Re: Cancer, Alternative Medicines

>- a good cure should be made of safe chemicals

Interesting! All this time I thought that most chemo and radiation treatments were the real risks.

A good cure is to avoid synthetic chemicals. Cancer is not caused by a lack of synthetic chemicals or poisons. If anything, synthetic chemicals are a major contributor to the rise of cancer.

Also, since most medical professionals know little about nutrition, health, or alternatives and generally refuse to be associated with patients that use nutritional and alternative methods, why would one go to medical professionals for assistance with these modalities?

I certainly appreciate websites that discuss the pro's and con's of any therapy and that do so fairly, there are too many with fingers on the scales, like the American Cancer Society which questions any alternatives but rarely if ever devotes any of its funds to fair and honest research on them.

It is absolutely important that before embarking on any therapy, a person should be thoroughly informed of any an all possible ramifications of such therapy. We must be responsible for our own health individually.

We should also be wary of sources that should be trust-able such as Wikipedia. This is definitely a site with Orwellian tendencies controlled by money. Sadly, the money is in pharmaceuticals.

I do agree that many people do take more risks than necessary with some therapies. It is often because they are desperate, having been abandoned by traditional medicine.

What we need to do as people is to hold the medical profession responsible for their actions. Whenever patients die as a result of their chemotherapy and radiation, those who administer those treatments must be held responsible. This is especially true for those patients who die much sooner than normal, due to chemo and radiation.

Biopsies in general are a major killer. If there is a cyst, tumor, or lesion that need to be biopsied, it should be removed entirely at the time of biopsy, not left to spread. This is a major cause of metastasis and eventual death. A job worth doing is worth doing right.