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Most cancers are not found until autopsy. That's because they never caused any
symptoms. For example 30 - 40 times as many cases of thyroid, pancreatic, and prostate cancer are found in autopsy than ever presented to the doctor. According to a study cited in top British medical journal Lancet 13 Feb 93,
early screening often leads to unnecessary treatment: 33% of autopsies show prostate cancer but only 1% die from it. After age 75, half of males may have prostate cancer, but only 2% die from it. This means simply that the
immune system can hold many problems in check, as long as it is not compromised by powerful procedures. Guess which system is the most important to you at this time, more than it's ever been before in your whole life. Right -
the immune system. Guess which system suffers most from chemotherapy and radiation. Right again. So the one time in your life you most need it, your immune system will be weakened by those therapies. If you're one of the few
cancer patients who's refused standard treatment from the get-go - good, but your immune system still needs all the help you can give it.
A 1992 study in Journal of the American Medical Association of 223 patients concluded
that no treatment at all for prostate cancer actually was better than any standard chemotherapy, radiation or surgical procedure. (Johansson)
Tim O'Shea in TO THE CANCER PATIENT
Welcome to page seven of the “Why Choose Alternative Cancer Treatment?” series. This page focuses on further incisive, outspoken (and often shocking)
statements and observations by cancer specialists, researchers and thinkers on the subject of chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer.
Full
introduction and complete list of Healing Cancer Naturally articles: Why Choose Alternative Cancer Treatment.
On Chemotherapy
ctd. from previous page
Although even the best statistics for the major cancer illnesses like breast cancer, lung cancer, intestinal cancer, or prostate cancer, clearly show that
the use of chemotherapies offers very little or nothing, nevertheless thousands of cancer patients are treated with chemotherapies on a daily basis... [however] there are virtually no studies that prove that chemotherapies
contribute to patients living significantly longer.
Eminent alternative and conventional cancer treatment researcher Lothar Hirneise in Chemotherapy Heals Cancer and the World Is Flat
After 25 years of use and over $30 billion... Do we need a new approach to cancer?
In 1971, President Richard Nixon announced the War on Cancer and
promised a cure by the 1977 bicentennial. In each of the 25 years since, more Americans have died of cancer than the year before.
The failure of chemotherapy to control cancer has become apparent even to the oncology
establishment. Scientific American featured a recent cover story entitled: "The War on Cancer - It's Being Lost." In it, eminent epidemiologist John C. Bailar III, MD, PhD, Chairman of the Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University cited the relentless increase in cancer deaths in the face of growing use of toxic chemotherapy. He concluded that scientists must look in new directions if they are ever to
make progress against this unremitting killer.
Adding its voice, the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet, decrying the failure of conventional therapy to stop the rise in breast cancer deaths, noted the
discrepancy between public perception and reality.
"If one were to believe all the media hype, the triumphalism of the [medical] profession in published research, and the almost weekly miracle breakthroughs trumpeted by
the cancer charities, one might be surprised that women are dying at all from this cancer" it observed.
Noting that conventional therapies - chemotherapy, radiation and surgery - had been pushed to their limits with
dismal results, the editorial called on researchers to "challenge dogma and redirect research efforts along more fruitful lines."
”Chemotherapy Report”
Chemotherapy, in fact, destroys everything. It is a given fact that it dramatically exhausts the cells of the marrow and of the blood, thus allowing a
greater spreading of the infection. It irreversibly intoxicates the liver, thus preventing it from building new elements of defense, and it mercilessly knocks out nerve cells, thus weakening the organism’s reactive capabilities
and delivering it to the invaders. This is mainly because it is not clear how it affects the colonies, and because by strongly debilitating the organism such intervention makes the invasion of the mycetes faster and more
ferocious.
Dr. Tullio Simoncini who uses an apparently frequently effective cancer treatment centered around sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) killing fungal colonies
John Cairns, professor of microbiology at Harvard University, published a devastating 1985 critique in Scientific American [60, November 1985].
"Aside from certain rare cancers, it is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy. Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by
chemotherapy has yet to be established."
In fact, chemotherapy is curative in very few cancers - testicular, Hodgkin's, choriocarcinoma, childhood leukemia. In most common solid tumors - lung, colon, breast, etc. -
chemotherapy is NOT curative.
”Chemotherapy Report”
...no disseminated neoplasm (cancer) incurable in 1975 is curable today...Many medical oncologists recommend chemotherapy for virtually any tumor, with a
hopefulness undiscouraged by almost invariable failure.
Oncologist Albert Braverman, MD, in 1991
Why the growth in chemotherapy in the face of such failure? A look at the financial interrelationships between a large cancer center such as Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and the companies that make billions selling chemotherapy drugs is revealing. James Robinson III, Chairman of the MSKCC Board of Overseers and Managers, is a director of Bristol-Myers
Squibb, the world's largest producer of chemotherapy drugs. Richard Gelb, Vice-Chairman of the MSKCC board is Chairman of the Board at Bristol-Myers. Richard Furlaud, another MSKCC board member, recently retired as Bristol
Myers' president. Paul Marks, MD, MSKCC's President and CEO, is a director of Pfizer.
”Chemotherapy Report”
GENE AMPLIFICATION
is an important concept to understand if you are being given combinations of more than one chemotherapy drug at once.
"Cocktails" have become standard treatment in many oncological protocols: concoctions of two or more powerful cytotoxic agents which supposedly will "attack the tumor" in different ways. In the above study,
Robert Schimke noted that with chemo combos the rebound effect - the second phase where the tumor responds to the drug - may bring about a tumor cell proliferation rate which may be 100 times faster than the response to one
single chemo drug may have been. Proliferation means the rate at which the tumor cells reproduce themselves, i.e., grow.
Tim O'Shea in TO THE CANCER PATIENT
...success demands discipline and effort. It demands
that the patient get moving, become active, develop a constructive fighting attitude. Most people
choose the
easy way: chemotherapy, radiation or an operation.
People say: "What do you mean the easy way?
Do you know how horrible chemotherapy is?"
Of course chemotherapy is no fun, but a radical
change in your diet and lifestyle is more difficult.
Eminent cancer cure researcher Lothar Hirneise
CYTOTOXIC
is the word that describes chemotherapeutic drugs. It means "cell-killing." Chemo-therapy kills all the cells of the body, not just
the cancer cells. The risk is that chemo will kill the patient before it kills the cancer. Which usually happens. Therefore the only question that should be asked when deciding whether or not to begin chemo is this: will this
drug prolong the patient's natural lifespan? Is it likely to? The unadorned data says no.
Tim O'Shea in TO THE CANCER PATIENT
[M]ore than 80% of the [interleukin-2] patients did not do any better and they actually did worse. They died harder. That's not irrelevant. We always tend
to concentrate on the survivors, but we've got to make the point that 80 per cent had terrific side effects and didn't get any measurable increase in longevity.
Professor George Annas, a medical ethicist who analyzed the controlled clinical trials done at the National Cancer Institute on interleukin-2,
in the New York Times, 3 March 1994
Cancer patients suffer from a faulty metabolism caused by a malfunction in the lipid defense system. By repairing the lipid defense system the cancer cannot survive. Of course common chemo and radiation causes further harm to the lipid defense system -- the very system that protects you from cancer! The folks who will READILY ADMIT that they don't understand the cancer mechanism will tell you with their next breath that cancer can be killed with poisons. So can you. Would you trust your car to a so-called mechanic who didn't understand what makes a car work properly? If not, why would you let someone who doesn't understand cancer "fix" your body? The average cancer docs don't know -- they admit it. That doesn't make them bad people, it just makes them unqualified to treat your condition if you have cancer. Don't let unqualified people poison you just because they don't know what else to do.
William Kelley Eidem, author of "The Doctor Who Cures Cancer (Dr Revici)
[R]evelations about the apparent ineffectiveness of the experimental cancer drug interleukin-2 are but the tip of an
iceberg of misrepresentation and misunderstanding about cancer drug treatments in general.
Dr. Martin Shapiro in the Los Angeles Times, 9 January 1987
Chemotherapy can destroy a person's stomach lining and the lining of their intestines. When that happens, a person's
digestive tract can no longer absorb many of the nutrients in foods and supplements. Many cancer patients die of malnutrition, long before they die of cancer, because chemotherapy has destroyed the lining of their digestive
system and they literally die of nutrient starvation...For a patient who ... cannot absorb nutrients, the good news is (but it is not very good news) that there are some
alternative treatments that will work without the immunity system and without the ability of the digestive tract to absorb nutrients. Examples of these treatments are: cesium
chloride (liquid or I.V.), Hydrogen Peroxide (liquid or I.V.), HBOT, ozone therapy ("transfusion" and other plans), and others.
Tutorial For Alternative Treatments For Cancer
which discusses numerous ways to help cancer patients incl. those damaged by chemotherapy to regain their health at cancertutor.com/AlterTreatments.html
Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung
cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors.
Allen Levin, MD UCSF, The Healing of Cancer
Now should I undergo chemotherapy or not?
In my opinion, sooner or later the use of chemotherapy as
first strategy will certainly go down in history as medical malpractice, and it is certainly a medical error today to use it as the sole means of treating cancer types like breast
cancer, intestinal cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer or lung cancer - and the legal grounds in support of such use are slowly but surely becoming more difficult to defend.
Eminent alternative and conventional cancer treatment researcher Lothar Hirneise in Chemotherapy Heals Cancer and the World Is Flat
Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy….The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure---Hodgkin's disease, Acute
Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.
Ralph Moss, Ph.D. (1995), Author of Questioning Chemotherapy
A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent
chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy (NCI Journal 87:10).
John Diamond
Children who are successfully treated for Hodgkin's disease
are 18 times more likely later to develop secondary malignant tumours. Girls face a 35 per cent chance of developing breast cancer by the time they are 40---which is 75 times greater than the average. The risk of leukemia
increased markedly four years after the ending of successful treatment, and reached a plateau after 14 years, but the risk of developing solid tumours remained high and approached 30 per cent at 30 years.
New Eng J Med, March 21, 1996
Success of most chemotherapy is appalling…There is no
scientific evidence for its ability to extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancer…chemotherapy for malignancies too advanced for surgery which accounts for
80% of all cancers is a scientific wasteland.
Dr Ulrich Abel, 1990
Barbara Brennan (ex-NASA physicist turned healer and author of the highly recommended Hands of Light and Light Emerging) states something highly interesting in one of her
books which again goes to show the absolute power of the mind and emotion: A woman who chose to undergo chemotherapy wrote upon the bottles containing the chemicals "PURE LOVE". She had no side effects whatsoever from the chemotherapy!
This doesn't prove that chemotherapy is recommendable in my opinion but the enormous power of the mind, of beliefs, and of words themselves (cf. the fascinating water experiments of Masaru Emoto proving that sound and the
spoken word can and do affect water molecules, and how we, as beings mostly composed of water, can be affected by sound, as described in his illustrated work ''Messages From Water, Vol. 1).
I believe that chemotherapy is just another one of the tokens that the mainstream "healing" profession is based not on love and pure willingness to help, but on power (not to mention money) - i.e. that of doctors assuming power
over people's bodies and people willingly handing this power over to them, as Seth so neatly describes in "The Nature of Personal Reality". You may find interesting that
the Swiss publisher of the German version of this book found some of Seth's statements re the medical profession and the personal power of the individual apparently so
"dangerous" (to whom?) that they edited them out of the German version of this book (c. 25 pages of the original have been omitted in total.)
Ulla, designer of Healing Cancer Naturally
To someone who wrote that “we know of quite a few people who had chemo and are now enjoying a full life.” I would like to reply:
I am not really into wielding fear & scare tactics/arguments to motivate others into action or non-action in the area of health maintenance & recovery (or in other areas, for that matter).
But it seems to me that often those who (without financial-interest blinkers firmly in place) study in-depth the subject of chemotherapy and its long-term effects will arrive at very similar conclusions:
“Chemo mostly ineffective, not leading to any significant life extension, seemingly full recoveries followed by relapse, possibly very serious side effects destroying all
quality of life etc.” (This said, I would never underrate, however, the power of the human mind and other invisible influences to overcome even very toxic assaults on the physical body.)
But personally another major reason to not opt for
chemotherapy would be the consideration that by using this conventionally recommended treatment, I would be supporting a system which I consider fraught with far less than loving and good intentions (see On Cancer Business).
Ulla, designer of Healing Cancer Naturally
More quotes and facts on chemotherapy
Recommended Reading:
Questioning Chemotherapy: A Critique of the Use of Toxic Drugs in the Treatment of
Cancer by Ralph W. Moss (see Alternative Cancer Therapy Books).
Lothar Hirneise: Chemotherapy Heals Cancer and the World Is Flat
Also see On Conventional Cancer Treatment, German Magazine Der Spiegel Blasts
Chemotherapy, On Drugs and History of Cancer Treatment.
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