cancer treatment: the alternatives

Coming across this article Black Listed Cancer Treatment Could Save Your Life prompted me to dig up and update some old bookmarks. 

 

The field of alternative therapies and cures is an interesting one that has polarized pro and con adherents into fanatically opposed camps.

 

I became seriously interested in the topic a decade ago after meeting an Austrian post-graduate student specializing in altertnative medicine studies. He raised some interesting points - the first one being that the majority of officially certified doctors could not name a single book on alternative healing when asked. From studies he conducted in hospitals in Austria and Poland he found that, in the case of diseases for which vaccines had been developed, patients were equally divided percentage-wise among those who had and had not been immunized.

 

He lent me the book 'A Time to Heal: Triumph Over Cancer - The Therapy of the Future' by Beata Bishop. It was a book that had a profound effect on me and introduced me to the concepts of the Gerson method for treating cancer. I highly recommend it. (The book is available for purchase here, and,no, I am not affiliated with the seller nor do I earn commission on its sale). It is interesting to note that a few years ago, the website for the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, Austin, cited below contained much more detailed information on alternative cures than at present. Back them, nearly a decade ago, it reported that the Gerson method had a higher survival rate for melanoma than mainstream allopathic medicine.

 

The need for more research in alternative cures cannot be overstated. Even the Quackwatch site concedes as much. For example, it would be good to settle once and for all a reports of a potentially lethal glitch concerning the coffee enemas used in the Gerson method. The problem allegedly arose in people with too many accumulated toxins in their systems whose livers went into shock from too-rapid detoxification. In years of reading about this method I was to find the use of coffeee enemas to be an on-again, off-again proposition.

 

In any case, here are some links for further reading on alternative therapies for cancer:

 

Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Complementary/Integrative Medicine Resources

http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/CIMER/

 

BC Cancer Agency - Uncomventional Therapies

http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/HPI/UnconventionalTherapies/default.htm

 

Alternative Cancer Treatments Information Center

http://www.cancertutor.com/index.html

 

Natural Cancer Therapies

http://www.med-library.net/content/view/61/40/

 

CureZone

http://www.curezone.com/diseases/cancer/

 

Ralph Moss

http://www.ralphmoss.com/

 

 

Also check out:

 

Time for a fresh look at complementary medicine

Edward Baldwin, member of House of Lords

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1126193

 

Effective non-toxic treatments for cancer are available – if you leave North America

http://starthealthylife.com/page294.htm

 

Dr. Moerman's Anti-Cancer Diet

http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Moerman.html

 

Shirley's Wellness Cafe

Alternative and Self-Help Cancer Therapy Programs For People and Animals

http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/cancer.htm

 

Alternative Cancer Therapies FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Non-Harmful (Natural) Cancer Therapies and Treatments (NCT) FAQ

http://www.curezone.org/diseases/cancer/faq.htm

 

News Target: Alternative Medicine

http://www.newstarget.com/alternative_medicine.html

 

The History Of Quackery

http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/quackery.htm

 

Quackwatch

http://www.quackwatch.com/index.html

 

An FDA Guide to Choosing Medical Treatments

http://www.fda.gov/oashi/aids/fdaguide.html

Anti-Slavery Award for US Workers Group

From US site of OneWorld.net:

 

Anti-Slavery International

Anti-Slavery Award Winner 2007- The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Anti-Slavery International is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2007 Anti-Slavery Award is the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) for their exceptional contribution towards tackling modern-day slavery in the United States agricultural industry. The CIW is a worker-led community organisation based in Florida, which works with Mexican and Central American migrant workers trafficked into forced labour. They uncover and investigate cases of slavery whilst raising awareness of forced labour practises amongst the migrant farm worker community. Their determined efforts have resulted in the prosecution of six slavery cases in the past decade and the liberation of over a thousand workers held in debt bondage. The CIW also seeks to prevent forced labour within the industry and has successfully campaigned for corporate buyers to take responsibility for the conditions in their supply chain, leading to historic agreements with the largest fast-food corporations in the world. Anti-Slavery International instituted the Anti-Slavery Award in 1991 to draw attention to the continuing problem of slavery in the world today and to recognise the long-term, courageous campaigning by organisations or individuals in the countries affected. The Award offers the CIW a chance to gain international recognition for their work and to highlight the existence of slavery in developed countries in the year that we are commemorating 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. The Award ceremony will take place on Wednesday 21 November 2007 at 7.30pm Trades Union Congress Congress House Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road Everyone is welcome but attendance must be registered by calling +44 (0)20 7501 8936 or emailing g.wolfes@antislavery.org More information is available at www.antislavery.org www.antislavery.org/ (registered charity 1049160)

 

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weight gain partly attributed to toxic chemicals

" ... Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton suggests the root cause of all weight gain is directly related to our own natural weight control system being overloaded and poisoned with toxic chemicals that we encounter through our skin care, food, cleaning products and general environment. In her book, The Detox Diet –Eliminate Chemical Calories and Enhance Your Natural Slimming System, Dr Baillie-Hamilton explores the link between the current fat epidemic and toxic synthetic chemicals.

Toxic synthetic chemicals are highly fat soluble therefore when the body is exposed to these substances it then gets busy creating fat tissue as a storehouse for those toxins that cannot be processed and eliminated from the body.

A group of insecticides and herbicides used in the growing of food, cosmetic, and medicinal ingredients, known as Carbamates, are also used as growth promoters in battery-farm situations because they slow down the metabolic rate. So, the same synthetic chemicals used on our fruit and vegetables are used to fatten livestock! Carbamates are also used in medicine to promote weight gain in humans. ... "

 

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AIPAC espionage case court memorandum

Downloadable file in PDF format at http://www.myantiwar.org/view/134474.html

50th anniversary of the death of Wilhelm Reich

Finally, time for his archives to be opened.

 

Spotted by Dan Clore:

 

50 years after his death, supporters promote scientist's work

The 50th anniversary of his death is being marked by a major exhibition
on Reich and his work that opens Nov. 15 at the Jewish Museum in Vienna,
the city where he attended medical school, began his psychiatric
practice and studied under Sigmund Freud.

In New Jersey, the American College of Orgonomy, which provides training
and research support for physicians and others interested in Reich and
his legacy, scheduled a conference and dinner to coincide with the
anniversary.

Also this month, archives comprised of nearly 300 boxes of Reich's
unpublished papers that were placed in storage at the Countway Library
at Harvard Medical School will become available to researchers for the
first time.
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American College Of Orgonomy To Commemorate 50th Anniversary Of The
Death Of Wilhelm Reich

 

Press Release Summary: Reich -- A Man Of Vision Before His Time; Only
Victim of Book
Burning In The United States
Reich’s Influence Has Dedicated Worldwide Following
Conference Will Feature Keynote On “The Decline and Fall of Modern
Psychiatry”

 

[ ... ]

Additional information on the conference and the American
College of Orgonomy may be obtained at
http://www.orgonomy.org

 

Reich Museum:
http://www.wilhelmreichmuseum.org

American College of Orgonomy:
http://orgonomy.org

Nietzsche, Class Racism and the Fantasies of Europe

http://conjunctural.blogspot.com/2007/10/nietzsche-class-racism-and-fantasies-of.html

PEN to Senate: 'insist on a clear, unequivocal renunciation of the use of torture'

October 31, 2007: Letter to Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee

 

Dear Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee,

We are writing on behalf of the 3,400 members of PEN American Center, and on behalf of our literary and journalistic colleagues around the world—many of whom practice their professions shadowed by regimes that routinely violate international prohibitions against torture—to implore you to insist on a clear, unequivocal renunciation of the use of torture and cruel and inhumane treatment by the United States as a precondition to the confirmation of Michael B. Mukasey to serve as attorney general of the United States.

Like many other human rights organizations, we are extremely disturbed by Judge Mukasey’s failure to acknowledge that waterboarding is a form of torture and by his apparent endorsement of the administration’s position that the President can authorize individuals to violate domestic and international laws, including prohibitions against torture and cruel and inhumane punishment. While the legal precariousness of these positions should be all too evident, we would remind the Committee that the international prohibition against torture in particular is a peremptory, jus cogens norm that cannot be abrogated under any circumstances.

That the United States has in fact abrogated that norm is now graphically and inarguably clear to the world. It will only further damage our international standing to endorse the appointment of Judge Mukasey or anyone else who fails to call torture by its name, renounce the mistreatment of detainees, or reject the legal arguments by which the Administration has sought, impermissibly, to justify these well-documented violations.

It will also undermine the efforts of—and in some cases even directly imperil—colleagues of ours who are struggling to end the scourge of torture and cruel and inhumane treatment in their countries. At PEN, we have seen increasing evidence that the behavior of the United States is posing new dangers for human rights champions around the world. In Tunisia, for example, lawyer and human rights activist Mohammed Abbou was arrested on March 1, 2005 for publishing an article comparing the torture inflicted routinely on prisoners in Tunisia to abuses carried out by U.S. soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for “having published information that would disturb public order” and for “insulting the judiciary” and served fourteen months before international pressure led to his release this past summer.

Congress, which ratified the Convention Against Torture, has not done enough to end the abuse of detainees and eliminate the ambiguity in current U.S. policies on torture and cruel and inhumane treatment, and it further clouded the issue by including a wholly unjustifiable immunity provision in the Military Commissions Act last year. The attorney general confirmation process offers an important opportunity to make our country’s position clear. It is right to demand that Judge Mukasey clarify his remarks, and it is imperative that the Senate approve his nomination only if he rejects the Administration’s embrace of abusive practices and its flawed and dangerous legal rationales.

Sincerely,

Francine Prose
President
PEN American Center

Larry Siems
Director of Freedom to Write and International Programs
PEN American Center

 

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Sending his cancer a signal

John Kanzius, sorely weakened by leukemia treatments, drew on his lifetime of working with radio waves to devise a machine that targets cancer cells. The miracle: It works.

 

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