Re: Essiac and Heart Medication
Your dad's doc sounds well-informed. Keep him:) Many cancers are so slow-growing that they will never impact quality of life, among these are forms of breast, thyroid and prostate cancers. The treatment will cause much more harm than the cancer ever will.
I would suggest
Essiac be used in conjunction with other supplements/ dietary changes. Here's an excellent write-up on overtreatment for prostate cancer.
http://jeffreydach.com/2009/10/01/psa-testing-the-failed-medical-experiment-b...
a couple of snippets from link:
"...Prostate cancer is a slow growing indolent disease with a 99 per cent 5 year survival after diagnosis. The incidence of latent prostate cancer is estimated to be one half of the male population 65 and over (7 million of the 14 million males), yet there are only 30,000 deaths per year. This means the average male has a 0.5% chance of dying from prostate cancer, (or a 99.5 chance of dying from other causes, not prostate cancer)....
...In 20 patients with biopsy proven prostate cancer who had declined radical treatment, Dr Wheeler's herbal-nutritional supplement program reduced mean PSA from 6.8 ng/ml to 3.4 ng/ml over three years of follow-up. A detailed listing of patient PSA data from the study can be found on this page.
...I would also add digestive enzymes, and optimizing vitamin D level with testing and supplementation, as well as optimizing
Iodine levels with Iodoral would also be included in a typical prostate cancer prevention program..."
And here's a direct link to the above referenced Wheeler program:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684075/?tool=pubmed
BTW, I would buy the
Essiac from CZ's own humaworm, he has an excellent reputation and his prices are reasonable:
http://humaworm.com/tea.html