What defines an alternative cancer therapy?

"Alternative cancer therapy" is a broad term that covers many different therapeutic approaches. In the U.S., the term refers to any cancer treatment that is not approved by the FDA.

Why Use Alternative (or Natural) Therapies?

Protecting ourselves from what we don't know can harm us sometimes requires a leap of faith into self-reliance. When authority figures and institutions fail us, when the resulting scenarios challenge our ability to cope, we have five thousand years of ancient wisdom about food and medicine to fall back upon.

People who administer, promote, or educate others on alternative cancer therapies don't make the big bucks.  They don't charge outrageous amounts of money and pump your body full of poison, limit your options to those which poison you, bankrupt you, and only guarantee you a few additional months to a few years of life.  No, that's what mainstream medicine does! 

Those of us who try to introduce you to alternative methods of dealing with your cancer, do so because we care.  Because we see an injustice being served on the American people, and even worse, on those who are already suffering so terribly in many cases.  We see the doctors and government organizations stripping people of their hope and faith and ultimately of their lives, filling their heads with lies and covering up the existence of treatments that work, failing to mention steps for prevention, ignoring the impact of the obvious nutrient deficiencies which may have led to their disease in the first place.. WE SIMPLY WANT TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING!!  We are trying to inform people of ways that are proven more effective at beating cancer than those that mainstream offer, methods which address the root of the problem, and heal the body without harming it. 

Sure, there are cases where alternative therapies may not work for someone, often because by the time the person gives them a chance, their bodies are already severely damaged from chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery.  Some patients wait too long.  Some patients are so severely malnourished once they attempt alternative therapies that they don't have the strength.  But this is not necessarily true in most cases.  We hope that by our efforts to get this information out to the public, we can help people act before its too late for them. If you are reading this right now, you have a chance.  And even if it is your loved one who has cancer, they too have a chance to survive this!! 

Alternative cancer treatments have a very high success rate compared to traditional therapies.  We do not have exact figures and percentages to give you on these successes.  Partly because we have to be very careful when offering such information or the FDA (who will be watching our every move) will put an end to our to trying to help people at the first chance they get.  But there is no reason for us to falsely mislead people into thinking that alternative treatments can help them.  We are a non-profit group, made up of honest individuals who care about our fellow people. Some of us have experienced cancer first-hand either through loved ones or our own illness.  We have used the therapies and methods we recommend.  We know that they can work miraculously.  We have seen it with our own eyes!  We have studied the science.  We understand human health, the functioning of the human body, how cancer works, and how these natural methods are able to rid the body of cancer.  We are avid nutrition researchers.  We know that nutrition plays a huge role in human health, and an even larger role in overcoming cancer! 

The statistics on the following page are not meant to discourage.  They are here to save people from making a horrible mistake that may cost them their livelihood, and even their life!  Alternative cancer treatments work. Not every method works for every person.  But for every person and every type of cancer, there IS a natural therapy that will help them.  Nutrition is of utmost importance in EVERY case! Along with detoxification. Download the free ebook on our site. It contains valuable information. Meanwhile, here's a curveball to the straight and narrow mindset of society: Try this -- think of the body as an automobile.  Your car needs gas, oil, effective cooling system, spark, battery, etc. in order for it to take you places. If you don't provide it with these required things, it doesn't take you anywhere, does it?

Your body is much like your car, in a sense, but on a much more complex scale, with many more intricate systems of balance and interdependent functions, required materials (nutrients), and a much more advanced built-in system of self-reliance. However, being more advanced and more intricate add much more importance to all of the required elements that makes it run efficiently.  Your body was built for nutrition!  If you don't provide it with this core necessity, you're not going to get anywhere!  The mainstream foods offered to the public these days are ridiculous excuses for nourishment.  They are mostly designed for "convenience" and "profit," and very few address the core purpose of eating in the first place -- nutrition.  Even the food brands that do acknowledge the need for nutrients, don't usually provide them.  Instead, they are manufactured with minute amounts of processed, synthetic, thus worthless "nutrients."

But now that your eyes are open, don't do the socially-acceptable thing, don't follow your socially-programmed reaction -- DON'T IGNORE THIS LIFE-ALTERING FACT -- THAT THE FOOD YOU EAT is not making you stronger, healthier, & live longer -- like you have chosen to believe it is!  Instead of ignoring this information -- use it to CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Look at the food you eat, read the labels, do you know what all those ingredients even are? Can you pronounce most of them? I certainly can't. What nutrients are actually in this food item? Are they real nutrients, or are they synthetic chemicals?

Afterall, that is what your body needs right? That is the purpose of putting this object in your mouth and chewing it up and swallowing it, right? For the individual nutrients, the vitamins, minerals, amino acids, protein, enzymes, fats, etc.  Is the food on your plate going to provide these things for your body? If not, what will this food provide your body?  If it's some kind of synthetic, highly processed, chemical-laden, genetically-engineered, sorry excuse for a nutritive food, then what it truly is -- is POISON.  The food manufacturers know this!  They're not oblivious and unaware!!  They're greedy machines who lack moral fiber, who have strayed far, FAR from any speck of compassion, truth, or ethical standards.  They are programmed with lies. They are not your friends.  They do not care about you.  Otherwise how could they continually put food on your plate that poisons you, makes you sick & weak, lowers your brain function, and injures your children just the same? How could they do this if they cared about you?  And the same goes for the pharmaceutical giants, and the doctors and drug promoters who convince people that they NEED this drug, that it "will make them WELL, that it's a big breakthrough and everybody's using it and feeling great, having sex all night, dreaming of butterflies, running marathons!!!  You'll be happy and walking around like a bunch of bent copper pipes in a field of daisies if you take our drug!  Although you might experience: lying awake all night every night, (but we have another drug for that!), pee-ing on yourself in line at the grocery store (but alas, we've got even another drug for that too! Aren't we grand?)  And of course there's a potential risk of death, but then we don't have to worry about you cause you're not our liability anymore once your dead." 

These drugs mask the symptoms you experience.  For example, if your blood pressure is high and as a result you're retaining water, the drug is a chemical concoction designed to adversely affect the water retention, not treat the root cause of the high blood pressure. That's still wreaking havoc (you just don't notice right away.)  If your joints are stiff, there's a drug to make you not feel the pain or difficulty in movement.  It often does this by intercepting the built-in messages your body is sending to your brain to tell your brain "Hey something's wrong here! We've got a problem that needs your attention."  By taking drugs, the problem isn't solved -- it is escalated, because the warning signal is blatently ignored, and eventually all heck breaks loose! 

The point here is not that all doctors are bad. There are plenty of good ones in this world.  And I do believe a large percentage of them became a doctor with the best of intentions. Many of which retire or change occupations once they realize they cannot work around the beauracratic red tape; once they can no longer ignore the harm done by the corruption of the system that governs the way medicine is performed in the U.S.  The Hippocratic Oath of the Physician is to: First, do no harm.  This is the promise they make when they become a doctor. Now how the heck can they take this oath and then turn around and tell people "Your only options are to either come in once a week and let us inject poisons into your bloodstream, or let us fry you like a chicken."  

The point here is:  THERE ARE BETTER OPTIONS AVAILABLE!!! On, the next page are just a few statistics of traditional cancer therapies used in mainstream medicine.  They may discourage you, but let them discourage you only from putting yourself through these ridiculous "treatment options."  Go to bed tonight horrified if you want.  And then tomorrow come back to our website, and educate yourself on the many natural, logical, painless options.  Download the ebook and read it.  Then do further research elsewhere. Review our Cancer Book List and get some books for your research. (They're not expensive and they are very helpful if you actually make it a point to look at them.) If you do, you will find that many more people than you ever imagined have successfully used alternative methods to overcome cancer.  You don't have to be a scientist to grasp some of the simple, common-sense ways in which these treatments effectively help you beat cancer.  So, please educate yourself. That may be the first step in saving your life!  Also, visit our forum, interact with people there who have used these methods, ask questions, people will respond, don't be afraid of the knowledge that could save your life, only be afraid of never giving it a chance. Our forum was just recently launched, but we expect it to grow very quickly.  You're invited to be the first to post on any topic you choose.  

Dealing with all of this by yourself makes it harder on you.  If you have family and friends who love you, don't push them away.  Don't shut them out.  Learn to express your feelings to them.  Even if you never have before.  Trust them.  Talk to them.  Cry with them.  Share your concerns with them, maybe they can help you figure out what is best for you.  But in the end -- it will be YOUR decision, follow your heart, don't let anyone railroad you one way or the other.  If they try to do this, distance yourself from them.  Maybe they mean no harm, either way, you need to make your own decisions with this. You need to understand your condition, your options, and whatever treatment you choose, you should try to understand what it is all about.

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." (John Wayne)

The Role of Nutrition in Cancer

92% of Americans get less than 75% RDA for all essential nutrients.
(The US RDA amounts are usually too low already.)

In 1998, The Council for Responsible Nutrition reported that the U.S. health-care system could save $10 billion a year on cancer costs if Americans would consume recommended levels of vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta-carotene.

According to Cornell leading-professor, T. Colin Campbell: "A whole-foods plant-based diet may be an incredibly effective anti-cancer medicine." It is true that a single food contains hundreds or thousands of chemicals, that make up each bite's pharmacological activity. Organic whole foods provide the body with a synergistic array of useful, active compounds that keep things running smoothly. Processed, fake, and chemical-laden foods cause the body to malfunction -- our defense system weakens, and the whole body system eventually ends up in a state of distress.
(Ref 2) 

The Money Factor in Modern Medicine

Medicare & insurance will pay $3,000 per day for a cancer patient in intensive care, but neither will pay for nutritional supplements.

19 million Americans have been diagnosed with depression & treated with pharmaceutical drugs. This is an increase of 300% since World War II.

For 30 years, James Duke was a botanist for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and chief of the USDA Medicinal Plant Laboratory. He ranks as one of the world's leading authorities on botanical medicine. He said "I've personally seen medicinal plants successfully treat conditions that high-tech pharmaceutical [drugs] could not touch... I've also used many of these medicinal remedies myself." (Ref 2)

The December 2005 issue of the New York Times reported: "Among cancer drugs gaining FDA approval over the last 20 years, 'fewer than 1 in 5 have been shown to extend lives, life extensions usually measured in weeks or months, not years... Patients who take the high-tech drugs has to spend, on average, $250,000, suffer serious side effects, and gain, on average, months of life.'"

In 1998, a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that 106,000 people die each year in American hospitals from the side effects of prescription medications. (That was 10 years ago, the numbers are even higher now.)

In 2002, the combined profits of the ten largest U.S. drug companies reached $35.9 billion, a sum higher than the combined profits for all the other 490 corporations on the Fortune 500 list of largest corporations.

Of the 78 "new" drugs approved by the FDA in 2002, only 17 contain new active molecular ingredients, and only 7 of these, according to the FDA, are actually improvements over older drugs already on the market.

In 2005 the journal Health Affairs reported that about half of all personal bankruptcies that occur each year in the U.S. are due to medical bills. An estimated 2 million people experience bankruptcy due to catastrophic illness. (Ref 2)

FACT: In 2005, cancer surpassed heart disease to become the #1 killer in America.

• Over 1.4 million new cases diagnosed every year,
• Plus 1 million cases of outpatient-treated skin cancer.
• In 2005, 4 million Americans were undergoing cancer treatment,
• Plus 4 million "in remission."
• 42% of Americans can expect to develop cancer in their lifetime.
• Today, 24% of Americans die from cancer -- a sharp contrast to 3% in 1900.
• Over 40% of those deaths will likely be from malnutrition, not the cancer itself.

Annually, in America, there are:

• 50-million cancer-related visits to the doctor
• 1 million cancer operations
• 750,000 radiation treatments

In 1971, President Richard Nixon launched the "war on cancer,"
proclaiming a cure would be found within 5 years. Nearly 4 decades later, and:

• More than $50 billion spent on research,
• $1 Trillion spent on therapy,
• More than 7 million "casualties,"

Survival Rate Statistics

• Surgery and radiation together in bladder cancer: 5-year survival rate = 27%.
• Radiation therapy in mouth cancer -- 5-year survival rate. = 20%.

If the results from traditional therapies were encouraging, then there would be no need for alternative therapies against cancer. Unfortunately, this is not the case. And in many instances, the treatment is worse than the disease.

Common side effects of traditional treatments (Chemo & Radiation)

• Chronic nausea, vomiting, hair loss, painful mouth sores, extreme fatigue, and depression as common side effects, and minimal improvements on lifespan.
• Long-term complications: toxicity to the heart, kidneys, bone marrow.
• While many children may recover from cancer, they are placed at much higher risk for getting cancer later in life from their cancer therapy.
• And if the cancer patient does recover from the disease, then recovering from the therapy may be even more challenging.

Why Do People Continue to Use Traditional Methods?

• Surgery is the first treatment of choice for about 67% of cancer patients.
• Radiation is given to about 60% of cancer patients.
• Chemotherapy (a spin-off from chemical warfare used in World War I & II)
  is now given to over 75% of all American cancer patients.

References

¹ Quillin, Patrick PhD, RD, CNS. Beating Cancer with Nutrition. NY Times Press. 2005.

² Fitzgerald, Randall. The Hundred-Year Lie. Penquin Books. 2006.