Stacy Malkan
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 The program offers free makeup to women recovering from cancer treatments — a generous gesture, yes, but also a bit jarring with its head-patting tone and focus on pushing products. "Experiencing skin, facial and nail changes during cancer treatment? You can still be yourself. Our make-over expertise will show you the way to look good ... feel better ... just follow the numbers below," instructs the website. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The breast cancer industry is now run by corporations that profit from women who receive breast cancer treatments. With nearly all breast cancer nonprofits being subjugated by drug companies, the FDA censoring alternative cancer solutions, and the mainstream media wildly exaggerating the benefits of near-useless cancer drugs like Herceptin, there's hardly a message heard about breast cancer today that doesn't have a profit motive behind it.
"Breast cancer has been transformed into a market-driven industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Preventing prevention
Virtually all the popular cancer groups out there -- including the non-profit cancer groups -- are focused on lucrative cancer treatments while avoiding cost-effective cancer prevention. When was the last time you actually heard a cancer group recommend that women get sunlight to prevent breast cancer? It doesn't happen. It's all about getting mammograms and chemotherapy. Sunlight is free, you see. There's no money in recommending sunlight, even though the creation of vitamin D through sunlight actually drops breast cancer rates by nearly fifty percent. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 It's also common among people whose immune systems are depressed from diseases such as diabetes, AIDS, or cancer and cancer treatments. Indeed, thrush-related white patches in the mouth are often the first signs of HIV/AIDS.
STOP SIGN
If you have burning mouth syndrome, merely switching to a different brand of toothpaste or mouthwash may help.
LIP OR MOUTH FRECKLES
Freckles may be cute on your nose, but who wants to spot them on the lips? A few oddly shaped brownish blemishes on the lips, called melanotic macules, are common and medically meaningless. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Cancer survival rates increase for patients receiving fu-zheng therapy as an adjunct to Western cancer treatments (Pang Mingji 1992).
Fu zheng formulas for enhancing immune function would include some of the following herbs: Asian ginseng, astragalus, cordyceps, dang shen, eleuthero, he shou wu, jiaogulan, licorice, lycium, prince seng, reishi, and schisandra. A formula is used for patients with cancer to increase immune activity, especially the immune reservoir. |
Ray D. Strand
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 We cannot deny that the effectiveness of traditional cancer treatments has reached a plateau. Oncologists and radiation therapists must become more open-minded about antioxidant use in their patients. As researchers seriously consider the use of multiple antioxidants at optimal levels, cancer prevention and treatment may well be revolutionized. In the meantime the research that is presently available supports the use of antioxidants in all stages of chemo-prevention and cancer therapy.
NINE Oxidative Stress and Your Eyes
Nothing could slow Mavis down. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Since the 1990s, however, evidence has emerged which suggests that some antioxidants, in certain patients, perhaps at untoward high doses or in the presence of specific conditions or cancer treatments, may modulate normal protective benefits whereas others may bring about deleterious effects, such as interfering with the efficacy of cancer drug treatment or increasing an individual's risk for cancer or heart disease [33, 34]. |
| The ability to predict and distinguish between the positive and negative effects of antioxidants is especially crucial in those receiving cancer treatments.
Many cancer patients take vitamin supplements for protection and health promotion, especially during these times when eating behaviors are unusual. A survey of patients at a comprehensive cancer center found that 60% of patients used vitamins and the majority combined them with conventional therapy [113]. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| It often results from cancer treatments, too.
¦ The skin is the largest organ of the body.
• The skin is the fastest-growing organ we have.
¦ There are approximately 19 million skin cells on every square inch of our bodies.
Bluish Skin significant fact
If you notice that your skin has recently taken on a bluish tinge, it may be a sign of cyanosis—oxygen-deficient blood. Well-oxygenated blood is bright red; as the blood starts to lose oxygen it turns purplish, and when the blood is very oxygen-deprived it turns skin blue. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Over twenty-five years ago, the National Cancer Institute claimed laetrile was an ineffective cancer treatment, yet many who seek alternative cancer treatments travel to Mexico, where laetrile remains available. In the seventeenth century, apricot oil was said to be used in England to cure ulcers. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania lauded apricot's aphrodisiac properties.
Throw Me a Lifesaver! vision: Rich in vitamin A, a powerful antioxidant that prevents free radical damage to eye tissue, apricots may help to promote good vision. |
Ron Garner
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 What are the costs for heart operations or cancer treatments? And, in the end, are they curative?
The fact is, we do not have to concentrate on any one specific disease condition. We need to focus on health because that's the way our body naturally operates.
HOW TO START GETTING HEALTHIER
On our road to renewed health, we must decide that we are going to be healthy. This is our active intent. We must take responsibility for our own health. We must take control of our own lives. It begins with this first determined thought. |
| The main cancer treatments of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are, in effect, options of cut, burn, or poison. Surgery cuts part of the body away. 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. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 The goal of cancer treatments is the inhibition of these processes, that is, uncontrolled growth, tissue invasion, and metastasis.
Surgery was the first established treatment for cancer, and it remains the most widely used approach to dealing with cancer. Cancer surgery may have one or more of the folloxving goals:
• to determine whether a cancer is malignant by biopsy examination.
• to remove a cancerous growth from the body.
• to learn whether malignant cells have spread to other parts of the body.
Surgery is most effective in cases in which the cancer has not spread. |
| As an agent in the prevention of cancer, green tea inhibits both the initiation and promotion stages of cancer and even boosts the effectiveness of some cancer treatments.
LINKING TEA TO A HEALTHFUL LIFESTYLE
A debate is brewing among some researchers over the question of whether tea drinking per se reduces the risk of disease, or the reduction results from other healthful habits practiced by tea drinkers. In other words, it has been suggested that tea merely appears to improve health because tea drinkers happen to be healthier people for other reasons. |
Ray D. Strand
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| All of these antioxidants have been shown to help protect against the DNA damage to normal cells that cancer treatments cause.
Michelle's Story
Michelle was a beautiful, vibrant four-year-old. Her world was filled with love and lots of laughter. It appeared that nothing could penetrate the safe haven of her family. But Michelle's carefree life changed. Doctors discovered the discomfort she was experiencing in her back and abdomen came from an aggressive cancer called a neuroblastoma. The family was devastated.
Michelle underwent exploratory surgery shortly after the diagnosis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What the press didn't report is that conventional medicine had already given up on her and left her to die (after poisoning her with the usual cancer treatments first, of course). It's no surprise she would want to check out alternatives. Sadly, she was too late.
The truth is that many patients only seek alternative care after they been poisoned, radiated and chemically bombarded by conventional medicine. At that point, even the best alternative medicine in the world has very little left to work with. |
Mike Adams
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| In this way, if the cancer industries were to actually start promoting nutrition and talking about the foods people could use to avoid cancer, they would experience a great financial loss because fewer people would need expensive cancer treatments and drugs.
Those treatments include chemotherapy, radiation, surgical procedures, and prescription drugs. Chemotherapy, as you know, is extremely profitable. These drugs can cost six figures a year for the average person, and yet typically offer little or no benefit in terms of lifespan or quality of life. But they are heavily marketed. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 Green vegetables are usually recommended by alternative cancer treatments because they are high in magnesium in the chlorophyll.
Blood Pressure: Magnesium is also involved in controlling blood pressure. Rats on magnesium deficient diets suffer an increase in blood pressure.
Dr D. McCarron, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Oregon Health Services, has stated that "for too long we've assumed that the problems with blood pressure in humans are related to an excess of something. ... Salt has been the culprit nailed repeatedly. |
Mike Adams
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 In a society that truly honored health freedom, even if a parent believed that prayer alone was the best medicine for cancer, then that parent should be allowed to practice that system of medicine and avoid conventional cancer treatments, which are themselves highly toxic and largely based on junk science.
Under a system of health freedom, we would be able to choose natural treatments, including Ayurvedic medicine, Western herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, mind-body medicine, energy medicine, or any other system of medicine that we believed would be helpful to us. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Alternative cancer treatments are even more involved -- using nutrition supplements, antioxidants and particular herbs. There may be 10 things in the protocol. What the medical people like to do is pull them out one at a time and test them individually.
When they test, they have criteria that determine if something is a placebo. It needs to be effective more than 30 percent of the time. Interestingly enough, using chemotherapy for lung cancer is beneficial less than 1 percent of the time, which would make it one of the biggest placebos in history. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 The American Cancer Society keeps a black list of 63 "unproven" cancer treatments, over 40% of which have not been investigated (#63 is the 75% effective methods of Mr. Gaston Naessens).
The blood supply is not as safe as medicrats would have us believe. With a lag-time of from three months to 1 year for detection of a carrier's antibodies to the A.I.D.S. vims, Dr. Joseph Feldschuh of Cornell University School of Medicine said 3% ofthe American population could be A.I.D.S. carriers able to give blood and pass all current tests. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Conventional medicine gave up on me after two years of traditional chemotherapy and cancer treatments and sent me home to die. I was twenty-four years old and was told I wouldn't see my twenty-fifth birthday. But being the odd, determined, stubborn, rebellious individual that most people described me as even back then, I didn't give up.
Twenty years ago it was even harder than it is now to access accurate information on herbs and alternative therapies. But you might say that I had a "dying need to know," and I began studying alternative health with a vengeance. |
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.
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 In one preliminary study of a handful of pancreatic cancer (page 87) patients, the combination of proteolytic enzymes and other cancer treatments appeared to extend survival, despite the fact that most of the patients died.11
Proteolytic enzymes may also improve immune system (page 255) function, for example, in people with shingles (page 401) (herpes zoster), though this area of research has not been adequately exploted.12
Where are they found? |
Kevin Trudeau
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 They need to make their products as cheaply as possible to increase their profits and they know that if you use their products cancer rates will continue to rise and they will make billions more on all the cancer treatments that they have a monopoly on.
Consider this: propylene glycol is the main ingredient in antifreeze, yet go into your household cabinets and look at your toothpaste, underarm deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, lotions, soaps, or what have you and you will be amazed when you see propylene glycol. You will also see something called sodium lareth sulfate. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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| Not only was my cancer gone, but the extensive damage that was done to my body and internal organs from the conventional cancer treatments was healed or on the mend. Another real oddity, I was told. My oncologist, who scoffed at anything herbal or unconventional, believes that I was simply too stubborn to die. I know there is some truth in that statement, but I also believe that herbal medicine went a long way in curing my cancer and healing my body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That's partly because the procedure itself irradiates the breast tissue and actually causes cancer, but also because practically any screening result producing a questionable blur on the final image may result in a woman being manipulated through fear into undergoing aggressive, toxic cancer treatments even when they never had breast cancer in the first place. (False positives are extremely common in breast cancer screening, and in some cases, the machinery is incorrectly calibrated and doesn't even meet radiology standards. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Also helps the body adapt to the stress of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy.
Shiitake extract or
reishi extract
As directed on label. As directed on label.
Mushroom extracts with valuable immune-boosting and antitumor properties.
Helpful
Acidophilus (Probiata from Wakunaga)
As directed on label. Take on an empty stomach.
Has an antibacterial effect on the body. Use a nondairy formula.
Aerobic 07 from Aerobic Life Industries or
Dioxychlorfrom American Biologies
As directed on label.
Contain antimicrobial agents.
As directed on label. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Their mission, as you can see, seems very different from the mission of some cancer charities, which seems to be the endless promotion of cancer treatments while ignoring prevention. The profits are in treatment, of course, where drug companies make billions and then turn around and offer grant money and sponsorships to the charities that "raised awareness" as a recruiting method to con yet more patients into expensive treatment facilities.
In contrast, it's nice to see the Breast Cancer Action group taking an honest approach. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 I think it's best to say that, like all cancer treatments, some work on certain cancers better than others. While it can be difficult to know whether you are one of the ones who will benefit from it, the act of avoiding cancer-causing chemicals and ensuring you are getting enough nutrients is a sensible precaution.
Supplements
The power of nutrients in preventing and suppressing cancer is such that now many doctors advocate cancer treatment methods based on nutritional techniques. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 While there is great potential for cancer treatments in controlling these signaling processes, to date no practical treatments have been developed (at least none that we know of appear to work on the signals). On the other hand, the process of mitosis is relatively well understood, and several plant molecules are known to interrupt the various processes of mitosis. The organization and pulling of the DNA copies to opposite ends of a cell during mitosis is handled by fascinating structures called microtubules, which turn out to be a good target for intervention. |
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