| There are claims by both researchers and cancer | | | | alternative treatments, either exclusively or in |
| survivors alike, that alternative cancer therapy really | | | | combination with conventional medical treatment. |
| works, even in the most aggressive of cancers, such | | | | The truth is that today, as many Americans are |
| as pancreatic. Eighteen months of research by Nobel | | | | dying from cancer as in 1950, even after being |
| prize winners, doctors, scientists, biochemists, and | | | | adjusted for age. Despite this fact, it seems too |
| Ph.D.'s state their findings uncovered over 350 natural | | | | many medical professionals are only concerned with |
| and alternative non-specific cancer treatments. | | | | treating this disease through rigorous treatments |
| Non-specific meaning that cancer cells no matter | | | | such as chemo and radiation. It is also possible that |
| where they are residing in the body, react to these | | | | many of the medical professionals are only |
| natural and alternative treatments by either curing | | | | knowledgeable about, and can prescribe treatments |
| the cancer completely, increasing the tumor response | | | | regulated by the FDA. Many of the natural and |
| rate combined with chemo for more shrinkage, or in | | | | alternative cancer therapy treatments contain herbs |
| terminal or non operable cases increased survival time | | | | and vitamins often found in readily available natural |
| by 64% , and a 59% increase of survival time in | | | | food sources, which falls outside the jurisdiction of |
| patients with metastasized breast cancer using the | | | | the FDA. |
| alternative and natural treatments combined with | | | | It is not unreasonable to think that natural and |
| chemo. | | | | alternative cancer therapy exists, and can work. |
| The researchers also claim to have found a | | | | Antibiotics are a perfect example. They are |
| substance being used in Japanese hospitals that | | | | harvested from mold, and are given to fight bacterial |
| reduces hair loss to "slight" as opposed to "severe." | | | | infections such as pneumonia, meningitis, scarlet |
| This substance is also supposed to inhibit metastasis, | | | | fever, strep throat, blood poisoning, gangrene, and a |
| improve survival rates, and relieve other side effects | | | | host of other bacterial infections. Here is a logical |
| of chemo. There is supposed documented evidence | | | | question - If a fungi combats bacterial infections, |
| that the natural and alternative treatments work, | | | | what other natural remedies are out there that we |
| with over 2,000 testimonials from current or recent | | | | are not aware of, and what are they capable of |
| cancer patients that have utilized the natural and | | | | combating? |