Chemotherapy is derived from chemical warfare agents (specifically, the one called mustine). This is why most chemotherapeutic drugs are cytotoxic (kill cells). They work by disrupting cellular division and DNA metabolism. This is highly toxic, but is especially dangerous to fast-growing cells of the body, and not just cancer cells. Cancer researchers can secure great profits, status, acclaim, grants and awards, jobs, papers and publications without succeeding in treating or curing cancer.
A big problem with the cancer industry is that researchers run experiments on cancer based on animal models. Animals are biochemically different from people. So animal experiment results are virtually worthless for human cancers. What is true for animals may not hold for humans. This makes all of the billions of dollars spent on research virtually worthless because most cancer experiments are ran on animal models. The whole approach is to find a “magic bullet” cure for cancer with drugs that are patentable (i.e., profitable) for pharmaceutical companies. They do not study the type of cancers (i.e., the metastatic tumors) that actually cause the bulk of cancer deaths.
Another suppressed fact about conventional cancer treatments are their highly damaging side effects. Chemotherapy is extremely deadly. It is cytotoxic, meaning that it is designed to kill cells, especially fast growing cells like cancer tumors. But unfortunately, they also kill normal body cells as well. Normal cells in the body that are also damaged by chemotherapy (because they grow rapidly) are bone marrow cells, the cells in the digestive tract, and hair follicles. Other side effects of chemo are extreme nausea and vomiting, hair loss, and weight loss (cachexia).
Conventional cancer treatments commonly include surgery and radiation, and both of these are known to be dangerous and cause even more side effects. Conventional treatments are often called “slash and burn” because it consists of cutting out the affected organs, poisoning the body with chemo and then burning it with radiation. Another very serious side effect of chemotherapy is called chemobrain, and it is caused because chemo is very toxic to the brain.
Chemo causes brain damage that often leads to memory loss, vision problems, impaired orientation, deterioration of cognitive function, and brain shrinkage. Chemo is also responsible for causing massive DNA damage that increases a patient’s probability of contracting leukemia later on in life. In fact, one of the most common side effects of chemotherapy is cancer! Astonishingly , chemotherapy and radiation therapy increase the risks of a patient developing future cancers by 300%!
Some researchers found out the truth about conventional cancer therapy, and they reported on it. Dr. Hardin B Jones, professor at University of California, conducted a 25 year study that examined the life expectancy of people with cancer and concluded that untreated cancer patients didn’t die sooner than patients who received surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. He actually found that patients who refused conventional cancer treatments actually lived about FOUR TIMES LONGER than those who took them! These findings have never been refuted to date, and his findings have actually been verified by other researchers.
A Dr. Maurice Fox, an MIT biologist, found that cancer patients that refused conventional cancer therapy had lower mortality rates than those who accepted it. Dr. Ulrich Abel, a highly-respected German epidemiologist from the Tumor Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, conducted an extensive review of the research that had been done on chemotherapy drugs.
In his paper entitled Chemotherapy of Advanced Epithelial Cancer (which was published in the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet) found that there was NO scientific evidence to demonstrate that chemotherapy could extend the lives of cancer patients with the most common cancers. He actually said that chemotherapy is a “scientific wasteland” and that neither physician or patients were willing to give it up even though there is NO scientific evidence that it works. He says that 80% of chemotherapy that is given is totally worthless.
This information is very disturbing, especially to people who have chosen to believe the pronouncements of the ‘experts’ in the Medical Establishment. But this is the absolute truth about how the cancer industry functions. The bottom line is that each cancer patient is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cancer industry. The goal of the cancer industry is to sell their expensive poisons to patients. The ‘treatments’ for cancer promote cancer and leads to even more cancer and diseases that turn patients into repeat customers.
Instead of curing diseased patients, their diseases are managed with a lifetime of expensive, highly profitable drugs, doctor’s visits and treatments, while anything that may actually cure the patient is called quackery. With a monopoly on virtually all cancer treatments, conventional cancer treatments allow the Medical Establishment to earn obscene profits. So don’t expect any cures to come from the cancer industry because it would kill the ‘golden goose’ that cancer has become.
Cancer Cover-ups
CANCER COVER-UP No. 1: Up to 91 Percent of Oncologists Would REFUSE Chemotherapy If They Had Cancer.
Why? Because they know it's extremely ineffective and extremely toxic. Yet shockingly, 75 percent of cancer patients are directed to receive chemotherapy.
The truth is, a rigorous review of chemotherapy reveals it fails for 98 percent of people. And when chemotherapy was tested against no treatment, no treatment proved better. What's more, only two to four percent of cancers respond well to chemotherapy.
CANCER COVER-UP No 2: Mammograms Do More Damage Than Good—and Actually HARM Ten Women for Every One It Helps!
The $4 billion-a-year mammogram industry urges women to rely on x-ray tests to protect their health. But what they don't tell you is mammograms are really an unnecessary and even harmful treatment.
A new study by researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Center in Demark reviewed the benefits and negative effects of seven breast cancer screening programs on 500,000 women—and the results were shocking.
For every 2,000 women who received mammograms over a 10-year period, only one would have her life prolonged, but ten would be harmed. Mammograms can actually increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by as much as 3 percent per year by irradiating the breast cells and triggering breast cancer.
Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston discovered that women with breast cancer carry different proteins then women with no cancer—and this can be tested by a simple saliva test—so simple a dentist can do it.
CANCER COVER-UP No. 3: Big Pharma Resorts to Outrageous Lies to Convince You That Their So-Called Cancer "Cures" Work—but Don't Be Fooled!
There is a trick that cancer doctors and big drug companies use to promote their cancer treatments. They use "relative" numbers to prove the effectiveness of their cancer treatments.
For instance, if you or a loved one has breast cancer, doctors may recommend the drug Tamoxifen. You'll likely hear that it reduces the chances of breast cancer recurring by 49 percent. Sounds pretty impressive, right?
But the truth is, based on absolute numbers, Tamoxifen reduces the risk of breast cancer returning by 1.6 percent—30 times less than advertised.
"Relative" numbers are used because they can be manipulated in many ways. Relative to what? It could be to a previous test or some other obscure number.
Or you may have heard through the major media that by treating early stage breast cancer, there's a 91 percent cure rate over five years. Nonsnese! You can get the same cure rate by doing nothing, as breast cancer is a very slow growing cancer.
The point is: Don't be fooled by "relative" numbers. Get the real facts, like this one: A 14-year study by two oncologists in Australia reported in the film "A Shocking Look at Cancer Studies" that treatment for all of our major cancers is totally ineffective—way below a 10 percent success rate.
CANCER COVER-UP No. 4: Drug Companies Pay Oncologists Big "Kickbacks" to Promote High-Priced, but Ineffective Cancer Drugs.
Do you know how most oncologists make money? Not by treating patients, but by selling cancer drugs.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, as much as 75 percent of the average oncologists' earnings come from selling chemotherapy drugs in his or her office. And at a substantial mark-up!
Americans pay the highest amount for prescription drugs in the world. Big Pharma will say it's due to research and development. But the U.S. drug industry spent over $33.5 billion in promotion costs last year.
A former drug rep from Eli Lily testified before Congress saying, "Pharmaceutical companies hire former cheerleaders and ex-models to wine and dine doctors, exaggerate drug benefits and underplay side effects."
Worse, they pay oncologists kickbacks to push their drugs. For example, AstraZeneca, Inc. had to pay $280 million in civil penalties and $63 million in criminal penalties to the federal government because it paid kickbacks to doctors for promoting its prostate cancer drug.
CANCER COVER-UP No. 5: The FTC Launches a Covert Campaign to Censor Natural Cancer Remedies and Financially Ruin Doctors and Companies Offering Them.
Sad as it seems, the harassment of doctors using natural therapies to treat cancers has been going on for more than 50 years in America. Doctors treating malignant tumors with detoxification, immune stimulation, nutrient, herb and juice fasting secrets from Europe, Tibet, China and India have been persecuted and booted out of the U.S. if they wanted to continue treating cancer patients.
Take the case of William Kelly, DDS. Dr. Kelly discovered a natural enzyme therapy that, combined with strict nutrition and a detoxification regime, "digested" pancreatic cancer cells. This therapy achieved nearly a 90 percent, five-year survival rate for close to 33,000 patients—even though pancreatic cancer is by far the most rapid and deadly cancer.
What did the government do when they heard about Dr. Kelly's amazing discovery? They threw him in jail!
But now, the government is bringing out the Big Guns! The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently launched what they call "Operation False Cures" to stamp out natural cancer cures for good.
According to the FTC, "Anyone mentioning a cure for cancer is automatically a quack, regardless of science backing their position." By their own admission, they state that any mention of a cancer "cure" is by itself fraudulent. And anyone using the word "cure" on a website to promote a product is instantly presumed to be guilty of criminal acts.
Website References:
http://www.smashcancer.com/2010/08/22/cancer-lies-and-the-medical-establishment/
http://sirpabs.ilahas.com/cancer_facts.htm
A Different Perspective
To keep things on balance, here are some different perspectives about the dangers of alternative cancer treatments, the medical industry and Big Pharma. These websites believe that most of the alternative treatments are bogus and maybe even dangerous.
Is There Really a Conspiracy to Suppress Cancer Cures?
http://www.cancertreatmentwatch.org/q/conspiracy.shtml
Questionable Cancer Therapies
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/cancer.html
Cancer Treatment Watch
http://www.cancertreatmentwatch.org/
Cancer Quackery: The Persistent Popularity of Useless, Irrational 'Alternative' Treatments
http://www.cancernetwork.com/integrative-oncology/cancer-quackery-persistent-popularity-useless-irrational-alternative-treatments
Nicholas Gonzalez Treatment for Cancer
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/kg.html
Herbal remedies do not cure cancer.
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/05/herbal-remedies-do-not-cure-cancer-cancer-quack-to-be-sentenced/
Cancer Quackery
http://www.ncahf.org/articles/c-d/caquackery.html
What's the harm in alternative medicine?
http://whatstheharm.net/alternativemedicine.html
Alternative cancer treatment claims in the media are damaging and misleading
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/12/07/alternative-cancer-treatment-claims-in-the-media-are-damaging-and-misleading/
"Alternative" Health Practices
http://skepdic.com/althelth.html
10 Of The Most Bizarre Quack Doctor Cures In History
http://listverse.com/2015/03/06/10-of-the-most-bizarre-quack-doctor-cures-in-history/
A Counterargument
http://www.cancertutor.com/brief_overview/
Note: This is the kind of controversy and conflicting information that I ran into when I was diabetic and doing research on Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Because of all the conflicting information, I decided to educate myself about cell biology, pathology, epidemiology and several other medical sciences so that I could learn how diabetes actually develops in the human body. I felt that once I truly understood diabetes at the cellular level, I could better design an alternative strategy and nutritional program that was safe and effective.
Friday, August 15, 2014
Cancer and Doctors Lies
There are elements of conventional medicine that are saving and
enhancing lives every day. But, some aspects of conventional medicine is
actually killing patients! For example, there is a lot about
conventional cancer treatments that cancer patients may not be told by
their doctors.
Note: As always, do your own research and draw your own conclusions.
Your Doctor Can't Cure Your Cancer Because He Can't Prevent or Cure His Own!
http://www.drday.com/doctors_cannont_cure_cancer.htm
Doctors develop cancer at the same rate as the general population. And doctors DIE of cancer at the same rate as the general population.
Obviously that means that doctors don’t know how to prevent or cure cancer because if they did, they would certainly prevent cancer from developing in themselves. And if they did develop cancer – they would know how to cure it.
But they don’t!
So why would you go to a doctor for the treatment of your cancer when your doctor doesn’t even know how to prevent or cure cancer in himself (or herself)?
Surveys show that 75% of doctors would NOT have chemotherapy if they developed cancer, yet they invariably prescribe it for their patients.
Why do 75% of doctors in surveys respond that they would NOT have chemotherapy?
The answer includes the following:
In fact, when a patient has an organ transplant, his risk of developing cancer doubles. Furthermore, his risk of developing a specific type of cancer – non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – increases by seven times, according to the November 2, 2011, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
That’s why doctors tell cancer patients they are taking chemotherapy drugs – but they tell transplant patients they are taking immuno-suppressive drugs – even though the drugs given to both cancer patients and organ transplant patients are essentially the SAME drugs.
These drugs suppress the patient’s immune system so the transplant patient won’t reject his transplanted organ, but that same immune suppression markedly decreases the body’s ability to fight disease, and therefore, the transplant patient may develop cancer specifically as a result of taking the medication. And the cancer patient finds that his cancer will eventually grow and spread because of the suppression of his immune system caused by the chemotherapy!
So why, if chemotherapy is so harmful, do doctors prescribe it for their patients – even when 75% of the doctors state they would not take chemotherapy themselves if they developed cancer?
The Good News is that if we have done it to ourselves by the way we have been living, thinking, acting, eating, and handling stress – then we can REVERSE the disease by CHANGING the way we live, think, act, eat, and handle stress.
But we physicians are taught that cancer – and all other diseases – “just happen.” And that’s what we are taught to tell patients. But if that is true, then you are totally helpless! You are at the mercy of the doctor – who has been taught to prescribe harmful Drugs or mutilating surgery – neither of which will make you well, and both of which are terribly painful The doctor will tell you there is no other option – and he or she actually believes that, because that is what we all have been taught in our medical training.
Why are doctors not taught how to get people well from their diseases?
Because the Drug companies have enormous control over medical schools and the training doctors receive because drug companies provide a significant amount of the research funding for medical school research – in large part to develop more drugs! It’s the old “golden rule” - “He who has the gold – rules!
Also, drug companies have enormous control over the medical journals and the articles they publish (which establish standards of medical practice) because the medical journals contain more pages of high-priced four-color advertising by the drug companies than actual pages that contain the medical articles. If a medical journal starts publishing articles that contain information on how to get a patient well without prescribing drugs to the patient, the drug companies will “pull” their expensive advertisements, and that particular medical journal will go bankrupt and cease to exist. So, it’s not hard to figure out why medical journals refuse to publish articles on natural healing.
But why do doctors who develop cancer themselves almost always agree to have chemotherapy, even though they say beforehand that they won’t?
Doctors don’t know what else to do, because they have never been taught in their training how to get anyone truly well from any disease, including cancer. As stated above, all we physicians are taught in our medical training is, 1) to give the patient harmful drugs – drugs that cover up the symptoms but never cure the disease, and all these drugs have harmful side effects that often cause additional diseases. or, 2) cut out the patients organs or cut off his body parts, neither of which cures any disease because no disease has ever been caused by having “too many” body parts or “too many” organs.
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Why Everything You Know About Cancer May Be Wrong!!
Read this web page to gain some insight into what cancer really is and what your doctors aren't telling you.
http://www.cancertutor.com/index8/
Some of the following information from the “Death by Doctoring” website may make you angry. But hopefully this information will eventually bring hope as we learn the truth about doctors, toxic medical treatments, financial kickbacks, pharmaceutical companies, etc.
Here are some excerpts from the website:
General Information
Every year in the United Kingdom, 200,000 people are diagnosed with cancer and 152,500 people die.1 In the United States, the annual death rate for this disease is approximately 547,000.2 These deaths are recorded as cancer deaths, but how many of these deaths are really attributable to the disease itself? How many deaths should in fact be recorded as “death by doctoring”?
When we consider that conventional treatment consists almost entirely of radiation, chemotherapy and the long-term application of toxic pharmaceuticals-treatments which are all well known for their life-threatening side-effects — then the question becomes all the more legitimate.
On chemotherapy, for instance, note the following:
“Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors.”
(Allen Levin, MD, UCSF, The Healing of Cancer, Marcus Books, 1990)
Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Consider the following statement from cancer specialist Professor Charles Mathe, who declared:
“If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard cancer treatment centre. Cancer victims who live far from such centers have a chance.” 5
Walter Last, writing in The Ecologist, reported recently:
“After analyzing cancer survival statistics for several decades, Dr Hardin Jones, a professor at the University of California, concluded: ‘...patients are as well, or better off, untreated. Jones’s disturbing assessment has never been refuted.’”
Or what about this?
“Many medical oncologists recommend chemotherapy for virtually any tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged by almost invariable failure.”
(Albert Braverman, MD, “Medical Oncology in the 90s”, Lancet 1991, vol. 337, p. 901)
Or this?
“Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors.”
(Allen Levin, MD, UCSF, The Healing of Cancer)
Or even this?
“Despite widespread use of chemotherapies, breast cancer mortality has not changed in the last 70 years.”
(Thomas Dao, MD, New England Journal of Medicine, March 1975, vol. 292, p. 707)
Chemotherapy is an invasive and toxic treatment able supposedly to eliminate cancer cells.
Unfortunately, though, its ferocious chemistry is not able to differentiate between the cancerous cell or the healthy cell and surrounding healthy tissue.
Put simply, chemotherapy is an intravenously administered poison that kills all living matter. Repeated chemotherapy and repeated radiation treatments kill the whole body by degrees. The immune system is hit particularly hard by chemotherapy and often does not recuperate enough to protect adequately against common illnesses, which can then lead to death.
Some 67 per cent of people who die during cancer treatment do so through opportunistic infections arising as a direct result of the immune system failing because of the aggressive and toxic nature of the drugs.7
What is this, if not death by doctoring?
And the side effects from both chemotherapy and radiation itself are extensive. They can include dizziness, skin discoloration, sensory loss, audio/visual impairment, nausea, diarrhea, loss of hair, loss of appetite leading to malnutrition, loss of sex drive, loss of white blood cells, permanent organ damage, organ failure, internal bleeding, tissue loss and cardiovascular leakage (artery deterioration), to name but a few.
Two years ago, Hazel was diagnosed with breast cancer. She described her chemotherapy as the worst experience of her life:
“This highly toxic fluid was being injected into my veins. The nurse administering it was wearing protective gloves because it would burn her skin if just a tiny drip came into contact with it. I couldn’t help asking myself, ‘If such precautions were needed to be taken on the outside, what is it doing to me on the inside?’ From 7 pm that evening, I vomited solidly for two and a half days. During my treatment, I lost my hair by the handful, I lost my appetite, my skin color, my zest for life. I was death on legs.”
Dr Ralph Moss is the author of The Cancer Industry, a shocking exposé of the world of conventional cancer politics and practice. Interviewed on the Laura Lee radio show in 1994, Moss stated:
“In the end, there is no proof that chemotherapy actually extends life in the vast majority of cases, and this is the great lie about chemotherapy: that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumor and extending the life of a patient.”
The following extract is taken from Tim O’Shea at The Doctor Within:
“A German epidemiologist from the Heidelberg/Mannheim Tumor Clinic, Dr Ulrich Abel, has done a comprehensive review and analysis of every major study and clinical trial of chemotherapy ever done. His conclusions should be read by anyone who is about to embark on the Chemo Express.
To make sure he had reviewed everything ever published on chemotherapy, Abel sent letters to over 350 medical centers around the world, asking them to send him anything they had published on the subject. Abel researched thousands of articles: it is unlikely that anyone in the world knows more about chemotherapy than he.
“The analysis took him several years, but the results are astounding: Abel found that the overall worldwide success rate of chemotherapy was ‘appalling’ because there was simply no scientific evidence available anywhere that chemotherapy can ‘extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers’.
Abel emphasizes that chemotherapy rarely can improve the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as ‘a scientific wasteland’ and states that at least 80 per cent of chemotherapy administered throughout the world is worthless and is akin to the ‘emperor’s new clothes’—neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on chemotherapy, even though there is no scientific evidence that it works! (Lancet, 10 August 1991) No mainstream media even mentioned this comprehensive study: it was totally buried.
The Doctor-Patient Power Imbalance
Whilst in the main dismissing the “alternativist” treatments, as he called them, and writing in a generally confident manner about his trust in the conventional medical paradigm, John Diamond would sometimes waver:
“What if those denying alternativists were right? What if the truth was that no life had ever been saved by radiotherapy and that there was every chance that my cancer would be made worse by it being irradiated? What if the truth as pronounced by a couple of books was that the main effect of cancer surgery was to release stray cancer cells into the body, allowing them to set up home elsewhere?… I turned to the medical books for solace and got none.”
Talk with cancer patients and one soon discovers that many of them report that, although they have an uncomfortable gut feeling that there must somehow be a better way forward, they still find themselves returning to their oncologist for more of the same uncomfortable treatment. Why is this, when there are proven, non-conventional and non-harmful treatments readily available?
Surely, one significant factor is our hereditary submissive attitude to the medical orthodoxy and its archetypal symbolism: the white coat, the stethoscope, the years of knowledge represented in those framed degrees. Every artifact speaks of our being in the hands of experts. And then there is the added pressure that can be exerted upon the patient at the point of diagnosis by the cancer physician.
In his essay entitled “The $200 Billion Scam”, Jeff Kamen reports on how a cancer diagnosis was delivered to Kathy Keeton, the late wife of Penthouse magazine magnate Bob Guccione:
“’I’m sorry,’ she remembers her doctor saying. ‘It’s a very rare form of the disease. It’s the nature of this kind of cancer that it takes off at a gallop and metastasizes quickly, so we need to act quickly and get you started on chemotherapy at once. We have some of the best people in the world in this field. I urge you to let me get you into their expert care. There is no time to waste. This form of cancer is often fatal, and quickly so. Untreated, you have six weeks to live. We really must move aggressively with the chemo.’”
Hazel recalls a similar experience:
“Basically, I was in shock from the diagnosis. I was sitting there, with the doctor saying that this treatment was the best available and that it was actually a matter of life or death that I received it. My husband was sitting next to me, telling me that I needed to go along with it. I kind of went into a trance and, although something didn’t feel quite right, I found myself nodding to chemotherapy.”
Most definitely, the power imbalance that exists in all doctor-patient relationships (whence comes the term “shrink” in psychiatry) is a key agent in determining the direction of treatment.
Confusing and Conflicting Information
Aside from this very powerful influence, a mass exodus away from conventional cancer treatment towards proven, non-conventional treatments has also been severely hampered by the negative effects of the vast sea of confusing, conflicting and often bizarre information out there, posing as “helpful” alternative cancer advice. A first-timer seeking alternative advice on the Internet, for instance, can soon become thoroughly disheartened. Some 4,000 links come up under “alternative cancer treatment” alone!
An anxious patient, with no time to separate the wheat from the chaff, is then faced with having to make a series of calculations, based solely on his negative experiences on the Internet and a sort of blind, desperate faith that, somehow, the well-qualified oncologist has got to be right.
“And didn’t he warn us that there were a lot of Internet kooks out there?” The patient is then right back to square one and, by default, the chemotherapy suggested earlier seems overall to be the “safest” bet.
In the view of health reporter Phillip Day, author of Cancer: Why We’re Still Dying to Know The Truth:
“Many people just gulp, enter the cancer tunnel and hope they come out the other end.”
But despite the fact that an Internet search can very easily generate confusion, there is actually a wealth of expertly documented, credible information available on natural and genuinely efficacious treatments for a variety of serious illnesses, including cancer—information that, in some instances, has been in existence for many years.
But information on such treatments is not widely available in the public domain—perhaps because genuine medicine has had to fight tremendously hard to be heard clearly. And there are particular reasons why this has been so. Often, it is not so much where to look for genuine natural treatment and medical advice as how to look for it.
Before discussing specific cancer treatments in more depth, it is important that we briefly examine the reasons for the current levels of confusion surrounding genuine natural medicine as a whole: willful distortion, unwitting stupidity, you name it. Conventional and alternative, it’s taking place on both sides of the fence.
We must learn to read between the lines.
Forked Tongues, Fraud & Failure
Proponents of genuine natural treatments for serious illnesses have always had to fight on several fronts in their long, hard battle for proper recognition of these treatments. They have had to do battle with those calculating opportunists—the forked-tongued drug merchants—who use every trick in the book to undermine any genuine treatments not under their own jurisdiction and employ all means possible to disseminate their damaging disinformation as far and wide as possible in order to protect their own lucrative markets.
No department, private or public, is beyond the reach of the drug merchants’ all-consuming influence.
Thriller writer John Le Carré spent many years working in the British Foreign Office and knows the politics of big business very well. His most recent book, The Constant Gardener, focuses on the corrupt nature of the pharmaceutical industry.
In an interview on the subject, Le Carré stated recently:
“Big Pharma is engaged in the deliberate seduction of the medical profession, country by country, worldwide. It is spending a fortune on influencing, hiring and purchasing academic judgment to a point where, in a few years’ time, if Big Pharma continues unchecked on its present happy path, unbought medical opinion will be hard to find.” 12
In opposition to the incessant drive by Big Business to dominate our health choices, Dr Matthias Rath provides a concise summary of the primary ethics of the merchant’s house:
“Throughout the 20th century, the pharmaceutical industry has been constructed by investors, the goal being to replace effective but non-patentable natural remedies with mostly ineffective but patentable and highly profitable pharmaceutical drugs. The very nature of the pharmaceutical industry is to make money from ongoing diseases.
Like other industries, the pharmaceutical industry tries to expand their market—that is, to maintain ongoing diseases and to find new diseases for their drugs. Prevention and cure of diseases damages the pharmaceutical business and the eradication of common diseases threatens its very existence.
“Therefore, the pharmaceutical industry fights the eradication of any disease at all costs. The pharmaceutical industry itself is the main obstacle, why today’s most widespread diseases are further expanding, including heart attacks, strokes, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis and many others. Pharmaceutical drugs are not intended to cure diseases. According to health insurers, over 24,000 pharmaceutical drugs are currently marketed and prescribed without any proven therapeutic value. (AOK Magazine, 4/98)
“According to medical doctors’ associations, the known dangerous side-effects of pharmaceutical drugs have become the fourth leading cause of death after heart attacks, cancer and strokes. (Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998)
“Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded twice. A major portion of their income is used up to finance the exploding profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they are offered a medicine that does not even cure.”
Dr Rath is currently spearheading the fight against the pharmaceutical industries as they seek to legislate against our free use of vitamins and minerals. If this legislation is passed, it will directly affect you in many ways.
Writing in the UK Guardian on February 7, 2002, senior health editor Sarah Bosely reported:
“Scientists are accepting large sums of money from drug companies to put their names to articles, endorsing new medicines, that they have not written— a growing practice that some fear is putting scientific integrity in jeopardy.”
These supposed guardians of our health are being paid what to say. Said one physician in the article:
“What day is it today? I’m just working out what drug I’m supporting today.”
From top to bottom, 21st century medicine is being bought and taught to think of all medical treatment in terms of pharmaceutical intervention only.
While the politicking and big business string-pulling is taking place behind the scenes, our minds are being washed with the constant froth of emotive, unfounded, pro-establishment, populist headlines such as:
“Another breakthrough at UCLA!…” (Yes, but with mice!)
“It’s in the genes!” (Another £5 million now will help us to isolate the gene in 2010… perhaps.)
“Excitement at latest oncology findings!” (Buoyant opening paragraph, descending into the usual mixture of hope extinguished by caution and the obligatory appeal to the pocket.)
“Cancer vaccine close!” (Yes, and close since 1975, actually. But please, continue to give generously, because next time it could be you!)
And so it goes on. And all the while, the mortality statistics worsen. Yet still, the money—our money—just keeps on rolling in.
On that note, the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research has warned:
“The next time you are asked to donate to a cancer organization, bear in mind that your money will be used to sustain an industry which has been deemed by many eminent scientists as a qualified failure and by others as a complete fraud.”
Note: For those readers interested in finding out more on the issues raised in this article, just click on the following titles available from Credence Publications at the website http://www.credence.org:
http://www.naturalnews.com/021813_cancer_therapies.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/048617_cancer_natural_healing_holistic_doctors.html
The Big Cancer Lie
Some of the videos may seem a little "over the top" but if you've been in the hospital and almost died, then, you may relate to some of these horrific stories.
http://www.thebigcancerlie.com/
FYI: Be aware that the author of this website (Max Sidorov) is marketing his ebook on this site. However, if you do your own research, you may not need his book. Also, there are a lot better books about cancer available on websites like Amazon.
91 Percent of Oncologists Would REFUSE Chemotherapy If They Had Cancer.
Why? Because they know it's extremely ineffective and extremely toxic.
Did you know that the true 5-year cure rate of conventional cancer treatments is less than 3% (actually, about 2.1%). This statistic is from the Journal of Oncology in 2004. Their "cure rate" hasn't changed much, if any, since 2004. They hide their true cure rate by using clever terminology, such as by using the term "response," which means nothing as far as survival is concerned.
Research has shown that 3 of every 4 doctors and scientists would refuse chemotherapy for themselves due to its devastating effects body and immune system, and because of its extremely low success rate. On top of that, only 2 to 4% of all cancers even respond to chemotherapy or prove to be "life extending," yet it is prescribed across the board for just about every kind of cancer.
Cancer Doctor Peter Bach on Losing His Wife to Cancer -- New York Magazine
This is a powerful and very touching story written by an oncologist who lost his wife to cancer.
http://www.thebigcancerlie.com/
At Least 80 Percent of Chemotherapy Is Worthless
A German epidemiologist from the Heidelberg/Mannheim Tumor Clinic, Dr. Ulrich Abel has done a comprehensive review and analysis of every major study and clinical trial of chemotherapy ever done. His conclusions should be read by anyone who is about to subject themselves to chemotherapy. To make sure he had reviewed everything ever published on chemotherapy, Abel sent letters to over 350 medical centers around the world asking them to send him anything they had published on the subject. Abel researched thousands of articles: it is unlikely that anyone in the world knows more about chemotherapy than he.
The analysis took him several years, but the results are astounding: "Abel found that the overall worldwide success rate of chemotherapy was "appalling" because there was simply no scientific evidence available anywhere that chemotherapy can "extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers." Abel emphasizes that chemotherapy rarely can improve the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that at least 80 percent of chemotherapy administered throughout the world is worthless, and is akin to the "emperor's new clothes" - neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on chemotherapy even though there is no scientific evidence that it works!" - The Lancet (the most respected medical journal in the world).
Mammograms Do More Damage Than Good-and Actually HARM Ten Women for Every One It Helps!
The $4 billion-a-year mammogram industry urges women to rely on x-ray tests to protect their health. But what they don't tell you is mammograms are really an unnecessary and even harmful treatment.
A new study by researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Center in Demark reviewed the benefits and negative effects of seven breast cancer screening programs on 500,000 women-and the results were shocking.
For every 2,000 women who received mammograms over a 10-year period, only one would have her life prolonged, but ten would be harmed. Mammograms can actually increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by as much as 3 percent per year by irradiating the breast cells and triggering breast cancer.
FYI: There's a new test for breast cancer with no false negatives or positives... from urine. That's right. Researchers discovered that people with cancer carry different proteins then people with no cancer-and this can be tested by a simple test. So simple you can do it right at home.
Big Pharma Resorts to Outrageous Lies to Convince You That Their So-Called Cancer "Cures" Work-but Don't Be Fooled !
For instance, if you or a loved one has breast cancer, doctors may recommend the drug Tamoxifen. You'll likely hear that it reduces the chances of breast cancer recurring by 49 percent. Sounds pretty impressive, right?
But the truth is, based on absolute numbers, Tamoxifen reduces the risk of breast cancer returning by 1.6 percent-30 times less than advertised.
"Relative" numbers are used because they can be manipulated in many ways. Relative to what? It could be to a previous test or some other obscure number.
Cancer News Shocker: The Florida Supreme Court says, "The national media can legally lie to the American Public."
What is Chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is a derivative of mustard gas, the toxin that was used by the United States Army to kill enemy forces in World War I, and was eventually outlawed by the Geneva Convention. In the 1930's Memorial Sloan-Kettering began testing these mustard gas derivatives to treat cancer. They had 0 percent success rates. In the 1940's more testing was conducted at Yale; out of 160 patient treated nobody was cured.
During the first trials to find the perfect drug, some 400,000 "cytotoxins" were tested by Sloan-Kettering and the NCI (National Cancer Institute). Their only criterion for testing was; which toxic compound will kill some of the cancer cells before it kills the patient. Thousands of the compounds tested were simply refined poisons. After their trials about 50 toxins were chosen and are still the basis of today's chemotherapy 'treatments'.
Despite absolutely no positive results, not one person cured, not a shred of proof these toxins had any benefit whatsoever to a cancer patient, these drugs gained popularity over the decades and are still in use today.
Or you may have heard through the major media that by treating early stage breast cancer, there's a 91 percent cure rate over five years. NONSENSE! You can get the same cure rate by doing nothing, as breast cancer is a very slow growing cancer.
Did you know that about 27% of people that get diagnosed with cancer and dont do anything, get spontaneously healed? That's the statistics from many doctors; a quarter of people that do absolutely nothing, no chemo, no radiation, no orthodox or even alternative methods cure themselves of cancer. So with the current modern medical 2% cure rate, chemo and radiation is killing off the 25% of people that would have otherwise survived by doing absolutely nothing.
If you sit down on your couch, grab yourself a snack and start watching your favorite TV show, you will have a 1250% HIGHER chance of surviving cancer than if you visit your doctor and start chemotherapy.
"My studies have proved conclusively that untreated cancer victims live up to four times longer than treated individuals. If one has cancer and opts to do nothing at all, he will live longer and feel better than if he undergoes radiation, chemotherapy or surgery, other than when used in immediate life-threatening situations."---Prof Jones.
If chemotherapy, drugs, or radiation worked, cancer would be cured and wiped out. Yet the rates of this disease keep rising every single year. No cancer that was incurable 30 years ago is curable today. It doesn't seem like anything the doctors are prescribing is working.
Take a look at what a chemo spill does to your hand:
http://www.cancertutor.com/ChemoSpill/
Drug Companies Pay Oncologists Big "Kickbacks" to Promote High-Priced, but Ineffective Cancer Drugs
Do you know how most oncologists make money? Not by treating patients, but by selling cancer drugs.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, as much as 75 percent of the average oncologists' earnings come from selling chemotherapy drugs in his or her office. And at a substantial mark-up!
Americans pay the highest amount for prescription drugs in the world. Big Pharma will say it's due to research and development. But the U.S. drug industry spent over $33.5 billion in promotion costs last year.
A former drug rep from Eli Lily testified before Congress saying, "Pharmaceutical companies hire former cheerleaders and ex-models to wine and dine doctors, exaggerate drug benefits and underplay side effects."
An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the average oncologist makes $253,000 per year. Incredible as it sounds, the article says that 75 percent of those earnings — about $190,000 — come from chemotherapy drug profits! If you subtract those drug profits, the oncologist would make little more than $60,000 per year. In other words, they get paid to kill people.
Worse, they pay oncologists kickbacks to push their drugs. For example, AstraZeneca, Inc. had to pay $280 million in civil penalties and $63 million in criminal penalties to the federal government because it paid kickbacks to doctors for promoting its prostate cancer drug.
The FTC Launches a Covert Campaign to Censor Natural Cancer Remedies and Financially Ruin Doctors and Companies Offering Them.
Sad as it seems, the harassment of doctors using natural therapies to treat cancers has been going on for more than 50 years in America. Doctors treating malignant tumors with detoxification, immune stimulation, nutrient, herb and juice fasting secrets from Europe, Tibet, China and India have been persecuted and booted out of the U.S. if they wanted to continue treating cancer patients.
Take the case of William Kelly, DDS. Dr. Kelly discovered a natural enzyme therapy that, combined with strict nutrition and a detoxification regime, "digested" pancreatic cancer cells (see page 519). This therapy achieved nearly a 90 percent, five-year survival rate for close to 33,000 patients-even though pancreatic cancer is by far the most rapid and deadly cancer.
What did the government do when they heard about Dr. Kelly's amazing discovery? They threw him in jail!
But now, the government is bringing out the Big Guns! The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently launched what they call "Operation False Cures" to stamp out natural cancer cures for good.
What Arrogance! Here's what Dr. Hollohan, former chief of the Fraud Division of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said about the public's ability to make sound choices regarding medical care: "For the majority of alternative therapies being offered today, there is virtually no scientific evidence that one can expect to benefit from any of them. The public in general doesn't have the knowledge to make an informed choice."
According to the FTC, "Anyone mentioning a cure for cancer is automatically a quack, regardless of science backing their position." By their own admission, they state that any mention of a cancer "cure" is by itself fraudulent. And anyone using the word "cure" on a website to promote a product is instantly presumed to be guilty of criminal acts.
Doctor Testimonials
"We know that conventional therapy doesn't work—if it did you would not fear cancer any more than you fear pneumonia. It is the utter lack of certainty as to the outcome of conventional treatment that virtually screams for more freedom of choice in the area of cancer therapy. Yet most so-called alternative therapies regardless of potential or proven benefit, are outlawed, which forces patients to submit to the failures we know don't work, because there is no other choice."Dr. Julian Whitaker
“Most patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancer. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors". - Dr. Levin, UCSF
"It is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy. Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established." - John Cairns, Professor of microbiology at Harvard University, published a critique in Scientific American
"As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good." - Alan Nixon, PhD, past President of the American Chemical Society
“Except for two forms of cancer, chemotherapy does not cure. It tortures and may shorten life - no one can tell from the available data.” - Dr. Candace Pert, Georgetown University School of Medicine
“I started as a believer in chemotherapy...[but] Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I [now] fear it far more than I fear death from cancer. We know that conventional therapy doesn’t work –if it did, you would not fear cancer any more than you fear pneumonia. It is the utter lack of certainty as to the outcome of conventional treatment that virtually screams for more freedom of choice in the area of cancer therapy. Yet most alternative therapies regardless of potential or proven benefit are outlawed, which forces patients to submit to the failures that we know don’t work, because there’s no other choice.”
"There is no proof that chemotherapy in the vast majority of cases actually extends life, and this is the GREAT LIE about chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumor and extending the life of the patient." - Dr. Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
“Chemotherapy and radiation can increase the risk of developing a second cancer by up to 100 times.” - Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, Congressional Record, September, 9, 1987
“To understand the utter hypocrisy of chemotherapy, consider the following:
The McGill Cancer Center in Canada, one of the largest and most prestigious cancer treatment centers in the world, did a study of oncologists to determine how they would respond to a diagnosis of cancer. On the confidential questionnaire, 90% doctors said that all chemotherapy programs were unacceptable to them and their family members. The overriding reason for this decision was that the drugs are ineffective and have an unacceptable degree of toxicity. These are the same doctors who will tell you that their chemotherapy treatments will shrink your tumor and prolong your life! Thirty years ago, I worked with a radiologist who told me this: “If I get cancer, I’m going to Mexico.” So if you get cancer, don’t call your doctor; call your travel agent. There are alternative treatments available, but you will have to run the gamut of outraged chemotherapists, radiologists, and surgeons to find one. They will use cajolery, insults, fear, threats (”If you do this, I am off the case”), and misrepresentation to dissuade you.” - Dr. William Campbell Douglass II regarding hypocrisy of Oncologist Survey
"My clinical experience is that in America, when people die from cancer, they are NOT actually dying from cancer, but instead, they are dying from the medical TREATMENT itself. They are dying from the chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. AGAIN: They are NOT dying from the cancer—they are being killed by the medical doctors and their medical treatment!" - Richard Shulze, N.D., M.H.
"Clearly, conventional cancer treatments have an important place in medicine and save lives. But since the 1950s, evidence has steadily accumulated that surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are far less effective than the public is being led to believe. Greenberg found that even the valid improvements were very, very small, and that there had been no significant advancements in treating any of the major forms of cancer." - Kenny Ausubel - Author of 'When Healing Becomes a Crime
"Success of most chemotherapy is appalling…There is no scientific evidence for its ability to extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancer…chemotherapy for malignancies too advanced for surgery which accounts for 80% of all cancers is a scientific wasteland." - Dr. Urlich Abel
"A study of over 10,000 patients clearly shows that chemo’s supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin’s disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy (NCI Journal 87:10)."—John Diamond
Children who are successfully treated for Hodgkin's disease are 18 times more likely later to develop secondary malignant tumors. Girls face a 35 per cent chance of developing breast cancer by the time they are 40----which is 75 times greater than the average. The risk of leukemia increased markedly four years after the ending of successful treatment, and reached a plateau after 14 years, but the risk of developing solid tumors remained high and approached 30 per cent at 30 years (New Eng J Med, March 21, 1996)
Why Have You Never Heard of These Doctors?
If this information would be made freely available tomorrow to mainstream news, that would mean the end of the billion dollar drug industry, it would be wiped out overnight; huge institutes, million dollar research labs, universities, grants, journals, professors, experts, and cushy multimillion dollar jobs would be erased within a day, and not to mention the fact that someone would have to answer for the hundreds of thousands of dead people who didn't have to die, and the fact that what they were doing was not only wrong, but they kept lying to keep this failing system alive even with overwhelming scientific evidence going against them. This is something big pharma will fight to protect until the very end.
Your Worth to the Doctors
Consider this. You are worth anywhere from $300,000 to $1,000,000 to Big Pharma from your cancer treatments. And the racketeers who rake in this money couldn’t care less whether you live or die.
Let me prove that by giving you an example. A chemo drug called Erlotinib costs $3,500 a month. The FDA approved it as a treatment for cancer because it supposedly improved survival by 12 days! I realize this is so insane it’s hard to believe, but it’s true.
Another chemo drug that costs $10,000 a month improved survival by six weeks. Six weeks of hell, I might add. Chemo makes you feel like hell and look like hell.
There’s big money at stake in keeping this drug racket going. The profits of the 10 drug companies in the Fortune 500 exceed the profits of the other 490 companies put together!!! These profits are simply mind-boggling. The drug profiteers are making money hand over fist by poisoning cancer patient
The truth is they have been systematically destroying and suppressing any and all natural remedies since the early 1900's! I will reveal many of these remedies, so please keep reading.
Despite absolutely no positive results, not one person cured, not a shred of proof their toxins had any benefit whatsoever to a cancer patient, these drugs gained popularity over the decades and are still in use today.
How Does This Happen in America?
Dr Matthias Rath provides a concise summary of the primary ethics of the pharmaceutical industry:
Throughout the 20th century, the pharmaceutical industry has been constructed by investors, the goal being to replace effective but non-patentable natural remedies with mostly ineffective but patentable and highly profitable pharmaceutical drugs. The very nature of the pharmaceutical industry is to make money from ongoing diseases. Like other industries, the pharmaceutical industry tries to expand their market - that is to maintain ongoing diseases and to find new diseases for their drugs. Prevention and cure of diseases damages the pharmaceutical business and the eradication of common diseases threatens its very existence.
Therefore, the pharmaceutical industry fights the eradication of any disease at all costs. The pharmaceutical industry itself is the main obstacle, why today's most widespread diseases are further expanding including heart attacks, strokes, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, and many others. Pharmaceutical drugs are not intended to cure diseases. According to health insurers, over 24,000 pharmaceutical drugs are currently marketed and prescribed without any proven therapeutic value (AOKMagazine 4/98). According to medical doctors associations, the known dangerous side-effects of pharmaceutical drugs have become the fourth leading cause of death after heart attacks, cancer and strokes (Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA April 15, 1998)
Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded twice: A major portion of their income is used up to finance the exploding profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they are offered a medicine that does not even cure."
"We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue" - Samuel Epstein, M.D
"Every discoverer of a cancer remedy has encountered a Chinese wall of resistance," which has been the same in every page of recorded cancer history, and that the myth that the discoverer of a cancer cure would be "honored, acclaimed, and practically deified as a saviorur of the human race," should be changed to "dishonored, denounced and crucified." -M. H. Clutter, D.R.L.
Monopoly On Your Health
The government has a law which states "Only drugs can cure, prevent, and treat disease." Currently, under U. S. Federal law, no natural substance can be advertised as a cure for any condition – period. Companies that get too successful with cancer treatment are shut down by FDA lawsuits that are supported directly by the pharmaceutical companies.
This means only the chemicals that come from the factories of pharmaceutical companies can treat you, nothing else. Big Pharma has a monopoly on your health and they are not about to jeopardize their trillion dollar profits by teaching you inexpensive and powerful natural remedies. And if a doctor decides to treat their patients with a natural remedy, even if it's over 90% successful, that means he is breaking the law and his license will be suspended and he may even be sentenced to jail (which has happened numerous times to honest medical doctors).
Once in practice they have health agencies, insurance companies, and the government all looking over their shoulders, checking every examination and diagnosis, with attorneys ready to pounce on any mistake or slip.
With insurance companies and Medicare/Medicaid only paying a fraction of what the doctor bills them, they are under intense economic pressure to keep the face-to-face appointment as brief as possible. Studies showed that on average patients spend about two minutes with the doctor during each visit. Is it possible for them to question you, or figure out why you are sick? How can they in 2 minutes? All they really have time to do is write you a prescription slip.
Nobody wants to be sick, not you or your doctors. But sickness keeps Big Pharma alive. They make their profits on the sickness of others. Be it a pill for a headache or acne, an injection vaccine, Big Pharma not only needs you to want their drugs, they need you to NEED them. They can only increase their profits through disease-mongering; creating new diseases, inciting fear of them, and then telling you they have the only solution through direct advertising. And it works like a charm.
One of the WORST Things You Can Do...
…is subject your body to toxic chemicals which have a 97% failure rate. It's quite shocking for most people to discover that their medication isn't really doing anything to cure their disease.
These chemicals destroy everything living, good cells, bad cells, organs, immune system, nervous system, and pretty much the entire body.
Chemo particularly destroys of the rapidly multiplying and dividing cells found in your:
Bone marrow (That's why your immune system can't protect you from infections)
Digestive system (That's why you have nausea after chemo)
Hair follicles (That's why go bald after chemo)
Reproductive system
In America, 40 percent of people with cancer die from malnutrition. When the cells in your digestive system and intestines die, this prevents almost any absorption of food.
Doctors Confessing To Intentionally Diagnosing Healthy People With Cancer
http://preventdisease.com/news/15/010715_Doctors-Confessing-To-Intentionally-Diagnosing-Healthy-People-With-Cancer.shtml
Food for Thought:
Chemotherapy has a 97% failure rate or a 3% success rate. If Ford Motor Co. had a 97% failure rate with manufacturing cars, do you think that they would still be in business?
Insurance companies do not pay for alternative care because they are in bed with the pharmaceutical companies!
Celebrities, athletes and other famous people are always on TV trying to get us to donate to cancer or some other similar organization. Someone needs to tell them that the donations go towards creating more toxic drugs, developing their marketing campaigns and funding their lavish retirement portfolios and vacations!
Most cancer patients do not die from cancer -- they die from the treatment!
Note: As always, do your own research and draw your own conclusions.
Your Doctor Can't Cure Your Cancer Because He Can't Prevent or Cure His Own!
http://www.drday.com/doctors_cannont_cure_cancer.htm
Doctors develop cancer at the same rate as the general population. And doctors DIE of cancer at the same rate as the general population.
Obviously that means that doctors don’t know how to prevent or cure cancer because if they did, they would certainly prevent cancer from developing in themselves. And if they did develop cancer – they would know how to cure it.
But they don’t!
So why would you go to a doctor for the treatment of your cancer when your doctor doesn’t even know how to prevent or cure cancer in himself (or herself)?
Surveys show that 75% of doctors would NOT have chemotherapy if they developed cancer, yet they invariably prescribe it for their patients.
Why do 75% of doctors in surveys respond that they would NOT have chemotherapy?
The answer includes the following:
- Doctors see the horrible suffering their patients, relatives, and friends go through while on chemotherapy.
- Doctors ALL know that chemotherapy causes
cancer, so it makes no sense to “treat” a cancer patient with a supposed
“therapy” that causes cancer - a disease the patient already has!
- Doctors watch their patients who are taking chemotherapy grow
weaker and weaker, becoming thinner, more fragile, and sicker, losing
the majority of their muscle mass while at the same time, suffering from
severe nausea, vomiting, hair loss and numerous other life-threatening
side effects of the poisonous drugs they are being given by their
physician, the one who is supposed to help them. Yet,
the physician’s “treatment” results in an abominable “quality of life”
and actually encourages the spread of the patient’s cancer because the
“treatment” suppresses the patient’s immune system, the one system that
the patient needs in order to get well.
- Doctors watch their patients, relatives, and friends, DIE as a
result of the poisonous chemotherapy. Some cancer patients actually die
from the poisonous chemotherapy drugs and not from their cancer!
- Doctors also know that radiation causes cancer. That’s why
doctors tell patients, “Don’t get too many x-rays. X-rays cause cancer
because they are radiation.” How can a cancer patient be cured of
cancer by being “treated” with a “therapy” that causes cancer?
- Doctors know that both chemotherapy and radiation destroy the
patient’s immune system, the one system in our body we need to get us
well and keep us well. In fact, when these same chemotherapy drugs are
given to patients who don’t have cancer but have just received an organ
transplant, these drugs are referred to, by physicians, as
“immunosuppressive drugs” because they “suppress” the “immune system” –
the system in our body that is critical for recovery from disease.
In fact, when a patient has an organ transplant, his risk of developing cancer doubles. Furthermore, his risk of developing a specific type of cancer – non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – increases by seven times, according to the November 2, 2011, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
That’s why doctors tell cancer patients they are taking chemotherapy drugs – but they tell transplant patients they are taking immuno-suppressive drugs – even though the drugs given to both cancer patients and organ transplant patients are essentially the SAME drugs.
These drugs suppress the patient’s immune system so the transplant patient won’t reject his transplanted organ, but that same immune suppression markedly decreases the body’s ability to fight disease, and therefore, the transplant patient may develop cancer specifically as a result of taking the medication. And the cancer patient finds that his cancer will eventually grow and spread because of the suppression of his immune system caused by the chemotherapy!
So why, if chemotherapy is so harmful, do doctors prescribe it for their patients – even when 75% of the doctors state they would not take chemotherapy themselves if they developed cancer?
- In some states in the U.S., thanks to the Drug Companies and the
“lock” on doctors by their doctors’ “union” – the American Medical
Association - it is illegal for a doctor to treat any cancer patient
with any method other than poisonous chemotherapy, burning radiation, or
mutilating surgery. If they do, they will lose their license to
practice medicine.
- Doctors don’t know what else to do, because we physicians are never taught in our medical training how to get a patient truly well from cancer – or any other disease for that matter. All we are taught to do is, 1) give harmful, poisonous drugs to cover up the symptoms of the disease and make the patient “feel” better – drugs that have numerous side effects that cause additional diseases, but never address the underlying cause of the initial disease which also continues to progress, or 2) cut out the patient’s organs or cut off their body parts. But no disease has ever been caused by a person having “too many” organs or “too many” body parts. That’s why cutting them off – or out – never cures the patient’s problem. The cancer will just come back in the same place, or a different place in the body, or the person will develop a different life-threatening disease.
The Good News is that if we have done it to ourselves by the way we have been living, thinking, acting, eating, and handling stress – then we can REVERSE the disease by CHANGING the way we live, think, act, eat, and handle stress.
But we physicians are taught that cancer – and all other diseases – “just happen.” And that’s what we are taught to tell patients. But if that is true, then you are totally helpless! You are at the mercy of the doctor – who has been taught to prescribe harmful Drugs or mutilating surgery – neither of which will make you well, and both of which are terribly painful The doctor will tell you there is no other option – and he or she actually believes that, because that is what we all have been taught in our medical training.
Why are doctors not taught how to get people well from their diseases?
Because the Drug companies have enormous control over medical schools and the training doctors receive because drug companies provide a significant amount of the research funding for medical school research – in large part to develop more drugs! It’s the old “golden rule” - “He who has the gold – rules!
Also, drug companies have enormous control over the medical journals and the articles they publish (which establish standards of medical practice) because the medical journals contain more pages of high-priced four-color advertising by the drug companies than actual pages that contain the medical articles. If a medical journal starts publishing articles that contain information on how to get a patient well without prescribing drugs to the patient, the drug companies will “pull” their expensive advertisements, and that particular medical journal will go bankrupt and cease to exist. So, it’s not hard to figure out why medical journals refuse to publish articles on natural healing.
But why do doctors who develop cancer themselves almost always agree to have chemotherapy, even though they say beforehand that they won’t?
Doctors don’t know what else to do, because they have never been taught in their training how to get anyone truly well from any disease, including cancer. As stated above, all we physicians are taught in our medical training is, 1) to give the patient harmful drugs – drugs that cover up the symptoms but never cure the disease, and all these drugs have harmful side effects that often cause additional diseases. or, 2) cut out the patients organs or cut off his body parts, neither of which cures any disease because no disease has ever been caused by having “too many” body parts or “too many” organs.
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Why Everything You Know About Cancer May Be Wrong!!
Read this web page to gain some insight into what cancer really is and what your doctors aren't telling you.
http://www.cancertutor.com/index8/
Some of the following information from the “Death by Doctoring” website may make you angry. But hopefully this information will eventually bring hope as we learn the truth about doctors, toxic medical treatments, financial kickbacks, pharmaceutical companies, etc.
Here are some excerpts from the website:
General Information
Every year in the United Kingdom, 200,000 people are diagnosed with cancer and 152,500 people die.1 In the United States, the annual death rate for this disease is approximately 547,000.2 These deaths are recorded as cancer deaths, but how many of these deaths are really attributable to the disease itself? How many deaths should in fact be recorded as “death by doctoring”?
When we consider that conventional treatment consists almost entirely of radiation, chemotherapy and the long-term application of toxic pharmaceuticals-treatments which are all well known for their life-threatening side-effects — then the question becomes all the more legitimate.
On chemotherapy, for instance, note the following:
“Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors.”
(Allen Levin, MD, UCSF, The Healing of Cancer, Marcus Books, 1990)
Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Consider the following statement from cancer specialist Professor Charles Mathe, who declared:
“If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard cancer treatment centre. Cancer victims who live far from such centers have a chance.” 5
Walter Last, writing in The Ecologist, reported recently:
“After analyzing cancer survival statistics for several decades, Dr Hardin Jones, a professor at the University of California, concluded: ‘...patients are as well, or better off, untreated. Jones’s disturbing assessment has never been refuted.’”
Or what about this?
“Many medical oncologists recommend chemotherapy for virtually any tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged by almost invariable failure.”
(Albert Braverman, MD, “Medical Oncology in the 90s”, Lancet 1991, vol. 337, p. 901)
Or this?
“Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors.”
(Allen Levin, MD, UCSF, The Healing of Cancer)
Or even this?
“Despite widespread use of chemotherapies, breast cancer mortality has not changed in the last 70 years.”
(Thomas Dao, MD, New England Journal of Medicine, March 1975, vol. 292, p. 707)
Chemotherapy is an invasive and toxic treatment able supposedly to eliminate cancer cells.
Unfortunately, though, its ferocious chemistry is not able to differentiate between the cancerous cell or the healthy cell and surrounding healthy tissue.
Put simply, chemotherapy is an intravenously administered poison that kills all living matter. Repeated chemotherapy and repeated radiation treatments kill the whole body by degrees. The immune system is hit particularly hard by chemotherapy and often does not recuperate enough to protect adequately against common illnesses, which can then lead to death.
Some 67 per cent of people who die during cancer treatment do so through opportunistic infections arising as a direct result of the immune system failing because of the aggressive and toxic nature of the drugs.7
What is this, if not death by doctoring?
And the side effects from both chemotherapy and radiation itself are extensive. They can include dizziness, skin discoloration, sensory loss, audio/visual impairment, nausea, diarrhea, loss of hair, loss of appetite leading to malnutrition, loss of sex drive, loss of white blood cells, permanent organ damage, organ failure, internal bleeding, tissue loss and cardiovascular leakage (artery deterioration), to name but a few.
Two years ago, Hazel was diagnosed with breast cancer. She described her chemotherapy as the worst experience of her life:
“This highly toxic fluid was being injected into my veins. The nurse administering it was wearing protective gloves because it would burn her skin if just a tiny drip came into contact with it. I couldn’t help asking myself, ‘If such precautions were needed to be taken on the outside, what is it doing to me on the inside?’ From 7 pm that evening, I vomited solidly for two and a half days. During my treatment, I lost my hair by the handful, I lost my appetite, my skin color, my zest for life. I was death on legs.”
Dr Ralph Moss is the author of The Cancer Industry, a shocking exposé of the world of conventional cancer politics and practice. Interviewed on the Laura Lee radio show in 1994, Moss stated:
“In the end, there is no proof that chemotherapy actually extends life in the vast majority of cases, and this is the great lie about chemotherapy: that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumor and extending the life of a patient.”
The following extract is taken from Tim O’Shea at The Doctor Within:
“A German epidemiologist from the Heidelberg/Mannheim Tumor Clinic, Dr Ulrich Abel, has done a comprehensive review and analysis of every major study and clinical trial of chemotherapy ever done. His conclusions should be read by anyone who is about to embark on the Chemo Express.
To make sure he had reviewed everything ever published on chemotherapy, Abel sent letters to over 350 medical centers around the world, asking them to send him anything they had published on the subject. Abel researched thousands of articles: it is unlikely that anyone in the world knows more about chemotherapy than he.
“The analysis took him several years, but the results are astounding: Abel found that the overall worldwide success rate of chemotherapy was ‘appalling’ because there was simply no scientific evidence available anywhere that chemotherapy can ‘extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers’.
Abel emphasizes that chemotherapy rarely can improve the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as ‘a scientific wasteland’ and states that at least 80 per cent of chemotherapy administered throughout the world is worthless and is akin to the ‘emperor’s new clothes’—neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on chemotherapy, even though there is no scientific evidence that it works! (Lancet, 10 August 1991) No mainstream media even mentioned this comprehensive study: it was totally buried.
The Doctor-Patient Power Imbalance
Whilst in the main dismissing the “alternativist” treatments, as he called them, and writing in a generally confident manner about his trust in the conventional medical paradigm, John Diamond would sometimes waver:
“What if those denying alternativists were right? What if the truth was that no life had ever been saved by radiotherapy and that there was every chance that my cancer would be made worse by it being irradiated? What if the truth as pronounced by a couple of books was that the main effect of cancer surgery was to release stray cancer cells into the body, allowing them to set up home elsewhere?… I turned to the medical books for solace and got none.”
Talk with cancer patients and one soon discovers that many of them report that, although they have an uncomfortable gut feeling that there must somehow be a better way forward, they still find themselves returning to their oncologist for more of the same uncomfortable treatment. Why is this, when there are proven, non-conventional and non-harmful treatments readily available?
Surely, one significant factor is our hereditary submissive attitude to the medical orthodoxy and its archetypal symbolism: the white coat, the stethoscope, the years of knowledge represented in those framed degrees. Every artifact speaks of our being in the hands of experts. And then there is the added pressure that can be exerted upon the patient at the point of diagnosis by the cancer physician.
In his essay entitled “The $200 Billion Scam”, Jeff Kamen reports on how a cancer diagnosis was delivered to Kathy Keeton, the late wife of Penthouse magazine magnate Bob Guccione:
“’I’m sorry,’ she remembers her doctor saying. ‘It’s a very rare form of the disease. It’s the nature of this kind of cancer that it takes off at a gallop and metastasizes quickly, so we need to act quickly and get you started on chemotherapy at once. We have some of the best people in the world in this field. I urge you to let me get you into their expert care. There is no time to waste. This form of cancer is often fatal, and quickly so. Untreated, you have six weeks to live. We really must move aggressively with the chemo.’”
Hazel recalls a similar experience:
“Basically, I was in shock from the diagnosis. I was sitting there, with the doctor saying that this treatment was the best available and that it was actually a matter of life or death that I received it. My husband was sitting next to me, telling me that I needed to go along with it. I kind of went into a trance and, although something didn’t feel quite right, I found myself nodding to chemotherapy.”
Most definitely, the power imbalance that exists in all doctor-patient relationships (whence comes the term “shrink” in psychiatry) is a key agent in determining the direction of treatment.
Confusing and Conflicting Information
Aside from this very powerful influence, a mass exodus away from conventional cancer treatment towards proven, non-conventional treatments has also been severely hampered by the negative effects of the vast sea of confusing, conflicting and often bizarre information out there, posing as “helpful” alternative cancer advice. A first-timer seeking alternative advice on the Internet, for instance, can soon become thoroughly disheartened. Some 4,000 links come up under “alternative cancer treatment” alone!
An anxious patient, with no time to separate the wheat from the chaff, is then faced with having to make a series of calculations, based solely on his negative experiences on the Internet and a sort of blind, desperate faith that, somehow, the well-qualified oncologist has got to be right.
“And didn’t he warn us that there were a lot of Internet kooks out there?” The patient is then right back to square one and, by default, the chemotherapy suggested earlier seems overall to be the “safest” bet.
In the view of health reporter Phillip Day, author of Cancer: Why We’re Still Dying to Know The Truth:
“Many people just gulp, enter the cancer tunnel and hope they come out the other end.”
But despite the fact that an Internet search can very easily generate confusion, there is actually a wealth of expertly documented, credible information available on natural and genuinely efficacious treatments for a variety of serious illnesses, including cancer—information that, in some instances, has been in existence for many years.
But information on such treatments is not widely available in the public domain—perhaps because genuine medicine has had to fight tremendously hard to be heard clearly. And there are particular reasons why this has been so. Often, it is not so much where to look for genuine natural treatment and medical advice as how to look for it.
Before discussing specific cancer treatments in more depth, it is important that we briefly examine the reasons for the current levels of confusion surrounding genuine natural medicine as a whole: willful distortion, unwitting stupidity, you name it. Conventional and alternative, it’s taking place on both sides of the fence.
We must learn to read between the lines.
Forked Tongues, Fraud & Failure
Proponents of genuine natural treatments for serious illnesses have always had to fight on several fronts in their long, hard battle for proper recognition of these treatments. They have had to do battle with those calculating opportunists—the forked-tongued drug merchants—who use every trick in the book to undermine any genuine treatments not under their own jurisdiction and employ all means possible to disseminate their damaging disinformation as far and wide as possible in order to protect their own lucrative markets.
No department, private or public, is beyond the reach of the drug merchants’ all-consuming influence.
Thriller writer John Le Carré spent many years working in the British Foreign Office and knows the politics of big business very well. His most recent book, The Constant Gardener, focuses on the corrupt nature of the pharmaceutical industry.
In an interview on the subject, Le Carré stated recently:
“Big Pharma is engaged in the deliberate seduction of the medical profession, country by country, worldwide. It is spending a fortune on influencing, hiring and purchasing academic judgment to a point where, in a few years’ time, if Big Pharma continues unchecked on its present happy path, unbought medical opinion will be hard to find.” 12
In opposition to the incessant drive by Big Business to dominate our health choices, Dr Matthias Rath provides a concise summary of the primary ethics of the merchant’s house:
“Throughout the 20th century, the pharmaceutical industry has been constructed by investors, the goal being to replace effective but non-patentable natural remedies with mostly ineffective but patentable and highly profitable pharmaceutical drugs. The very nature of the pharmaceutical industry is to make money from ongoing diseases.
Like other industries, the pharmaceutical industry tries to expand their market—that is, to maintain ongoing diseases and to find new diseases for their drugs. Prevention and cure of diseases damages the pharmaceutical business and the eradication of common diseases threatens its very existence.
“Therefore, the pharmaceutical industry fights the eradication of any disease at all costs. The pharmaceutical industry itself is the main obstacle, why today’s most widespread diseases are further expanding, including heart attacks, strokes, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis and many others. Pharmaceutical drugs are not intended to cure diseases. According to health insurers, over 24,000 pharmaceutical drugs are currently marketed and prescribed without any proven therapeutic value. (AOK Magazine, 4/98)
“According to medical doctors’ associations, the known dangerous side-effects of pharmaceutical drugs have become the fourth leading cause of death after heart attacks, cancer and strokes. (Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998)
“Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded twice. A major portion of their income is used up to finance the exploding profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they are offered a medicine that does not even cure.”
Dr Rath is currently spearheading the fight against the pharmaceutical industries as they seek to legislate against our free use of vitamins and minerals. If this legislation is passed, it will directly affect you in many ways.
Writing in the UK Guardian on February 7, 2002, senior health editor Sarah Bosely reported:
“Scientists are accepting large sums of money from drug companies to put their names to articles, endorsing new medicines, that they have not written— a growing practice that some fear is putting scientific integrity in jeopardy.”
These supposed guardians of our health are being paid what to say. Said one physician in the article:
“What day is it today? I’m just working out what drug I’m supporting today.”
From top to bottom, 21st century medicine is being bought and taught to think of all medical treatment in terms of pharmaceutical intervention only.
While the politicking and big business string-pulling is taking place behind the scenes, our minds are being washed with the constant froth of emotive, unfounded, pro-establishment, populist headlines such as:
“Another breakthrough at UCLA!…” (Yes, but with mice!)
“It’s in the genes!” (Another £5 million now will help us to isolate the gene in 2010… perhaps.)
“Excitement at latest oncology findings!” (Buoyant opening paragraph, descending into the usual mixture of hope extinguished by caution and the obligatory appeal to the pocket.)
“Cancer vaccine close!” (Yes, and close since 1975, actually. But please, continue to give generously, because next time it could be you!)
And so it goes on. And all the while, the mortality statistics worsen. Yet still, the money—our money—just keeps on rolling in.
On that note, the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research has warned:
“The next time you are asked to donate to a cancer organization, bear in mind that your money will be used to sustain an industry which has been deemed by many eminent scientists as a qualified failure and by others as a complete fraud.”
Note: For those readers interested in finding out more on the issues raised in this article, just click on the following titles available from Credence Publications at the website http://www.credence.org:
Additional References:
http://www.naturalnews.com/021813_cancer_therapies.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/048617_cancer_natural_healing_holistic_doctors.html
The Big Cancer Lie
Some of the videos may seem a little "over the top" but if you've been in the hospital and almost died, then, you may relate to some of these horrific stories.
http://www.thebigcancerlie.com/
FYI: Be aware that the author of this website (Max Sidorov) is marketing his ebook on this site. However, if you do your own research, you may not need his book. Also, there are a lot better books about cancer available on websites like Amazon.
91 Percent of Oncologists Would REFUSE Chemotherapy If They Had Cancer.
Why? Because they know it's extremely ineffective and extremely toxic.
Did you know that the true 5-year cure rate of conventional cancer treatments is less than 3% (actually, about 2.1%). This statistic is from the Journal of Oncology in 2004. Their "cure rate" hasn't changed much, if any, since 2004. They hide their true cure rate by using clever terminology, such as by using the term "response," which means nothing as far as survival is concerned.
Research has shown that 3 of every 4 doctors and scientists would refuse chemotherapy for themselves due to its devastating effects body and immune system, and because of its extremely low success rate. On top of that, only 2 to 4% of all cancers even respond to chemotherapy or prove to be "life extending," yet it is prescribed across the board for just about every kind of cancer.
Cancer Doctor Peter Bach on Losing His Wife to Cancer -- New York Magazine
This is a powerful and very touching story written by an oncologist who lost his wife to cancer.
http://www.thebigcancerlie.com/
At Least 80 Percent of Chemotherapy Is Worthless
A German epidemiologist from the Heidelberg/Mannheim Tumor Clinic, Dr. Ulrich Abel has done a comprehensive review and analysis of every major study and clinical trial of chemotherapy ever done. His conclusions should be read by anyone who is about to subject themselves to chemotherapy. To make sure he had reviewed everything ever published on chemotherapy, Abel sent letters to over 350 medical centers around the world asking them to send him anything they had published on the subject. Abel researched thousands of articles: it is unlikely that anyone in the world knows more about chemotherapy than he.
The analysis took him several years, but the results are astounding: "Abel found that the overall worldwide success rate of chemotherapy was "appalling" because there was simply no scientific evidence available anywhere that chemotherapy can "extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers." Abel emphasizes that chemotherapy rarely can improve the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific wasteland" and states that at least 80 percent of chemotherapy administered throughout the world is worthless, and is akin to the "emperor's new clothes" - neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on chemotherapy even though there is no scientific evidence that it works!" - The Lancet (the most respected medical journal in the world).
Mammograms Do More Damage Than Good-and Actually HARM Ten Women for Every One It Helps!
The $4 billion-a-year mammogram industry urges women to rely on x-ray tests to protect their health. But what they don't tell you is mammograms are really an unnecessary and even harmful treatment.
A new study by researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Center in Demark reviewed the benefits and negative effects of seven breast cancer screening programs on 500,000 women-and the results were shocking.
For every 2,000 women who received mammograms over a 10-year period, only one would have her life prolonged, but ten would be harmed. Mammograms can actually increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by as much as 3 percent per year by irradiating the breast cells and triggering breast cancer.
FYI: There's a new test for breast cancer with no false negatives or positives... from urine. That's right. Researchers discovered that people with cancer carry different proteins then people with no cancer-and this can be tested by a simple test. So simple you can do it right at home.
Big Pharma Resorts to Outrageous Lies to Convince You That Their So-Called Cancer "Cures" Work-but Don't Be Fooled !
For instance, if you or a loved one has breast cancer, doctors may recommend the drug Tamoxifen. You'll likely hear that it reduces the chances of breast cancer recurring by 49 percent. Sounds pretty impressive, right?
But the truth is, based on absolute numbers, Tamoxifen reduces the risk of breast cancer returning by 1.6 percent-30 times less than advertised.
"Relative" numbers are used because they can be manipulated in many ways. Relative to what? It could be to a previous test or some other obscure number.
Cancer News Shocker: The Florida Supreme Court says, "The national media can legally lie to the American Public."
What is Chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is a derivative of mustard gas, the toxin that was used by the United States Army to kill enemy forces in World War I, and was eventually outlawed by the Geneva Convention. In the 1930's Memorial Sloan-Kettering began testing these mustard gas derivatives to treat cancer. They had 0 percent success rates. In the 1940's more testing was conducted at Yale; out of 160 patient treated nobody was cured.
During the first trials to find the perfect drug, some 400,000 "cytotoxins" were tested by Sloan-Kettering and the NCI (National Cancer Institute). Their only criterion for testing was; which toxic compound will kill some of the cancer cells before it kills the patient. Thousands of the compounds tested were simply refined poisons. After their trials about 50 toxins were chosen and are still the basis of today's chemotherapy 'treatments'.
Despite absolutely no positive results, not one person cured, not a shred of proof these toxins had any benefit whatsoever to a cancer patient, these drugs gained popularity over the decades and are still in use today.
Or you may have heard through the major media that by treating early stage breast cancer, there's a 91 percent cure rate over five years. NONSENSE! You can get the same cure rate by doing nothing, as breast cancer is a very slow growing cancer.
Did you know that about 27% of people that get diagnosed with cancer and dont do anything, get spontaneously healed? That's the statistics from many doctors; a quarter of people that do absolutely nothing, no chemo, no radiation, no orthodox or even alternative methods cure themselves of cancer. So with the current modern medical 2% cure rate, chemo and radiation is killing off the 25% of people that would have otherwise survived by doing absolutely nothing.
If you sit down on your couch, grab yourself a snack and start watching your favorite TV show, you will have a 1250% HIGHER chance of surviving cancer than if you visit your doctor and start chemotherapy.
"My studies have proved conclusively that untreated cancer victims live up to four times longer than treated individuals. If one has cancer and opts to do nothing at all, he will live longer and feel better than if he undergoes radiation, chemotherapy or surgery, other than when used in immediate life-threatening situations."---Prof Jones.
If chemotherapy, drugs, or radiation worked, cancer would be cured and wiped out. Yet the rates of this disease keep rising every single year. No cancer that was incurable 30 years ago is curable today. It doesn't seem like anything the doctors are prescribing is working.
Take a look at what a chemo spill does to your hand:
http://www.cancertutor.com/ChemoSpill/
Drug Companies Pay Oncologists Big "Kickbacks" to Promote High-Priced, but Ineffective Cancer Drugs
Do you know how most oncologists make money? Not by treating patients, but by selling cancer drugs.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, as much as 75 percent of the average oncologists' earnings come from selling chemotherapy drugs in his or her office. And at a substantial mark-up!
Americans pay the highest amount for prescription drugs in the world. Big Pharma will say it's due to research and development. But the U.S. drug industry spent over $33.5 billion in promotion costs last year.
A former drug rep from Eli Lily testified before Congress saying, "Pharmaceutical companies hire former cheerleaders and ex-models to wine and dine doctors, exaggerate drug benefits and underplay side effects."
An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the average oncologist makes $253,000 per year. Incredible as it sounds, the article says that 75 percent of those earnings — about $190,000 — come from chemotherapy drug profits! If you subtract those drug profits, the oncologist would make little more than $60,000 per year. In other words, they get paid to kill people.
Worse, they pay oncologists kickbacks to push their drugs. For example, AstraZeneca, Inc. had to pay $280 million in civil penalties and $63 million in criminal penalties to the federal government because it paid kickbacks to doctors for promoting its prostate cancer drug.
The FTC Launches a Covert Campaign to Censor Natural Cancer Remedies and Financially Ruin Doctors and Companies Offering Them.
Sad as it seems, the harassment of doctors using natural therapies to treat cancers has been going on for more than 50 years in America. Doctors treating malignant tumors with detoxification, immune stimulation, nutrient, herb and juice fasting secrets from Europe, Tibet, China and India have been persecuted and booted out of the U.S. if they wanted to continue treating cancer patients.
Take the case of William Kelly, DDS. Dr. Kelly discovered a natural enzyme therapy that, combined with strict nutrition and a detoxification regime, "digested" pancreatic cancer cells (see page 519). This therapy achieved nearly a 90 percent, five-year survival rate for close to 33,000 patients-even though pancreatic cancer is by far the most rapid and deadly cancer.
What did the government do when they heard about Dr. Kelly's amazing discovery? They threw him in jail!
But now, the government is bringing out the Big Guns! The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently launched what they call "Operation False Cures" to stamp out natural cancer cures for good.
What Arrogance! Here's what Dr. Hollohan, former chief of the Fraud Division of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said about the public's ability to make sound choices regarding medical care: "For the majority of alternative therapies being offered today, there is virtually no scientific evidence that one can expect to benefit from any of them. The public in general doesn't have the knowledge to make an informed choice."
According to the FTC, "Anyone mentioning a cure for cancer is automatically a quack, regardless of science backing their position." By their own admission, they state that any mention of a cancer "cure" is by itself fraudulent. And anyone using the word "cure" on a website to promote a product is instantly presumed to be guilty of criminal acts.
Doctor Testimonials
"We know that conventional therapy doesn't work—if it did you would not fear cancer any more than you fear pneumonia. It is the utter lack of certainty as to the outcome of conventional treatment that virtually screams for more freedom of choice in the area of cancer therapy. Yet most so-called alternative therapies regardless of potential or proven benefit, are outlawed, which forces patients to submit to the failures we know don't work, because there is no other choice."Dr. Julian Whitaker
“Most patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancer. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors". - Dr. Levin, UCSF
"It is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy. Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established." - John Cairns, Professor of microbiology at Harvard University, published a critique in Scientific American
"As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good." - Alan Nixon, PhD, past President of the American Chemical Society
“Except for two forms of cancer, chemotherapy does not cure. It tortures and may shorten life - no one can tell from the available data.” - Dr. Candace Pert, Georgetown University School of Medicine
“I started as a believer in chemotherapy...[but] Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I [now] fear it far more than I fear death from cancer. We know that conventional therapy doesn’t work –if it did, you would not fear cancer any more than you fear pneumonia. It is the utter lack of certainty as to the outcome of conventional treatment that virtually screams for more freedom of choice in the area of cancer therapy. Yet most alternative therapies regardless of potential or proven benefit are outlawed, which forces patients to submit to the failures that we know don’t work, because there’s no other choice.”
"There is no proof that chemotherapy in the vast majority of cases actually extends life, and this is the GREAT LIE about chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumor and extending the life of the patient." - Dr. Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
“Chemotherapy and radiation can increase the risk of developing a second cancer by up to 100 times.” - Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, Congressional Record, September, 9, 1987
“To understand the utter hypocrisy of chemotherapy, consider the following:
The McGill Cancer Center in Canada, one of the largest and most prestigious cancer treatment centers in the world, did a study of oncologists to determine how they would respond to a diagnosis of cancer. On the confidential questionnaire, 90% doctors said that all chemotherapy programs were unacceptable to them and their family members. The overriding reason for this decision was that the drugs are ineffective and have an unacceptable degree of toxicity. These are the same doctors who will tell you that their chemotherapy treatments will shrink your tumor and prolong your life! Thirty years ago, I worked with a radiologist who told me this: “If I get cancer, I’m going to Mexico.” So if you get cancer, don’t call your doctor; call your travel agent. There are alternative treatments available, but you will have to run the gamut of outraged chemotherapists, radiologists, and surgeons to find one. They will use cajolery, insults, fear, threats (”If you do this, I am off the case”), and misrepresentation to dissuade you.” - Dr. William Campbell Douglass II regarding hypocrisy of Oncologist Survey
"My clinical experience is that in America, when people die from cancer, they are NOT actually dying from cancer, but instead, they are dying from the medical TREATMENT itself. They are dying from the chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. AGAIN: They are NOT dying from the cancer—they are being killed by the medical doctors and their medical treatment!" - Richard Shulze, N.D., M.H.
"Clearly, conventional cancer treatments have an important place in medicine and save lives. But since the 1950s, evidence has steadily accumulated that surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are far less effective than the public is being led to believe. Greenberg found that even the valid improvements were very, very small, and that there had been no significant advancements in treating any of the major forms of cancer." - Kenny Ausubel - Author of 'When Healing Becomes a Crime
"Success of most chemotherapy is appalling…There is no scientific evidence for its ability to extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancer…chemotherapy for malignancies too advanced for surgery which accounts for 80% of all cancers is a scientific wasteland." - Dr. Urlich Abel
"A study of over 10,000 patients clearly shows that chemo’s supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin’s disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy (NCI Journal 87:10)."—John Diamond
Children who are successfully treated for Hodgkin's disease are 18 times more likely later to develop secondary malignant tumors. Girls face a 35 per cent chance of developing breast cancer by the time they are 40----which is 75 times greater than the average. The risk of leukemia increased markedly four years after the ending of successful treatment, and reached a plateau after 14 years, but the risk of developing solid tumors remained high and approached 30 per cent at 30 years (New Eng J Med, March 21, 1996)
Why Have You Never Heard of These Doctors?
If this information would be made freely available tomorrow to mainstream news, that would mean the end of the billion dollar drug industry, it would be wiped out overnight; huge institutes, million dollar research labs, universities, grants, journals, professors, experts, and cushy multimillion dollar jobs would be erased within a day, and not to mention the fact that someone would have to answer for the hundreds of thousands of dead people who didn't have to die, and the fact that what they were doing was not only wrong, but they kept lying to keep this failing system alive even with overwhelming scientific evidence going against them. This is something big pharma will fight to protect until the very end.
Your Worth to the Doctors
Consider this. You are worth anywhere from $300,000 to $1,000,000 to Big Pharma from your cancer treatments. And the racketeers who rake in this money couldn’t care less whether you live or die.
Let me prove that by giving you an example. A chemo drug called Erlotinib costs $3,500 a month. The FDA approved it as a treatment for cancer because it supposedly improved survival by 12 days! I realize this is so insane it’s hard to believe, but it’s true.
Another chemo drug that costs $10,000 a month improved survival by six weeks. Six weeks of hell, I might add. Chemo makes you feel like hell and look like hell.
There’s big money at stake in keeping this drug racket going. The profits of the 10 drug companies in the Fortune 500 exceed the profits of the other 490 companies put together!!! These profits are simply mind-boggling. The drug profiteers are making money hand over fist by poisoning cancer patient
The truth is they have been systematically destroying and suppressing any and all natural remedies since the early 1900's! I will reveal many of these remedies, so please keep reading.
Despite absolutely no positive results, not one person cured, not a shred of proof their toxins had any benefit whatsoever to a cancer patient, these drugs gained popularity over the decades and are still in use today.
How Does This Happen in America?
Dr Matthias Rath provides a concise summary of the primary ethics of the pharmaceutical industry:
Throughout the 20th century, the pharmaceutical industry has been constructed by investors, the goal being to replace effective but non-patentable natural remedies with mostly ineffective but patentable and highly profitable pharmaceutical drugs. The very nature of the pharmaceutical industry is to make money from ongoing diseases. Like other industries, the pharmaceutical industry tries to expand their market - that is to maintain ongoing diseases and to find new diseases for their drugs. Prevention and cure of diseases damages the pharmaceutical business and the eradication of common diseases threatens its very existence.
Therefore, the pharmaceutical industry fights the eradication of any disease at all costs. The pharmaceutical industry itself is the main obstacle, why today's most widespread diseases are further expanding including heart attacks, strokes, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, and many others. Pharmaceutical drugs are not intended to cure diseases. According to health insurers, over 24,000 pharmaceutical drugs are currently marketed and prescribed without any proven therapeutic value (AOKMagazine 4/98). According to medical doctors associations, the known dangerous side-effects of pharmaceutical drugs have become the fourth leading cause of death after heart attacks, cancer and strokes (Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA April 15, 1998)
Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded twice: A major portion of their income is used up to finance the exploding profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they are offered a medicine that does not even cure."
"We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue" - Samuel Epstein, M.D
"Every discoverer of a cancer remedy has encountered a Chinese wall of resistance," which has been the same in every page of recorded cancer history, and that the myth that the discoverer of a cancer cure would be "honored, acclaimed, and practically deified as a saviorur of the human race," should be changed to "dishonored, denounced and crucified." -M. H. Clutter, D.R.L.
Monopoly On Your Health
The government has a law which states "Only drugs can cure, prevent, and treat disease." Currently, under U. S. Federal law, no natural substance can be advertised as a cure for any condition – period. Companies that get too successful with cancer treatment are shut down by FDA lawsuits that are supported directly by the pharmaceutical companies.
This means only the chemicals that come from the factories of pharmaceutical companies can treat you, nothing else. Big Pharma has a monopoly on your health and they are not about to jeopardize their trillion dollar profits by teaching you inexpensive and powerful natural remedies. And if a doctor decides to treat their patients with a natural remedy, even if it's over 90% successful, that means he is breaking the law and his license will be suspended and he may even be sentenced to jail (which has happened numerous times to honest medical doctors).
Once in practice they have health agencies, insurance companies, and the government all looking over their shoulders, checking every examination and diagnosis, with attorneys ready to pounce on any mistake or slip.
With insurance companies and Medicare/Medicaid only paying a fraction of what the doctor bills them, they are under intense economic pressure to keep the face-to-face appointment as brief as possible. Studies showed that on average patients spend about two minutes with the doctor during each visit. Is it possible for them to question you, or figure out why you are sick? How can they in 2 minutes? All they really have time to do is write you a prescription slip.
Nobody wants to be sick, not you or your doctors. But sickness keeps Big Pharma alive. They make their profits on the sickness of others. Be it a pill for a headache or acne, an injection vaccine, Big Pharma not only needs you to want their drugs, they need you to NEED them. They can only increase their profits through disease-mongering; creating new diseases, inciting fear of them, and then telling you they have the only solution through direct advertising. And it works like a charm.
One of the WORST Things You Can Do...
…is subject your body to toxic chemicals which have a 97% failure rate. It's quite shocking for most people to discover that their medication isn't really doing anything to cure their disease.
These chemicals destroy everything living, good cells, bad cells, organs, immune system, nervous system, and pretty much the entire body.
Chemo particularly destroys of the rapidly multiplying and dividing cells found in your:
Bone marrow (That's why your immune system can't protect you from infections)
Digestive system (That's why you have nausea after chemo)
Hair follicles (That's why go bald after chemo)
Reproductive system
In America, 40 percent of people with cancer die from malnutrition. When the cells in your digestive system and intestines die, this prevents almost any absorption of food.
Doctors Confessing To Intentionally Diagnosing Healthy People With Cancer
http://preventdisease.com/news/15/010715_Doctors-Confessing-To-Intentionally-Diagnosing-Healthy-People-With-Cancer.shtml
Food for Thought:
Chemotherapy has a 97% failure rate or a 3% success rate. If Ford Motor Co. had a 97% failure rate with manufacturing cars, do you think that they would still be in business?
Insurance companies do not pay for alternative care because they are in bed with the pharmaceutical companies!
Celebrities, athletes and other famous people are always on TV trying to get us to donate to cancer or some other similar organization. Someone needs to tell them that the donations go towards creating more toxic drugs, developing their marketing campaigns and funding their lavish retirement portfolios and vacations!
Most cancer patients do not die from cancer -- they die from the treatment!
Saturday, August 2, 2014
The 3 Phases of Wound Healing
If you've ever cut your finger, you
noticed that it started to bleed and there was some redness and
swelling. Within a few minutes, the cut stopped bleeding; and, by the
next day, you noticed a scab. And, within a week or so, the scab fell
off and the cut was healed.
Well, what you actually observed were the 3 phases of your body's wound healing process.
When
your skin was wounded, complete with flowing blood and broken skin,
your body triggered a coordinated repair and healing process to quickly
close the wound and rebuild your skin.
First, red blood cells form a blood clot, which helps stop the bleeding
and creates a temporary barrier (a scab) that prevents pathogens from getting
into the open wound. A few hours later, your skin might turn red and
look swollen. This is called the inflammation phase, when the body sends white
blood cells to capture and fight off any pathogens and prevent infection.
The
white blood cells engulf debris and microorganisms, providing the first
line of defense against infection. Other white blood cells scavenge
tissue debris while macrophages stimulate cell migration, proliferation,
and formation of the tissue matrix.
Next,
fibroblast cells enter the wound, dropping off collagen and generating
granulation tissue, which supports the new blood vessels (angiogenesis).
This forms new connective skin tissue to replace what was there before.
You may notice a red-pinkish color of the skin -- this is known as
granulation. This is called the proliferation phase.
Finally, new collagen forms and includes a reorganization of new collagen fibers,
forming a more organized lattice structure that progressively continues
to increase tensile strength. As a result, the
dermis and epidermis connect and contract to close the wound, forming a scar.This is the remodeling phase.
Note: The inflammatory phase can persist due to infection, nutritional deficiencies, and/or use/misuse of medications (i.e. antibiotics, steroid, alcohol) which may harm the new skin cells.
FYI: The next blog post will discuss wound dressings and how to properly
care for a wound and prevent complications such as infection, fever and
amputation.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Immune System
The immune system is one of the 11 major systems in the
human body. It protects us from invading microbes and pathogens such as
bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites, etc. In addition, the immune system plays
a major role in helping our body to repair and heal itself from injury, a pathogen
invasion or disease.
Note: An antigen can be any substance (not just bacteria or
viruses) that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against it, e.g.
peanuts, pollen.
Bowel: There is lymphatic tissue in the bowel and in other
mucous membranes in the body. The bowel plays a central role in defending the
body against pathogens: More than half of all cells that produce antibodies are
found in the bowel wall, especially in the last part of the small bowel and in
the appendix. These cells recognize pathogens and other non-self substances,
and mark and destroy them.
Adaptive immune
cells are more specialized, with each adaptive B or T cell bearing unique
receptors, B-cell receptors (BCRs) and T-cell receptors (TCRs), that recognize
specific signals rather than general patterns.
Each receptor recognizes an antigen, which is simply any molecule that may bind to a BCR or TCR. Antigens are derived from a variety of sources including pathogens, host cells, and allergens. Antigens are typically processed by innate immune cells and presented to adaptive cells in the lymph nodes.
If a B or T cell has a receptor that recognizes an antigen from a pathogen and also receives cues from innate cells that something is wrong, the B or T cell will activate, divide, and disperse to address the problem. B cells make antibodies, which neutralize pathogens, rendering them harmless. T cells carry out multiple functions, including killing infected cells and activating or recruiting other immune cells.
Certain T cells (Helper T) help activate B cells to secrete antibodies and macrophages to destroy ingested microbes. They also help activate other T cells called cytotoxic T cells to kill infected target cells. As dramatically demonstrated in AIDS patients, without Helper T cells we cannot defend ourselves even against many microbes that are normally harmless.
However, Helper T cells themselves can only function when activated to become effector cells. They are activated on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APC), which mature during the innate immune responses triggered by an infection.
Whether you're diabetic or not, it is important that you
keep your immune system strong to protect you against most diseases and
illness, including the flu and the common cold.
Your immune system protects your body against disease by
identifying and killing pathogens and tumor cells. It detects a wide variety of
agents, from viruses to parasitic worms, and needs to distinguish them from
your own healthy cells and tissues in order to function properly. Detection is
complicated as pathogens can evolve rapidly, and adapt to avoid the immune
system and allow the pathogens to successfully infect our bodies.
When you catch a cold or the flu; or, when you develop a
disease such as diabetes or cancer, the primary reason is due to inflammation and a weakened immune system that is unable to defend your body against
the invading pathogens, viruses, fungi, and parasites; and the other health issues
such as insulin resistance, high blood pressure, nutrient deficiencies, poor
diet, and toxins.
Consequently, two of the most critical steps in being
able to successfully prevent or defeat
any illness or disease are to reduce the inflammation
and strengthen the immune system. But, first,
let's take a look at how the immune system works.
Immune System: 3 Lines of Defense
The
immune system is a collection of special cells, tissues and molecules that
protects the body from numerous pathogenic microbes and toxins, utilizing 3
lines of defense:
1.
Physical and Chemical Barriers (Innate Immunity)
2.
Nonspecific Resistance (Innate Immunity)
3.
Specific Resistance (Acquired or Adaptive Immunity)
1st Line
of Defense: Physical and Chemical Barriers
Physical
Barriers include: the skin; mucous membranes; hair within the nose; cilia which
lines the upper respiratory tract; urine which flushes microbes out of the
urethra; defecation and vomiting which expel microorganisms.
Chemical
Barriers include: lysozyme, an enzyme produced in tears, perspiration, and
saliva can break down cell walls and thus acts as an antibiotic (kills
bacteria); stomach gastric juice which destroys bacteria and most toxins; sebum
(unsaturated fatty acids) provides a protective film on the skin and inhibits
growth.
2nd Line
of Defense: Nonspecific Resistance (Innate Immunity)
The
second line of defense is nonspecific resistance that destroys invaders in a
generalized way without targeting specific individuals. White blood cells
(called phagocytes) ingest and destroy all microbes that pass into body
tissues.
In
addition, there is an inflammatory response in the localized tissue where the
pathogen invaded the body or where the tissue was damaged due to a cut or
wound. Inflammation brings more white blood cells to the site where the
microbes have invaded. The inflammatory response produces swelling, redness,
heat, pain and fever. Fever inhibits bacterial growth and increases the rate of
tissue repair during an infection.
3rd Line
of Defense: Specific Resistance (Acquired Immunity)
The third line of defense is specific resistance. This
system relies on antibodies, which are produced by specific immune cells
(called B cells) in response to the antigens on the surface of the invading
pathogens.
When an antigen is detected by a macrophage, this causes
the T cells to become activated. The activation of T cells by a specific
antigen is called cell-mediated immunity. The body contains millions of
different T cells, each able to respond to one specific antigen.
The T cells secrete interleukin 2, which causes the
proliferation of certain cytotoxic T cells and B cells. T cells stimulate B
cells to divide, forming plasma cells that are able to produce antibodies and
memory B cells.
If the same antigen enters the body later, the memory B
cells divide to make more plasma cells and memory cells that can protect
against future attacks by the same antigen.
When the T cells activate (stimulate) the B cells to
divide into plasma cells, this is called antibody-mediated immunity.
Antibodies (also called immunoglobulins) are Y-shaped
proteins that circulate through the blood stream and bind to specific antigens,
thereby attacking microbes. The antibodies are transported through the blood
and the lymph to the pathogen invasion site.
The body contains millions of different B cells, each
able to respond to one specific antigen.
Antibodies bind to an antigen, preventing its normal
function or making it easier for phagocytic cells to ingest them; or, they
activate a complement protein that kills the pathogen or signals other white
blood cells; or they binds to the surface of macrophages to further facilitate
phagocytosis.
Immune System Components
The major components of the immune system include the
following:
Thymus: is located between your
breast bone and your heart and is responsible for producing thymosin, which
helps to activate T cells. As we get
older, this organ shrinks over 80% and produces less thymosin and may be one of the reasons why
our immune system weakens and we become more susceptible to certain diseases.
Spleen: filters the blood
looking for foreign cells (the spleen is also looking for old red blood cells
in need of replacement). A person missing their spleen gets sick much more
often than someone with a spleen.
Lymph system: includes the tissues
and organs, including the bone marrow, spleen, thymus, and lymph nodes, that
produce and store cells that fight infection and disease. The channels that
carry lymph are also part of this system.
Lymph is a clear-like liquid that bathes the cells with
water and nutrients. Lymph is blood plasma -- the liquid that makes up blood
minus the red and white cells. Think about it -- each cell does not have its
own private blood vessel feeding it, yet it has to get food, water, and oxygen
to survive. Blood transfers these materials to the lymph through the capillary
walls, and lymph carries it to the cells.
The cells also produce proteins and waste products and
the lymph absorbs these products and carries them away. Any random bacteria
that enter the body also find their way into this inter-cell fluid. One job of
the lymph system is to drain and filter these fluids to detect and remove the
bacteria. Small lymph vessels collect the liquid and move it toward larger
vessels so that the fluid finally arrives at the lymph nodes for processing.
Bone marrow: produces new blood
cells, both red and white including B cells. In the case of red blood cells the
cells are fully formed in the marrow and then enter the bloodstream. In the
case of some white blood cells, the cells mature elsewhere. The marrow produces
all blood cells from stem cells. They are called "stem cells" because
they can branch off and become many different types of cells - they are
precursors to different cell types. Stem cells change into actual, specific
types of white blood cells.
White blood cells: also called leukocytes,
are probably the most important part of your immune system. These cells work
together to destroy bacteria and viruses. The different types of white blood
cells include: Neutrophils, Eosinophils, Basophils, Monocytes, Lymphocytes, B cells,
T cells, Helper T cells, Suppressor T cells, Killer T cells, Granulocytes,
Plasma cells, Phagocytes, Dendritic cells, Natural Killer cells, and
Macrophages.
Antibodies: (also referred to as
immunoglobulins) are produced by white blood B cells. They are Y-shaped
proteins that each respond to a specific antigen
(bacteria, virus or toxin). Antibodies come in five classes: Immunoglobulin A (IgE),
Immunoglobulin D (IgE), Immunoglobulin E (IgE), Immunoglobulin G (IgG), and Immunoglobulin
M (IBM).
Antigen: The surface of every
cell is covered with molecules that give it a unique set of characteristics.
These molecules are called antigens. Antigens are generally fragments of
protein or carbohydrate molecules. There are millions of different antigens and
each one has a unique shape that can be recognized by white blood cells. The
white blood cells then produce antibodies to match the shape of the antigens.
Some antigens (e.g. associated with bacteria, viruses,
pollen, etc.) stimulate an immune response by a white blood (B) cell to
generate antibodies specific to that antigen that matches the shape of the
antigen.
Now the antibody can bind to that specific antigen to
make it easier for other white blood cells to engulf or attack the bacteria or
virus who brings the antigen with them.
The antigens on the surface of bacteria, viruses and
other pathogenic cells are different from those on the surface of your own
cells. This enables your immune system to distinguish pathogens from cells that
are part of your body. Antigens are also found in foods like peanuts and on the
surface of foreign materials like pollen, pet hairs and house dust where they
can be responsible for triggering an allergy, hay-fever or asthma attacks.
Lymphokines: are several hormones
generated by components of the immune system. It is also known that certain
hormones in the body suppress the immune system. Steroids and corticosteroids
(components of adrenaline) suppress the immune system.
Tymosin (thought to be produced
by the thymus) is a hormone that encourages lymphocyte production.
Interleukins are another type of hormone
generated by white blood cells. For example, Interleukin-1 is produced by
macrophages after they eat a foreign cell. IL-1 has an interesting side-effect
- when it reaches the hypothalamus it produces fever and fatigue. The raised
temperature of a fever is known to kill some bacteria.
Lymphokines are a subset of cytokines that are produced
by lymphocytes. They are protein mediators typically produced by T cells to
direct the immune system response by signaling between its cells.
Lymphokines
have many roles, including the attraction of other immune cells, including
macrophages and other lymphocytes, to an infected site and their subsequent
activation to prepare them to mount an immune response. Circulating lymphocytes
can detect a very small concentration of lymphokine and then move up the
concentration gradient towards where the immune response is required.
Lymphokines aid B cells to produce antibodies.
Important lymphokines secreted by the T helper cell
include: interleukin 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating
factor; and interferon-gamma.
Cytokines: are small peptides
that act as signaling systems within the body. Because they facilitate
communication between the innate and adaptive immune systems, cytokines are a
key factor in fighting infection and maintaining homeostasis.
Cytokines include chemokines, interferons, interleukins,
lymphokines, tumor necrosis factor. Cytokines are produced by a broad range of
cells, including immune cells like macrophages, B lymphocytes, T lymphocytes
and mast cells, as well as endothelial cells, fibroblasts, and various stromal
cells.
Proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin 1 (IL-1)
and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) are released defensively in
response to infection and trauma. Anti-inflammatory cytokines such as
transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) and IL-10 oppose the action of the
proinflammatory cytokines and promote healing.
Some cytokines are chemical switches that turn certain
immune cell types on and off. One cytokine, interleukin 2 (IL-2), triggers the
immune system to produce T cells. IL-2’s immunity-boosting properties have
traditionally made it a promising treatment for several illnesses.
Elevated plasma levels of proinflammatory cytokines are
biomarkers of inflammation and/or disease. An imbalance between the activity of
proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines is believed to affect disease
onset, course, and duration.
Anti-inflammatory cytokines is a general term for those
immunoregulatory cytokines that counteract various aspects of inflammation, for
example cell activation or the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and
thus contribute to the control of the magnitude of the inflammatory responses.
These mediators act mainly by the inhibition of the production of
pro-inflammatory cytokines.
The major
anti-inflammatory cytokines are IL4, IL10, and IL13, and IL35. Other
anti-inflammatory mediators include IL16, IFN-alpha, TGF-beta, IL1ra, G-CSF, as
well as soluble receptors for TNF or IL6.
Tonsils: are lymphoepithelial
tissues facing into the aerodigestive tract. These tissues are the immune
system's first line of defense against ingested or inhaled foreign pathogens.
The fundamental immunological roles of tonsils aren't yet understood.
Lymph nodes are distributed widely
throughout areas of the body, including the armpit and stomach, and linked by
lymphatic vessels. Lymph nodes are garrisons of B, T and other immune cells.
Lymph nodes act as filters or traps for foreign particles and are important in
the proper functioning of the immune system. They are packed tightly with the
white blood cells, called lymphocytes and macrophages.
Skin: is one of the most
important parts of the body because it interfaces with the environment, and is
the first line of defense from external factors, acting as an anatomical
barrier from pathogens and damage between the internal and external environment
in bodily defense. Langerhans cells in the skin are part of the adaptive immune
system.
Liver: has a wide range of
functions, including immunological effects—the reticuloendothelial system of
the liver contains many immunologically active cells, acting as a
"sieve" for antigens carried to it via the portal system.
They also store information on these non-self substances
to be able to react faster the next time. The large bowel also contains
bacteria that belong to the body, called gut flora. These good bacteria in the
large bowel make it difficult for other pathogens to settle and to enter the
body.
Innate and Adaptive Immunity
The protection provided by the immune system is divided
into two types of reactions: reactions of innate immunity and reactions of
adaptive or acquired immunity.
The innate immune
system consists of cells and proteins that are always present and ready to
mobilize and fight microbes at the site of infection. The main components of
the innate immune system are 1) physical epithelial barriers; 2) phagocytic
leukocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils); 3) monocytes (which develop
into macrophages); 4) dendritic cells; 5) a special type of lymphocyte called
natural killer (NK) cells; and, 6) circulating plasma proteins. Other
participants in innate immunity include the complement system and cytokines
such as interleukin 2 (IL-2).
Innate immune cells express genetically encoded
receptors, called Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which recognize general danger-
or pathogen-associated patterns. Collectively, these receptors can broadly
recognize viruses, bacteria, fungi, and even non-infectious problems. However,
they cannot distinguish between specific strains of bacteria or viruses.
There are numerous types of innate immune cells with
specialized functions. They include neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, mast
cells, monocytes, dendritic cells, and macrophages.
Their main feature is the ability to respond quickly and
broadly when a problem arises, typically leading to inflammation. Innate immune
cells also are important for activating adaptive immunity. Innate cells are
critical for host defense, and disorders in innate cell function may cause
chronic susceptibility to infection.
The adaptive (or
acquired) immune system is called into action against pathogens that are
able to evade or overcome innate immune defenses. Components of the adaptive
immune system are normally silent; however, when activated, these components
“adapt” to the presence of infectious agents by activating, proliferating, and
creating potent mechanisms for neutralizing or eliminating the microbes. There
are two types of adaptive immune responses: 1) humoral
immunity, mediated by antibodies produced by B lymphocytes; and, 2) cell-mediated immunity, mediated by T lymphocytes.
The adaptive immune response is more complex than the
innate. The antigen first must be processed and recognized. Once an antigen has
been recognized, the adaptive immune system creates an army of immune cells
specifically designed to attack that antigen. Adaptive immunity also includes a
"memory" that makes future responses against a specific antigen more
efficient.
Each receptor recognizes an antigen, which is simply any molecule that may bind to a BCR or TCR. Antigens are derived from a variety of sources including pathogens, host cells, and allergens. Antigens are typically processed by innate immune cells and presented to adaptive cells in the lymph nodes.
If a B or T cell has a receptor that recognizes an antigen from a pathogen and also receives cues from innate cells that something is wrong, the B or T cell will activate, divide, and disperse to address the problem. B cells make antibodies, which neutralize pathogens, rendering them harmless. T cells carry out multiple functions, including killing infected cells and activating or recruiting other immune cells.
Certain T cells (Helper T) help activate B cells to secrete antibodies and macrophages to destroy ingested microbes. They also help activate other T cells called cytotoxic T cells to kill infected target cells. As dramatically demonstrated in AIDS patients, without Helper T cells we cannot defend ourselves even against many microbes that are normally harmless.
However, Helper T cells themselves can only function when activated to become effector cells. They are activated on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APC), which mature during the innate immune responses triggered by an infection.
The
innate responses also dictate what kind of effector cell a Helper T cell will
develop into and thereby determine the nature of the adaptive immune response
elicited.
The
adaptive immune response has a system of checks and balances to prevent
unnecessary activation that could cause damage to the host. If a B or T cell is
auto-reactive, meaning its receptor recognizes antigens from the body's own
cells, the cell will be deleted. Also, if a B or T cell does not receive
signals from innate cells, it will not be optimally activated.
Immune
memory is a feature of the adaptive immune response. After B or T cells are activated,
they expand rapidly. As the problem resolves, cells stop dividing and are
retained in the body as memory cells. The next time this same pathogen enters
the body, a memory cell is already poised to react and can clear away the
pathogen before it establishes itself.
A
further aspect of the adaptive immune system worth mentioning is its role in
monitoring body cells to check that they aren't infected by viruses or
bacteria, for instance, or in order to make sure that they haven't become
cancerous. Cancer occurs when certain body cells 'go wrong' and start dividing
in an uncontrolled way.
The Major Cells of the Immune System
The key tissues and organs involved with the immune
system include the lymph nodes, spleen, tonsils, bone marrow, thymus, and lymphatic
tissue. The key immune cells are white blood cells (or leukocytes). The (3)
major categories of white blood cells are: granulocytes,
lymphocytes and monocytes.
Granulocytes are characterized by the presence of granules in
their cytoplasm which contain digestive enzymes that kill various types of
bacteria and parasites. Granulocytes are also called polymorphonuclear
leukocytes (PMN, PML, or PMNL) because of the varying shapes of the nucleus,
which is usually lobed into three segments. The principal types of granulocytes
are neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, and mast cells.
Lymphocytes come in three major types:
B-lymphocytes (or
B cells), T-lymphocytes(or T cells) and natural killer (NK) cells.
Lymphocytes start out in the bone marrow and either stay
there and mature into B cells, or they leave for the thymus gland, where they
mature into T cells.
B cells produce antibodies in
the humoral immune response and are like the body's military intelligence
system, seeking out their targets and sending defenses to lock onto them. With
the help of T cells, B cells make special Y-shaped protein antibodies, which stick
to antigens on the surface of bacteria, stopping them in their tracks, creating
clumps that alert your body to the presence of intruders.
Plasma cells, also called plasma B
cells, secrete large volumes of antibodies.
Memory B cells are important in
generating an accelerated and more robust antibody-mediated immune response in
the case of re-infection (also known as a secondary immune response).
Regulatory B
cells (Bregs) participates in immunomodulations and in suppression of immune
responses. via production of anti-inflammatory cytokine interleukin 10 (IL-10).
T cells recognize and kill
virus-infected cells directly. Some help B cells to make antibodies, which
circulate and bind to antigens. Others send chemical instructions (cytokines)
to the rest of the immune system. Types of T cells include Helper T (Th),
Memory T (Tm), Cytotoxic T (Tc), Suppressor T (Treg), and Effector T cells.
Helper T Cells
(Th) help
activate B cells to secrete antibodies and macrophages to destroy ingested
microbes, but they also help activate cytotoxic T cells to kill infected target
cells. Note: In AIDS patients,
without helper T cells we cannot defend ourselves even against many microbes
that are normally harmless.
Memory T Cells
(Tm) are
derived from normal T cells that have learned how to overcome an invader by
‘remembering’ the strategy used to defeat previous infections. At a second
encounter with the invader, memory T cells can reproduce to mount a faster and
stronger immune response than the first time the immune system responded to the
invader.
Cytotoxic T
Cells (Tc)
are lymphocytes that kill invading pathogens including cancer cells, cells that
are infected (particularly with viruses), or cells that are damaged in other
ways. Tc cells kill their targets by programming them to undergo apoptosis. The
elimination of infected cells without the destruction of healthy tissue
requires the cytotoxic mechanisms of CD8 T cells to be both powerful and
accurately targeted.
Suppressor T
Cells (Treg)
suppress the immune response after invading organisms are destroyed by releasing
their own lymphokines to signal all other immune-system participants to cease
their attack.
Effector T
cells
(also called Helper T (Th) cells), are the functional cells for executing
immune functions. Balanced immune responses can only be achieved by proper regulation
of the differentiation and function of Th cells.
Natural killer
(NK)
cells are cytotoxic cells that participate in the innate immune response and
attack in packs by releasing substances that perforate the "skin" of
their victims -- this is death by cell lysis.
Monocytes, which are the largest
of all leukocytes, fight off bacteria, viruses and fungi. Originally formed in
the bone marrow, they are released into the blood and tissues. When certain
germs enter the body, they quickly rush to the site for attack within 8–12
hours.
Monocytes have several functions to help you ward off
diseases and infections. To help you remember what they do, note that each
function begins with the letter 'M': Munch, Mount and Mend.
Munch: Monocytes have the
ability to change into another cell form called macrophages before facing the germs.
In response to inflammation signals, monocytes move quickly to sites of
infection in the tissues and divide/differentiate into macrophages and dendritic cells to elicit an immune
response. They change into macrophages when they move from the bloodstream to
the tissues.
They consume, or munch, on harmful bacteria, fungi and
viruses. Then, enzymes in the monocyte kill and break down the germs into
pieces.
Mount: Monocytes help other
white blood cells identify the type of germs that have invaded the body. After
consuming the germs, the monocytes take parts of those germs, called antigens,
and mount them outside their body like flags. Other white blood cells see the
antigens and make antibodies designed to kill those specific types of germs.
Mend: Monocytes help mend
damaged tissue by stopping the inflammation process. They remove dead cells
from the sites of infection, which repairs wounds. They have also shown to
influence the formation of some organs, like the heart and brain, by helping
the components that hold tissues together.
Macrophages are derived from
monocytes, granulocyte stem cells, or the cell division of pre-existing
macrophages. Macrophages do not have granules but have receptors to detect,
capture and ingest pathogens. Macrophages are found throughout the body in
almost all tissues and organs, just below the surface of the skin and mucous
membranes — any place where a pathogen could get through the first line of
defense. Macrophages cause inflammation through the production of
interleukin-1, interleukin-6, and TNF-alpha. Macrophages are usually only found
in tissue and are rarely seen in blood circulation.
They take up and destroy necrotic cell debris and foreign
material including viruses, bacteria, and tattoo ink. In wound healing,
macrophages take on the role of wound protector by fighting infection and
overseeing the repair process. Macrophages also produce chemical messengers,
called growth factors, which help repair the wound.
When inflammation occurs, monocytes undergo a series of
changes to become macrophages and target cells that need eliminating.
Once engulfed, cellular enzymes inside the macrophage
destroy the ingested particle. Some macrophages act as scavengers, removing
dead cells while others engulf microbes.
Another function of macrophages is to alert the immune
system to microbial invasion. After ingesting a microbe, a macrophage presents
a protein on its cell surface called an antigen, which signals the presence of
the antigen to a corresponding T helper cell.
Macrophages change into foam
cells in the blood vessel walls (endothelium), where they try to
fight atherosclerosis by engulfing excessive cholesterol engulf large amounts
of fatty substances, usually cholesterol. Foam cells are created when the body
sends macrophages to the site of a fatty deposit on the blood vessel walls. The
macrophage wraps around the fatty material in an attempt to destroy it and
becomes filled with lipids (fats). The lipids engulfed by the macrophage give
it a "foamy" appearance.
Foam cells are often found in the fatty streaks and
plaques inside the blood vessel walls. Foam cells do not give off any specific
signs or symptoms, but they are part of the cause of atherosclerosis. Foam cell
development can be slowed, however. Decreasing low density lipoprotein (LDL)
cholesterol and increasing high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol will
remove the lipids that the macrophages engulf to become foam cells.
In addition to the monocytes and macrophages, the other types of white
blood cells include neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, mast cells
and dendritic cells.
Neutrophils defend against bacterial or fungal infection and other
very small inflammatory processes. They are usually the first responders to
microbial infection; their activity and death in large numbers forms pus.
Basophils are chiefly responsible for allergic reactions and
antigen response by releasing the chemical histamine, which helps to trigger
inflammation, and heparin, which prevents blood from clotting.
Eosinophils primarily deal with
parasitic worm infections. They are also the predominant inflammatory cells in
allergic reactions.
Mast cell is a type of granular
basophil cell in connective tissue that releases heparin, histamine, and
serotonin during inflammation and allergic reactions.
Dendritic
cells
(DCs), which can also develop from monocytes, are an important
antigen-presenting cell (APC) whose main function is to process antigen
material and present it on the cell surface to the T cells in order to activate
the T cells. They act as messengers between the innate and the adaptive immune
systems. Once activated, dendritic cells migrate to the lymph nodes where they
interact with T cells and B cells to initiate and shape the adaptive immune
response.
Note: Antigens are molecules
from pathogens, host cells, and allergens that may be recognized by adaptive
immune cells.
Antigen-presenting
cells
(APCs) like DCs are responsible for processing large molecules into
"readable" fragments (antigens) recognized by adaptive B or T cells
in order to activate them. However, antigens alone cannot activate T cells.
They must be presented with the appropriate major histocompatibility
complex (MHC) molecule "tags" expressed on the APC. MHC
provides a checkpoint and helps immune cells distinguish between self and non-self
cells.
An APC can be any of various cells (as a macrophage or a
B cell) that take up and process an antigen into a form that when displayed at
the cell surface in combination with an MHC molecule is recognized by and
serves to activate a specific helper T cell using their T-cell receptors (TCRs).
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