| Don't Get Cancer
by: Simon Mitchell
One antidote to cancer is information
In general our responses to cancer are converging, but very
slowly. Presently all cancer authorities are agreed on only
one thing:
cancer cannot take hold in a healthy immune system
The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) is promoting prevention
as a better option than treatment and particularly targeting
smoking as the highest recogniseable risk area. The Cancer
Research Institute (C.R.I.) is seeking vaccines that support
the body's own ability to heal. Alternative and holistic approaches
seek to do the same with diet, nutrition, lifestyle and other
choices.
Different philosophies of medicine achieve 'immune support'
in various ways not considered by orthodox Western medicine,
which concentrates mainly on 'drugs and surgery' as an afterthought
to disease, often just adding more toxins and stress to an
overloaded system. Alternative treatments take many forms
to support the body in its own healing process.
Although we have constant new biological treatments promised,
they usually only apply to a small percentage of cancer types.
Change in this field is agonisingly slow and in some cases
utterly stuck. Medical science is failing to adapt to the
new 'quantum theory' sciences that see the human body from
an energy or 'vibrational' perspective. Western 'allopathic'
medicine continues to refuse integration with other, older
medical philosophies such as Chinese, Ayurvedic, Tibetan,
Homeopathy, Herbalism or vibrational treatment.
In truth we don't even have a research methodology that will
cope with assessing different treatment forms and levels tuned
to an individual patient. So far it is much easier for the
orthodox to just deny the effectiveness of alternative ways
of healing because they do not make rational scientific sense,
than it is to extend their model to include other healing
models. The fiscal interest of pharmaceutical companies is
also a factor in our lack of access to holistic treatments
The complex cancer situation effects us all directly. One
in three people in the 'West' now gets cancer at some point.
Many factors are combining to aggravate acute degenerative
disorders such as cancer or heart disease, the two top killers
in the Western World. These expose the unwary to dangers and
this includes the toxic side-effects of allopathic treatments
- it is emerging that the third biggest killer may be 'allopathic
medicine' itself !
The Cancer Research Industry
Research shows that in UK every year somewhere between £450
to £500 million is spent on cancer research by the pharmaceutical
industries, charitable organisations and government. In US
an estimated $14 billion dollars (£7.72 billion) are
spent. A hard-hitting report published in March 2004 by Fortune,
an American business magazine and written by Cliff Leaf, himself
a cancer survivor, suggests that for several reasons much
of this funding and research is misdirected. He claims that
despite a total of $200 billion spent on cancer research since
1971 that mortality rates are basically unchanged. The report
was all but ignored by mainstream media.
What if he's right? What is much of this money is wasted?
What if the research is misdirected? What if much of the work
serves no real purpose beyond the generation of profit? That
would mean that the cancer research industry is one of the
biggest bandwagons ever. Despite many more billions spent
world-wide on cancer research there seems very little to show
for it. After seeing friends and family cut down in their
prime by cancer, and its allopathic treatments, this researcher
believes that there is something seriously wrong with accepted
wisdom on cancer treatment. The author's local health authority
has a twelve million pound overspend this year - the major
expenditure? The cost of cancer drugs. Several situations
are combining to make cancer a big risk for us all at this
time, despite the hard work of many dedicated health service
professionals.
Cancer and Orthodox Medical Science
Although medical science has created miracles in dealing
with infectious diseases, solving many of the medical problems
of the 1940's and 50's, the new weapons against acute degenerative
disorders are not yet ready. Genetic testing and counselling,
gene therapy, nutrigenomics, advanced (subtle and tuned) radiotherapies,
cell therapies, therapuetic cloning, cancer vaccines and even
anti-aging therapies are a seemingly constant 10 - 15 years
away. This is the 21st century and we are still getting 20th
century treatments. This leaves us at the moment in a time
of high cancer risk with treatments that are often the medical
equivalent of cracking a nut with a sledgehammer. The orthodox
treatment of cancer is too often as dangerous as the disease
itself.
Alternative treatments for cancer are not given a fair hearing.
Information is still actively repressed or marginalised from
many sources. The subject of Cancer and alternative treatment
must be the original can of worms! Its never a good time to
get cancer but there are more options than you might think
or even be advised from orthodox treatment centres. For example
there are many things one can do to supplement (and ease)
orthodox treatments with complementary ones. It is unlikely
you will be given information on this unless you seek it out
yourself.
Although much research on alternatives is often suppressed
there are people who can guide you through the minefield of
misinformation, disinformation, ignorance, applied self-interest,
politics and other complexities in the field of cancer, whatever
choices you make. Support is a central issue in any disease
and there are increasing options here with many groups 'online'
helping each other with a variety of treatment forms.
An Integrated Approach to Cancer
The cancer discussion needs opening towards a more integrated
medicine that is centred on the patient, but even this discussion
is presently marginalised. People are finding each other online
and comparing notes, even the drug manufacturing industries
are predicting that 'patient advocacy' forms a strong part
of future medicine. But for true patient advocacy to happen,
medical consumers presently need to be at least as, if not
better informed than their medical doctors.
There are many options in cancer treatment that are not generally
discussed through orthodox medicine. For example group therapy
is not widely prescribed or accessible for cancer patients
despite the fact that studies show it can actually double
survival time. There is mounting evidence of the validity
of herbal and nutritional regimes that support the immune
system and may complement the sledgehammers of traditional,
orthodox treatment, chemo and radiotherapy.
Sometimes complementary therapies are allowed with orthodox
treatment but are still limited to only accepted medical philosophies
- or that which can be measured through double-blind testing
methodologies that basically view every person as the same.
The different philosophies of 'medicalism' and 'holism' -
which puts people central to their treatment - are still far
apart. This is not a situation that is in any way advantageous
for those of us who become patients.
Alternative approaches are viewed at best as unproven and
are unresearchable using 'quantitative research methodologies'.
There are many people wanting a more integrated approach to
health care than the drugs and surgery promoted by orthodox
allopathic medicine. This is shown by the huge number of people
who seek complementary and alternative medicines without the
knowledge of their doctors. The main research into treatments
that address every aspect of disease and patient still takes
place in secret because practices that fall outside of standard
medical practice and physicians who offer unconventional cancer
treatments may be vulnerable to the civil charge of malpractice.
Given the modern quantum sciences and other feasible medical
models such as those mentioned there are many more realistic
options for treatment than we are presently being offered.
It is easy to be overwhelmed in this field, different people
giving different information, which you may need to find,
understand and act upon, often 'against the clock'. What is
needed is an overview that presents comprehensive information
from wide sources in an objective manner.
About The Author
Simon Mitchell
'Don't Get Cancer' http://www.simonthescribe.co.uk/don'tget1.html
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