| Alternative cancer cures are different because they | | | | in place then the symptoms start to show. |
| don't use invasive techniques that can cause damage | | | | In alternative medicine, they see the cancer as a |
| to the patient, like conventional methods can. This | | | | result of a general whole body disease. They say |
| comes from how the two sciences look at the | | | | that first comes the symptoms of the illness, and as |
| cancer. Conventional cures see the cancer as a local | | | | a result of those symptoms the tumor is grown. |
| disease that needs to be taken away. Alternative | | | | That is why when they treat a cancer patient, they |
| cures look at the cancer as a generalized, whole | | | | have to figure out the root cause of the cancer and |
| body disease. Let's look at how these change how | | | | that is what they treat. Then once the root cause of |
| the cancer is dealt with. | | | | the disease is dealt with, the cancer will stop growing, |
| With conventional medicine, cancer is seen as a local | | | | and regress completely. |
| disease, which is usually the tumor. That is why they | | | | Alternative cancer cures adopt the principle that |
| use surgery, toxic drugs or irradiation to remove the | | | | cancer is one affecting the whole body, so just |
| tumor. The only problem with this theory is that | | | | getting rid of the one symptom (the tumor), will not |
| there is still some cancer that is left over, or the | | | | cure the individual. There needs to be a balance that |
| cancer is completely wiped out, but then it re-occurs. | | | | is brought to the individual and then their body will be |
| They say that the tumor comes first, and once it is | | | | able to fight the cancer naturally and effectively. |