Questioning Chemotherapy

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Leonard <leonardleonard1 wrote:

"Leonard" Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:43:20 -0400Re: [cancercured] chemo & Moss's "Questioning Chemotherapy" ( & lymphoma)Hi Iris,"iris atzmon" > "Questioning Chemo" tells the true story behind the chemotreatments,> the trials on chemo, what they found and mainly, what they didn'tfind, and that is, a cure for cancer.I agree.> The picture is that no chemotherapy is truely effective againstcancerThis is true for MOST cancers (see below).> But, the chemo causes the cancer to be more resistant and the cancercan spread more aggresively.Very true.> I personally think quitting chemo is one of> the most responsible things a person can do for himselfIn MOST cases, I strongly

agree.I agree w/most of the rest of what you wrote.Hi Paul,> Paul J Purcell> Mosses....'Questioning Chemo' is all aboutSee below.Here's some info I've compiled on chemo:The "malignancies...highly responsive to chemotherapy" areessentially...choriocarcinoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia(ALL)...lymphosarcoma, [Hodgkin's, Burkitt's, & some other lymphomas],embryonal testicular cancer, Wilms' tumor, Ewing's sarcoma,rhabdomyosarcoma, and retinoblastoma (Moss, 2000, p. 81), a few rarecancers of childhood, and rarely small cell lung cancer (SCLC)."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." Dr. JürgenBuche, Preventorium Inst.Alternative_Breast_Cancer"Most cancer patients in this country die of

chemotherapy.Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. Thisfact has been documented for over a decade" Allen Levin, MD UCSF TheHealing of Cancer;www.whatareweswallowing.freeserve.co.uk/chemospill.htm"Ulrich Abel, Ph.D., of the Heidelberg Tumor Center in Germany,conducted a comprehensive review of the world literature on survivalamong cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. He found thatchemotherapy can help only about 3% of the patients with epithelialcancers (breast, lung, prostate, and colon) [Abel [1990], CytostaticTherapy of Advanced Epithelial Tumors: A Critique. Stuggart, Germany:Hippocrates Verlag]....Statistics show that chemotherapy is useless intreating about 80% of malignant tumors, in particular...cancers of thelungs, breast, colon, pancreas, and bladder [D. Schmahl, (1989)"Experimental Development of Anticancer Drugs." Current CancerResearch (pp. 157-243). New York: Springer.

Chemotherapy's 7% "cure"rate is all the more pathetic when you consider that it typicallyrefers to survival for only five years and thus overlooks the risk of"secondary cancers" (Diamond et al., 2000, p. 191)."Chemotherapy and radiation can increase the risk of developing asecond cancer by up to 100 times, according to Dr. Samuel S. Epstein."Congressional Record, Sept. 9, 1987"...as a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible tome that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapydoes much, much more harm than good." Alan C. Nixon, PhD, formerpresident of American Chemical Society"Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy hasyet to be established" (John Cairns, Scientific American, 60, Nov.1985)."study of oncologists to determine how they would respond to adiagnosis of cancer...58 out of 64 doctors said that all chemotherapyprograms were unacceptable to them and their

family members. Theoverriding reason for this decision was that the drugs are ineffectiveand have an unacceptable degree of toxicity....radiologist who told methis: `If I get cancer, I'm going to Mexico.'" Daily Dose, August 30,2002from the newsletter of William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.reprinted at the following websites:http://dreamline.freeyellow.com/#scandal;www.getandstaywell.com/archive10.shtmlwww.networkingtheinternet.com/dxm66.htmwww.aspartame.ca/page_c4.htmwww.fugitt.com/article/chemo1.htmFor a critical analysis of the benefits, indications, andcontraindications for chemotherapy, seeRalph Moss's book Questioning Chemotherapy andwww.whale.to/cancer/chemo.html (includes quotes from Moss's book)www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/cancer.htmwww.ralphmoss.com/dgo2000.htmlwww.apricotsfromgod.org/ralphmoss.htmwww.whatareweswallowing.freeserve.co.uk/deathbydoctoring4.htm (quotesfrom

doctors)www.healingcancernaturally.com/why_alternatives2.htmlwww.kroisscancercenter.com (click on methods)www.kanker-actueel.nl/ca_hi_e.htmlwww.geocities.com/freee80/surgery2.htmlwww.brwwellness.com/ten.htmwww.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/2003Newsletters/Newsletter077A.htmlwww.mercola.com/2003/aug/13/cancer_drugs.htm (summary of abovewebsite)Also, most alternative cancer treatments (including dietaryapproaches) are much more effective if a patient has NOT hadchemotherapy (and particularly not extensive chemotherapy). However, Idon't believe this applies to vincristine and bleomycin, which (to thebest of my knowledge) do little or no harm to the immune system.> ....I only had stage 2 non hodgkins lymphoma....> Does anyone find my decision/desire> to quit the chemo after the 4th round even if the pet-scan showsthat a> little bit of the cancer is still in the

tissues....unsound,unpracticle> or dangerous?I can't answer that except to say that I personally would quit thechemo EXCEPT perhaps if I had a type of lyphoma (e.g, Burkitt's)that's particularly responsive to chemo. If I had such a lymphoma, I'dbe more inclined to continue the chemo if it was vincristine orbleomycin than if it was another drug. However, under almost nocircumstances would take/continue chemo w/o doing intensive alt.therapies simultaneously and w/o the guidance of an integrative cancerpractitioner.Leonard