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Chemotherapy is the term used to describe cancer treatment using substances that precisely destroy cancer cells. Chemotherapy works by destroying quickly dividing cells, which is one of the key characteristics of cancer cells. The most frequent side effects of chemotherapy are myelosuppression (reduced production of blood cells), mucositis (inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract), and alopecia (hair loss), because it also damages cells that divide quickly under normal conditions, including those in the bone marrow, digestive system, and hair follicles (hair loss).
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Right after World War II, research on mustard gas showed that it has the ability to kill living cells, especially those which rapidly divide, such as those in the intestinal tract, bone marrow, and lymph system. This led to the first suggestion of chemotherapy as a cancer treatment. Doctors quickly came up with the theory that they might poison cancer cells, which are the cells that divide the fastest of all, with mustard gas. In fact, a lot of the medications we take now are related to mustard gas, which is why we find them to be so poisonous (The Immortal Cell, Dr Gerald B Dermer, Avery Publishing Group, Garden City Park, 1994).
Cancer of the Blood Cells
The phrases "cure" and "response" are used differently by oncologists. They do not take into account whether treatment improves quality of life or survival rates; they simply assess "response," or the tumor's shrinkage, as a sign of success. German epidemiologist Dr. Urich Abel discovered that when a tumor mass partially or temporarily vanishes, the remaining tumor cells that are resistant to the effects of the chemotherapy can occasionally grow much faster afterward. He examined virtually every article (in total, several thousand) on chemotherapy as well as the work of about 350 scientists working on cancer therapies. According to Der Spiegel (1990; 33: 174-6), patients who did not respond to chemotherapy frequently live longer than those who do. Additionally, see J Otolaryn (1995); 24(4): 242-52.
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According to a leading NCI researcher, many patients may at first respond to treatment for the majority of cancer types. However, only three types of cancer—ovarian, small cell lung cancer, and acute nonlymphocytic leukemia—had any substantial percentage of patients survive disease-free, and even then, only at the lowest end of the range of individuals. Disease-free survival was extremely uncommon in all other cancer forms.
According to oncology specialist GM Mead of the Royal South Hants Hospital, shrinkage of solid tumours should not be overinterpreted because it frequently has little to no life effect (BMJ, January 28, 1995). According to major chemotherapy producer Bristol Myers, only 11% of patients taking carboplatin and 15% of patients taking cisplatin experienced a complete response to the drugs; remission lasted on average for about a year, and both types of patients only lived for two years on average after diagnosis.
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Cyclophosphamide, a chemotherapy medication derived from mustard gas, is one of the most used ones. It can harm the blood, heart, and lungs in addition to causing nausea, vomiting, hair loss, and anorexia. Another medicine, cisplastin (Platinol), which is derived from the heavy metal platinum, can harm the kidneys and nerves and result in seizures and hearing loss. Additionally, it can result in bone marrow suppression, anaemia, blindness, hearing, and irreversible loss of motor function.
The "M" in MOPP treatment, the standard protocol for Hodgkin's disease, mechlorethamine, an equivalent of mustard gas, is so poisonous that workers dispensing the medication are recommended to wear rubber gloves and avoid inhaling it! Thrombosis, jaundice, hair loss, nausea, and vomiting are all documented side effects of this medication. The PDR from Merck, the product's maker, states that "the margin of safety in therapy with MUSTARGEN is limited and great caution should be exercised in the question of dosage. As a guide for further treatment, repeated blood tests are required.
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Chemotherapy has been linked to heart issues, bile duct destruction, bone tissue death, growth restriction, infertility, decreased white and red blood cell counts, and intestinal and lactose malabsorption. 90% of the time, attempts to entirely eradicate cancer are unsuccessful.
Even among doctors, there is a severe lack of confidence. According to surveys and polls, three out of every four doctors (75%) would reject chemotherapy due to its ineffectiveness in treating the disease and its detrimental consequences on the entire human body.
Chemotherapy kills most cancer patients in this country, according to many medical professionals and researchers, even though it does not treat breast, colon, or lung cancer. Despite the fact that this has been shown for more than ten years, doctors continue to treat these cancers with chemotherapy. (The Healing of Cancer, Marcus Books, 1990; Allen Levin, M.D., UCSF).
"If I were to develop cancer, I would never choose a particular approach to treating the condition. Those with cancer who avoid these facilities have a chance of survival. (Professor Gorge Mathe, 1989, "Scientific Medicine Stymied," Medicines Nouvelles, Paris)
After studying statistics on cancer survival for many years, Dr. Hardin Jones, a lecturer at the University of California, came to the following conclusion: "When not treated, the patients do not grow worse or they even get better. Dr. Jones' alarming findings have never been disproven. (Walter Last, The Ecologist, March–April 1998, Vol. 28, No. 2)
With a faith that is unwavering by the nearly universal failures, many oncologists advise chemotherapy for almost any type of cancer. (Dr. Albert Braverman, "Medical Oncology in the 1990s," Lancet, Vol. 337, p. 901; 1991).
Only a tiny fraction of the patients we have treated experience an ephemeral period of tumoral regression, and usually a partial one. "Our most effective regimens are loaded with risks, side effects, and practical problems." Edward G. Griffin, "World Without Cancer," American Media Publications, 1996
"After all, and in the vast majority of instances, there is absolutely no evidence that chemotherapy increases chances of survival. That there is a connection between the decline in cancer and the lengthening of the patient's life is the biggest falsehood about this therapy. (Philip Day, Credence Publications, 2000, "Cancer: Why we're still dying to know the truth")
"Several full-time scientists at the McGill Cancer Center sent a questionnaire to 118 lung cancer experts to gauge their level of confidence in the treatments they were using. They were also asked to choose which of the six experimental treatments currently being tested would be used if they were diagnosed with the disease themselves. 64 out of the 79 doctors who responded said they would not consent to receive any treatment that included cis-platinum, one of the most common chemotherapy drugs they used. The remaining 58 doctors believed that all of the experimental therapies mentioned above were not accepted due to the ineffectiveness and high level of toxicity of chemotherapy. (Philip Day, Credence Publications, 2000, "Cancer: Why we're still dying to know the truth")
"Doctor Ulrich Able, a German epidemiologist at the Heidelberg Mannheim Tumor Clinic, has thoroughly researched and analysed all the key papers and clinical trials ever conducted on chemotherapy." Because there was simply no available scientific evidence demonstrating that chemotherapy is able to "prolong in any appreciable way the life of patients affected by the most common type of organ cancer," Able came to the startling realisation that the global average of positive outcomes due to chemotherapy was frightening.
Able emphasises that chemotherapy rarely improves quality of life and calls it a "scientific filth," saying that at least 80% of chemotherapy used worldwide is useless. Doctors and patients are unwilling to give up chemotherapy even if there is absolutely no scientific evidence that it is effective (Lancet, Aug. 10, 1991). Tim O'Shea writes in "Chemotherapy - An Unproven Procedure" that "None of the Main Media has Ever Mentioned This Extensive Study: It Has Been Completely Buried."
Medical associations claim that, after heart attacks, cancer, and apoplexies, pharmacological side effects are now the fourth leading cause of death (Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998).
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