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and drug companies can get FDA approval on the basis of small pre-e © The Way Forward liminary trials, even if a large randomised trial may be It is now 32 years since President Nixon declared war on cancer. unfavourable.” In a remarkable statement about drug approvals,an Since then, US$2 trillion has been spent on conventional cancer FDA spokesperson pointed out that any delay in approval did not treatment and research, with the result that more individuals are mean unnecessary deaths because "all these treatments for advanced _—_ dying from cancer than ever before.“ While there have been many cancer don't cure people". studies to evaluate the effects of various nutrients on different Perhaps the situation is even worse than a case of just ineffective cancers, nothing of these two trillion dollars has been available for treatments. A group of respected researchers reviewed all the pub- natural therapists to conduct trials of holistic cancer therapies. lished statistical evidence on the outcome of medical treatments, and _—_ Natural therapists have had to face a century of persecution, many of showed that the medical system is now the leading cause of death them being dragged before courts and ending up in jail. and injury in the USA. Deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 Would it not be more scientific to evaluate the methods of natural were 699,697, for cancer the figure was 553,251, while for medical cancer therapists impartially rather than put the therapists in jail? interventions it was 783,936 per year! Appropriately, the title of this | Most alternative cancer clinics in the USA have had to relocate to study is "Death by Medicine".” Mexico. (For a list of such clinics worldwide, see the website You may wonder why health authorities turn a blind eye to these http:/Avww.cancure.org.) massive fatalities, mostly caused by drugs, while concentrating their An holistic cancer approach includes superior nutrition, herbs, energies instead on suppressing food supplements and natural reme- electromedicine and vibrational or energy medicine, emotional heal- dies. ing and mind therapy. The only reported A symptom of this official attitude is the study that comes close to investigating an recent saga of Pan Pharmaceuticals, when in holistic approach involves the Gerson therapy 2003 the Australian government forced the in an evaluation of five-year survival rates of largest local manufacturer of natural remedies 153 melanoma patients. Here, 100% of into bankruptcy, allegedly because there was a Gerson therapy patients with Stage I and IT possibility that these products might cause cancers survived, but only 79% survived who someone to get sick or even die. . to. had conventional therapy. With Stage III can- In my view, a main reason for this distorted Despite a majority of cers (regional metastases), the figures respec- official attitude is the fact that health depart- Fi tively were 70% and 41%; with Stage IVa ments and regulatory authorities are dominated Western populations (distant metastases), 39% with Gerson and 6% by medical doctors who have been trained preferring natural with conventional therapy survived.* (partly with money from drug companies) to . . Many natural cancer therapists claim a suc- believe that drugs are beneficial and natural remedies, basically cess vate of more than 90% in arresting and remedies are Potentially rarmiul pepe a all political parties moe cancer, Provide’ that patents have majority of Western populations prefer- not been subjected to orthodox treat- ring natural remedies, basically all promote dependency ments beforehand. The most damaging political parties promote dependency on on pharmaceutical treatments appear to be chemotherapy drugs. pharmaceutical drugs. and radiotherapy. Therefore, as a first step to changing Therefore, if you are confronted with this oppressive political climate, we cancer, I suggest that you resist acting urgently need a political party that pro- out of fear and under pressure. The motes natural health care rather than drug situation is hardly ever so urgent that you dependency. have to act immediately. Instead, do We can find a clue for the cause of your own research from books, journals these appalling "Death by Medicine" sta- and the Internet, and then trust your tistics in an editorial by Richard Smith in common sense or intuition. oo the British Medical Journal: "Yet only 15% of medical interventions are sup- About the Author: ported by solid scientific evidence" and . Walter Last worked as a biochemist and "This is because only 1% of the articles in medical journals are sci- "esearch chemist in the medical departments of several German univer- lly sound, and partly because many treatments have never _ ities and at Bio-Science Laboratories in Los Angeles, USA. Later he ssed at all" worked as a nutritionist and natural therapist in New Zealand and in Australia, where he is now based. He has written numerous health-related journal articles as well as : ves ees several books, including Heal Yourself and Healing Foods (Penguin (HRT). Several decades ago, it was shown in "rigorous scientific Books). His new book. The Natural Way to Heal (Hampton Roads research to be safe and effective; otherwise it would not have been Publishing, 2004), is reviewed in this issue. His article, "The New approved. It was strongly promoted as protecting against heart dis- Medicine of Dr Hamer", about Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer's discovery of the ease and cancer. Now every new trial shows HRT to be dangerous —_shock-conflict mechanism underlying cancer development, was pub- and to increase the risk of developing heart disease and cancer. lished in NEXUS 10/05. What went wrong? Why was this not picked up earlier? Quite Walter Last is retired and does not have a clinic. For information on simply, the original research was conducted with the aim of generat- _ health questions, see his website http’//www.health-science-spirit.com; ing profits, while recent researchers are not sharing in any of these —_ for his approach to cancer treatment, click on "Diseases" to find his profits. Therefore, I mistrust any research that is conducted with __eight-part article, "Overcoming Cancer”. profit ” mind. Unfortunately, this presently applies to most medical Continued on page 75 entifi been as A good demonstration of the unscientific nature of medical research is the recent fiasco with hormone replacement therapy Despite a majority of Western populations preferring natural remedies, basically all political parties promote dependency on pharmaceutical drugs. 28 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2004 Continued on page 75 www.nexusmagazine.com