| I have related the sad but not unusual case story of | | | | routinely recommended for cancer patients despite |
| Gene in Part 1 of this three-part article. What had | | | | the fact that there is no proven benefit to survival ... |
| happened to Gene is what I have been seeing | | | | Although cancer specialists know that very few |
| happen all too often. After chemotherapy and | | | | cancer patients are cured by radiotherapy, they |
| radiotherapy the cancer spread to the bone. I have | | | | continue to recommend it widely because they |
| often wondered if the treatments had anything to | | | | consider it to be a relatively harmless procedure." |
| do with the metastasis. Not much information can be | | | | In the booklet, Radiation Therapy and You, published |
| obtained from the medical literature. It appears that | | | | by the US National Cancer Institute, the following |
| such question is not important? Or is it a matter of | | | | assurances are given: "Although some normal cells are |
| "natural course of event"? I tend to think otherwise. | | | | affected by the radiation, most of them appear to |
| Read about radiotherapy in any standard textbook | | | | recover more fully from the effects of radiation than |
| and it is acknowledged that radiation itself can cause | | | | the cancer cells. Doctors carefully limit the intensity of |
| cancer. In Gene's case, it is even acknowledged that | | | | the treatment and the area being treated so that |
| the increased uptake of tracer seen in L3, L4 and L5 | | | | the cancer will be affected more than the normal |
| vertebrae is most likely due to DXT. Medical people | | | | healthy tissues. Radiation therapy is an effective way |
| use medical terms that may be hard for a layperson | | | | to treat many kinds of cancer in any part of the |
| to understand. So the information written in a medical | | | | body." |
| report often goes unnoticed or not understood. DXT | | | | This is the official version of the "goodness" of |
| is medical abbreviation for deep X-ray treatment or | | | | radiotherapy. Do you believe it? Hear what other |
| radiotherapy and this statement above explicitly | | | | doctors have to say about radiotherapy. |
| implicates the disastrous role of radiotherapy in | | | | John Cairns, a professor at the Harvard University |
| treating Gene's breast cancer. It has done much | | | | School of Public Health (in Scientific American, |
| harm. | | | | November 1985) said: "The majority of cancers |
| Are we to believe that Gene is just one rare | | | | cannot be cured by radiation because the dose of |
| unfortunate victim. I don't believe that this is so. | | | | X-rays required to kill the cancer cells would also kill |
| Dr. Richard Evans (in The Cancer Breakthrough | | | | the patient." John Lee et. al. (in What Your Doctor |
| You've Never Heard Of) wrote: "It is my opinion that | | | | May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer) wrote: |
| adjuvant radiation is used more often than necessary | | | | "Radiation reduces (breast cancer) death by 13.2 |
| ... The long-term risks of radiation therapy have not | | | | percent, it increases death from other causes, mostly |
| been completely determined." John Robbins has to | | | | heart disease by 21.2 percent. The obvious conclusion |
| say in his book (Reclaiming Our Health) "Radiation is | | | | is: the treatment was a success but the patient died! |