End Fatigue

Cancer

BACKGROUND

There are many helpful natural treatments that your physician may not know about. There is also a good amount of nonsense out there. Although too broad an issue to cover fully in this section, here is some information that could save your life.

Although most oncologists are very well-meaning and caring individuals, chemotherapy and radiation therapy is an extremely profitable area. This makes it easy to simply go to conferences and see what the esteemed (and usually on the drug company payroll) professors are saying, promoting the newest and usually most expensive chemotherapy agents. The oncologists are assured that the treatment helps the patients, and it is profitable for the physician, so why question it. Meanwhile, it is implied that anyone proposing a natural (and therefore competing) treatment for cancer must simply be trying to "rip off desperate and vulnerable patients" and therefore physicians must protect the gullible public from these charlatans. This convenient belief system allows the medical establishment to self righteously insure that the public does not have ready access to alternative cancer therapies. Sadly, this protects the cancer industry's profits at your expense.

This is not to say that one should not take chemotherapy or radiation therapy for cancer. In many cases, these can be life saving, and these treatments along with natural therapies should be followed. In some cases, however, these treatments offer minimal benefit at the cost of enormous toxicity and expense, and in other cases (such as blocking testosterone in early prostate cancer patients) actually may offer the patient no benefit despite causing marked toxicity.

It is hard to know what to do when your oncologist (and most are incredibly caring and well meaning) criticizes taking natural therapies while your natural doctor says it's the chemo that's killing you. The good news is that there is really little or no conflict between natural and medical cancer treatments — just between the people offering them. The premise of "Comprehensive Medicine," which is to use the best of natural and prescription therapies, applies brilliantly in treating cancer.

TREATMENT

There are a very large number of natural cancer therapies that have been proven through research to help. Though this would make a good book in itself, what follows here is a guide on how to create a treatment program tailored to your case.

Knowledge is power, and an informed patient, given expert guidance, usually does well. Because of this, cancer patients should get a medical report on their specific type and stage of cancer from The Health Resource, Inc. It costs about $500 (specific cost determined by the complexity of the case), but if one has cancer it is very worthwhile. You'll receive a detailed report (free of any financial bias toward either the natural or standard medicine side) of the actual studies and review articles for both the natural and chemo/radiation/surgical options. Though these are research studies written in "medicalese," the study abstracts/summaries will give you a good sense of just how effective (or ineffective and toxic) different treatment options are, so you can make an informed choice.

To help you interpret the report and guide you on creating an optimized treatment program, you should work by phone with a health consultant who can help you interpret and make sense of these studies, and guide you in general. Though he is not a physician, Rev. Bren Jacobson is available and very capable in providing help with this. He is extraordinarily smart and knowledgeable, is very comfortable working with the technical research, and has a wonderful knack for identifying what's helpful vs. nonsense and sales hype (he can be reached by phone at 443-949-0409; he charges $95/hour, which is a real bargain given his expertise in sorting through the research on both standard and natural therapies).

Most cancers will have research on natural treatments that are very promising. These include breast, prostate, and colon cancers. In addition, cancer pain is very treatable. There is hope. You can take back control of your life — even if you have cancer!

Related Information

Cancer Treatment — An Overview

The Health Resource, Inc. (medical reports)