Crazy, had no idea you could be forced to have chemo in the US. Chemotherapy is basically a 'treatment' that poisons the entire body in the hope that it kills the cancer before it kills you, personally I'd rather take my chances with the natural alternatives.
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Absolutely right. There are natural ways which can replace chemotherapy. I have heard that in Kerala, India, there are few people who completely cure the cancer using natural ointments and medicines. And their success results are over 90%.
It's utter bullshit!
There are charlatans who try to convince people of such thing, no real, proven case is ever demonstrated and scientific test, if it ever comes to that, will show that's fraud.
If you wanna keep safe from charlatans have this in mind, there is no natural medicine, there is no alternative medicine and there's no traditional medicine, there's only medicine.
No doubt there are snakeoil salesmen trying to make a fast buck but there are natural alternatives to poisoning your entire body (chemo). The reason you don't hear about them is because cancer 'treatment' is a multi-billion dollar industry, what would be their incentive to provide cheap natural ways to destroy cancer cells?
http://www.alternet.org/story/9257/pot_shrinks_tumors%3B_government_knew_in_%2774The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects.
Most Americans don't know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no major U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb. 29, 2000.
The ominous part is that this isn't the first time scientists have discovered that THC shrinks tumors. In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.
The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the events in his book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes." In 1976 President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out -- unsuccessfully -- to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the "high."
In 1983 the Reagan/Bush Administration tried to persuade American universities and researchers to destroy all 1966-76 cannabis research work, including compendiums in libraries, reports Jack Herer, who states, "We know that large amounts of information have since disappeared."
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