Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They act as commercial cheerleading squads, pumping up the crowd to go get screened and hopefully get diagnosed with cancer so they'll end up buying high-profit chemotherapy drugs.
New research, by the way, shows that chemotherapy drugs cause heart damage to women, leading to heart failure. Even mainstream oncologists are starting to think that maybe the industry should stop using these toxic drugs to treat breast cancer. As Dr. Pamela Douglas, a Duke University cardiologist recently said, "In the process of curing their breast cancer, we've exposed them to some pretty nasty things. |
Hyla Cass
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| 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Earlier this year, the FDA gave approval for Prozac, a powerful mind-altering drug, to be prescribed to dogs, and many of the most common drugs for people are now routinely used in pets (including chemotherapy drugs for cancer treatment).
(What's next, Ritalin for puppies? Ten years ago, it would have seemed absurd to diagnose a dog as suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but today, it's no more insane than the mass diagnosis of human children with this utterly fictitious disease designed to do one thing: Sell profitable amphetamine drugs to children... |
Bill Sardi
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 When you read the fine print, you'll then find out that the addition of a new cancer drug to other chemotherapy regimens may improve survival by just one month over the other chemotherapy drugs alone. That's what the blockbuster headline that says "45% increase in surviva!' really means.
If survival for a particular type of advanced cancer is just six months, and treatment prolongs survival by just another three months, the doctor will say treatment improves survival by 50%. So will the newspaper headlines, and spokespersons for the American Cancer Society. |
| Truly, chemotherapy is toxic, yet cancer patients will inquire about the safety of a vitamin pill, but take toxic chemotherapy drugs without hesitation.
Mike, the stockbroker mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, has been using vitamins for years. His grandfather took vitamins and eventually died of kidney failure. He takes vitamins and has lymphoma. His family members mistakenly associate the vitamin pills with these diseases. They think Mike's melanoma was caused by taking vitamins. |
| Baroody
The connective tissue surrounding solid tumors is significantly more acidic compared to normal tissues, which reduces the uptake of some chemotherapy drugs and negates their effectiveness. [British Journal Cancer 80: 1005-11, 1999]
University of Mississippi researchers reveal how health habits, like alcohol consumption, are involved in triggering metastatic cancer and the production of lactic acid. As alcohol enters cells, cells attempt to eliminate it. Because alcohol is difficult to break down, cells must increase metabolic activity which requires oxygen. |
| Hugh Riodan
2005: A lab dish study shows that vitamin C when combined with commonly used chemotherapy drugs, such as 5-Fu or cisplatin, exert a "significantly enhanced toxic effect on cancer cells compared to both drugs individually." [Journal Chemotherapy 17:539-49, 2005] Should vitamin C have been used along with chemotherapy all along?
2005: National Institutes of Health researchers report that vitamin C concentrations that can be achieved through intravenous therapy are capable of inducing cancer cell death but are not toxic to healthy cells. Lymphoma cells are killed off especially well. |
Andreas Moritz
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 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. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 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. |
| 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. |
Bill Sardi
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| Cancer Cell 1: 89-97, 2002]
A startling fact is that second tumors often occur with greater frequency years after treatment with chemotherapy drugs than without chemotherapy. Sometimes various research studies reveal higher-dose chemotherapy may improve survival. But these studies often do not evaluate the long-term effects of increased radiation or chemotherapy.
Charles B. Pratt MD and Ching-Hon Pui MD state that "as the cure rates for primary cancer have improved with the use of intensive treatment, the number of therapy-related second tumors has also increased. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 During conventional cancer treatment with toxic chemotherapy drugs, for example, the patients are told they are getting help. They're told they are getting better. The American Medical Association, the FDA, and all the authorities in medicine tell them they are receiving a scientifically-validated form of treatment.
What they are not being told is the chemotherapy is destroying the normal, healthy functioning of vital organs, such as the liver, heart, brain, and kidneys. |
Anne Harrington
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 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. |
Bottom Line Health
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| 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. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 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. |
Andreas Moritz
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| 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. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 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. |
Dawson Church
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 Energy medicine seems to calm the body's energy systems, enabling them to tolerate the presence of chemotherapy drugs," she observes. And they often don't require further medications for insomnia or listlessness. She wrote the following account of a typical case:
Sylvia was fifty-five years old when doctors discovered a malignant gastric tumor growing right at the joint between her esophagus and her stomach. |
Hyla Cass
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| 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? |
Bill Sardi
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| These include simple remedies such as vitamin D (sunshine), rice bran, flaxseed oil, Brussels' sprouts, folic acid pill, red wine molecules and garlic cloves, which outperform the best chemotherapy drugs. You may be surprised to learn that there are no proven anti-cancer agents that can safely be prescribed to prevent cancer, that is, until now.
Concurrently, the cancer industry is in a state of chaos and uncertainty. It has begun to doubt itself. "Doctors now wonder whether many women diagnosed with breast cancer could skip chemotherapy altogether. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| 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? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Think about it: Oncologists openly push dangerous chemotherapy drugs that cause permanent damage to the brain, heart, liver and kidneys, even while insisting that patients take no vitamins, superfoods or nutritional supplements to protect their healthy cells during the chemo treatments. General Practitioners send patients home with prescriptions for dangerous COX-2 inhibitor drugs, diabetes drugs, statin drugs and psychotropic drugs that kill, at minimum, tens of thousands of Americans every year through heart attacks, strokes, liver failure and suicides. |
Marshall Editions
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 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. |
Mark Sircus
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 Zinc also is known to have some beneficial interactions with chemotherapy drugs. In one recent case, upon noting low blood levels of zinc in a 3-year-old 11.3 kg girl, zinc was administered at the rate of 3.18 mg/kg body weight per day from the start of chemotherapy through the full 3 years of maintenance therapy. Dosage was split with 18 mg given at breakfast and 18 mg zinc with supper. The result was a bone marrow remission from 95+% blast cells to an observed zero blast cell count in both hips within the first 14 days of treatment which never relapsed.14
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 New research, for example, shows that certain classes of chemotherapy drugs are so dangerous to human health that they cause heart failure in many women who use them. The drugs are called anthracyclines, and the research was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (October, 2007).
Chemotherapy is so dangerous to the heart, liver, kidneys and brain that the very act of screening for cancer tumors with mammography machines ultimately causes harm to most patients. Find that hard to believe? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| New research, by the way, shows that chemotherapy drugs cause heart damage to women, leading to heart failure. Even mainstream oncologists are starting to think that maybe the industry should stop using these toxic drugs to treat breast cancer. As Dr. Pamela Douglas, a Duke University cardiologist recently said, "In the process of curing their breast cancer, we've exposed them to some pretty nasty things. And it's not just one nasty thing, it's a sequence of nasty things." Those nasty things, it turns out, cause permanent damage to the heart, kidney, liver and brain. |
Mark Sircus
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| Modern chemotherapy drugs are so strong that they can cause secondary cancers in patients; to a healthy person, they're poison. Most health care workers are clueless about how toxic these agents really are. When oncologists use radiation and chemotherapy, they are using agents that cause cancer to treat the disease.
A Harvard thesis has shown a connection between water fluoridation and a 700% increase in osteosarcoma in young men if they are exposed to fluoridated water during their 6th to 8th years.'
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 John Edwards, for example, has now publicly called for health care reform that would force all Americans to visit conventional medical doctors on a regular basis, then submit to chemotherapy drugs if any signs of cancer (breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc.) were detected. It's a police state medicine proposal, and it came out of the mouth of a Democrat.
When it comes to health care, drug prices and politics, both side of the aisle have been bought off by Big Pharma. I cringe to consider what might happen with health care if Hilary Clinton were to become president. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 After all, depending on the type of cancer and specific chemotherapy drugs, patients may have difficulty eating due to loss of appetite, difficulty chewing and swallowing, changes in the way food tastes, aversions to certain foods, problems with the mouth and teeth, and nausea. This may force many people to cut back on their intake, to eat only their favorite foods, or to eat only the foods they can tolerate easily, without respect to a well-balanced diet. |
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