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Chemo Does Not Cure: Often It Inflicts Damage and Spreads Cancer
Tony Isaacs
(NaturalNews) For years now, many of us who advocate natural health and natural approaches to beating cancer have warned against the dangers and the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy. The following report presented at the 27th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium illustrates how chemo actually spreads cancer cells, as well as points out how little we are being told about the dangers of chemo:
“German investigators from Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, have shown that taxol (the “gold standard of chemo”) causes a massive release of cells into circulation.
“Such a release of cancer cells would result in extensive metastasis months or even years later, long after the chemo would be suspected as the cause of the spread of the cancer. This little known horror of conventional cancer treatment needs to be spread far and wide, but it is not even listed in the side effects of taxol.”
As has oft been stated, chemo does not cure cancer – it merely attempts to eliminate the tumors and cancer cells that are symptoms of the underlying causes of cancer, and does so with little success and great risks. In some instances it may appear to eliminate tumors and cancer cell masses, though most often it merely destroys some of the cancer cells. In the process, it often inflicts a very high price.
Besides spreading cancer cells, chemo inflicts serious and perhaps irreversible damage to the immune system, the body’s natural first line of defense against cancer and other illness – thus paving the way for the remaining cancer cells or future cancers to overwhelm a body that is even less able to beat the cancer that got past the immune system in the first place.
Chemo also frequently results in serious and even fatal damage, and major organs are also damaged, particularly the liver – which as cancer pioneer Max Gerson observed is always impaired to begin in those who get cancer. The heart is also frequently seriously damaged.
The end result is that chemo kills more patients than it “cures”. Most of those deaths are the result of liver or heart failure. Statistically, it has been estimated that the five year success rate from chemo is only about 3% (meaning only about 3% more patients who opted for chemo survived at least five years than did those who opted to not undergo chemo). But even that meager statistic is misleading in two key ways:
First of all, though survival rates are slightly higher for the first couple of years compared to those who opted out of chemo, after the third year the survival rate for those who opted out is greater than those who were treated with chemo and the gap widens significantly every year after that.
Secondly, and perhaps most important of all, the survival rates compare all of those who either undergo chemotherapy or decide against it. That includes the very large number of people who do little or nothing to address their chemo and naturally and merely forego chemo. If chemo survival rates were compared with those of people who not only opted out of chemo, but also chose a non-invasive natural protocol to eliminate the toxins and other causes of cancer, to boost their immune systems and to attack the cancer naturally without inflicting damage to the rest of the body, there would surely be no comparison.
You can bet that it is a comparison the cancer industry never wants to make.
Sources Included:
27th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, (abstract 6014)
“Conventional Cancer Treatments” alternativecancer.us/conventional.htm
“Hiding the Truth about Losing the War on Cancer” http://tbyil.com/waroncancer.htm
About the author
Tony Isaacs, is a natural health advocate and researcher and the author of books and articles about natural health including “Cancer’s Natural Enemy” and “Collected Remedies”as well as song lyrics and humorous anecdotal stories. Mr. Isaacs also has The Best Years in Life website for baby boomers and others wishing to avoid prescription drugs and mainstream managed illness and live longer, healthier and happier lives naturally. He is currently residing in the scenic Texas hill country near Utopia, Texas where he serves as a consultant to the Utopia Silver colloidal silver and supplement company and where he is working on a major book project due for publication later this year. Mr. Isaacs also hosts the CureZone “Ask Tony Isaacs” forum as well as the Yahoo Health Group “Oleander Soup”
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HOw do we get this information into the main newspapers and onto all the public media?
Big business and the Insurance companies will shout this down . ONe huge probelm is money to pay for all the new buildings that have been up to cater to the western method of treating cancer Chemo is big business and the iatrogenic consequences of treatment also guarantee more money and beds being occupied in hospitals.
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This information should be front page news on every Newspaper throughout the U.S.A. As a hospice nurse I have known this for many years. Will certainly be interested in the book.
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Isn’t the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium report referenced in this article from 2004? While I’m no advocate of Chemo, articles like yours would be much more authoritative if they would include dates of articles referenced, and wherever possible, include a link to the original article so that readers can see the full text in context.
Keep up the good work!
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Five years ago I decided not to participate in traditional chemo treatment but took estrogen reducing med for 5 months, wish I had not, caused nasty changes in my body, Astra-zeneca had “no info” on side effects but said” don’t worry, honey, in a couple years we will have something new for you to take”.. treating MD called me a difficult patient, Strongly encourage anyone not to panic but think first.
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David Gomes Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Hi Helga,
Please do a Goggle search on Tong Ren healing. It is a distant healing modality (non-contact energy healing) that has had a 90% plus success rate with breast cancer. More importantly, there are NO negative side effects, and most of the healing is done for free. The medical establishment is trying to ignore Tong Ren, but it will prevail.
Good Luck in any event,
Dave
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I have undergone a double mastectomy in 2008 followed by 4 treatments of A/C chemo and then 12 weeks of Taxol and Herceptin and then 4 more infusions of herceptin ubtil my heart started showing signs of congestive heart failure. I have since been going to a wellness center as of late Jan 09 and I am on many supplements to try and restore some semblance of my former self. I am 49 and I get very angry after reading all these articles as when you are diagnosed it is an extremely difficult time to be trying to make all the decisions when the whole medical community is steering you in a single direction and your insurance will only pay for main stream treatments. Plainly…it sucks and now I have to live with the results of the damage that chemo has wreaked on my body. Too bad!
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Six years ago I was told that I was terminal and that my only hope for survival was a very toxic chemotherapy protocol. I ws told that I coudnñt be cured. That the cancer would keep coming back and that each time it did, I would have to undergo chemo again. Fortunately, I had access to the internet and had read a fine book called World Without Cancer. I went on line and found a hospital (outside the US,of course)that does non’toxic natural treatments. After carefully researching the treatments there, I took my retirement savings and traveled. I´m still alive and active. The cancer is not completely gone but it is under control. Any complications I have exeprienced have been the result of incorrect diagnosis and treatment here in the US. Chemo doesn´t cure!Friends who were diagnosed after me and submitted to chemo are dead and buried after only a few years of treatment.
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valerie mcintyre Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 9:20 am
I just read your comment regarding your experience with cancer. Could you give me more info. My husband has bladder cancer. Has had surgery removing a small portion of his bladder. He has undergone chemo and now faces radiation. I don’t like any of this! I couldn’t convince him to try other methods. He will only listen to his doctors. One of these doctors told us quote, ‘Don’t go to Mexico or Europe to find alternative cures. They don’t work.’ Unquote. I feel helpless and in the middle with my husband on one side and the doctors on the other. At this time, I don’t believe my husband will listen any better than he did previously but I would like the info just the same.
Thank you,
Valerie
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Catherine Greene Reply:
October 14th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Dear Valerie,
My treatment was at Oasis of Hope hospital in a suburb of Tijuana, Playas. There I did the Issels treatment, which is quite detailed. The people with whom I worked are now at CHIPSA Hospital, also in Playas. You can find both hospitals on the internet by typing in their names. They have pretty extensive websites. The person with whom I work is a man named Gar Hildenbrand. He also has several websites.
Catherine Greene
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My boss just shared this with me & I couldn’t agree more. I just completed my cancer treatment 3 months ago. % months of chemo & 38 days of radiation followed by a requirement to take FUMARA for 5 years in order for insurance to continue to cover me!
I have decided not to take the FUMARA!
I am horrified by the whole WESTERN MEDICINE scene!
My brother died in 2008 after a couple rounds of chemo and I was diagnosed a month after his death! How scary is that you ask?
Well the comment above said it all. When you feel like your choices are limited and your head is foggy from the unknown the traditional route is what stares you in the face. I couldn’t be happier to hear that there is finally a podium for a non invasive option. Thank you all that have continued research and found a voice in the world to offer a real life choice and future.
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Some twenty + years ago I learned that cancer cases grew to alarming rates in an area in the Ecuadorian jungle, where oil companies were extracting petroleum. Of course, benzene, one of the components of petroleum is highly carcinogenic, and any contact with the skin of animals or humans puts their life in high risk, because it is absorbed by the skin. Petroleum spills in rivers and along the roads occurred frequently in the Province of Napo, now divided in three provinces. However, a couple of physicians offered a natural experimental treatment to patients with leukemia, who were told there was no cure for them, to go home and try to make the best of the few months left for them to live. The physicians used some beverages made with bitter herbs and sour juices, some of them were boiled, some were mashed to extract the juice of it. After several months of that treatment, plus changes in their diet, the patients recovered and lived many more years.
Two or three years ago a program on NPR talked about the discovery of a plant in the jungle in some Asian country, which was found to have anti-cancer properties. Pharmaceutical companies demanded to be given patent rights to isolate the medicinal components of the plant from components that may cause negative side effects. The pharmaceutical companies allowed little or no benefits to the country where the plant was found. Because the demand of the pharmaceuticals was not met, they refused to process it and make it available in tablets for patients to take.
The reason we still do not have a cure for cancer readily available in hospitals and clinics is because the cancer industry has blocked any advances made by independent physicians using natural remedies, which would cost very little compared to the costs in the conventional form of western medicine. Ralph Moss, who worked as a communications agent for drug companies explains this topic in more detail in his book, “The cancer industry.” All the funds raised for cancer research from the public, plus government grants for the same purpose, actually delays any progress to develop a safer and more effective method for treating cancer.
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My mother in law had breast cancer 15 years ago, caused by Hormone Replacement Therapy. She had a mastectomy and 5 rounds of chemo. To this day, she has heart problems, colds, flus, fatigue, vertigo, and general malaise. I’m convinced that the chemo wiped out her immune system and this is the result.
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WOW. I’m officially a senior citizen, but also an 11 1/2 year (terminal) cancer survivor nontheless. I seldom do emails, etc. but stumbled onto this just now, and am glad for the information and comments of things I have experienced and so strongly share. I, too, read the book, World Without Cancer, and was able to follow that protocal at an 18 day clinic in Oklahoma. I continued with the program and postponed the recommended chemo and radiation suggested (mandated) by my surgon, etc. Although told I could not survive 6 months I am still around!! I not only survived but began to thrive and found improvement of many of the other chronic ailments I had been living with. Tho “illegal” in all but three of the US states, I was concerned about the continued availability of the naturtal vitamin product I was depending upon.
Then in 2001 I found the same quality and function of needed immune support supplements that are legal and available!! I tell anyone that will listen that they DO have choices and can build a stronger healthier body, with or without chemo, etc. Also there is a similar program in Nebraska at one fifth the cost of some programs in Mexico. It has a 5 day program, a 10 day program….for many ailments, including cancer, and simple prevention wellness programs for at home.
Hope the word keeps spreading that there ARE natural things that DO work! Best wishes and prayers to all.
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Julie Reply:
October 10th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Could you tell me the program that’s in NE and exactly where it’s located?
I live in NE. and would greatly appreciate it if you could share the information you have.
Thanks, ever so much!
Julie
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leonard Thomas Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 8:09 am
my wife has colon cancer and dosen’t want to do chemo and we need a viable option. please send me the info on the clinic you talked about in your comments.
Thank you, and my God continue to bless you with good health!
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Dawn Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I am very interested in finding out more about immune support supplements Linda Abbot wrote about. Please e-mail me.
Thank you
dc
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I’m a firm believer that this is all true.
My mom has being diagnosed w/advanced breast cancer. Where do I find a surgeon who will treat her without chemotherapy? I need to make a decision quickly. I will not be able to live with myself for giving the ok for lethat treatment for my mother. Please advise. tia
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Yvonne Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
If you write to me at my email address, I will send you the email address of a friend who had surgery and did not have chemo. She is doing fine, plus she does quite a few alternative treatments.
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I’m a firm believer that this is all true.
My mom has being diagnosed w/advanced breast cancer. Where do I find a surgeon who will treat her without chemotherapy? I need to make a decision quickly. I will not be able to live with myself for giving the ok for lethal treatment for my mother. Please advise. tia
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Michelle r. Taylor Reply:
October 9th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Hello Beth,
Read your comment, and as an avid fan of holistic and natural health since I am a certified reflexologist and faithfully believe in holistic health, I highly reccomend that you take your mother to a licensed Naturopath or Homeopath in your state if your state licenses them.
They would be more apt to apply a more natural and wholistic approach to your mothers cancer and use a natural diet that would help her heal and also use good quality herbs and supplements to add to the healing process.
That is what I would do if it were me, if you do not know of one, and you have acccess to a computer, you can always do a search for one.
Best of luck, keep in touch and let me know how things work out for you.
God Bless.
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Interesting article but I wish it were more detailed. I always like to get other opinions on medically related topics, as I am in the field (Chinese Medicine).
However, in order for this article to be helpful, it really needs to go into more depth. For example, the following statement
“though survival rates are slightly higher for the first couple of years compared to those who opted out of chemo, after the third year the survival rate for those who opted out is greater than those who were treated with chemo and the gap widens significantly every year after that.”
needs to state the reference (is this from the symposium?) and give more information regarding the study. What sort of treatments did the people opting for the natural route receive? Did some not get treated at all? Were there any differences between these groups?
I know of quite a few people who have gone through chemo and have lived many years. There may be natural remedies out there that work but I do not know about them. The author should have reported on some of them.
The author here should try to be more informative, give more details, and not be as biased. The high amount of bias along with the lack of information makes me doubt the credibility of all of it. Still, it has got me thinking and wanting to look into it more.
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Andrea Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I agree David, thank you for saying this. It is good information, but I would like to know the specific sources and a detailed description of the study. Also, I agree that chemo can be very harmful toward healthy cells (which is why there needs to be much more research on treatments that can be discriminative toward cancer cells – such as hyperthermia done in Germany or immunotherapies). However, it is interesting to note that taxol actually comes from a plant (the bark of the Pacific Yew tree). Even natural treatments, especially if isolated, can cause side effects. This is why one must take all information from any source and judge it. For example, one treatment considered “natural” but really isn’t (it is still composed of chemicals produced in a factory with extreme levels of sodium), Burzynski’s antineoplastons, affected my boyfriend horribly (he had a gbm and passed away almost 2 years ago). It caused extreme inflammation in his brain, and he acted very differently. He also got no sleep because of all the fluids and constantly had to get up. They had him take over 30 mg of steroids (because inflammation is especially dangerous, even lethal, in the brain), which had he not gone through this treatment would have been weaned off of them by M.D. Anderson. So a supposedly more natural clinic gave him an extremely expensive treatment which didn’t do anything to help, had very bad side effects, and made him take steroids (as well as huge amounts of pharmaceutical potassium to balance out the high levels of sodium in the IV treatment). Things are not always as they seem at first. When he got off this treatment, the tumor had grown significantly, however even with this he was able to function much better for a few months.
I am all for using natural treatments, and very importantly nutrition, to help with any kind of medical condition. It is smart to use all weapons available. However, it is very important to objectively, with scientific methods available, evaluate any potential treatment no matter the source. Even natural treatments may not be as natural as they seem at first, and although usually safer than pharmaceuticals, can be dangerous depending on what it is and the dosage.
With that being said, I can still easily believe that some chemos such as taxol can cause metastasis and other very very bad results (including mutation), and more research REALLY needs to be done to find effective methods that will stop grade/stage 4 tumors from growing without harming the patient. If treatments effective against GBM’s had been available (and knowledge about them widespread) in the States, the love of my life may still be alive.
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My mother received Taxol and a number of other toxic solutions 7 years ago with her chemo for breast cancer. 4 years ago she developed bladder cancer, and just last month was diagnosed with lung and liver mets. According to Cancer Statistics, she would be considered a post chemo cancer survivor as she lived the required 5 years after diagnosis. The chemo drugs she had injected and ingested were so toxic the nurses wore hazmat suits preparing it. Everyone in the chemo room was on a different toxic regime even if they had the same type of cancer as my mom (I asked each of them and examined their IV bags). This struck me then as one huge experiment and all these people taking chemo were the guinea pigs. With her bladder cancer she requires regular bladder scoping and removal of any visible tumours. Now that she has lung and liver mets, she is considered palliative. I am really angry. We are looking into natural remedies and treatments to detoxify her as we build her immunity. We are also looking at high VitC intravenous injections to target the cancer cells. We have discovered German New Medicine as a method of understanding how and why the body produces cancer and how we can naturally heal those cancers. I wish the best to everyone fighting this. In conclusion, I believe Big Pharma is the cause of the majority of our illnesses and it is in their best financial interest to keep us ill. Go natural, boycott prescription medicine (nature has all the remedies), and donate nothing to the Cancer Society. God Bless all of you that are dealing with their aftermath
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I have colon cancer also went into my lymp’s
What to do?I did a lot of re
and came up with chemo. Did not know how to fined Mexico Address. I don’t like Chemo But I am starting Friday Oct. 16th.
Wish I would have got help from some one.I feel like I have bin pushed into it.I had 1/2 of my colon removed.The Dr. sayed I have only 8 weeks to decide.So it has been 8 weeks and that is all the time I have.
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I recommend the Dr Clark protocols to anyone I hear about who has cancer. But very few people are willing to believe that the whole medical profession could be wrong. Or to make the effort necessary to get well. It can seem daunting at first, and hard to believe. And the existence of such a vast array of alternative approaches, some of which are very weird, doesn’t help. Dr Hulda Clark (who died recently in her eighties following an accident) was a scientist – a bio physicist. I have all her books, several zappers, a frequency generator and a synchrometer. I am my own doctor, and have used Dr Clark’s approach to clear up duodenal ulcers amongst other things. I was a cancer case waiting to happen, but I feel confident that following her advice I can avoid it. She advocates “self health” and doesn’t think people should be making money from other people’s illness. (The alternative world is perhaps just as guilty of this as the medical profession and drug companies.) If you are in the early stages of cancer you can do it all yourself, and the stuff you need is not that expensive. Anyone who is sick should get her books. They are on Amazon and you can even get them second hand on Ebay. (Some people don’t know what they are getting rid of.)Or just google Dr Hulda Clark. History will prove her to have been a pioneer.
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Pat Clark Reply:
May 10th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I am glad Amy shared about Hulga Clark’s books. I am borrowing one called “The Cure for all Cancers” and have just ordered 2 of the same and 1 other book by her from Amazon.com site and am anxious to read them and share with others. Most of all I want to try what she has told us to do along with my husband who has just been diagnosed with bladder cancer. He had a scope done and they removed some blood clots and a tumor which we just got the results from today. They are ordering a full body scan to see if it has gone outside of the bladder. He has the option of Radiation and Chemo or have it removed. We would like to go the natural route first. He just lost his sister to Ovarian Cancer in Aug 2009 and she went the Chemo route. She had had her Ovaries removed 3 years before then got this large tumor that wrapped around her bowel and attached to her uretha tubes from the kidneys. After the surgery to remove the tumor and the Chemo which made her sick she died anyway 18 months after the surgery. I’ve read a lot online about cancer etc. and tend to go for the natural route. Thank you for your article and thank you Amy for sharing about Hulga Clark. (Our last name is Clark too!)
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My daughter has terminal State iv breast cancer that has spread through her body. she is at the end and still hanging. She and her children are trying to decide if their mother should continue chemo. Her doctor says that she should not continue to use chemo. At this stage, i feel that the chemo Herceptin is useless. Anita L Riet
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