Reporting their findings in the journal Nature Medicine, the scientists report that the findings were 'completely unexpected'. Finding evidence of significant DNA damage when examining the effects of chemotherapy on tissue derived from men with prostate cancer, the writings are a big slap in the face to mainstream medical organizations who have been pushing chemotherapy as the only option to cancer patients for years.
The news comes after it was previously ousted by similarly-breaking research that expensive cancer drugs not only fail to treat tumors, but actually make them far worse. The cancer drugs were found to make tumors 'metasize' and grow massively in size after consumption. As a result, the drugs killed the patients more quickly.
Known as WNT16B, scientists who performed the research say that this protein created from chemo treatment boosts cancer cell survival and is the reason that chemotherapy actually ends lives more quickly. Co-author Peter Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle explains:
The team then complimented the statement with a word of their own:"WNT16B, when secreted, would interact with nearby tumour cells and cause them to grow, invade, and importantly, resist subsequent therapy."
Meanwhile, dirt cheap substances like turmeric and ginger have consistently been found to effectively shrink tumors and combat the spread of cancer. In a review of 11 studies, it was found that turmeric use reduced brain tumor size by a shocking 81%. Further research has also shown that turmeric is capable of halting cancer cell growth altogether. One woman recently hit the mainstream headlines by revealing her victory against cancer with the principal spice used being turmeric."Our results indicate that damage responses in benign cells... may directly contribute to enhanced tumour growth kinetics."
This accidental finding reached by scientists further shows the lack of real science behind many 'old paradigm' treatments, despite what many health officials would like you to believe. The truth of the matter is that natural alternatives do not even receive nearly as much funding as pharmaceutical drugs and medical interventions because there's simply no room for profit. If everyone was using turmeric and vitamin D for cancer (better yet cancer prevention), major drug companies would lose out.
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Being a cancer survivor (here's a brief video about my own journey: www.KickCancerInTheCan.com) - and a specialist in the field of preventing and overcoming cancer, with a focus on the body-mind-spirit connection in any illness - this article is no surprise whatsoever to me. I've been teaching, writing and speaking about the fact that we can cut, burn and poison the tumor, but unless we change the underlying conditions, it will return. And the fact is that we damage and destroy the healthy cells as well as the cancer cells with chemo, so our frontline of defense is gone. Thank you for sharing this very important information.
PS: I've also been using turmeric and ginger with my patients. As well as these spices being an important part of my own regime. :-)
. . . and the Earth is Flat" is a book by Lothar Hirneise that can be seen at this Amazon [Link] .
From the Amazon listing:
"In the future there will be two groups of cancer patients. Those who have read this book - and those who are uninformed. For many years Lothar Hirneise has been traveling throughout the world looking for the most successful cancer therapies, and he has been explaining to people that there is much more available than just chemotherapy and irradiation. Recognized internationally as Europe's leading specialist in this area, he describes the results of his years of research in this encyclopedia of non-conventional therapies. The reader will also learn in detail why so-called experts in reality know little about cancer. In addition to descriptions of more than 100 cancer therapies and substances used in treating cancer, the author also explains which cancer therapies are used allopathically, for which types of cancer, and what is imperative for a patient to know before he subjects himself to such therapies. The 3E program, which is based on the analysis of case histories of thousands of people who have survived late stage cancer, is also described for the first time. Learn why so many people die of cancer, and why so many others do not. This book not only supplies an incredible amount of information, it also helps the cancer patient to find his own way to cure cancer through the active exercises of the 3E program."
The first link is broken (the one with the word "findings").
What I don't understand is why NaturalSociety didn't include the link to the original publication at Nature Medicine, even if it's just to show readers the article is real. Of course you have to pay to view it or be member of a research center subscribed to it.
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