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Considering chemotherapy? Consider this

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Aug 15, 2005 16:24 PDT

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" chemotherapy is basically ineffective in the vast of majority of cases in which

it is given "

 

- Ralph Moss, PhD p81

 

 

 

" Cancer researchers, medical journals, and the popular media all have

contributed to a situation in which many people with common malignancies are

being treated with drugs not known to be effective. "

- Dr. Martin Shapiro UCLA

 

" despite widespread use of chemotherapies, breast cancer mortality has not

changed in the last 70 years "

- Thomas Dao, MD NEJM Mar 1975 292 p 707

 

" Many medical oncologists recommend chemotherapy for virtually any

tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged by almost invariable failure. "

 

- Albert Braverman MD 1991 Lancet 1991 337 p901

" Medical Oncology in the 90s "

 

" 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

 

 

Let's say you get cancer - in America it's 1 in 3. Your doctor says you

need chemo and sends you to an office in the hospital. You have no

symptoms yet, no pain, and you feel fine. But you're very frightened.

You walk into the office and everyone else there is in obvious pain and

most of them are dying. It's like a scene from a horror movie. Your

first instinct is to run: I'm not like them! I'm alive! What am I doing

here?

 

Then ask yourself this: in your entire life, how often have your true

instincts been wrong?

 

CHEMOTHERAPY: AN UNPROVEN PROCEDURE

 

How can that be true of the main cancer treatment in the U.S.? Fact is,

no solid scientific studies or clinical trials prove chemotherapy's

effectiveness, except in a small percentage of very rare types of

cancer. For solid tumors of adults, the vast majority of cancer, or

anything that has metastasized, chemotherapy just doesn't work.

 

A German epidemiologist from the Heidelberg/Mannheim Tumor Clinic, Dr.

Ulrich Abel has done a comprehensive review and analysis of every major

study and clinical trial of chemotherapy ever done. His conclusions

should be read by anyone who is about to embark on the Chemo Express. To

make sure he had reviewed everything ever published on chemotherapy,

Abel sent letters to over 350 medical centers around the world asking

them to send him anything they had published on the subject. Abel

researched thousands of articles: it is unlikely that anyone in the

world knows more about chemotherapy than he.

 

The analysis took him several years, but the results are astounding:

Abel found that the overall worldwide success rate of chemotherapy was

" appalling " because there was simply no scientific evidence available

anywhere that chemotherapy can " extend in any appreciable way the lives

of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers. " Abel

emphasizes that chemotherapy rarely can improve the quality of life. He

describes chemotherapy as " a scientific wasteland " and states that at

least 80 percent of chemotherapy administered throughout the world is

worthless, and is akin to the " emperor's new clothes " - neither doctor

nor patient is willing to give up on chemotherapy even though there is

no scientific evidence that it works! - Lancet 10 Aug 91 No mainstream

media even mentioned this comprehensive study: it was totally buried.

 

Similar are the conclusions of most medical researchers who actually try

to work their way past all the smoke and mirrors to get to the real

statistics. In evaluating a therapeutic regimen, the only thing that

really matters is death rate - will a treatment significantly extend a

patient's life. I'm not talking about life as a vegetable, but the

natural healthy independent lifespan of a human being.

 

Media stories and most articles in medical journals go to great lengths

to hide the underlying numbers of people dying from cancer, by talking

about other issues. In Questioning Chemotherapy, Dr. Ralph Moss talks

about several of the ways they do it:

 

Response rate is a favorite. If a dying patient's condition changes even

for a week or a month, especially if the tumor shrinks temporarily, the

patient is listed as having " responded to " chemotherapy. No joke! The

fact that the tumor comes back stronger soon after chemo is stopped, is

not figured into the equation. The fact that the patient has to endure

horrific side effects in order to temporarily shrink the tumor is not

considered. That fact that the patient soon dies is not figured into the

equation. The idea is to sell, sell, and sell. Sell chemotherapy.

 

Also in the media we find the loud successes chemotherapy has had on

certain rare types of cancer, like childhood leukemia, and Hodgkin's

lymphoma. But for the vast majority of cancer cases, chemo is a bust.

Worse yet, a toxic one.

 

Even with Hodgkins, one of chemo's much-trumpeted triumphs, the cure is

frequently a success, but the patient dies. He just doesn't die of

Hodgkins disease, that's all. In the 1994 Journal of the National Cancer

Institute, they published a 47-year study of more than 10,000 patients

with Hodgkins lymphoma, who were treated with chemotherapy. Even though

there was success with the Hodgkins itself, these patients encountered

an incidence of leukemia that was six times the normal rate. This is a

very common type of reported success within the cancer industry - again,

the life of the patient is not taken into account.

 

In evaluating any treatment, there must be a benefits/risks analysis.

Due to gigantic economic pressures, such evaluation has been

systematically put aside in the U.S. chemotherapy industry.

 

 

THE BI-PHASIC EFFECT: WHY CHEMO DOESN'T WORK

 

Every time we put a drug in our body, two things happen:

 

1. what the drug initially does to the body

2. how the body adapts to the drug

 

Any example will do. Antibiotics? First, the drug kills all bacteria in

the body. Then the body responds by growing them back, often with the

bad bacteria out of balance, which come back in more powerful, mutated

forms. Steroids? First, muscles are built because testosterone has been

mimicked. Then the body responds by cutting production of natural

testosterone, which eventually feminizes the athlete by shrinking the

gonads. Heroin? First it blocks the pain receptors and sends happy

hormones called endorphins through the body, giving an overall feeling

of wonderfulness. The body responds, by getting so used to this euphoria

that when the heroin is stopped, the reality of pain receptors going

back to work again is unbearable.

 

Obviously these are simplifications, but you get the idea.

 

Dr. Dean Black puts it this way:

 

 

 

" Drugs tend to worsen whatever they're supposed to cure, which sets up a

vicious cycle. "

Health at the Crossroads p 20

 

 

The Bi-Phasic Effect is well-explained by Dean Black and many other

researchers who were trying to figure out why tumors seemed to come back

with such a vengeance after chemotherapy. Some original work was done by

American Cancer Society researcher Robert Schimke in 1985, who

discovered that the way cancer cells resist chemotherapy is to replicate

even harder and faster. Chemo drugs are lethal; so the cancer cells are

stimulated to try and survive any way they can, which means faster

growth. In the presence of any toxin, cells will resist it to stay

alive. The more they resist, the stronger they get. Black sees cancer

itself is just an adaptation; a normal response to an abnormal poison.

Chemotherapy simply provokes adaptation. (Black, p.45) This is why we

all know people who have had chemotherapy and experienced temporary

remission. But when the tumor came back, it did so with a vengeance, and

the patient was quickly overwhelmed.

 

Schimke talks about the possible effects chemotherapy might have on a

tumor that otherwise may have been self-limiting:

 

 

" Might such treatments convert relatively benign tumors into more lethal

forms? "

 

- Robert Schimke p1915

 

 

Think about this the next time you hear an oncologist talk about

" mopping up " with powerful chemo drugs just to be sure we " got it all. "

Or prescribing powerful chemotherapy for a " pre-cancerous " or even a

benign situation.

 

To understand the bi-phasic effect, one begins to realize that drugs are

fighting the body. The whole military motif - medicine imposes its will

upon the body, even though we have vastly incomplete information to be

doing something that arrogant.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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