The Chemotherapy Mafia

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The Chemotherapy Mafia

 

On July 20, 1995, the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission

raided the office of Glenn Warner, MD, an oncologist with unusual views on

healing, and revoked his medical license. Allegedly, Warner had cured more than

1,000 patients from terminal cancer—not with chemotherapy and radiation but

with

diet and exercise regimens, certain immunotherapeutic drugs, and other

holistic methods. When he appealed his case in court, the commission’s

attorney,

Beverly Goetz, argued that cancer patients were “incapable†and

“unqualifiedâ€

to decide whether they received quality care or not. Only experts—like the

members of said commission—were capable of making that judgment call, she

said.

 

Unfortunately, this standpoint seems to prevail in the United States these

days. Self-determination takes a backseat in favor of state-mandated “health

care.†A fact that becomes eerily obvious in cancer cases where minors are

involved.

 

But first, we should ask how valuable chemotherapy really is. There is no

doubt that cancer is big business in the U.S. While in 1990, $3.53 billion was

spent on chemotherapy, the number more than doubled to $7.51 billion only four

years later. By 2009, so the latest projections, cancer therapy products and

services will rake in over $27 billion.

 

As the unfortunate Glenn Warner put it: “We have a multi-billion-dollar

industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their

idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three

doses of that poison.â€

 

Other experts agree.

 

Alan C. Nixon, PhD, former president of the American Chemical Society,

states, “As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me

that

physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more

harm than good.â€

 

Alan Levin, MD, of the University of California Medical School agrees: “Most c

ancer 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.â€

 

His opinion is echoed by Ralph Moss, former assistant director of public

affairs at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and author of the

book The Cancer Industry: “In the end, there is no proof that chemotherapy

actually extends life in the vast majority of cases, and this is the great lie

about chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a

tumor

and extending the life of a patient.â€

 

Even the General Accounting Office (GAO) found in a 1987 study on the

progress of cancer treatment that “For a majority of the cancers we examined,

the

actual improvements have been small or have been overestimated by the published

rates. . . Progress has been made, but not as great as that reported.â€

 

More and more cancer patients and their families are feeling skeptical about

the value of chemotherapy and radiation as well. However, not allowed to think

for themselves, some states have imposed mandatory treatment.

 

The first widely published case was that of Katie Wernecke, a 12-year-old

Texan who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease in January 2005. After

undergoing

four rounds of chemotherapy, her cancer went into remission.

 

The doctors advised subsequent radiation treatment, but father Edward

Wernecke had informed himself on the Internet and was taken aback by an article

in

the New England Journal of Medicine, written by Vincent DeVita, former director

of the National Cancer Institute. DeVita stated that radiation “by itself

increases the risk of late second solid tumors in the irradiated field and the

incidence rises steeply when radiotherapy and chemotherapy are combined.â€

Other

mentioned side effects were stunted growth, sterilization, and an increased

risk of breast cancer.

 

Worried about the harmful long-term effects, Katie’s parents decided to

forego the radiation and follow up with holistic therapies. When Michelle

Wernecke

took her child out of the hospital despite protests of the oncologists, the

Texas State Department of Child Protective Services issued an Amber Alert. The

mother was arrested and sent to jail for kidnapping. Katie was put into foster

care, along with her three brothers who were later released.

 

At a court hearing in June, a radiologist asserted that Katie’s cancer had

returned and that she needed to undergo treatment again. Even though Katie said

in a video statement that she was not willing to undergo radiation, she was

ordered by the courts to do so. What’s more, convinced that the Werneckes

negatively affected her decisions, CPS cut off all communication with their

daughter. Left to her own devices, the 12-year-old decided to make the choice

herself,

resisting treatment by pulling catheters out of her arm and disobeying doctors

’ orders.

 

After a ten-month ordeal, at the end of October 2005, a district judge ruled

that Katie could rejoin her family and seek alternative treatment out of

state. “On June 11th, Katie celebrated her 14th birthday at home with family

and

friends,†her father writes in his blog. “Katie is doing very well. . . but

she

is not cancer free yet, so there is still a battle to win. She is in better

physical condition than ever.†A happy ending?

 

Recently, another story broke the news: The case of Virginian teenager

Starchild Abraham Cherrix. The 16-year-old, diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease

last

summer, had undergone three months of chemotherapy that, in his own words, left

him weak and nauseated. When the doctors told him in February that the cancer

was back, he refused more chemotherapy.

 

“I think it would kill me the second time,†said Abraham, who instead opted

for a sugar-free, organic diet and herbal treatments at a clinic in Mexico.

Here, too, Child Protective Services and the courts became involved, and a

six-month-long battle began. In May, a judge ruled that Abraham’s parents were

guilty of neglect for supporting their son’s decision; he also ordered shared

custody between the parents and the Accomack County Department of Social

Services,

with the possibility of the Cherrix’ losing custody entirely.

 

Yet Abraham refused to comply with court orders, cheered on by supporters of

holistic medicine: " I think it's my body. I can choose what's best for my

body. If I don't have the right to do that, then I don't have any rights at all

anyway. "

 

At the Cherrix’ request, a second judge stayed the first court order until

trial, scheduled to begin on August 16.

 

[Necessary intervention or medical terrorism by the nanny state? We’d like to

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