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Natural Medicine and Cancer
Michael Lam, MD, MPH
www.DrLam.com
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Contents
The
War On Cancer - Who Is Winning
Cancer According To Natural Medicine
What Is The Success Rate
Integrating Natural and Conventional Therapy
Know Your Enemy
1. Mitochondria
2. Free Radicals
3. Matrix
4. Temperature Sensitive
5. Angiogenesis
6. Toxins
7. Internal Terrain
8. Immune
9. Hormones
10. Inflammation
Is Natural Medicine For Me
Step 1: Face the Reality
Step 2: Do Your Homework
Step 3: Make the Decision s
7 Steps to Beating Cancer Naturally
Step 1: Starving Cancer cell
Step 2: Oxygenate your body
Step 3: Avoid Malnutrition
Step 4: Use nutritional supplements
Step 5: Balance Your Internal terrain
Step 6: Balance your Toxin Load
Step 7: Balance Your Hormones
Addition Dietary and Lifestyle Modifications
General Cancer Nutraceutical Model
1. A good foundational formula
2. Interstitial matrix and collagen building
3. Take whole food nutritional supplementation
4. The following important anti-cancer nutrients
5. To boost immunity
6. Other Natural Therapies
Conclusion
The War On Cancer
- Who Is Winning?
 Over
the past 80 years, the war on cancer was fought with 3 tools: surgery (cut),
radiation therapy (burn), and chemotherapy (poison). Over the same period,
there had been rapid improvements in technology and medical science. As
such, one would expect medical treatments and success rates for cancer to
rise steadily. But has it? The answer is an emphatic "no".
Unfortunately, the overall cancer incidence has increased by 44% since
1950, with breast cancer and male colon cancer increasing by 60% and
prostate cancer increasing by 100%. Furthermore, 44% of Americans are expected
to develop cancer in the near future.
For many decades, the 5-year survival term has remained constant for
non-localized breast cancer at 18% and lung cancer at 13%. Overall, the
average cancer patient today has a 50% chance of living another 5 years,
which is exactly the same odds he or she had way back in 1971.
The war on cancer seems to be a dismal failure considering the 45 billion
dollars spent over the past few decades on cancer research. While the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) claims that the 5 year survival rates (definition
of a cure) have increased from 20% from the year 1930 to 53% in adults and
70% in children today, critics of the NCI claim that this increase has more
to do with earlier diagnosis alone and not the therapeutic modalities used.
Between the years of 1973 to 1987, melanoma increased by 83%, non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma by 51% and lung cancer by 32%. The 30-year trend (1960-62 to 1990-92)
for death resulting from lung cancer is 85% higher for men and 438% higher
for women, 29% higher for prostate cancer, 4% higher for breast cancer,
and 12% higher for female pancreatic cancer. However, over this same period,
the rate of death has dropped for cancer of the colon and rectum by 9%,
male leukemia by 9%, and ovarian cancer by 8%. Overall, the cancer death
rate, after adjusting changes in the size and composition of the population
with respect to age has increased by 7% between the years of 1975 and 1990.
Spokesman for conventional therapies often boost the 5-year survival rate
as an indication of progress and money well spent. Let us take a closer
look.
Between the years 1974 to 1976 and 1981
to 1987, the 5-year-survival rates only increased by 2%, from 49% to 51%
on an overall basis. The 5-year survival rates for cancer of
the liver, lung, pancreas, bone and breast has remained the same as they
were in 1965. Due to advanced diagnostic modalities, survival time seems
longer than in the past probably because of earlier diagnosis and not successful
treatments. For example, a woman whose breast cancer is diagnosed 3 years
earlier because of mammography may live for another 7 years after diagnosis.
In 1985, using older diagnostic and treatment tools, this same women would
have appeared to live only 4 years. We
have improved on screening tools, but the majority of advances are not in
curing tools.
Let us look at some additional hard statistics on common cancers.
The 5-year survival rate (all stages) using conventional treatment for bladder
cancer is 80.7%, 83.2% for breast cancer, 61% for colorectal cancer, 57%
for kidney cancer, 68% for leukemia, 13% for lung cancer, 86% for melanoma,
51% for non-hodgkin's lymphoma, 44% for ovarian cancer, 3.6% for pancreatic
cancer, 85% for prostate cancer, and 68% for uterine cancer. Based on these
statistics, you may feel pretty good. This is assuming that after 5 years,
your chances of survival is the same based on a straight line curve going
up.
Looking at things from a long-term aspect, the numbers become scarier. For
example, the
extended survival rate (beyond 5
years) for breast cancer is less then
50%. For prostate cancer, the future is not much better, with a 5-year-survival
rate of about 70%, and 10-year survival rate of around 35%.
The question to ask is - Did cancer ever exist on earth before the advent
of modern medicine? Of course! Then, how did people treat cancer over the
past 5,000 years? Did they simply die? No, of course not. Through the centuries,
natural therapies have been available and were used by emperors and kings
alike to combat cancer. Unfortunately, their use has been suppressed the
past century and been labeled as "quackery" by today's modern
medicine.
There is no better example of the weakness of conventional medicine on
its clear failure in overcoming cancer. By the same token, there is no better
example of the superiority of natural medicine in the management of cancer.
Optimum results are often obtained when
combining conventional therapies with natural, non-toxic modalities.
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