Posted on 09/13/2024 2:12:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Elle Macpherson has been warned by a cancer-survivor TV host her support for holistic treatments for the disease could end up leading to someone's death.
Supermodel Elle, 60, has been at the centre of a massive backlash from medics and cancer groups since she recently revealed she had been diagnosed with the disease seven years ago — but opted for alterative remedies after having a lumpectomy at the start of her treatment.
After Elle doubled down on her comments by giving a detailed interview to 60 Minutes Australia about her health fight, 70-year-old Australian TV presenter Kerri-Anne Kennedy — who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012 — hit out in an interview with The Australian: "I understand Elle did what she thought was good for her personally, but the very fact she has resisted any other medical treatment absolutely terrifies me.
"Without question, it will result in the future that somebody will take that line and feel confident enough to try and do it themselves naturally, and someone is going to die."
Kerri-Anne also slammed the 60 Minutes show that featured Elle for not giving a balanced enough counter-viewpoint to Elle's support for holistic medicine.
She went on: "I believe 60 Minutes was irresponsible by not having an oncologist who would give an alternative point of view.
"They should have absolutely gotten an oncologist who said, 'As an oncologist, I've seen this type of cancer and many other types of cancers in my 30-year career. People who have not followed the advice have died'."
Elle is in remission from cancer and told 60 Minutes she has always followed "natural" medicine, and said her choice to use it to fight her breast cancer was as "unconventional" as the "rest of her life".
The model went against the advice of 32 doctors by refusing chemotherapy after undergoing a lumpectomy for HER2 positive oestrogen receptive intraductal carcinoma.
She instead underwent eight months of intense therapy with a team of doctors in Phoenix, Arizona, all specialising in various holistic medicine disciplines.
Holistic is the best way to PREVENT cancer, but Treatment needs an all hands on deck approach.
What kind of an alternative point of view could possibly criticize whatever treatments Elle went thru that has allowed her to continue living 7 years more, and who knows how many more?
Sheesh ...
If you get cancer, and have “conventional” treatments ... You. Will. Die.
If you get cancer, and have “alternative” treatments ... You. Will. Die.
If you get cancer, and have no treatments at all ... You. Will. Die.
It’s all a matter of how much longer you’ll live, and how pleasant or unpleasant the rest of your life will be.
Do I really need to post the /s thingy?
Not necessarily. If treatment consists of putting a poison into your bloodstream & radiating your skin resulting in extreme discomfort, then some ppl might decline that form of treatment. Elle did say she’s followed holistic & alternate medicine practices most of her life, so it makes sense she’d turn to that first. It’s not for everybody but then again traditional oncology practices aren’t either.
Exactly. It’s just a matter of time before cancer pops up again, and that’s if you even make it all the way through treatment. It’s God’s decision in the end.
That's another name for DCIS. It means the cancer was caught before it became invasive. It's considered Stage 0.
My brother is a PhD in this stuff. It's his educated opinion that when it does come back it's a more vicious animal than the initial cancer was.
I know plenty of people who used natural methods to get rid of tumors in different cancers.
I know few who did chemo/radiation that were free of cancer for long.
The doctors are happy to buy the chemo at wholesale and resell to their patients at full retail.
Agree 100%
Everyone will die.
But, if you don’t get treatment for cancer (including using alternative methods) - you’ll die from that cancer.
Benign or malignant tumors?
cancerous, malignant tumors.
And if you get “conventional” treatment for cancer ... you’ll still die.
Some people die of the cancer anyway. I’ve seen it happen.
Some people die of the treatment. I’ve seen it happen.
Some people go into “remission” and die many years later of something else. I’ve seen it happen.
It’s your life: pick your poison. In the case of conventional cancer treatment, that word is to be taken literally.
Precisely.
TPTB like to give the impression that if you do as they say, you’ll live forever.
People don’t stop to think it through.
“My brother is a PhD in this stuff.”
There are a few doctoral programs in Cancer Biology and another in Molecular Oncology and Immunology — he must have attained his PhD from one of those.
Interesting way to spell KAREN...
Wow, that’s scary.
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