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Chemotherapy is very effective in treating cancer and in saving the lives of cancer victims. False!

Over the years, many dramatic claims have been made by pharmaceutical companies and other members of the cancer establishment regarding drug based treatments for cancer. Today, chemotherapy is the most common form of cancer treatment. If such successful results were actually being achieved, improvements could readily be observed in the survival rates. Yet, survival rates remain basically unchanged.

Chemotherapy consists of a mixture of highly toxic drugs which are given the patient in a series of treatments over a period of time. Research shows that chemotherapy can often cause a partial or even complete shrinkage of a tumour, although this shrinkage does not necessarily prolong expected survival. In fact, studies have found that the cancer often returns even more aggressively than before, because the chemotherapy has created more resistant cells. In addition, a strongly negative side effect of chemo is that it can severely damage the body's immune system as well as the kidneys and liver.

Some patients will die from these complications alone. It is often a case of the cure being far more serious and deadly then the disease. A good indication of the effectiveness of chemotherapy can be found in polls surveying cancer doctors regarding what they would choose for themselves if they were diagnosed with cancer. Many US doctors have stated they would not choose chemotherapy for themselves due to its ineffectiveness and its unacceptable levels of toxicity. Sixty percent of doctors who responded to a similar poll in the UK indicated that they would not submit themselves to chemotherapy! Still, doctors continue to administer chemotherapy because they do not have approved medical alternatives. The fact is, there are large profits to be made by the drug companies in administering chemotherapy, whether it is actually effective or not.

If I am sick or injured - I want to be in the hospital where I know I will be well taken care of!
We have wonderful facilities in most Western countries housing the latest in medical equipment and staffed with highly educated and dedicated professionals. When we need to go to the hospital, we are certainly glad they are there. Medical science has advanced incredibly and now doctors are able to carry out some truly amazing high tech surgery and repair work. This is an area where Western medicine certainly excels. However, statistics show us there is a very significant danger associated with being a hospital patient. In 1993, Ralph Nader's consumer watchdog organization released its findings from a three year study of American hospitals. They reported that an astounding 300,000 people die each year in hospitals due to errors in diagnosis, treatment, medication, surgery, and other forms of medical malpractice. The Journal of the American Medical Association, in its July 2000 issue, confirmed the figure at a conservative 250,000 deaths per year and this was compiled by medical people! In fact, the figure could be far higher as reported by By Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD in an extensive research paper they have written. By their estimates up to almost 1 million - yes that is right - ONE MILLION deaths can be attributed in the USA to medical error and improper use of medical drugs. You can read this report on Dr Mercola's website. This means that in American hospitals, by conservative estimates, medical errors kill five times as many people each year as there was American service personnel killed in the entire Vietnam war. And those service people were dodging bullets! The frightening thing is, we are following very close behind the American example in the UK and Australia and in virtually all other "developed" countries. When you think about this, it doesn't give you much comfort if you do have to rely on medical treatment in a hospital at some time in the future.

Even when prescription drugs are properly administered, there are dangers involved, whether or not you are in a hospital. Millions of Americans have harmful reactions to prescription drugs every year, and a conservative estimate is 100,000 of those reactions result in death.

Obviously, the best way to eliminate the dangers associated with hospitalization and prescription drugs is to take better care of yourself. Stay healthy and avoid accidents, toxic chemicals and poisons, and you will not need either drugs or hospitalization hopefully. It really does make a lot of sense to carry out preventative maintenance with your health, rather than try to put the wheels back on when they have fallen off. I class good health a bit like the maintenance needed to keep a motor car in good order as it ages. When was the last time you gave your car a thorough service? Changed the oil and the oil filter, checked the brakes and tires and generally carried out a regular inspection and some tender loving care. For most of us it is generally accepted if we don't do this with our cars, then one day the "wheels are going to fall off" and the car will be a wreck. Well, it isn't that much different for your body. When was the last time you had a thorough look at what you are doing with your diet and the toxic chemicals you are exposing yourself to via skin care products and toiletries and the food you eat etc? Last week? Last year? Never? If not why not? What about the stress and chemicals you are exposed to in the work place? You wouldn't dream of doing that with your car would you? Keep on running it without any thought of tomorrow or next year, just keep it rolling until the wheels fall off! You know, your health it is much harder to fix when it breaks down than your car would ever be! If you had carried out some simple preventative maintenance in the first place perhaps there wouldn't be some major disaster.

Does this make sense to you? It sure makes sense to me to maintain good health rather than place your life in the hands of professionals who specialize in palliative treatments. That is, treating the symptoms of disease rather than preventing the disease in the first place.