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From: JOHN on 24 Jul 2008 14:13 Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer? by: Andreas Moritz Wednesday, July 23, 2008 http://www.naturalnews.com/023689.html NaturalNews) Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died in July 2008 at the age of 53, following a series of chemotherapy treatments for colon cancer. In 2005, Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Two years later (2007), Snow underwent surgery to remove a growth in his abdominal area, near the site of the original cancer. "This is a very treatable condition," said Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Weill Cornell Medical College. "Many patients, because of the therapies we have, are able to work and live full lives with quality while they're being treated. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong." But of course we now know, Dr. Ocean was dead wrong. The media headlines proclaimed Snow died from colon cancer, although they knew he didn't have a colon anymore. Apparently, the malignant cancer had "returned" (from where?) and "spread" to the liver and elsewhere in his body. In actual fact, the colon surgery severely restricted his normal eliminative functions, thereby overburdening the liver and tissue fluids with toxic waste. The previous series of chemo-treatments inflamed and irreversibly damaged a large number of cells in his body, and also impaired his immune system -- a perfect recipe for growing new cancers. Now unable to heal the causes of the original cancer (in addition to the newly created ones), Snow's body developed new cancers in the liver and other parts of the body. The mainstream media, of course, still insist Snow died from colon cancer, thus perpetuating the myth that it is only the cancer that kills people, not the treatment. Nobody seems to raise the important point that it is extremely difficult for a cancer patient to actually heal from this condition while being subjected to the systemic poisons of chemotherapy and deadly radiation. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake and don't get an antidote for it, isn't it likely that your body becomes overwhelmed by the poison and, therefore, cannot function anymore? Before Tony Snow began his chemo-treatments for his second colon cancer, he still looked healthy and strong. But after a few weeks into his treatment, he started to develop a coarse voice, looked frail, turned gray and lost his hair. Did the cancer do all this to him? Certainly not. Cancer doesn't do such a thing, but chemical poisoning does. He actually looked more ill than someone who has been bitten by a poisonous snake. Does the mainstream media ever report about the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows chemotherapy has zero benefits in the five-year survival rate of colon cancer patients? Or how many oncologists stand up for their cancer patients and protect them against chemotherapy treatment which they very well know can cause them to die far more quickly than if they received no treatment at all? Can you trustingly place your life into their hands when you know that most of them would not even consider chemotherapy for themselves if they were diagnosed with cancer? What do they know that you don't? The news is spreading fast that in the United States physician-caused fatalities now exceed 750,000 each year. Perhaps, many doctors no longer trust in what they practice, for good reasons. "Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy... Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors... Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it." - Alan Levin, M.D. An investigation by the Department of Radiation Oncology, Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Australia, into the contribution of chemotherapy to 5-year survival in 22 major adult malignancies, showed startling results: The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA." [Royal North Shore Hospital Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2005 Jun;17(4):294.] The research covered data from the Cancer Registry in Australia and the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results in the USA for the year 1998. The current 5-year relative adult survival rate for cancer in Australia is over 60%, and no less than that in the USA. By comparison, a mere 2.3% contribution of chemotherapy to cancer survival does not justify the massive expense involved and the tremendous suffering patients experience because of severe, toxic side effects resulting from this treatment. With a meager success rate of 2.3%, selling chemotherapy as a medical treatment (instead of a scam), is one of the greatest fraudulent acts ever committed. The average chemotherapy earns the medical establishment a whopping $300,000 to $1,000,000 each year, and has so far earned those who promote this pseudo-medication (poison) over 1 trillion dollars. It's no surprise that the medical establishment tries to keep this scam alive for as long as possible. In 1990, the highly respected German epidemiologist, Dr. Ulrich Abel from the Tumor Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, conducted the most comprehensive investigation of every major clinical study on chemotherapy drugs ever done. Abel contacted 350 medical centers and asked them to send him anything they had ever published on chemotherapy. He also reviewed and analyzed thousands of scientific articles published in the most prestigious medical journals. It took Abel several years to collect and evaluate the data. Abel's epidemiological study, which was published on August 10, 1991 in The Lancet, should have alerted every doctor and cancer patient about the risks of one of the most common treatments used for cancer and other diseases. In his paper, Abel came to the conclusion that the overall success rate of chemotherapy was "appalling." According to this report, there was no scientific evidence available in any existing study to show that chemotherapy can "extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers." Abel points out that chemotherapy rarely improves the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that even though there is no scientific evidence that chemotherapy works, neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on it. The mainstream media has never reported on this hugely important study, which is hardly surprising, given the enormous vested interests of the groups that sponsor the media, that is, the pharmaceutical companies. A recent search turned up exactly zero reviews of Abel's work in American journals, even though it was published in 1990. I believe this is not because his work was unimportant -- but because it is irrefutable. The truth of the matter would be far too costly for the pharmaceutical industry to bear, thus making it unacceptable. If the mass media reported the truth that medical drugs, including chemotherapy drugs, are used to practically commit genocide in the U.S. and the world, their best sponsors (the pharmaceutical companies) would have to withdraw their misleading advertisements from the television media, radio stations, magazines, and newspapers. But neither group wants to go bankrupt. Many doctors go as far as prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients for malignancies that are far too advanced for surgery, with the full knowledge that there are no benefits at all. Yet they claim chemotherapy to be an effective cancer treatment, and their unsuspecting patients believe that "effective" equals "cure." The doctors, of course, refer to the FDA's definition of an "effective" drug, one which achieves a 50% or more reduction in tumor size for 28 days. They neglect to tell their patients that there is no correlation whatsoever between shrinking tumors for 28 days and curing the cancer or extending life. Temporary tumor shrinkage through chemotherapy has never been shown to cure cancer or to extend life. In other words, you can live with an untreated tumor for just as long as you would with one that has been shrunken or been eliminated by chemotherapy (or radiation). Chemotherapy has never been shown to have curative effects for cancer. By contrast, the body can still cure itself, which it actually tries to do by developing cancer. Cancer is more a healing response than it is a disease. The "disease" is the body's attempt to cure itself of an existing imbalance. And sometimes, this healing response continues even if a person is subjected to chemotherapy (and/or radiation). Unfortunately, as the previously mentioned research has demonstrated, the chances for a real cure are greatly reduced when patients are treated with chemotherapy drugs. The side effects of the treatment can be horrendous and heartbreaking for both patients and their loved ones, all in the name of trustworthy medical treatment. Although the drug treatment comes with the promise to improve the patient's quality of life, it is just common sense that a drug that makes them throw up and lose their hair, while wrecking their immune system, is doing the exact opposite. Chemo-therapy can give the patient life-threatening mouth sores. It attacks the immune system by destroying billions of immune cells (white blood cells). Its deadly poisons inflame every part of the body. The drugs can slough off the entire lining of their intestines. The most common side effect experienced among chemo patients is their complete lack of energy. The new additional drugs now given to many chemo patients may prevent the patient from noticing some of the side effects, but they hardly reduce the immensely destructive and suppressive effect of the chemotherapy itself. Remember, the reason chemotherapy can shrink some tumors is because it causes massive destruction in the body. If you have cancer, you may think that feeling tired is just part of the disease. This rarely is the case. Feeling unusually tired is more likely due to anemia, a common side effect of most chemotherapy drugs. Chemo drugs can dramatically decrease your red blood cell levels, and this reduces oxygen availability to the 60-100 trillion cells of your body. You can literally feel the energy being zapped from every cell of your body -- a physical death without dying. Chemo-caused fatigue has a negative impact on day-to-day activities in 89% of all patients. With no energy, there can be no joy and no hope, and all bodily functions become subdued. One long-term side effect is that these patients' bodies can no longer respond to nutritional or immune-strengthening approaches to cancerous tumors. All of this may explain why cancer patients who do not receive any treatment at all, have an up to four times higher remission rate than those who receive treatment. The sad thing is that chemotherapy does not cure 96% to 98% of all cancers anyway. Conclusive evidence (for the majority of cancers) that chemotherapy has any positive influence on survival or quality of life does not exist. To promote chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is misleading, to say the least. By permanently damaging the body's immune system and other important parts, chemo-therapy has become a leading cause of treatment-caused diseases such as heart disease, liver disease, intestinal diseases, diseases of the immune system, infections, brain diseases, pain disorders, and rapid aging. Before committing themselves to being poisoned, cancer patients need to question their doctors and ask them to produce the research or evidence that shrinking a tumor actually translates to any increase in survival. If they tell you that chemotherapy is your best chance of surviving, you will know they are lying or are simply misinformed. As Abel's research clearly demonstrated, there is no such evidence anywhere to be found in the medical literature. Subjecting patients to chemotherapy robs them of a fair chance of finding or responding to a real cure and deserves criminal prosecution. Andreas Moritz's book, Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism, explains the root causes of cancer and how to eliminate them for good. Available through (www.ener-chi.com) or (www.amazon.com) . About the author Andreas Moritz is a medical intuitive; a practitioner of Ayurveda, iridology, shiatsu, and vibrational medicine; a writer; and an artist. He is the author of The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush, Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation, Lifting the Veil of Duality, Cancer Is Not a Disease, It's Time to Come Alive, Heart Disease No More, Diabetes No More, Simple Steps to Total Health, Diabetes -- No More, Ending the AIDS Myth and Heal Yourself with Sunlight. For more information, visit the author's website (www.ener-chi.com).
From: Hawki63 on 24 Jul 2008 15:15 "JOHN" <john(a)nospam.com> wrote in message news:ZqadnUweMOO5WxXVnZ2dnUVZ8sXinZ2d(a)bt.com... > Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer? > > by: Andreas Moritz > > Wednesday, July 23, 2008 > http://www.naturalnews.com/023689.html > > NaturalNews) Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died in July > 2008 at the age of 53, following a series of chemotherapy treatments for > colon cancer. In 2005, Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months > of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Two years later > (2007), Snow underwent surgery to remove a growth in his abdominal area, > near the site of the original cancer. "This is a very treatable > condition," said Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Weill > Cornell Medical College. "Many patients, because of the therapies we have, > are able to work and live full lives with quality while they're being > treated. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong." But of > course we now know, Dr. Ocean was dead wrong. > > The media headlines proclaimed Snow died from colon cancer, although they > knew he didn't have a colon anymore not true...rarely is the entire colon removed...thus he still had probably 2 feet of colon .. Apparently, the malignant cancer had > "returned" (from where?) and "spread" to the liver and elsewhere in his > body. In actual fact, the colon surgery severely restricted his normal > eliminative functions, thereby overburdening the liver and tissue fluids > with toxic waste. not true my spouse had colon cancer...his sigmoid colon was removed (one foot) he still has normal bowel function in Snow's case...it only takes ONE malignant cell to escape ...and quietly set up housekeeping at another location...colon cancer spreads most commonly to the liver... unfortunately these small metastasis are often not detectable...tho my hubby had multiple scans ct pet etc looking for metastatic spread no one ever has said that chemo "cures" and prevents all recurrences...just diminshes the risk in medicine we hate the use the work cure and cancer in the same sentence on the other hand...if Snow had already had signs of spread to his liver (which is what it appears)...the chemo could have given him a little more time...but metastatic cancer..of any organ...is not a good thing The previous series of chemo-treatments inflamed and > irreversibly damaged a large number of cells in his body, and also > impaired his immune system -- a perfect recipe for growing new cancers. > Now unable to heal the causes of the original cancer (in addition to the > newly created ones), Snow's body developed new cancers in the liver and > other parts of the body. > > The mainstream media, of course, still insist Snow died from colon cancer, > thus perpetuating the myth that it is only the cancer that kills people, > not the treatment. Nobody seems to raise the important point that it is > extremely difficult for a cancer patient to actually heal from this > condition while being subjected to the systemic poisons of chemotherapy > and deadly radiation. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake and don't get > an antidote for it, isn't it likely that your body becomes overwhelmed by > the poison and, therefore, cannot function anymore? > > Before Tony Snow began his chemo-treatments for his second colon cancer, > he still looked healthy and strong. But after a few weeks into his > treatment, he started to develop a coarse voice, looked frail, turned gray > and lost his hair. Did the cancer do all this to him? Certainly not. > Cancer doesn't do such a thing, but chemical poisoning does. He actually > looked more ill than someone who has been bitten by a poisonous snake. > > Does the mainstream media ever report about the overwhelming scientific > evidence that shows chemotherapy has zero benefits in the five-year > survival rate of colon cancer patients? Or how many oncologists stand up > for their cancer patients and protect them against chemotherapy treatment > which they very well know can cause them to die far more quickly than if > they received no treatment at all? Can you trustingly place your life into > their hands when you know that most of them would not even consider > chemotherapy for themselves if they were diagnosed with cancer? What do > they know that you don't? The news is spreading fast that in the United > States physician-caused fatalities now exceed 750,000 each year. Perhaps, > many doctors no longer trust in what they practice, for good reasons. > > "Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy... Chemotherapy > does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been > documented for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these > tumors... Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo > than without it." - Alan Levin, M.D. > > An investigation by the Department of Radiation Oncology, Northern Sydney > Cancer Centre, Australia, into the contribution of chemotherapy to 5-year > survival in 22 major adult malignancies, showed startling results: The > overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to > 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% > in the USA." [Royal North Shore Hospital Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2005 > Jun;17(4):294.] > > The research covered data from the Cancer Registry in Australia and the > Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results in the USA for the year 1998. > The current 5-year relative adult survival rate for cancer in Australia is > over 60%, and no less than that in the USA. By comparison, a mere 2.3% > contribution of chemotherapy to cancer survival does not justify the > massive expense involved and the tremendous suffering patients experience > because of severe, toxic side effects resulting from this treatment. With > a meager success rate of 2.3%, selling chemotherapy as a medical treatment > (instead of a scam), is one of the greatest fraudulent acts ever > committed. The average chemotherapy earns the medical establishment a > whopping $300,000 to $1,000,000 each year, and has so far earned those who > promote this pseudo-medication (poison) over 1 trillion dollars. It's no > surprise that the medical establishment tries to keep this scam alive for > as long as possible. > > In 1990, the highly respected German epidemiologist, Dr. Ulrich Abel from > the Tumor Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, conducted the most > comprehensive investigation of every major clinical study on chemotherapy > drugs ever done. Abel contacted 350 medical centers and asked them to send > him anything they had ever published on chemotherapy. He also reviewed and > analyzed thousands of scientific articles published in the most > prestigious medical journals. It took Abel several years to collect and > evaluate the data. Abel's epidemiological study, which was published on > August 10, 1991 in The Lancet, should have alerted every doctor and cancer > patient about the risks of one of the most common treatments used for > cancer and other diseases. In his paper, Abel came to the conclusion that > the overall success rate of chemotherapy was "appalling." According to > this report, there was no scientific evidence available in any existing > study to show that chemotherapy can "extend in any appreciable way the > lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers." > > Abel points out that chemotherapy rarely improves the quality of life. He > describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that even > though there is no scientific evidence that chemotherapy works, neither > doctor nor patient is willing to give up on it. The mainstream media has > never reported on this hugely important study, which is hardly surprising, > given the enormous vested interests of the groups that sponsor the media, > that is, the pharmaceutical companies. A recent search turned up exactly > zero reviews of Abel's work in American journals, even though it was > published in 1990. I believe this is not because his work was > unimportant -- but because it is irrefutable. > > The truth of the matter would be far too costly for the pharmaceutical > industry to bear, thus making it unacceptable. If the mass media reported > the truth that medical drugs, including chemotherapy drugs, are used to > practically commit genocide in the U.S. and the world, their best sponsors > (the pharmaceutical companies) would have to withdraw their misleading > advertisements from the television media, radio stations, magazines, and > newspapers. But neither group wants to go bankrupt. > > Many doctors go as far as prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients for > malignancies that are far too advanced for surgery, with the full > knowledge that there are no benefits at all. Yet they claim chemotherapy > to be an effective cancer treatment, and their unsuspecting patients > believe that "effective" equals "cure." The doctors, of course, refer to > the FDA's definition of an "effective" drug, one which achieves a 50% or > more reduction in tumor size for 28 days. They neglect to tell their > patients that there is no correlation whatsoever between shrinking tumors > for 28 days and curing the cancer or extending life. Temporary tumor > shrinkage through chemotherapy has never been shown to cure cancer or to > extend life. In other words, you can live with an untreated tumor for just > as long as you would with one that has been shrunken or been eliminated by > chemotherapy (or radiation). > > Chemotherapy has never been shown to have curative effects for cancer. By > contrast, the body can still cure itself, which it actually tries to do by > developing cancer. Cancer is more a healing response than it is a disease. > The "disease" is the body's attempt to cure itself of an existing > imbalance. And sometimes, this healing response continues even if a person > is subjected to chemotherapy (and/or radiation). Unfortunately, as the > previously mentioned research has demonstrated, the chances for a real > cure are greatly reduced when patients are treated with chemotherapy > drugs. > > The side effects of the treatment can be horrendous and heartbreaking for > both patients and their loved ones, all in the name of trustworthy medical > treatment. Although the drug treatment comes with the promise to improve > the patient's quality of life, it is just common sense that a drug that > makes them throw up and lose their hair, while wrecking their immune > system, is doing the exact opposite. Chemo-therapy can give the patient > life-threatening mouth sores. It attacks the immune system by destroying > billions of immune cells (white blood cells). Its deadly poisons inflame > every part of the body. The drugs can slough off the entire lining of > their intestines. The most common side effect experienced among chemo > patients is their complete lack of energy. The new additional drugs now > given to many chemo patients may prevent the patient from noticing some of > the side effects, but they hardly reduce the immensely destructive and > suppressive effect of the chemotherapy itself. Remember, the reason > chemotherapy can shrink some tumors is because it causes massive > destruction in the body. > > If you have cancer, you may think that feeling tired is just part of the > disease. This rarely is the case. Feeling unusually tired is more likely > due to anemia, a common side effect of most chemotherapy drugs. Chemo > drugs can dramatically decrease your red blood cell levels, and this > reduces oxygen availability to the 60-100 trillion cells of your body. You > can literally feel the energy being zapped from every cell of your body -- > a physical death without dying. Chemo-caused fatigue has a negative impact > on day-to-day activities in 89% of all patients. With no energy, there can > be no joy and no hope, and all bodily functions become subdued. > > One long-term side effect is that these patients' bodies can no longer > respond to nutritional or immune-strengthening approaches to cancerous > tumors. All of this may explain why cancer patients who do not receive any > treatment at all, have an up to four times higher remission rate than > those who receive treatment. The sad thing is that chemotherapy does not > cure 96% to 98% of all cancers anyway. Conclusive evidence (for the > majority of cancers) that chemotherapy has any positive influence on > survival or quality of life does not exist. > > To promote chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is misleading, to say > the least. By permanently damaging the body's immune system and other > important parts, chemo-therapy has become a leading cause of > treatment-caused diseases such as heart disease, liver disease, intestinal > diseases, diseases of the immune system, infections, brain diseases, pain > disorders, and rapid aging. > > Before committing themselves to being poisoned, cancer patients need to > question their doctors and ask them to produce the research or evidence > that shrinking a tumor actually translates to any increase in survival. If > they tell you that chemotherapy is your best chance of surviving, you will > know they are lying or are simply misinformed. As Abel's research clearly > demonstrated, there is no such evidence anywhere to be found in the > medical literature. Subjecting patients to chemotherapy robs them of a > fair chance of finding or responding to a real cure and deserves criminal > prosecution. > > Andreas Moritz's book, Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival > Mechanism, explains the root causes of cancer and how to eliminate them > for good. Available through (www.ener-chi.com) or (www.amazon.com) . > > > About the author > Andreas Moritz is a medical intuitive; a practitioner of Ayurveda, > iridology, shiatsu, and vibrational medicine; a writer; and an artist. He > is the author of The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush, Timeless Secrets > of Health and Rejuvenation, Lifting the Veil of Duality, Cancer Is Not a > Disease, It's Time to Come Alive, Heart Disease No More, Diabetes No More, > Simple Steps to Total Health, Diabetes -- No More, Ending the AIDS Myth > and Heal Yourself with Sunlight. For more information, visit the author's > website (www.ener-chi.com). >
From: csm7532 on 24 Jul 2008 16:36 On Jul 24, 1:15 pm, <Hawk...(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > "JOHN" <j...(a)nospam.com> wrote in message > > news:ZqadnUweMOO5WxXVnZ2dnUVZ8sXinZ2d(a)bt.com... > > > Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer? > > > by: Andreas Moritz > > > Wednesday, July 23, 2008 > >http://www.naturalnews.com/023689.html > > > NaturalNews) Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died in July > > 2008 at the age of 53, following a series of chemotherapy treatments for > > colon cancer. In 2005, Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months > > of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Two years later > > (2007), Snow underwent surgery to remove a growth in his abdominal area, > > near the site of the original cancer. "This is a very treatable > > condition," said Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Weill > > Cornell Medical College. "Many patients, because of the therapies we have, > > are able to work and live full lives with quality while they're being > > treated. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong." But of > > course we now know, Dr. Ocean was dead wrong. > > > The media headlines proclaimed Snow died from colon cancer, although they > > knew he didn't have a colon anymore > > not true...rarely is the entire colon removed...thus he still had probably 2 > feet of colon > > . Apparently, the malignant cancer had > > > "returned" (from where?) and "spread" to the liver and elsewhere in his > > body. In actual fact, the colon surgery severely restricted his normal > > eliminative functions, thereby overburdening the liver and tissue fluids > > with toxic waste. > > not true > > my spouse had colon cancer...his sigmoid colon was removed (one foot) > > he still has normal bowel function Same here. Part of my sigmoid colon was removed, and the rest, plus all of my ascending, transverse, and descending colon remain. This is beside the point, anyway, as you make clear below. If one has colon cancer, and the entire colon is removed, one can still have the cancer recur. The original tumor spreads millions of cancer cells throughout the body. Part of the purpose of the chemo is to wipe out these cells before they have the chance to grow new tumors. :s/colon/{other}/g > in Snow's case...it only takes ONE malignant cell to escape ...and quietly > set up housekeeping at another location...colon cancer spreads most commonly > to the liver... > > unfortunately these small metastasis are often not detectable...tho my hubby > had multiple scans ct pet etc looking for metastatic spread May he never light up a scan. A tumor has to be above a certain (anyone here know the numbers) size to be detectable by PET/CT. I get scanned every 6 months, hoping there won't be a detectable tumor, knowing that if there is, it was likely there in the last scan but too small to see. > no one ever has said that chemo "cures" and prevents all recurrences...just > diminshes the risk IIRC, my FOLFOX6 was supposed to improve my 5 year survival odds from 50% to 65%. No promises. <snip> --- CSM
From: Hawki63 on 24 Jul 2008 18:29 same here hope you both have continued good luck..and no metastastic disease.. <csm7532(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c9458b1e-d91b-4c1f-a122-15e97d10712c(a)z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com... > On Jul 24, 1:15 pm, <Hawk...(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> "JOHN" <j...(a)nospam.com> wrote in message >> >> news:ZqadnUweMOO5WxXVnZ2dnUVZ8sXinZ2d(a)bt.com... >> >> > Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer? >> >> > by: Andreas Moritz >> >> > Wednesday, July 23, 2008 >> >http://www.naturalnews.com/023689.html >> >> > NaturalNews) Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died in July >> > 2008 at the age of 53, following a series of chemotherapy treatments >> > for >> > colon cancer. In 2005, Snow had his colon removed and underwent six >> > months >> > of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer. Two years >> > later >> > (2007), Snow underwent surgery to remove a growth in his abdominal >> > area, >> > near the site of the original cancer. "This is a very treatable >> > condition," said Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal oncologist at >> > Weill >> > Cornell Medical College. "Many patients, because of the therapies we >> > have, >> > are able to work and live full lives with quality while they're being >> > treated. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong." But of >> > course we now know, Dr. Ocean was dead wrong. >> >> > The media headlines proclaimed Snow died from colon cancer, although >> > they >> > knew he didn't have a colon anymore >> >> not true...rarely is the entire colon removed...thus he still had >> probably 2 >> feet of colon >> >> . Apparently, the malignant cancer had >> >> > "returned" (from where?) and "spread" to the liver and elsewhere in his >> > body. In actual fact, the colon surgery severely restricted his normal >> > eliminative functions, thereby overburdening the liver and tissue >> > fluids >> > with toxic waste. >> >> not true >> >> my spouse had colon cancer...his sigmoid colon was removed (one foot) >> >> he still has normal bowel function > > Same here. Part of my sigmoid colon was removed, and the rest, plus > all of my ascending, transverse, and descending colon remain. This is > beside the point, anyway, as you make clear below. If one has colon > cancer, and the entire colon is removed, one can still have the cancer > recur. The original tumor spreads millions of cancer cells throughout > the body. Part of the purpose of the chemo is to wipe out these cells > before they have the chance to grow new tumors. :s/colon/{other}/g > >> in Snow's case...it only takes ONE malignant cell to escape ...and >> quietly >> set up housekeeping at another location...colon cancer spreads most >> commonly >> to the liver... >> >> unfortunately these small metastasis are often not detectable...tho my >> hubby >> had multiple scans ct pet etc looking for metastatic spread > > May he never light up a scan. > A tumor has to be above a certain (anyone here know the numbers) size > to be detectable by PET/CT. I get scanned every 6 months, hoping > there won't be a detectable tumor, knowing that if there is, it was > likely there in the last scan but too small to see. > >> no one ever has said that chemo "cures" and prevents all >> recurrences...just >> diminshes the risk > > IIRC, my FOLFOX6 was supposed to improve my 5 year survival odds from > 50% to 65%. No promises. > <snip> > > --- > CSM
From: samgr8times on 25 Jul 2008 06:33
On Jul 24, 11:13 pm, "JOHN" <j...(a)nospam.com> wrote: > Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer? > > by: Andreas Moritz > > Wednesday, July 23, 2008http://www.naturalnews.com/023689.html > Lot of claims made in the above article seem to be malicious and biased. I have not come across any well researched and written articles penned by onco experts claiming that chemo cures; its a well known fact that chemo prepares the tissues for further treatment like radiation, surgery, and also attempts to limit the spread, etc. Chemo's use can be found on the net if one takes the trouble. 10 to 50 years from now, one may hope for cures not involving such damaging medications, procedures and the long time period. The problem that medical science faces is that there are few human 'guinea pigs' available for experimentation; all experiments have to be done first on animals, then carefully transferred to humans- this process alone takes 5-8 years! If researchers were to be granted the same freedom to try out new things on patients that Hitler had empowered his scientists to do on their victims, by now, we would have progress in leaps and bounds! People who have gone through the treatments (I have gone through two- four day chemo cycles followed by 6 weekly doses and 39 daily sessions of radiation) are also extremely alert as they are aware of the damage that occurs to the body. None of us would volunteer to get into this mess if given a choice. THERE IS NO OTHER PROPER MEDICATION YET AVAILABLE WHICH HAS BEEN PROVEN BY PROPER DOCUMENTATION, HISTORY AND FOLLOW-UP. We have enough tall claims made by thousands of quacks which are again baseless. Ciao, Sam |