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Does Chemotherapy and Radiation Really Help Cure Cancer?
On Father’s Day in June 2011, my mom, dad, brother and I were at the movies when we got a frantic call from my grandmother. “Bob (my grandpa) is really dizzy and he keeps falling,” she said. We decided to meet them at the Conway Medical Hospital where a CT scan revealed a bleed in my grandpa’s brain. He was transferred to Grand Strand Medical Center where an MRI revealed a large tumor in the middle of his brain. On June 26th, we took my grandpa back to the hospital so he could have a biopsy on the tumor. The results came back as a low- grade glioma. (Dr. Giddens.) After the biopsy, he was only supposed to be in the hospital for one night, but my grandpa was there for a week. He was in the ICU for four days, and a normal room for three days. As a result of the biopsy, he lost the vision out of his left eye. My parents decided they wanted a second opinion, so they sent the biopsy samples to the leading brain tumor pathology center, Duke Medical University in North Carolina. They agreed with the neurologists’ diagnoses and ordered an extensive round of radiation and chemotherapy. In fact, Duke was so confident that he was going to survive, they told us that we did not have to take my grandpa to see them; he would be fine. He had radiation every day for 35 days and took a chemotherapy pill every day for 35 days. Throughout the treatments, my grandpa lost all movement on the left side of his body, and I saw the light fade from his eyes. Towards the end of the treatments, my dad talked to the neurosurgeon at Grand Strand and asked him if we should call a hospice to keep him comfortable in his final days. The neurosurgeon said “We are not even in the realm of worrying about him dying, he will be fine.” My grandpa died two weeks later, on November 5th, 2011, while lying on a hospital bed in his bedroom. It is obvious that these so-called “treatments” do not work, not only for brain cancer, but for all types of cancer. Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in the world, so why are we having such a hard time treating it even though it is so relevant? (Does Chemo and Radiation Actually Make Cancer More Malignant 1.) You might be asking what cancer is right now. Well, in the simplest terms, cancers is when a bunch of cells with damaged DNA divide and multiply uncontrollably, therefore, creating a threatening tumor. The most common “treatments” for cancer are chemotherapy and radiation; chemotherapy treatments are derived from mustard gas, chemical warfare agents from World War 1. (Heise Health 2.) How does putting a chemical warfare compound in your body sound? 96 to 98% of cancer in not cured by chemotherapy and patients who have chemotherapy have lost their only chance of survival- all nutrition based methods. (Heise Health 2.) Chemotherapy kills all the cells in your body, even the healthy ones, so when the damaged cancer cells grow back, there will be no immune system to fight them off. (Heise Health 2.) This is true because my grandmother was diagnosed colon cancer when 48 and after she had surgery and chemo they thought the cancer was gone. While on the chemo, she was so sick that she had to be in the hospital. 6 months after finishing the chemo the doctors wanted her to go back for a checkup and scans to make sure the cancer had not come back. Upon having an MRI, it was discovered that the cancer had not only returned, but spread to her liver. The doctors ordered her to have surgery to remove the tumors in her liver. On the day of the surgery, the doctors opened her up and closed her. There were multiple tumors all over her liver and they told my mother and her family there was nothing they could do. My grandmother, Dianne, died after an 18 month battle with colon cancer when she was 50 years old. In addition, during my research I found out that the pharmaceutical companies make close to $100 billion a year from chemotherapy treatments. (Heise Health 3.) So, are the pharmaceutical companies’ partly responsible for deceiving cancer patients? Of course they are, the only thing they care about is making money. In fact, if a caring oncologist is found telling a cancer patient to go seek nutritional methods, they could lose their job and face a few hefty fines. (Heise Health 3.) Chemotherapy is the most popular source of treatments for cancer, but the oncologists who give chemotherapy would not have it themselves. “In numerous surveys, most chemotherapists have said they would not take chemotherapy themselves or recommend it to their families. Chemotherapy drugs are some of the most toxic substances ever put into the body.” (Heise Health Clinic 2.) Why would chemotherapists give these poisons to numerous patients every day, but run away from them if they had to have it? That is because these treatments do not work for most people they never have and they never will. The only thing they do is make a cancer patients’ everyday life worse. The side effects are terrible- life threatening mouth sores, throwing up, weight loss, hair loss, major fatigue, and other horrible side effects that make chemotherapy worse than the actual disease. These treatments are a double edged sword. No wonder why the actual survival rate for cancer patients treated with chemotherapy in the US in only 2.1%. (Can you Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer 2.) In a study conducted in 1990, a well-known German epidemiologist named Dr. Ulrich Abel read thousands of medical journals and contacted over 350 universities’ and asked them to send him anything they had ever published on and about chemotherapy. (Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer 2.) From his study, he came to the conclusion that chemotherapy can in no way extend the life of a cancer patient. (Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer 2.) Most of the cancer patients that die do so because they had chemotherapy. What chemotherapy really does is only shrink the tumor a little bit (if any at all), so when the cancer grows back, it is more vicious and aggressive. This obviously leads to very bad survival rates and does not extend the patient’s life or make it better in any way, shape, or form. “The FDA defines an “effective” chemotherapeutic drug as one which achieves a 50% or more reduction in tumor size for 28 days.” Shrinking a tumor for 28 days does not help cancer patients survive, and chemotherapy certainly cannot shrink a tumor by up to 50%. (Heise Health 1.) This is why many people are looking into all nutrition based methods for cancer treatments. For example, one oncologist told a 16 year old girl in California that had a serious cancer to go seek nutritional methods. Today, she is cancer free. (Heise Health 2.) Vitamin C has also become very popular in terms of helping cancer patients. Vitamin C does not damage the immune system like chemotherapy in fact, it strengthens it. Another plus is that the vitamin is toxic to the cancer cells, so it will kill them. High doses of this vitamin can also reduce tumor size by 50 %, and it will make the patient’s life longer and better, without the horrible side effects of chemotherapy. (Cure for Cancer- Intravenous Vitamin C Video.) A man with lung cancer so advanced that it spread to his brain was treated with very high doses of Vitamin C. Today the man, Arlindo Oliviera, is cancer free. (Cure for Cancer- Intravenous Vitamin C Video.) All this research answers my essential questions: the side effects are terrible, these are not the only treatments, chemotherapy is being pushed because it is a good source of money, there are no benefits from these treatments, and neither of them is effective. If you know anyone that is currently suffering from cancer, I urge you to talk to them about nutrition based treatments and possibly go and see a nutritionist. The survival rates from these toxic chemicals are so poor, and people deserve to have a better chance at surviving.

In this article, Sayer Ji says that we are still in the dark ages when it comes to treating cancer. He thinks that we are actually misunderstanding the enemy- is it cancer, or the treatments? Cancer, in the easiest terms of understanding it, is when a bunch of damaged cells in the body mulitply uncontrollably, eventually causing a tumor. From the tumor, the cells will travel through the blood stream and spread to other parts of the body, also known as metastizing. What chemotherapy does is kill ALL of the cells in your body, even the healthy one's. And without those healthy cells the body has no possible way of surviving to fight off the cancer. The only thing oncologists do is determine an acceptable level of harm when giving patients chemotherapy and radiation. A chemo drug called tamoxifen has over 24 health destroying side effects, but yet it is the first choice of treatment that oncologists chose for breast cancer patients. As a matter of fact, this drug has also been linked to causing liver cancer. Radiation has shown that it may slow down of tumors progress, but that is only because the tumor is selecting more radiation- resisent and aggressive cancer cells, which only leads to a more higher malignancy. Does this make any sense to you? Of course, cancer is a terrible thing, but chosing to have chemotherapy and radiation will only make it worse. I encourage you to visit the website via the link down below and read this whole article.

Ji Sayer. "Does Chemo and Radiation Actually Make Cancer More Malignant?" www.sott.net. 20 Sep. 2012. 14 Mar 2012. <http:;//www.sott.net/articles/show/242917-Does-Chemo-And-Radiation-Actually-Make-Cancer-More-Malignant?>

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