The Alternative Cancer Treatments That Also Shrink Tumors
"Modern medicine," with its firm grasp of the art of making huge amounts of profits while their patients die, has totally brainwashed the public into thinking that the size of a tumor is important in a cancer treatment. Orthodox medicine shrinks tumors, then the patient dies. What is wrong with this picture:
- When a patient is found to have a tumor, the only thing the doctor discusses with that patient is what he intends to do about the tumor. If a patient with a tumor is receiving radiation or chemotherapy, the only question that is asked is, "How is the tumor doing?" No one ever asks how the patient is doing. In my medical training, I remember well seeing patients who were getting radiation and/or chemotherapy. The tumor would get smaller and smaller, but the patient would be getting sicker and sicker. At autopsy we would hear, "Isn't that marvelous! The tumor is gone!" Yes, it was, but so was the patient. How many millions of times are we going to have to repeat these scenarios before we realize that we are treating the wrong thing?
- In primary cancer, with only a few exceptions, the tumor is neither health-endangering nor life-threatening. I am going to repeat that statement. In primary cancer, with few exceptions, the tumor is neither health-endangering nor life-threatening. What is health-endangering and life-threatening is the spread of that disease through the rest of the body.
- There is nothing in surgery that will prevent the spread of cancer. There is nothing in radiation that will prevent the spread of the disease. There is nothing in chemotherapy that will prevent the spread of the disease. How do we know? Just look at the statistics! There is a statistic known as "survival time." Survival time is defined as that interval of time between when the diagnosis of cancer is first made in a given patient and when that patient dies from his disease.
- In the past fifty years, tremendous progress has been made in the early diagnosis of cancer. In that period of time, tremendous progress had been made in the surgical ability to remove tumors. Tremendous progress has been made in the use of radiation and chemotherapy in their ability to shrink or destroy tumors. But, the survival time of the cancer patient today is no greater than it was fifty years ago. What does this mean? It obviously means that we are treating the wrong thing!" Philip Binzel, M.D., Alive and Well, Chapter 14
Orthodox medicine, with its focus on the highly profitable tumor, has brainwashed the public into thinking that the tumor is the cancer. I have actually seen orthodox web sites that say that tumors are made exclusively of cancer cells. All of this is hogwash.
A tumor cannot be made exclusively of cancer cells any more than a house can be made exclusively out of oil. Cancer cells CANNOT form tissue. There is NO WAY a tumor can be made exclusively out of cancer cells. Cancer cells reside in the tissue of the tumor. That is why they do biopsies.
Thus, if you kill the cancer cells in the tumor, the tumor is nothing but a harmless piece of tissue!!
With alternative cancer treatments, little, if any, attention is paid to the size of the tumor. If the tumor gets a little bigger - so what. It is the CANCER CELLS IN THE TISSUE OF THE TUMOR that are important, not the tissue itself.
Let me use a metaphor. Suppose there is a police standoff. Inside the house are 10 terrorists. What should the police do? Should they worry about the terrorists or the size of the house? Will it help to make the house smaller while the terrorists just move to another house?
I cannot tell you how many times I have received emails from people waiting to get results of whether the tumor has been shrinking. It is difficult to explain to them that the size of the tumor is irrelevant.
While there are alternative cancer treatments that do shrink tumors, and this article is about those products, the focus on treating cancer should be FIRST on killing cancer cells or reverting cancer cells to become normal cells, then SECOND on shrinking tumors.
Almost all alternative cancer treatments are designed to kill cancer cells, directly or indirectly (some treatments convert a cancer cell back to a normal cell), but not all alternative cancer treatments shrink tumors. If you kill all of the cancer cells in a tumor, the tumor is harmless, thus there is generally no need to shrink a tumor.
However, in some cases, the tumor is pressing on a vital organ, is causing pain, is obstructing the flow of fluids, or for some other reason needs to be eliminated from the body. This type of condition is usually solved with surgery because of the urgency of the situation. Neither orthodox medicine nor alternative medicine shrinks tumors fast enough to solve some of these urgent problems.
Not all alternative cancer treatments that shrink tumors are listed here, but the major treatments that have a history of shrinking tumors are listed here.
Note:
Treatments not yet discussed on this page, but which have shown results shrinking tumors, are: spirulina, Budwig Diet, Protocel and shark cartilage (see the new book: Sharks Still Don't Get Cancer, by Dr. I. William Lane and Linda Comac).
Essaic Tea (Using herbs that have NOT been dehydrated)
Essaic Tea is one of the foremost alternative cancer treatments known to shrink tumors. As with all herb teas, however, its ability to work is heavily dependent on the quality of the growing, processing and storage of the herbs. Herbs that have been dehydrated are rarely of much use.
- After word of Caisse's [the founder of Essiac Tea] impressive results spread to the United States, a leading diagnostician in Chicago introduced her to Dr. John Wolfer, director of the tumor clinic at Northwestern University Medical School. In 1937, Wolfer arranged for Rene to treat thirty terminal cancer patients under the direction of five doctors. Rene commuted across the border to Chicago, carrying her bottles of freshly prepared herbal brew. After supervising one and a half years of Essiac therapy, the Chicago doctors concluded that the herbal mixture prolonged life, shrank tumors, and relieved pain. "
Carrot Juice and Raw Food Diet
Vitamin A has been shown in studies to shrink the size of tumors. The best way to take Vitamin A is with carrot juice:
- "Yellow to Deep Orange (carotenoids [Beta-carotene is the most famous] are a huge family of over 600 "colors" that make Vitamin A and help to shrink tumors):" http://www.learningplaceonline.com/nutrition/food/ca-prevent/fruit-veg.htm
- Cancer growths and sores appear in practically every part of the body and take a long time to heal. Since the body creates these conditions, it is essential to eliminate the food which feeds their development. From his long experience, Dr. Earp-Thomas was fully convinced that when cooked food was eaten it permitted tumors and growths to build within the body. Yet when living food was substituted, these tumors and growths immediately began to shrink for lack of nourishment. The most thrilling experience I can recall was to see cancer cells taken from a human body and thriving on cooked food but unable to survive on that same food when it was uncooked." http://www.karlloren.com/diet/p66.htm
- There are numerous reports/claims that a diet consisting almost entirely of a diversity of vegetables can cause cancer tumors to shrink or even vanish. If these reports are correct, they make sense in the context of the theory that is presented here. I am postulating anaerobic metabolism and thus cancer can be caused by the blockage of the aerobic process at any point in the Kreb's cycle or the respiratory chain. There are numerous chemical steps that are involved in sequence and if any of them is blocked you have the potential of arresting the entire aerobic process. Each of these steps are catalyzed by specific enzymes and regulated by other enzymes. If any of these are missing, aerobic metabolism could stop." http://www.krysalis.net/cancer.htm
Ellagic Acid
- Multiple studies have discovered that phytonutrients found in raspberries can protect us from cancer and can even shrink some types of cancer tumors. These substances can also act as an antibacterial and as an antiviral agent. Does this sound too good to be true? One particular substance found in this natural "medicine chest", is a series of compounds called ellagitannins. The highest levels are found in raspberries, but the ellagitannins are also in certain types of grapes, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries and some nuts too. Recent work (2001), published by Dr. Gary Stoner at Ohio State University, showed that components in the seeds and berry, but particularly ellagitannins, inhibited the initiation and promotion/progression stages of esophageal cancer. This is an extremely important finding, considering the potential benefits." http://www.smdi.org/new_page_3.htm
The studies below were compiled by Susan Thorpe-Vargas Ph.D. and represent a summation of EA's known medical properties:
- EA is an anticancer agent - it protects DNA from mutation.
- EA shrinks tumors within 72 hours if the cancer is not caused by a mutation in the p53 or WAF 1/p21 genes.
- EA is a natural phenolic antioxidant.
- EA exerts actions that are both anti-bacterial and an anti-viral. EA appears to inhibit liver fibrosis.
- EA is cardioprotective and may prove useful in the treatment of myocarditis." http://health.centreforce.com/health/ellagic.html
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)
- In one breast cancer study, women were given 390 mgs per day in divided doses along with supplements. The result was that tumours shrank. A maintenance dose of 100 mgs was considered adequate." http://www.fightingcancer.com/supplements.htm
Actually, the recommended dose of CoQ10 is at least 390 mgs.
- Studies conducted in Europe using high-dose CoQ10 supplements showed significant regression of breast and prostate tumors. http://www.icon.co.za/~edibo/newp.htm
Aloe Vera
- "Michael Arrington was diagnosed with liver cancer. Doctors found 17 tumors on his liver. One was the size of a baseball. Doctors gave the cancer victim 4 to 21 days to live. Six months after Mr. Arrington began taking only Aloe Vera as a supplement, Doctors examining the patient's X-rays could not find [any] trace of the tumors." http://stopcancer.com
Aloe Vera is another one of those natural plants that is very difficult to process correctly to maintain its cancer-fighting properties. The FDA shut down one of the top aloe vera manufacturers because they had a 94% cure rate on terminal cancers.
High Dose Vitamin C
- Basically, the vitamin C is transported to the lungs in the blood where it is oxidized. It then is transported to the cells where it diffuses to the mitochondria and delivers its oxidation potential, powering the respiratory chain, and cycle repeats. It should be noted that there have been many reports where mega doses of vitamin C have been attributed to causing the shrinking of cancer tumors." http://www.krysalis.net/cancer.htm (also used above)
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