Chemotherapy and stem cell transplant will not extend lives!

A controversial breast cancer treatment consisting of a combination of high-dose chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant does not extend the lives of patients, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

“This report should absolutely, definitively and for all time close the door on this treatment,” said Dr. Larry Norton of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

During the 1980s and 1990s, it became popular to treat women with a high dose of chemotherapy after surgery, in order to kill off any cancer cells that had not been removed by the initial procedure. Before surgery, surgeons would extract stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow. After the chemotherapy, these cells would be transplanted back into the body in order to restore the immune cells that had been killed by chemotherapy.

The procedure was controversial from the start, in part due to the toxicity of Chemotherapy drugs. Such drugs are particularly dangerous at high doses, and some women subjected to the treatment in the United States have died from toxicity. Even in those who survive, such a high dose of chemotherapy drugs is incredibly hard on the body and leads to a high degree of suffering. Finally, many health insurers were initially unwilling to pay for what they considered an experimental and non-proven treatment.

Researchers analyzed the results of 15 separate trials involving a total of 6,200 early stage breast cancer patients. The lymph nodes of all the patients tested positive for cancer following surgery, but in no cases had the cancer spread to other organs. The researchers found that women who underwent the high-dose chemotherapy did not relapse as quickly as women who underwent more conventional treatments, but they did not live any longer!

VITAMIN D EFFECTIVE CHEMO-PREVENTATIVE AND AGENT

It has been suggested that vitamin D (3) is an effective chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agent for breast cancer.
I found it amusing and yet detrimental when instructed to stay out of the sun whilst I was undergoing Chemotherapy. They claimed I would burn more easily on account of the type of drugs I was on.
Yet the research is so promising the National Cancer Institute stated there is general agreement among experts that vitamin D deficiency is associated with a higher prevalence of cancer and several other diseases.
Read my book on Vitamin D and learn many true facts that are being obliterated by the pharmecuticals endorsing sunblocks.

Effects of Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy doesn’t exclusively target cancer cells it also targets and harms your good cells, destroying some of your body in the process. All of your fast growing cells will be affected these of course include hair follicles. As a result, many chemotherapy patients lose their hair, develop immune deficiencies, lose weight and vomit. Chemotherapy poisons your body as a whole in an attempt to kill the cancer cells before the “treatment” brings your body to an unrecoverable state.
If even just a few cells escape this onslaught the chemotherapy may become useless and cancer can re-establish itself or metastasize elsewhere. Metastasized cancer is very hard if not impossible to eradicate then with the conventional treatments.

As Gary Null and James Feast write, “(After chemotherapy,) the hope is the cancer is going to be totally dead and you are only half dead and recover.” Unfortunately, some people are more than “half dead” after chemotherapy and remain damaged for the rest of their lives, no matter how long or how short that life may be. They never realize that according to many alternative health practitioners, there are safer ways of combating many types of cancer.

In response to chemotherapy’s many side effects, Dr. Atkins says in Burton Goldberg’s Alternative Medicine, “Only in situations in which chemotherapy is proven to be effective and curative would I recommend it. In general, this might be testicular cancer.”

Breast cancer survivor

Helo and welcome to this blog site,
I am a breast cancer survivor and I have set up this blog page to interact with other breast cancer survivors. If you have a story to tell or a question to ask this is the place to do it.
I am 54 years old, was first diagnosed in 2004, have had a recurrance and this was thus followed by a double mastectomy, lymph node removal on both sides and chemotherapy.
I have done a whole heap of research since and have dedicated a web page to my journey. Please feel free to visit by clicking here….