Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy has even less to recommend it. This treatment involves the use of highly toxic drugs to destroy the malignant cells of the tumor. Unfortunately, these cyto-toxic are non-selective and although they are successful in destroying cancerous cells they also destroy healthly cells. The cyto-toxic drugs are amongst the most toxic substances used in medicine and are also capable of inducing cancer. Furthermore, the doses required for the destruction of cancerous cells are not much lower than the doses which are fatal to the healthly cells. The side effects of chemotherapy can be severe including anorexia, vomiting, nausea, renal disfunction, hair loss, liver and kidney damage, blood loss, diarrhoea, skin ulcers, mental confusion and sever emotional depression. Again, like radiotherapy, chemotherapy has a counterproductive and debilitaating action upon the bodys natural defense system and pays no respect to the underliying causes of cancer.

Six million people still die of cancer worldwide each year. In America alone, one million people are under medical care at any time for cancer. Of these, 395,000 will die annually. The success or otherwise of orthodox treatments for cancer can best be summed up by Doctor Ivan Illich: "We do have increasing eveidence that those who are treated for malignant disease, at best have an earlier onset of anguish, a prolonged period of impairment and a greater intensity of pain than those who succeed in escaping the Doctor." Doctor Hardin Jones of the University of Califoria states: "My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live upto to 4 or 5 times longer than treated individuals."