| People diagnosed with cancer disease are often | | | | 6. Hair-Loss: |
| devastated. Once the initial shock begins to fade, | | | | Treatment of chemotherapy has been known to |
| they may feel isolated and helpless as they make | | | | result in severe hair-loss. |
| decisions about their treatment program. | | | | 7. Expensive: |
| How good is chemotherapy or other conventional | | | | It is universally known that most treatment of |
| treatment of cancer, and does it effect a permanent | | | | cancer is very expensive and beyond the capacity of |
| cure? This article takes a look at some critical | | | | all but the most wealthy. |
| questions you should ask before you opt for | | | | 8. Survival Rates & Effectiveness: |
| treatment of cancer such as chemotherapy, radiation | | | | According to the findings of clinical trials at a China |
| or surgery. | | | | university, conventional chemotherapy for lung cancer |
| 1. Chemo Fatigue: | | | | was approximately 10% effective. Breast cancer |
| Treatment of chemotherapy results in fatigue which | | | | surgery tends to increase the risk of relapse or |
| lasts several months in some patients. | | | | death within three years. |
| 2. Radiation Damage: | | | | So, if either you or someone near and dear to you is |
| Breast cancer patients using radiation treatment have | | | | a cancer patient, consider the above limitations |
| suffered from radiation injury to the skin. | | | | before you decide whether to go for conventional |
| 3. Toxic Side-effects Of Standard Chemo: | | | | treatment or alternative treatment for cancer. |
| Conventional treatment of cancer can have | | | | Today, the percentage of people dying from cancer |
| destructive side-effects. Treatment of | | | | is about the same as it was in 1950, even after being |
| chemotherapy, for instance, is known to produce | | | | adjusted for age. Despite this fact, the medical |
| toxicity in the patient. skin. Stage IV breast cancer | | | | profession takes much pride in the rigorous scientific |
| patients are known to have refused chemotherapy | | | | research that underpins its approach to cancer |
| for fear of its side-effects. | | | | treatment. |
| 4. Pain & Disfigurement: | | | | Unbelievable as it may seem, 18 months of research |
| Often treatment of cancer results in pain and | | | | by a blue-ribbon research team shows there are over |
| disfigurement, e.g., in the case of treatment of skin | | | | 350 existing natural and alternative cancer |
| cancer. | | | | treatments. People have used these gentle and |
| 5. Some Cancers Are Chemo-Resistant: | | | | non-toxic treatments instead of or alongside |
| Some cancers are chemo-resistant. Also, official | | | | conventional treatment, or after conventional |
| statistics show that people with stage 4 breast, | | | | treatment has failed. What's more, thousands of |
| prostate, colon and lung cancer do not live longer | | | | people are using them RIGHT NOW and beating their |
| after receiving chemotherapy. | | | | cancer! |