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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