While conventional medicine primarily treats cancer as a focal disease with localized symptoms, naturally oriented physicians think otherwise. They view the body as a closed internal ecosystem, and believe that the dysfunction of this ecosystem leads to the development of cancer.
No treatment, conventional or otherwise, can completely eliminate all cancer cells according to the naturally oriented physician. The reason is simple. Cancer is a systemic disease, and there are simply too many cancerous or pre-cancerous cells within the ecosystem of the body. Cancer is not a localized problem but a whole-body phenomenon of metastatic growth. Its growth process is affected by biological conditions. Non-genetically based cancer forms in the body because of toxins, the lack of oxygen, poor nutrition, and other factors such as hormonal imbalance. Whether the cancer in our body continues to multiply depends to a large degree on our body's biological terrain. It is this terrain that determines how the cancer is expressed.
Naturally oriented doctors often view cancer as a chronic, systemic and metabolic dysfunction of the genetically intracellular makeup. Tumors are only the symptoms of the submicroscopic dysfunctional causes. The root of cancer therefore lies in the progress of growth and metastasis, and not the tissue in which the tumor was first detected.
The naturally oriented doctor therefore fights cancer by optimizing the internal terrain and enabling the patient's internal system to destroy the tumor. It enhances the patient's health so that cancer cells cannot grow and multiply.
What Is The Success Rate?
The use of non-toxic natural therapies has had huge success over the past few decades. Some of the examples are listed below.
Many of the alternative cancer hospitals are found in Mexico. For example, Dr Contreras of the Oasis hospital reported that his 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer is 83 percent when using natural treatment as compared to 73 percent for conventional treatment.
In advance stage broncogenic carcinoma, natural therapies resulted in an improvement in the quality of life for the patients. Stage 4 cancer patients said that their quality of life was better after using the antioxidants. The size of their tumor was reduced by half in some of the cases. Even if their tumor did not subside, the patients felt much better physically.
At the American Metabolic Institute, renounced scientist Dr Geronimo Rubio reported success rate in reversing stage 3 and 4 cancers from 65 to 75 percent. The reversal rate for stage 1 and 2 cancer is 80 percent.
The famous Gerson therapy boasted high achievements. In a study spearheaded by him, 153 patients in various stages of melanoma were examined. He was proud to report that all 153 patients who underwent the Gerson therapy survived for 5 years. Only 79 percent of patients who received conventional treatment survived this length of time. Patients with Stages 3a melanoma who underwent Gerson therapy had a 5-year survival rate of 82 percent versus 39 percent in conventional therapy. For stage 3b, the survival rate was 70 percent versus 41 percent in conventional therapy. In stage 4a, the rate was 39 percent as compared to 6 percent. These results are simply stunning.
While the 5-year survival for end-stage cancer using conventional therapy is 9 percent overall, alternative cancer hospitals reports that theirs is more than 30 percent. While 4% of terminal cancer patients show no response to alternative treatments, the other 96% can expect some benefits after a month of treatment. There is therefore no turning back for patients who have bravely embarked on the path of alternative treatments.
Today, many patients opt for combination therapy, using both conventional and alternative cancer treatment therapy. This combined therapy is becoming more and more popular as the success rates are higher than either one alone.
Patients with cancer may begin the natural therapy program as soon as the cancer is detected, if time permits. If the natural therapy is not effective, then conventional intervention should be considered. In life threatening cases where surgical de-bulking is required, conventional treatment should be used first. Then, followed by natural therapy as part of the healing process.
Integrating Natural and Conventional Therapy
Human and animal studies have shown successful results when combining chemotherapeutic agents and natural compounds.
The objectives and rationale behind combining conventional therapies with natural treatments are as follows:
A. To reduce the negative side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy so that a more effective and safer dose can be given.
High success rates have been reported in this aspect. Antioxidants such as vitamin C, melatonin, and vitamin E have protected animals from drug-induced toxicity without interfering with the drug's anti-tumor effect. It not only protects normal tissues from free radicals caused by chemotherapy but also acts as an immunity booster and produces healthier cells that need a high concentration of antioxidants to function in optimum form.
B. To help normal cells resist chemotherapy and radiotherapy or increase drug accumulation in cancer cells.
Cancer cells adapt to stress more readily than normal cells. They are much stronger after being exposed to chemotherapy. Natural compounds will destroy the heat-shock proteins that protect the cancer cell. As a result, drug resistance will be lowered.
C. Additive or synergistic cytotoxic effect with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
When natural compounds are combined with chemotherapeutic drugs, the cytotoxic effect is additive. Natural compounds and chemotherapy drugs may destroy the cancer cells through different but complementary pathways.
Selenium, a natural supplement has been proven to reduce both the adverse effects of cisplatin and multi-drug resistance induced by cisplatin. Two grams of vitamin C can enhance the effects of doxorubicin, cisplatin, and paclitaxel against breast cancer cells. In another study, mushroom polysaccharides PSK or PSP has prolonged the lives of tumor-bearing rodents and protected them from the adverse effects caused by chemotherapy.
Natural compound glutamine reduces adverse effects caused by chemotherapy in gastrointestinal-related disease.
Proteolytic enzymes help in absorption and tissue diffusion of drugs, including antibiotics and chemotherapy drugs.
Quercetin
and genistein act synergistically with many chemotherapy drugs, including
cisplatin. In addition, Green tea, emodin, and ginseng also have synergistic
effects. However, the dosage administered is often quite high.Vitamin A in the form of retinyl palmitate works synergistically with many different chemotherapy agents. Vitamin E enhances the effectiveness of chemotherapy against cancer cells and protects the normal cells.
In a study conducted, Vitamin A in the form of retinyl palmitate was used with vitamin C, vitamin E, and other minerals in patients with small-cell lung cancer. The consummation of these vitamins actually prolonged the lives of these patients. Their two-year survival rate was increased to 33 percent, compared with 15 percent otherwise.
Another natural agent melatonin acts as an antioxidant and reduces the adverse effects of chemotherapy without lessening its anti-tumor actions.