Introduction
If you have arrived here, there is a good chance that you or someone you love has had the horrible diagnosis of cancer.
- “Why me?”
- “How could this happen to me?”
- “What do I do?”
- “Should I follow the conventional approach or the alternative approach?”
- “What exactly is available for me?”
- “Where do I go to find the information I need to make the right decision?”
These are all good questions. Hopefully all of them will be answered here or in the references.
First some facts:
- The so-called urgency in starting chemo, radiation and surgery may not be so urgent. With the exception of a few fast growing cancers, most have been silently growing for in excess of 10 years. You have time to research and make an informed decision, though you may be told otherwise.
- Many substances used to fight cancer cause new cancers. The most common drug used to fight breast cancer is classified as a carcinogen (cancer causing agent).
- One half of all cancers are medically induced by drugs and radiation.
- One study revealed that 90% of physicians working in oncology would not prescribe the drugs they prescribed to their patients, to their wives or children.
- Another study revealed that 97.5% of people who underwent chemo were dead in 5 years.
- If you have surgery, chemo and/or radiation and die in 5 years and one day, you are part of the successful treatment statistics.
- Stem cells are the key in cancer, yet chemo has limited effect on stem cells. It does kill daughter cells, so the cancer shrinks, but then returns, often more vigorously.
- One overseas cancer doctor was jailed for 45 years for prescribing chemo drugs to people who did not need them or had ceased to need them; because of the commission oncologists receive for prescribing chemo drugs.
- In some places it is against the law to prescribe integrated medicine over conventional treatment, in others, medical councils hound doctors that do, labeling them as quacks.
- Cancer is a business and there is a vested interest in maintaining a monopoly and destroying competition, i.e. alternative medicine.
Question
So, how do you go about making an informed decision on what may be the most important decision of your life?
Answer
As difficult as it will be, put aside the emotion and make the decision just as you would with any other life decision:
- What are your goals?
- What are the relevant factors impacting on the decision?
- What are the available courses of action?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of each course of action?
- What is the preferred course of action?
- What is the plan to achieve the preferred course of action?
If you were building a house, would you do it all yourself or would you shop around for an architect that fitted your style and a builder that you felt you could trust…..same thing with cancer. Talk to an oncologist and see what s/he can offer you. Talk to an integrated practitioner to see what s/he can offer you. See the list of questions provided here that will assist you to get the required information. Then very carefully listen to your little voice. Everyone has one. We just silence it. The best answer will be there.
This may be the most important decision of your life and the lives for those who are dependant on you. Do not let anyone else make it for you or bully you into it. Do not take the easy path and follow blindly. Take the hard path and realise your destiny.