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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / Would You Ever Use Chemo or Radiation for Cancer?

Would You Ever Use Chemo or Radiation for Cancer?

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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  • Is Conventional Treatment for Cancer Worse Than the Disease?
  • Would You Ever Use Chemo or Radiation to Treat Cancer?

The world lost a true visionary yesterday with the passing of Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple. I remember back in the late 80’s when I was a young computer programmer/designer fresh out of grad school using the (Apple) MacIntosh computer for the very first time.

The MacIntosh user interface was so intuitive and such a leap ahead of the predominant Microsoft DOS operating system (remember? type commands at the green screen prompt) that I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

This new and emerging user interface in the 1980s that is taken for granted today rocketed the task of computer design light years ahead and allowed the development of computer systems to at last be something users could be involved in and easily understand.

There is no doubt that Steve Jobs’ passing at 56 years old was premature.   He had much more to contribute to the world and I for one feel the world has been cheated now that he is gone.

Pictures of him in his final days showed a frail, shockingly thin frame consistent with a person who had undergone chemotherapy treatments for cancer.

While every single detail of Mr. Jobs’ cancer treatments over the years are not publicly known, one can’t help but wonder if his chemotherapy and radiation treatments contributed to his demise.

Just a few weeks ago, Kara Kennedy, daughter of the late Senator Edward Kennedy died at age 51 from a heart attack.   Her brother, Patrick Kennedy said that her many years of chemotherapy to treat lung cancer took a severe toll on her health and weakened her physically to the point where “her heart just gave out.”

Is Conventional Treatment for Cancer Worse Than the Disease?

It seems that chemotherapy/radiation treatments causing death rather than preserving life are becoming more common.

Radiation in particular ups the risk of heart problems in women undergoing conventional treatment for breast cancer.   The May 2000 issue of The Lancet reported that women who had undergone radiation for breast cancer increased their odds of dying from other causes, usually heart related, by 21% compared with women who had not undergone radiation with the 20 year survival rate for breast cancer improving by only 1%.  

Does that seem worth it to you?   It sure doesn’t to me.

Chemotherapy is another conventional treatment for cancer that seems to hasten people’s death.  The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death in the UK reported that its review of 600 cancer patients who died within 30 days of treatment revealed that over one quarter had in fact been killed by the chemo and not cancer.

The extreme toxicity of chemo treatments is what causes the rapid demise, usually infections such as the very serious neutropenic sepsis.

In the case of Mr. Jobs, this appears to be what happened.  According to reports from multiple sources, he had received chemotherapy treatments in recent months at the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto California and his devastating physical deterioration from these treatments almost certainly contributed to his quick passing.

Would You Ever Use Chemo or Radiation to Treat Cancer?

If you received a cancer diagnosis, would you ever agree to chemotherapy or radiation treatments or would you explore nontoxic alternative therapies?

I, for one, would not consider conventional cancer treatment as such an approach to disease seems more than a little misguided.   How can use of toxic chemicals and/or radiation possibly be beneficial when both of these treatments actually have been shown to cause cancer in the long run?

It seems that a more holistic approach to cancer would be wiser than the slash and burn approach of conventional cancer treatments.

In his article A Holistic Approach To Cancer, Dr. Tom Cowan MD writes:

“… the job of the doctor is to distinguish between the therapy and the illness. What I mean by that is if you get a splinter in your finger, and then your body makes pus to get the splinter out, is the pus the therapy or the disease? We know that pus indicates infection and the presence of microorganisms, and we learned in medical school that doctors should kill the pus. But I don’t think it is that far of a stretch to see that if you have a splinter in your finger, the pus is the therapy for the splinter. If you don’t take the splinter out, the pus will do it for you. If you mistakenly think that the pus is the disease and you destroy the pus, the splinter will stay and your body will attempt this process again. If you destroy the pus again, your body might repeat this process three or four more times. Then you have a chronic infection as the body keeps trying to remove the splinter. Eventually it will either succeed, or it will encapsulate the splinter, which is a tumor, a new growth. It is not a cancerous tumor but a benign cystic tumor of the splinter. The understanding that the pus is the therapy allows you to predict what is going to happen in the future.

Now think of this example. Joe Bloke is a smoker. In other words, he puts a bunch of splinters in his lungs every day. Twice a year Joe gets cough, fever, mucus–all to get the splinters out of his lungs. I prefer to say “cough, fever, mucus” rather than “bronchitis” because the word “bronchitis” separates you from the reality of the situation. His body is producing an inflammatory response–it is making a mucus-pus-fever response to cleanse his lungs of splinters. If Joe goes to a doctor who makes the mistake of thinking that the response is the problem, he will give drugs to stop the bronchitis–which is actually the medicine. So Joe will be left with the splinters. That scenario will happen twice a year for thirty years and then Joe has a big bag of splinters in his lungs, and we call that lung cancer.”

Holistic approaches to cancer help resolve whatever caused the cancer in the first place.  Conventional chemo/radiation treat only the “pus” of the cancer as described by Dr. Cowan.

Stopping cancer symptoms by “killing” the cancer cells with chemo or radiation is not in any way a cure as Mr. Jobs tragically discovered in his long running quest to regain his health.

 

Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com

Source:  Doctors Rely on Chemo Too Much

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Barb

    Jan 14, 2021 at 8:20 am

    So where do you find natural resources

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  2. Alan Peguero

    Apr 28, 2017 at 6:27 am

    As there are many side effects of radiation therapy, many people prefer going with chemotherapy. But my uncle has been diagnosed with brain cancer and he is taking treatment from radiation therapy and they have cured their cancer without any radiation side effects.

    Reply
  3. Hortons

    Feb 28, 2017 at 4:09 pm

    My friend was dumbfounded when she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. we couldn’t believe that at age 44, after lifelong vigilance about her health and steadfastly showing up for regular mammograms and sonograms, She not only had cancer, but it had metastasized throughout her bones. we had bought into the battle cry for early detection and tried to practice it. How could this be?
    Pain in her hand, neck and back, not a lump in her breast, got her to the hospital for an MRI. By the time her cancer was detected, the horse was out of the barn and surgery to remove it was no longer an option. Not wanting to travel, she was lucky to be able to take treatment at a clinic on Long Island near my home. Being ER and PR positive, at their direction she had her ovaries removed to reduce the estrogen in her body. She began an aromatase inhibitor to slow the progression of the disease and medication to reduce or delay bone damage from the cancer.

    It’s been a rough road and along the way we have tried to expand our options by exploring ways to supplement my medical treatments, because we have been told about cannabis oil and how it has save many life. i order the oil via email: Rickcancercure1@gmail and it was delivered over to me and i can tell the world that my friend am now a cancer survivor.

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