In this short video Chris Wark tells how he rejected chemotherapy and cured himself with a raw vegan diet. “If you don’t do chemotherapy you’re insane.” – Chris Wark’s doctor
Chris Wark shares his short and powerful story of how he rejected chemotherapy and survived stage 3 colon cancer. Continue reading
Keeping it healthy could allow patients to survive much higher doses of chemotherapy
NOTE: We are not pushers nor proponents of the administration of chemotherapy, but we acknowledge that the largest majority of the public will go in that direction, due to pressure of their physician, or because their insurance company has the only financial means to provide your care. The information provided in this column is still worth the read, as much of it (chemo excepted) follows the protocols of proper dietary practices, as outlined by Dr. Kelley in his Self-Test for the Different Metabolic Types. (Ed.)
A study of over 1,700 childhood cancer survivors found that 98% of the participants had at least one chronic disease such as new cancers, heart disease or abnormal lung function.
The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, presents a dismal picture of life after cancer.
Conducted by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, it provides a glimpse into St. Jude’s LIFE program, a two to three-day initiative that brings long-term childhood cancer survivors back to the hospital for regular check-ups throughout their adult lives.
The goal is to monitor adult survivors to better understand the mechanisms that promote survival. The former patients undergo various checks and screenings including basic health exams, blood tests and X-rays. Continue reading
We all harbor abnormalities, says H. Gilbert Welch, author of “Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health.”
The patient slammed his fist on the table in Dr. Otis Brawley’s office.
“Dammit, I’m American,” Brawley remembers him saying. “You can’t tell me I have prostate cancer and that we’re just going to ‘watch it.'”
Brawley is the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, a world-renowned cancer expert and practicing oncologist. If you’re going to get someone’s opinion on a cancer diagnosis or course of treatment, he’s a good choice. And in this case, he was recommending no treatment.
It’s a scenario that may happen more as science reveals cancer’s secrets, the biggest one being that what we now call cancer maybe shouldn’t be called cancer at all.
“The word ‘cancer’ often invokes the specter of an inexorably lethal process,” a working group for the National Cancer Institute wrote in a recent recommendation. “However, cancers are heterogeneous and can follow multiple paths, not all of which progress to metastases and death.”
Basically, cancer is scary, but some kinds may be more boogeyman-in-the-closet scary than serial killer scary. Continue reading
Taking health supplements with omega-3 fatty acids can increase the chances of contracting
prostate cancer, according to new research.
Omega-3 fatty acids, found naturally in oily fish and lauded for their anti-inflammatory properties, were found to increase the risk of high-grade disease by 71%.
Taking omega-3 was also associated with a 44% greater chance of developing low-grade prostate cancer.
Overall, the fatty acids raised the risk of all prostate cancers by 43%. Continue reading
A drug that helps the immune system to break down cancerous tumors has been developed and is set to begin human testing early next year.
The drug, developed by researchers at the University of Stanford, has been successful on different of cancers – including breast, bowel, prostate, ovarian and brain – and could even be a cure, they said.
The drug’s effectiveness centers on its relationship with a protein called CD47, which is found on the surface of cancer cells in high quantities.
The protein prevents the cancer from being engulfed and eaten by immune cells called macrophages, which serve as the body’s garbage trucks by eating old or damaged cells. Continue reading
One taboo question oncologists rarely asks their cancer patients is: How is your sex life?
A 31-year-old woman who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2011, and suffered pain during sex and a loss of libido after chemotherapy, is hoping to change this stigma.
‘This was something I was totally clueless on,’ New York native Kristen Howard explained to ABC News. ‘It took me a really long time to realize that the sexual side effects I was having had anything to do with chemo. I just sort of assumed it was more psychological, more mental than anything else.’ Continue reading
Killing cancer cells with alkaline pH levels and iodine instead of killing your cells with chemotherapy
If you or a loved one suffers from cancer, you enjoy a plethora of research and knowledge to take this disease down to the mat and defeat it. In this third part of the series, you will discover two very powerful combatants to reduce and destroy cancer cells in your body.
By the way, my research shows that 97 percent of chemotherapy fails. That deadly chemical only works effectively on childhood leukemia, lymphoma cancers like Hodgkins and testicular cancers. It works for a scant 1.4 percent of breast cancer cases. Continue reading
Genetics appear to dictate how the cancer behaves
Men with prostate cancer and an inherited gene mutation have the worst form of the disease, research reveals.
The BRCA2 gene is linked to hereditary breast cancer, as well as prostate and ovarian cancer.
Now scientists say that as well as being more likely to get prostate cancer, men with BRCA2 are also more likely to develop aggressive tumours and have the poorest survival rates.
They say these men should be treated quickly to save lives.
Around one in every 100 men with prostate cancer will have the BRCA2 mutation. Continue reading
Defeating cancer naturallyremarkable natural cures that work
In their brilliant book, Cancer Free: Your Guide to Gentle Non-Toxic Healing, Bill Henderson and Dr. Carlos Garcia offer the best and most effective alternatives to treating cancer once you discover it within your body.
To tell you the truth, I wasnt prepared for the hundreds of emails that poured into my computer after Part 1 published: So many of my friends coming down with cancer. Doctors chastised me that I didnt go far enough. Others told me their trepidations and experiences. Still others offered tremendously success battle plans for cancer. Thank you all.
One of my dearest friends, experiencing a stomach cancer tumor, took nearly six months of heavy chemotherapy treatment. Result: the cancer still thrives in his body. Hes frightened out of his wits.
Chemotherapy as a choice for treating and curing cancer has a failure rate of 97 percent, said Garcia and Henderson. Spontaneous remission has a higher success rate. This may be a shock to you and cause you to ask: If this is so, why were we not told this by oncologists? Continue reading
In the past 10 months, nine of my friends contracted cancer in many of its various forms: kidney, stomach, breast, prostate, colorectal, Hodgkins, liver, ovarian and skin cancers. All of them struggle for their lives as you read this column.
Last year, my long time friend Mike discovered his kidney cancer in November and died in February. Twenty years ago, my sister suffered from melanoma cancer, which doctors cut from her body. Eighteen years ago, doctors cut a cancerous growth out of me. My sister and I enjoy our lives every single day.
I dont mind telling you that cancer scared the living hell out of me and it sobered me to the daunting enormity of its presence within our society. Continue reading
The “Doctor”
A California doctor who duped patients out of more than $1 million after claiming her herbal supplements could cure cancer has been jailed for 14 years.
Christine Daniel charged patients up to $100,000 for six months of treatment, which she claimed could also cure diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
‘Daniel robbed victims of more than money she also stole their hopes and dreams for a cure,’ U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said after the doctor was sentenced.
The 58-year-old was also ordered to pay back nearly $1.3 million, by U.S. District Judge Robert Timlin, who sentenced her over four counts of mail and wire fraud, six counts of tax evasion and one count of witness tampering. Continue reading
Nobody wants to talk about the lethal consequences of the misdiagnosis.
Life being complex, many simple principles turn out on examination to be not as simple as at first thought. For example, everyone knows, or thinks that he knows, that prevention is better than cure. But is it always? It is often very difficult to say with certainty.
Three articles in a recent British Medical Journal tackle the vexed question of mammography, whose purpose is to detect cancer of the breast early in its development on the assumption that early detection leads to more effective treatment. The advice to women, therefore, is to get themselves scanned regularly.
This seems straightforward and commonsensical, but in fact the question of whether the light of mammography is worth its candle is devilishly complex. For example, if the treatment of breast cancer has improved (and death rates in Britain have almost halved between 1990 and 2010, thanks mainly to improved treatment rather than to early finding), then the number of cases found by mammography in order to save a single life has to increase. This in turn means that old trials and all trials to determine the long-term effect of mammography have to be old may no longer be relevant to the present situation. Trials of mammography are, in effect, always trying to hit a moving target. Continue reading
Women stand a better chance of surviving breast cancer if they dont have a mastectomy, a major study has found.
Those aged over 50 who have only the lump removed, followed by radiotherapy, are almost a fifth more likely to survive the illness than patients who lose the whole breast.
Many women diagnosed with breast cancer choose to have a mastectomy thinking it will remove the tumours as quickly as possible and give them the best chance of survival.
But the results of a ten-year research project by academics show that a less radical form of treatment breast conservation surgery is more effective.
It involves taking away the affected lump and then administering high doses of radiotherapy over a course of five or six weeks to ensure any remaining cancerous cells are killed.
Researchers from Duke University in North Carolina looked at the records of 112,154 women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1994 and 2004.
Around 55 per cent had breast conservation surgery and 44 per cent had a mastectomy.
The study, published in the journal Cancer, shows that women who had breast conservation surgery were 13 per cent more likely to survive the illness. But the results were even more promising in women over 50 whose survival odds were 19 per cent higher than those who had mastectomies. Continue reading
A 15-year-old schoolboy could save millions of lives after he invented a new, low-cost test that can detect the early stages of a deadly form of cancer.
Jack Andraka from Crownsville, Maryland, developed a simple dip-stick test for levels of mesothelin, a biomarker for early stage pancreatic cancer found in blood and urine.
It promises to revolutionise treatment of the disease, which currently kills 19 out of 20 sufferers after five years – largely because its so difficult to detect until its final stages.
Jack’s invention, for which he was last month awarded the grand prize of $75,000 in scholarship funds at the 2012 Intel Science Fair, means that patients now have a simple method to detect pancreatic cancer before it becomes invasive.
His novel patent-pending sensor has proved to be 28 times faster, 28 times less expensive, and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests.
Thanks to the test, pancreatic cancer patients could now get an early earning to seek medical help when it still has a chance of working, which could, he claims, potentially bump up survival rates to ‘close to 100 per cent’. Continue reading