Posted on February 20, 2010.
Chemotherapy - is it real response to cancer? Before accepting treatment, it is important to know what the treatment is. In this spirit, I have introduced in the main form of treatment used to treat cancer:
Chemotherapy - Chemotherapy was developed after scientists realized that the deadly mustard gas used in WWII to kill people - Cyclophosphamide - could kill rapidly dividing cells, such as 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 the leading scientists are saying about this drug:
* Late Dr Hardin Jones, professor at the University of California at Berkeley concluded in 1975, after analyzing cancer survival statistics for several decades that patients are as good or better, "untreated.
* Dr Charles Moertel of the Mayo Clinic in Baltimore said the major chemotherapeutic drug, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) only produces an objective response in 15-20% of patients. Even then, improvements have been only partial and temporary. This very poor is counterbalanced by the drug's toxicity and disruption caused by the devastating emotional effects.
* A German epidemiologist, Dr. Ulrich Abel has studied most of the published reports of chemotherapy and wrote to a cancer center and 350 experts and others said that "Success of most chemotherapies is appalling. There is no evidence of its ability to significantly extend the lives of cancer patients the most common organic. He also said that "when a tumor mass partially or temporarily disappears, the remaining tumor cells sometimes grow much faster thereafter. Often, patients do not respond to chemotherapy survived longer than those who do. "
Dr. Abel has also published details of the survival of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy as follows:
* Bladder - No statistics available
* From the heart - No evidence of an increase in life expectancy
* Cervix / uterus - No evidence of an increase in life expectancy
* Colorectal - No increase in life expectancy
* Gastric cancer - No evidence of improved
* Head and Neck - No improvement in life expectancy (tumors can reduce)
* The ovary - No evidence of an increase in life expectancy
* Pancreatic - more negative than patients who were not treated
Depending on the specific chemotherapy drug is used, side effects: nausea, vomiting, hair loss, potential damage to nerves and kidneys, hearing loss, seizures, bone marrow depression, anemia, blindness, irreversible loss of motor function, thrombosis, inflammation of mucous membranes, heart problems, destruction of bile ducts, the death of bone tissue, the limited growth, infertility, Lower white and red blood cell count, increased risk of leukemia (especially for women who received chemotherapy and radiotherapy for breast cancer), ovarian failure, premature menopause, lactose malabsorption, etc. ..
Chemotherapy often also destroys the patient's liver and kidneys with its adverse effects and negative attacks their immune system.
Mechlorethamine, one of the drugs used is so toxic that medical treatment is recommended to use gloves and avoid breathing.
A reference for the medical treatment of chemotherapy recommends:
The potential risks associated with handling cytotoxic agents have become a concern for health care workers. The literature reports various symptoms such as eye, membrane, and skin irritation, and dizziness, nausea and headache experienced by health care workers not using safety precautions.
In addition, increasing concerns regardin.