I was chatting with my grandson just now and he related a story that he had come across of the daughter of an American police officer who had a rare kind of brain cancer. The medical profession had tried all kinds of radiation and Chemotherapy treatments on her but had finally given up, saying that they could do no more.
Her father researched alternate treatments, decided on vitamin C and gave her high doses.
Unfortunately his daughter died but they could find no trace of cancer in her. It appears that her brain was destroyed by all the conventional treatments that she had previously received.
The problem is that maybe the story is an exaggeration, and could vitamin C actually cure all cancers. It would be disastrous if someone rejected conventional treatment in favour of alternative medicine and that failed. It would put alternative treatments back years.
Interesting bit of news...and even more interesting observation that. " it would be disastrous if some one rejected...it would put alternative treatment years back"
Yet conventional treatments such as chemo and radio can help a very small percentage of cancer patients and finish off the rest rather savagely and yet holds credibility. This is the Power of "normal". What is normal has a certain credibility, no matter how warped, dysfunctiona it might be....also Power in numbers. More believe in it, so it must be better choice...All because of inherent monopoly of prevailing beliefs. If more and more people choose self doctoring....that will become the norm. Although the organized medical care has a derogatory attitude towards it, if more and more people did it, the trend will buckle
Ultimately, it is a very personal choice....people chose what is perceived as normal course of action rather than stand alone because fear of standing alone is also a huge factor why most people opt for conventional treatment, until the doctors tell them there is no more they can do for them. Then sometimes self help is too late.
Attitudes within the society need changing. Fear rules the choices that people make whether conventional, or alternate, due to narrative within the modern medical system
We need to be our own doctors, and medical system should ideally act as the support system rather than the sole executioner of treatment plan from start to finish.
Yet conventional treatments such as chemo and radio can help a very small percentage of cancer patients and finish off the rest rather savagely and yet holds credibility.
Is that really the case. I am not a follower of statistics but I would have thought that those who received chemotherapy and survived would far outnumber those who received chemotherapy and died.
I don't know all the different types of cancers but would have thought that the medical profession would try the least harmful treatment first and chemotherapy was reserved as a last resort treatment for a patient who's illness would eventually result in death.
Alternate treatments seem to vary depending upon who is advocating it. What seems to work on one may not necessarily work with someone else. Modern medicine usually has some form of checks and balances to monitor the progress or lack of progress of the patient. Can alternative medicine make this claim.
Ofcourse it does.
WOW !!! Lots of familiar names here......I joined the Forum in 2006, I believe....rumors of my passing have been great exaggerated. FYI-I had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in Feb. 2005 with a Gleason score of 8......still alive and kicking with natural and herbal supplements ONLY......no chemo.....no radiation.......have lost two of my best friends to cancer and chemo......never wanted to trust ANYTHING whose roots were in Mustard Gas......strictly my opinion......May you all have a journey that leads ypu to health !!!
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I predicted you would challenge this! Whilst you have knowledge on this subject, you are not directly addressing the findings of this article and just labelling it as scaremongering.
The research comes from the Public Health England and Cancer Research UK, i.e. not some sensationalist rantings of a newspaper.
How do you square this finding for instance?
Deaths of lung cancer patients from chemotherapy were also far higher than the national average in Blackpool, Coventry, Derby, South Tyneside and Surrey and Sussex, according to the research.
I would square that finding by saying that death rates reveal very little unless you know what the overall population groups are. The hospital where I used to work had higher death rates in some specialities(not just chemo here) than the national average becasue they took on more complex and sicker patients than another hospital would. But it was a tertiary referral centre that takes on patients other hospitals don't have the expertise to offer help or hope to. Inevitably not all can be helped
This is specifically about palliative chemo though, when there is only one possible outcome.
This is specifically about palliative chemo though, when there is only one possible outcome.
Yes it DOES say this!
My son was called Peter he died at 49 he was a drug addict, he spent a long time in the mortuary before they buried him, they froze his body, I don't even remember how long he was frozen, probably three months, during that time I had a dream of him, and he complained he was cold, it was so real.
I remember when I read something on the tv about somebody who had cancer, and had died of it, died they were frozen awaiting in the hope that acure it would be found and they could be revived in the future,and cary on living.
If I remember rightly, it, has been done before it is not a new thing. I am slow at everything because I have had a stroke and I can only converse through dragon speech, up to this time it has taken me to be three quarters of an hour to type this. Hopefully you get the picture together, and get the message that I am trying to explain, I don't believe in death, we only go to another level, or plain. I get frustrated all the time, by trying to explain what I mean. I keep making so many mistakes. I believe in God. God doesn't give us anything we can't handle.