Death by Chemo Strikes Again

The stories are heartbreaking and maddening, and they occur all-too-frequently.  Every week I hear or read about another cancer patient who died even though they went through all the chemotherapy treatments handed out to them.  There were two more this week, and my circles aren't very big.  One was a very young man, one an elderly woman, but the results were the same.  Both died--of cancer, or, more likely, of the cancer treatments that ravaged their bodies. 

It makes me want to simultaneously cry and scream.  Cry due to the suffering and loss of another precious life, and scream, "You didn't have to suffer like that!"  Fellow cancer patients, I beg you to start advocating for yourself, doing your homework, and stop believing that surgery, chemo, radiation, and drugs are your best and/or only options!

CHEMO CAUSES MORE CANCER.  RADIATION CAUSES MORE CANCER.  These are not opinions, they are facts.  Both treatments, although able to kill existing cancer cells, cause mutations in healthy cells which turn those healthy cells into cancer cells.  I personally know and have heard--and I know you have, too--of countless cancer patients who go through the prescribed radiation and chemo treatments and achieve a state of "no evidence of cancer" for a period of time (too often only a matter of months), but inevitably the cancer returns, it has spread, and it is stronger.  Next step:  more chemo--stronger and more toxic.  And the cycle repeats.  But there are also so many cases in which the cancer never goes into remission at all--it keeps growing and spreading, and the only alternatives are different, stronger, more toxic chemo medicines.  Eventually, when there are no more chemotherapies left to try, the patient (whose body has been ravaged and has little to no strength left to fight) is told that death is inevitable.  This cycle is a direct result of the chemotherapy that is supposed to "cure" the cancer.  The problem is that the medical industry has no other options to offer. 

Incidences of cancer and cancer deaths are not going down, they are going up.  If chemo and radiation are so effective against cancer, why do people keep dying?   I want to offer you HOPE:  there are alternatives that are more effective against cancer while actually promoting overall health instead of destroying it.  You don't have to settle for the failed status quo!