ALDARA – THE SKIN CANCER “CURE” THAT CAN KILL

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ALDARA - THE SKIN CANCER " CURE " THAT CAN KILL

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ALDARA – THE SKIN CANCER " CURE " THAT CAN KILL

 

 

 

By Elaine Hollingsworth, author of TAKE CONTROL YOUR HEALTH AND ESCAPE

THE SICKNESS INDUSTRY

 

 

 

It takes a courageous person, or publication, to reveal the

skullduggery of Big Pharma. Occasionally, however, the truth cannot

be suppressed, and when THE WALL STREET JOURNAL revealed that Merck,

the maker of Vioxx, had been burying the serious health risks of their

COX-2 inhibitor anti-inflammatory drug as far back as March, 2000, a

scandal erupted. As Dr. Richard Horton, Editor of THE LANCET, wrote,

" The licensing of Vioxx and its continued use in the face of

unambiguous evidence of harm have been public health catastrophes. "

 

 

 

A health catastrophe even more devastating than Vioxx is

Aldara. The chemical used in this widely-sold drug has been known

since 1986 to cause cancer. It is so dangerous that the American

Cancer Society, The National Cancer Institute and others have

determined it is a carcinogen, and have placed it on their lists of

most hazardous chemicals. It has even been listed as a laboratory

chemical hazard by the US Occupational Safety Health Agency. Yet,

doctors worldwide are prescribing it, willy-nilly, to " cure " skin

cancers, even though there are safe vegetable-based creams and other

proven remedies, including surgery.

 

 

 

This chemical is imiquimod (IQ), and is the only active

agent in the popular drug known as Aldara, which is marketed worldwide

and promoted very heavily by 3M Pharmaceuticals as a " benign " salve to

cure skin cancers. I foolishly used it and it didn't kill my skin

cancer, but it nearly killed me, and left me with a damaged immune system.

 

 

 

Shortly after using the salve I started aching so terribly

that I could barely walk. I felt as if I had been poisoned, but

didn't twig that it was the Aldara causing such distress. After all,

Gold Coast dermatologist Troy Darben assured me it was a " benign "

salve, and I only applied it to a tiny, 5mm diameter (one-quarter

inch) area of my nose. I was careful to apply it only to that tiny

area, but by the second week of use, my entire nose became covered by

a disgusting thick, crusty black scab, and still looks strange.

 

 

 

ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK

 

 

 

Fortunately, I only used the salve for two weeks, rather than for the

six weeks that are recommended. Had I used it longer, I would not be

alive today to go on a crusade to stop 3M from poisoning unwary

people. I quit when I learned, in a terrifying way, that Aldara is

dangerous – after the second week of use, I woke at 2AM in an allergic

reaction known as anaphylactic shock. My throat was so swollen that

it felt as if two tennis balls were lodged in it; my ears were

throbbing; my nose was dreadfully swollen, and I could barely breathe

or swallow.

 

 

 

My partner and I went to hell and back that night – had I been alone I

would have died. I was extremely ill for two weeks afterwards, and

for months the skin all over my body burned

 

as if I'd been in a fire, and my back was covered in bleeding,

itching sores. I've learned since that my other symptoms – memory

loss, diminished eyesight, low-level headaches, dizziness and extreme,

unexplained weight loss – are common to many Aldara victims.

 

..

 

 

 

3M PHARMACEUTICALS' INDIFFERENCE

 

 

 

When I rang 3M Corporate Headquarters in Melbourne I was

told that no one had reported adverse effects, other than slight

flu-like symptoms. I was assured that my problems must have been

brought on by something else. Or, that it was all in my head. I knew

this was an outright lie. As Michael Bending, of ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH

FREEDOM AUSTRALIA, says, " Drug companies manipulate, steal, murder,

obfuscate, lie or commit genocide outright (yes I did say genocide,

please see link: http://www.ahf-au.org/codex.history.htm) when

preparing their so-called scientific research. "

 

 

 

Knowing about Big Pharma treachery, I put a truncated story about

Aldara on my website, hoping to warn others. Thank heaven for the

internet, which makes it harder and harder for the " bad guys " to keep

their dirty secrets away from the public. There was an avalanche of

replies from damaged people. A grieving relative told me about a man

in Melbourne who was dying in hospital because of Aldara. A young

Australian woman sent a story of horrible symptoms both she and her

mother have suffered, some identical to mine. Several women said that

their physicians actually painted Aldara on their cervixes, where it

goes straight into the body through the mucus membranes! Its use on

genital warts is another scandal, and the side effects from this can

be horrible. Internet drug pushers are offering Aldara without

prescription and without warnings of any kind. The emails keep

coming, the tragic stories go on and on, and there isn't space to list

them all.

 

 

 

Because of the internet, I was able to read 3M sworn

testimony in US Federal Court, and now understand why this salve is so

dangerous. A 3M pharmacologist testified that during treatment with

Aldara, when skin cancers develop into open lesions, and applications

continue to be applied, imiquimod (IQ) goes directly into the

bloodstream and circulates systemically. This is deadly, according to

University scientists, who say this easily leads to permanent

autoimmune diseases and worse. Even the conservative Mayo Clinic

wrote, " Studies in animals have shown that Aldara/imiquimod… causes

bone problems, brain problems, or low birth weight in pregnancies. "

I'll say, and lots more!

 

 

 

Will everyone who has used Aldara react the way I did?

No, of course not, because even with our pathetic regulatory agencies,

any drug that caused such drastic symptoms in everyone would be

removed. Will everyone who has used Aldara be damaged? Absolutely,

if they used it on an open lesion. Most, however, will fail to

connect the dots, and in most cases will have no way to connect a

subsequent grave disease with a past visit to a dermatologist. But

the connection is there, as prominent Gold Coast cancer specialist, Dr

Michael Tait, says: " In my opinion, based on my observations and

research, Aldara should be classified as a criminally dangerous

material if used on any open or potentially open skin area. "

 

 

 

THE CULPRIT: CYTOKINES

 

Cytokines are small proteins that make up the extremely complex

communication centers of the immune system. When bodies are working

well, more than 100 of these cytokines exist in perfect harmony

throughout the body, enabling it to run like a Swiss watch. Disturb

this harmonious environment at your peril!

 

As the FDA states, " Our experiments show that agents capable of

altering the balance between TH1 and TH2 Cytokines impact the

initiation, severity and persistence of both systemic and organic

specific autoimmunity. "

 

WOW! This is what the FDA scientists state, yet this same agency,

that is paid by the public to protect the public, approved this deadly

drug in the full knowledge of what it does. The FDA does not even

bother to warn physicians that Aldara destroys the cytokine activity

which their agency specifically warns about. And it's not just the

FDA -- 3M has snowed all the regulatory agencies that I am aware of,

and when people complain to them, these agencies send out form letters

stating that 3M research proves that Aldara is safe. I've seen these

letters, and they make my blood boil. This isn't good enough!

 

Dysfunctional immune systems with broken cytokine communication

centres are responsible for virtually all of the common autoimmune

diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, diabetes, coeliac

(celiac) disease, and hundreds more. As a small example of what can

happen, sometimes Aldara victims find that their weight plummets, and

no amount of gorging will bring it back to normal. This is because

Aldara can destroy the villi in the small intestine and the stomach

lining, causing victims to slowly starve to death.

 

THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE OUTRAGE

 

Mucous membranes are tissues that line body cavities and canals,

such as the face, mouth, throat, nose, lips, eyes, urethra, rectum and

vagina. They also occur in intestinal linings, and even in the

brain. These protective membranes produce a thick, slippery liquid

called " mucous " that protects the membranes and keeps them moist.

Without this crucial mucous, terrible damage can occur all over the body.

 

 

 

There is evidence that 3M has known since their original trials

that Aldara attacks and destroys mucous membrane tissue. Yet, they

continued developing, and then promoted, this drug without any

warnings about this pernicious side effect. 3M had the gall to claim

that Aldara in no way destroys or permanently alters the immune

system, and actually claimed that it helps the immune system.

 

 

 

It was only because Texan Richard Beasley exposed the truth about

the Aldara /mucous membrane connection on his website that finally,

after years of his Herculean efforts, 3M was forced to admit the truth

and re-write their product literature. He blew the whistle on many

of their other " omissions " as well, and forced them to make lots of

changes. As I have said many times, if it were not for the internet,

corporate criminals wouldn't have anyone to put the brakes on them.

Now, if only doctors would do their homework, and governments would do

their jobs, millions of people would not be put at risk of serious

illness, and even death, because of this highly-profitable drug.

 

 

 

BUT WAIT ---- THERE'S MORE, AND IT'S MUCH WORSE!

 

 

 

Women --- If your doctor suggests using Aldara on your genital

warts or, God forbid, on your cervix (yes, some doctors do this!) run

screaming to a doctor who isn't a criminal. If you consider this

extreme, think again: putting this mucous membrane-destroyer on, or

in, the vaginal area can be an invitation for permanent injury or,

worse, cancer. Because of the cytokine activity, Aldara has the

capacity to eat away the delicate mucous membranes of the vagina, and

there is no reason to assume these membranes will ever re-grow. Your

doctor will not have the wit (or the desire, because of lawsuit fear)

to connect his ill-considered action with your " unconnected " new

condition, that he has caused.

 

 

 

How Richard Beasley has managed to carry on his five-year

crusade to stop 3M, I will never understand. As just one tiny

example of the terrible damage he has suffered, he said, " I went to

the emergency room bleeding from the nose and mouth, because the

cytokine activity had eaten away all of my sinus mucous membrane

tissues. It has never re-grown, and I now have severe dry nasal

passageways that I must spray with moisture agents three times daily,

just to keep going. "

 

 

 

CORRUPTION

 

 

 

Naïve people may wonder how it could be possible that the US Food and

Drug Administration (FDA) and Australia's Therapeutic Goods

Administration (TGA), and the other government agencies world-wide

that are supposed to protect citizens from dangerous drugs, could have

approved this killer drug. The answer is simple -- corruption. How

3M managed to get it through in the US I don't know as yet, but I will

find out eventually. I do know, however, that a physician who worked

for the Australian TGA during the Aldara approval process ended up in

a cushy, high-level job with 3M, and I have proof of this unholy

alliance from US Federal Court transcripts.

 

 

 

This alliance is the famous, long-term " revolving door

policy " so beloved of the FDA, which is probably the most corrupt of

all US Government agencies. And, as is well known, so many other

countries follow along like sheep, thinking the FDA has verified

research and that it's perfectly all right to unleash upon the public

new, inadequately tested, money-spinners from Big Pharma. Like Vioxx.

 

 

 

A well-publicized example of this is the scandal of Arthur

Hull Hayes Jr., MD, former head of the FDA, who had to resign when it

was discovered that he had been taking bribes from pharmaceutical

companies. True to form, he went off to work for the company who

manufactured the neurotoxin, NutraSweet, which he had pushed through

the approval process because Donald Rumsfeld pressured the FDA to do

so. (Rumsfeld, before going into government, had been the CEO of

Monsanto, the company which owned the patent on Nutrasweet.) There

are thousands of stories such as this, which are the subject of many

articles and books, and I would like to force all of these men to read

testimonials from people who have been horribly damaged because of

their unethical behaviour. Such as from this 25-year-old Turkish girl:

 

 

 

" I have been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder called

 

Graves Basedow disease. My doctor said it's 99% that my

 

diseases are due to that cream, Aldara. This is only one of my

 

other probable autoimmune disorder. Although my family would

 

not like me to take legal action (they find it useless)

I'm going

 

to gather all documentation I can and will talk to a lawyer as

 

a start. I'm not letting them live with what they're doing to

 

people. This is totally a murder! Knowing they would harm

 

people but hiding documentation from them.

 

 

 

S.H. Mustafa

 

Istanbul, Turkey

 

 

 

Aldara wrecked Richard Beasley's life for the past five

years. As he says, " I would have been better off had it killed me

outright. " As a result of Mr. Beasley's horrible experience with this

drug, and his subsequent lawsuit against 3M, he has performed a great

deal of research on Aldara, and he has conclusive evidence that 3M

falsified and manipulated its research programs to obtain the most

positive results.

 

 

 

Would they do that? You bet they would, and for the same

motives Merck Pharmaceuticals had when they lied to save their

two-and-a-half billion dollar money-spinner, Vioxx. Merck was

exposed, and now 3M must be exposed before any more people are maimed.

Mr. Beasley stands ready to assist anyone in the media with the

courage to go against this powerful company. He has in excess of

9,000 pages of quality evidence and testimonials from injured persons

that are so damaging to 3M that they tried, in US Federal Court, to

muzzle him and shut down his website. In this suit they stated, " If

this information Mr. Beasley has is allowed to be made public to the

world at large, it will do irreparable harm to our company " . 3M asked

the court to either have Beasley's research destroyed or turned over

to them. They lost the suit. Please visit his website,

www.aldara1.com, for more details.

 

 

 

Trying to persuade the media to help expose Big Pharma is

a gargantuan task. 3M, of course, tries to blindside with scientific

lies, as Merck did; doctors who have damaged their patients won't

admit fault for obvious reasons; governments are firmly in the pockets

of the drug manufacturers, the FDA is partially funded by " user fees "

paid for by Big Pharma, and much of the media is, and has long been,

gagged by their sponsors.

 

 

 

Please ignore them: to learn the truth, read the results

of research done by the National Cancer Institute and The American

Cancer Society. Their studies were reported by the U. S. Health and

Human Services National Toxicology Program, and written up in their

REPORT ON CARCINOGENS, ELEVENTH EDITION:

 

 

 

" IQ (imiquimod) is reasonably anticipated to be a human

carcinogen,

 

based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experi-

 

mental animals. IQ administered orally caused benign and

 

malignant tumors in multiple species (mice, rats, and monkeys)

 

and at multiple tissue sites, thus providing sufficient

evidence

 

of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. "

 

 

 

There's more from the American Cancer Institute and National Cancer

Research:

 

 

 

" IQ bound to DNA in many organs of

 

cynomolgus monkeys and rodents dosed in vivo. In

 

rodents treated in vivo, IQ induced DNA damage, gene

 

mutation and DNA damage in animal cells in vitro. It

 

induced mutations in Drosophila melanogaster and DNA

 

damage and mutations in bacteria. Gene mutations in

 

c.Ha-ras and p53 genes were found in some Zymbal

 

gland carcinomas induced in rats by IQ "

 

 

 

THE BOTTOM LINE WINS AGAIN

 

 

 

Yet, in spite of compelling evidence that Aldara is

dangerous, 3M ignores the scientific proof and continues making

millions from it, while claiming in promotional literature that, " It

is safe, effective, easy to use, and offers an alternative to

treatments that destroy healthy skin. " Really? They should have seen

the thick, black crust on my entire nose after applying this " safe "

cream to one tiny area; they should have observed me in anaphylactic

shock; they should have noted all of my other terrible reactions to

their " safe " money-maker.

 

 

 

Dr Herbert Slade, Director of 3M's Pharmaceutical

Division, had an entirely different story to tell when testifying

under oath in US Federal Court. Lying would have resulted in a jail

term, so he admitted the dangers, saying, " ..the drug signal is quite

non-specific. It doesn't have a signature, doesn't say you have a

virus or you have a bacteria or even cancer. It just says you have

got something that is not supposed to be there, and have a look at it,

do something about it…. "

 

 

 

When Dr Slade was asked if there were any studies where

Aldara had been introduced directly into the bloodstream of humans, he

answered, " Aldara would not be injected into the bloodstream. " He

went on to testify, " There are two reasons to give a drug (Aldara) by

the IV route …One is to get something called absolute bioavailability

… The other reason to give the drug intravenously to animals is to

kill them. " When Richard Beasley was near death, a 3M

pharmacologist told him that by applying Aldara directly into his open

wound, he had introduced Aldara into his bloodstream by what amounted

to an IV delivery system of the drug. In other words, the same route

3M scientists use when killing experimental animals.

 

 

 

RICHARD BEASLEY EXPLAINS HOW CYTOKINE DISRUPTION AFFECTED HIM

 

 

 

" The cytokine activity, plus the imiquimod molecules that

reached my blood circulation, damaged the lining and villi inside my

stomach and small intestine and damaged my colon. Because of this, I

developed irritable bowel syndrome, which all my doctors say was

caused by the gross cytokine activity all over my body. I developed

nerve damage, my tear ducts and sinus membranes were destroyed, I have

lost 35% of my hearing and, worst of all, I ended up with Parkinson's

Disease and my brain has been seriously damaged. And I was in perfect

health the day I went on Aldara. Two weeks later, I had all of this

damage, and nearly died in the hospital "

 

 

 

HAS YOUR DIGESTION BEEN DESTROYED BY ALDARA? THERE IS HOPE:

 

 

 

Richard explains how his extreme weight loss was curtailed.

" They found a very high bacterial growth in my stomach which was

tested by a breath-a-lyzer. This device measures the gasses given off

by stomach bacteria, and it can quickly determine if there is an

overgrowth of this bacteria in the stomach. In my case there was, and

it led to bloating after meals, swelling of the stomach, and gas. The

doctors were able to correct this by prescribing antibiotics. "

 

 

 

GWEN WARD'S EXPERIENCE WITH ALDARA

 

This lovely, 87-year-old diabetic, partially blind war widow from

Southport, Queensland, developed a skin cancer near her eye. She

told me that she entrusted her care to dermatologist R.M. De Voss, who

prescribed Aldara, acting against the recommendations of 3M to never

use it on the face, and not to prescribe it to elderly patients. It is

nothing short of astounding that a physician would use any drug on so

fragile a patient without checking it carefully. A cursory glance at

the Physician's Desk Reference would have shown Dr De Voss that this

drug has sinister side effects, and Mrs. Ward could have been spared

weeks of pain. Because she wasn't warned, this poor woman woke after

the first application with her face bloody and stuck to her pillow

case, and was so ill she couldn't eat. She discontinued the drug

after only two applications, yet continued developing sores all over

her face, and every night for weeks her sheets and pillowslips were

covered in blood.

 

Dermatologist Troy Darben, of Robina, Queensland, was

similarly unconcerned by my advanced age (77), the fact that it was

to go on my nose, right between my eyes (exactly where 3M says it

should not go) and my admonition that I do not react well to drugs.

I believe that both of these physicians, and any other health

professionals who prescribe this dangerous salve, are committing

malpractice. I told Mr Darben what Aldara did to me, and if he

persists in prescribing it, he will be culpable. It is my intention

to make a directory of doctors who continue prescribing Aldara, in

spite of all the evidence against it. Their names will appear on

www.doctorsaredangerous.com, and I hope everyone damaged by the

combination of 3M and ignorant doctors will send me the names of

prescribing doctors.

 

 

 

Pharmacists should not get off lightly, either. I was

astounded by the devil-may-care, smug attitude of the chemist at

Soul-Pattinson Pharmacists in Mudgeeraba, Queensland, when I told him

Aldara nearly killed me and suggested that they should post a warning.

Soon I will place advertisements warning chemists about Aldara, and

if they continue flogging it, their customers will be at risk and they

may even be liable in subsequent lawsuits.

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS – DOCTORS – PLEASE PAY ATTENTION!

 

 

 

Aldara is uncontrollable and unpredictable in what it will destroy,

and virtually without boundaries of pharmacological actions. In

short, it is an experiment for the user each and every time it is

applied. Other 3M officials even testified that, " There is no way to

predict the outcome, nor the new patient's response prior to

application. " This clearly makes Aldara one of the most dangerous

drugs on the market today. Because warnings and contraindications for

this drug are totally insufficient, or non-existent, doctors are

unaware of the unique pharmacological action of Aldara, and are

opening themselves up to personal injury lawsuits and, much more

important, placing their patients (including babies!) at unimaginable

risk. Using Aldara certainly placed me at risk and, even though the

natural therapies I have used have been helpful, it is unlikely that I

will ever fully recover the robust health and vitality I had

pre-Aldara. Troy Darben and 3M have badly compromised my health and

made a mess of my life for the last eight months, and it is my

intention to join Richard Beasley's crusade and devote what time I

have left to exposing the truth, and warning people through the media,

the internet and word-of-mouth. Will you help?

 

 

 

WARNING: You are not home free if you used Aldara on your body,

rather than on your face. It is just more dangerous on the face, and

more dangerous if you are elderly.

 

Richard Beasley, after great effort, has compiled an

amazing scientific Monograph which proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt,

that Aldara is incredibly dangerous. Any scientist or physician who

cares enough to read it will be convinced that this drug must be

banned and 3M discredited for concealing the truth. This important

document can be found at www.aldara1.com.

 

 

 

If you have been damaged by Aldara, please send your story to

elaine. Let us know the name of the

prescribing physician and the pharmacy where you purchased it.

Please see my website, www.doctorsaredangerous.com. Help us fight back!

 

 

 

Elaine Hollingsworth

 

 

Hippocrates Health Centre of Australia

 

P.O. Box 1440

 

Mudgeeraba, Qld

 

Australia 4213

 

(07) 5530-2939

 

 

 

 

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