Alternative And Complementary Cancer Therapy Information And Resources For Patients And Their Families

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Cancer can be fought and beaten using natural methods, but there is so much conflicting and confusing information on natural therapies for cancer. If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer where do you go first for information about natural/alternative/complementary treatments? Who do you believe? What's effective and what's a scam?

Start with the first link below and gradually work your way down the list. Below the links list are some crucial articles and these are followed by books to read to further your education.

I hope you'll consider the resources on this site to be helpful. I've tried to present up-to-date and reliable information to help cut down your learning curve. Time and energy are precious resources for you now.

Go To These Sites

Start Here
This site by Dr. Ralph Moss provides reports customized for your SPECIFIC cancer. Both alternative and conventional medical treatment options are discussed in the reports. I also highly recommend a private consultation with Dr. Moss.
The best self-education site about natural cancer therapies
This site summarizes many of the alternative therapies and provides a battle plan based on the stage of your cancer. This site is for self-education - cuts down the learning curve - but visit CancerDecisions.com first if you want an experts opinion.
Consider buying this ebook about the top 10 cancer cures
THIS IS NOT some rip-off ebook/report written by Joe Anybody. The ebook advertised on this page is an excellent summary of some of the top natural cancer remedies. The author, Dr. Morton Walker, is a prolific health writer who does his research and knows how to get his points across without a bunch of filler (the ebook is a quick read). The resource information alone is worth the price of the book. References are provided, as is contact information for the various clinics, doctors, and distributors of products Dr. Morton writes about.
Prostate Cancer
Larry Clapp's site is the place to go after CancerDecisions.com if you have prostate cancer. I also highly recommend his book (see list below).
The single most important thing you can do.
Years and years of research at hundreds of hospitals has resulted in one simple rule that is easy to follow:

1. Eat a plant-based diet. One of the most exciting discoveries in cancer research is the cancer-battling potential of the phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables that have been shown to stop the growth of cancer cells and activate certain enzymes that can kill cancer-causing toxins.

Research also suggests that specific foods are true cancer-fighting warriors. Include raw, organic nuts, seeds, berries, vegetables and fruits on your shopping list!

In my opinion, the best way to get enough of these powerful cancer fighters into your system everyday is the Vitamix juicer. Unlike the other juicers out there, the Vitamix doesn't separate the healthful pulp from the liquid in the fruit/vegetable. It literally pulverizes the food effectively and efficiently. It's also easier to use and clean and is more versatile than any other juicer I've ever seen.

Vita-Mix makes eating nine servings of fruits and vegetables every day amazingly easy.
Just drop whole foods-seeds, stems and all-into your Vita-Mix, flip the switch and you get delicious whole food juices, smoothies, soups and frozen treats in a matter of minutes.

The real bonus is that you are also getting up to three times more nutrition than you get from eating those same foods cooked or raw.

I've had my Vitamix for years and although I've owned other juicers, I'd never go back to any other juicer. Research proves it and my experience confirms it for me: Vitamix is the best juicer made.
MyMotherNatures.com
This is the site for the healthfood store I help manage. We have a huge inventory. Order products safely online or phone/email me and I'll try to help however I can.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
CTCA is one of the only cancer clinic systems in the country where top medical oncologists work side-by-side with on-staff nutritionists, mind-body therapists, naturopathic physicians, physical therapists and spiritual support.
Miracle Mineral Supplement
Scroll down the page at the link above and read some information about the supplement MMS. It's an intriguing new and inexpensive option for cancer. If you decide to buy the mms, you can do so from this link.
Inexpensive Natural Therapies
Bill Henderson's website (and book and free email newsletter) is highly recommended if you are looking for natural remedies, but don't have a lot of money.
The best book on Cancer Treatments
A FEW WORDS FROM THE AUTHOR: If you're concerned about the "C" word, then Cancer - Step Outside the Box is the book you've been waiting for. It reveals the most potent and well-proven alternative strategies for preventing and treating cancer... without surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation (i.e. the "Big 3"). Inside, you'll find a wealth of information that your doctor probably doesn't know. Here's why: while at medical school, doctors not only receive biased information but also learn a very drug-intensive style of medicine. As a result, most doctors are still thinking "inside the box" when it comes to cancer. Sadly, the cancer "box" is largely the creation of multinational pharmaceutical companies attempting to peddle their poisons (such as chemotherapy) in an effort to increase shareholder profits. Sadly, these profits are oftentimes generated at the expense (both monetarily and physically) of the dying cancer patient.

Did you know that the overall success rate for most cancers treated with the chemotherapy is a paltry 3%? In other words, it has a 97% fatality rate. And it is not only legal, but it is the only treatment recommended by most conventional oncologists! That's right%u2026the official position of most conventional oncologists is that the "Big 3" treatments (specifically chemotherapy) is the only treatment protocol that should be available to sufferers of cancer. Is this the "Twilight Zone" or what? BEWARE: If you attempt to step "outside the box" and find an alternative cancer treatment that actually works and increases your lifespan by years or decades, then you may be committing a crime. The "Big 3" conventional cancer treatments are more and more being enforced by gunpoint. Parents who attempt to protect their children from the dangers of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation may find themselves accused of kidnapping their own children! You think I'm making this stuff up?

Are you familiar with the story of Abraham Cherrix? This is the most recent story in a long list of government sponsored "gunpoint medicine." 16-year-old Abraham Cherrix has endured toxic chemotherapy treatments in his fight against Hodgkin's lymphoma. According to Abraham, "Another round, at higher doses, would kill me, literally. No joke about it. The first round of chemo almost killed me in itself. There were some nights I didn't know if I would make it." So, with the support of his parents, Abraham began to learn about a very successful alternative cancer treatment called the Hoxsey tonic. (This is the herbal tea which we were going to use to treat my dad's cancer, but he died before we could get him to the hospital in Tijuana.)

But freedom of choice is NOT allowed by the quack oncologists of conventional medicine. When Abraham told his doctor that he did not want to endure any more chemo, evidently the doctor's "god complex" kicked in and he became so enraged by the fact that a patient had the audacity to question him, that he called social services. The modern-day "governmental Gestapo" (Social Services) went to work and took Abraham and his parents to court, arguing that the state of Virginia should FORCE Abraham to endure further chemo poisoning! Well, the judge sided with the SS Gestapo, and young Abraham has been ordered to continue chemo. Then another judge overruled the first judge and said he didn't have to do chemo. It's like a kangaroo court. Who knows where the saga will end! Eventually, it is likely that some judge will decide that it is in Abraham's best interest to be sent to the "poison chamber." If he refuses, then the Cherrix family will become "fugitives." Eventually, armed agents will track them down and effectively force Abraham to allow the oncologist to pump poison into his veins. Let me ask you this: Do you think that the judge will sit up with Abraham when he can't sleep due to the severe headaches caused by chemo? Do you think the SS Gestapo workers will clean up his vomit? Let's be honest%u2026these people don't care about Abraham.

How many more sick children are going to be kidnapped from their families before we stop this nonsense? Either we are a free people or we are slaves. There is no middle ground. You see, the Cancer Industry is like the slave owners 200 years ago. If you ran a plantation back in the slave days, you wanted to make sure that your slaves remained obedient, submissive, and illiterate. If a slave had the nerve to disobey "the master," then he was beaten within an inch of his life. Books weren't allowed, thus slaves were unable to learn to read. These steps were taken to insure that they would never have the boldness to venture off the plantation and the master would have a "slave for life." In the Cancer Industry, patients are like slaves, and the slave owners want to make sure that they remain enslaved by suppressing information about alternative treatments and persecuting those who dare to question their authority and use an alternative treatment.

But don't lose heart. A consumer backlash against the "medical mafia" is gaining momentum as people and lawmakers alike realize that no American is truly free if they are not free to choose the most effective treatment for their disease. The bottom line is that cancer patients deserve to know the truth and to make choices based upon this truth. And the truth is that the proven cancer prevention strategies and the real cures for cancer do not need a prescription, nor do they require surgery or barbaric procedures like radiation or chemotherapy.

Cancer - Step Outside the Box is packed with priceless information and cancer treatment protocols which are being used to to treat and even reverse cancer in multiple cancer clinics worldwide. I had originally planned to sell this e-book for between $40 and $50. That's a fraction of the price of a single visit to the oncologist, yet it gives you a wealth of information that is, quite frankly, priceless. It represents my cancer research over the past decade...literally hundreds of hours of reading and writing, as well as communicating with other authors, researchers, physicians, biochemists, microbiologists, and cancer patients.

I organized my research, compiled it, and translated everything into "layman's terms" in an easy-to-read format that provides you practical information without all the confusing medical jargon. Honestly, there are dozens of great books on the subjects of cancer, nutrition, and treatment protocols, but far too many of them are mired down in "cryptic gobbledygook" and technical details, thus they are either extremely difficult to understand, or they are just too boring to read. However, unlike Emeril Lagasse, who likes to "kick it up a notch," my goal is to bring it down a notch and enable you to actually learn and comprehend complex medical information as it regards to cancer, nutrition, and overall health. I truly hope that you benefit from the book.

A Few Important Books

This list is by no means comprehensive.

Read "Cancer Therapy: An Independent Consumer's Guide" first, and then "Antioxidants Against Cancer." If your doctor is recommending chemotherapy then read "Questioning Chemotherapy."
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A Few More Important Books

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Read this before agreeing to chemotherapy.

Despite the mounting evidence of chemotherapy's lack of effectiveness in prolonging survival, oncologists continue to present chemotherapy as a rational and promising approach to cancer treatment.

Dr. Ralph Moss has written an important review on this topic. Go to his website www.ralphmoss.com and gl to the newsletter archives for March 5, 2006. Or just follow this link:

http://www.cancerdecisions.com/030506.html

Help for Wasting and Loss of Appetite. Part I

Read this brief article from the Health Sciences Institute if you're being treated for cancer by a doctor who believes that antioxidants may interfere with your therapy or if you know someone with cancer.

Cachexia is a condition that often accompanies chronic diseases and cancer. Symptoms include a general loss of vitality characterized by poor appetite, weight loss, decomposition of muscle, and depression.One of the most unfortunate aspects of cachexia is that doctors may unwittingly add to the problem with well meaning advice that is outdated and off the mark.

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Nutrients get the boot
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In a 2003 study of 200 patients with cachexia, UK researchers found that a daily high-calorie/high-protein supplement, enriched with vitamins C and E, and about 2 grams of omega-3 fatty acids prompted a significantly higher rate of weight gain, increased lean body mass and improved quality of life compared to subjects who received a similar supplement, but without the added vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids.

Unfortunately, many doctors would reject this type of supplement regimen because of a belief that antioxidants interfere with chemotherapy and radiation therapies. Some of these types of cytotoxic therapies create free radicals that may help kill cancer cells. Researchers have theorized that antioxidant supplements might impede cytotoxic therapies. Some even suggest that patients treated with these therapies should avoid antioxidant-rich foods, which would cut virtually all fruits and vegetables from a cancer patient's diet.

This theory was given a boost late last year with an article that appeared in the journal CA - A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (published by the American Cancer Society). The article was written by Gabriella M. D'Andrea, M.D., of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. And the title of the article tells you just about everything you need to know about its content: "Use of Antioxidants During Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Should Be Avoided."

In the e-Alert "What Would Hippocrates Do?" (10/4/05), I offered a rebuttal to Dr. D'Andrea's concept of denying key nutrients from patients who need them most. Now others have added their own rebuttals, and they need to be heard and clearly understood by any cancer patient whose doctor believes that antioxidants may do harm.

CONTINUED IN PART II

Help for Wasting and Loss of Appetite. Part II

Call and Response

On the web site for CA - A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, several doctors and nutritionists have submitted their reactions to Dr. D'Andrea's article.

Hal Gunn, M.D., director of the Centre for Integrated Healing in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, writes: "Belief and opinion do not constitute science." He notes that Dr. D'Andrea doesn't mention any of the studies in the "growing substantial body of supportive evidence" that demonstrate the significant benefits of antioxidant use during chemo and radiation.

A clinical nutritionist named Neil E. Levine offers a more exhaustive rebuttal; complete with footnotes identifying many of the studies Dr. Gunn refers to. Here's a sampling of Mr. Levine's antioxidant defense:

Radiation and chemo treatments have been enhanced by vitamin E use (Clinical Cancer Research, 2002)
Vitamin E and selenium enhanced the effects of anticancer drugs (Pathology & Oncology Research, 2005)
Vitamins C and E have been shown to improve side effects of free radical damage to normal cells caused by radiation and chemo (Integrated Cancer Therapies, 2004)
Prostate cancer cell cultures were sensitive to lycopene, which increased apoptosis (spontaneous cell death) and arrested the cell cycle (Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2005)
Recent studies show vitamin E may induce apoptosis in a wide variety of cancers, including breast, prostate, lung, colon, ovarian and cervical (Journal of Nutrition, 2004)
Several studies have demonstrated that antioxidants lessen side effects of chemo (Integrated Cancer Therapies, 2004)
Harsh radiation side effects were reduced with high doses of beta-carotene and vitamin E (Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2005)
CoQ10 enhanced the efficacy of tamoxifen (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2005)
Mr. Levine also offers this quote from Patrick Quillin, Ph.D., the director of Nutrition, Cancer Treatment Centers of America: "Malnutrition actually kills about 40 percent of cancer patients."
If you're being treated for cancer by a doctor who believes that antioxidants may interfere with your therapy, share this information with him and discuss the possibility that antioxidant use may in fact be one of the keys to cancer treatment success.

Colorectal Cancer Prevention Alert!

Five specific nutrients have recently been found to be protective against colorectal polyps.

In a recent study colorectal polyp risk was compared to intake of dietary vitamins and beta-carotene. Nutrient intakes were assessed in two groups: more than 360 subjects with polyps, and about 425 polyp-free subjects. Researchers found five nutrients that were associated with a lower risk of colorectal polyps: folate, beta-carotene, and vitamins B-6, C and D.

Now we have confirmation of that study for two of the five nutrients.

In a study led by researchers at Harvard and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, dietary habits and medical records for nearly 38,000 female subjects over the age of 45 were followed for an average of ten years. Researchers found a significant association between dietary intake of folate and vitamin B6 and a reduced risk of colorectal cancer.

Dietary sources of folate include citrus fruits, tomatoes, leafy green vegetables, avocados, bananas, asparagus, whole grains, and pinto, navy and kidney beans.

Vitamin B6 is found in meat, poultry fish, beans, fruits and vegetables. Bananas and chicken breast are particularly high in B6.

"Tobacco Use and Associations of Beta-Carotene and Vitamin Intakes with Colorectal Adenoma Risk" Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 135, No. 10, October 2005, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

"Folate, Vitamin B6, Multivitamin Supplements, and Colorectal Cancer Risk in Women" American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 163, No. 2, February 2006, aje.oxfordjournals.org

What can be done naturally about nausea caused by chemotherapy?

Ginger is by far the best proven treatment to combat nausea.

Ginger is by far the best proven treatment to combat nausea, and its long history of use is proof that it does a terrific job of settling the stomach. It has been used for centuries in India and China and, even as far back as the Middle Ages, it was popular among the apothecaries as a therapy against nausea. This root is your best bet to combat nausea brought on by a wide variety of causes from motion sickness to surgery, pregnancy, and chemotherapy. It is a good alternative to anti-nausea drugs, which may interact with other medications being given to the patient, especially during chemotherapy or after a surgery. (source: www.hsibaltimore.com)

Overcoming Fatigue if You Have Cancer.

Here's the Tip: L-carnitine.

Here's an article from hsibaltimore.com:

If you know someone who's struggling with cancer, one of the best gifts you could possibly give her is a tip on how she might overcome fatigue.

Here's the tip: L-carnitine.

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As I've noted in previous e-Alerts, L-carnitine is a key amino acid produced in the kidneys and liver. Carnitine delivers fatty acids to cell mitochondria, helps protect cells (especially heart cells), raises the levels of certain enzymes needed to metabolize carbohydrates, and helps boost energy and muscle strength.

The body doesn't produce high levels of carnitine, but those levels are enhanced by dietary sources such as meat, chicken, fish, and dairy products. Unfortunately, the body only absorbs about a quarter of the carnitine supplied by food. And the problem is further complicated by the fact that our carnitine levels progressively decrease as we age.

Because carnitine levels are somewhat undependable, and because this nutrient is so beneficial to the heart, patients with heart disease sometimes benefit from supplementary doses of carnitine as high as one or two grams per day.

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Fatigue factor
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Carnitine deficiency is known to be common among cancer patients. The primary trigger of this deficiency is chemotherapy, which blocks carnitine reabsorption by the kidney. When carnitine levels drop, fatigue sets in - a challenging situation for cancer patients who may also suffer from anemia and other energy-robbing problems related to their disease.

In a recent issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, researchers at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City posed the question: Can carnitine supplements reduce fatigue in cancer patients with carnitine deficiency?

STUDY ABSTRACT

* Researchers recruited 27 patients with advanced cancer, carnitine deficiency, and moderate to severe fatigue

* Before and after supplement intervention, subjects completed questionnaires to measure fatigue, depression, and quality of sleep

* Subjects were divided into seven small groups to receive different daily doses of carnitine: 250 mg, 750 mg, 1,250 mg, 1,750 mg, 2,250 mg, 2,750, and 3,000 mg

* The intervention period lasted seven days

* Of the 21 patients who com

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