More on Chemotherapy ("UPDATE", a note from me)

(NaturalNews) For years now, many of us who advocate natural health and natural approaches to beating cancer have warned against the dangers and the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy. The following report presented at the 27th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium illustrates how chemo actually spreads cancer cells, as well as points out how little we are being told about the dangers of chemo: "German investigators from Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, have shown that taxol (the "gold standard of chemo") causes a massive release of cells into circulation."Such a release of cancer cells would result in extensive metastasis months or even years later, long after the chemo would be suspected as the cause of the spread of the cancer. This little known horror of conventional cancer treatment needs to be spread far and wide, but it is not even listed in the side effects of taxol."As has oft been stated, chemo does not cure cancer - it merely attempts to eliminate the tumors and cancer cells that are symptoms of the underlying causes of cancer, and does so with little success and great risks. In some instances it may appear to eliminate tumors and cancer cell masses, though most often it merely destroys some of the cancer cells. In the process, it often inflicts a very high price.Besides spreading cancer cells, chemo inflicts serious and perhaps irreversible damage to the immune system, the body's natural first line of defense against cancer and other illness - thus paving the way for the remaining cancer cells or future cancers to overwhelm a body that is even less able to beat the cancer that got past the immune system in the first place.Chemo also frequently results in serious and even fatal damage, and major organs are also damaged, particularly the liver - which as cancer pioneer Max Gerson observed is always impaired to begin in those who get cancer. The heart is also frequently seriously damaged. The end result is that chemo kills more patients than it "cures". Most of those deaths are the result of liver or heart failure. Statistically, it has been estimated that the five year success rate from chemo is only about 3% (meaning only about 3% more patients who opted for chemo survived at least five years than did those who opted to not undergo chemo). But even that meager statistic is misleading in two key ways: First of all, though survival rates are slightly higher for the first couple of years compared to those who opted out of chemo, after the third year the survival rate for those who opted out is greater than those who were treated with chemo and the gap widens significantly every year after that. Secondly, and perhaps most important of all, the survival rates compare all of those who either undergo chemotherapy or decide against it. That includes the very large number of people who do little or nothing to address their chemo and naturally and merely forego chemo. If chemo survival rates were compared with those of people who not only opted out of chemo, but also chose a non-invasive natural protocol to eliminate the toxins and other causes of cancer, to boost their immune systems and to attack the cancer naturally without inflicting damage to the rest of the body, there would surely be no comparison.You can bet that it is a comparison the cancer industry never wants to make.
Sources Included:27th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, (abstract 6014)"Conventional Cancer Treatments" alternativecancer.us/conventional.htm"Hiding the Truth about Losing the War on Cancer" http://tbyil.com/waroncancer.htm

A note from me: If you read my first four blogs, you may understand how my lifestyle lead to the cancer I am fighting. In the third blog, I explain why I felt I did not have a choice but to allow the treatment of chemotherapy,(I am getting the Taxol). But unlike many chemo patients, I am not following the diet that they recommend, my diet is Vegan with 60-80% being raw. I Drink about 3 liters of water/day, I continue to take my natural supplements that they discouraged me from taking. I also drink wheatgrass twice a day, get daily sunshine, sleep at night now, exercise, lowered my stress, and am not working during this recovery period. If you follow my updates after weekly chemo, (with the fourth week off), you will see that all my labs are great and my tumor markers have been drastically reduced, I still have my hair and energy. I have already decided that when the tumor markers stabilize--(showing that the tumors/cancer are not reducing any longer), I will stop further treatment. I will not allow the chemo to take a toll on my organs, blood, bone marrow, and especially--my immune system. I know that the refined health measures that I am doing will continue to reverse any remnants of the cancer. My next treatment is tomorrow, I will write my updates in the evening with lab results. I believe in all that I cut--paste--and post, but each case is a little different, and each person has to do what they feel is right for them. The best that I can hope to pass on is helping others to become informed so that they can make the best decision for their own health path.
United in Health, Humanity, and the Environment------Laura