With the Odds of Getting Cancer at 41% The Best Defence is to Be Informed

The July 29, 2008 issue of USA Today declares "Hollywood has had it with cancer." This is in relation to reports that celebrities have vowed to conquer cancer.

There has been a growing occurrence of cancer among celebrities and high profile public figures, such as in the recent cases of Patrick Swayze, Cristina Applegate, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Farrah Fawcett,Ted Kennedy, Kylie Minogue, Rudy Giuliani, and Lance Armstrong,who are but a few of those affected.

Many more celebrities have lost someone close to them through cancer,among them: Angelina Jolie,Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell,who all lost their mothers to cancer; Paul McCartney who lost his first wife, Linda,to breast cancer;CBS news anchor Katie Couric who lost her husband to colon cancer; American Idol David Cook who lost his maternal grandfather to lung cancer;Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News who lost his mother to lymphoma and his sister to breast cancer; S.Epatha Merkerson of "Law and Order" who lost two of her very best friends to lung cancer... and so on it goes.

Cancer has caused more deaths than all the wars of the world combined.In the U.S. alone, every 60 seconds, someone dies from cancer.Every 3 minutes, someone new is diagnosed with cancer and it is a stunning confrontation with reality when it happens to you. I know, because my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer years ago.

It's not surprising then,that celebrities like Jennifer Aniston,America Ferrera, Meryl Streep,Lance Armstrong, Scarlett Johansson,Forest Whitaker,Hilary Swank, Charlize Theron and dozens of other big-name celebrities worked together,in the fight against cancer during a one-hour television special titled "Stand Up 2 Cancer?" in a telethon aired on Friday, September 5, 2008, on all 3 networks (ABC, CBS and NBC)to raise funds for cancer research.

The problem with raising funds for cancer research is this:The funds eventually go towards cancer research that does NOT cure cancer. In the 95 years that health organizations like the American Cancer Society have been dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem, there has been very little progress made in the curing of this deadly disease.

In spite of all the billions that have been raised for cancer research over the past several decades, few new options for treatment have emerged.My wife was offered the standard treatments of chemotherapy and radiation.(Which she refused).Instead of being diminished as a health threat,the incidence of cancer has grown exponentially over the last hundred years.

A single cancer fund raising campaign, such as the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, raises approximately $150 million in funds for cancer research. Canada has for many years now had its annual Terry Fox Run.Tens of billions of dollars have been raised by all the fund raising campaigns combined - and yet,according to the American Cancer Society, there's still a 41 per cent probability that an individual, male or female,will develop cancer in his or her lifetime - or die from it!

Why have all the billions of dollars raised for cancer research been FUTILE in curing cancer? Many people, including the Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Dr. Samuel Epstein, state that the priorities of health organizations are economically motivated, and reflect conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry, the pesticide industry, and the mammography industry."

The funds raised have been allocated to raising public awareness of the merits of the 3 conventional cancer therapies - that is, chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.If the conventional therapies are desirable, why then would Oncologist Dr. Tullio Simoncini state that according to his surveys, "75 percent of doctors say they'd refuse chemotherapy if they were struck with cancer due to its ineffectiveness and devastating side effects." In fact, the medical journal, "Clinical Oncology," published the results of a study in December 2004, showing that chemotherapy has a success rate of just over 2 percent for all cancers! Wouldn't that translate into a FAILURE rate of 98%?

Therefore, funneling research funds towards the advancement of ineffective therapies that don't eliminate the root CAUSE of cancer is like shoveling money into a black hole.

I met three women in my wife's support group who opted for the conventional treatments and died within six months.Far too often, conventional treatments for disease focus only on relieving only the SYMPTOMS of the disease, and not the CAUSE.

But there are simple and natural therapies that offer hope for the cure of disease without the need for surgery, drugs or radiation. European doctors,nature paths and health practitioners have successfully healed not just cancer but most other diseases,including AIDS, heart disease, Parkinson's Disease Alzheimer's Disease and diabetes, using non-conventional therapies.

I have lost several friends, a grandmother, and my own father to cancer, before my wife herself was diagnosed with breast cancer. And that is why I became motivated to look into this further.

I had the same questions as many of you, particularly the question about why the same conventional therapies persist, in spite of their low success rate after decades of research and billions of dollars in funds.

Dr. Lorraine Day, a trained orthodox medical doctor, taught surgery at a medical school, and was also a high ranking staff member in a major hospital. When she developed breast cancer she had to decide between orthodox treatments and alternative treatments.

She did have some surgery, but refused chemotherapy and radiation and turned to alternative medicine just as my wife did.Her alternative self-treatment therapy healed her completely.She has stated that the cancer industry is second only to the oil industry in revenue and that chemotherapy actually causes cancer.

Joseph Murphy, author of the book "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" healed himself of skin cancer in three months, using his own self-healing method.

So, there does exist, evidence that alternative self-treatments are not only available but have, indisputably - worked!

Graham Colditz,M.D.,Dr.P.H., associate director of Prevention and Control at the Siteman Cancer Centre at Washington University School of Medicine in the St.Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital says basic behavior changes like losing excess weight, getting more exercise, eating a healthy diet and quitting smoking would have a tremendous impact on the incidence of the most prevalent types of cancer.

If we further that by researching for ourselves what the conventional treatments are all about, and what is available in alternative therapies, we'll be much better prepared to decide which direction we want to go if ever confronted with that choice.

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