October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. There is "pink" everywhere. From coffee mugs to M-n-M's. Buy them and your money goes to support a search for a cure!
Or do does it?
First, let me say that I have been affected by breast cancer. Not me, personally, but several in my family. I have watched these women do as they were told.. lumpectomies, breast removal, radiation, chemo--over and over and over until they finally were told to go home and die. Nice. I've watched several turn toward natural medicine. I've watched as their cell counts improved and they felt better. I've watched them return to radiation "just to" (fill in goal here) and then plan to return to natural treatments. But they never got back to natural treatments. The conventional treatments ravaged their bodies and their wallets making the return to natural medicine impossible. Whether you know it or not, cancer is an immune system disease. Chemotherapy and radiation break down the immune system. Does this even make sense to you? Cancer is a disease of the immune system therefore we should be building the immune system rather than tearing it down.
Hmmm. Time to think.
Even though we're told that every penny helps, where do those pennies go? If we are donating all this money for a cure, then why are women not being told the truth about preventing breast cancer with vitamin D, green tea, foods, herbs and alternative therapies? Why are the only options explained to women limited to high-profit drugs, radiation, surgical procedures and more mammography x-rays -- a procedure that actually causes breast cancer by irradiating breast tissue?
Cures for breast cancer exist right now, but the cancer industry censors and discredits them. They don't want you to know about them. They claim that a chemical cure will be found if people would just donate enough money.
If drug companies and "non-profit" cancer groups really cared about women, they would be teaching them how to prevent breast cancer in the first place. Yet that approach is almost entirely ignored because it keeps women healthy and denies revenues to the extremely profitable cancer treatment industry.
It's no exaggeration to say the cancer industry thrives on disease and suffering while marketing its services by terrorizing women through the use of proven fear tactics. And guess who funds the cancer non-profits the most? Pharmaceutical companies, of course. The cancer industry is all about corporate profits, not women's health.
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My mother had melanoma, and although she would have died of the disease eventually, the treatment (since she was too far along in her illness to cure) killed her faster than I believe would have happened without intervention from the medical community. The cost: over 1 million dollars and my children and grandchildren don't have her in their lives.
ReplyDeleteInteresting point of view. I never really thought of it that way. I don't necessarily agree with everything, but still a very well-written post.
ReplyDeletewell written post? It's idiotic. And ignorant. Get your facts straight before you post shit like this for everyone to read.
ReplyDeleteChemo doesn't attack the immune system specifically. If you put any effort into learning what chemo does you would find that it prevents cellular growth. And what is a cancer? Excessive, uncontrollable, cell growth. Yes, immune cells are effected but all dividing cells are. Most cells in our body at any given point in time are not dividing though, therefore they experience little effect. The hair generating cells, and the gut cells are two cell types that divide quickly, it's required for their function. That's why people on chemo tend to lose their hair and have GI problems. But because of the fact that most cancer cells have no brakes on growth and "their foot on the accelerator" chemo drugs can stop cancer cells from dividing. When they can't divide, they die. Now, not ALL cancers are fast growing. So other treatments must be found, stuff that targets very precisely the cells that are deranged and not immune cells (unless it's an immune cell cancer) or any other unintended cell type. THIS is what the scientific and medical community is working on (including the bastard drug companies). And we are trying to find better compounds to prevent side effects unrelated to cell growth inhibition. Billions are invested every year by the NIH, NCS, etc. to solve this.
Breast cancer is rough enough without having ignorant articles like this. This is nothing but a disservice.
ECGC from green tea can, in lab experiments, kill cancer cells. BUT that is a FAR cry from saying that green tea will prevent breast cancer. That's just stupid. But that is how drugs are discovered. Do you know where taxol, a widely used anticancer drug, came from? The bark of the Pacific Yew tree.
I work in a melanoma research lab, it the Texas Medical Center. Most labs here study cancer. Your mischaracterization of what cancer is and your ridiculous insinuation of a global conspiracy against "alternative therapies" is insulting and dangerous.
I would hope to goodness that if your loved one got cancer you'd take them to an oncologist FIRST before you took them to some new age guru shaman.
Wow... I just got here and am saddened to see something so rude and single minded.
ReplyDeleteHaving breast cancer in my family, I know the risks, and trust me, should I get it, I would be going to see a shaman before I see an oncologist. I will have plenty of time for the "meds" if I indeed do need them, I need my soul repaired from the damage the disease will have already caused. As a studying shaman, I must say that the venom in which the word was used was offensive.
I thought it was a wonderfully written post, and that it has some great insight.
Wow..I didn't even know all of these comments were here! I wonder why I never received them? Oh well.. onto responses.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry that some so angrily disagree with the post.
I have watched many in my family die from the treatments. I have studied a bit and have my own views. I'm terrified of conventional medicine as a whole. I do believe that allopathy has it's place but it's a limited place at best. Look at their cruel, deceptive and greedy history. Nothing much has changed in the 150 years of their existance.
My mother is dying from cancer currently. She did natural treatments for a bit and her stats were excellent. She went over to conventional medicine and they drained her bank dry and now she's dying. But with no money she can't afford to go back to the natural cures.
I find it interesting, too, that someone who calls themselves a scientist is afraid to provide a link or profile of any sort. Hiding always makes me think the person isn't who or what they say they are or that they cannot back up their words.
Very well said! Thanks for the response, my roommate and I ranted over it this morning.
ReplyDeleteHave you heard of PinkPenguinpress.org?
I just found out about it today and it would be a wonderful magazine to support.
The pilot magazine features a local here to Colorado who beat the cancer. It's a great story about how she demanded the treatment on her terms!
Take care!