Thursday, March 31, 2005
High-dose chemotherapy offers no benefit against breast cancer
The results are in: high-dose chemotherapy has been proven no better than low-dose chemotherapy in treating Breast Cancer tumors. Published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, this study shows that poisoning the patient's immune system with extremely toxic chemicals is not an effective way to save their lives. Go figure...
Of course, this revelation doesn't mean high-dose chemotherapy won't continue to be pushed onto cancer patients by their oncologists. High-dose chemotherapy sells more drugs, making it far more profitable to the pharmaceutical companies than low-dose treatments. And pharmaceutical companies don't seem to mind turning the human body into a chemical dumping ground as long as they can pocket a few extra dollars in the process.

As I've often stated here, it's time to really question chemotherapy. The treatment has absolutely no scientific merit, saves no lives, and in fact destroys the patient's ability to cure their own cancer (which is what healthy bodies do all the time). It's pushed by the cancer industry because it generates profits, not because it helps patients. Read Questioning Chemotherapy by Ralph W. Moss to learn more.

In the mean time, if you or someone you know has breast cancer, take comfort in the fact that this disease is rather easily beaten through natural treatments. Graviola destroys cancer tumors far more powerfully than chemotherapy, with zero side effects. Licorice root tincture has also been proven to attack Breast Cancer tumors. Combine this with 10g of spirulina each day -- a superfood that contains a powerful cancer-busting pigment phytochemical -- and your odds of beating Breast Cancer are multiplied yet again. Add in chlorella, whole food vitamins, immune-boosting Reishi mushrooms, coral calcium, broccoli sprouts, cabbage juice, daily exercise, garlic, onions, ginger and 100% avoidance of all processed foods, and you have an unbeatable holistic approach to actually curing cancer. Of course, most people refuse to do all those things: they want to be cured of cancer and eat their ice cream, too. Sorry, but you can't have both. Cancer patients have to make a choice between healthy lifestyle choices and whatever lifestyle they used to follow that gave them cancer in the first place. It's a choice, folks, not chance. And if you choose chemotherapy, your ability to be healthy and cancer-free for the rest of your life is greatly diminished.

Breast cancer isn't very difficult to overcome, by the way, and it's actually simple to prevent in the first place. If we could educate the public and help people make better choices about health, nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition) and physical exercise, chemotherapy wouldn't be needed at all.



Overview:



Tue Jul 20, 2004 04:53 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Another study has found that using high doses of chemotherapy to treat women with breast cancer saves no more lives than a gentler approach, British researchers said on Tuesday.
The report, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, adds to evidence that flooding a patient's body with toxic chemicals and then using a bone marrow transplant to restore her immune system does little to save her life.
But it is bad news for men and women whose breast cancer has spread, because it shows how difficult it is to cure them.
"Approximately two-thirds of patients with four or more lymph nodes that contain cancer cells at surgery will develop fatal metastases," Dr. Robert Leonard, of the South West Wales Cancer Institute in Swansea, Britain, and colleagues wrote.
The hope was that super-high doses of chemo could kill off the cancer, and that the patient's dead bone marrow could be replaced with a transplant of their own cells taken before treatment.
To test this idea, Leonard's team randomly treated 600 breast cancer patients with either the high-dose approach or a more conventional course of chemotherapy.
Their conclusion -- high-dose chemo costs more, makes patients sicker but does not help them any more than the standard approach.
Last year, Dr. Martin Tallman of Northwestern University in Chicago and colleagues and a team in the Netherlands published two studies that also found the high-dose approach to be more toxic without saving any extra lives.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=57...