Does Chemotherapy Cure Cancer?
Whether chemotherapy cures cancer depends on the kind of cancer, how advanced it is and a patient's will to live. Most medical doctors say it helps eliminate cancer, while alternative medicine practitioners believe that it does not cure cancer.
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What Chemotherapy Does
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According to Natural News, chemotherapy can permanently damage the body and the immune system. Chemotherapy causes other medical problems such as other cancers and diseases of the heart, liver, intestines and brain. Chemo patients may have more pain and accelerated aging. Chemotherapy reduces red blood cells, resulting in the body not receiving enough oxygen. Chemo also causes fatigue, which can lead to depression.
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Chemotherapy Cures Four Cancers
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According to Understanding Cancer, chemotherapy cures only a few types of cancers. This is because theses cancers begin in cells that are near death, and the chemotherapy can destroy those cells along with the cancer. If the cancer begins in healthy cells that are destined to live a long time, then it is hard to make these cancer cells die.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information reports that of the many different types of cancer chemotherapy is responsible for killing only four of them. These cancers are testicular cancer, ovarian germ cell tumors, gestational choriocarcinoma and high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, or B cell and T cell. Even if these four cancers have spread, chemotherapy can still cure them.
The American Cancer Society
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According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), chemotherapy has been helping people since 1950. The ACS attributes the use of chemotherapy to giving people back their lives. Patients with cancer can live full, healthy lives because they underwent the chemotherapy treatments. Chemotherapy has a success record that it can achieve remission in 7 percent of human cancer. An additional 15 percent of chemo patients may prolong their lives.
No Extension of Life
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Dr. Ulrich Abel, of the Tumor Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, conducted a comprehensive investigation on the use of chemotherapy drugs. He contacted 350 medical centers asking them for anything they had written and published on chemotherapy. On August 10, 1991, he published his findings in The Lancet. He discovered that there was no evidence proving that chemotherapy extends patients' lives or improves their quality of life. The review of Dr. Ulrich Abel's reports appear on Healing Cancer Naturally and Natural News.
Money and Chemo
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Natural News reports that if doctors admitted that chemotherapy does not cure cancer and does more harm to the body than good, they stand to loose $300,000 to $1 million every year. The ones who promote chemotherapy earn over $1 trillion. Chemotherapy is a toxic poison that attacks the liver and heart. Most of the people who undergo chemotherapy treatments die from liver or heart failure.
In a CNN health report, Pamela S. Douglas M.D., chief cardiology at Duke University, said that the greatest damage from breast cancer is the treatment of chemotherapy. Women who had breast cancer and chemotherapy treatments also have a greater risk of heart disease, she said.
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