2007 study shows chemo, radiation can cause cancer to spread

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2007 study shows chemo, radiation can cause cancer to spread

Fairyfloss

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=8857146

The link to the article is above.

 Here is an extract from the article:

A study published in May 2007 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation found that treating cancer with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation raised levels of TGF-beta and could actually cause tumors to spread.

 I dont want to alarm anybody, but i had chemotherapy myself and no one told me about this study.  as it is a 2007 study, i think doctors have an obligation to warn patients about this possible consequence of chemo/radiation; especially since chemo is a very dangerous treatment.

drug companies are currently working on a way to block the TGF beta in chemo so they are obviously aware of the problem.

 my advice to anyone is to seriously investigate alternative remedies/cancer treatments.  i have had conventional treatment but discontinued it due to side effects after chemo/surgery/some hormone treatment. even if you choose to keep going with conventional treatments,  i believe cancer can be cured by following the correct diet and by taking the right herbs/supplements.  correct diet according to my research (and my chinese doctor, and The China Study by dr colin campbell, and many other books, eg. your life in your hands by Professor Plant) is: no red meat, no dairy at all (replace with soy), no sugar (esp white sugar.  can have honey, maple syrup (in small amounts) or stevia), eat mostly vegetables of all different colours: best are kale, cabbage, brocolli, brussel sprouts, leeks, onions, garlic, bok choy - leafy green is good as well as diff colours; then eat some fruit (berries good for antioxidants), then eat NUTS, SEEDS, some dried fruit, GRAINS - wholegrains, e.g. brown rice; corn; eat lentils, chickpeas, BEANS for protein.  can eat an egg occasionally.  some fish if you feel you need to eat meat.  steer clear of caged chickens or barn chickens; only eat free range.  otherwise full of hormones that are bad for you.  eat flaxseed/apricot kernel oil.  eat seeweed - wakame for iodine.  get enough magnesium and selenium (in brazil nuts).  drink green tea; and water and vegetable juice.  some fruit juice ok, not much.

DONT eat: caged/hormone filled chickens; or factory meat; or red meat; or dairy; or alcohol; or coffee; or black tea (too much caffeine bad for absorption of some vitamins - B ones), or cakes, soft drinks, bikkies, sweet things, etc. 

 there are scientific studies supporting all this.  i can give you links if interested.  i have posted on the alternataive medicine forum as well re: red meat/dairy and the inflammation mechanism involved.  (cancer spreads via inflammation - red meat and dairy cause inflammation in the body).  there is also a mechanism for sugar.  its all complex and interrelated.  getting enough idodine is useful too - as lack of iodine is linked to fibrocystic breast disease, etc... wakeame seaweed in lab tests has been shown to be more effective than the chemo drug 5 flouricil, which i had.  certain chinese mushrooms have anti cancer properties.  also cats claw boosts your immune system.  apricot kernels have B17 which is also said to be anti cancer.

anyway, this is not telling anyone what to do, just wnated to make sure people were aware of the article.

brewster

"In mice". Mice are not humans.

One of the reasons cancer treatments have not progressed more is because of too much previous reliance on the animal or culture studies, which we know aren't very good parallels to or predictors for the human model. This is why it is foolish to rely upon or conclude anything from results in early animal or cell culture methods, which the alternative/natural medicine crowd is notorious for doing.

Find a handful of experimental research papers that show some nutrient inhibits tumor growth in mice = lets use it in the marketing pitch as our "evidence" to sell people a supplement.