Chemotherapy for testicular cancer causes long-term neurological damage

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Chemotherapy for testicular cancer causes long-term neurological damage

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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

 

 

NaturalNews) The November 25 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer

Institute contains a report about the long-term side effects experienced by

men who received cisplatin-based chemotherapy for testicular cancer. Severe

neurological side effects, discoloration of the hands and feet when

exposed to the cold (Raynaud-like phenomena), tinnitus, and impaired hearing

were

found to be common in men who received chemotherapy as opposed to those

who did not.

 

 

Men who received cancer treatment between 1980 and 1994 were given

follow-up surveys between 1998 and 2002 to assess their conditions after

treatment. Researchers found that in the decades following treatment, those men

who

received any form of chemotherapy were significantly more likely to be

experiencing long-term negative side-effects as a result.

 

 

In the chemotherapy group, 39 percent of men reported Raynaud-like

phenomena, 29 percent reported paresthesias in the hands or feet, 21 percent

reported hearing impairment, and 22 percent reported tinnitus symptoms.

 

 

Marianne Brydoy, M.D., from Haukeland University's Department of Oncology

in Norway, conducted the study with the help of her colleagues to verify

the correlation between high rates of long-term neurological damage and

chemotherapy. Since the control groups who did not receive any form of

chemotherapy experienced far fewer neurological damage incidents than did those

who

received chemotherapy, the results are indicative of an underlying problem

with chemotherapy treatment.

 

 

Experts aim to reassess proper treatments for testicular cancer. They hope

to minimize the toxic side effects of chemotherapy by reformulating the

levels of cisplatin used in chemotherapy treatment. According to their

research, 20 mg/m2 a day is the maximum safe dosage of the drug.

 

 

Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

 

As this study goes to show, chemotherapy is poison. While chemo may at

first appear to be working by shrinking a tumor, it is in fact a systemic

poison that will inevitably destroy cells throughout the body, most notably in

the brain, heart, liver and kidneys.

 

 

The only way to protect yourself from these devastating effects of

chemotherapy is to take protective nutritional supplements before undergoing

chemo

treatments. But oncologists sternly warn patients against consuming such

nutritional supplements by citing one of the most oft-repeated myths of the

cancer industry: " Nutritional supplements block the chemotherapy " they say!

 

 

It's a lie, of course, but it's been repeated so frequently by the cancer

establishment that they can't even remember who uttered it first... or why.

Truth be told, there is absolutely no science backing up such a false

belief. No credible scientific study has ever found that antioxidants or other

immune-boosting supplements impede chemotherapy treatments at all. In fact,

many supplements potentiate the chemo for cancer cells while

simultaneously reducing its toxic effects on healthy cells.

 

 

Then again, if cancer doctors knew anything at all about nutrition, they

probably wouldn't be in the business of poisoning people with chemo in the

first place.

 

 

Sources for this story include:

 

_http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/jotn-nbl112309.php_

(http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/jotn-nbl112309.php)

 

 

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