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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.

We need to rethink how we use medical testing. Sometimes, when the medical doctor says we got you covered, he means he is protecting himself from a medical-malpractice lawsuit. It isn’t just enough to offer you his guidance without all suitable and not so suitable tests. To be more specific doctors think healthcare means access to more and more tests.

We have taken healthcare to a new level.  We are being bombarded with a continuous stream of radiation through CT scans, and other powerful x-ray machines. The quest for better health through more scanning devises has been a disaster. It is a risky decision to subject patients to immeasurable amounts of radiation.

This is a perilous exercise in overcautious use of imaging testing. Americans should be prepared for higher frequency of radiation caused cancers, if this trend continues in the years to come.

Americans Get Radiated.  It can be titled:

The Dangers of Medical Radiation Exposure

CT Scans Dangers

Overuse of Medical Imaging         

Radiation Impacts Cancer Rate

Americans Get Radiated

Americans are the Winner and Loser at the same time in the radiation department.

Americans Get the Most Medical Radiation

Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, more than citizens in other rich countries. We finally win at something. The U.S. accounts for half of the most advanced procedures that use radiation and the average American’s dose had grown six fold over the last couple of decades.

This is not looking at anything but medical tests. What’s amazing is not looking at airport scanners, power lines, cell phones, or microwaves.

Americans get the most medical radiation and still have lousy health. So the biggest myth buster is more radiation is going to ensure better health. In fact it raises the cancer risk and medical costs.

Reality Check

Using technologically advanced medical imaging hasn’t changed how allopathic medicine conducts business. Americans are over tested and over treated, and yet are still unhealthy. Now, we have another source of danger acquiring too much radiation from all the testing.

Radiation accumulates over time. Doctors don’t keep track of radiation given to their patients. Also, there are no federal rules on radiation dose. Children are going to have a lifetime to accumulate more radiation exposure than any previous generation.

Sometimes machines aren’t adjusted for the patient’s size. This isn’t non-toxic and it makes plain sense to realize this generation of super X-rays that give fast, detailed images should be used very selectively. At this point in time it is used selectively, to avoid a lawsuit by misdiagnosis of a patient.

Danger

Too much radiation raises the risk of cancer. That risk is growing because people in everyday situations are getting imaging tests far too often. Like the New Hampshire teen who was about to get a CT scan to check for kidney stones until a radiologist, Dr. Steven Birnbaum, discovered he’d already had 14 of these powerful X-rays for previous episodes. Adding up the total dose, “I was horrified” at the cancer risk it posed, Birnbaum said.

When other radiologists tell him they’ve never found such a case, Birnbaum replies: “That tells me you haven’t looked.”

Another study by Columbia University researchers, published in 2007, estimated that in a few decades, as many as 2 percent of all cancers in the U.S. might be due to radiation from CT scans given now. Since previous studies suggest that a third of all tests are unnecessary, 20 million adults and more than 1 million children are needlessly being put at risk, they concluded.

Business as Usual

At this time this is how allopathic medicine conducts business. Yes, these are business decisions as well as dumb choices for safeguarding the American consumer’s health.

Spotting health problems by using ultra sophisticated scanning machines is one thing, trying to avoid a malpractice and lawsuit shouldn’t be at the expense of the patient.

Welcome to America’s defensive healthcare, with you getting bombarded with radiation so doctor’s can play it safe. Imaging that shows a problem doesn’t always mean that it will lead to effective treatment.

Cancer and diet the missing link to restoring health. The war on cancer has been going on forever, it turned out as a way to manage corporation’s funds, but it hasn’t done much for the patients.

We wait for an unprecedented breakthrough. Findings that would not just extend lives but rewind the clock turning cancer cells back to normal. Everyone is expecting a new way to kill cancer cells. What is a better approach is turn unhealthy cells back to healthy ones.

This is what you want; the mainstream acceptance of bombarding cancer cells with toxic chemo, and. huge amounts of radiation is counter productive. The secret, nutrients in lieu of drugs, would go a long way to combat this condition.

Analytics                                

An analysis that included nearly 400,000 participants finds that those with higher blood levels of vitamin B6 and the essential amino acid methionine (found in most protein) had an associated lower risk of lung cancer, including participants who were current or former smokers, according to a study in the June 16 issue of JAMA.

Previous research has suggested that deficiencies in B vitamins may increase the probability of DNA damage and subsequent gene mutations. The authors write: “Given their involvement in maintaining DNA integrity and gene expression, these nutrients have a potentially important role in inhibiting cancer development, and offer the possibility of modifying cancer risk through dietary changes,” They add that deficiencies in nutrient levels of B vitamins have been shown to be high in many western populations.

One Step Further

Reversing cancer is also possible with the right lifestyle changes. Most medical doctors will not have the knowledge or courage to buck the system. Many patients have, and had stellar results. Others have taken main stream medicine one step further and combined some conventional treatment with a considerable amount of dietary changes.

Paul Brennan, Ph.D., of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, and colleagues conducted an investigation of B vitamins and methionine status based on serum samples from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort study, which recruited 519,978 participants from 10 European countries between 1992 and 2000, of whom 385,747 donated blood. By 2006, 899 lung cancer cases were identified and 1,770 control participants were individually matched by country, sex, date of birth, and date of blood collection.

Hello Success

The authors write: “Our results suggest that above-median serum measures of both B6 and methionine, assessed on average 5 years prior to disease onset, are associated with a reduction of at least 50 percent on the risk of developing lung cancer. An additional association for serum levels of folate was present, that when combined with B6 and methionine, was associated with a two-thirds lower risk of lung cancer,”

Now Turn it Around