The Truth About Chemotherapy
Lyle Loughry
Copyrighted, November 2007
Despite the TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars spent on cancer research, early diagnosis, attempted prophylaxix (A measure taken for the prevention of a disease or condition), the incredible resources of surgery, advances in the physics of radiation, the development of excellent poisons called chemotherapy, and the most advanced hospitals in the world, more people are dying from cancer than at any other time or place in the history of the human race.
Annual cancer deaths in the U.S. approximate the 212-year total deaths from war. In all ten U.S. wars, from its inception to the present, there were approximately 575,000 battle deaths. In 2004, the last year for which statistics are available, cancer in the U.S. accounted for 553,888 deaths, only 3,014 fewer than in 2003. In the same ways deaths due to war beyond the immediate field of battle often exceed the number of deaths in the actual battle, so the number of deaths of those who die from intervening diseases exceed those certified as dying from (rather than with) cancer.
Death on the battle field, as well as death in the Oncology ward, are not all natural or intrinsic exactions of our mortality. Traditionally, our attempts at avoiding both revolve around knife, or sword; fire, or radiation; and/or chemotherapy. Sadly, the five year survival rate for people who have received conventional cancer treatment has remained about the same since 1950.
This prompts many cancer experts to believe that, unless the morbidity and mortality rates for cancer in the United States show an immediate and dramatic decrease in the rate of escalation that has marked them for the past 60 years, cancer will account for more deaths, a higher morbidity rate, more human suffering and a greater economic loss by far, each and every year, than all of the wars in which the United States has ever engaged.
Dr.Julian Whittaker, M.D., one of America's most trusted and respected authors and personal physicians, claims that the reason for this is that "For nearly 60 years, our weapons for fighting cancer have remained the same: surgery, a variety of cellular poisonings called 'chemotherapy,' plus a host of techniques for blasting the body with toxic radiation." Never in the history of medicine have such toxic therapies been so widely used--with such futility. "Cancer has reached epidemic proportions, especially among people over 50. Every 45 seconds, someone dies of cancer--over 500,000 per year. Truth be told, we're losing ground. History will, eventually, conclude they never really worked."
In 1987, Dr. Dana Levi of the University of California wrote, "Most cancer patients in this country die from chemotherapy. It has been know for over a decade that women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemotherapy than without it."
In 1993, the editor of The Lancet pointed out that, despite various modifications of breast cancer treatment, death rates remained unchanged.
Chemotherapy is a systemic therapy; this means it affects the whole body by going through the bloodstream. The purpose of chemotherapy and other systemic treatments is to get rid of any cancer cells that may have spread from where the cancer started to another part of the body. Chemotherapy is effective against cancer cells because the drugs love to interfere with rapidly dividing cells. The side effects of chemotherapy come about because cancer cells aren't the only rapidly dividing cells in your body. The cells in your blood, mouth, intestinal tract, nose, nails, vagina, and hair are also undergoing constant, rapid division. This means that the chemotherapy is going to affect them, too. Still, chemotherapy is much easier to tolerate today than even a few years ago.
Nevertheless, chemotherapy remains fraught with risks and side-effects. Consider the following statement from French cancer specialist, Professor Charles Mathe, who declared: “If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard cancer treatment centre. Cancer victims who live far from such centres have a chance.”
Walter Last, writing in The Ecologist, reported recently: “After analysing cancer survival statistics for several decades, Dr Hardin Jones, Professor at the University of California, concluded “...patients are as well, or better off untreated. Jones’ disturbing assessment has never been refuted.” Walter Last combines the training and work experience of Research Chemist Biochemist and Toxicologist with that of Practicing Nutritionist and Natural Therapist. He was born and grew up in Germany and has held positions in medical institutions at the Universities of Greifswald, Cologne and Munich, working in research and toxicological investigations. He was Chief Forensic Chemist at Cologne and worked at Bio-Science Laboratories in Los Angeles. In 1970 he settled in New Zealand and dissatisfied with drug-based medicine practiced as a Natural Therapist. He has lived in Queensland since 1981 and has investigated and experimented with a wide range of natural therapies to improve the effectiveness of natural medicine in treating serious and medically incurable diseases.
According to Albert Braverman MD, with specialities in Hematology, Internal Medicine, Oncology, writing in the UK medical journal, The Lancet, “Many medical oncologists recommend chemotherapy for virtually any tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged by almost invariable failure.”
According to Thomas Dao, MD, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Mar 1975 292 p 707, “Despite widespread use of chemotherapies, breast cancer mortality has not changed in the last 70 years”-
Senior cancer physician Dr. Charles Moertal of the Mayo Clinic in the US stated: “Our most effective regimens are fraught with risks and side-effects and practical problems; and after this price is paid by all the patients we have treated, only a small fraction are rewarded with a transient period of usually incomplete tumour regressions....”
While being interviewed live on the Laurie Lee show in 1994, Dr Ralph Moss, author of ‘The Cancer Industry’ - a shocking expose of the world of conventional cancer politics and practic - stated: “In the end, there is no proof that chemotherapy actually extends life in the vast majority of cases , and this is the great lie about chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumour and extending the life of a patient.”
Scientists based at McGill Cancer Centre sent a questionnaire to 118 lung cancer doctors to determine what degree of faith these practicing cancer physicians placed in the therapies they administered. They were asked to imagine that they had cancer and were asked which of six current trials they would choose. 79 doctors responded of which 64 (81%) would not consent to be in any trial containing Cisplatin - one of the common chemotherapy drugs they were trialling, (currently achieving worldwide sales of about $110,000,000 a year) and 58 of the 79 (73%) found that all the trials in question were unacceptable due to the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and its unacceptably high degree of toxicity.
And finally, the following extract is taken from Dr Tim O'Shea at The Doctor Within: A German epidemiologist from the Heidelberg/Mannheim Tumor Clinic, Dr. Ulrich Abel has done a comprehensive review and analysis of every major study and clinical trial of chemotherapy ever done. His conclusions should be read by anyone who is about to embark on the Chemo Express. To make sure he had reviewed everything ever published on chemotherapy, Abel sent letters to over 350 medical centers around the world asking them to send him anything they had published on the subject. Abel researched thousands of articles: it is unlikely that anyone in the world knows more about chemotherapy than he.
The analysis took him several years, but the results are astounding: Abel found that the overall worldwide success rate of chemotherapy was “appalling” because there was simply no scientific evidence available anywhere that chemotherapy can “extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancers.” Abel emphasizes that chemotherapy rarely can improve the quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as “a scientific wasteland” and states that at least 80 percent of chemotherapy administered throughout the world is worthless, and is akin to the “emperor’s new clothes” - neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on chemotherapy even though there is no scientific evidence that it works! -The Lancet 10 Aug 91. No mainstream media even mentioned this comprehensive study: it was totally buried! Odds are your doctor never heard of it, either.
In reality, Chemotherapy is an invasive and toxic treatment able supposedly to eliminate cancer cells. Unfortunately though, its ferocious chemistry is not able to differentiate between the cancerous cell or the healthy cell and surrounding healthy tissue. Put simply, chemotherapy is an intravenously administered poison that kills all living matter. Repeated chemotherapy and repeated radiation treatments kill the whole body by degrees. The immune system is hit particularly hard by chemotherapy and often does not recuperate enough to adequately protect from common illnesses, which can then lead to death. Some 67% of people who die during cancer treatment do so through opportunistic infections arising as a direct result of the immune system failing because of the aggressive and toxic nature of the drugs.
The side effects from both chemotherapy and radiation itself are extensive. They can include dizziness, skin discolouration, sensory loss, audio-visual impairment, nausea, diarrhoea, loss of hair, loss of appetite, leading to malnutrition, loss of sex drive, loss of white blood cells, permanent organ damage, organ failure, internal bleeding, tissue loss, cardio-vascular leakage (artery deterioration) to name but a few. What is this if not death by doctoring?
Vincristin is a commonly applied chemotherapy agent. It's side-effects include rapid heart-beat, wheezing or difficulty breathing, skin rash or swelling fever or chills, infection unusual bleeding or bruising abdominal or stomach cramps loss of movement or coordination muscle spasms fits, seizures or convulsions. The full list can be viewed at http://healthanswers.telstra.com/drugdata/appco/00070129.asp
Another common "chemo" drug is Actinomycin - D. The side-effects again are horrendous, and include hair-loss, anemia, low white platelet count, nausea, sickness, diarrhea and liver failure. include hair-loss, anemia, low white platelet count, nausea, sickness, diarrhea and liver failure. A complete list can be viewed at http://www.tirgan.com/actinomy.htm.
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