Posted on 09/20/2009 8:37:58 AM PDT by PilotDave
Actress Suzanne Somers, who is herself a cancer survivor, thinks that chemotherapy has killed Patrick Swayze.
"They took a beautiful man" and "put poison in his body," the New York Post quoted her as saying.
Somers, who has a book about cancer coming out next month, said: "Why couldn''t they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins? . . . I hate to be this controversial . . . but I have to speak out."
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
LOL! Funny thing is I'm much more positive now!
This is the same woman that though leaving “Three’s Company” at the height of its popularity would be good for her career.
And if one doesn't want chemo, JUST SAY NO. Thank GOD for modern medicine and the miracle of LIFE if offers. Thank God.
Hey...I learned something today. I guess it was worth getting up after all.
And I can’t read any farther on this thread past your post, nmh...I’m worried that my head will explode. Thank you again.
Current standards do not "cure" cancer. I look at it as "slash, burn, and sinister poison". Slash and burn being surgery and radiation with sinister poison being chemo. Granted techniques are improving every day for both surgery and radiation but the end goal is to remove the tumor and often that requires you to decide how much of your body you are willing to give up to collateral damage. As far as chemo, you are absolutely right, infusing the patient with toxic chemicals in the hope that the tumor dies before irreducible harm is done to the patient is pretty much an accurate description of chemotherapy.
I know whereof I speak as my mother died of cancer, my father died of cancer. My oldest brother had cancer which may or may not have contributed to his death. The next oldest brother has just undergone "cryogenic ablation" to destroy a malignant tumor, this procedure is now cutting edge technology. And I'm a twelve year survivor (conventional surgery) with no subsequent presentation of the original cancer.
It is obvious to me at least that cancers are of genetic origin. I believe that your genes can predispose you towards cancer. It only develops when you are exposed to a triggering event. A person without the genetic predisposition does not respond to the trigger. Case in point being 90+, two pack a day smokers who have no problems while a nonsmoker develops lung cancer from second hand smoke.
My hope is that having the human genome decoded will ultimately uncover the DNA that causes this instability. I also feel that most of the "number one killer" diseases (heart attack, arterial, Alzheimer's, &C.) are ultimately genetic in origin and will eventually yield to the same approach. Eventually we may be able to guarantee that cellular division maintains perfect fidelity. That would lead to boredom becoming the number one cause of death.
Regards,
GtG
Well that’s kind of how chemo works. They poison the hell out of you hoping the cancer cells die first. It’s nasty business.
Well, check around for your gravesite.
I think anything less than a 50/50 3 year survival rate is iffy except for precious children.
I am not dead yet and my bad heart will probably take me but that is how I have lived it up close and personal
what technically kills folks terminal is liver failure ultimately or lung shutdown at bitter end accompanied by serious heart sack fluid buildup and maybe infections too...it is brutal but is the natural course chemo can kill from strokes to cardiac events but that is relatively rare
death is also accompanied by extreme dehydration once the drip is removed and to a degree malnutrition maybe but by that time Uncle C is taking any nutrients you take in anyhow...this is the big truth...Cancer kills you as much by robbing your food as destroying organs
Cancer over aged 65 is btw not remarkable
yep...had that exact conversation with my mother in October 2007...she lasted 5 more months
Wow! Glad to hear your good news!
Would you care to share how you helped heal yourself?
Well, with all due respect, you’re both incorrect.
Chemo can save lives.......and it can kill. My friend’s brother died from a new chemo combination.....you take your risks. Sometimes it does not work out. We are all waiting to die, some just enjoying the journey lots more than others.
It’s not a matter of intelligence ...
Nah. I'm not going out looking for trouble!
Jeesh, everybody is an expert except the physicians that are trying to cure the individual with the disease. Chemo is the only thing keeping the cancer from spreading at a fantastic rate. Sometimes it stops it, sometimes it doesn’t. Its the best we got at the present time. If one chooses to not treat the cancer, then the cancer replicates at an unchecked and rapid rate and the individual is toast. Individuals that go down after chemo are likely to go that direction anyway because of the level of the malignancy.
Pancreatic cancer usually doesn't need a lot of help.
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