| Can your brain cancer prognosis be improved? | | | | cancer cells, preventing metastasis. This seems an |
| Oncologists consider brain cancer to be one of the | | | | astonishing outcome for a cancer given a poor |
| deadliest cancers, but Karon Beattie, a cancer | | | | prognosis by oncologists. |
| survivor, has compiled a reference book containing in | | | | Further, Beattie gives 131 first-hand accounts of |
| excess of 350 alternative cancer treatments that | | | | people who beat brain and spinal cord cancers using |
| thousands of cancer patients have used to | | | | alternative and natural treatments. If stories like |
| overcome their condition, including brain cancer. | | | | these are factual, why are the treatments not used |
| Beattie gives accounts of people surviving brain | | | | more widely for brain and other cancers? |
| cancer by natural treatments. She states that these | | | | According to Beattie, even though the creators of |
| treatments are not within the FDA's jurisdiction, | | | | the treatments listed in her book are respected |
| resulting in low awareness among doctors. | | | | health scientists, few of the treatments have been |
| In one example, Beattie reports that some physicians | | | | formally assessed in human clinical trials. Why? There |
| have used a nutritional supplement to achieve | | | | is little financial incentive for drug companies in natural |
| complete remission of aggressive, stage IV cancers | | | | treatments that they cannot patent, yet thousands |
| that had metastasized. | | | | have successfully used the treatments. Beattie also |
| Specifically in regard to brain cancer, her book, | | | | suggests that many doctors may not know of these |
| "Natural Cancer Treatments That Work", describes | | | | treatments because they are only familiar with |
| how a British doctor successfully treated a Grade 4 | | | | treatments regulated by the FDA. Many of the |
| brain tumor with a herbal mixture. The patient is alive | | | | alternative treatments she lists involve herbs and |
| two years later, long after oncologists had predicted. | | | | vitamins that are beyond the FDA's jurisdiction. |
| Beattie also details a patient whose brain tumor | | | | These intriguing accounts will be hard to ignore for |
| vanished completely after taking a combination of | | | | cancer sufferers and their loved ones in their efforts |
| nutritional supplements known to stop the spread of | | | | to survive cancer and retake their lives. |