Kids shouldn’t be forced on Chemo!
According to news wire services and articles such as appeared at CTV.ca ‘Quebec refuses to force chemo on 3-year-old boy’; this is a welcome occurrence.
Too frequently parents are forced to turn their children over to so-called medical experts to pump chemotherapy poisons into their children that are of questionable value. The studies have not been properly done. So, for experts to say parents are threatening their children’s lives by withholding life-saving pharmaceuticals is without basis in fact.
As I wrote in a previous post (dated April 20, 2007) titled: ‘Cytotoxic Chemotherapy Cancer Clinker – Part 7′- “What we can see from Conventional Medicines own words is that Conventional Cytotoxic Chemotherapy Cancer treatment is a Clinker of ‘inferior quality’ that has FAILED.”
This was based on quotes from medical journals such as the British Journal of Cancer- ” “showed no advantage of conventional chemotherapy over no treatment.”
The Journal of the American Medical Association, for most types of cancer, the chances of surviving more than five years in 1995 was not much better than in 1950:
“…our analysis shows that changes in 5-year survival over time bear little relationship to changes in cancer mortality [death].”
“The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant [supplemental] cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA.” Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)
Interestingly in e-mail comments to the above website many people emotionally attacked the parents of this child holding up medicine as a sacred cow, some going so far as to say that chemo should be forced on the child who’s parents were irresponsible by resorting to a raw juice diet. Unfortunately when individuals who are uninformed they resort to ‘perception is reality’, however in the case of cancer treatments people have been sold a bill of goods.
As the U.S. Federal Government General Accounting Office report- “For the majority of the cancers we examined, the actual improvements (in survival) have been small or have been overestimated by the published rates…It is difficult to find that there has been much progress…(For breast cancer), there is a slight improvement…(which) is considerably less than reported.”
Some accused the people who suggest trying alternative approaches as selling ’snake oil’. If they honestly examine the actual data they will see that chemo is ’snake oil’ for 85% of cancers. However, it is effective in 15% of cancers, and that is where it should be used.
In countries such as Germany where they combine herbs and low dose chemo they get excellent results. Pioneering physicians who use herbs, nutrition and diet get good results for some types of cancer, however, the big motive in chemo isn’t as altruistic as you might think but really profit driven.
In my post (dated March 19, 2007) titled: Big Pharma’s ‘Big Bucks Control Medicine - Part 6,’ I discuss what one retired detective found out about the Cancer Industry- “I learned that making money, not finding cures, is what conventional medicine is interested in.”
To really learn what alternatives there are to harsh chemicals you should check the informative and well researched book about complementary cancer care- Choices in Healing by Michael Lerner. Also definitely visit the website of Dr. Ralph Moss.
As the CTV.ca article stated- “Arthur Schafer, an ethics professor at the University of Manitoba, said the court ruled against the medical staff at the hospital because the boy’s condition, which is currently not life threatening, is not an emergency situation.
“The chemo is toxic, it’s highly aggressive treatment,” Schafer told CTV’s Canada AM on Friday. “It may be that the child is likely not to survive anyway, it may be that there’s time to survive and that the chemo doesn’t have to be given now.”
Schafer said that if the doctors had testified that it was a medical emergency, the province probably would have intervened.
“There’s a heavy burden of proof on the state if you’re going to interfere on the judgments of a loving family about their own young child,” he said. “You better have good medical evidence and my supposition is that we haven’t seen that evidence yet.”
All parents in the same situation should not be intimidated by the medical authorities but should ask to see the ’scientific studies’ to support their treatments. You’d be surprised by the lack of effectiveness for their caustic treatments that would support their case in a court of law.
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Dennis Cutforth is a researcher and writer with over 35 years experience in health-care sales, marketing and research in pharmaceuticals and natural health. Dennis will cut through all the propaganda and give you the real facts about what really works to make you healthier and happier. Visit his Blog at Better Life Blog.
