Comments on: Chemotherapy kills more than cancer

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:59:48 +0000

“Kat Says: The problem is in this particular case his survival rate without the chemo is 5% with it 95%.”

>>> I DON’T BELIEVE IT! I do believe, that THAT is what they WANT you to believe!

I did extensive research at the UCLA medical library when my 45 y/o cousin
was diagnosed with colon cancer. He underwent the treatment, but they never told him that the efficacy rate was a mere 7%! WHY is that? It doesn’t take a mathematician to realize that THAT means that the failure rate is 93%!!!

No, DON’T believe what they tell you. Do the research for yourself! And if you don’t know how, or where to start – then hire someone who does!!! Chemotherapy is an answer for no answer. They have no answer – thus, kill it, any way they can! Some answer!! Kill it and everything good in its path.
Kill the immune system, the fighter T cells, induce alopecia, weakness, frailty, nausea, and residual compromise for years to come!

The modern medical system is deceiving the masses as blind sheep led to the slaughter! Shame on IT, and shame on us for checking our brain at the door of the doctor, or oncologist’s office. Don’t you realize, the cures of the day are “cut, burn and poison!” Surgery, radiation and drugs! Drugs, drugs, drugs!
Drugs when God has endowed this planet with healing plants and herbs! Oh, but wait, THEY can’t be patented. They can’t bring in Big Pharm millions and
billions of buckaroos!!

WAKE UP PEOPLE!

- Written by an R.N., B.S.N. who’s already lost two dear friends to Chemo!

By: maya

maya — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:23:14 +0000

there is a cure for cancer! but everyone is so blind and believes everything the media and the government says. wake uP ! the cure is called DCA, but you cannot get it, because big Pharmaceutical comPanies wont make any Profit on it ! its all about dirty money !

By: bonnielynnebee

bonnielynnebee — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:13:14 +0000

I am going through chemo and it is terrible. I am 9 weeks post tumor removal and was feeling excellent until I started this horrible option. I am a very healthy 42year old female ,sports model and nutritionist. yes of course it is important to put the right foods into our body. but it doesn’t matter how active or healthy you are, if your going to get it ( genetics/environment) its going to happen. I continue to see a natural path for alternative medicine and I’ll tell you this..when I get a zero tumor cancer cell count back from the testing I do in other countries (mostly Germany) and I’m from Canada, hello universal health care??!!, I will NOT continue doing chemo. I will not continue to destroy my immune system so something else can take me down. I was told by a few natural health experts I would not be battling this stage 3 colon cancer if I lived in Europe as they test for these markers in a simple blood test when your just not feeling well. My GP has been telling my its been hemorrhoids..for a year….thats all we do here in the western world, chop burn and poison. And for the person that said cancer is a zodiac conspiracy, well I hope you never get cancer. You will not have the brain power to beat it. Explore your options. I’m not saying chemo does not have its place in the cancer world, but you must be your own advocate and fight for your rights. A survival rate that puts me at 47 does not seem like a good trade off if I don’t see my son graduate. Good luck to all fighting this crap disease. And to those of you that aren’t or are just looking for a debate, please look elsewhere for the soapbox.

By: V.M. De La Torre

V.M. De La Torre — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:27:12 +0000

Fish oil may hinder chemotherapy: study

http://www.japantoday.com/category/health/view/fish-oil-may-hinder-chemotherapy-study

By: Zoe V

Zoe V — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:13:51 +0000

Oh my gosh! What a tragic story. I’m in loss of words. You just reinforced my belief that chemotherapy isn’t a cure for cancer. I’m so sorry about what has happened to your sister and pray that somehow her health returns back to her. I’ll be keeping you in my thoughts. Please keep me posted.

By: Liberty Roll (@LibertyRoll)

Liberty Roll (@LibertyRoll) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:22:16 +0000

My sister is lying in an ICU and is dying now bc of her chemotherapy. She went through her first chemo treatment on July 29th for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She was told she had an excellent chance of survival due to the type of cancer she had. I believe she was only a stage II but she never told me what stage she was. Problem was there was a tumor in her stomach that the chemo opened up two days after she received her chemotherapy. She ended up having to have surgery to repair a quarter sized hole in her stomach where the tumor had shrunk. Her kidneys shut down that day due to the shock. At first they thought it might be sepsis, but her BP was so low and the chemo had caused her immune system to shut down. It was mainly just a problem bc her gastric juices were leaking into other parts of her system. They had removed the turmor from her stomach and also the two involved lymph nodes in that area. This was the only cancer she had at the time. Two days after the surgery her stomach began to bleed out due to low platelets from the Chemo. She wasn’t clotting. Massive transfusions and platelets were given to help her. She was given a 1% chance of survival that day. She survived it but now she is in a coma and there may be brain damage from the low BP she had at the time of her surgery. They took her back into surgery last weekend due to her stomach not healing. The surgeon said all her staples opened up on her incision all the way into her stomach repair. They also gave her a tracheostomy so she could get off the respirator. He restapled everything and sewed her back up after cleaning her stomach out as much as he could with a fungal infection growing inside of her. 4 days later this past week she has a massive fungal infection throughout her system, her trach tube came out when the nurses turned her to change her bed bc she isn’t healing. They reinstalled the respirator. She has fluid running out of her arms from where they had tubes. So much that they had to change her bed linens bc she was soaked. Her mouth has sores that won’t heal from the respirator. They had a meeting on Friday and said that she is not going to get better. This was a healthy working woman who had just turned 65. She is now a vegetable and she has no chance for survival according to her doctors. Her husband is giving her a week to see if her immune system will restart for her before he pulls the respirator. It has been over 3 weeks since her chemo. There is no hope for her, I believe, she has sepsis and I believe her organs will begin to fail even if they leave the respirator in her. They are giving her a few weeks to live. I am just sick over this. She should have never undergone the chemotherapy. She should have sought out another treatment but they told her this would cure her. Yeah, death is a cure alright.

By: queenyellowsun

queenyellowsun — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:03:44 +0000

I saw my husband murdered by an oncologist and chemotherapy. I realize they may have thought they were doing the right thing… but it was all lies. Chemotherapy is poison and should be outlawed. It is a disgrace to humanity that we treat our sick people this way. The tide will turn someday and big pharma will not rule our health care system. Until then we MUST take our healing in to our own hands as much as possible and we cannot let them posion our bodies or our minds with their lies or fear propoganda. I believe with every once of my knowledge and conviction that the best thing my husband and I could have done was to not let the ‘doctors’ get a hold of him in the first place.

By: pulliamsandkin

pulliamsandkin — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:51:38 +0000

Chemo does cure blood cancers, and testicular cancer. there are only three types of cancer that chemo cures. Comparing the cure of blood cancers treated with chemo to other cancers is not fair. Cancers are not all the same.
My husband has esophogeal cancer. We are in the midst of testing to see what options he has. I vote for no chemo or radiation.
We used to clean a clinic that administered chemo, those patients looked like walking corpses. We have cleaned the homes of many cancer patients who were too sick from chemo to attend to thier homes, let alone themselves. Many of our wonderful clients died looking like their bodies had died a long time before their spirit left it.

I am very much against chemo and radiation therapies

By: joe black

joe black — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:59:02 +0000

hmm decided not to call out a few folks here but since many do not know of the success of natural treatments don’t assume they don’t work.

The cure for cancer is not to get it and lead a more natural lifestyle from jump. Cancer is a symptom not a disease and is big business, so it bodes well for clucks to quack on about keeping the establishment moving.

By: V.M. De La Torre

V.M. De La Torre — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:16:53 +0000

Something interesting in the news, but we knew this blog.

A Cure For Cancer? Eating A Plant-Based Diet

By: Kd

Kd — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:58:34 +0000

Some of you should check out the book, Your Child Doesn’t Have To Die by Leanne Sorteberg. Fifteen years ago, her 2 year old son had a rare childhood cancer, stage IV neuroblastoma. He went through all the treatments (sometimes cancer feeds off the chemo), and then was sent home to die. She got a feeding tube in him and changed his diet, drastically, and he was cancer free in 6 months. My son has the same cancer, same age, same survival rate, fifteen years later. I’m having a hard time believing cancer research has improved anything but lying statistics, and rich doctors.

By: V.M. De La Torre

V.M. De La Torre — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:18:05 +0000

Two-time Tour de France champion Laurent Fignon has confirmed that he has been diagnosed with advanced intestinal cancer.

“I am undergoing chemotherapy already and have been for 15 days,” he said. “I did the second session a few days ago. Things are going pretty well, I feel good. Right now, I don’t know more than you. Everything is going well.”

“Digestive cancer is primarily a disease of nutrition. The (doping) products I took were intramuscular, they didn’t pass through the stomach. So, no. If all the cyclists who doped would later have cancer, then everyone would have cancer … Whether those who lived through 1998, when a lot of extreme things happened, will get cancer after 10 or 20 years, I really can’t say.”

http://www.velonews.com/article/93220

By: Zoe V

Zoe V — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:47:38 +0000

@kglick & @srpayne – Congrats on being cancer-free. Just realize that you are the exceptions not the rule. Chemo doesn’t cure the majority of cancer patients, unfortunately.

By: kglick

kglick — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:29:25 +0000

Had AML Leukemia….beat it and beat it because of chemo. I was within days of dying when they found it. Chemo was the only choice to quickly begin killing off the cancer in my blood. There was no tumor to cut out or herbs to rejuvenate what little blood I had left. Chemo saved my life. Don’t think I know better?…I’m a Registered Dietitian. Which means I ate healthy, exercised regularly and still got cancer. It was a rare genetic mutation. Cancer is a horrible disease, and like most other diseases some people die from it despite the medications and medical interventions. In the 1990′s I’d have died from my cancer. Sometimes hanging on, enduring the treatment, and taking your chances that you’ll live long enough through all the crap to see an effective treatment DOES WORK and IS WORTH IT.
Regardless, a 13 year old doesn’t know enough to make a decision about this. His mom needs to “put on her big girl panties” and just help him through the awful treatment as best she can so that she can enjoy him for years to come. I hope your blog doesn’t encourage anyone to not get the chemo treatment that their DOCTOR is recommending. Please go get greif counseling and leave those of us who owe our lives to chemo alone.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:59:19 +0000

Reply from the Medical Director at the Medical clinic where I worked:

I just wanted to thank Matt for his acknowledging that I look at medicine with a search for the truth, but I wanted to also say that This case is special for several reasons:

1) This cancer is specifically amenable to prescribed therapy (projected 85-90% cure rate) I would strongly recommend that this child undergo his therapy immediately
2) It is one thing for an adequately informed sane adult to decide against a treatment They can for themself (they have a right to make the best decision for themself–to live or die). It is quite another to impose ones’ will on someone else, who is legally incapable of making an informed decision himself. The supreme court made the definitions of ability to make informed consent. A minor, or someone else incapable of informed consent must have an unbiased legal guardian, acting as his advocate, make those decisions.

My perspective on Medicine and Physicians are expressed in the
“Ten Suggestions” above.

By: srpayne

srpayne — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:45:08 +0000

Had non-hodgkins lymphoma in 1994, had chemo, still alive with no recurrence.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:07:19 +0000

I must admit I find this very refreshing to be able to have civil dialog on differing opinions without the usual nastiness that can sometimes happen in a debate. Example, acquaintances who are convince 9/11 was an inside job. I enjoy logical debate and while not wishing to change anyone’s mind, I appreciate being listened to and not summarily dismissed.

I have no problem with alternative treatments and those wishing to explore them, What I do have a problem with is those thinking that there must be a person or entity to blame when somebody falls ill or dies from an illness.

I agree that lifestyles do contribute to illness, but as yourself, I lead a very healthy lifestyle, very strict diet, 60 minute workouts 5 days a week 10% body fat, very fit for a 42 year old. This disease can strike anyone and when it does, it is the persons responsibility to act in their best interest, whether that be chemo/radiation as I did, or any alternative treatment. We can not know 100% our future, so we make the best decision at the time and live with that decision.

The only point I would disagree with you on is the need for more gov control over what we consume. That is the LAST thing anyone should want. If you can not trust a government agency to give us the proper cures for diseases, why would you trust the same government to tell us what to consume?

As for a cure, I admit don’t know? In my case, I am awaiting a PET scan next week to see if this is over, and will need to have check ups for the remainder of my life. My doctor gave me an 85% chance of 5 years. You know what, I’ll take it.

Thank you for bringing this topic out, I enjoy speaking on this and you giving me your time.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:06:24 +0000

To get a better understanding of the alternative side of things, watch a documentary called “Healing Cancer from Inside Out”.

“Unfortunately, bad things happen to good people,

I do have control. I choose an option that while not fun, gave me the best chance to live for all the things aI have going for me. That was a choice I made, not my government.”

Who’s to decide who’s good and who’s bad?

And you chose the option that you THOUGHT would give you the best chance to live… because I can ASSURE you that there are better, more “fun” treatments that render much better results.

Most people who use chemo and/or radiation end up getting cancer back at some point in their life – it is just a continuation of the disease though, its not that its coming back.

It all comes down to the germ theory vs. terrain theory. The germ theory suggests that the tumor is the problem, while the terrain theory suggests that the persons body that allows for the tumor to grow – is the problem. If the environment of the body is unhealthy then tumors have a chance to grow, but in a body that has its immune system, detoxification system, digestive system, etc. functioning optimally – the tumors are incapable of growing there.

At the end of the day, you can’t successfully treat disease with poison. The body is capable, and will heal itself if you give it what it needs.

Again, please watch that documentary I mentioned above – it is absolutely amazing and eye opening.

By: Zoe V

Zoe V — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:06:43 +0000

Ed ~

Thank you for sharing your experience with cancer and chemo. I congratulate you on completing your first chemotherapy and sincerely wish cancer never comes back. It’s also great to hear that you learned to appreciate life, family, job, church and friends more. To some of us such a wakeup call teaches us what truly matters in life.

There is nothing wrong or incorrect in your statements. But I would like to challenge you to think differently about cancer and chemo. No matter how you look at it, chemo is not a cure for cancer. It has never been. Some patients may be luckier to have chemo that kills their cancer once for all. But that’s the exception, not the rule. The majority of cancer patients get cancer back and sometimes even worse after the first chemo session. That was the case with my best friend Viv’s mom and Matt Schaefer. Chemo did not cure them.

When I say “they” make make out of the chemo regimen, I mean the pharma field along with select few FDA officials who are corrupted enough to approve cancer drugs that treat the symptoms but not the root of the problem. You are too naive to think that FDA or pharma execs have your best interest in mind.

Also, cancer research in the rest of the world is not as regulated and “censored” as in the States. Few people who replied to the blog told me that they had friends who went to get alternative cancer treatments in Mexico. I don’t know the details but it appears that doctors with differnt views than mainstream in the US go to Mexico to practice those treatments. They are “illegal” in the US. But why should they be illegal here if they work? I guess the pharma field doesn’t want to cure cancer after all.

The blame in the context of my blog is about the failed education of American citizens on how to live healthier lives so they don’t get cancer. FDA is not regulating all the toxins that enter our body though food and cosmetics. In Europe things are way stricter. Perhaps that’s why Europeans have lower cancer rates than Americans. But I do agree with you that it shouldn’t be solely government responsibility but personal one too. Each one of us, as I am doing, should read and learn about healthy diet and lifestyle. Don’t wait for someone else to do it, do it yourself!

Let’s continue our journey exploring alternative treatments for cancer together. There is nothing wrong with entertaining different points of view. It enriches our minds and helps us find out what we believe in.

Thank you for listening too and good luck on your recovery process.

Zoe

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:13:07 +0000

This is certainly a tough call I agree. I also have Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and just completed chemo this March. I agree that the gov’t has NO business forcing a patient to undergo this treatment. it should be a family decision based on the best information the family has available. I would never want this or any gov’t forcing me, my wife or my boys to under go any treatment we did not feel was in our best interest.

THat however is an entirely different topic than the topic of chemo worth as a medical treatment. I find it said that while a healthy dose of spectism is good, there are rampant conspiracies about treatment vs. cure. Most of these are illogical arguments that contain very little logic or details. The famous “they” make more money off or treatments than cures. Who is “they?” Politians? Pharm execs? Doctors? All of these people I’m sure have had cancer touch their lives and if “they” had a cure don’t you think they would use it to treat their own loved ones? Also is they only in America or are they worldwide? Think of how insanely rich some could become if they truly DID find a 100% cure….

It is normal when people find a problem in which they have little or no control over to pass “blame” onto some nameless, faceless entity that must be responsible.

Unfortunately, bad things happen to good people, that is life, Our duty as humans is to make the best of the situation and help those we can. My situation has made me appreciate my life, my family, my folks, my job, my church, my friends. I would not want to taint that with thoughts that somebody is to blame for this and I have no control. I do have control. I choose an option that while not fun, gave me the best chance to live for all the things aI have going for me. That was a choice I made, not my government.

thanks for listening!