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Chemotherapy Can do More Harm Than Good

patient, chemotherapyDoctors have been urged to be more cautious in offering cancer treatment to terminally-ill patients as chemotherapy can often do more harm than good, a study suggests.

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) found that more than four in ten patients who received chemotherapy towards the end of life suffered potentially fatal effects from the drugs, and treatment was “inappropriate” in nearly a fifth of cases.

In a study of more than 600 cancer patients who died within 30 days of receiving treatment, chemotherapy probably caused or hastened death in 27 percent of cases, the inquiry found.

In only 35 percent of these cases was care judged to have been good by the inquiry’s advisors, with 49 percent having room for improvement and 8 per cent receiving less than satisfactory care.

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In the conventional health paradigm, chemotherapy is the go-to treatment for cancer. People are paying up to $10,000 a month and sometimes more for these drugs, with the expectation that they will heal them from the disease.

Yet, these expensive and, by their very nature, highly toxic medications often give patients just a few more months of life, or worse end up killing them prematurely or even causing cancer down the line.

The biggest drawback to a conventional treatment like chemotherapy is it destroys healthy cells throughout your body right along with cancer cells. A typical and deadly side effect of chemo is the destruction of the rapidly multiplying and dividing cells found in your:

• Bone marrow, which produces blood
• Digestive system
• Reproductive system
• Hair follicles

In this most recent study, The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) found that more than four in 10 patients who received chemotherapy toward the end of life experienced potentially fatal effects! And after reviewing data from over 600 cancer patients who died within 30 days of receiving treatment, it was found that chemotherapy hastened or caused death in 27 percent of cases.

“The majority of the cancer patients in this country die because of chemotherapy, which does not cure breast, colon or lung cancer. This has been documented for over a decade and nevertheless doctors still utilize chemotherapy to fight these tumors,” said Dr. Allen Levin, MD, author of The Healing of Cancer.

Despite its reputation as the gold-standard cancer treatment, chemotherapy has an average 5-year survival success rate of just over 2 percent for all cancers, according to a study published in the journal Clinical Oncology in December 2004.

If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with cancer, I urge you to do the research for yourself, and make an educated decision about which course of treatment to take. A decision like this is simply too important to leave solely in the hands of your doctor.

The Best Known “Chemotherapy” Agent Ever Found

The American Cancer Society estimates that this year alone, 745,000 men and 692,000 women will be diagnosed with cancer. By 2018, this disease is projected to be the number one killer of all Americans, young and old alike.

The way to turn this around is two-fold:

1. Prevent cancer from occurring (I’ll get to that below)
2. Have a treatment for cancer that is effective and safe

This latter requirement is actually already here, and you can use it to not only prevent cancer but also to treat it.

What is it?

Vitamin D.

Calcitriol, the most potent steroid hormone in your body, and is produced in large amounts in the tissues of vitamin D-filled individuals. However, in patients with cancer, vitamin D is often in low supply.

Calcitriol has been shown to induce cell differentiation and to control cell proliferation -- in simpler terms it protects against cancer. People with a low vitamin D level are less able to make calcitriol (activated vitamin D) in an amount sufficient to exert the controls over cell proliferation that are needed to reduce cancer.

Optimized vitamin D levels will work synergistically with virtually every other cancer treatment. There are over 830 peer reviewed scientific studies showing its effectiveness in the treatment of cancer.

Not only is this approach without virtually any side effects, but the treatment is practically free.

I believe it is nearly criminal malpractice to not optimize vitamin D levels when treating someone with cancer. Levels of vitamin D should be increased to 80-90 ng/ml.

To find out your levels, and to have them monitored throughout your treatment, make sure to have the blood test done by LabCorp, if you are in the United States. At this time, Quest labs has inaccurate and falsely elevated results.

The Essential Steps to Preventing Cancer

Normalizing your vitamin D levels will reduce your risk of cancer by over 50 percent, but there are a number of other strategies that are also important in your cancer-prevention plan.

One of the top steps is managing your emotional health. The majority of illness is caused by negative, unmanaged emotions. If you focus on pain, misery and grief, it’s likely you’ll experience and attract more of it into your life.

However, if you keep your focus on what you want to experience and put some energy into healthy lifestyle choices, your body will respond accordingly. Before you know it you will start to feel much better.

So finding a tool that will permanently erase the neurological short-circuiting that can activate cancer genes is essential. One of the best approaches to processing your negative emotions is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and I highly recommend it.

Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer has also done wonderful work with his German New Medicine technique for solving emotional conflicts as the first step in healing disease.

The other top tips I recommend, in no particular order, include:

• Eating right for your nutritional type
Exercising
• Avoiding processed foods, grains and sugars (to control and lower your insulin levels)
• Eating a significant portion of your food raw
• Normalizing your ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats by taking a high-quality krill oil or fish oil and reducing your intake of most processed vegetable oils
• Getting plenty of high-quality sleep 


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Posted On Nov 19, 2008
It seems so ironic to treat people for cancer by giving them powerful poisons that suppress the immune system, since it's immune dysfunction that plays and important role in causing cancer.  I have to wonder if simply putting cancer patients on a fully nutritious low-carb diet that has no refined carbs and minimal polyunsaturated fat would have a better outcome on average than treating with chemotherapy.  It certainly would be MUCH less expensive!  And BTW, for most folks, that's a good diet for avoiding cancer in the first place : )

 
Bryan - oz4caster
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KelleyEidem
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

Chemo is nuts - you need to get healthy if you want to get well.

Here's my chemo for when I had Stage 4 cancer 10 years ago: freshly grated hot peppers and garlic, and the right oil for me. The whole thing cost me about $10 at the time.

hubpages.com/.../How-I-Cured-Stage-4-Cancer-in-Two-Weeks-For-Less-Than-The-Cost-Of-A-Night-At-The-Movies

The best to you.

Kelley Eidem

Together we can cure cancer - one person at a time!



Jen47
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

Kelly I read your "cancer cure" and want to know if you sustained blisters in the mouth from the "hottest pepper known to man" eaten raw?  I read you should wear gloves to even handle these peppers. You mentioned grating ginger I1 inch of it) instead of that pepper could do the same thing.  Does the ginger have to be raw and do you peel it first or use the skin and all.  Is the fish oil Carlson's emulsified Fish or cod liver oil?

Does candied ginger do anything at all and does garlic partly cooked in the microwave with olive oil on it do any good?  

I shudder to think what my stomach would do to me if I dropped the bomb of that pepper into it. LOL

even covered in butter. LOL  neutron dance would maybe cover it.



KelleyEidem
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

Hi Jen,

You're right - not everyone can handle peppers. That's why there's ginger as an alternative. It's hot, too.

In this case, I would want it to be hot enough to cause heavy breathing because that pumps the lymph system...cleaning out a favorite cancer hide out. This is more than food...it's an exercise that lasts about one minute before quieting it down with a couple bits of bread.

I much prefer it to FDA-approved chemo that can cause loss of teeth, mouth sores, etc.

Uh, no, habaneros don't cause mouth blisters. Peppers are well known for healing ulcers - they don't burn where an ulcer is, which is pretty amazing.

The reason for wearing gloves is not due to any blisters...it doesn't do that. The oils penetrate the skin, and then hours later when you put your finger in your eye, the next thing you know, you can't see 'cuz it hurts so darn much to open your eyelids.

Habaneros used to be known as the hottest peppers. I saw a tiny article in National Geographic a few months back that talked about a Thai pepper that's twice as hot as the habaneros.

No cooking of any of them and no candied ginger. The peppers, garlic and ginger all release volatile oils. That is the ESSENTIAL secret. Anything else turns off their power maybe 95%.

I don't have an answer regarding the Carlson's brand. Maybe someone else does.

The best to you.

Kelley Eidem

Together we can cure cancer - one person at a time!



DLARAH
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

Cancer is a physiological manifestation of a Significant Biological Special program of Nature (SBS) - nothing more, nothing less!

Toxins do compromise the body's ability to keep one alive and the SBSs are proof of the body's attempt to help keep it alive. Study the German New Medicine(GNM) and find out how Nature really works as opposed to what has been taught in the last two centuries. I think there was a reason why the knowledge of this was being kept from the populations past and present; the populations are too stupid and/or uncaring to educate themselves about it and take the more convenient way out ie. "Let someone else take care of me, no matter what I do wrong"! This includes gods and demi-gods (doctors). I have studied GNM for only 3+ years but I have had to admit, the stuff I had been taught before is wrong!

Check it out yourselves: germannewmedicine.ca/.../intrognm.html .



3903
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Posted On Dec 03, 2008

Please take a look at this alternative cancer treatment:

http://www.treat-cancer.nl/



WAY-OF-LIFE
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Posted On Dec 03, 2008

HEY BRYAN,I WAS TOLD I HAD CANCER IN 1992, AND I WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH WESTERN STLYE TREATMENT. ANYWAYS, MY FRIENDS TOLD ME YOU HAVE TO DO THE TREATMENT. NEEDLESS TO SAY IT STARTED SOME BAD TENSION THAT I DIDNT NEED AT THAT TIME. SO, I GAVE IN 1ST, CUT. NEXT, WAS CHEMO, ONE ROUND AND THAT WAS IT, NEXT, I TOLD ALL MY FRIENDS WHO DIDNT WANT TO SUPPORT MY DECSION NOT TO DO ANY MORE CHEMO TO GO AWAY. THEN, I TOLD THE DOCTOR I WAS THRU WITH CHEMO, OK WILL STOP. BUT, LETS DO BURN, AGAIN I SAID OK. AFTER 6 TREATMENTS I WAS LIVING OFF ICE CUBES.  NEXT, I WALKED OUT OF HOSPITAL. THREE DAYS LATER I WENT SKING, AND I VOWED TO FOLLOW MY PLAN. 1. MARCOBIOTIC EATING HABIT, (MICHIO KUSHI)AUTHOR. 2. HERBS, ORIGINAL ESSIAC. (I HAVE THE ORIGINAL PLANS, HOW TO BREW). 3. YOGA 4. LAUGHTER. 5. CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK !. LAST, I DONT TALK TO PEOPLE WHO SAY THINGS LIKE WELL YOU GOT LUCKY, BUT I DONT THINK WHAT YOU DID WAS VERY SMART. OR MY DOCTOR SAID YOU WERE LUCKY. ETC. EVERYBODY, I UNDERSTAND THAT HOSPITALS ARE A BUSINESS, I JUST THINK WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE OUR CHOICES. P.S. YOU SAID LESS EXPENSIVE, HOW RIGHT YOU ARE. ITS VERY CHEAP TO EAT MARCOBIOTIC COMPARE TO HOSPITAL BILLS. (YEAH BUT IT TAKES SO MUCH TIME TO PREPARE, I USED TO SAY, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT LIVING OR DYING. THESE DAYS, I DONT TALK TO PEOPLE LIKE THAT ANYMORE). THANKS BRYAN, I'M JERRY I'M 16 YEARS CURED, NOT REMISSION. I LEFT THE FILM BIZ TO LIVE IN HAWAII, I'M NOW A PERSONAL TRAINER "WAY OF LIFE HAWAII" FUNCTIONAL FITNESS. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL.  



Natural Health Leader
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Posted On Dec 03, 2008

When you are facing any challenging health condition you have to look at your environment. The biggest "block" to healing I am finding now are electromagnetic fields. You can do an internet search and find protection in the form of diodes and devices that will put out healing energy to combat the harmful energy that is surrounding us in the form of electronics, cell phones, etc.

Then there are naturally occurring harmful energies such as electromagnetic fields, etc.

You also need to be aware of belly button rings, toe rings etc that will cut the flow of the natural energy in the body.

So, when you have done all you can think to do and nothing is showing any benefit, look to these issues.

One of the small towns near where I live recently put in 2 satellite dishes on each side of town to provide wireless internet to the community. Very harmful an difficult for the people there to heal. Wish I knew a good way to explain that to them without sounding like a nut. :(

The good thing is that there is protection for the well informed.



Stormi
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Stormi  
 
Posted On Jun 09, 2009

Way-of-life:  you do not need to shout


 
 
 
Posted On Nov 18, 2008
Focus on strengthening your immune-defense by consuming right food.Carbohydrates fuel cancers.Starve them! Tips: It`not a joke!

 
ulfpohl
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mike4
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

what kind of carbs are you talking about ? It can't be "whole" grains.



PatriSpain
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

Carbohydrates fuel cancers....yes, true.  But my friend with the breast cancer who in the last 6 months since discovering her cancer is now vegetarian who does not each carbs or at least extremely minimal because she understands about fueling the cancer.  Even alkalizing and monitoring her urine.  Nothing helped.

This and massive efforts for immune system support practically every few hours during waking hours taking this or that...and the cancer grew as if she was doing nothing at all.

Theoretically, many things should work to prevent, reverse cancer.  But in reality, when nothing is working, one has to look deeper.  Often the block to healing is in the mindset.  In reference to my friend, this is how I am observing it...why in spite of everything, the cancer has not slowed, on the contrary it is still growing.


 
 
 
Posted On Nov 18, 2008
Vitamin C cancer therapy, Cesium, Essiac have all been proven to fight cancer.  No one has died from taking these therapies, chemotherapy cannot say the same.  But I do still believe that you have to get to the root of the problem through energy medicine.

 
Sheila C
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Posted On Dec 03, 2008

There is something seriously wrong with a paradigm that promotes mutilation and poisoning as "health care"!

Studies have shown that persons who get "traditional" treatment for cancer live no longer than their "untreated" counterparts. They just die of other things.


 
Becanco
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the simple and cheap products biocarbonate of soda somehow had a curing affect on cancers also Chile peppers and iodine not forgetting, of course, the favourite, CO-Q10.


 
Duparc
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creature
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

Cancerisafungus.com - Talks about curing breast cancer in 6 days using Sodium Bicarbonate.



Jen47
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

Duparc can you comment on which CoQ10 we need? I remember something (Dr.M?) said about checking your capsule of CoQ and seeing if it is "orange" inside and if so it's BAD?

Mine was orange.  Which one do we need to buy that is not BAD? apparently i wasted money on this one.



etaraba
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Posted On Jun 27, 2009

sodium bicarbonate is not useful.    Sodium bicarbonate has to be injected into the tumor to be effective .

while cesium chloride and cesium bicarbonate can be swallowed (1gm to 3 gm three times daily preferably with meals) to "alkalinize" the tumor to death, also it blocks sugar from entry into tumor. (too much cesium gives diarrhea) Best taken with daily dietary potassium and magnesium citrate supplements and vitamin D and some vitamin C.  (i am not so convinced on the laetrile (apricot pits) and  extra vitamin A as being necessary).


 
 
 
 
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