CANCER INDUSTRY SPREADS FEAR AND DISINFORMATION

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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 commentary:

Cancer Industry Spreads Fear and Disinformation To Scare People Away

From Learning About Alternative Treatments for Cancer on the Internet

The public was recently warned about getting information from the

internet on cancer prevention and curing cancer. New headlines blared

that cancer sites posed a health risk. This has been propagated

around the world in newspapers and news sites, and it's based on

nothing more than a tiny sample of 32 websites that one professor

says recommend treatments that are not supported by scientific

evidence.

 

 

He says, " There is not good evidence that any complementary treatment

can prevent cancer. " This sort of statement borders on the most

ignorant statement I've ever heard from anyone in modern medicine --

and believe me, there's a lot of competition for that designation. An

analysis of 32 websites is abysmal in terms of looking at the vast

amount of information available on the internet, and what's very

clear is that this is a campaign of fear, uncertainty, and doubt

(FUD) initiated by purveyors of modern medicine in order to scare

people away from finding information about cancer on the internet.

 

But let's get to the bottom of this and look at the real reason why

this kind of propaganda is being distributed through the national

media. The real reason they are attacking cancer websites is because

the internet is the only place people can go to actually learn the

truth about the cancer industry and cures for cancer that don't

involve chemotherapy, surgeries, or other radical procedures offered

by western medicine. Organized medicine is learning the hard way that

people are educating themselves about cancer and about alternatives

to treating this disease, and that scares the industry because it

threatens profits.

 

Frankly, organized medicine would rather people remain ignorant. They

don't want people to be informed about anything other than the

treatments that they promote and control, and as a result they

continue to engage in these FUD campaigns to discourage people from

learning about health online. Ideally what the industry wants is a

form of censorship -- they want websites to be flagged to indicate

which ones are " official " cancer websites. Of course, only the

websites publishing content that agrees 100% with the highly corrupt

cancer industry would be qualified to receive such a flag or emblem.

This is the seal of approval idea, and the professor who conducted

this study believes that a seal of approval should be posted on

websites that are offering so-called " scientific " information on

cancer.

 

What's amazing about all this is the level of ignorance demonstrated

by this person and by the industry in general when they say there is

no evidence that any complementary treatment can prevent cancer. In

fact, he has it completely wrong. There is a tremendous amount of

evidence if a person bothers to look for it. And much of that

evidence is published in traditional medical journals -- peer-

reviewed journals that are available throughout the world. For

example, there is compelling evidence showing nutritional approaches

to both preventing and reversing cancer. There's evidence showing

that spirulina destroys cancer tumors. There's evidence about oxygen

therapy. There's evidence about cat's claw and Amazon herbs in

reversing cancer. In fact, cancer is one of the easiest diseases to

reverse with herbal medicines and nutritional therapy, and yet this

person states that there is no evidence whatsoever.

 

In order to make a statement like that, a person must either be

outright lying or utterly ignorant of the last 30 years of research

on cancer conducted around the world, because there are a great

number of complementary treatments that are proven not only to be

effective, but far more effective than anything that western medicine

can offer.

 

Speaking of western medicine, let's look at what it does offer to

cancer patients, because it is here that there is really no good

evidence of increased survival rates for cancer. Even though billions

of dollars have been dumped into the cancer industry over the last

several decades, survival rates for cancers treated by western

medicine have hardly improved at all. The increased survival rates of

patients undergoing chemotherapy are measured in months, not even

years. I'm talking about months here, folks. A person can undergo

$50,000 worth of treatment and live an extra 3 months, and western

medicine calls that a success, and it is their official position that

that is the only treatment that should be available to sufferers of

cancer -- that if you go outside the system and find something that

increases your lifespan by years or decades, then you are committing

some sort of crime by venturing outside of orthodox western medicine.

In fact, chemotherapy is largely a fraud. There is no evidence that

chemotherapy increases overall lifespan at all. Chemotherapy is only

measured a success by the degree to which it shrinks tumors, and

tumor shrinkage is not strongly correlated with enhanced life

expectancy of the patient.

 

That's because cancer is not a local disease, by the way. Doctors

continue to think that a tumor is a cancer, but in fact, cancer is a

system disorder -- it is a failure of the patient's immune system and

it is present throughout the body, not just in one place that can be

surgically removed. Chemotherapy by itself is a horrific treatment

for cancer. It is barbaric. It is steeped in the beliefs of the dark

ages of modern medicine, where the body is a battleground that should

be destroyed by powerful toxins in order to somehow eliminate this

invader that's causing this disease.

 

Chemotherapy destroys a patient's immune system, and this is

precisely the opposite of what needs to take place in order to

prevent cancer. A patient's immune system needs to be boosted, not

destroyed. When it is sufficiently boosted and enhanced through mind-

body medicine, nutritional therapies, physical exercise, herbal

remedies, homeopathic medicine, acupuncture, and other forms of

therapy, only then can the patient cure their own cancer and return

to a healthy, normal life. So, in a very real sense, modern medicine

attempts to outlaw precisely those things that actually work to

prevent cancer.

 

It is accurate to say that the existing cancer industry prevents

prevention. They are against prevention. They do not want prevention

to be well known or to be adopted by medical practitioners, and one

of the ways they do that is of course to spread fear and uncertainty

about alternative cancer treatments through headlines such as the one

I'm discussing here. If they can scare people away from the internet,

then they can keep people ignorant of the true treatments for cancer.

It's kind of like if you ran a plantation back in the slave days of

the United States, you would make sure your slaves remained

illiterate, because that way they wouldn't gain enough education to

venture out on their own and leave your plantation. In modern

medicine, patients are like slaves, and the medical industry wants to

keep everyone enslaved by making sure they don't have access to good

information about how to prevent chronic disease. " Keep 'em dumb! "

seems to be the slogan of organized medicine. The less you know about

health and disease, the better they like it. (You can verify this

yourself by visiting an old-school M.D. and telling him you've read

something on the Internet about cancer or some other chronic disease.

Watch how quickly they criticize the fact that you're even using the

Internet as an educational tool...)

 

If all this sounds a little strange, recognize that there is a war

taking place in the cancer industry. It is an information war, and on

one side is the established cancer industry, which wants to control

the flow of information and censor any information that doesn't agree

with their official position. The cancer industry wants to prevent

prevention. They like to see that a certain percentage of the

population remains diseased with cancer, and that new treatments that

actually work are suppressed at every opportunity. This is why

companies such as Lane Labs have been put out of business -- they

were offering nutritional supplements that actually helped boost the

patient's immune system so that they could cure their own cancer.

There's no doubt that the cancer industry will also be trying to

censor this website. They don't want this information getting out

most of all. This is the information that helps people realize that

their access to the truth about alternative medicine is being limited

by those in power.

 

But let's get down to the bottom of all this. If the western medicine

cancer industry actually worked, cancer would be cured by now. We

were promised cures decades ago. But it doesn't work -- cancer has

skyrocketed in the last 20 years, and cure rates have barely budged.

Today, people who are diagnosed with cancer have no more survival

rate than a person who avoids western medicine treatments. In fact,

if you take a good hard look at it, the only people actually

surviving cancer for years and decades are the people who avoid

western medicine and who seek out alternative therapies. They are

people who change their lifestyle, who learn about nutrition and

start consuming cancer-fighting superfoods such as chlorella and

spirulina. They are people who take anti-cancer herbs such as

licorice root and graviola. Graviola is a powerful anti-cancer herb

that has been shown to be 10,000 times more effective than

chemotherapy at targeting cancer cells without harming the patient

with any of the traditional side effects of chemotherapy.

 

When it comes to cancer, western medicine has failed. It simply does

not work -- it doesn't cure cancer, it doesn't offer any long-term

benefit to patients, and it only results in massive costs associated

with these short-lived treatments. Alternative medicine and natural

healing approaches, on the other hand, are inexpensive: they are safe

to use, they are widely used throughout the world, outside the United

States, and they've been proven safe through thousands of years of

effective use by various populations of the world who know far more

about medicine and healing than our so-called " high-tech " system of

modern medicine.

 

 

 

 

 

Overview:

 

 

 

Web sites are recommending unproven complementary medicines for

cancer that could interfere with conventional treatments and be

dangerous or deadly, a leading expert said on Monday.

Prof. Edzard Ernst analyzed 32 Web sites and found many recommended

treatments not supported by scientific evidence.

" If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, " said Ernst, the

chair of complementary medicine at the Peninsula Medical School at

the Universities of Exeter & Plymouth in England.

Not everything natural is risk-free, he told reporters.

The Web sites recommended 118 cures for cancer, 59 treatments to

prevent the illness and 88 for palliative care.

Some sites provided information that discouraged patients from using

conventional treatments for cancer.

" A significant proportion of the Web sites are a risk to cancer

patients, " he said.

" There is no good evidence that any complementary treatment can

prevent cancer. "

Ernst said shark cartilage, as an example, is recommended for cancer

on some Web sites but " there is not a shred of evidence that it helps

cancer patients. "

Some sites did provide very good information about complementary

treatments for cancer and other illnesses, Ernst said.

He believes these sites should be marked so patients know they are

getting the best information.

In a survey Ernst conducted of 2,600 patients who had been prescribed

a blood-thinning drug, he found that 9 percent were also taking a

herbal medicine that could interfere with the effectiveness of the

conventional drug.

But the majority of them had not told their doctors about the herbal

medication.

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dippitydodahff wrote:

 

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> Wednesday, December 15, 2004 commentary:

> Cancer Industry Spreads Fear and Disinformation To Scare People Away

 

dear dippitydodahff and all!

such an excellent post! I have been interested in alternative health

for over 30 years and i can honestly say the vast majority of people (

the unwashed masses ) seem to want to avoid personal responsibilty for

anything including their own health, and those in a position of power

often take advantage of this.

When the average " joe " gets sick he rushes down to the doctor who is

meant to wave his magic wand and provide a cure.If you say to " Joe " " I

feel your cough may improve if you give up smoking " you risk a rebuke ,

words like " what would you know, you don't have a degree to practice

medicine " or " my doctor says diet has nothing to do with my having

cancer " and this is just what they want to hear!

On the other hand, a patient in the doctor's surgery having just been

told they have cancer, are most often gripped with fear, they look to

the doctor as their saviour ,and he often assumes the role and takes

control of this hapless victims life.The patient freezes up like a

rabbit in the spotlight and hands over his brain to a fellow human with

a degree and a white coat.

Sadly, many people are so misguided, they feel this is the way it should

be- however the maxim " those who do not learn from history are condemned

to repeat it " should be kept in mind.

We live in a world where those who have influence like to control the

masses.To my way of thinking the best way to get your point across to

people is to TEACH not TELL.

Those of us who have children know how much more difficult it is to

teach, especially as they get older.Why is it that politicians,church

leaders ,medico/pharma,scientists andbig business -prefer to use power

over reason, prefer to cajole and bully rather than educate ,prefer to

TELL rather than teach.

Jesus Christ said " You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you

free " Jn.8:32 so why are so many afraid to hear the truth? it will only

set us free- what's wrong with that?

Light will overcome darkness, knowledge will expose error - if thes men

are so concerned about the so-called misinformation with regards to

cancer cures- then why not use a small portion of the billions of

dollars exploited from the sick and dying to put up web sites explaining

why chemo,radiation and other form of poison are really efficacious and

b17,graviola juicing are just hoaxes!

I venture to say that it is not wise for one to join a fair debate on an

open forum if you know that you do not have truth on your side! the

communists found that walls can keep people in and information out only

for so long.truth is like a river -eventually it seeps through.for those

who are willing to learn. unfortunately, the words of marchiavelli often

prove true- " people don't want to know the truth, they only want to be

comforted " .while this continues to be the case , most people will live

in ignorance and the corrupt will continue to pretend to care for the

weak,sick and dying whilst they bleed every last cent from those least

able to afford it.

again let me say how much i enjoyed your post -warm regards kim