From: Cliff Beckwith <spinner@u...> 
Date: Sun Apr 2, 2000 12:53pm 
Subject: chemo 


Since some of us are talking chemo, lets give some ideas on how it works.

All of them are poinsons that kill cancer cells. Granted there are benefits
to the salesmen selling Mercedes to the doctors and stockholders of drug
companies, lets check other results.

Chemo kills cancer cells. It also kills everything else including the
immune system. The hope is that the body rebuilds but the cancer cells
won't. Isn't THAT wishful thinking!

It may kill 95% to 97%, or even more of the cancer cells. One is now in
remission. However, the cells that are not killed can handle that chemo and
continue to reproduce. By and By the tumor it there again. Now the first
chemo is ineffective, a friend told me her chemo "wore out", and a new one
must be used. Repeat whole procedure, maybe even more remission.

With each new chemo patient is progressively weaker as the immune system
can't recover. Finally, the patient is too weak, cancer enzymes kill the
appetite and the victim gradually starves to death, in many cases [some of
which I knew] with the doctors still pumping in the chemo.

We have known some lucky people who the doctors gave up and quit the chemo
who then got on the flaxseed oil and cottage cheese and recovered and today
are fine. That is not an uncommon situation with a significant number that
have gone to Dr. Budwig.

Three years ago a friend of my son's heard a news broadcast that said that a
study just completed at a major cancer center concluded that of those who
die of cancer half die of cancer and half die of chemo and chemo only helps
2 to 3 per cent. That was buried immediately.

If anyone knows of any studies that show conclusively that chemo actually
gives permanent remission and good quality of life to a signifacant
percentage of those on whom it is used I will certainly stand corrected and
get lost.

My only concern is whether anything would happen that the body might no
longer respond to the Omega 3, but as yet I haven't seen it. I do not know
of anyone who has used it longer than I have. It probably is not the magic
bullet, but in my case it is close enough.

Cliff