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Dr. Robert D. Sullivan, Department of Cancer Research at the Lahey Clinic
Foundation:
There has been an enormous undertaking of cancer research to develop
anti-cancer drugs for use in the management of neoplastic diseases in
man. However, progress has been slow, and no chemical agents capable
of inducing a general curative effect on disseminated forms of cancer
have yet been developed.
If it is true that Orthodox chemotherapy is (1) toxic, (2) immunosuppressant,
(3) carcinogenic, and (4) futile, then why would doctors continue to
use it? The answer is that they don't know what else to do. Patients
usually are not scheduled into chemotherapy unless their condition seems
so hopeless that the loss of life appears to be inevitable anyway. Some
doctors refer to this stage, not as therapy, but experimentation, which,
frankly, is a more honest description.
Another reason for using drugs in the treatment of cancer is that the
doctor does not like to tell the patient there is no hope. In his own
mind he knows there is none, but he also knows that the patient does
not want to hear that and will seek another physician who will continue
some kind of treatment, no matter how useless. So he solves the problem
by continuing the treatment himself. In his book The Wayward Cell, Cancer,
Dr. Victor Richards made it clear that chemotherapy is used primarily
just to keep the patient returning for treatment and to build his morale
while he dies. But there is more! He said:
Nevertheless, chemotherapy serves an extremely valuable role in keeping
patients oriented toward proper medical therapy, and prevents the feeling
of being abandoned by the physician in patients with late and hopeless
cancers. Judicious employment and screening of potentially useful drugs
may also prevent the spread of cancer quackery. [Emphasis added.]
Heaven forbid that anyone should forsake the nauseating, pain-racking,
cancer-spreading, admittedly ineffective "proven cures" for such "quackery"
as Laetrile! Here, at last, is revealed the true goal of much of the
so-called "educational" programs of orthodox medicine-psychologically
to condition people not to try any other forms of therapy. That is why
they perpetuate the myth of "proven cures."
The American Cancer Society, in its Unproven Methods of Cancer Management,
stated:
When one realizes that 1,500,000 Americans are alive today because they
went to their doctors in time, and that the proven treatments of radiation
and surgery are responsible for these cures, he is less likely to take
a chance with a questionable practitioner or an unproven treatment.1
Before leaving the subject of cancer therapy and moving on to the field
of cancer research, let us clarify and summarize our findings so far.
Here is a brief outline of the four optional modes of cancer therapy:
SURGERY:
Least harmful. Sometimes a life-saving, stop-gap
meas-ure. No evidence that patients who receive radical or extensive
surgi-cal options live any longer than those who receive the most conservative
options, or, for that matter, those who receive none at all. Believed
to increase the likelihood of disseminating cancer to other locations.
When dealing with internal tumors affecting reproductive or vital organs,
the statistical rate of long-term survival is, on the average, 10-15%.
After metastasis, the statistical chances for long-term survival are
close to zero. Click here to learn more about surgeries and biopsies.
RADIOLOGY:
Very harmful in many ways. Spreads the cancer and weakens the patient's
resistance to other diseases. Serious and painful side-effects, including
heart failure. No evidence that treated patients live any longer,
on the average, than those not treated. Statistical rate of long-term
survival after metastasis is close to zero.
CHEMOTHERAPY:
Also spreads the cancer through weakening of immunological defense
mechanism plus general toxicity. Leaves patient susceptible to other
diseases and infections, often leading to death from these causes.
Extremely serious side-effects. No evidence that treated patients
live any longer, on the average, than untreated patients. Statistical
rate of long-term survival after metastasis is close to zero.
VITAMIN
B17 THERAPY:
Non-toxic. Side effects include increased ap-petite, weight gain,
lowered blood pressure, increased hemoglobin and red-blood cell count.
Eliminates or sharply reduces pain without narcotics. Builds up body's
resistance to other diseases. Is a natural substance found in foods
and is compatible with human biological experience. Destroys cancer
cells while nourishing non-cancer cells.
SEE
ALSO: The Hoax Of The "Proven"
Cancer Cures
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REFERENCES:
1. "Ambulatory
Arterial Infusion in the Treatment of Primary and Secondary Skin Cancer,"
Sixth National Cancer Conference proceedings, op. cit.
2. Victor
Richards, The Wayward Cell, Cancer; Its Origins, Nature, and Treatment,
(Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1972), pp. 215-16., May
8, 1986, p. 1231
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