Cancer Cure Now

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Introduction Every year, approximately 1.2 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer and 560,000 die of the disease. In America, 1 of every 2 men and 1 out of every 3 women will develop cancer in their lifetimes, and one quarter of all deaths are caused by this disease.

Cancer is the second largest cause of death in America after heart disease. Cancer is a very predictable disease : without effective treatment, it is almost invariably progressive. Since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared "war on cancer" in 1971, estimates suggest the United States has spent, if adjusted for inflation, about $200 billion dollars on cancer research.

According to the National Coalition For Cancer Research, approximately $107 billion dollars are spent on cancer health care costs annually.  Approximately 2/3 of cancer occurs in patients over 65, the demographic group covered by Medicare.

Due to the aging of the population, by 2010 cancer incidence is expected to increase 29% and mortality 25%, pushing annual costs over $200 billion. The Medicare program already faces serious financial shortfalls and will be unable to sustain effective patient care if cancer prevention and treatment options do not improve significantly over the current model.

While survival rates vary widely depending on the type of cancer, one fact stands out : the "war on cancer" waged by the medical establishment with the massive funds at its disposal is not making spectacular progress in increasing survival rates. In fact, since the 1970s, further improvement has been less than 5%

. The following quote from the website of the National Cancer Institute/National Institute of health sums it up best : "The overall 5-year relative survival rate for all cancer sites combined increased slightly from 49.3 percent in 1974-76 to 53.9 percent in 1983-90. Early data from 1960-63 and 1970-73 were not available for all races combined. Survival rates vary by primary site from less than 3 percent for cancer of the pancreas to more than 90 percent for cancer of the thyroid."

Not a great amount of progress for all that time and money, is it? Perhaps the reason for this is that the standard approach has remained basically unchanged since the cancer treatment industry was first established in the 1950s.

Surgeons find slightly better methods to cut out tumors, without realizing that these growths are just the manifestation of systemic disease. Radiation, which destroys surrounding tissue as well as cancer cells, is targeted in a slightly tighter area. Drug companies invent more variations of existing cytotoxic drugs and hormone blockers to stop further expansion of tumors.

However, the basic approach and understanding of the cause of cancer remains unchanged. Furthermore, those who question orthodox medical treatment are harassed and alternative avenues of research, such as the relationship between infection and cancer, receive little funding.

If the western medicine cancer industry actually worked, cancer would be cured by now. Cancer treatment in America has become a huge, lucrative, self-protective industry loathe to see its profits reduced, as would occur if inexpensive, natural treatments became widely available.

While some university hospitals are starting to conduct tests on natural methods of cancer treatment, there is a large element of the medical establishment that still actively suppresses alternative theories about cancer initiation and growth, and in some cases alternative practitioners have been hounded out of the country.

No-one in their right mind would advocate "long term management" of a case of pneumonia, and there is not an abundance of support groups to help patients cope with the sequelae of broken bones.

Such conditions are effectively treated, and the patients sent on their way cured! Yet this ludicrous scenario is accepted as normal in the case of cancer, and cancer patients are expected to put up with it unquestioningly.

The situation is reminiscent of the Victorian era, when tuberculosis was feared as the "white plague" or "consumption" and patients were sent off to sanatoriums in the countryside for months and sometimes years. There, they were subjected to drastic and ineffective treatments such as surgically-induced lung collapse (pneumothorax), and sometimes removal of ribs. Survival was often more a matter of luck than science.

No doubt the owners of these sanatoriums resented being put out of business by the advent of antibiotics. However, lacking lobby groups and the clout of the modern American medical-industrial complex, they were swept away by medical progress. Unfortunately, the cancer industry has grown powerful enough to defend itself against demands for change.

The current treatment of cancer seems to be defined by willful ignorance of both the root causes of the disease and any safe, humane treatments.

This is not due to active malice against cancer patients and alternative practitioners : it is simply the predictable end product of a profit-driven drug manufacturing system.

According to Philip Day, author of Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth, even the members of the establishment-sanctioned cancer industry no longer believe in its methods. In a survey of 79 oncologists from McGill University Cancer Center in Canada, 64 said they would not consent to treatment with Cisplatin, a common chemotherapy drug, while 58 oncologists said they would reject all the current trials being carried out by their establishment.

Why? "The ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and its unacceptable degree of toxicity."  This ebook is written for cancer patients who want to supplement the ineffective "cut, burn and poison" strategies that make up the bulk of conventional cancer treatment.

   The list of treatments offered in this ebook can be used by themselves or along side conventional treatments, though in some cases it is advisable to wait for a break in a chemotherapy schedule since chemotherapy can interfere with the action of substances designed to enhance the body's immune system.

Most of these treatment protocols are complementary, and cancer patients increase their odds of survival by using as many credible approaches as possible.  Some are traditional folk remedies from herbalists, others are entirely modern inventions.