Are Cancer Treatments Effective - The Real Story © By Lena Sanchez
I do not wish this
article to be discouraging and I do offer an alternative at the end, so do not
despair half way through reading.
Let's look at the 2000
sad stats on American Healthcare's $1.3B industry. 1 out of 3 people get
cancer, 1 out of 2 get heart disease, obesity is at epidemic levels, 70% of
children are getting hardening deposits in their arteries as early as 12 years
of age. And here is the worst one of all, 62% of accidental deaths are
attributed to prescriptions. 2001 found prescription deaths greater than
illegal drug deaths. In 2000 109,000 people died from
prescription drugs another 2.2 million survive but have illnesses or severe
debilitation caused by prescription use. So what does that tell you about how
well we are doing as a westernized medical society? The figures for 2001 & 2002 aren't in yet
but believed to be even more severe.
"Deadly Medicine?
Every year over 500,000 people worldwide die from illness or organ diseased
from the side effects of pharmaceutical products," says the Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA). These pharmaceuticals are used to treat
the most deadly diseases known to Western Man: heart attack, cancer, and
stroke."
I shudder when reading
reports like these, even though most arefrom a few years back, sadly the story
is that the healing ratehas not increased but actually decreased in some areas!
I wonder how many people have lost their lives early because of money and the
medical mess that has been created by perpetuating cancer cures in the medical
community that aren't really cures but money producers?
Harvard University's
published cancer mortality for 2,000 excluded non-melanoma skin cancer,
non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, stomach cancers and other rare cancers. Their death
figures from the top fourteen cancers were 216,700 men and 197,600 women,
children were not
reported. Aside from certain rare cancers, it is impossible to detect any
sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be
credited to chemotherapy.
Whether any of the
common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established. In most
common solid tumors-lung, colon, breast, etc. chemotherapy is NOT curative. Why
the growth in chemotherapy in the face of such failure? A look at the financial
intercourse between a large cancer center such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center (MSKCC) and the companies that make billions selling chemotherapy
drugs makes for revealing why.
James D. Robinson III,
Honorary Chairman of the MSKCC Board of Overseers and Managers, is a director
of Bristol-Myers Squibb, the world's largest producer of chemotherapy drugs.
Richard Gelb, Vice-Chairman of the MSKCC board is Chairman of the Board at
Bristol-Myers. Richard Furlaud, another MSKCC board member, recently retired as
Bristol Myers' president. Paul Marks, MD, MSKCC's President and CEO, is a
director of Pfizer.
Very few know that chemotherapy
drugs are not FDA approved. They are legally administered under the Rule of
Probable Cause" states that experimental drugs may be used if the side
effect of the drug is no worse than the end effect of the disease. In
fact, every chemotherapy
bottle is stamped "For Experimental Use Only" and the patient must
sign a release before the doctor will prescribe or administer it.
Multiple papers have
been written stating that while some oncologists inform their patients of the
lack of evidence that treatments work...others may well be misled by scientific
papers that express unwarranted optimism about chemotherapy. Still others
respond to an economic incentive. Physicians can earn much more money running
active chemotherapy practices than they can providing solace and relief...to
dying patients and their families."
In my research to find
cure rates they are knowningly and loudly unobtainable, saying more than
numbers. You know if they exist or were good the pharmaceutical industry would
be singing them loud and clear.
Alan C. Nixon, PhD, Past
President of the American Chemical Society wrote that "As a chemist
trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can
ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than
good."
In 1986, McGill Cancer
Center scientists sent a questionnaire to 118 doctors who treated
non-small-cell lung cancer. More than three-quarters of them recruited patients
and carried out trials of toxic drugs for lung cancer.
They were asked to
imagine that they themselves had cancer, and were asked which of six current
trials they themselves would choose. Of the 79 respondents, 64 said they would
not consent to be in a trial containing cisplatin, a common chemotherapy drug.
Fifty-eight found all
the trials unacceptable. Their reasons? The ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and
its unacceptable degree of toxicity.
Famed German
biostatistician Ulrich Abel, PhD, also found in a similar 1989 study that
"the personal views of many oncologists seem to be in striking contrast to
communications intended for the public."
"Most cancer
patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate
breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a
decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors." Allen Levin,
MD UCSF
The Healing of Cancer,
Marcus Books, 1990
Why so much use of
chemotherapy if it does so little good? Well for one thing, drug companies
provide huge economic incentives. In 1990, $3.53 billion was spent on
chemotherapy. By 1994 that figure had more than doubled to $7.51 billion and
tripled in2002 when all other industries were struggling to stay afloat. This
relentless increase in chemotherapy use is accompanied by a relentless increase
in cancer deaths. Again death certificates state causes of death as cancer,
when I personally know of some
that were free of cancer
but died from the ongoing chemotherapy prevention! This makes it impossible to
know how many actually die from chemotherapy!
Oncologist Albert
Braverman, MD, wrote in 1991 that "No disseminated neoplasm (cancer)
incurable in 1975 is curable today...Many medical oncologists recommend chemotherapy
for virtually any tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged by almost
invariable
failure." Twelve years hasn't changed that or the cancer death wouldn't
continue to rise.
If you or a loved one
should have need of such medical treatment look long and hard before buying
what you are being told. Take charge of your life and get to the bottom of the
truth before being treated.
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