 According to recent estimates, people in North America and Western Europe currently have a 40-50% likelihood of getting cancer at some time in their lives, so it makes sense to know what your options are. My reason for writing Cancer Recovery Guide is to give you a quick run-through of the major strategies that are being followed in the area known as complementary or alternative medicine; in the case of cancer, I believe these strategies to be far superior to the orthodox strategies (surgery, radiation and chemotherapy). This is not because I'm opposed to western medicine, which is far superior to any alternative when it comes to dealing with physical trauma, for example. But it has not proven successful against cancer. The fact that there are so many alternative approaches out there is a clear demonstration that there is a big problem with the orthodox approach. If doctors could cure cancer there would be no need for this over-abundance of alternative approaches. And as this book will make clear, many of these approaches make very good sense. Indeed you will read in the following pages a number of stories of people who used alternative methods to cure their cancers.
Many people equate, in a dismissive way, alternative medicine with, in the words of a friend of mine, 'New Age nonsense'. By this they mean that it is wishful thinking, that it has the savour of anti-scientific mysticism. This assumption needs to be quashed right from the start. All of the approaches described here in the Cancer Recovery Guide are based on solid science or observation or credible experience.
Embrace Hope
For many people the word cancer is entwined with the idea of death that the consequences seem inevitable. My job is to tell you very firmly that this needn't be the case. Cancer is a wake-up call, for sure. But that's all it is.
The problem with assuming the worst is that it can be self-fulfilling. If there's no cure for cancer, some people tell themselves, why bother doing anything? If there are cures, the doctors will tell us about them. If the doctors don't sanction a course of treatment, then that course of treatment must be unscientific and therefore worthless. This is the argument that many people use to comfort themselves to the grave. I find it very sad. Let's look at this argument point by point.
Let me say this emphatically: there are cures. Dozens of cures. In this book you will read about Puttie who used a particular herbal compound on her breast cancer and the cancer tumours bled out of her body over the next month. She is alive and cancer free today. Anne Frahm had only weeks to live when all treatments had failed to get rid of her terminal-stage cancer she had even undergone a bone marrow transplant. She changed her diet and only five weeks later she was free of all signs of cancer. She went on to live another ten years. Her story is told in the book Cancer Battle Plan.
Then there is Beata Bishop who in the early 1980s was found to have malignant melanoma, one of the fastest progressing and most intractable cancers known to man. She is alive today, 25 years later, and is cancer free all because she persevered with a diet that doctors to this day dismiss out of hand. These are real people. Beata Bishop wrote her story in her book My Triumph Over Cancer. Michael Gearin-Toshs book Living Proof [131310] tells the story of how he was diagnosed with a type of cancer that is generally considered incurable, how he refused all orthodox treatments and how he cured his cancer with a combination of diet and vitamin C therapy he was to die eleven years later but, and this is very important, he did not die of cancer!
I want to emphasize one point very clearly: Anne Frahm, Beata Bishop and Michael Gearin-Tosh were all diagnosed as terminal cancer cases before they turned to alternaive approaches. They cured themselves of terminal cancer, that is to say cancer that has spread itself widely throughout the body and which was, in each case, considered incurable by orthodox means. If they can do it, you can.
If there are cures, why haven't they been tested?
Cancer research is extremely expensive. Pharmaceutical companies directly or indirectly fund most research. It's obvious that pharmaceutical companies have no interest proving that some natural product or a diet can cure cancer. There are no profits to be made from any product that is not patented not the kind of profits that pharmaceutical companies want. They owe it to their shareholders to make profits by selling drugs. Indeed, like every other public corporation they are obliged to maximize profits and to oppose anything that will impact on those profits. (Read Joel Bakan's book The Corporation if you are in any doubt about this matter.) They are not particularly interested in cures; they are, however, very interested in profits. They are certainly not interested in unpatentable natural substances; they are only interested in patentable drugs.
This is possibly the best definition of the difference between the orthodox sector, on the one hand, and the alternatives on the other one depends on patented drugs while the other is based on unpatentable substances and therapies.
Turning to the 'independent' cancer research charities, we should ask why they are not funding research into areas that are not patentable. They certainly should be. The fact that they aren't is a scandal.
If there are cures why aren't doctors telling people about them?
There are a number of possible reasons which I explore in more depth in my book. Firstly, doctors are often heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical companies. Secondly, many mainstream doctors have little or no formal training in diet. Thirdly, doctors in some countries this applies particularly to the US can be struck off the medical register and their licence to practise can be taken away if they recommend diets or supplements to cancer patients.
This is a situation that reduces many otherwise sane people to paroxysms of purple fury. It is outrageous. But let's not get too focussed on the negatives. Let's look at the positives. The personal stories quoted in Cancer Recovery Guide establish beyond doubt that there are cures. There are ways of eliminating cancer and making sure it doesn't come back and this can be achieved without damaging the body.
From Cancer Recovery Guide, © 2008 by Jonathan Chamberlain, published by Clairview.
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