unfortunately, chemo creates 'cancer stem cells' so even if the existing tumor shrinks or even disappears, the cancer may come back with a vengence later, as the stem cells, which create the cancer, aren't touched by the chemo. Watch The Quest for the Cure on Youtube, and see MD's DOs and PhD's talk about this very important information regarding how chemo is NOT the answer 'in every situation', as only a few cancers actually benefit from chemotherapy.

And I can't stress this enough. No pill, of any kind, can heal your body, unless your immune system is mobilized to do this. Pills may help reduce bacteria to a point where the immune system can take over....but no pill created in any laboratory, anywhere in the world, can heal us. This is what we've been brainwashed to believe, but it's not the truth. Only our immune system can heal us. And decimating it with chemo and radiation can make things worse for many....and can create a much uglier expression of cancer down the road....since the stem cells still exist. Often, it's not the cancer that kills us.... it's the decimation of our immune system, as our organs become so overcome with toxins, they begin to shut down, resulting in death.

I will look for more links regarding chemo being responsible for cancer stem cells...thank you for pointing out the previous links provided were no longer viable.

sure will....

Gosh ladies, I wasn't claiming my ideas are the only way.

But I know hat our immune systems are the only things that heal us. That's not 'anecdotal' in any way. It's just a fact. I've discussed with my naturopath oncologist, my MD and my oncologist.

And if you are up on your research, you will find that targeted therapies are the trend now. Scientists are working very hard to find ways to circumvent dropping the A-bomb on a body, and using ways and methods to focus this poison exactly where it needs to go.

Nor would I ever presume to dictate one way for all. I've been down this road for over ten years now, and I've learned what an individual experience it is for each one of us.

What I do wish, is that women do their research. And they don't blindly follow their oncologists recommendations.

In 2008, my oncologist prescribed 4 chemotherapy drugs for my 'cocktail'. I had JUST read an article from Duke University stating that the taxanes don't help with estrogen receptor positive cancer.

So I questioned her decision, and she agreed that she is quite comfortable removing the taxane from the cocktail.

I was quietly stunned, understanding that unless I'd done my own research, I would be taking the taxane for NO reason....the chemo with the worst side effects....neuropathy, vision problems, and the list goes on and on.

And don't forget the list of side effects....the toxic burden put on our bodies by these poisons is real. Very real.

Kicks, I'm glad you had such a glorious experience through all your drugs. That's not the story for the majority of cancer patients, though, is it? Side effects are real, and some are permanent. Some people are given chemo when it's not in their best interests. And why is that? Well, it may be due to the fact that doctors in the USA are given kickbacks for each and every time they prescribe chemotherapy. Are we gullible enough to think that greed has nothing to do all of the chemo prescribed? Especially to terminal patients.

I simply want women to understand they have a choice. Chemo is NOT the only choice.

Medical marijuana is a viable alternative choice. So are many other natural therapies that I won't go into here.

I don't personally believe that chemo helps in the long run, but that's my choice to believe, is it not?

I encourage everyone to do their own research. And to not take anyone's word for what you should or shouldn't be doing....unless you reach the same conclusion yourselves.

I reiterate....a +200 Billion dollar business, which is exactly what the cancer industry is, owns and trains the doctors that are guiding you through this diagnosis. Big pharma isn't interested in a cure, in any way, shape or form. Pharmaceutical drugs are merely present to manage symptoms, and not heal.

Big pharma also calls any doctor practising natural medicine as 'quacks'. This isn't the case for the doctors interviewed on 'The quest for the Cure'. They are all MDs, DOs, PhDs who have realized the joke of managing symptoms only, and instead focus on how to support the whole patient, so their immune system can ultimately be responsible for the 'healing' of cancer, which I also believe is possible.

And if cancer comes back strong in another 5 - 10 years, how on earth do you know it's not from the chemo or radiation you took way back when? You don't. THAT's why you need to do your research.

mkinoly, thank you for your balanced perspective. it's amazing how aggressive people have been, and yes, I understand that comes from fear, and have no judgement.

wrenn, you are very short sighted in thinking I'm asking women to do the research only so they see it 'my' way.

We need to do research so we have a 'balanced' understanding of what is available to us. Not just the fear ridden response we all have to work through initially.

Doing the research is the respectful thing we can do for ourselves. To say I'm simply trying to get someone to see my point of view is ridiculous, and your comment says more about you, than me.

When we get our cancer diagnosis, we believe we need to act NOW. Without taking a beat for ourselves. to understand the cancer has most likely been around for a while already....most likely years.....so don't we owe it to ourselves to take a little time to figure things out?

If you decide to invest every single hope you have in the 5% success rate (beyond 5 years) which is all chemo can give anyone. If there was a headache medication out there that had only a 5% chance of healing your headache, would you buy it, and then militantly defend it saying it's the ONLY thing that can heal your headache?

At least make the decision being aware of all the other natural treatments that also offer 5% (or even greater) chance of survival after five years. But wait, where are all THOSE studies??

Unfortunately, for humankind, natural remedies don't represent profit for big pharma, so, much like the mafia, big pharma discredits natural remedies, and suppresses information, studies aren't given funding, promising research is literally destroyed, specially developed equipment is destroyed, and doctors who try to use natural means to heal are sued, and harrassed .... for saving lives.

Big pharma orders the way our doctors are trained, and calls anything natural as 'quackery' (yes, big pharma actually coined this term) although .... get this........they scrupulously study nature to try and replicate what nature already does, but in a laboratory setting, so they end up with a 'pill' they can patent so they can make Money. Lots and lots of money.

And if you can handle even more of the truth, understand that big pharma made WW2 possible, actually funded Hitler so he could invade Poland in 1939, which started WW2. Big Pharma created a five mile long compound at Auschwitz....using slave labor to build it, and using prisoners of war to test their drugs on. They even created the gas used in the gas chambers and were prosecuted at the Nuremberg trials. Many were given prison sentences they didn't have to serve more than 4 or 5 years of, and these war criminals were later made the CEO's of Bayer, and other well known pharmaceutical companies. Eventually, with their untold wealth, they created the monopoly of the pharmaceutical industry as we know it today. I

Anyway....nature has very significant ways to help us. Our bodies understand natural remedies, as we have evolved with these natural treatments for thousands and thousands of years. It's only in the past 70 years we've had less and less access to natural medicines, and had pharmaceutical drugs shoved down our throats.

We've not heard from those whose lives have been so compromised by chemo. They dose chemo in the most primitive way....by our body mass index. I'm almost twice the weight of my tiny little mother, who needs something as strong as tylenol 3 to knock out a headache, because she metabolizes medicine very quickly. I can take half a tylenol and it puts me to sleep. I'm very sensitive to medication, which means I metabolize it very slowly, therefore it stays in my system WAY longer. I've been that way my whole life. Yet if my mom and I were both given chemo, and we were dosed per out body mass index, she wouldn't be getting enough of the drug, and I'd be getting way too much.

I have had women cry on my shoulder, telling me horror stories of how chemotherapy drugs hurt their loved ones so much...that the remaining years (yes, YEARS) of their life were spent in utter pain and misery.

Chemo is NOT the only option we have. And in my opinion, if you'd actually done your own research, your comments would be much more informed, and you wouldn't be demanding I do the research for you.

Medical marijuana is the greatest healing plant that exists - to my knowledge - and I'd much rather take something that has no negative side effects for my body....just healing side effects .....so my quality of life is as high as possible.

And for the person who asked which natural remedies I take, here is the information.

After stopping medical marijuana after 2 years, my liver, which had hurt a lot since my stage 4 diagnosis, started hurting again. Did I think it was cancer?? It didn't matter. I wanted to HEAL my liver. No pill out there can do that.

So I researched how to detoxify my liver im the most gentle manner possible, and decided to start taking a daily coffee enema (which was included in the Merck Manual until the 70's when it was removed to make room for new treatments). Within the first two months, I'd passed out of my body over 200 liver stones and my liver stopped hurting so much. I was calling them gall stones at first, but since I no longer have a gall bladder, they're actually called liver stones....they plug up the biliary ducts in the liver, compromising it's ability to do the +500 processes the liver is responsible for.

Now, after months of daily coffee enemas (I plan to do them daily for the rest of my life, if necessary) my liver is no longer hurting, and the skin issues I've had since chemo are resolving themselves.

I no longer have chemo brain, which was so bad, I couldn't participate in a conversation for more than 2 or 3 minutes without losing my train of thought, and constantly having to ask...what was I saying?..........or .....what were we talking about??

I also take nascent iodine, fulvic acid, D3, very high quality greens from Dr. Ben Kim's website, along with chlorella to help my body keep up with the detoxification that is taking place due to the coffee enemas.

And because there is always candida present wherever there is cancer, I'm on a candida protocol taking undecanoic acid, along with molybdenum and pantithene.

I eat clean pastured meats and eggs, nothing 'white', organic veggies, with a little fruit. I don't eat fast food. I don't eat a lot of carbs other than organic brown basmati rice. I make my own yogurt and kefir, and take my dog for a walk daily.

I also meditate and pray each and every day, in order to stay connected with my moments.

Peace,

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