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Chemotherapy: An Unproven Procedure
Question: "How in the world can chemotherapy be considered a standard cure, when it works for only 2-4% [percent of cancer patients], and very specific ones?"
Answer: We are dealing with an industry. It is not supported by the facts. The way that it is done is this. The drugs are tested in test tubes, and they look for things that will kill cells.
After you have found something that kills cells, cancer cells, cell lines which are very abnormal non-typical sort of growths, maybe a new life form almost, then you put it into animals. Then if it kills the cancers before it kills the animals, and shrinks the tumours, you consider you have an active agent.
You then put it into people, and go through the 3 phases the FDA prescribes for this, and basically if you can shrink the tumour 50% or more for 28 days you have got the FDA's definition of an active drug. That is called a response rate, so you have a response ...
Quite a bit [different from a cure] because when you look to see if there is any life prolongation from taking this treatment what you find is all kinds of hocus pocus and song and dance about the disease free survival, and this and that.
In the end there is no proof that chemotherapy in the vast majority of cases actually extends life, and this is the GREAT LIE about chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumour and extending the life of the patient. [Or that there is a correlation between looking at a cancer cell in a test tube and the tumour in someone's body.]
What happens as you grow those cells in cell lines they become very weird. Hundreds and hundreds of generations later they don't even look like even normal human cancer cells. They are things that grow under glass, immortal cells, unlike ... normal cancer cells. So much cancer research is very questionable because it is based on this cell line research.
- Ralph Moss, PhD, former Director of Information for Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center
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The Bi-Phasic Effect: Why Chemotherapy Doesn't Work
Every time we put a drug in our body, two things happen:
1. What the drug initially does to the body.
2. How the body adapts to the drug.
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Any example will do:
Antibiotics?
First, the drug kills all bacteria in the body. Then the body responds by growing them back, often with the bad bacteria out of balance, which come back in more powerful, mutated forms.
Steroids?
First, muscles are built because testosterone has been mimicked. Then the body responds by cutting production of natural testosterone, which eventually feminizes the athlete by shrinking the gonads... Obviously these are simplifications, but you get the idea.
“Drugs tend to worsen whatever they're supposed to cure ...
which sets up a vicious circle.”
- Dr. Dean Black in Health at the Crossroads p. 20
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The Bi-Phasic Effect is well-explained by Dean Black and many other researchers who were trying to figure out why tumors seemed to come back with such a vengeance after chemotherapy. Some original work was done by American Cancer Society researcher Robert Schimke in 1985, who discovered that the way cancer cells resist chemotherapy is to replicate even harder and faster.
Chemo drugs are lethal; so the cancer cells are stimulated to try and survive any way they can, which means faster growth. In the presence of any toxin, cells will resist it to stay alive. The more they resist, the stronger they get.
Black sees cancer itself is just an adaptation; a normal response to an abnormal poison. Chemotherapy simply provokes adaptation. (Black, p. 45) This is why we all know people who have had chemotherapy and experienced temporary remission. But when the tumor came back, it did so with a vengeance, and the patient was quickly overwhelmed.
Schimke talks about the possible effects chemotherapy might have on a tumor
that otherwise may have been self-limiting:
"Might such treatments convert relatively benign tumors into more lethal forms?"
- Robert Schimke p. 1915
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To understand the bi-phasic effect, one begins to realize that drugs are fighting the body. The whole military motif - medicine imposes its will upon the body, even though we have vastly incomplete information to be doing something that arrogant.
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"In a survey of 79 oncologists from McGill University Cancer Center in Canada ...
- 64 said they would not consent to treatment with Cisplatin ...
a common chemotherapy drug.
- 58 oncologists said they would reject all the current trials being carried out ...
by their very own establishment."
Their reasons?
"The ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and its unacceptable degree of toxicity."
- McGill Cancer Center Scientists - 1986
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"The personal views of many oncologists seem to be in striking contrast to ... communications intended for the public."
- Famed German biostatistician Ulrich Abel, PhD, in a similar 1989 study
- "The Chemotherapy Report"
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Early screening often leads to unnecessary treatment:
- 33% of autopsies show prostate cancer ... but only 1% die from it.
- After age 75, half of males may have prostate cancer ... but only 2% die from it.
- This means simply that the immune system can hold many problems in check, as
long as it is not compromised by powerful procedures (or toxic drug "medicine").
- Cancer Study - British medical journal Lancet, 13 Feb 1993
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"After one recent survey two pathologists reported that ...
after carrying out 400 post-mortem examinations they had found that
in more than half the patients the wrong diagnosis had been made.
This presumably also means that in more than half the patients ...
the wrong treatment had been given.
It also presumably means that a large proportion of those patients ...
died because of their treatment."
- Dr. Vernon Coleman, M.D., D. Sc., author of 114 books
with translations into 23 languages selling in over 50 countries
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Guess which system is the most important to you at this time, more than it's ever been before in your whole life?
Right ... the immune system.
Guess which system suffers most from chemotherapy and radiation?
Right again ... the immune system.
So the one time in your life you most need it, your immune system will be weakened by those therapies!
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Ref: http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/alternative-cancer-treatment-2.html#on-chemotherapy
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