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"These malignant cells can resist the onslaught of chemotherapy so toxic as to be lethal were it not for stem-cell transplants to support the patient (Stadtmauer and colleagues, "Conventional-Dose chemotherapy Compared with High-Dose chemotherapy," 2000). Even the standard adjuvant chemotherapy is ineffectual in post-menopausal women, with a modest 10 per cent increase in relapse-free survival at twenty years in pre-menopausal women (Bonadonna and colleagues, "Adjuvant Cyclophosphamide, Methotrexate and Fluorouracil in Node-Positive Breast Cancer," 1995)." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"Minimize Nausea from chemotherapy Treatments I -n = UJ An antidote for the side effects of chemotherapy is pain-free, even though it involves a few needles—acupuncture. chemotherapy irradicates cancer cells as well as white blood cells—the body's infection fighters. But acupuncture can stimulate immune system function. According to practitioners, in some cases, normal white blood cell counts may be restored to a healthy level within one to two sessions. However, some patients may need longer to stimulate their immune system." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"What we want to discuss, instead, is the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, the two treatments that are used extensively to treat cancer. Chemotherapy is the use of certain drugs that destroy the cancer cells and keep them from growing or multiplying. Sounds great! But what about the healthy cells? Do these drugs keep them from growing also? The answer is it does. And this can pose a problem if certain vitally needed cells are also destroyed." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Radiation Therapy Perhaps the most exciting way probiotics can help fight cancer is through its ability to promote health in people undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatments. In 2006, Russian researchers reported the ability of a probiotic called Acilact to improve the health of mice when exposed to ionizing radiation and chemotherapy. The probiotics reduced the ability of bad microbes from invading the intestinal tract. The mice also had improvements in the health of their blood and bone marrow (blood cells are greatly affected by radiation)." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Richard Wilson, of Florida's Excalibur Nurseries, gives many of his berries to cancer patients. chemotherapy makes foods and drinks taste disagreeable and rubbery. According to Florida oncologists, the miracle fruit appears to replace the persistent metallic chemical taste in patients' mouths with a sweet flavor that allows them to enjoy eating once again. "It also counteracts chemotherapy nausea," contends Wilson. "There's a lot of uses for it, some that can't be mentioned on camera," Wilson told me when I first interviewed him in Miami. "Just remember: it makes everything sweeter." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The presently accepted medical approaches for dealing with cancer are to use surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation. These measures destroy tumors but do not eliminate the causes. They do nothing to rebuild resistance, promote healing, and restore health. In fact, they add considerably to the stresses the body must then attempt to cope with in its already weakened state. Almost the entire focus of our western cancer research programs is on eliminating the cancer, not the cause. The main cancer treatments of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are, in effect, options of cut, burn, or poison." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"To shut one's eyes to the discoveries of chemotherapy... is, one feels, foolishness. The 'pure' homeopath so called is a crank living in his own litde cell. The complete physician is he who endeavours to know all, and knowing all, to choose what is best for the patient.37 Another correspondent took a slightly different approach to the process and goals of integration: 'I would view with regret any tendency to segregate Homeopathy more than is necessary for the preservation of our hospitals, because that is not the way of progress." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"On her physician's advice, Anne underwent chemotherapy and radiation, but eventually felt worn out and exhausted. "I just couldn't take any more chemo or radiation," she said. "I needed to do something. So I began taking the IPg with inositol from Enzymatic Therapy. I'm telling you, the difference it has made in life is nothing short of miraculous. Whereas before, I could hardly move, now I am able to get up and get around. IPg with inositol gives me the energy I need. People don't think I have cancer. My lab results show that it is working." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"A very dangerous drug, 5-Fluorouracil (5FU), commonly used in chemotherapy for colon cancer, did not—as purported—reduce mortality. "One can only hope," he wrote, "that the good judgment of the American physician will dissuade him from treating thousands of postoperative colon cancer patients with this toxic drug in the misinformed belief that it will provide them with therapeutic benefit." Two years later, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Moertel still maintained that 5FU had no clinical value." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Both hair texture change and hair loss are also common reactions to chemotherapy or radiation treatment for cancer. The good news is that both these changes are usually temporary. VYour hairdresser can be your friend in more ways than one. Hairdressers are often the first to recognize and remark on hair texture changes.These changes may be the early clues to thyroid conditions and other underdiagnosed disorders. HAIR COLOR CHANGES Hair color, like eye and skin color, depends primarily on how much melanin (color-producing pigments) we inherit from our parents." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "The hair sometimes reverts to its original color when an underlying condition is treated or after finishing a course of chemotherapy or radiation. But it's not the individual hairs that return to their previous color. Rather, the new hair grows in the original color, and sometimes even darker. So the change will take a while to occur. WARNING SIGN Smoking appears linked to hair loss and gray hair.The toxic elements in tobacco smoke can damage the DNA in our hair follicles, as well as the tiny blood vessels nourishing our hair and skin." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"It also lists numerous cardiovascular drugs, antiinflammatory and antiinfective agents, hormones, chemotherapy drugs, and miscellaneous others. Yet, as thorough as the article is, it leaves out antidepressants as a cause of depression, confirming how slow the profession has been to identify these culprits. HOW THE CONCEPT OF SPELLBINDING CAME ABOUT WHEN I BEGAN WORKING on Medication Madness, no one had as yet put together this package of effects that I am calling medication spellbinding. The concept occurred to me while I was reviewing dozens of cases for inclusion in the book." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Radiationrelated dry mouth is permanent, while the dry mouth from chemotherapy is usually temporary. Dry mouth may be an early warning sign of certain autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren's syndrome. (See Appendix I.) Other common signs £ o > 11 i r SIGNIFICANT FACT or Sjogren s, which primarily arc 1 ij \«w/ Theoretically, any substance, rects women, are dry eye, nasal dry- ' ' disease, or marker that can be ness, and joint inflammation. detected jn the b|ood can Lastly, dry mouth can signal serious also be found in the saliva." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Pomegranate fruit juice for chemoprevention and chemotherapy of prostate cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2005 Oct 11;102(41):14813-14818. Mori-Okamoto J, Otawara-Hamamoto Y, Yamato H, Yoshimura H. Pomegranate extract improves a depressive state and bone properties in menopausal syndrome model ovariectomized mice./Ethnopharmacol. 2004 May;92(l):93-101. Pantuck AJ, Leppert IT, Zomorodian N, Aronson W, Hong J, Barnard RJ, Seeram N, Liker H, Wang H, Elashoff R, Heber D, Aviram M, Ignarro L, Belldegrun A." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"CHEMOTHERAPY. chemotherapy involves introducing drugs, usually through injection, that kill cancer cells by interfering with the way they reproduce. Often a variety of drugs is used to combat the uncanny ability of cancer cells to adapt in ways that can make them resistant to chemotherapy's effects. But if the right combination is used, results can be dramatic. Also dramatic, however, can be chemotherapy's side effects: nausea, vomiting, hair loss, sores in the mouth, diarrhea and increased susceptibility to infection." - Matthew Hoffman and William Legro, Disease Free: How to Prevent, Treat and Cure More Than 150 Illnesses and Conditions (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, no one would undergo chemotherapy as a preventive approach to reducing cancer risk. Fosamax and Actonel are essentially chemotherapy for osteoclast bone cells—poison used for prevention. The True Cause of Excess Bone Loss Thankfully, new science is shedding light on the true cause of bone loss. Researchers are now answering the question, "What causes there to be so many osteoclasts that eat away at bone?" Bisphos-phonate drugs do not address the source of the problem." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"The patient, in fact, tests cancer-free half way through the chemotherapy program. Nevertheless, the doctor insists on the last two or three rounds of chemo. And the patient dies as a result of the chemo in those final rounds. 2. Why most of the current research is a waste of time and money This is magic bullet nonsense. Take the search for the cancer gene. Are there genes that give one a predisposition to getting cancer? Absolutely. This is exactly what the Baseline of Health talks about when it refers to your Personal Health Line at the time of birth." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "And of course, daily use of formulations comprised of the herbs discussed in this chapter has been proven to significantly enhance the immune system across the board—even in the face of aggressive chemotherapy. Immune Boosters: Echinacea, Pau d'arco, Suma, Reishi, Maitake, Cordyceps Pathogen Destroyers: Garlic, Onion, Ginger, Habenero juice, Horseradish, Apple cider vinegar • The mental exercises and visualizations outlined in the next chapter can double immune function in as little as 24 hours." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Migraines, depression, back pain, allergies, arthritis, nausea (whether from morning sickness or chemotherapy), addictions, insomnia, and chronic pain: these mundane forms of morbidity have proven unresponsive to biomedical solutions. Meanwhile, the time consumed in repeatedly addressing them biomedically has grown increasingly costly and scarce for patients and practitioners alike. But governments, especially, are committed to 'evidence-based medicine', and reluctant to spend taxpayers' money on unregulated and unproven procedures." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"And maybe, most damning of all, these treatments are deadly in and of themselves. chemotherapy drugs are incredibly toxic. The fundamental premise behind their use is actually frightening. "We're going to give you some of the most powerful poisons we know in all creation. Why? Well, we hope your cancer will pull the poison in faster than the rest of your body—and therefore die before you do. Of course, if we're wrong, you'll die from the treatment and not your cancer." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Robin and I were both thrilled that the lumpectomy was an apparent success and that her chemotherapy seemed to be working to contain the cancer. But well into the meeting, one doctor began to fidget, finally asking if anyone had looked at the results of a recent liver scan. The team quickly departed, leaving Robin and me in an empty examining room for 30 or 40 minutes. Eventually, a grim faced oncologist returned. The cancer had metastasized to her liver. It looked as if she was terminal." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In 1982, his doctors added multiple radiation treatments to the regular chemotherapy, but these produced severe side effects, including the loss of all body hair and Jeromy's sense of taste. His distress was considerable. Yet, despite numerous traumatic experiences caused by the various treatments during the following fourteen years, Jeromy was not willing to give into depression and desperation. His strong fighting spirit permitted him to continue his work as a general manager of a successful business enterprise." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Lee successfully treated many prostate cancer patients who recovered and did not have to resort to the standard medical treatments of surgery and chemotherapy, by using diet, antioxidants, progesterone, and testosterone.20 He also explains why the psa (Prostate Specific Antigen) count is not a reliable indicator of cancer because it is based on an erroneous understanding of the role of psa in the body. He suggests that men should endeavor to maintain healthy levels of progesterone and testosterone for both preventing and treating prostate cancer." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Closer analysis shows that the introduction of streptomycin barely changed the slope of decline, and that, moreover, chemotherapy accounted for only 3.2% of the entire reduction of deaths since 1848 from that once dreaded disease.14 The story repeats itself in the United States. Between 1900 and 1971, reductions in mortality from tuberculosis accounted for 16.5% of the total decrease in mortality. Yet most of this benefit occurred prior to the availability of antibiotics. According to calculations by the McKinleys, only 8." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Radiation burns tissues. chemotherapy, using chemicals such as mustard gas or warfarin (also used as rat poison), poisons the cells to kill them. Although in some cases, depending on how advanced the cancer is, initial improvement is gained, the long-term prospects are not good because the cause or reason that the cancer developed in the first place, has not been dealt with. Further, the body must also deal with the trauma and/or toxins from the medical intervention. The body's cellular communication system is like an electronic network." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Jason's medical team put him on a regimen of high-dose interferon treatments in addition to his radiation and chemotherapy. "The treatments made me so sick I was down to one hundred and forty pounds, and I was doubled over the toilet most of the day," he recalls. "I believe what kept me going, my savior, was a statement I had written in bold letters, laminated, and pasted on the floor right next to the toilet. As I was bent over the bowl vomiting, I tried not to take my eyes off that card." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "For the lengthy duration of her chemotherapy and other medical procedures, Nancy told everyone about her Intentions. These Intentions, emphatically restated and therefore never forgotten through the long course of her cancer treatment, drove all of Nancy's decisions. She told her boss not to give her job away. She made it a practice to call a few friends each day. She wrote thank-you notes to all the people who had expressed their love and concern to her. She made sure to keep active in as many nonmedical parts of her life as was possible. And she showed up at work." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "But when Terry learned she had leukemia and was facing months of aggressive chemotherapy and isolation from others to create a more sterile environment, she took a steep dive into the panic zone. "My first response was shock. Then came outright fear and hostility. I knew they were natural responses, but I also knew they wouldn't help me." Coincidentally, Terry had recently attended one of our seminars and had been particularly taken by the notion of assertively living Centralities and thought they might help her now." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "Like many cancer patients, chemotherapy was part of her treatment regimen, and like almost all chemo patients, Nancy didn't look forward to the sessions. In fact, she hated them. But on some level, Nancy knew that she could not maintain her hatred without a cost. Already several weeks into the treatments, Nancy realized she needed an entirely new mind-set to create a healthier alignment with her treatment and to empower her recovery. "I had to make friends with the chemo because it was my lifeline," she says. "I couldn't hate or dread it." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"If there is cancer present, treatments usually focus on surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation. THE TRAINING OF DOCTORS Medical doctors are educated and trained to look for disease, and to use pharmaceutical drugs as the treatment of choice. They receive almost no instruction in the nutritional aspects of disease prevention. A 1999-2000 survey of 122 medical and osteopathic schools in the United States found that, in the 98 schools responding, only an average of between 6 and 30 hours of nutrition courses was required, including material integrated into other courses." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

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