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"Many chemotherapy drugs like vinblastine and vincristine today are based on these natural plant molecules, but they can cause many side effects and are extremely toxic. In contrast, the Pao and Rauwolfia extracts contained in Prostabel are natural plant alkaloids that are devoid of toxicity, as opposed to most synthetic patented substances. It is regulated in the U.S. as a dietary supplement. The following websites provide more information about Dr. Beljanski's scientific research: www.beljanski." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Ulrich Abel from the Tumor Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, conducted the most comprehensive investigation of every major clinical study on chemotherapy drugs ever done. Abel contacted 350 medical centers and asked them to send him anything they had ever published on chemotherapy. He also reviewed and analyzed thousands of scientific articles published in the most prestigious medical journals. It took Abel several years to collect and evaluate the data." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "This includes almost every diagnostic procedure and treatment modality that is offered to you in your doctor's office or by your local hospital—most notably, the use of chemotherapy drugs and radiation. If your car has engine trouble, would you entrust it to a mechanic who offered you a 10 percent guarantee of fixing it? I don't think so. You would more likely take your car to someone who is properly trained to look for and repair the causes of the malfunctioning engine rather than making a couple of superficial adjustments." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "To damage healthy cells in the process of destroying cancer cells through chemotherapy drugs or radiation is bound to breed new, more aggressive cancer cells. The only real chance of surviving cancer depends on the amount of support the patient musters to strengthen the body's own healing efforts. The approach to treating cancer as a disease is not only fraught with dangers and needless suffering, but it also fails to address the underlying issue of diet." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Many doctors go as far as prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients for malignancies that are far too advanced for surgery, with the full knowledge that there are no benefits at all. Yet they claim chemotherapy to be an effective cancer treatment, and their unsuspecting patients believe that "effective" equals "cure." The doctors, of course, refer to the FDA's definition of an "effective" drug, one which achieves a 50% or more reduction in tumor size for 28 days." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (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.)

"Individual chemotherapy drugs have different potential for GI side effects, and this is a topic for you and your oncology team to discuss. Any way you slice it, chemotherapy drugs have the potential to impose drastic depletions in every class of nutrient, including proteins, fats, and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). Some pointers: ?Eat healthfully. Do what you can to eat a very healthy diet while undergoing chemo. This is probably the most important step you can take towards helping yourself to heal." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Siegel told of two oncologists chatting about a study they were participating in to test a combination of four chemotherapy drugs, which had the initials EPHO. One doctor's patients were doing spectacularly well; three quarters of them were responding to the drugs. But only a quarter of the other doctor's patients were improving. Then the first doctor explained that he had simply rearranged the letters of the drugs so they spelled HOPE. People in the audience listening to Dr. Siegel were blown away by this. Robert Buckman was one of them." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The chemotherapy drugs alone ran into the tens of thousands of dollars. Women spent at least three weeks in an isolation room in the hospital, protected from the infections that teemed in the outside world and racking up charges while waiting for their bone marrow to regrow. Publicly, insurers argued that the treatment was still unproved and experimental, and thus not something they were compelled by law to cover." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Individual chemotherapy drugs have different potential for GI side effects, and this is a topic for you and your oncology team to discuss. Any way you slice it, chemotherapy drugs have the potential to impose drastic depletions in every class of nutrient, including proteins, fats, and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). Some pointers: • Eat healthfully. Do what you can to eat a very healthy diet while undergoing chemo. This is probably the most important step you can take towards helping yourself to heal." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"He wanted to give her extremely high doses of several chemotherapy drugs, doses toxic enough, he believed, 117 to deal her cancer a mighty blow. Unfortunately, the chemo might also kill Diane. Such high doses of the drugs would wipe out her bone marrow, which makes the immune cells of the blood, leaving her vulnerable to dying from the least little infection. Peters explained that he would attempt to "rescue" her once the chemotherapy was finished, with an infusion of her own bone marrow, which he would extract from her hip bone before starting the chemotherapy." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (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.)

"It is not correct to say that the drug AZT used to treat AIDS, or the chemotherapy drugs, radiation or surgery applied to a malignant tumor are all useless or harmful. Conversely, it is also not right to claim that all natural treatments are useful or harmless. Considering the power that the placebo effect can have in any one person, it becomes clear that even poison like AZT may turn into nectar if a patient is convinced that it will cure his AIDS." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Even more exciting is the finding that these same oils, especially the DHA component, suppress the growth and spread of these same cancers and enhance the effectiveness of certain chemotherapy drugs against the cancers. Prostate Cancer A Swedish study reported in the journal Lancet found that among 6,272 Swedish men followed for thirty years, those who ate no fish had two to three times the incidence of prostate cancer as those who ate either moderate or large amounts of fish." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Commonly, chemotherapy drugs damage normal cells in the bone marrow, digestive tract, reproductive system, and hair follicles because these cells are dividing nearly as rapidly as tumor cells, although the damaged cells often recover after treatment is suspended. Other side effects caused by chemotherapy can include hair loss, mouth sores, nausea, vomiting, abnormal blood profiles, suppression of the immune response, and difficulty swallowing. Slow growing cancers, such as bowel cancers, are especially hard to treat in part because they grow slower than most tumors." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Do chemotherapy drugs cause cancer? ... 86 Chemotherapy facilitates the spread of cancer... 87 Insanity of chemotherapy... 87 Chemotherapy effectiveness is often impossible ... 88 Side effects not reported in published studies ... 88 Chemo brain ... 88 Multi-drug therapy... 89 Chemotherapy doesn't work once cancer has spread ... 89 Nanotechnology... 90 Anemia: Erythropoietin ... 91 Cancer Immunotherapy... 92 Weight loss and wasting ... 92 Do nutrients interfere with or enhance chemotherapy? ... 92 Antioxidants overcome side effects... 93 False assertions ..." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "When folic acid is added to chemotherapy drugs, levamisole and 5-FU, it increases survival by about 12%. [Annals Surgery 242: 178-87, 2005] While folic acid is widely recognized as a preventive agent against colon cancer, malignant cells in the colon, but not healthy cells, exhibit low folic acid levels. Many colon cancer patients have normal blood levels of folic acid. The depletion of folic acid in cancerous tissue appears to be a local problem." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "Canadian Medical Association Journal 109: 697-99, 1973] "Of the conventional chemotherapy drugs available, only diethylstilbestrol has been safe, effective (at least in relieving bone pain) and available for repeat courses of treatment." [Urology Clinics North America 2: 185-96, 1975] þ In 15 patients with advanced prostate cancer receiving diethylstilbestrol, their disease remained stable without evidence of progression for an average of 25.6 weeks. "There were no complete remissions, and no significant side effects were seen." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Preliminary studies show that curcumin may lessen the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs, such as doxorubicin (Rubex) and cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan). If you are undergoing chemotherapy, talk to your doctor before taking curcumin. Curry Fights Skin Cancer In a lab study of human cells, curcumin (the compound that makes curry yellow) was shown to interfere with the development of melanoma cells. Past studies have shown that people who eat curry in abundance have lower rates of lung, colon, prostate and breast cancers. Theory: Curcumin curbs inflammation, a risk factor for cancer." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Studies using intravenous or intramuscular glutathione have found it to be useful for preventing clot formation during operations;16 reducing the side effects and increasing the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs (particularly cisplatin in women with ovarian cancer);17,18 treating Parkinson's disease (page 343);19 reducing blood pressure in people with diabetes (page 152) who had high blood pressure (page 246) ;20 and increasing sperm counts in men with low sperm counts (page 305).11'22 A glutathione nasal spray has also reduced symptoms in people with chronic rhinitis (page 407)." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"There is no secret that, in addition to cannabis' ability to prevent nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy drugs, to block pain caused by cancer, and to stimulate appetite in wasting cancer patients, that it also has anti-tumor properties. But all is not rosy when it comes to cannabis. There is no evidence cannabis has anti-cancer properties in humans. It is said that some studies indicate cannabis may impair the immune response to cancer. [Schmerz." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Herceptin™, one of the newer breast cancer chemotherapy drugs touted by the pharmaceutical industry, depends on the presence of a special cancer cell receptor in certain types of highly aggressive breast cancers called the HER-2/neu receptor. A new study found that N-3 fatty acids also suppress this receptor.605 Animal tests found that N-3 oils powerfully suppressed breast cancer growth and the spread of the cancers. Herceptin™ has a lot of bad side effects, whereas DHA has none." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Although radiation, chemotherapy drugs or surgery can certainly help neutralize or eliminate a lot of the septic poison kept in check by a tumor mass and in a good number of cases improve the condition, these procedures nevertheless fail to remove the cause(s) of cancer. A cancer patient may return home after a "successful" treatment, relieved and obviously "cured," but continue depleting his body's energy and gathering toxins as he did before. The immune system, already battered by one traumatic intervention, may not make it through a second one." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Animals were used in developing insulin for diabetics, chemotherapy drugs for cancer patients and antibiotics for all of us. Animals were immunized for rabies, polio, measles, mumps and hepatitis before any humans ever received any vaccinations. Without the use of animals, we would never have developed the ability to perform coronary bypasses; heart, lung, kidney or liver transplants; arthroscopic surgery and hip replacements to name but a few examples.2 The other animal research question that arises is "Are animals enough like humans to make them valid experimental subjects?" - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Any way you slice it, chemotherapy drugs have the potential to impose drastic depletions in every class of nutrient, including proteins, fats, and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). Some pointers: • Eat healthfully. Do what you can to eat a very healthy diet while undergoing chemo. This is probably the most important step you can take towards helping yourself to heal. By supporting your internal environment, you can amp up your body's ability to resist the cancer. Ever notice, in the forest, that parasitic fungi don't grow on all trees?" - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The chemotherapy drugs most commonly used to treat women with breast cancer include combinations of the following drugs: cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan, Neosar), methotrexate (Folex, Rheuma-trex), fluorouracil (5-FU, Adrucil, Efudex, Fluoroplex), and doxorubicin (Adriamycin, Rubex, Doxil). Tamoxifen, an anti-estrogen (Nolvadex), is given to breast cancer patients whose disease is categorized as estrogen-receptor positive; other breast cancer patients generally do not receive tamoxifen." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"The bill for high-dose chemotherapy began at $ 1 50,000 and could hit $500,000 if the patient suffered complications. The chemotherapy drugs alone ran into the tens of thousands of dollars. Women spent at least three weeks in an isolation room in the hospital, protected from the infections that teemed in the outside world and racking up charges while waiting for their bone marrow to regrow. Publicly, insurers argued that the treatment was still unproved and experimental, and thus not something they were compelled by law to cover." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"As well, certain chemotherapy drugs used in the treatment of many tumours cause mutations in the patient's DNA; these drugs are in and of themselves carcinogenic and may increase the risk of cancer in the long term. Resistance. If the use of chemotherapy drugs constitutes an improvement in the treatment of certain types of cancers, even taking side effects into account, it is nonetheless true that many cancers cannot be cured in this way." - Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D., Foods that Fight Cancer (Get the book.)

"He wanted to give her extremely high doses of several chemotherapy drugs, doses toxic enough, he believed, 117 to deal her cancer a mighty blow. Unfortunately, the chemo might also kill Diane. Such high doses of the drugs would wipe out her bone marrow, which makes the immune cells of the blood, leaving her vulnerable to dying from the least little infection. Peters explained that he would attempt to "rescue" her once the chemotherapy was finished, with an infusion of her own bone marrow, which he would extract from her hip bone before starting the chemotherapy." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"They also often occur in response to chemotherapy drugs. Zinc deficiency can cause these lines and can be treated with daily supplementation. If nails appear yellow: Discoloration of the nails (or yellow nail syndrome) occurs in response to some respiratory diseases. Treatment of the disease is needed to reverse the condition, but sometimes spontaneous healing occurs. Mixed tocopherols are the active ingredient in vitamin E. Taking vitamin E as natural mixed tocopherols, rather than just alpha tocopherols, in amounts of about 1,000 IU a day may help." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

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