Chemotherapy - Is this the real answer to Cancer?

Before agreeing to a treatment, it is important to know
what the treatment consist of. With this in mind, I have
introduced below the main form of treatment used to treat
cancer:

Chemotherapy - Chemotherapy was developed after scientists
realised that the deadly Mustard gas used in the Second
World War to kill people - Cyclophosphamide - could kill
rapidly dividing cells such as those of cancer.
Chemotherapy will kill all rapidly dividing cells (Our T
and B cells responsible for our immune system would also be
targeted as they divide rapidly).

Let's see what reputable scientists are saying about this
drug:

* Late Dr Hardin Jones, professor at the University of
California in Berkeley concluded in 1975 after analysing
cancer survival statistics for several decades that
"patients are as well, or better off, untreated".

* Dr Charles Moertel of the Mayo clinic in Baltimore said
that the major chemotherapeutic drug, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)
only produces an objective response in 15 to 20% of
patients. Even then, improvements were only partial and
temporary. This very poor result is offset by the toxicity
of the drug and the disastrous emotional upsets caused by
the side effects.

* A German epidemiologist Dr Ulrich Abel studied most of
the published reports on chemotherapy and wrote to a
further 350 cancer centres and experts and stated that "the
success of most chemotherapy is appalling. There is no
evidence for its ability to extend in any appreciable way
the lives of patients suffering from the most common
organic cancer". He also commented that: "when a tumour
mass partially or temporarily disappears, those tumour
cells which remain can sometimes grow much faster
afterwards. Often, patients who do not respond to
chemotherapy survive longer than those who do".

Dr Abel also published details of survival rates for cancer
patients treated with chemotherapy as follows:

* Bladder - No statistics available

* Breast - No evidence of an increase in life expectancy

* Cervical/Uterine - No evidence of an increase in life
expectancy

* Colorectal - No increase in life expectancy

* Gastric cancer - No evidence of improvement

* Head & neck - No improvement in life expectancy (tumours
may shrink)

* Ovarian - No evidence of an increase in life expectancy

* Pancreatic - More negative than patients who were not
treated

Depending on which specific chemotherapy drug is used, side
effects include nausea, vomiting, hair loss, potential
damage to nerves and kidneys, hearing loss, seizures, bone
marrow suppression, anaemia, blindness, irreversible loss
of motor function, thrombosis, mucositis, heart problems,
destruction of bile ducts, bone tissue death, restricted
growth, infertility, lower white and red cell count,
increased risk of leukaemia (specially for women who
received chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer),
ovarian failure, early menopause, lactose malabsorption
etc..

Chemotherapy also often destroys the patient's liver and
kidneys with its harmful effects and negatively assaults
their immune system.

Mechlorethamine, one of the drugs used is so toxic that
medical staff handling it are advised to use gloves and
avoid inhaling it.

A reference for medical personnel handling chemotherapy
advises:

The potential risks involved in handling cytotoxic agents
have become a concern for health care workers. The
literature reports various symptoms such as eye, membrane,
and skin irritation, as well as dizziness, nausea and
headaches experienced by health care workers not using safe
handling precautions.

In addition, increased concerns regarding mutagenesis and
teratogenesis [deformed babies] continue to be
investigated. Many chemotherapy agents, the alkylating
agents in particular, are known to be carcinogenic [cancer
causing] in therapeutic doses.

Medical personnel handling these drugs are advised to wear
double latex gloves, mask, goggles and protective gown.
Amazingly, needles used for injecting the lethal drug is
classified as "hazardous waste" ! Incredible when we are
told that this drug will cure our Cancer.

The medical journal (Lancet 1998) stated that Irinotecan, a
new chemotherapy drug only extends survival by about 3
months but with many side effects.

Chemotherapy is also useless at helping with metastases in
the liver (Arch Med Res, 1998). It has however been shown
to increase the life of patients suffering from ovarian
cancers by a few years and that of lung cancer patients by
a few months.

Treatment of Hodgkin's disease with chemotherapy has also
shown positive results. However, girls treated this way
also have a 35% chance of developing breast cancer in later
life. All children treated this way also are 18 times more
likely to develop secondary tumours.

As Chemotherapy has been found to be (1) carcinogenic (2)
immunosuppressant (3) toxic (4) futile, why is it then that
doctors keep prescribing it?

The answer is extremely simple: they do not know what else
to do and wish to keep in line with what other doctors do.
Although most know that chemotherapy only has a very small
chance of success, they feel that unless they prescribe
something, the patient will go elsewhere and, in most cases
(for allopathic medicine), be prescribed chemotherapy. We
have to understand that this is their training.

In a survey of 79 cancer doctors conducted by McGill
University in the United States, 58 doctors stated that
they would not be part of trials on Chemotherapy drugs.
Why? Because of the ineffectiveness of Chemotherapy and its
toxicity.

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Patrick Hamouy runs a school of Alternative Therapies with
branches in West London and Brighton (UK). He teaches Reiki
Healing, Indian Head Massage, Emotional Freedom Therapy
(EFT), Anatomy & Physiology, Oriental Diagnosis & Psychic
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