Re: Boys family forced into chemo.
- From: Citizen Jimserac <Jimserac@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 05:13:09 -0700 (PDT)
On May 14, 6:20 pm, "Peter Moran" <pmo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Caesar J. B. Squitti" <squit...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:8f08902a-084a-4ae1-9fa5-010eea3c3025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boys family forced into chemo.
PM Because it offers the best chance of cure? This crops up regularly,
but only because childhood cancers are among the few cancers where
chemotherapy has quite a respectable cure rate, even after metastases have
occurred.
The rest of this material is superficial and misleading. It fails to
recognise that the vast majority of chemotherapy is used for cancers that
are well recognised to be rarely ever cured by chemotherapy alone. That is
not news to any informed person. But there can be other benefits, either
as palliation, prolonging life, or as an adjunct to other treatments.
There are certainly some cancers which are very unlikely to respond
significantly to chemotherapy and there will be argument as to whether such
patients should be offered what small chances there are. Response rates
are not wholly predictable.
PM
Historians of the future will look upon
chemotherapy in our era exactly as we
look askance at the bloodletting
and other primitive practices of
past eras.
OH, "chemotherapy" (polite name for poison) does
indeed kill cancer cells - problem is, it kills
other cells, including IMMUNE system cells.
In the closed minded little world of "scientific"
standard medicine, this is deemed a triumph
for modern medicine, and patients really
do survive (the lucky ones whose immune systems
recover fast enough).
But there is a word, a word SO frightening
to standard medicine that it has become
demonized, hysterically denounced, heaped
innuendo upon, lobbyists sent forth to
attack it, a word so terrifying to the
"scientists" (sic) that it is found necessary
to misrepresent research, lie, ridicule
with woo-woo, denounce as mere placebo
and/or discredit either the perfectly
well credentialed researchers (many of them
MD's and PhD') or their scientific journals...
What is this word so terrifying as to have caused
all this ruckus, this stampede of innuendo,
this hysterical dennunciation when supposed
scientists start acting in very unscientific
ways, start whining and jumping up and down
with temper tantrums like little
3 year old children...
The word is...
ALTERNATIVES.
Citizen Jimserac
.
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