificial food than in the country where men eat fresh natural food, take plenty of exercise and are less troubled with intestinal stagnation and auto-intoxication than are the sedentary inhabitants of the larger cities. We need not abolish civilisation in order to abolish cancer. We need only reform our lives in accordance with the dictates of nature...
Sir Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B., M.B.,M.S., F.R.C.S., speaking in the House of Commons
The use of animals in cancer research has been attacked as unnecessary cruelty to animals, and defended as absolutely essential for research progress....From a scientific standpoint, what is pertinent is that what are called 'animal model systems' in cancer research have been a total failure....The moral is that animal model systems not only kill animals, they also kill humans. There is no good factual evidence to show that the use of animals in cancer research has led to the prevention or cure of a single human cancer.
Dr. Irwin D. Bross Ph.D.
For over two hundred years the inmates of the vivisection laboratories have tormented to death hundreds of millions of animals. Over 800 ways of inducing tumours in animals have been found, not one of which is remotely related to a cancer which has developed spontaneously in a human. Tumours are implanted under the skin, and then observed as the growth takes over the body, animals are radiated, limbs become gangrenous and fall off, force feeding large amounts of toxic substances causes vomiting and fits - until death intervenes... Animal-based "cancer research" fund-raisers include: Cancer Research UK (formerly The Imperial Cancer Research Fund and The Cancer Research Campaign), The Leukaemia Research Fund, Tenovus Cancer Research, The Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign, Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood Trust, Institute of Cancer Research, World Cancer Research Fund. If you support animal-based "cancer research" you are supporting the biggest fraud, medical or otherwise, in history, and the cruel and senseless torture and killing of your fellow beings; both human and animal.
British Anti-Vivisection Association
[S]mall differences between man and [dogs] have littered medical history with catastrophes when discoveries in dogs have been applied to man. For example: Most of us have come to grips with the idea that smoking causes cancer, at least in man. Dogs are however extremely resistant to the cancer causing effects of cigarette smoke. The tobacco companies were able to hide behind science's inability to reproduce the obvious in dogs for many, many years and used such research to "prove" that smoking was not unhealthy.
Because [cancer] creates so much fear and distress, whenever vivisectors seek to justify their butchering, the stock response is that 'We must experiment on animals to find the cure for cancer'. However, after so much time, after so many animals have been slaughtered in 'cancer research', and after so much money has been given to cancer research, one naturally wonders why so many people continue to be afflicted by, and die from cancer. In fact this is hardly surprising in view of the animals used in this pseudo-research. When vivisectors induce cancer in laboratory animals (primarily mice and rats), the cancer-causing substance gives different results, not only from species to species, but also from one strain to another of the same species. For example:
• In the mouse strain C3HF, urethane gives rise to hepatomas, tumours of the reticuloendothelium and lung tumours. And yet in the mouse strain C57B1, urethane causes lymphomas of the thymus. However, in humans, urethane is a good remedy in treating leukaemia.
• Dimethyl-benzo-alpha-anthracene causes lymphomas in mice of the 'Swiss' strain, but produces bronchial adenomas (benign tumours) in the 'Strong A' strain of mice; in other mouse strains, it produces liver tumours (but only in the males).
• Benzol and arsenic, both carcinogenic in humans, are not so in any of the rodent species used for experiments. 2-naphthyl is carcinogenic for the human bladder, but does not cause any form of cancer in mice.
• Benzidine causes bladder cancer in human beings, but in mice it causes a neuroma of the acoustic nerve and intestinal and liver cancer.
• Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) produces liver cancer in the mouse but causes cirrhosis of the liver in rats.
• 4-amino-diphenyl causes bladder cancer in humans and yet in the mouse it results in mammary cancer.
• Chloroform (CHCl3) gives rise to liver cancer in the females of various strains of mice, but not in the males.
Isonicotine hydrazine (INH), or isoniazid, causes adenomas (benign) and bronchial adenocarcinomas (malignant) in different strains of mice, but nothing similar has been found in human beings despite being used for treating TB over the last forty years.
The fact that there are acknowledgements that the end of cancer is nowhere in sight is further evidence of the fraud and futility of vivisection.
South Africans for the Abolition of Vivisection
Animal experiments guarantees full employment, for once begun, a career in animal experiments is assured. It is as good as a pension... What is science today? A narrow and hard specialization for profit, exploitation and domination.
Dr med. Herbert Stiller, specialist in neurology & psychiatry, psychotherapy, Dr med. Margot Stiller, psychologist, specialist in neurology and psychiatry, psychotherapy in "Animal Experimentation and Animal Experimenters"
Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian political and spiritual leader
The subject of cancer research based upon animal models of human illness is in fact of such crucial importance to health that Healing Cancer Naturally devotes many pages to it here.
Also see History of Alternative Cancer Treatment, The American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society Mission Statement and More...
On The Power of Your Mind
A placebo is a medicine or other kind of treatment that seems therapeutic, but is actually inert, or empty. It is pharmacologically inactive. It works only if you believe it will. Even though placebos lack chemical of other value in and of themselves, they have a very real effect in 30% to 40% of patients [which will include cancer patients]…..The fact that people respond to placebos is one of the clearest examples in medicine that the mind has a major effect on the body. Placebos can be so effective that they can actually produce unwanted side effects…Such negative reactions clearly show the power of the mind to influence the body’s physical responses.
American Cancer Society website discussing the placebo effect
Remissions of cancer in "terminal" patients have one thing in common: a major shift in attitude or consciousness.
Paraphrasing Deepak Chopra MD in Quantum Healing
For me the first and hardest part was healing the mind, losing the 'Cancer is Killing Me' idea and coming to terms with the emotional trauma.
Shamanism was a big part of this healing and growth, a gift given that I later threw away. Once I believed with my heart that my body can overcome the disease there was an overnight improvement in general health.
After that I did the usual diet change, low protein, high fruit and veg blah blah and a million carrots. Vitamin therapy was Vit-C, Beta Carotene, Vit-E and Selenium, all in high doses, also Propolis tabs, liquid and cream. I nervously took mistletoe, I was steered towards the herb but also told it is poisonous.
"Ste" writing in the cancercured list, Apr 30, 2001, on his own cancer healing
More than 90% of the physicians said they attached the highest value to the attitudes of hope and optimism.
Norman Cousins in Head First: The Biology of Hope describing a national survey of oncologists assessing the impact of various psychological factors in fighting cancer
...over 400 reports of spontaneous remission of cancer were reviewed and analyzed. The patients themselves attributed their cure to a broad range of causes, but only one factor was common to all the cases--a shift toward greater hope and a positive attitude.
Paul McGhee, PhD
continued at Mind Power & Mental Influences: Inspirational Quotes.
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