1) What is the difference between conventional treatments and natural or
alternative cancer treatments?
To a conventional physician, the tumor is the enemy. Cancer is viewed as a local disease, namely the tumor. By cutting out the tumor, irradiating it,or flooding the body with toxic (and often carcinogenic) drugs, the conventional physician hopes to destroy the tumor and restore the patient to health.
But all too often, the cancer is still present and has metastasized, or re-occurs.
In contrast, the alternative physician regards cancer as one that involves the whole body.
The tumor is merely a symptom and the cancer treatment aims to correct the root causes of disease in the whole body.
Dr. Josef Issels, who successfully treated many "incurable" cancer patients, stated:".. those who believe cancer is a local disease [that is, conventional physicians] think that the tumor comes first and only afterwards follows the generalised illness; those who think it is a generalised disease of the body [alternative physicians] believe that first comes the illness, and only afterwards the tumor… from this basically different way of looking at cancer, [the two types of physicians] take separate paths towards the solution to cancer.
Cancer is a general disease of the whole body from the outset.
The tumor is a symptom of that illness.
It is my contention, based on twenty-five years of clinical experience with over eight thousand cancer patients, that only by recognising the disease is, and always has been,one affecting the whole body from the outset, can it be more effectively arrested. By adopting that principle, the statistics of survival can be improved from the present grim position where eight out of every ten patients die having received all possible surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy."
2) What will my doctor say about these treatments?
He or she may not be interested.
You may be asked for published articles about the treatments in peer-reviewed medical journals. If those articles exist, you will most likely be told that if the treatments in question were effective, the FDA would have approved them; if a treatment is not approved, it cannot be a good and beneficial therapy.
The trouble with this answer is that obtaining FDA approval takes many years and can cost several millions of dollars for clinical trials. The simple fact is that there is no money to spend to do these trials on treatments that are often un-patentable and therefore unprofitable.
As far as publishing is concerned, it is against the policy of all mainstream medical journals to publish any research coming from other than allopathic (mainstream) sources.
Many of the treatments described in Natural Cancer Treatments belong to
categories that do not fall under the jurisdiction of FDA approval, and
are not regulated by them. It is not common knowledge that many such
therapeutic categories exist. For example, none of the medications used by
homeopathic and naturopathic doctors are regulated by the FDA..
Chemotherapy drugs are regulated by the FDA and you may well ask the
question,"If chemotherapy is not only harmful, but has been statistically shown to be almost useless, as indicated in How Successful are Conventional Cancer Treatments? and by many others like Ralph W. Moss in Questioning Chemotherapy, then why does my doctor insist that I should take it?"
You should ask your doctor that question.
3) Why doesn't my doctor know about these treatments?
The reason alternative cancer treatments are not more widely known has little to do with their alleged therapeutic ineffectiveness and far more to do with political control and the therapy marketplace.
Many of the treatments are on the "Unproven methods of cancer management" list maintained by the American Cancer Society, which is effectively a 'blacklist'. Also, your doctor will not know about most of these treatments because:
• Medical schools don't teach alternative treatments.
• Medical journals rarely contain articles about alternative treatments. medical journals are published for the allopathic establishment, and they are mostly financed by advertisements from pharmaceutical companies.
• Doctors receive a lot of negative information about alternative treatments from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the pharmaceutical industry.
• Internet 'Quackwatches' and so forth decry alternative therapies even when there is contradictory evidence to their effectiveness. See Quackwatch below.
• The American Cancer Society (ACS), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and there Goverment cancer bodies will not investigate or promote alternative treatments.
• Your doctor can only prescribe treatments that are Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved. If your doctor prescribes treatments that are not FDA approved, he or she can be sued or lose their license.
• Their state medical boards may fine them heavily, suspend their license to practice or even revoke it.
• The federal government can close them down and confiscate their property.
• They may lose their right to see patients in hospitals.
• Others doctors (their peers) openly ridicule and criticize them.
4) How can the AMA ignore these alternative treatments?
The AMA is not a scientific body. That is a widespread misconception. It is the professional association of a special interest group, namely of allopathic medical doctors.
The AMA is their "trade union", their political lobbying group, and their disciplinary board. Its task is to protect the financial and other interests of its members, and at the same time to control them. The AMA has as much to do with medical science as the Teamsters' Union has with engineering science.
5) Can these natural and alternative treatments ever be accepted into
mainstream practice?
Yes, there is hope. Ever so slowly, the medical scene is being revolutionized.
According to the American College for Advancement in Medicine, physicians
(in many cases) are showing eagerness to learn more about natural medicine
and how to best implement it into their practice. Scientists, teaching at nutritional seminars, report that attendees are often medical doctors, a vast departure from years past. Many non-toxic alternative treatments are now passing from the fringes of medicine into the mainstream. They are increasingly being adopted and authenticated by conventional scientists around the world.
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D., a respected cancer industry analyst, states:
"In more than thirty years of studying and chronicling developments in the
field of cancer therapy I have seen many useful alternative treatments at first mercilessly vilified and driven underground, only to resurface years later when science eventually confirms that the active principle of such a treatment really does have some recognizable, quantifiable effect against cancer cells."
For example, hyperthermia or heat therapy-once branded as a "worthless remedy" and "quackery" by the ACS in 1967, was removed years later from the Unproven Methods list. Today, hyperthermia has been hailed by some oncologists as the fifth modality in cancer treatment after surgery,radiation, drugs, and immunotherapy.
6) Why do Quackwatch and Quackbusters warn me about these treatments?
One mechanism by which people are 'frightened off' from alternative treatments today is so-called 'quackbuster' organizations like Quackwatch.
Dr. Elmer Cranton, in defending chelation therapy, writes about them,
"There exist a small number of self-styled medical thought-police who call themselves "quack busters." This organization has the mission of attacking
alternative and emerging medical therapies in favor of the existing medical monopoly. They even have their own Quackwatch Internet website. It would be interesting to be able to trace the funding for this group back to its original source. One investigator alleges that funding comes indirectly, through a number of cutouts, from pharmaceutical manufacturers.
For years these so-called quackbusters have attacked nutritional supplementation and high potency multi-vitamins as "quackery." … recent
scientific studies now prove that virtually anyone can benefit from nutritional supplementation.
Dr. Robert Atkins, inventor of the highly-successful Atkins Diet, stated:
"There's a war going on ... The War Against Quackery is a carefully
orchestrated, heavily endowed campaign sponsored by extremists holding
positions of power in the orthodox hierarchy.....
The mutimillion-dollar campaign against quackery was never meant to root
out incompetent doctors; it was, and is, designed specifically to destroy
alternative medicine... The millions were raised and spent because orthodox medicine sees alternative, drugless medicine as a real threat to its economic power.
And right they are...the majority of the drug houses will not survive."
And alternative cancer physician, Kurt W. Donsbach, D.C., N.D., Ph.D. says:
"Alternative medical therapy has been cast into a position of "the last resort." Therefore, an alternative practitioner who gets even a small percentage of his patients well should be looked at with considerable respect, because he has helped those for whom no more could be done by allopathic medicine.
In fact, quite the opposite is true. Medical doctors, by and large, classify alternative practitioners as "quacks," which is defined by Webster as "fraudulent doctors." If a patient goes to an allopathic doctor for months or years and eventually is told, "there is no more medicine can do for you," and then that patient turns to an alternative practitioner who helps them and may even "cure" them - who is the quack?
Is it the doctor who treated for months or years at considerable cost and the patient continuously proceeds to a more serious state - or the healer who used "unproven" therapies to achieve results?
Is the definition of quackery, "One who practices a form of healing other than allopathic medicine?" If this is so, I proudly proclaim myself a "quack!"
The research team at Phi Natural Health International found the warmings of the Quackbusters very helpful in the research for Natural Cancer Treatments – the more agitated and vociferous they were about particular
treatments or individuals, the team knew that it was on to something that
has proved very effective!
"It is estimated that if people had a choice, lack of demand would shrink
Doctors and Drugs to less than 10% of its current size, with the remainder
almost entirely related to trauma medicine.
That would be a $900,000,000,000.00 (nine hundred BILLION dollar) loss to
them. They are not going to take this loss without a good fight.", states Dr Richard Shulze, N.D.
Read more on quacks and quackery at http://www.whale.to/p/quacks.html!
It is recognized there is a very organized worldwide movement to eliminate
alternative remedies in favor of pharmaceutical drugs.
Hopefully, consumers will not accept the fear and anxiety promoted by news
items such as Vitamin E and A in larger than RDA dosages cause further
health problems. The methodology of such research is flawed and limited in
scope and so is the way it is reported.
The erosion of health freedom is happening NOW.
Please take a while to make up your own mind about what will help you with
your cancer. Your life may depend on it. In particular, read what other people have said has helped them get rid of their cancer. Read the stories of all the cancer winners in I Beat Cancer!
7) How do I decide?
Many say that the Cancer Establishment's system is largely designed to protect the monetary interests of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.
Keep an open mind about all the available options.
Do not surrender your independent thinking. Reason things out,and make
your own decisions. Network with other patients. Consult with researchers
and innovative doctors. Search out different opinions. Do not let arrogance, based on fancy titles and institutional authority dictate your most important decisions.
Do you know how many thousands of people were sent home to die, who later
completely recovered? We are not talking about "spontaneous" remissions, but natural healing, achieved with non-toxic holistic treatments. Read I Beat Cancer!
Whether you alternative therapy or not, become your own Health Detective!
For example, go to Pubmed at
and search on "alternative cancer therapies".
Take control of your own health! There is no one on the face of the earth who has more interest in your welfare and well-being than you yourself do. You must take control of your own destiny and not leave it to others who have their own vested interests.
Paul Malacara
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