Chemo Does Not Cure: Often It Inflicts Damage and Spreads Cancer
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 by: Tony Isaacs, citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) For years now, many of us who advocate natural health and natural approaches to beating cancer have warned against the dangers and the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy. The following report presented at the 27th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium illustrates how chemo actually spreads cancer cells, as well as points out how little we are being told about the dangers of chemo:
"German investigators from Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, have shown that taxol (the "gold standard of chemo") causes a massive release of cells into circulation.
"Such a release of cancer cells would result in extensive metastasis months or even years later, long after the chemo would be suspected as the cause of the spread of the cancer. This little known horror of conventional cancer treatment needs to be spread far and wide, but it is not even listed in the side effects of taxol."
As has oft been stated, chemo does not cure cancer - it merely attempts to eliminate the tumors and cancer cells that are symptoms of the underlying causes of cancer, and does so with little success and great risks. In some instances it may appear to eliminate tumors and cancer cell masses, though most often it merely destroys some of the cancer cells. In the process, it often inflicts a very high price.
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Sorry, but much as I like Andreas Moritz, I believe most emphatically that the evidence is overwhelming that cancer itself does kill. I also believe, as I have said before, that the survival mechanism is on the part of the cells that change into cancer cells and not the body itself, and is an aberration and invasive threat that must be eliminated both at the root cause and at the site of the cancer cells as well.
I certainly agree that the root causes of cancer usually must be addressed in order to beat it once and for all. However, in quite a few instances, the root cause may no longer be present - yet the cancer continues to advance. Consider for example cancers that have developed as a result of exposure to radiation, or other mutagens that are no longer present.
Root causes being present or not, at some point cancers will become so advanced that simply removing the root cause will in many instances not be enough to remove the cancer. Therefore, it is imperative to me that people take measures to remove the root causes while also taking specific actions to remove the cancer itself.
Cancer occurs, in my opinion, when toxins and other items cause inflammation/irritation or else cells are exposed to a direct mutagen such as radiation or chemo drugs themseles. As a result, the individual cells change DNA messages and they go into a protective mode to avoid natural elimination by the immune system and often morph so that a viral element presents itself. The cells refuse to die, continue to multiply and also infect other healthy cells.
I cannot embrace the idea that nature would have such a flaw as an overall survival mechanism that can and does end up killing the entire host by infecting healthy cells and robbing the life from the rest of the body for the benefit of cancerous cells. The idea may sell a lot of books but it just does not float with me.
All the best,
DQ
The Evolution of Cancer (Article).
The evolution of cancer is marked by seven stages that Hygienic doctors recognized years ago. They are:
1. Enervation (lowered nerve energy),
2. Intoxication (an excess of endogenous and exogenous toxins),
3. Irritation (of tissues),
4. Inflammation, (heat, redness, swelling, pain, and impaired function),
5. Induration (hardening),
6. Ulceration, and finally……………………………..
7. Fungation (cancer). The term "fungation" is used because at that stage cancer RESEMBLES a fungus, (not to be confused with Simoncinis erroneous view of cancer as a fungus) spreading out in all directions from the initial lump, whether small or large. Stages five and six are considered pre-cancerous. Stage seven is considered early cancer. Yet in this stage it is still amenable to Hygienic care. Even though the tumor has spread and lymph nodes have become involved, it is still easily absorbed by the body while fasting via autolysis.
The medical profession is not familiar with the long term evolution of any pathology so they stage diseases differently from Hygienists. Medical pathologists stage cancer by microscopic and macroscopic examinations of the lump and surrounding tissues. Many mistakes can be made by these methods and many lumps diagnosed as cancer are still pre-cancerous. It does not become genuine, irreversible cancer until after the 7th stage, called fungation. Since conventional medicine doesn't recognize the evolutionary stages of any disease they are unaware that it is reversible as well as its true cause.
Medical pathologists stage cancerous masses into several groups depending upon the types of cells found, plus other microscopic and macroscopic factors. For instance, if a cancer is "in situ," meaning that it is merely a local mass or lump in only one organ, and has no enlarged lymph nodes, it is still in stage one. Stage two, where the lymph nodes are involved, initiates the process of irreversibility.
Stages III and IV cancers have greater degrees of pathological involvement and a less hopeful recovery. In the medical approach, the identification of these stages is necessary for physicians to determine the extent of the tumor and how to approach its treatment. It is also a means of ascertaining a prognosis. "Does this patient have a chance?" Physicians rightly do not want to saddle the patient with a diagnosis of cancer unless this is fairly certain.
Medical Treatment Does Not Support Health.
In the medical paradigm, successful treatment of cancer requires the extermination of all cancer cells at the primary site, as well as at distant sites if metastases have occurred. Regular physicians try their best to destroy all the cancer cells, but this is impossible. Only our living body cells know the difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell. No medical treatment in vogue can succeed in killing only abnormal cells.
The principal medical weapons used for the eradication of cancer cells are surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is very destructive of the Immune System. When the lymphocytes, killer cells, phagocytic leukocytes and monocytes have been greatly diminished in number by chemotherapy, they no longer have the collective power to destroy the abnormal cancer cells, which grow unchecked because the body's defense (or immune) system has been disabled.
Rarely is only one type of weapon used; frequently a combination of two or three are relied upon. Combining the lethal assaults of each of the above therapies is called "multi-modality therapy." All the treatments, even given separately, are destructive of bodily tissues other than the targeted cancer, injuring both the brain and our Defense Mechanisms. Furthermore, when one series of single or multimodality treatments does not bring about remission, three or even four series of chemotherapy or radiation therapy is often the next step.
Hygienic Care: Tapping Into Our Innate Healing Intelligence
by adhering to physiological laws, Natural Hygienists encourage the innate intelligence of the human body to root out all abnormal cells. The body is equipped with numerous specialized cells whose job it is to seek out and destroy all foreign substances, as well as abnormal cells. This is specific microscopic self-preservation which takes place routinely in healthy people. The body is lavishly-equipped to destroy all cells with faulty proteins in their cell membranes, and even those within the cell and its nucleus. The body knows exactly which cells have changed from normal to abnormal because these are easily recognized by our Guardian cells. This marvelous organism of ours even proofreads and corrects its faulty DNA. The surgeon's knife can't do that; neither can radiation, chemotherapy, or any other treatment. Only the living organism has that wondrous power.
In helping someone to become well, first and foremost the Hygienic doctor will search for all causes of disease in the Health Seeker's life and teach him/her 1. how to eliminate them, and 2. how to supply the conditions of health so the body can resume its normal self-protecting functions. By complying with Nature's Laws, one lives longer than those who resort to the killing methods, which generally gives a certain percentage of people in any of the stages of cancer, including stage one, only a five year survival time. Fasting at stage one provides for complete recovery in 100 percent of cases. Fasting (water only) is the quickest and surest way to autolyze all abnormal growths. The body digests the tumor while fasting, using the nutrients in the tumor for food, and at the same time rejects and eliminates all the unusable substances in the tumor.
Whether or not an individual with Stages III and IV cancer will recover is questionable, mainly because the person has usually had medical treatment by this time. A person is more likely to recover by Hygienic means even though the cancer may be highly malignant, if medical treatment has not taken place. Even if the cancer cells have spread to the lymph nodes and they are thus swollen with multiplying cancer cells, the body is generally still able to autolyze them while fasting. Yet, in spite of prior medical treatment, some people still get well with Hygienic care. Hygiene is far superior to medicine because even if the case is hopelessly advanced, the adoption of the Hygienic lifestyle can prolong life by many years.
People whose tumors are in the "irreversible" stage of cancer have found that with few exceptions, they can extend their lives for years by fasting at least once a year for two weeks or more; living strictly on raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds; and obtaining all the other needs of life between the fasts. Several people with overt breast cancer, already discolored and draining, and which were attached to the overlying skin and underlying muscles, lived at least l5 years longer than they would have if they had resorted to medical treatment.
Nevertheless, those who have the greatest chance of recovery, under either medical or Hygienic care, are those who are still in the early stages of cancer. Most of the medical recoveries written about are not in the irreversible cancer stage, which is Cachexia. Those who choose Hygiene at any stage, if they do not get well, at least prolong their lives. They have conquered the fear of cancer and have faith and courage because they realize that they possess a self-healing body.
Regarding "hopeless cases" Dr. Tilden MD wrote: "In those cases of cancer where there is absolutely no hope, if the patient will go without food he will go down and die normally and naturally, without pain, without discomfort, and can have the pleasure of conversing with his friends up to the last minute. And that is not all - he gets the last and best chance for a cure. Some of these cases that are said to be hopeless, and afterwards killed by drug reliefs, if they were put on an absolute fast they would fool the prognostication sometimes by getting well."
Intelligent Hygienic Action Is Your Best Ally.
If anyone receives a "malignant" diagnosis, and you refuse to submit to the destructive treatments recommended by your physician, you should understand that tumors are not trying to kill you, but, in fact, they are allowing you to survive in spite of your life-style errors. So in this respect cancer IS a survival mechanism by the accumulation of cancerous or precancerous cells into one place or location in the formation of tumors.
A diagnosis of cancer is not always a synonym for death. Drs. Shelton and Tilden, stated that many tumors which are diagnosed as cancer by physicians are not genuine cancer. Hence, they report their medical treatment of this as a cancer "cure" when it is no such thing. This leads to statistical errors. To accept medical treatment first, is to subject yourself to severe emotional and physical pain that ends with an early death.
The removal of tumors by “autolysis” is the safest, most reliable and quickest way to eliminate them. It has many advantages over surgical removal, because even brain tumors can be completely absorbed. Surgery is always fraught with danger; whereas, autolysis is a physiological process and poses no threat. Fasting permits the elimination of toxins and normalizes nutrition in each cell in the body, while at the same time improving the function of the nervous system, thus reversing enervation. Most importantly, tumors tend to recur after being surgically removed, but after they have been autolyzed by fasting, there is little tendency to recurrence. Furthermore, tumors often recur in a malignant form after they have been surgically removed, while the tendency to malignancy is averted by fasting. This process is best done under a competent Hygienic Doctor because in certain cases, such as cancer of the liver, one should not fast. It should go without saying that it is prudent and best to fast when tumors are small so they can be autolyzed more quickly.
Every successful intervention in the eradication of cancer at any stage, involves the use of Nutritional methods, whether this is via fasting (a state of nutrition) or natural allies to the body via the Gerson, Budwig, Oleander and other routes.
Nutrition and detoxification are always the only true allies in the fight against any and all diseases................including cancer.
Chrisb1
Brilliant post, Chris! It tracks very closely with another great post by WIEL, which futher explains the seven stages recognized by hygienic doctors:
http://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1476075#i
As you see from my reply to that post, I speculated that at some point there is an eigth stage, or at least another element during the process, whereby pleomorphism results in a viral element that enables the cancer to infect other nearby cells as well as spread to other parts of the body.
All the best,
DQ