Maria Schimer

Hospital administrators have taken a 10-year-old patient’s parents to court to force them to allow her to get life saving chemotherapy treatment.

Sarah Hershberger has leukemia and her parents brought her to Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio to treat the tumors on her kidney, neck and chest- a number of which were visible to the naked eye.

Her parents Andy and Anna Hershberger initially said that she could be treated with the necessary chemotherapy and she underwent some rounds of the procedure but not enough to completely eradicate the cancer.

They have since decided against it, saying that they want to use natural medicine like vitamins and herbs to solve the problem. Continue reading →

Chemotherapy can damage healthy cells? Say it isn’t so? You don’t need a degree to figure this one out. Poison kills indiscriminately– always has and always will. While damaging healthy cells, chemotherapy also triggers them to secrete a protein that sustains tumor growth and resistance to further treatment. Researchers in the United States made the “completely unexpected” finding they claimed while seeking to explain why cancer cells are so resilient inside the human body when they are easy to kill in the lab.

Only through the forces that have carefully conspired to thwart meaningful advances in cancer research and treatment over the past century has chemotherapy succeeded. In what reality do we live in when cut, poison and burn are the only ways acceptable to treat cancer? Continue reading →