Interesting..........knowing little to nothing about cancer and its treatment, I find your comments fascinating. I heard last week that Steve Jobs tried to cure himself with diet and vitamins and herbs, knowledge he gained by doing his own research, and was actually making some progress when the cancer overtook him. And that’s just a guy surfing the internet. We hear all the time about how we lower our health risks by just not drinking, smoking, by eating right, exercising, getting sun, and getting a decent amount of rest, and lowering stress. Which just proves my point that for the most part, we humans were made with a powerful ability to heal ourselves, which we seldom give credit to.
I highly recommend watching the story of Kris Carr, who made a documentary about her investigations into different holistic treatments after being diagnosed with Stage 4 liver cancer. That was in 2006 and she's still around and looking very good. It's called "Crazy Sexy Cancer" (unfortunate title, I know) and she has a blog. If I recall correctly, she found that her tumors grew after doing a macrobiotic vegetarian diet for a few months (which is what Jobs followed). She focuses on detoxifying the body through different means (saunas, for one). But I just saw that she's released a diet book and it is vegetarian, so maybe I'm wrong about that.
There is a good book to start with, and lots of info on the web. The book is Knockout by Suzanne somers. Forget her cheesy acting on Three’s Company; the book isn’t about her and barely even by her. Each chapter is an interview with specialists, many MDs, who dare to buck the conventional kill-the-baby-with -the -bath water chemotherapy and who cure people or turn their cancer into something manageable that doesn’t make them sick or shorten their lifespan.
I think anyone who has cancer or knows someone with cancer should read it. Then do more research.
One day the balding, weakening, life-shortening chemo may be seen like leeches and bloodletting.
(I’m not saying it hasn’t helped anyone. But we need to be aware of better treatments down the line by changing our paradigm. I grew up thinking cancer patients went bald. )