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In Reply to: You're citing medical statments from 1956? posted by Andrew on February 22, 2006 at 17:46:55:
If you follow a health regime you can't vacilate and ask MO if it's OK, or ask for his prayer--HA! Do you think that was faith? Poor guy. With Berg running him down like that, Peter should have told him to go fuck himself, chucked the Family and really gone for it. The key is building up your own immune system and the body heals itself.
Anyhow here's some recent quotes for you.
A notable exception came from cancer biostatistician Dr. Ulrich Abel, of Heidelberg,
Germany, who reviewed the scientific literature for cancer statistics in 1990 after he’d
become alarmed that the cancer death rate was escalating despite almost every patient
receiving chemotherapy before dying. He wrote:
"Even though toxic drugs often do effect a response, a partial or complete shrinkage of the
tumour, this reduction does not prolong expected survival…Sometimes, in fact, the cancer returns
more aggressively than before, since the chemo fosters the growth of resistant cell lines. Besides,
the chemo has severely damaged the body's own defences, the immune system and often the
kidneys as well as the liver.” (The Cancer Chronicles, December, 1990.) (4)
"The five year cancer survival statistics of the American Cancer Society are very misleading. They now count things that are not cancer, and, because we are able to diagnose at an earlier stage of the disease, patients falsely appear to live longer. Our whole cancer research in the past 20 years has been a failure. More people over 30 are dying from cancer than ever before…More women with mild or benign diseases are being included in statistics and reported as being "cured". When government officials point to survival figures and say they are winning the war against cancer they are using those survival rates improperly."---Dr J. Bailer, New England Journal of Medicine (Dr Bailer’s answer to questions put by Neal Barnard MD of the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine and published in PCRM Update, sept/oct 1990.
75 percent of oncologists said if they had cancer they would not participate in
chemotherapy trials due to its "ineffectiveness and its unacceptable toxicity. - "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 Ulrich Abel. 1990
And just a few of many other sources:
"For the majority of the cancers we examined, the actual improvements (in survival) have
been small or have been overestimated by the published rates...It is difficult to find that
there has been much progress...(For breast cancer), there is a slight
improvement...(which) is considerably less than reported."---U.S. Federal Government
General Accounting Office
"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, Ph.D., Past President, American Chemical Society.
