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'Chemotherapy killed Patrick Swayze'
The Times of India ^ | 19 Sep 09 | Staff

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 ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cancer; swayze; swayzecancer
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To: PilotDave

Here is a valid opinion about the cancer industry...

The truth about chemotherapy and the cancer industry
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
http://www.naturalnews.com/027038_cancer_chemotherapy_cancer_industry.html

(NaturalNews) Patrick Swayze’s death came as a shock to many people. But not to his own cancer doctor: They know that the five-year survival rates of people being treated with chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer are virtually zero. And Swayze was only the latest in a long list of celebrities dying after being treated with chemotherapy and other toxic forms of western medicine:

Farrah Fawcett died following chemotherapy used to treat anal cancer and liver cancer. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026511_c...)

Famed newscaster Peter Jennings died from chemotherapy treatments for lung cancer.

Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died after receiving chemotherapy for colon cancer. (http://www.naturalnews.com/023626_c...)

Celebrities still battling cancer

Desperate Housewives actress Kathry Joosten is currently battling lung cancer. It’s not clear whether she has undergone chemotherapy yet, or plans to, but she did have cancer surgery in 2001 which obviously didn’t “cure” the cancer because it has now returned.

Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs looks deathly ill after undergoing not only chemotherapy but also a complicated cancer surgery that removed a part of his pancreas and digestive tract. (http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000...)
Sheryl Crow is battling breast cancer, but she famously decided to support her immune system with natural medicine by turning to a Traditional Chinese Medicine wellness center called Tao of Wellness (http://www.taoofwellness.com). No doubt her outcome will be vastly improved by this integrative approach. Unfortunately, her hubby Lance Armstrong is more into the conventional drugs-and-chemo approach, and most people probably don’t realize the two things that saved Armstrong’s life were intense exercise and regular exposure to sunshine during his cycling training (creating vitamin D, a powerful anti-cancer nutrient). (And wearing those little yellow Livestrong bracelets only tags you as being completely brainwashed about cancer and the cancer industry.)

Other celebrities engaging in cancer battles (or who already experienced them) include Sonique, Kylie and Anastacia.

Deadly pharmaceuticals

Beyond those celebrities being harmed or killed by chemotherapy, many are also killed by conventional pharmaceuticals:

Michael Jackson died from an overdose of doctor-prescribed pharmaceuticals.

Tim Russert’s death is linked to heart medication (http://www.naturalnews.com/023434.html).

Bernie Mac died from immune suppression caused by pharmaceuticals (http://www.naturalnews.com/023817_B...).
And Heath Ledger was killed by an overdose of pharmaceuticals prescribed by his doctors (http://www.naturalnews.com/022602.html).

The cancer industry wants your money

The reason so many celebrities are harmed or killed by the cancer industry is quite simple: The cancer industry is a for-profit business. It makes money by treating cancer, not by curing or preventing cancer.

In fact, there’s a huge difference between what the public see with cancer clinics vs. what really happens. The public image of the cancer industry is bright and cheery. “We save lives,” they insist, and they claim to offer “support” for cancer survivors (which are more correctly called “chemotherapy survivors”).

But behind closed doors, the real picture of the cancer industry is far more insidious. Cancer centers produce primarily two things: 1) Profits, and 2) Body bags (with cancer victims inside).

Cancer is a booming business. There’s a ton of money to be made in screening for cancer, then causing cancer with the screening equipment, then diagnosing cancer and treating cancer. The purpose of conventional cancer treatments is not to eliminate the patient’s disease, but rather to keep the patient alive long enough to receive a never-ending regimen of expensive, high-profit cancer treatments.
The cancer industry (the conventional cancer clinics, non-profits, drug companies, National Cancer Institute, etc.) flat-out refuses to recommend anti-cancer nutrients (like vitamin D) that could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year. They refuse to speak out against cancer-causing processed meats and carcinogenic chemicals in cosmetics personal care products. They cleverly avoid talking about the environmental causes of cancer, preferring to limit their criticism to only tobacco.

Meanwhile, they churn their gargantuan profit machines through a sea of cancer victims, plucking profits from the near-dead bodies of those they claim to treat. And when parents of teens refuse to subject their children to the chemotherapy poisons forced upon patients, Child Protective Services gets called, and the State kidnaps the children and forces them to be injected with chemotherapy. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026305_m...)

The cancer industry, by any honest assessment, is a sham. Pure quackery.

That’s why two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling says, “Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”

Dr. Julian Whitaker, founder of the Whitaker Wellness Institute (www.WhitakerWellness.com) also wrote about the cancer industry, saying:

Without exception, all the oncologists I talked to about Dr Burzynski were scornful and hostile. Twenty- five years of practicing unconventional medicine did not prepare me for what I discovered. Delving into attitudes, actions, and beliefs of modern oncologists was like opening a box of cereal and finding it full of worms. They just don’t care… The question I kept asking was why, and the answer to that question gradually began to creep out: Dr Burzynski’s discovery threatens one of the largest and most lucrative industries in the history of mankind, the cancer treatment industry.

All those radiation machines and doctors who run them
All those chemotherapy drugs and the doctors who prescribe them
All those so called studies that just juggle the doses of chemo & radiation
All those surgeons who have been flailing at cancer for over a 100 years...

Also it is not just about money, it is about strongly held beliefs, beliefs that have meshed with the personality of virtually everyone in the cancer treatment industry, especially the physicians. In short, these beliefs are that cancer can only be treated with therapies that mutilate, poison, or burn the patient, in the hope that they “kill” the cancer…..Therefore, each patient who is miraculously cured by Burzynski’s nontoxic therapy is not viewed as a breakthrough, or even as something good, but rather as a dangerous messenger of heresy, a terrible threat to their beliefs.

The vested interests

The vested interests in cancer don’t want the general public to hear about cancer cures and natural remedies. That cuts into their profits. They would far prefer that patients remain illiterate victims who have no knowledge of anything beyond surgery, chemotherapy and pharmaceuticals.
Anything that offers freedom to cancer patients — freedom of choice, freedom of medicine, freedom to choose their healing modality — is a threat to the powerful vested interests. And it is those vested interested that are driving first-world nations into disease and bankruptcy, by the way. Rather than allowing natural cancer cures and prevention strategies to see the light of day, they attack and discredit natural anti-cancer products and therapies, much like a Chicago mob boss snuffs out his competition to keep control of the streets.

One day, when America’s economy finally collapses under the weight of irreversible debt, remember this: The cancer industry was one of the major players that drove this nation into bankruptcy. A population suffering from high rates of cancer isn’t very productive. Lives are lost and economic productivity plunges. Money that could have been spent on schools and technology research is, instead, spent on conventional cancer quackery known as “chemotherapy.” It wastes money, it wastes lives, and it challenges the boundaries of sanity.

This goes for any nation: If you have a profitable cancer industry, you have no long-term economic future, because the cancer industry will always find clever new ways to cause cancer (mammography) and rake in the profits by keeping the population diseased. The only way for any nation to have a real future is to take the profit out of sickness and disease through a radical restructuring of the entire medical system.

And remember this: If you’re an evil bastard, and you want to make a lot of money (trillions) off of other peoples’ suffering, simply latch on to a deadly disease, sign sponsorship deals with the drug companies, tell the public you’re “looking for a cure” and then use the money you raise from donation events to actually cause the disease in the population at large.

This is most easily accomplished by incorporating some sort of disease-causing element into your “screening” process so that when people get your “free screening,” they are simultaneously being diseased and are likely to become a future customer. In the cancer business, this is accomplished through mammography which emits radiation, causing breast cancer.

It’s a great little scam for those who are willing to exchange ethics for profits.


141 posted on 09/20/2009 1:09:29 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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To: PilotDave

I truly believe that chemo is very dangerous. I think patients should be told that it can cause cancer but they aren’t told that because a lot of money is made off of the cancer industry. I am not opposed to them making money but they should be honest.


142 posted on 09/20/2009 1:17:16 PM PDT by Cricket24 (Boycott the Factor!!!)
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To: PilotDave

Having had several family members and friends die from cancer, I realized one thing...you are only a cancer survivor if you live long and die from something else!


143 posted on 09/20/2009 1:19:53 PM PDT by Cricket24 (Boycott the Factor!!!)
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To: airborne

Somers is a nut. But what disturbs me is the ignorance people have about remarkably tretment for a fatal disease and I have seen first hand people acting on this by refusing certain kinds of chemo and sealing their fate by doing so. It is not a piece of cake but it is a lifesaver. I am grateful every day for it.


144 posted on 09/20/2009 2:00:01 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Paved Paradise
It is so CRUEL to punish the Swayze family with this IGNORNAT and attention grabbing B.S..

His family loved him. I have no doubt they did ALL they could to save him. I'm sure he had the BEST care. This fool needs to SHUT UP!

145 posted on 09/20/2009 3:01:17 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: airborne
Somers - “I'm not a doctor, but I once did a Thighmaster™ infomercial on TV"
146 posted on 09/20/2009 4:31:35 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's ACORN" - pace Auric Goldfinger)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
I thought blood types were determined by genetics?

"bone marrow transplant". Bone marrow produces the blood cells

147 posted on 09/20/2009 4:34:37 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's ACORN" - pace Auric Goldfinger)
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To: my small voice
I'm in the middle of my second round of Chemo after falling out of a three year Remission for Leukemia.

Suzanne Somers, who is a friend of my Brother In-Law BTW, is full of it. The improvement in cutting edge drugs is amazing. I am currently on a three drug cocktail and expect to get back into Remission very soon.

Patrick Swayze had the worst of the worst Cancer and he lasted far longer getting treatment, including Chemo, than he would have otherwise.

This New Age crap didn't work for McQueen, Fawcett or Swayze. People never learn.

148 posted on 09/20/2009 4:41:16 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Conservatives THINK people are smart. Liberals KNOW people are stupid.)
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To: PilotDave
"Somers, who has a book about cancer coming out next month...


149 posted on 09/20/2009 4:47:55 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: airborne
Blood type is not the determination for a successful Bone Marrow Donor.

I have Leukemia and my Brother, despite having a different Blood Type than I do, is still considered a possible Donor if and when the time comes.

Technically, you can go through a BMT and have come out with two Blood Types depending on the testing method used.

150 posted on 09/20/2009 4:49:18 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Conservatives THINK people are smart. Liberals KNOW people are stupid.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

It’s all pretty amazing to me.

I hope everything works out for you, “if and when the time comes”!


151 posted on 09/20/2009 4:59:33 PM PDT by airborne (Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
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To: Cricket24
Do you have some documentation that Chemotherapy CAUSES Cancer?

If you do, and the Author IS NOT Suzanne Somers, please post a link.

152 posted on 09/20/2009 5:01:50 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Conservatives THINK people are smart. Liberals KNOW people are stupid.)
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To: Hildy

Yep...everything I’ve read about chemo is not good. Most people die within 5 years of starting it.

The whole point of chemo is to kill...period. It’s crazy stuff. They can’t really target one cell...or even a group. Think of radiation exposure like being in a dark room with a mag lite. You can’t just light up one small area of your body without exposing the rest of your body to that radiation.


153 posted on 09/20/2009 6:53:03 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: cajungirl
"I see it as a gift."

It is, cajungirl. That which does not kill you makes you stronger!!

My chemo, eight years ago was tough. The Red Devil gave me a few side effects that were a nuisance, but I coped well enough.

There were days I slowed way down..and days I was higher than a kite. But I got thru it....praise God.

Prayers for you, cajun girl. And please eliminate all sugar..God Bless..sw

154 posted on 09/20/2009 7:20:19 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (WE THE PEOPLE RULE)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Godspeed Kickass!


155 posted on 09/20/2009 7:22:41 PM PDT by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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To: PilotDave

Chemo is toxic to livers especially. Jobs got himself a new liver, and perhaps that is the key.


156 posted on 09/20/2009 7:24:25 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Angry about where our country is going with the current regime at the helm.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Not always, my uncle was diagnosed with it (and he was older than Swayze) and he did manage to beat it. Pretty damn close to a miracle. He turns 69 next month.


157 posted on 09/20/2009 7:25:36 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Pancreatic cancer is a death sentence — often within 6 months. Swayze lived with it for two years, and while that is not unheard of, it is certainly remarkable.

There actually seems to be two courses in pancreatic CA. One is a very short course to death and the other is longer with a two to three year course. Friend of mine’s mother had the longer course and did nothing but Kuchi diet for the two plus years after diagnosis.


158 posted on 09/20/2009 7:27:04 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Angry about where our country is going with the current regime at the helm.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
You Kickass...friend!

sw

159 posted on 09/20/2009 7:27:13 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (WE THE PEOPLE RULE)
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To: spectre

I had stage 3 colon cancer 5 years ago. Operation. 6 weeks chemo. I am not only healthy now and cancer free. I had a baby 20 months ago.

Unfortunately, chemo can be hit or miss. Cancer is a killer. Chemo gives us a shot, but no guarantee.


160 posted on 09/20/2009 10:32:43 PM PDT by The Conservative Yogini
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