Re: Low Dose Chemotherapy with NO SIDE EFFECTS


"J" <pitstop@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Rachel@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>
>> My name is Rachel Best. I am the Executive Director of The Elka Best
>> Foundation, whose sole purpose is to fund research and education in the
>> use of kinder, gentler chemotherapy. "IPT Low Dose Chemotherapy" is an
>> approach that uses FDA approved chemotherapy drugs that we know works
>> for many people.
>>
>> I am an ovarian cancer survivor. I credit "IPT Low Dose Chemotherapy"
>> with the miracle that I am still here and thriving.
>>
>> In 2001 my oncologist's prognosis for my survival was bleak, at best.
>> Nevertheless, he laid out a program of surgery and chemotherapy for me
>> to follow.
>>
>> You have probably read about how with standard treatment they give you
>> as much drug as your body can tolerate. What that means is that they
>> are giving you enough poison in the hope that it will kill the cancer
>> but that means it is also killing your normal cells. Conventional
>> chemotherapy kills your immune system almost every time. You are then
>> exposed to the dangers of collateral infections... one of the biggest
>> killers in cancer patients.
>>
>> Your oncologist knows all of this.
>>
>> I underwent surgery and conventional chemotherapy when I was originally
>> diagnosed. It was horrible. While recovering from the surgery I almost
>> died from a staph infection. Then came the chemotherapy. I lost my
>> hair, was constantly nauseous and vomiting. My immune system
>> diminished to the point of non existence. Once the chemotherapy was
>> done, I was bedridden for most of the day for 6 months. It took me
>> another 12 months to get the toxicity out of my body and recover some
>> semblance of energy for life and work.
>>
>> By that time I was in recurrence and being recommended to have another
>> surgery followed by chemotherapy. I had faced death twice and now they
>> were asking me to do it again. I was terrified and would rather have
>> faced the disease than their "cure". My story is like so many others.
>
> Here's where you lose me (on your testimonial)
> What date was the recurrence diagnosed? Where's the pathology report?
> Where's the labwork reports?
> What was your FSH and LH levels after the first surgery?
> What were the levels upon "recurrence"?
> You have website. You could put these information(s) and/or other relevant
> ones on your website
> , so we can view the proof. Or email
> http://www.home.gil.com.au/~moringa/index.htm with the information.
>
> All I can find is a small (30 ) perhaps carefully selected patients in
> Uruguay
> Cancer Chemother Pharmacol (2004) 53: 220-224
> Insulin-induced enhancement of antitumoral response to methotrexate in
> breast cancer patients
>
> Abstract Purpose: It has been reported that insulin increases the
> cytotoxic
> effect in vitro of methotrexate by as
> much as 10,000-fold. The purpose of this study was to explore the clinical
> value of insulin as a potentiator of
> methotrexate. Patients and methods: Included in this prospective,
> randomized clinical trial were 30 women
> with metastatic breast cancer resistant to fluorouracil + Adriamycin +
> cyclophosphamide and also resistant to
> hormone therapy with measurable lesions. Three groups each of ten patients
> received two 21-day courses of the
> following treatments: insulin + methotrexate, methotrexate, and insulin,
> respectively. In each patient, the size
> of the target tumor was measured before and after treatment according to
> the Response Evaluation Criteria
> In Solid Tumors. The changes in the size of the target tumor in the three
> groups were compared statistically.
>
> Results: Under the trial conditions, the methotrexate treated group and
> the
> insulin-treated group responded
> most frequently with progressive disease. The group treated with insulin +
> methotrexate responded most
> frequently with stable disease. The median increase in tumor size was
> significantly lower with insulin +
> methotrexate than with each drug used separately.
> Discussion: Our results confirmed in vivo the results of previous in vitro
> studies showing clinical evidence that
> insulin potentiates methotrexate under conditions where insulin alone does
> not promote an increase in tumor
> growth. Therefore, the chemotherapy antitumoral activity must have been
> enhanced by the biochemical
> events elicited in tumor cells by insulin. Conclusions: In
> multidrug-resistant metastatic breast cancer, methotrexate
> + insulin produced a significant antitumoral response that was not seen
> with either methotrexate or
> insulin used separately.
>
> I'll post the link to it if Peter or Steph want to have a look...
> I think I'd require more than that before paying $10 or $20,000 for a
> treatment.
> J
>

I've already said. It's just baseless, unscientific, twaddle.


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