Some Very Effective Cancer Treatments
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More than half of patients that suffer with any form of cancer are treated with the use of radiation. It has been found to be most effective used either alone or in conjunction with other kinds of cancer treatments.
While other treatment methods are very effective in killing, stopping or otherwise disabling cancerous cells, radiation uses ionization to kill the cells and shrink tumors. The desired result of radiation treatment is to shrink tumors and relieve the symptoms associated with different kinds of cancers to save healthy tissue in the process.
Chemotherapy is another cancer treatment that works to destroy cancerous cells by preventing the cells from growing and spreading. Although some healthy sells may be harmed by the use of this method they are quite capable of repairing themselves following treatment.
Chemotherapy uses a combination of drugs that affect the hormones already present in your body. These drugs have a boosting affect on the bodys immune system that aid in fighting the foreign cancerous cells. These drugs can destroy the cells altogether or change the way the body reacts to the cells formations. Use to both control and cure the cancer chemotherapy also relieves symptoms that cancer can cause, like pain which inevitably help the patient to live more comfortably.
Surgery stands as a sometimes-necessary cancer treatment that cannot be avoided. One type of surgery used in the treatment of cancer is cryosurgery, which is a surgical technique for freezing and then killing the cancerous cells. Some cancers like liver cancer and prostate cancer benefit best from treatments that attack cancers that are contained in one area. Cervical cancer and other cancers where precancerous or non-cancerous conditions exist benefit most from this type of cancer treatment.
Other treatment methods include the process of eliminating the blood supply that feed tumor growth. Cancer treatments that use high-intensity light and still others that treat the formation of tumors with heat are less widely known by the general public but are used widely alone and in conjunction with other treatment methods.
One such treatment that uses laser light to remove cancer growths is most often for cancers on the surface of the skin or on the lining of internal organs. Laser therapy eliminates the chance of excessive bleeding and prevents damage to healthy tissue and has a lower chance of infection than other more invasive surgeries for cancer.
On the other hand, a hyperthermia treatment exposes the tissues to very high temperatures that kill cancerous cells. This form of treatment is always used with other forms of treatment such as radiation and chemo.
Cancer treatment that act as angiogenesis inhibitors are being tested and researched as they will aim to prevent the formation of blood vessels that feed the cancerous cells and allow them to continue to grow. This method of treatment is still being tested and its not yet known whether or not these inhibitors work effectively in humans.
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How can we encourage my dad to eat after cancer treatments?
My father, who is 70, was diagnosed with several brain tumors. He had radiation treatments. And now complains that food doesn't taste the same, which is understandable. I've told my mother to let him pick whatever food he wants, since his cancer is terminal. So she has tried that, but he then still refuses the food he picked out. We've bought him ensure, but he won't drink those. Has anyone else had any experience with this? We are at a loss as to what to do for him. Because of the tumors his personality has changed quite a bit as well, he is much more aggressive and resistant to new ideas.
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17 Comments
September 6th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
At the behest of people posting on this forum I have watched Rick Simpson's videos a number of times.
What I saw was a number of unsubstantiated testimonials – no way of knowing if these people had ever had the conditions they claimed, and certainly no way of knowing if they'd been 'cured'.
But I'll accept they had those conditions. And as I've had cancer, the ones who'd had cancer were the ones to whom I paid most attention. And you know what? – they'd had conventional treatment too, but had chosen to credit the hemp oil with the improvement in their condition.
This often happens with alternative treatments – a patient has chemo and feels crap, because chemo makes you feel crap. After the chemo is over, s/he takes some 'alternative' medicine; soon s/he begins to feel better. Well, that's no surprise, you do begin to feel better when chemo is over. But s/he chooses to give the credit for feeling better, and for subsequent improvements in her/his condition, to the unproven alternative rather than to the conventional treatments, which have been rigourously tested and proven in double-blind clinical trials.
And that's what's happened here.
I had surgery, chemo and radiotherapy over five years ago for an aggressive, advanced cancer; I am fit and well, with no sign of cancer at my last routine check-up. Chemo and rads aren't perfect, far from it; but we know because they have been tested and proven that they save many lives and prolong many others. The cancer patients in the film are fit and well following conventional treatment too.
And anything that claims to cure everything from cancer to weight problems to insomnia has to be regarded with suspicion at best.
The conspiracy you suggest doesn't exist; the basis of the argument that pharmeceutical companies and governments would want to cover up a 'natural' treatment is that naturally occuring substances can't be patented, so there would be no profit in them.
In fact it's common for synthetic derivatives to be made that are an improvement on the original, and it's also common to get patents on the methods of isolating or administering the substance.
So even if a pharmeceutical couldn't make money directly from hemp oil, if hemp oil, or marijuana, were effective they could make plenty of money and get plenty kudos from developing a safer, more effective derivative. The chemotherapy drug Taxol is derived from yew.
But so far hemp oil and marijuana have not been proven effective against cancer, so pharmaceutical companies don't bother with them. They're after profits, after all.
And cancer is not one disease , it's an umbrella term for over 200 diseases. The difficulty with finding a 'cure for cancer' is that different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them .They all respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them, so there isn't a magic bullet that cures all cancers and there never will be.
People like you, with no knowledge or experience of cancer, are sometimes inclined to believe what they read on the internet with no actual proof to back it up. Google cancer cure and you come across thousands of nutjobs happy to exploit the misery and desperation of vulnerable people. And that's exactly what you've done. Do you know one single cancer patient personally who has been cured by hemp oil? Thought not.
You have at least a one in three chance of developing cancer yourself. When/if you do you are of course free to use hemp oil or anything else you have read about on the internet to treat it rather than relying on tested and proven methods. Good luck with that
September 6th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
September 6th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
The thing I like most about this is the guy looks so normal, he feels like he could be a friend of mine.
September 6th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
I absolutely love the clothes that you wear, E. It’s so twenties.
September 6th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I love this album…the eels’s masterpiece
September 6th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
SANTA! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
September 7th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Fantastic, one if his best, classic Eels.
September 7th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Yes, you're right about the inventions and all that stuff. What was bad about them was that they killed 6 million Jews and millions more who they didn't like, had horrible concentration camps where they would put them in gas chambers, had them dig their own graves, starve them to death, and also shot innocent men, women, children, and even babies. They were influenced by one of the most evil men in history, Adolf Hitler. So overall, they were still pretty bad people and there are still Nazis out there even today! So if you talk to people about them, they will still think of them as brutal and evil people. Know this though, not all Germans back then were Nazis. Interesting data you have there.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:14 am
If you would do better research, you would find that we are ALL FOR adult stem cell research because that research does not call for the use of aborted baby stem cells, it has produced several cures and treatments.
Embryonic stem cell does call for the use of aborted baby stem cells and they HAVE NOT produced ANY cures or treatments and no promises of any in the near future
Kp
September 8th, 2009 at 8:15 am
September 8th, 2009 at 7:45 am
What a positive endearing video *smiles*
September 8th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Great video to a great song, matches it perfectly. You’ve always been fun to watch Eels.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:00 am
yea like in the “Fresh Blood” vid he fights 2 Luchadores
i thought it was funny as hell
September 9th, 2009 at 11:32 am
September 9th, 2009 at 6:38 am
“Courtney needs love/And so do I/Hee hee hee!”
September 9th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Okay, the guy who says it alters your DNA… Where are your sources? That is THE most ridiculous thing I've heard in regards to anti-cannabis arguments.
Cannabis was outlawed because of competition with paper mills, and to further the stereotype of latino and blacks in the 1920's. Legalize it, and you get more control over it. I'd rather my kids get high from legal tape than in an alley with a joint laced with coke or something. Tax it up the wazoo, for all I care. It'll help the economy. I'd just like to buy 1-2 plants and have my own personal grow-batch. I've never really thought much about cannabis. At ALL. But after experiencing, I realized that we are being fed lies. It won't make you lazy. If you think it does, it just means you were one to begin with. It amplifies personality, sure, but not like the terror of alcohol can. Tell me one case of amplified anger through cannabis to the millions of reported cases of alcohol-related violence.
September 10th, 2009 at 3:52 am
Your question goes to the core of the American health care debate.
While Medicare will pay $200,000 for pointless treatment on an 80-year-old patient, many people die in the prime of life because they have no medical insurance. How many 20, 30, and 40-year-olds skip medication and routine exams because of cost issues? I recently read a government finding that estimates 18,000 Americans die annually from preventable causes as a direct result of lack of insurance.
The government estimates that 500,000 families enter bankruptcy every year as a direct result of a medical crisis. Whether from lack of insurance, under-insurance, or the inability to pay ordinary household bills while sick. . . it is an ongoing national catastrophe.
What amazes me most are the sanctimonious know-it-alls who blame patients for illness-related financial troubles. I have actually read responses in this very forum saying, "If you don't have insurance then you deserve to die." Is that the type of America we want? Is this how we should treat our fellow citizens?
Every other developed country has longer life expectancies than the US. Those countries also have government-managed health care. France, Britain, Canada, and all the rest have generally better health outcomes than the US. Why is that?
The litigation environment is a big part of the problem for health costs. Juries award huge settlements for questionable claims. I am always reminded of the woman who spilled hot coffee on her lap from a McDonald's drive-thru. She said McDonald's didn't warn her that the coffee was hot, so the jury gave her $1,400,000. If spilled coffee gets you $1.4 million, then medical malpractice should get a lot more, right?
I believe that America needs to learn from Europe and Asia regarding health care. Frankly, our country has the most expensive and ineffective health system in the developed world. Just check World Health Organization statistics if you don't believe me.