Back in 1971, President Richard Nixon promised that the war on cancer would be won within 25 years. Cancer rates, however, have continued to increase since that promise, and it is now almost certain that either your or someone you love will one day hear the dreaded words, 'you have cancer'.
While chemotherapy is widely accepted by the public as the natural treatment following a cancer diagnosis, experts within the oncology field are actually demanding that alternative treatments be found.
In fact, way back in 1986, scientists from the McGill Cancer Center sent a questionnaire to 118 doctors who treated non-small-cell lung cancer. The questionnaire asked them to rate six current treatments being used, and to select which they would opt for if they themselves were being treated for cancer. Of the 79 respondents, 64 said they would not consent to receive treatment using cisplatin, a chemotherapy drug, and 58 said that they would not have any of the six treatments. Why? Because of the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and its unacceptable degree of toxicity.
The sad fact is that in most common tumours, including breast, lung and colon, chemotherapy is simply not curative.
So why is it still so commonly used?
One theory is money, of course. In 1990, $3.53 billion was spent on chemotherapy. By 1994, the figure had more than doubled to $7.51 billion. In America, it is not uncommon for professionals at cancer centers to also hold positions at chemotherapy drug companies, thereby directly profiting from the chemotherapy they recommend to patients.
Of course, for many medics, too much trust may be being placed in overly optimistic research papers.
Whatever the reason, as spending on chemotherapy increases, so does the cancer death rate. Please do not be reassured by reports that the mortality rate is declining - all that is actually happening is the development of technologies that can detect non-fatal cancers, treat them, and count them as a life saved.
Alarming statements from experts are widely available.
Such as this comment from Alan C. Nixon, PhD, Past President of the American Chemical Society:
“As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good.”
Should you or a loved one be unfortunate enough to be touched by cancer, consider the doctors' chemotherapy refusals before accepting it as being a good enough option for you.
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"Several full-time scientsts at the McGill Center sent to 118 doctors, all experts on lung cancer, a questionnaire to determine the level of trust they had in the therapies they were applying; they were asked to imagine that they themselves had contracted the disease and which of the six current experimental therapies they would choose. 79 doctors answered, 64 of them said that they would not consent to undergo any treatment containing cis-platinum – one of the common chemotherapy drugs they used – while 58 out of 79 believed that all the experimental therapies above were not accepted because of the ineffectiveness and the elevated level of toxicity of chemotherapy.” (Philip Day, “Cancer: Why we’re still dying to know the truth”, Credence Publications, 2000)"
Note the word "experimental". The fact that doctors would refuse experimental treatments doesn't mean they would refuse all chemo. In fact there's no evidence that doctors refuse chemotherapy for themselves or their loved ones. This is simply another alternative medicine lie.
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