ORTHODOX TREATMENT OF CANCER
The first step in Orthodox, Allopathic Treatment is finding out the stage of the cancer. Staging tests show whether the disease has spread from its starting point to other parts of the body. Staging is very important because it helps the oncologist plan the approved treatment for a particular cancer at a specific stage. Orthodox Medicine is very rigid in its control of how cancer is treated. There are only three legal ways to treat cancer in the U.S. Surgery, Radiation and Chemotherapy. Carve it out, burn it up or poison it. Sometimes a combination of these methods is used.
Because cancer can spread rapidly and threaten life, the treatments used against this powerful disease must be very powerful. It is rarely possible to limit the effects of cancer treatment so that only cancer cells are destroyed. Normal, healthy cells usually are damaged at the same time. For this reason, cancer patients receiving traditional, Allopathic treatments must suffer through a myriad of unpleasant, and often very painful side-effects.
We have all read the statistics and heard the dreadful war-stories of the victims of the orthodox cancer treatments of Surgery, Radiation and Chemotherapy. The National Cancer Institute, itself, publishes that there has been no substantial improvement in cancer cures in the past several decades!
This is why more and more cancer patients are opting for the more conservative, less evasive, less painful and way less expensive Alternative, Wholistic Medicine path when choosing which therapies to use to treat this serious and debilitating disease. This is not as easy as you would think. Since the United States Government has seen fit to legislate that any cancer treatment used in the U.S.; other than the AMA sanctioned treatments of Surgery, Radiation and Chemotherapy; will be considered quackery, illegal and punishable as a felony, it is not that easy to find a credentialed M.D. to officially prescribe and, (perhaps more relevant), insurance companies to cover, the protocols recognized and used in the Wholistic Medicine Field.
Even though most of the prescribed Alternative Medicine vitamin, mineral and herbal substances grow naturally in the world, supplied to man by nature itself and have been practically researched all over the world for centuries, the nervous AMA/FDA Monopoly maintains they are not legitimate and scientific until thousands and sometimes millions of research dollars have been spent.
ORTHODOX CANCER TREATMENTS
There are three legal ways to treat Cancer in the United States:Surgery, Radiation and Chemotherapy, all of which have very serious side-effects.
SURGERY
The standard Allopathic treatment for most cancers is Surgery. The type of operation will depend mostly on the location and size of the tumor. During Surgery, the lymph nodes near the tumor are also removed.
One of the ways that cancer spreads through the body is by way of the lymph system. The surgeon removes the lymph nodes to check if cancer cells are present in the nodes. This information is important in planning future treatment.
The success rate of surgery is quite poor in cancer, primarily because the cancer has usually metastasized to distant locations and the surgery often spurs the growth of cancer in another area.
RADIATION
In Radiation therapy, also called X-ray therapy, Radiotherapy, Cobalt treatment or Irradiation, high-energy rays are used to stop the cancer cells from growing and multiplying. Radiation is sometimes used before Surgery to shrink the tumor. More often, it is used after Surgery to destroy any cancer cells that may remain and to relieve the pain.
Radiation therapy is given in hospitals, clinics or private offices. Most patients can have Radiation therapy as outpatients. Radiation is not a cure for cancer and is used as another treatment to assist in slowing down the cancer.
CHEMOTHERAPY
The use of drugs to treat cancer is called Chemotherapy. Such treatment is often used following Surgery or Radiation if there is reason to suspect that cancer cells remain in the body. Chemotherapy drugs may also be used when there are signs that the cancer has spread.
The various kinds of drugs used to treat cancer are given orally or by injection into a muscle, artery or vein. The drugs travel through the bloodstream to almost every area of the body.
Depending on which drugs are used, the patient may need to stay in the hospital for a few days so the effects of the drugs can be observed and the side-effects monitored. From then on, the patient may be given Chemotherapy as an outpatient or at home. Chemotherapy is most often given in cycles - a treatment period, followed by a rest period, then another treatment.
SIDE-EFFECTS OF ORTHODOX CANCER TREATMENTS
The most serious side-effects of the surgical removal of a cancer tumor are the problems that can occur following the surgery; for instance, blood loss during the operation. Other complications are caused by damage to and removal of tissue.
Radiation at high levels destroys the ability of cells to grow and divide. Both normal cells and cancer cells are affected, but for a period of time, most normal cells are able to recover quickly.
Radiation therapy is usually given 5 days a week for several weeks. This schedule attempts to protect healthy tissues by spreading out the total dose of radiation and by giving rest breaks enabling normal cells to recover. During Radiation therapy, the side-effects that patients experience most often are unusual tiredness, painful swallowing and skin reactions in the area being treated.
Chemotherapy affects not only cancer cells, but, also, other rapidly growing cells; such as, blood cells, hair cells and the cells that line the digestive tract. As a result, the Chemotherapy patient may have side-effects, such as; anemia, an increased risk of infection and bleeding, hair loss, nausea and vomiting.
Loss of appetite and fatigue almost always occur during treatment with Chemotherapy drugs. Loss of appetite can be a serious problem for a cancer patient, whose success depends on strengthening the body’s immune system. A cancer patient has to be able to ingest extra nutrients to rebuild and fortify his internal defense system. During Chemotherapy this can almost be impossible!
Researchers are learning that patients who eat well are better able to withstand the side-effects that can be expected with traditional, Allopathic cancer treatment. Therefore, nutrition is an important part of the treatment plan. Eating well means getting enough calories to prevent weight loss and having enough protein in the diet to build and repair skin, hair, muscles and organs. Many patients find that eating several small meals during the day is easier than eating three large meals.
Perhaps the most critical side-effect of Chemotherapy is the fact that after a certain amount of this cell poison, normal cells are so damaged that any more of the drugs would kill the patient. Doctors try to avoid these dangerously high dosages, but the amount that can be tolerated by one patient is not necessarily the amount another patient can tolerate.
Cancers usually develop a tolerance for the Chemotherapy drugs given and regardless of the amount used, they will no longer be effective. All in all, the statistics indicate that the recovery rate is the same in 1999 for diagnosed cancer as it was in 1950, so the probability that Chemotherapy is a successful treatment for cancer is certainly up for question.
More and more cancer patients are opting for conservative, non-invasive, non-threatening, non-painful, wholistic, alternative cancer control therapies; because the quality of life experienced by those who followed the Allopathic prescription of Surgery, Chemotherapy and Radiation is not satisfactory, by any stretch of the imagination!
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