Alternative Treatment

Whatever they're smoking...I don't want any!

If someone were to discover a cure for cancer from any metal (including gold) that would be a gold mine. I think the principle for the silver treatment would be the same as platinum-based chemos, only cheaper. Cancer eventually finds a way around platinum chemos so it would be likely the same for silver (just guessing). But maybe silver atoms are smaller or there is something intrinsically different about silver that could give it an edge.

A few thoughts here...

First of all I would like to welcome all the brand new members who have an interest in alchemy. It's amazing they could find each other at a breast cancer website of all places.

Sunspark's story about the Roman emperor sounds like Rumpelstiltskin I wonder which one came first. 

I wonder if the alchemists are really working with metals like lead and mercury. Those are so toxic, anyone working with them should be very careful. For example both metals I mentioned can cause cognitive problems.

Yes, as Heidihill mentioned, this would be a silver based cytotoxic chemo sweetbean.

http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/home/news.html

"Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Bradford have found that particular silver compounds are as toxic to cancer cells as the platinum-based drug Cisplatin, which is widely used to treat a range of cancers"

My husband, who is stage IV with another cancer, had platinum therapy last year. It failed after five cycles. Interesting comment that this is a common way that cancers respond to this type of therapy Heidihill. Thanks. He next tried a numbered antibody drug (along with reg chemo) in a clinical trial. That one lasted much longer before failing. So what's the point? In his case with each treatment the pain and sickness associated with the cancer disappeared. S/Es aren't everything

possibly colloidal silver in a spray??  I notice that gary null promoting curcumin, found a study that it helped prostate a great deal, but doesn't meantion breast.  I note that it's estrogenic.......& am wondering why those pharms which prevent blood vessel formation arn't or are no longer used for breast.

Maud,

What point are you trying to make with the Newton post  and how does it pertain to this forum? You copied and pasted this information and than wrote no comment.  It makes no sense to me.

Why would Isaac Newton be turning in his grave?   What lesson is there to be learned on reading his biography?  How is learning about Isaac Newton going to be benefiting members of BCO and which posters on the alternative forum need this benefit?

How I read it was that she was asking you what your post is all about not asking you to justify it...

homeopathy is a form of alchemy & is an alternate treatment.  there's a site I just found about the homeopathy alchemy, not as treatment, just as information (on a very quick read)

anyone try DMSO?  not an alternative, really, a chemical used in paper manufacturing, said to cure cancer, but also said to shrink brain as well as cancer.  a temptation not an alternate therapy I guess.

"anyone try DMSO? not an alternative, really, a chemical used in paper manufacturing, said to cure cancer, but also said to shrink brain as well as cancer. a temptation not an alternate therapy I guess"

Your source ? 

the lorriane therapy according to an observer, is a modified gerson therapy.  I read the cancer cure rate, for all cancers I guess, is 3%.  I did a quick think:  of the 35 people I know or heard sof who had cancer, 3 were cureds,  2 breast cancer, both had mastectomies fairly early, & 1 lung cancer.  he used a modified gerson therapy, some years later began bleeding & so then had surgery.  he's fine 20+ years later.  the others, 35 are all deadsd.  different kinds of cancer, blood, stomach, breast (most those), pancreatic, have no idea of what therapy used

but that cure rate isn't 5 year survival, or whatever they call cure now, it's many many year survival & d

ead of something else or still living.  one of the women survived for more than 60 years afterwards.

Abigail, be aware when women say they've survived BC for a long time that they probably had an early stage which was surgically removed, or DCIS which can go away without any treatment.  They wouldn't have progressed anyway.

I don't know anyone on these alternative threads who would advise anyone not to have surgery at the very least.  Some women have sad tales to tell of how they had no surgery at first and used alternatives, then found they had mets due to their inaction.  If cancer grows through the skin that's a shocking and painful thing, worse than 100 operations. If it's near the chest wall then that also is a fatal situation if not removed.

You won't die of fear from an operation.  You will have help to get over your fears, just let your health care providers know.  Trust them, they want to help you.  Is there someone you can take along to appointments?  I'm worried about you.

Does the surgeon want to do a lumpectomy or a mastectomy?  I had a double mastectomy (BMX). Otherwise I'd have mets by now.  I didn't follow all their recommended treatments but I wanted the cancer removed as it sends out bad cells around the body if left there.

Abigail:  I second what JoyLiesWithin is saying.  Even the most ardent alternative professionals strongly suggest surgery, beause the body will have a much better chance of fighting off invading cells if the tumor is removed first; otherwise, the body has to work too hard to try and destroy the tumor.  If it can be removed, do it quickly.  Mine was quick and almost painless.