From: "Kathryn Gold" <dgo1denone@...>
Hello,
For those considering chemo I repost the following:
Thanks, Kathryn. And I repost the following:
The "malignancies...highly responsive to chemotherapy" are
essentially...choriocarcinoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia
(ALL)...lymphosarcoma, [Hodgkin's, Burkitt's, & some other lymphomas],
embryonal testicular cancer, Wilms' tumor, Ewing's sarcoma,
rhabdomyosarcoma, retinoblastoma, a few rare cancers of childhood
(Moss, 2000, p. 81), acute nonlymphocytic leukemia [20% long-term
remission], ovarian [10-20% long-term remission] and SCLC lung cancer
[10% long-term remission].
www.caringmedical.com/cyberclinic/condition_detail.asp?condition_id=10
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"Chemotherapy is curative in very few cancers - testicular, Hodgkin's,
choriocarcinoma, childhood leukemia. In most common solid tumors -
lung, colon, breast, etc. - chemotherapy is NOT curative." Dr. Jrgen
Buche, Preventorium Inst.
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/Alternative_Breast_Cancer
"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" Allen Levin, MD UCSF The
Healing of Cancer
www.domaincountry.com/articles/health/treatments.shtml
"Ulrich Abel, Ph.D., of the Heidelberg Tumor Center in Germany,
conducted a comprehensive review of the world literature on survival
among cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. He found that
chemotherapy can help only about 3% of the patients with epithelial
cancers (breast, lung, prostate, and colon) [Abel [1990], Cytostatic
Therapy of Advanced Epithelial Tumors: A Critique. Stuggart, Germany:
Hippocrates Verlag]....Statistics show that chemotherapy is useless in
treating about 80% of malignant tumors, in particular...cancers of the
lungs, breast, colon, pancreas, and bladder [D. Schmahl, (1989)
"Experimental Development of Anticancer Drugs." Current Cancer
Research (pp. 157-243). New York: Springer. Chemotherapy's 7% "cure"
rate is all the more pathetic when you consider that it typically
refers to survival for only five years and thus overlooks the risk of
"secondary cancers" (Diamond et al., 2000, p. 191).
"Chemotherapy and radiation can increase the risk of developing a
second cancer by up to 100 times, according to Dr. Samuel S. Epstein."
Congressional Record, Sept. 9, 1987
"...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." Alan C. Nixon, PhD, former
president of American Chemical Society
"Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has
yet to be established" (John Cairns, Scientific American, 60, Nov.
1985).
"study of oncologists to determine how they would respond to a
diagnosis of cancer...58 out of 64 doctors said that all chemotherapy
programs were unacceptable to them and their family members. The
overriding reason for this decision was that the drugs are ineffective
and have an unacceptable degree of toxicity....radiologist who told me
this: `If I get cancer, I'm going to Mexico.'" Daily Dose, August 30,
2002
from the newsletter of William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
reprinted at the following websites:
www.dreamline.freeyellow.com/#scandal;
www.getandstaywell.com/archive10.shtml
www.networkingtheinternet.com/dxm66.htm
www.aspartame.ca/page_c4.htm
www.fugitt.com/article/chemo1.htm
For a critical analysis of the benefits, indications, and
contraindications for chemotherapy, see
Ralph Moss's book Questioning Chemotherapy and
www.whale.to/cancer/chemo.html (includes quotes from Moss's book)
www.whale.to/cancer/quotes1.html
www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/cancer.htm
www.ralphmoss.com/dgo2000.html
www.apricotsfromgod.org/ralphmoss.htm
www.whatareweswallowing.freeserve.co.uk/deathbydoctoring4.htm (quotes
from doctors)
www.healingcancernaturally.com/why_alternatives.html
www.healingcancernaturally.com/why_alternatives2.html
www.kroisscancercenter.com (click on methods)
www.kanker-actueel.nl/ca_hi_e.html
www.geocities.com/freee80/surgery2.html
www.brwwellness.com/ten.htm
www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/2003Newsletters/Newsletter077A.
html
www.mercola.com/2003/aug/13/cancer_drugs.htm (summary of above
website)
www.cancerinform.org/chemotherapy.html
Also, most alternative cancer treatments (including dietary
approaches) are much more effective if a patient has NOT had
chemotherapy (and particularly not extensive chemotherapy). However, I
don't believe this applies to vincristine and bleomycin, which (to the
best of my knowledge) do only minimal harm to the immune system.
