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Cancer-lethal misconceptions accelerate the demise to the patient. The most damage comes from the front line treatments, and lack of understanding of this condition.

Cancer Treatment-Impairment of the Body’s Defense System

Cancer treatment-impairment of the body’s defense system is recognized by conventional physicians. However, the standard medical protocol still stands.

Cancer surgery wreaks havoc on a body’s immune system. It is a major stress, and about half of those who undergo surgery for tumor removal will experience a recurrence of cancer. This will be in the same location or in another part of the body.

Modern Medicines Solution

Surgery                                          

A new clinical approach is being developed and tested by Tel Aviv University researcher Prof. Shamgar Ben-Ellyahu, head of Tel Aviv University”s Department of psychology.

Prof. Ben-Eliyahu and others have confirmed that a competent immune system is critical before, during and after surgery for tumor removal. A stress response of the body during this period jeopardizes the immune response, and does in fact facilitate metastasis.

Again the researches will rely on drugs that could block the influence of these hormones, helping the body deal with the stresses of surgery.

In the upcoming trial, Prof. Ben-Eliyahu will boost patients’ immune systems with his drug cocktail over a 20-day period, before, during and after surgery. The two compounds to be used in the study are a beta-adrenergic antagonist, which is used to treat hypertension and anxiety, and a Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, used against inflammation and pain. Since the two drugs are already widely available and routinely used in the clinical setting, no patents need be filed for the application of these drugs. 

 Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy drugs have potentially taken a toll on the hospital and clinic workers who handle them. A study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 10 years in the making and the largest to date, confirms that chemo continues to be found in the urine of those that handle it.

Danish epidemiologists used cancer registry data from the 1940s through the late 1980s to report a significantly increased risk of leukemia among oncology nurses and physicians. Last year, another Danish study of more than 92,000 nurses found an elevated risk for breast, thyroid, nervous system and brain cancers in the nursing population.

Karen Lewis knew what the possibilities were when a routine medical exam returned an abnormal white blood cell count on her four years ago. “I worked in a cancer center,” she said. “I knew.”

A long-time hospital pharmacist, 57, was diagnosed with a pre-cancerous blood disease called myelodysplastic syndrome. Her doctor immediately ordered her to stop working with or around chemo agents.

Lewis has begun transfusions to try to keep her cell counts normal. Ultimately, her only hope for a cure lies in a bone marrow transplant. She advises others to be vigilant about cancer screening if they’ve worked with chemo.

“Now, since I left, everybody who works with chemo has to have a blood test once a year and urinalysis,” she said. “Maybe that was my contribution.”

Chemo sounds like a good conservative treatment for people with a compromised immune system. The adage do not harm seems to have gone out of the window.

Radiation

Radiation causes cancer, what is the main stream medical profession missing on the war on cancer. Secondary malignancies are cancer caused by treatment with radiation or chemotherapy.  They are considered unrelated to the first cancer that was treated.

Maybe this endeavor should be called the war for cancer. This has a truer ring to it.

Now What?         

Medical intervention always attempts to remove or manage symptoms of any disease. For the most part they disregard the cause. Modern cancer treatment doesn’t have the wonderful record that is sometimes reported.

It really isn’t back to square one, there is plenty of information available on how and why this condition occurs, and what it takes to turn it around. This is not a disease in the true sense of the word. Most conditions are a product of nutritional deficiencies, physical and emotional stress, environmental toxins, and hormonal balance.

Check this out and see the other possibilities.

A recent study was conducted in Norway to determine if the increasing rate of breast cancer detection actually produces a reduction in cancer risk. One group of women was studied for six years by biennial mammograms and a comparison group of the same ages (50-64) was examined by a single mammogram at the beginning of the biennial program. Data on invasive breast cancer detection was obtained for both groups from the Norwegian Cancer Registry. The more frequently screened group showed 22% more cancers over the six years than the group with a single mammogram at the end of six years. The researchers concluded that with more frequent screening, approximately one fifth of the tumors that would naturally regress on their own end up being treated.

Cancer the Business has access to a huge market full of opportunities If you ever wanted untold wealth enter into the world of cancer treatment. It costs the world economy nearly $3 trillion dollars every year. This costs study was carried out by The American Cancer Society and Livestronger®.

The report written by American Cancer Society researches Rijo M. John, PhD, director of international tobacco control research, and Hans Ross, PhD, strategic director of international tobacco control research, reveals that cancer has the largest economic impact.

Lets see how long has the war on cancer has been going on. Evidently not long enough. Cutting to the chase this is one heck of a profitable condition. With the stakes so high a cure isn’t around the corner. The state of the industry depends on this revenue stream.

Consumer confidence should be at an all time low. However, when this is the only game in town it is a sustainable business model. This comes from is having fostered a fear based culture around the condition. The entrepreneurial spirit lives and thrives in the creation of pharmaceutical products to treat this. The approach is the same old, same old one. It is fueled by the creation of one drug after another.

Product Development

New product development comes from the pharmaceutical companies that are looking to foster long term growth for the industry. People suffer, but are not top priority. For if they were the one thing they wouldn’t want are repeat sales.

But, feeling good is not the name of the game. Boosting the immune system wasn’t even a topic of discussion until recently. What treatment does at this time is escalate the cost and suffering. This is a doom and gloom outlook, considering that Cancer isn’t an external factor, but an inside job.

Cancer means some tough decisions, and you can’t go ahead and make them without all the facts. The whole purpose of Your Health Updates is to inform. We know who has some valuable information that needs to be seen and heard.

We need a shift in how we think about his condition, and the people on the front lines are the ones that teach about health and wellness. From Mike Adam, Doug Kaufmann, David Wolfe, and others who only talk about nutrition. The medical doctors, researches, and centers on the forefront of successfully helping people heal make up a whole other list.

Believe it or not, many people have turned this condition around themselves. They realized that lifestyle is the most important factor.

Cancer Treatment a Word of Caution

When we say cancer treatment a word of caution, we mean paragraphs full of cautionary warnings.

There is a relatively new medication for pancreatic cancer. It is a drug used for advanced liver and kidney cancer and appears to be effective against cancer stem cells in pancreatic cancer. The drug sorafenib inhibited typical properties of cancer stem cells from pancreas tumors and greatly reduced tumor growth. The effect lasted four weeks before new colonies of cancer stem cells formed that no longer reacted to a further treatment with sorafenib.

Well if that isn’t a breakthrough I don’t know what is. Except for these side effects we have a winner.

The drug manufacture claims that you will not get all the side effects, and they are almost always reversible, will go away after therapy is complete, and of course are quite manageable. It’s a promise that isn’t guaranteed in writing. These are the garden variety of problems.

Constipation; diarrhea; dry skin; hair thinning or loss; headache; loss of appetite; mouth, bone, muscle, stomach, or joint pain; nausea; tiredness; vomiting; weakness; weight loss.

These are the big boys. Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur when using Sorafenib:

Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); black, tarry stools; chest pain; confusion; coughing or vomiting blood; decreased sexual ability; decreased urination; depression; fainting; fever, chills, or sore throat; irregular heartbeat; mouth sores; numbness of an arm or leg; one-sided weakness; redness, pain, swelling, numbness, tingling, or blisters on the palms of hands or soles of feet; seizures; severe or persistent dizziness; severe stomach pain; shortness of breath; speech changes; sudden severe headache or vomiting; sudden weight gain; swelling of the ankles, hands, or feet; unusual bruising or bleeding; vision changes; yellowing of the eyes or skin.

This is just part one, wait there are more delightful surprises. Come back and see for yourself the drawbacks of these kind of drugs.