I had intended on posting more on this blog starting this fall, but we had a major health crisis in October. It turns out that Kala had a large (and rapidly growing) growth  inside her. She was operated on in Mid-October. It turns out that the growth was cancerous and she was diagnosed with Stage 3 Endometrial cancer. Yikes!!

If you know Kala she is the last person that you would expect to get cancer. She lives a very healthy, active lifestyle. We eat all organic and do not use personal products with chemicals, etc etc. As it turns out this cancer has been growing in her body for 8-10 years….it started long before she became a “health nut”. She has speculated that it may have been caused by environmental toxins from a couple of suspect places that she lived at around that time, though she may not ever know the exact cause.

I remember how shocked I was when the doctor told me right after her surgery. He of course recommended chemotherapy and said that she would not live unless she had it. Being very much into holistic approaches to health I was very skeptical. I did however reserve judgment on it and decided to at least look into chemotherapy along with all of our options.

I went into my research with an attempt to be as unbiased as I could. What I found about chemotherapy was absolutely shocking. My first surprise was the abysmally low “success” rate for chemotherapy patients. I say “success” rate in quotes because how success is defined is living 5 years. If you die one day after 5 years after your treatment has started you are counted as a “success”. In fact chemotherapy is not designed to cure cancer at all, but to put it in remission.

Statistics are very difficult to find in researching cancer, however even by their own admission survival rates for chemotherapy patients is very low at an average of 2.1% in the U.S. (http://truthquest2.com/chemotherapyStats.htm), with higher averages for some types and lower for others. That’s right…it is  2.1%!! That means if you did NOTHING you would have only a 2% less chance of getting better than if you pumped poison into your body with all of it’s dire side effects (and they are dire…see: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=21716

Before you begin to think that I am against all forms of Western Medicine I would like to give it its props. It is *excellent* for many things…in particular they have amazing diagnostic tools (x-rays, catscans, blood testing etc) and they are excellent at mechanical things (broken limbs, certain types of surgery etc)…in fact I believe that Kala may have died without having that mass removed as it had started breaking apart…she got very, very ill very shortly before her operation so she got it removed in the nick of time.

In the hospital it all seemed magical….they put the patient to sleep, cut them open and remove things, stitch them back up and afterwards have amazing pain killers to aid the healing process. Wow! I was duly impressed…. Then of course they had to ruin the magic by serving her white bread. canned chicken soup, homogenized milk and jello for meals. It is true that they are absolutely CLUELESS when it comes to nutrition and its importance in health and healing.

Unfortunately they also seem to be stumbling around in the dark when it comes to many of their treatments to disease. They have three cures for cancer and ONLY three cures: surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. That is it. No other cures are considered or discussed…in fact all other cancer cures are scoffed at, denounced, ridiculed and laughed at.  Kala’s doctor told me “this isn’t something drinking some cups of herbal tea will cure” (although I knew that essiac tea has in fact cured thousands of people of cancer, but I wasn’t about to bring that up!).

Since we already did the surgery part of the cure, chemotherapy was the next round according to them. Chemotherapy was started in the 1940’s.  Now over 60 years later with untold numbers of researchers and literally billions of dollars spent on research and chemotherapy was still the ONLY option given to Kala. They told her “chemo or die”.  And there is good reason for them saying this. The first is that most of them truly believe it. They have been taught that there are no other treatments….if there were other successful treatments wouldn’t they have been taught it? Wouldn’t it be in medical journals? (the answer to that can be found in discovering who funds medical schools and who provides the advertising revenue for medical journals). The second is that it is illegal for them to recommend any other possible cancer treatment. They would be rejected and expelled from the community of doctors and could even lose their license to practice medicine.  They have a “protocol” and they must follow it if they want to stay in the club. And hey why rock the boat when you are making several hundred thousand a year?

And this brings up the real heart of the matter….MONEY! Chemotherapy is a very, very lucrative business. Chemo treatment can run in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars (which in many cases not all is covered by insurance). It is a BIG business with some people making lots and lots of money. Of course they don’t want someone coming along saying that they have had great success using essiac tea or apricot seeds or enzymes or any of the other reasonably priced alternative cancer therapies. There is no money to be made selling apricot seeds, but there is plenty to be made selling bags of ridiculously expensive chemicals with no competition. I was looking at the cancer magazines that the hospital gave us. They were filled with ads of medicines that you could buy to alleviate chemotherapy side effects!

And so the alternative cancer therapy movement is persecuted at every opportunity. I won’t go into all the details here, but as I started researching it I was absolutely shocked at the amount of persecution that these brave researchers have endured. They have been mocked, ridiculed, slandered, lost medical licenses and even been imprisoned. Look a little into this and you will be as shocked as I was. And it also makes you ask the question WHY? (hint: reread the previous paragraph).

Of course on the surface they say that it is so people won’t be taken in by “quacks” and “charlatans” and will get “real” medicine from “trained professionals”.  Really? The truth is that there are many researchers that have had startling good success rates over decades of research and treating patients. While not every alternative cancer therapy has that kind of background or success rate it is clear that many of them match or surpass the official chemo success rate and this with little to no negative side effects!

You may not know exactly what chemotherapy is. In brief, it is (literally) poison pumped into the patients body that is designed to kill fast replicating cells in their body. This of course includes, but is not limited to cancer cells which multiply rapidly. So in addition to killing cancer cells, other cells in their body are literally killed. This not only creates many horrific side effects, but can  greatly harm the patients immune system so if the chemo does not work, then they  are screwed because their body’s natural defenses have been greatly weakened.

We were surprised at the lack of resistance from Kala’s family when she told them she wasn’t going the chemo route. Of course there was fear, but the truth was that all of them (and probably you) have know people that have died during chemo treatment. In fact some of us can name many people that we know who have died during chemo treatment. The question comes to mind…did the cancer kill them or did the chemo kill them

Luckily there have been many researchers who have been willing to step outside the system and look for alternatives to chemo and radiation therapy. We are working with a naturopath who is a former student of Dr. Nicholas Gonzales who is very well known and has worked with decades developing a technique that uses pancreatic enzymes along with a personalized nutritional consult and several detoxifying treatments with great success far surpassing their paltry 2.1% success rate.

There are many other researchers and treatments available and I strongly suggest that cancer patients consider all of their options before chemo, radiation or even surgery (depending on the case). There is a lot of information available online…. I suggest the book “Cancer: Step Outside the Box” for a great overview of alternative cancer treatments.

Know that no treatment of cancer whether it be chemo or alternative has anything close to a 100% success rate. If you have cancer there is a possibility that you can die from it no matter what you do. What’s important is that you consider all of your alternatives and not just rely on the advice of your doctor. Take your health into your own hands. If you want a second treatment do not go to another establishment doctor…again they have three and ONLY three treatments to cancer: surgery, chemo and radiation. Get an opinion from someone like Nicholas Gonzalez who has years and years of experience with alternative treatments. Then make your decision. Then you will be taking charge of your own health!

Finally I’d like to mention that what I found in my research is that it is not only about what treatment you choose for yourself. I believe that many people who try alternative cancer treatments fail because they are not taking into account other factors. Specifically these have to do with diet, lifestyle choices, emotional issues and deeper issues in their bodily energetic systems. Addressing these things and making positive changes is absolutely crucial in not only getting rid of cancer, but preventing it from recurring.

I will be posting up more posts on this subject in the future. If you are interested in helping us out we are currently accepting donations to help with the costs of Kala’s treatment. You can find the link on the sidebar of this site.

To a long and healthy life for all of us!!