Re: Difference between conventional and natural or alternative cancer treatments

hthexjccviwo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
To a conventional physician, the tumor is the enemy.
Cancer is viewed as a local disease, namely the tumor. By cutting out
the tumor, irradiating it, or flooding the body with toxic (and often
carcinogenic) drugs, the conventional physician hopes to destroy the
tumor and restore the patient to health.
But all too often, the cancer is still present and has metastasized, or
re-occurs.
In contrast, the alternative physician regards cancer as one that
involves the whole body.
The tumor is merely a symptom and the cancer treatment aims to correct
the root causes of disease in the whole body.

How do the processes of metastasis or local recurrence show that a
tumour is merely a symptom of something else; -- and of what? -- that
is never specified in this common alternative argument. By
definition metastasis means something that has spread from a previously
localised cancer.

It also tells us nothing about the basic nature and causes of cancer.
The causes are innumerable, but they all seem to produce thus far
irreversible gene mutations in the cancer cell. Even these processes
may be localised to a specific organ or part thereof (e.g. cancer of
the bronchus in smokers and cervical cancer from HPV)..

It is true that conventional treatments don't always work, but this is
not because cancer is a "disease of the whole body". It is because
the cancer has spread to involve vital or inaccessible organs before it
is diagnosed. Nowadays, bad outcomes are not infrequently due to the
influence of this kind of misleading alternative propaganda, with
cancer sufferers not understanding that early and thorough treatment of
the local cancer is essential to have any chance of cure, as well as
preventing some horrific possibilities when the local cancer is allowed
to progress .

Metastases occcur in about fifty per cent or so of solid cancers.
Most cancers that don't can be readily cured. Even when metastasis
occurs, if it has not spread beyond the regional lymph glands there is
still a reasonable chance of cure with many types of cancer. Even some
distant metastases can be cured by the addition of chemotherapy (e.g.
testis and many childhood cancers) or surgical resection (e.g. colon
cancer secondaries in the liver).

There are many other overt lies and distortions on the page we are
directed to.

Before you buy these books, ask for a sample of their testimonials and
decide whether they really show what they are supposed to. I offer
some advice on how to do that on my web page.

Peter Moran

www.cancerwatcher.com

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