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Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. shocking exposé of the world of conventional cancer politics and This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still practice. Interviewed on the Laura Lee radio show in 1994, Moss use chemotherapy for these tumors." (Allen Levin, MD, UCSF, stated: The Healing of Cancer) "In the end, there is no proof that chemotherapy actually Or even this? extends life in the vast majority of cases, and this is the great lie "Despite widespread use of chemotherapies, breast cancer mor- about chemotherapy: that somehow there is a correlation between tality has not changed in the last 70 years." (Thomas Dao, MD, shrinking a tumour and extending the life of a patient." New England Journal of Medicine, March 1975, vol. 292, p. 707) Scientists based at McGill Cancer Center sent a questionnaire to Chemotherapy is an invasive and toxic treatment able suppos- 118 lung cancer doctors to determine what degree of faith these edly to eliminate cancer cells. practising cancer physicians placed in the therapies they adminis- Unfortunately, though, its ferocious chemistry is not able to dif- tered. They were asked to imagine that they had cancer, and were ferentiate between the cancerous cell or the healthy cell and sur- asked which of six current trials they would choose. Seventy-nine rounding healthy tissue. doctors responded, of which 64 would not consent to be in any Put simply, chemotherapy is an intravenously administered poi- trial containing Cisplatin—one of the common chemotherapy son that kills all living matter. Repeated chemotherapy and drugs they were trialling (currently achieving worldwide sales of repeated radiation treatments kill the whole body by degrees. The —_ about US$110,000,000 a year)—and 58 of the 79 found that all immune system is hit particularly hard by chemotherapy and often the trials in question were unacceptable due to the ineffectiveness does not recuperate enough to protect adequately against common of chemotherapy and its unacceptably high degree of toxicity." illnesses, which can then lead to death. The following extract is taken from Tim O'Shea at The Doctor Some 67 per cent of people who die during cancer treatment do Within: so through opportunistic infections arising as a direct result of the "A German epidemiologist from the Heidelberg/Mannheim immune system failing because of the aggressive and toxic nature Tumor Clinic, Dr Ulrich Abel, has done a comprehensive review of the drugs.’ What is this, if not death and analysis of every major study and by doctoring? clinical trial of chemotherapy ever And the side effects from both done. His conclusions should be read chemotherapy and radiation itself are by anyone who is about to embark on extensive. They can include dizziness, . the Chemo Express. To make sure he skin discolouration, sensory loss, Put simply, chemotherapy had reviewed everything ever pub- sculpts | __ig an intravenously ts on camagray e leading to malnutrition, loss of sex administered poison that around the world, asking them to send veatandames rangi, | Kills all fiving matte Fn ee internal bleeding, tissue loss and car- sands of articles: it is unlikely that iovascular leakage (artery deteriora- anyone in the world knows more about tion), to name but a few. chemotherapy than he. Two years ago, Hazel was diagnosed "The analysis took him several with breast cancer. She described her years, but the results are astounding: chemotherapy as the worst experience of her life: Abel found that the overall worldwide success rate of chemother- "This highly toxic fluid was being injected into my veins. The —_ apy was ‘appalling’ because there was simply no scientific evi- nurse administering it was wearing protective gloves because it dence available anywhere that chemotherapy can ‘extend in any would burn her skin if just a tiny drip came into contact with it. I appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most com- couldn't help asking myself, 'If such precautions were needed to —_—smon organic cancers’. Abel emphasizes that chemotherapy rarely be taken on the outside, what is it doing to me on the inside?" can improve the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as ‘a From 7 pm that evening, I vomited solidly for two and a half scientific wasteland’ and states that at least 80 per cent of days. During my treatment, I lost my hair by the handful, I lost chemotherapy administered throughout the world is worthless and my appetite, my skin colour, my zest for life. I was death on is akin to the ‘emperor's new clothes'—neither doctor nor patient legs." is willing to give up on chemotherapy, even though there is no We shall be hearing more from Hazel later, although under very scientific evidence that it works! (Lancet, 10 August 1991) No different circumstances. mainstream media even mentioned this comprehensive study: it It seems, though, that with chemotherapy we are once again was totally buried.""* looking at the acceptable face of King Charles's ammonia treat- ment and, once again, being administered by the highest physi- The Doctor-Patient Power Imbalance cians in the land. Similarly, on the toxicity of radiation "therapy", Whilst in the main dismissing the "alternativist" treatments, as John Diamond noted that it was only when he began his treatment he called them, and writing in a generally confident manner about that he began to feel really ill. his trust in the conventional medical paradigm, John Diamond Senior cancer physician Dr Charles Moertal, of the Mayo Clinic would sometimes waver: in the USA, stated: "What if those denying alternativists were right? What if the "Our most effective regimens are fraught with risks and side- truth was that no life had ever been saved by radiotherapy and that effects and practical problems; and after this price is paid by all the there was every chance that my cancer would be made worse by it patients we have treated, only a small fraction are rewarded with a being irradiated? What if the truth as pronounced by a couple of transient period of usually incomplete tumor regressions. .."* books was that the main effect of cancer surgery was to release Dr Ralph Moss is the author of The Cancer Industry, a stray cancer cells into the body, allowing them to set up home Put simply, chemotherapy is an intravenously administered poison that kills all living matter. The Doctor-Patient Power Imbalance Whilst in the main dismissing the "alternativist" treatments, as he called them, and writing in a generally confident manner about his trust in the conventional medical paradigm, John Diamond would sometimes waver: "What if those denying alternativists were right? What if the truth was that no life had ever been saved by radiotherapy and that there was every chance that my cancer would be made worse by it being irradiated? What if the truth as pronounced by a couple of books was that the main effect of cancer surgery was to release stray cancer cells into the body, allowing them to set up home NEXUS 25 AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com