Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer?

July 24, 2008

Erika, has your step mother gone thru chemo already? I'm going to assume yes, since this is an old struggle.

My views on chemo are just from my own experiences. I do not have breast cancer. I went thru chemo in 2006. It was horrible, many side effects, very debilitating. I didn't think I would die from cancer, but I did think chemo might kill me. I figured going thru that hell was worth it because I was told that my type of Lymphoma was easily cured with chemo. I was decalred cancer free in 2007, only to have it "return" this January. I'm convinced it never really went away to begin with, it was probably just at a level undetectable or inconclusive. So now I'm left with a bunch of permanent side effects, and I still have cancer.

If I had done more investigation when I was originally dx in 2006, I might not have done chemo. But I was in the hospital, very sick and in no shape to deal with it.

There are many schools of thought with alternative treatments. I couldn't begin to mention them all. I would suggest you investigate one highly successful method, the Budwig diet:

http://health.FlaxSeedOil2/?yguid=125199

There is a dedicated to the diet. It has cured many people with many types of cancer, including breast cancer. I follow a slightly modified version of the diet. I can tell you that my tumor markers went from severe in Feb. to minor in June. So I think it's working for me. If you're interested in helping your step mother out, you might want to join the group, and then read everything in the files section so you can get an overview of how the diet works, what they eat, etc. I'll be happy to answer any questions I can.

There is also another group:

http://health.cancercured/?yguid=125199

They discuss a wide variety of alternative treatments.

And finally, there is a group that claims to be successful in treating cancer, although I have no personal experience with it:

http://health.oleander soup/?yguid=125199

I hope this helps,

Cyndi

In a message dated 7/24/2008 4:31:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ERIKA.T.SOTIRAKOS writes:

This article came from Mike Adams who Iâ€™m a little skeptical of. I do; however, have a step mother who is struggling with metasized (sp?) breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy 7 years ago and now she has cancer pretty much everywhere. Itâ€™s covering her liver, her spinal cord but not in her brain. I also have a good friend whose father has bladder cancer. I have not read much about cancer and chemo to have much of an opinion. Has anyone else done any reading or have any thoughts or experiences with cancer and/or chemo?

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July 24, 2008

there's also a book I hear recommended. Chemotherapy cures Cancer And The World Is Flat, or something similar to that. I haven't read it, but supposedly it gives good info on why chemo doesn't work.

Cyndi

In a message dated 7/24/2008 4:31:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ERIKA.T.SOTIRAKOS writes:

This article came from Mike Adams who Iâ€™m a little skeptical of. I do; however, have a step mother who is struggling with metasized (sp?) breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy 7 years ago and now she has cancer pretty much everywhere. Itâ€™s covering her liver, her spinal cord but not in her brain. I also have a good friend whose father has bladder cancer. I have not read much about cancer and chemo to have much of an opinion. Has anyone else done any reading or have any thoughts or experiences with cancer and/or chemo?

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July 24, 2008

I’m sorry to hear about your

experience with cancer but it sounds like things are getting better. Thanks

for sharing. I will take a look at these websites.

My step mother has started chemo. I

know it’s really taking a toll on her. She and my dad just bought a

B & B so he really needs her help. She does what she can but she is

very limited. I don’t know where she stands on alternative ideas

but I do know she has a very strong faith and family network which I believe

has enable her to have these last 7 years that she’s had. I hope

that somehow she and my dad will have another 7 at least.

On Behalf Of cyndikrall

Thursday, July 24, 2008

12:53 PM

Re: [RFSL] Can You Trust

Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer?

Erika, has

your step mother gone thru chemo already? I'm going to assume yes, since this

is an old struggle.

My views on

chemo are just from my own experiences. I do not have breast cancer. I went

thru chemo in 2006. It was horrible, many side effects, very debilitating. I

didn't think I would die from cancer, but I did think chemo might kill me. I

figured going thru that hell was worth it because I was told that my type of

Lymphoma was easily cured with chemo. I was decalred cancer free in 2007, only

to have it " return " this January. I'm convinced it never really went

away to begin with, it was probably just at a level undetectable or

inconclusive. So now I'm left with a bunch of permanent side effects, and I

still have cancer.

If I had done

more investigation when I was originally dx in 2006, I might not have done

chemo. But I was in the hospital, very sick and in no shape to deal with it.

There are many

schools of thought with alternative treatments. I couldn't begin to mention

them all. I would suggest you investigate one highly successful method, the

Budwig diet:

http://health.FlaxSeedOil2/?yguid=125199

There is a

dedicated to the diet. It has cured many people with many types of

cancer, including breast cancer. I follow a slightly modified version of the

diet. I can tell you that my tumor markers went from severe in Feb. to minor in

June. So I think it's working for me. If you're interested in helping your step

mother out, you might want to join the group, and then read everything in the

files section so you can get an overview of how the diet works, what they eat,

etc. I'll be happy to answer any questions I can.

There is also

another group:

http://health.cancercured/?yguid=125199

They discuss a

wide variety of alternative treatments.

And finally,

there is a group that claims to be successful in treating cancer, although I

have no personal experience with it:

http://health.oleander soup/?yguid=125199

I hope this

helps,

Cyndi

In a message

dated 7/24/2008 4:31:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ERIKA.T.SOTIRAKOS (AT) saic (DOT) com

writes:

This article came from Mike Adams who I’m a little

skeptical of. I do; however, have a step mother who is struggling with

metasized (sp?) breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy 7 years ago

and now she has cancer pretty much everywhere. It’s covering her

liver, her spinal cord but not in her brain. I also have a good

friend whose father has bladder cancer. I have not read much about cancer

and chemo to have much of an opinion. Has anyone else done any reading or

have any thoughts or experiences with cancer and/or chemo?

July 24, 2008

I wish her luck. Most people who look for alternative therapies have tried chemo and it hasn't worked for them, like me.

I can tell you that it will only get worse for her-chemo destroys your immune system. It's worse than the disease, in my opinion.

Cyndi

Sotirakos, Erika T. <ERIKA.T.SOTIRAKOS

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:04 am

RE: [RFSL] Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer?

Iâ€™m sorry to hear about your experience with cancer but it sounds like things are getting better. Thanks for sharing. I will take a look at these websites.

My step mother has started chemo. I know itâ€™s really taking a toll on her. She and my da

d just bought a B & B so he really needs her help. She does what she can but she is very limited. I donâ€™t know where she stands on alternative ideas but I do know she has a very strong faith and family network which I believe has enable her to have these last 7 years that sheâ€™s had. I hope that somehow she and my dad will have another 7 at least.

On Behalf Of cyndikrall (AT) aol (DOT) com

Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:53 PM

Re: [RFSL] Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer?

Erika, has your step mother gone thru chemo already? I'm going to assume yes, since this is an old struggle.

My views on chemo are just from my own experiences. I do not have breast cancer. I went thru chemo in 2006. It was horrible, many side effects, very debilitating. I didn't think I would die from cancer, but I did think chemo might kill me. I figured going thru that hell was worth it because I was told that my type of Lymphoma was easily cured with chemo. I was decalred cancer free in 2007, only to have it "return" this January. I'm convinced it never really went away to begin with, it was probably just at a level undetectable or inconclusive. So now I'm left with a bunch of permanent side effects, and I still have cancer.

If I had done more investigation when I was originally dx in 2006, I might not have done chemo. But I was in the hospital, very sick and in no shape to deal with it.

There are many schools of thought with alternative treatments. I couldn't begin to mention them all. I would suggest you investigate one highly successful method, the Budwig diet:

http://health./gro

up/FlaxSeedOil2/?yguid=125199

There is a dedicated to the diet. It has cured many people with many types of cancer, including breast cancer. I follow a slightly modified version of the diet. I can tell you that my tumor markers went from severe in Feb. to minor in June. So I think it's working for me. If you're interested in helping your step mother out, you might want to join the group, and then read everything in the files section so you can get an overview of how the diet works, what they eat, etc. I'll be happy to answer any questions I can.

There is also another group:

http://health.cancercured/?yguid=125199

They discuss a wide variety of alternative treatments.

And finally, there is a group that claims to be successful in treating cancer, although I have no personal experience with it:

http://health.oleander soup/?yguid=125199

I hope this helps,

Cyndi

In a message dated 7/24/2008 4:31:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ERIKA.T.SOTIRAKOS (AT) saic (DOT) com writes:

This article came from Mike Adams who Iâ€™m a little skeptical of. I do; however, have a step mother who is struggling with metasized (sp?) breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy 7 years ago and now she has cancer pretty much everywhere. Itâ€™s covering her liver, her spinal cord but not in her brain. I also have a good friend whose father has bladder cancer. I have not read much about cancer and chemo to have much of an opinion. Has anyone else done any reading or have any thoughts or experiences with cancer and/or chemo?

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July 26, 2008

Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer?

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by: Andreas Moritz (see all articles by this author)| Key concepts: chemotherapy, cancer and colon cancer

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(NaturalNews) Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died in July 2008 at the age of 53, following a series of chemotherapy treatments for colon cancer. In 2005, Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Two years later (2007), Snow underwent surgery to remove a growth in his abdominal area, near the site of the original cancer. "This is a very treatable condition," said Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Weill Cornell Medical College. "Many patients, because of the therapies we have, are able to work and live full lives with quality while they're being treated. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong." But of course we now know, Dr. Ocean was dead wrong.The media headlines proclaimed Snow died from colon cancer, although they knew he didn't have a colon anymore. Apparently, the malignant cancer had "returned" (from where?) and "spread" to the liver and elsewhere in his body. In actual fact, the colon surgery severely restricted his normal eliminative functions, thereby overburdening the liver and tissue fluids with toxic waste. The previous series of chemo-treatments inflamed and irreversibly damaged a large number of cells in his body, and also impaired his immune system -- a perfect recipe for growing new cancers. Now unable to heal the causes of the original cancer (in addition to the newly created ones), Snow's body developed new cancers in the liver and other parts of the body.The mainstream media, of course, still insist Snow died from colon cancer, thus perpetuating the myth that it is only the cancer that kills people, not the treatment. Nobody seems to raise the important point that it is extremely difficult for a cancer patient to actually heal from this condition while being subjected to the systemic poisons of chemotherapy and deadly radiation. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake and don't get an antidote for it, isn't it likely that your body becomes overwhelmed by the poison and, therefore, cannot function anymore?Before Tony Snow began his chemo-treatments for his second colon cancer, he still looked healthy and strong. But after a few weeks into his treatment, he started to develop a coarse voice, looked frail, turned gray and lost his hair. Did the cancer do all this to him? Certainly not. Cancer doesn't do such a thing, but chemical poisoning does. He actually looked more ill than someone who has been bitten by a poisonous snake.Does the mainstream media ever report about the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows chemotherapy has zero benefits in the five-year survival rate of colon cancer patients? Or how many oncologists stand up for their cancer patients and protect them against chemotherapy treatment which they very well know can cause them to die far more quickly than if they received no treatment at all? Can you trustingly place your life into their hands when you know that most of them would not even consider chemotherapy for themselves if they were diagnosed with cancer? What do they know that you don't? The news is spreading fast that in the United States physician-caused fatalities now exceed 750,000 each year. Perhaps, many doctors no longer trust in what they practice, for good reasons."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... Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it." - Alan Levin, M.D.An investigation by the Department of Radiation Oncology, Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Australia, into the contribution of chemotherapy to 5-year survival in 22 major adult malignancies, showed startling results: The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA." [Royal North Shore Hospital Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2005 Jun;17(4):294.]The research covered data from the Cancer Registry in Australia and the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results in the USA for the year 1998. The current 5-year relative adult survival rate for cancer in Australia is over 60%, and no less than that in the USA. By comparison, a mere 2.3% contribution of chemotherapy to cancer survival does not justify the massive expense involved and the tremendous suffering patients experience because of severe, toxic side effects resulting from this treatment. With a meager success rate of 2.3%, selling chemotherapy as a medical treatment (instead of a scam), is one of the greatest fraudulent acts ever committed. The average chemotherapy earns the medical establishment a whopping $300,000 to $1,000,000 each year, and has so far earned those who promote this pseudo-medication (poison) over 1 trillion dollars. It's no surprise that the medical establishment tries to keep this scam alive for as long as possible.In 1990, the highly respected German epidemiologist, Dr. Ulrich Abel from the Tumor Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, conducted the most comprehensive investigation of every major clinical study on chemotherapy drugs ever done. Abel contacted 350 medical centers and asked them to send him anything they had ever published on chemotherapy. He also reviewed and analyzed thousands of scientific articles published in the most prestigious medical journals. It took Abel several years to collect and evaluate the data. Abel's epidemiological study, which was published on August 10, 1991 in The Lancet, should have alerted every doctor and cancer patient about the risks of one of the most common treatments used for cancer and other diseases. In his paper, Abel came to the conclusion that the overall success rate of chemotherapy was "appalling." According to this report, there was no scientific evidence available in any existing study to show that chemotherapy can "extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers."Abel points out that chemotherapy rarely improves the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that even though there is no scientific evidence that chemotherapy works, neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on it. The mainstream media has never reported on this hugely important study, which is hardly surprising, given the enormous vested interests of the groups that sponsor the media, that is, the pharmaceutical companies. A recent search turned up exactly zero reviews of Abel's work in American journals, even though it was published in 1990. I believe this is not because his work was unimportant -- but because it is irrefutable.The truth of the matter would be far too costly for the pharmaceutical industry to bear, thus making it unacceptable. If the mass media reported the truth that medical drugs, including chemotherapy drugs, are used to practically commit genocide in the U.S. and the world, their best sponsors (the pharmaceutical companies) would have to withdraw their misleading advertisements from the television media, radio stations, magazines, and newspapers. But neither group wants to go bankrupt.Many doctors go as far as prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients for malignancies that are far too advanced for surgery, with the full knowledge that there are no benefits at all. Yet they claim chemotherapy to be an effective cancer treatment, and their unsuspecting patients believe that "effective" equals "cure." The doctors, of course, refer to the FDA's definition of an "effective" drug, one which achieves a 50% or more reduction in tumor size for 28 days. They neglect to tell their patients that there is no correlation whatsoever between shrinking tumors for 28 days and curing the cancer or extending life. Temporary tumor shrinkage through chemotherapy has never been shown to cure cancer or to extend life. In other words, you can live with an untreated tumor for just as long as you would with one that has been shrunken or been eliminated by chemotherapy (or radiation).Chemotherapy has never been shown to have curative effects for cancer. By contrast, the body can still cure itself, which it actually tries to do by developing cancer. Cancer is more a healing response than it is a disease. The "disease" is the body's attempt to cure itself of an existing imbalance. And sometimes, this healing response continues even if a person is subjected to chemotherapy (and/or radiation). Unfortunately, as the previously mentioned research has demonstrated, the chances for a real cure are greatly reduced when patients are treated with chemotherapy drugs.The side effects of the treatment can be horrendous and heartbreaking for both patients and their loved ones, all in the name of trustworthy medical treatment. Although the drug treatment comes with the promise to improve the patient's quality of life, it is just common sense that a drug that makes them throw up and lose their hair, while wrecking their immune system, is doing the exact opposite. Chemo-therapy can give the patient life-threatening mouth sores. It attacks the immune system by destroying billions of immune cells (white blood cells). Its deadly poisons inflame every part of the body. The drugs can slough off the entire lining of their intestines. The most common side effect experienced among chemo patients is their complete lack of energy. The new additional drugs now given to many chemo patients may prevent the patient from noticing some of the side effects, but they hardly reduce the immensely destructive and suppressive effect of the chemotherapy itself. Remember, the reason chemotherapy can shrink some tumors is because it causes massive destruction in the body.If you have cancer, you may think that feeling tired is just part of the disease. This rarely is the case. Feeling unusually tired is more likely due to anemia, a common side effect of most chemotherapy drugs. Chemo drugs can dramatically decrease your red blood cell levels, and this reduces oxygen availability to the 60-100 trillion cells of your body. You can literally feel the energy being zapped from every cell of your body -- a physical death without dying. Chemo-caused fatigue has a negative impact on day-to-day activities in 89% of all patients. With no energy, there can be no joy and no hope, and all bodily functions become subdued.One long-term side effect is that these patients' bodies can no longer respond to nutritional or immune-strengthening approaches to cancerous tumors. All of this may explain why cancer patients who do not receive any treatment at all, have an up to four times higher remission rate than those who receive treatment. The sad thing is that chemotherapy does not cure 96% to 98% of all cancers anyway. Conclusive evidence (for the majority of cancers) that chemotherapy has any positive influence on survival or quality of life does not exist.To promote chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is misleading, to say the least. By permanently damaging the body's immune system and other important parts, chemo-therapy has become a leading cause of treatment-caused diseases such as heart disease, liver disease, intestinal diseases, diseases of the immune system, infections, brain diseases, pain disorders, and rapid aging.Before committing themselves to being poisoned, cancer patients need to question their doctors and ask them to produce the research or evidence that shrinking a tumor actually translates to any increase in survival. If they tell you that chemotherapy is your best chance of surviving, you will know they are lying or are simply misinformed. As Abel's research clearly demonstrated, there is no such evidence anywhere to be found in the medical literature. Subjecting patients to chemotherapy robs them of a fair chance of finding or responding to a real cure and deserves criminal prosecution.Andreas Moritz's book, Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism, explains the root causes of cancer and how to eliminate them for good. Available through (www.ener-chi.com) or (www.amazon.com) .

About the authorAndreas Moritz is a medical intuitive; a practitioner of Ayurveda, iridology, shiatsu, and vibrational medicine; a writer; and an artist. He is the author of The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush, Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation, Lifting the Veil of Duality, Cancer Is Not a Disease, It's Time to Come Alive, Heart Disease No More, Diabetes No More, Simple Steps to Total Health, Diabetes -- No More, Ending the AIDS Myth and Heal Yourself with Sunlight. For more information, visit the author's website (www.ener-chi.com).