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The amazing cancer cure is missing in action. Taking a look at the track record of this industry tells it all.

A newly approved chemotherapy drug will cost about $30,000 a month, the prices of cancer medicines are continuing to rise. Despite the fact that the drug Folotyn has not been showed to prolong lives, it only shrinks tumors. The drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in late September as a treatment for peripheral T-cell lymphoma, a rare and usually aggressive blood cancer that strikes an estimated 5,600 Americans each year.

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Folotyn has not yet shown an effect on longevity. In the clinical trial that led to approval of the drug, 27 percent of the 109 patients experienced a reduction in tumor size. The reductions lasted a median of 9.4 months.

But considering all the patients in the trial, only 12 percent had a reduction in tumor size that lasted for more than 14 weeks. The trial did not compare Folotyn to another drug or a placebo.

Critics, who include many oncologists, point out that patients are paying a huge price for drugs that, on average, provide only a few extra months of life at best.

Folotyn Side Effects

Important Safety Information published on Drugs.com

Warnings and Precautions:

Folotyn may suppress bone marrow function, manifested by thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and anemia. Monitor blood counts and omit or modify dose for hematologic toxicities.

Mucositis may occur. If ? Grade 2 mucositis is observed, omit or modify dose.

Patients should be instructed to take folic acid (1.0 -1.25 mg orally on a daily basis) and receive vitamin B₁₂(1 mg intramuscularly every 8-10 weeks) to potentially reduce treatment-related hematological toxicity and mucositis.

Folotyn can cause fetal harm. Women should avoid becoming pregnant while being treated with Folotyn, and pregnant women should be informed of the potential harm to the fetus.

Use caution and monitor patients when administering Folotyn to patients with moderate to severe renal function impairment.

Elevated liver function test abnormalities may occur and require monitoring. If liver function test abnormalities are ? Grade 3, omit or modify dose

Folotyn Adverse Reactions

The most common adverse reactions observed in PROPEL were mucositis (70%), thrombocytopenia (41%), nausea (40%), and fatigue (36%). The most common serious adverse events (>3%), regardless of causality, were pyrexia, mucositis, sepsis, febrile neutropenia, dehydration, dyspnea and thrombocytopenia. Forty-four percent of patients experienced a serious adverse event while on study or within 30 days after their last dose of Folotyn. Twenty-three percent of patients discontinued treatment due to adverse reactions.

Drug Interactions:

Co-administration of drugs subject to renal clearance (e.g., probenecid, NSAIDs, and trimethoprim/sulfamethaxazole) may result in delayed renal clearance.

Use in Specific Patient Populations:

Nursing mothers should be advised to discontinue nursing or the drug, taking into consideration the importance of the drug to the mother.

Believe or Not

The new treatments are good for the drug companies CEO’s and the inventors.

For investors, a high price is usually a good thing. Mr. Schimmer’s note was entitled “Folotyn Prices High, Reiterate Outperform.” He estimated annual sales of the drug in the United States reaching about $300 million by 2014.

In a note to clients in October, Joshua Schimmer, an analyst at Leerink Swann, estimated that a typical treatment would last 3.5 months and cost $126,000, or about $36,000 a month.

Does Anyone Know Whats Going On

Folic acid a vitamin B12 should not be given to cancer patients for good reason.

In a study published in the November 18th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, heart patients in Norway had a 21% increased risk of cancer when they took large doses of folic acid and vitamin B12 over patients who did not supplement the vitamins.

Studies show that people who get plenty of folic acid reduce their risk of developing colorectal cancer and precancerous polyps by 40% to 60%. But folic acid doesn’t just help healthy cells grow. It also helps cancerous cells grow. Studies in animals have shown that once cells are on the path to becoming cancers, the vitamin makes things worse.

In the 1940s, folic acid supplements were found to accelerate leukemia in children who were given the vitamin in the hope that it might help.

Reducing Tumor the Greatest Fraud

Reducing the tumor is not the way to defuse the disease process. The risk factors that have made this process start and perhaps progress are not going to be addressed by trying to reduce a tumor. Doing that is pointless. The tumor is made up partly of healthy cells. A percentage of the cells in a tumor are cancer cells.

Tumors are a complex mix of neoplastic cancer cells and normal cells – inflammatory and immune cells, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, pericytes, and others, collectively known as stromal cells.

Dr. John Dick from the Ontario Cancer Institute compared combating cancer to killing a backyard weed: “You can keep cutting the leaves off the weed, but the weed will re-grow.  But if you cut the roots, the leaves will wither away.  Killing the cancer stem cells is the equivalent of killing the root of the weed.”

Chemoprevention

The amazing cancer cure is in your body. If you ready to do more than survive, you are finally ready to change your life for the better. Chemoprevention is the word that is drawing a lot of attention. There is persistent and persuasive evidence that certain naturally occurring agents act in ways to inhibit, delay and reverse the disease process.

There is chemo in your fruits, vegetables, and herbs with the side effect of making you healthier than you have been in a long time. There are enzymes, supplements, and other technology that is now being shown to build immunity.

Health

The real truth is that there are no shortcuts allowed when trying to be well. The only ways to get to a so called cure it to take it slow by overhauling your lifestyle. The medical atmosphere points to studies that rely on a course of action that is guaranteed to wreck havoc with your digestive, immune, and cardiovascular systems.

Think of it this way when you get a cold you get rid of it, but if you entertain the same life style you will be getting more of them. Now you can say you cured the cold, but you can’t say you are now well. Not having the symptoms of a bad cold does not make you healthy.

Building health is the best protection and the best cure. Sheltering yourself from medical damage means you are on your own. Experts in the field are increasing the use of toxic substances to resurrect your health. They can’t do it with substances that are not easy to tolerate. You have to choose for yourself the most effective way to optimize your health.

The amazing cancer cure has been here all along, hidden from the public. This video is the tip of the iceberg, it’s time to reveal the truth.

The fruitarian diet is heavy on the fruit, with the inclusion of some greens, and nuts. There are people who thrive on this fare. However, most people should not count on doing well on this diet. There are a number of reasons why this diet is not part of the mainstream. The fruit of today is very sweet; it is purposely grown to be that way. The sugar content would be too high for diabetics. A large portion of the population is diabetic or pre-diabetic, this diet would be a disastrous for them. 

PROBLEMS OF A FRUTARIAN DIET

One of the problems with a  fruitarian diet is the poor quality of today’s conventional fruit. It travels long distances, sometimes over continents. It is has undergone hybridization, chemical fertilization, applied pesticides, and is harvested before it is fully ripe. There are times it is frost bitten, having been frozen on route. Of course there is locally grown and certified organic fruit, found both at farmers’ markets and health food stores.

While that sounds fine it is expensive, and I doubt that soil is as nutrient rich as it was in the past. Even with the best fruit money can buy, it does not have everything that is needed for adequate nutrition. Vitamin B12 is one of its short falls. Meat is the number one source for this vitamin.

Most fruit is high on the glycemic index. In all long lived societies the diet is not high on this index.  This diet lacks not just protein, but minerals, and fat-soluble vitamins. This is a short term diet for most people. Diabetic or hypoglycemic symptoms appear with this type of eating. This is not the Garden of Eden diet. Man did not subsist on any one type of food with the exclusion of all others.  Food was scarce in certain parts of the world, and what was eaten was the food that was available. This wasn’t always pretty. The pickings were slim, and no one turned their noses up when offered food.

FRUITS-SUGAR HIGH

Fruitarians are on a sugar high, and that feels good. What they call feel good foods, are the ones that can produce euphoria. This is nice for awhile, but gets in the way of grounded thinking. When the diet has adequate greens and other sources of nutrition then many people can meet their nutritional needs. Maintaining nutritional levels are relevant, and any eating plan that does not supply vitamin B12, calcium, iron, and riboflavin would not be good for the long haul.

There are people that can thrive on a fruitarian diet, but most people will have problems on a purely fruitarian diet. The real issue is the few are leading the masses. These hardy individuals assume what is good for them is good for everyone.

The fact is many do consume things that are not on the fruitarian diet. The diet is anecdotal; no one is being followed around 24 hours a day. It is akin to the cookies we eat when no one is  looking don’t count. Most everyone has done that from time to time.

When they have unpleasant symptoms it is called detoxification. That seems to go for years for some people.

FRUITARIAN DIET FALLACY

Fruitarian diets are neither evolutionary, nor even plausible for the whole human race. I can just see the whole European continent, the Baltic, Japan, and the indigenous people in the remote Northern Hemisphere insisting on becoming fruitarians. By being able to picture that, you can see the fallacy of living off only the fruit of the land 

The raw food movement is a step in the right direction. Just the fact that it recognizes the importance of vegetables and fruit as the mainstay of healthy eating is a reason to celebrate the diet. Plant food is a way to begin the process of revitalizing and protecting your health. It is a very good foundation to help the human race prevail tomorrow. This diet is a model to measure against the standard American way of eating. The features of this way of eating are the way it arms you with the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes in a bio-available form.

The raw food movement challenges the old school of thinking, that manufacturing food is the ultimate mechanism for delivering substance to the hungry masses. The triggers for world wide diseases are coming from embracing this philosophy. Planting and reaping the complete nutrition that comes from the land is now a distant possibility. Health reform is in the battle of good organic farming winning over genetically modified seeds, pesticides and processed foods.

Test driving a raw food diet calls for a sensible approach. Take advantage of not just raw food, but using this model alongside other healthy eating patterns. To embrace this diet automatically without more thought to understanding that it is perfectly alright to benefit from either some cooked food or animal protein shows some of the issues. Reforming a diet to include more raw vegetables, fruits, and sprouts is what the headlines should read.

The big deal is that there are real differences between individuals in nutritional needs, and cultural beliefs. What is a great diet for one individual may fall short for another. At different ages nutritional needs may vary, and health status definitely plays a part in determining ones needs. The guide to the right diet is how your body reacts to it. The problem is that if you take a hard line on one diet you may not get everything your system requires for great health.

Experiencing the benefits from raw foods may be as easy as making them the main stay of your diet. Without the guilt when partaking of some grass fed beef, a hardy cooked vegetable soup or some whole grain dish. Serious trouble looms on the horizon when you consume a diet of processed “food.” The raw food movement is a basic step in the right direction. However, it requires some analytical thinking when you carry it to the extreme. The raw food movement is moving to main stream thinking. Considering what it offers this is a very good thing.

Choosing how you eat is choosing how you wish to experience life. The follow-thought is the deciding factor in which way you will travel in life. That is why supporting a good diet that you can take action on means one that fits your needs, lifestyle, and health status. Eating is not a complicated skill that requires much thinking. That is unless you have a purpose like designing a good diet to promote health. If the endgame is health and vitality then it pays to move toward a raw food and a whole food diet