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Here are some unfortunate facts about our current othodox Cancer Treatments
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Treatments for cancer today are all about money. The people who control the industry, and it’s not your doctor are only looking for ways to manage the disease with their 3 main treatments and profit from it through people with cancer. Today’s toxic treatments are a grand hoax.
The pharmaceutical industry is extremely well funded, has total control over the cancer industry as well as the media due to the massive amounts of advertising dollar spent by “Big Pharma.” Any other treatments that threaten this industry are ruthlessly suppressed.
Many alternative approaches for the treatment of cancer have a much higher success rate than those offered by pharmaceutical companies. The safest and most effective way to deal with cancer is to strengthen the body’s immune system which will allow the body to remove the cancer safely. Cancer is simply a disease of a weak immune system so doesn’t it make sense to strengthen it. There are only natural ways to do that and more importantly, with natural treatments no one can make any money out of them, that’s why they are suppressed.
A patient, when first diagnosed with cancer, will be in shock and will be at the mercy of their health professional regarding treatment options. They will blindly follow authority without stopping and applying a bit of common sense. The more ignorant you are about why you got cancer, the easier it will be for the cancer industry to manipulate you into their system of treatments. Current conventional cancer treatments today represent a multi-billion dollar a year industry and these vast profits are fiercely protected by the industrial giants who control them. Our orthodox treatments today are keeping us submissive and illiterate by suppressing any information on any other way to cure cancer.
Nothing, except money is to be gained by pretending that the battle against cancer is slowly but surely being won when their cure rate now days is a paltry 3 to 4 percent. Also there is nothing in surgery, radiation and chemotherapy that will prevent the spread of cancer.
There is a cure for all cancers and that involves making lifestyle changes, especially to our food intake which will boost the immune system as the most efficient healer the human body has for cancer and many other degenerative diseases is a correctly functioning natural immune system. The human body is a miraculous living being and even as we slowly learn more about it we will never fully understand its inner workings completely because of its complexities. By using natural therapies, they will strengthen the body and allow the body to remove the cancer safely, which it will do?
I realize that not everyone can make changes to the way they live because many of us are creatures of habit to some degree and don’t have the ability to make those changes that are absolutely necessary to boost the immune system and cure cancer. For that reason I support the use of our mainstream treatments for those people but, be aware of the toxicity and the ineffectiveness of those treatments.
We get cancer now days because of the way we live with our diet of processed food, our lack of exercise and the toxic products we surround ourselves with. The common sense way to cure cancer is to remove those known causes which will strengthen the all important immune system and return you to health.
The bottom line is you need to take charge of your cancer; make those necessary changes as no one can do it for you. Appropriate diet and lifestyle changes are your first line of defence.
Alan Wighton is an independent health researcher, having spent many years specializing in cancer. If you want to learn more about effective ways to heal cancer and what’s going on in the cancer industry, please visit www.cancerhealed.comwww.cancerhealed.com Also check out some of my other articles, especially ” A Diet that can Cure Cancer” by typing in my name in the search box.
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Anna’s family was advised 4 months ago to put her on hospice. Her lungs were collapsed and she couldn’t breath without oxygen. Now she is running everyday and enjoying life, thanks to the alternative treatments she discovered.
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How can I build up my immune system after breast cancer treatments?
I have a very low immune system since I had chemotherapy, radiation, and other breast cancer treatments and surgeries. Since I finished chemo and radiation less than a year ago, I have had shingles, meningitis, and have had to fight 2 infections in my left breast that had the radiation in it and will have to go in for surgery to have the implant removed, and replaced. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. What can I do? Also, gained 40 lbs and hate the weight gain.
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Conventional and Unconventional Cancer Treatments – Part One
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Copyright (c) 2008 Stephen Lau
To be diagnosed with cancer is a traumatic experience in life. Out of desperation, a cancer patient often immediately turns to different cancer treatment options. There is an array of treatment options available, both conventional and unconventional, that it may be stressful for a cancer patient to make a wise choice.
Conventional cancer treatments generally include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.
Cancer surgery is an invasive procedure involving the removal of a cancerous tumor. Surgery is generally recommended if the cancer is operable, if it is in its early stage (there are four stages of cancer: the first stage being the early development stage, and the fourth stage indicative of advanced cancer), or if the tumor is localized, that is, without spreading to other parts of the body. The problem is that it may sometimes be difficult to determine the exact stage of cancer development.
All surgery is invasive, and all cancer surgery is traumatic – causing cancer stress. Cancer surgery reduces the body’s resistance to cancer, and therefore predisposing the patient to recurrence of the disease. In addition, surgical biopsy may actually contribute to the spread of cancer, according to some studies.
Chemotherapy involves the application of chemicals not only to shrink the cancer but also to wipe out any cancerous cell that may remain hidden in the body after all visible cancer has been removed during the surgery.
The problem with chemotherapy is that these chemicals are extremely toxic not only to cancerous cells but also to nearby healthy cells and tissues. These toxic chemicals suppress bone marrow, which may lead to low immunity to infections due to reduction in white blood cell production. Infection could be a major cause of disease in patients who are already weak in immunity. Other lethal side effects of chemotherapy include damage to muscles of the heart, loss of fertility, and risk of developing a second cancer. In addition, loss of appetite, diarrhea, fatigue and nausea are some of the other unpleasant side effects as well.
Radiation therapy is the use of high-intensity X-rays to destroy cancerous cells. Essentially, chemotherapy therapy damages cells by destroying the genetic material that controls how cells grow and divide. Radiation is much more harmful to cancerous cells than it is to normal cells. While both healthy and cancerous cells are damaged by radiation, the goal of radiation treatment is to destroy as few normal, healthy cells as possible during the radiation process.
In mainstream treatments, more than half of the patients receive some type of radiation therapy to kill cancerous cells. Radiation therapy may be used before surgery to shrink a cancerous tumor, during surgery to direct large doses of radiation at a tumor, or after surgery to inhibit the growth of any remaining cancerous cells. Radiation therapy may also be used with chemotherapy not only to destroy cancerous cells, but also to shrink tumors in order to decrease the pressure, pain or other symptoms they may have caused.
Sores or ulcers in the mouth, throat, or intestines may develop after radiation therapy, causing difficulties in eating, thereby affecting the nutrition of patients. In addition, patients who have undergone radiation therapy may have a higher risk of developing leukemia.
Remember, cancer is a multi-billion dollar industry, involving pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession. This alone explains why Western medicine does not want any focus on unconventional cancer treatments. As a matter of fact, most Western doctors know very little about alternative cancer treatments because these unconventional treatments seldom find their way into prestigious medical journals. Some states even have enacted laws to prohibit unorthodox cancer treatments. Understandably, there are many unethical cancer quacks exploiting and preying on the fears of many cancer patients. However, some unconventional treatments are effective in combating and controlling the disease.
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DCA is an odourless, colourless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic, small molecule. And researchers at the University of Alberta believe it may soon be used as an effective treatment for many forms of cancer. However, because the compound is not patented, you may never see it on the market as Drug companies can not profit.
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What company has new cancer treatment using robots to control radiation damange to good cells?
This is a recent nasdaq ipo and their product improves the abkility to treat tumors with blasts of radiation reducing damamge to surrounding tissue even if the patient or tumor moves during the treatment. Will replace surgery with a scalpel for cancer.
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Truth Out About Cancer Treatment
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When diagnosed with cancer, it is a difficult time in anyone’s life. However, the diagnosis is made even more difficult with the generally harsh conventional treatments such as chemotherapy. In many cases, cancer patients tend to combine natural cancer treatment with the conventional treatments they are currently receiving. In other cases, they may not be able to continue using these conventional methods because they may seem pointless. This is especially true for those affected with an advanced cancer stage.
For many people and this has been documented in a variety of research and medical outlets, natural cancer treatment is the best option. It is far less harsh, has fewer side effects, and in most cases, helps in eliminating other factors that may be aggravating the cancer or even causing it. The idea behind natural cancer treatment is that the body has the ability to kill and fight off cancer.
However, in order to do this, it must be healthy and running at full speed. With natural cancer treatment combined with other elements such as improved diet and lifestyle changes, it is the belief in the alternative medical world that the body does have the ability to essentially heal itself. With natural treatment, you often take care of underlying problems, which may be the cause of the cancer.
By taking care of this problem, the body is more able to focus on the cancer than the other issues. The bad thing about conventional cancer treatments is that they tend to carry numerous side effects. For example, with traditional chemotherapy and even the chemotherapy pills, there are a great deal of side effects, which may include:
* Fluid Retention
* Nausea
* Vomiting
* Fatigue
* Loss of Hair
* Increased Risk of Infection
* Pain
* Constipation
* Diarrhea
* Skin Troubles
* Bladder Troubles
* Kidney Troubles
With all of these side effects, it is no wonder that people are turning to natural cancer treatment. In many cases, cancer patients will combine natural treatment methods with their conventional methods to attempt to alleviate some of the side effects.
What is more, even though chemotherapy is an FDA approved cancer treatment, it does not always work in eliminating the cancer. If it does work, there is always the chance that it may return. The same chances exist with natural methods as well, without the massive list of side effects that seems to go on and on. Most alternative methods are the result of years and years of study, research, and evidence.
Though doctors and government officials refuse to acknowledge these methods of treatment, it does not mean that they will not work in fighting cancer. Alternative means you are given another option in your treatment choices, the options and ultimate decisions rest within your hands.
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How can I build up my immune system after breast cancer treatments?
I have a very low immune system since I had chemotherapy, radiation, and other breast cancer treatments and surgeries. Since I finished chemo and radiation less than a year ago, I have had shingles, meningitis, and have had to fight 2 infections in my left breast that had the radiation in it and will have to go in for surgery to have the implant removed, and replaced. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. What can I do? Also, gained 40 lbs and hate the weight gain.
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Chemotherapy is Big Money – For Doctor and Patient
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Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells, specifically those of micro-organisms or cancer. Chemotherapy works by destroying cancer cells; unfortunately, it cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and some healthy cells.
Chemotherapy may be given in many ways. It can be administered through a vein, injected into a body cavity, or delivered orally in the form of a pill, depending on which drug is used. Chemotherapy is sometimes used along with other cancer treatments, such as radiation therapy, surgery, or biological therapy (the use of substances to boost the body’s immune system while fighting cancer).
Chemotherapy was formed from mustard gases, which was in use as chemical- arms during the 1st World-War. Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer began in the 1940s with the use of nitrogen mustard.
When cancer treatment includes chemotherapy, patients have many questions. More than half of all people diagnosed with cancer receive chemotherapy. Chemo works by destroying cancer cells; unfortunately, it cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and some healthy cells. So chemotherapy eliminates not only the fast-growing cancer cells but also other fast-growing cells in your body, including, hair and blood cells.
One of the most destructive things about chemo is how it weakens the immune system. The immune system is the body’s only defense against disease. Since chemo has a detrimental effect on the immune may chemo patients contract other diseases not associated with cancer like pneumonia, bowel diseases, allergies and may create many immunodeficiency disorders.
Your course of therapy will depend on the cancer type, the chemotherapy drugs used, the treatment goal and how your body responds. Adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy are often given following surgery for many types of cancer, including colon cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and some gynaecological cancers. Over time, cancer cells become more resistant to chemotherapy treatments.
Patients who are better prepared tend to have fewer side effects and a higher emotional ability to handle the chemotherapy treatments. Patients receiving chemotherapy are more likely to get infections. Under certain circumstances, your doctor may decide your body is too weak to receive chemotherapy. You may have breaks between treatments so that your body has a chance to build new healthy cells.
The side effects of chemotherapy come about because cancer cells aren’t the only rapidly dividing cells in your body. Radiation therapy directs high-energy X-rays at a person’s body to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation therapy also attacks quickly growing cells in your body, but unlike chemotherapy, it affects only the specific area where treatment is concentrated. Biological therapy, also called immunotherapy, consists of treatment with substances that boost the body’s own immune system against cancer.
Receiving chemo during childhood also may place some kids at risk for delayed growth and cognitive development, depending on the child’s age, the type of drug used, the dosage, and whether chemotherapy was used in addition to radiation therapy. People who receive radiation therapy before having chemotherapy may notice that involved skin may turn red, blister, and peel once chemo begins. When a cancer has been removed by surgery or treated with radiation therapy, chemotherapy may be used to keep the cancer from coming back (adjuvant therapy).
Given after surgery or radiation, the goal of adjuvant therapy is to eliminate any cancer cells that might linger in your body after earlier treatments. The combination of radiation and chemotherapy can further increase your risk of heart damage.
Chemotherapy is usually administered for approximately 6-12 months or until a patient achieves a plateau response or stable disease, especially if the therapy is well tolerated. Chemotherapy can be frightening to think about. It may cause short term (acute), long term (chronic), and permanent side effects, some of which may be severe.
Chemotherapy can have many unpleasant side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, hair loss, mouth sores, Anemia (decreased numbers of red blood cells; may cause fatigue, dizziness, and shortness of breath) Leukopenia (decreased numbers of white blood cells; may lower resistance to infection), Thrombocytopenia (decreased numbers of platelets; may lead to easy bleeding or bruising), gastrointestinal symptoms, and even heart disease.
There are other options to chemotherapy that are successful in treating cancer but perhaps more important, there are steps we can take to prevent cancer and to avoid the horrible effects of chemo and radiation.
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6 yr old having port accessed for chemotherapy (vincristine). Caution: The video shows the needle being inserted into the port and some blood being drawn. Lucas was diagnosed with a brain tumour in April 2007. He had it resected, underwent 30 rounds of radiation, and is undergoing chemotherapy. He is in his 5th round in this video. You can read more about Lucas’ story at mommysms.spaces.live.com.
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How do chemotherapy drugs interact chemically with cancer cells to get rid of the cancerous cells?
I have to give a chemistry project tomorrow in class and I need to have a basic understanding of what goes on chemically between chemotherapy drugs and the cancerous cells. Like what element interacts with what and how the chemo drugs stop the cancer cells from replicating. If anyone even has a most basic chemical explanation as to what occurs I would really appreciate it.
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What is Salvage Chemotherapy
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In 2004, he was diagnosed with Duke’s C Colon Cancer. His doctor said no need to do radiotherapy, but need to do chemotherapy. If no chemo, 35 chance. With chemo, it is 55% chance. An extra 20% chance of surviving 5 years. But he said “NO” to chemotherapy. Today, Octobber 2009, he leads a normal life.
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How long after starting chemotherapy does it take to lose your hair?
My girlfriend just started her first cycle of chemotherapy for her Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Her chemotherapy regimen includes doxorubicin, vincristine, cyclophosphamide and prednisone. I was just wondering how long it will take for her to lose her hair. Is it a week after the start of treatment? A month? Thanks.
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HYPERTHERMIA IN CANCER TREATMENT
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Breaf History of Hyperthermia
The healing effect of heat treatment was already mentioned in the advanced cultures of the old Egypt (2400 B.C.), but only the medical professionals of the Greek Antique used this therapeutic approach consistently, acknowledged it and called it over-warming (in Greek: Hyperthermia). “Give me the power to produce fever and I heal every illness”, said Parmenides, Greek physician, 540-480 B.C.
Hyperthermia in cancer treatmentHyperthermia (also called thermal therapy or thermotherapy) is an acute condition which occurs when the body produces or absorbs more heat than it can dissipate. It is usually caused by prolonged exposure to high temperatures. The heat-regulating mechanisms of the body eventually become overwhelmed and unable to effectively deal with the heat, causing the body temperature to climb uncontrollably.
Hyperthermia can also be created artificially by drugs or medical devices. In these instances it may be used to treat cancer and other conditions. Cancer cells are more heat-sensitive than healthy cells and their structure reacts differently to overheating. In 1910 the possibility of overheating in order to increase the radiation effect on malicious tumors was described for the first time. This already well-known and applied method was rediscovered as so called “whole body hyperthermia” in the beginning of the 1960s. Since the 70s a number of studies were run to further investigate this therapy form.
Research has shown that high temperatures (up to 44C) can damage and kill cancer cells, usually with minimal injury to normal tissues. By killing cancer cells and damaging proteins and structures within cells, hyperthermia may shrink tumors.
Hyperthermia is almost always used with other forms of cancer therapy, such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Hyperthermia may make some cancer cells more sensitive to radiation or harm other cancer cells that radiation cannot damage. When hyperthermia and radiation therapy are combined, they are often given within an hour of each other. Hyperthermia can also enhance the effects of certain anticancer drugs, which is mutually strengthened thereby and a healing more likely – the so-called synergistic effect of hyperthermia. It was found out that cytostatic drugs (chemotherapy substances) clearly act more aggressively at temperatures over 40 C than within the range of the normal body temperature.
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My grandfather had cancer, so this goes out to him. He died from it. My grandma had cancer, but shes still alive! There is a way to survive it. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
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….cancer?
its been about 2 months since I've posted anything about throat sicknesses and i got over everything but last week or so i noticed my lymph gland is stiill swollen…..oh and i noticed a lump in my armpit it appeared a couple weeks ago i thought it was an ingrown hair but it isnt…
you think its related to cancer?
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Chemotherapy Is Big Money
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Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells, specifically those of micro-organisms or cancer. Chemotherapy works by destroying cancer cells; unfortunately, it cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and some healthy cells. Chemotherapy may be given in many ways. It can be administered through a vein, injected into a body cavity, or delivered orally in the form of a pill, depending on which drug is used. Chemotherapy is sometimes used along with other cancer treatments, such as radiation therapy, surgery, or biological therapy (the use of substances to boost the body’s immune system while fighting cancer). Chemotherapy was formed from mustard gases, which was in use as chemical- arms during the 1st World-War. Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer began in the 1940s with the use of nitrogen mustard.
When cancer treatment includes chemotherapy, patients have many questions. More than half of all people diagnosed with cancer receive chemotherapy. Chemo works by destroying cancer cells; unfortunately, it cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and some healthy cells. So chemotherapy eliminates not only the fast-growing cancer cells but also other fast-growing cells in your body, including, hair and blood cells.
Your course of therapy will depend on the cancer type, the chemotherapy drugs used, the treatment goal and how your body responds. Adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy are often given following surgery for many types of cancer, including colon cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and some gynaecological cancers. Over time, cancer cells become more resistant to chemotherapy treatments.
Patients who are better prepared tend to have fewer side effects and a higher emotional ability to handle the chemotherapy treatments. Patients receiving chemotherapy are more likely to get infections. Under certain circumstances, your doctor may decide your body is too weak to receive chemotherapy. You may have breaks between treatments so that your body has a chance to build new healthy cells. The side effects of chemotherapy come about because cancer cells aren’t the only rapidly dividing cells in your body. Radiation therapy directs high-energy X-rays at a person’s body to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation therapy also attacks quickly growing cells in your body, but unlike chemotherapy, it affects only the specific area where treatment is concentrated. Biological therapy, also called immunotherapy, consists of treatment with substances that boost the body’s own immune system against cancer.
Receiving chemo during childhood also may place some kids at risk for delayed growth and cognitive development, depending on the child’s age, the type of drug used, the dosage, and whether chemotherapy was used in addition to radiation therapy. People who receive radiation therapy before having chemotherapy may notice that involved skin may turn red, blister, and peel once chemo begins. When a cancer has been removed by surgery or treated with radiation therapy, chemotherapy may be used to keep the cancer from coming back (adjuvant therapy). Given after surgery or radiation, the goal of adjuvant therapy is to eliminate any cancer cells that might linger in your body after earlier treatments. The combination of radiation and chemotherapy can further increase your risk of heart damage.
Chemotherapy is usually administered for approximately 6-12 months or until a patient achieves a plateau response or stable disease, especially if the therapy is well tolerated. Chemotherapy can be frightening to think about. Chemo may cause short term (acute), long term (chronic), and permanent side effects, some of which may be severe. Chemotherapy can have many unpleasant side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, hair loss, mouth sores, Anemia (decreased numbers of red blood cells; may cause fatigue, dizziness, and shortness of breath) Leukopenia (decreased numbers of white blood cells; may lower resistance to infection), Thrombocytopenia (decreased numbers of platelets; may lead to easy bleeding or bruising), gastrointestinal symptoms, and even heart disease.
There are other options to chemotherapy that are successful in treating cancer but perhaps more important, there are steps we can take to prevent cancer and to avoid the horrible effects of chemo and radiation.
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A consultant medical oncologist explains the chemotherapy process and patients talk about their own experiences of the treatment
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How long after starting chemotherapy does it take to lose your hair?
My girlfriend just started her first cycle of chemotherapy for her Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Her chemotherapy regimen includes doxorubicin, vincristine, cyclophosphamide and prednisone. I was just wondering how long it will take for her to lose her hair. Is it a week after the start of treatment? A month? Thanks.
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