The featured article at Cancer Compass this week is Enormous Progress In Reducing Cancer Does Not Include Lung Cancer (http://www.cancercompass.com/cancer-news/1,13805,00.htm?c=10 :5:1:2) which bemoans the lack of progress in beating lung cancer while touting the so-called "enormous progress" that is claimed to have been made during the past fifteen years against other cancers.
First of all, I would take severe issue with the American Cancer Society's backslapping over satistics that largely hide the lack of progress in the real battle to cure cancer with such figures as improvements in five year survival rates - which are laregly due to earlier detection and not increased survival and are not at all the same as lasting cures, as well as the other common statisical juggling that is used to annually report progress in the half century long losing war against cancer.
I would also ask how it is cancer treatment costs continue to skyrocket each year if "enormous progres" has been made for the past 15 years?
To see the real truth behind the statistics, and the actual lack of progress that has been made, I point the reader to this article to show just how we have been misled by the cancer industry in order to justify their continued existence and profits:
"Hiding the Truth About Losing the War on Cancer" (http://tbyil.com/waroncancer.htm )
The reason that mainstream medicine has made so little progress against lung cancer, and much less true progress against cancer overall is quite simple: Mainstream medicine continues to cling to the failed treatment methods of trying to cut out, burn out or poison out the symptoms of cancer with surgery, radiation and chemo while ignoring and suppressing natural help that can not only elminate the tumors and symptoms of cancer, but also addres the underlying causes of cancer and prevent it from ever returning, which is what a true cure would be.
My own 85 year old uncle was assured by his oncologist that the small tumor in his lungs was detected early and would be no problem to get rid of. Instead, it continued to grow and spread to other parts of his body, until he turned away from chemo and radiation and embraced a natural anti-cancer protocol. Now his cancer is gone and he enjoys a robust round of golf daily. I know many, many others just like him when it comes to beating cancer naturally.
The short answer for why nature is ignored and shunned is simple: it cannot be patented in it's pure form and thus is not profitable - and cancer is a growing $400 Billion a year industry whose only marketplace is our bodies.
For a better understanding of why nature is superior to mainstream treatments and why I firmly believe that someday man will likely look back at our war on cancer as a true dark ages of medicine, let's take a look at how mainstream medicine and nature compare when it comes to treating cancer:
In contrast to at least 6000 years of the practice of natural medicine, Western medicine treats the body as a collection of parts instead of as a synergistic organism. When it comes to treating broken bones and injured body parts, mainstream Western medicine is unequaled. When this same approach is used to treat illness and disease - fixing or repairing the parts where the symptoms of underlying illnesses manifest themselves, modern medicine fails miserably
In the instance of cancer, instead of addressing the causes of cancer - toxins and a weakened immune system - we see instead treatments that either slash, burn or poison away the tumors and cancer cells, which further weakens an immune system cancer has already defeated and only worsens the conditions that led to cancer to begin with.
Even if initially successful at getting rid of existing cancer cells and tumors, the end result is a weakened body which may have major organ damage and which is more susceptible to the reappearance of the original cancer, as well as other forms of cancer and diseases.
For half a century or more, we have been told that a breakthrough or cure for cancer is just around the corner, yet the death rates for cancer remain virtually unchanged. Meanwhile, effective natural and alternative treatments which address and correct the actual causes of cancer continue to enjoy much greater success than the largely failed mainstream treatments - even as these natural alternatives suppressed and come under increasing attack by the medical establishment.
Profit plays a huge role in Western medicine and, because nature cannot be patented, there is no profit in conducting studies on natural remedies for cancer and illness. In fact, if studies were to prove the effectiveness of natural alternatives and those alternatives were to be approved for use in treating cancer and other illnesses, the result would be to admit cheaper, safer and more effective competition into a fiercely guarded market. Instead, such alternatives are heavily suppressed, discredited and passed off as "snake oil" and "voodoo medicine".
The cold, hard fact is that cancer and other degenerative and chronic illnesses are big business - to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. When their only market place is our bodies, the vested interests of the trillion dollar world pharmaceutical empire, mainstream medicine and the institutions which depend on maintaining the status quo are not likely to allow such natural competition, even though the cost is millions of needless deaths and untold suffering.
A better plan for maintaining and increasing profit is to continue to bring new drugs into the market place which treat only symptoms and have serious side effects that lead to still more drugs in a never ending cycle so that by the time a male American reaches 65 years of age, he takes an average of 15 prescribed and over the counter medications every day - when it all started out with one or two conditions that could have been treated safely and effectively by natural means. A good model for profit, but a horrible one for humanity.
We now have over 15,000 patented and approved drugs, 95% of which have significant side effects. It is no accident that our doctors have been taught for generations, just as we have been, that the way to treat illness and disease is to prescribe approved medications – medications that are made by the single largest source by far of funding for medical education: the world pharmaceutical companies. What exactly has this mountain of medicine actually cured in the past half century? Certainly not cancer!
By far the most effective way to beat and avoid cancer is to remove the causes of cancer and to make your body as inhospitable to cancer and illness as possible. To understand what steps we should and can take, we should understand what we know about cancer:
We know that:
• The development of cancer indicates that our natural first line of defense, our immune system, has been defeated and that the presence of either toxins and pathogens, or some imbalance in our bodies have led to the development of cancer and enabled it to gain an upper hand.
• Cancer cannot develop without an impaired liver, as alternative cancer pioneer Max Gerson discovered.
• Cancer cannot survive in an alkaline environment, nor can it survive in a highly oxygenated environment.
• Detoxing and cleansing our colons and liver helps restore balance, prepares our bodies to better be able utilize natural immune boosters and cancer fighters and paves the way to rebuilding our livers and immune systems.
• Cancer cells are diseased, impaired and/or beset by pathogens and have lost the ability to to be die naturally via cellular apoptosis and be replaced by healthy cells. These cancerous cells simply become abnormal and outlive the other cells in their normal cell life/replacement cycle and end up crowding out a territory over time.
• Iodine, vitamin D, and potassium are all vital to beat and ward off cancer.
• Fresh air, pure water and sunshine are also vital to maintain healthy bodies which can fight off and beat conditions like cancer.
• A natural diet of uncontaminated raw vegetables and raw fruits, with plenty of omega-3’s and balanced nutrition has been proven to be effective in numerous natural anti-cancer protocols.
• A great number of natural botanicals and supplements, such as those containing beta glucans and other long-chain polysacharrides, the oleander extract available outside the US as a patented medicine from Honduras named Anvirzel, inside the US as a dietary supplement from South Africa (Sutherlandia OPC), and can also be made at home(my uncle did all three), Inositol/IP6, the ABM mushroom, South Africa's "Cancer Bush" sutherlandia frutescans, cat's claw, pau d'arco, corialus versicolor mushroom, and many, many others have been proven to boost the immune system, destroy pathogens, protect our cells, and beat cancer.
• Sugar feeds cancer.
And so, when we go to an oncologist and are diagnosed with cancer what is the prescribed treatment? Does it incorporate ANY of the above elements? No, sadly it does not. Our doctor prescribes what he or she has been taught: cut out, radiate or poison the symptom and do nothing to address the underlying causes and natural imbalances that enabled led to the symptom.
As a result, the way is paved for the return of the cancer or the introduction of another cancer or serious condition. Even worse, the road to further illness is often made easier due to the damage to the immune system and major organs caused by the treatment of the symptom.
For those who wish to look at the option of nature (something I would always recommend as a first step unless time was absolutely critical with a very fast growing tumor or life threatening blockage), I would suggest taking a look at books such as Tanya Harter Piere's "Outsmart Your Cancer", Lynne Eldridge's "Avoiding Cancer One Day at a Time", the CancerTutor website and the many article about cancer at:
http://www.tbyil.coom/articles.htm
I am not trying to scare anyone away from mainstream medicine, just saying that it might be a good, and even lifesaving, idea to look first to nature. And trust me, nature is no quack!
Live long, live healthy, live happy!