| Can your liver cancer prognosis be improved? Karon | | | | that found a common antibiotic was successful in |
| Beattie, a cancer survivor, has compiled a cancer | | | | eliminating liver cancer. In 2004, Stanford scientists |
| treatment reference book detailing over 350 | | | | were able to "turn off" a cancer-causing gene in mice |
| alternative cancer treatments that have been used | | | | suffering liver cancer, turning cancer cells back to |
| by thousands of people who beat cancer. Although | | | | normal. In addtion, the author provides 104 first-hand |
| liver cancer is not highly responsive to conventional | | | | accounts of people who beat liver cancer using |
| cancer treatments, Beattie gives numerous accounts | | | | natural and alternative treatments. If stories like this |
| of people surviving liver cancer by alternative | | | | are true, why are they not a standard treatment for |
| treatments. She states that these treatments are | | | | liver and other cancers? |
| not covered by the FDA and usually not patentable | | | | According to Beattie, the creators of the gentle and |
| by drug companies, resulting in poor knowledge | | | | non-toxic treatments detailed in her book, are |
| among doctors. | | | | respected Nobel Prize winners, doctors, biochemists, |
| Specifically in relation to liver cancer, Beattie's book, | | | | scientists and Ph.D.'s pre-eminent in their fields. She |
| "Natural Cancer Treatments That Work", describes a | | | | believes that many doctors may not be aware of |
| treatment that heats tumors without damaging | | | | these treatments because they can only prescribe, |
| surrounding tissue. She cites survival rates of 78.1% | | | | and indeed are trained to prescribe treatments that |
| at four years after diagnosis of liver cancer with | | | | are regulated by the FDA. Many of the alternative |
| cirrhosis of the liver, for patients who had failed to | | | | treatments she lists involve herbs and vitamins that |
| respond to chemotherapy and radiation. This seems | | | | are outside the jurisdiction of the FDA. |
| an astonishing outcome for a cancer given a poor | | | | Cancer sufferers and their loved ones will find these |
| prognosis by oncologists. | | | | compelling accounts hard to ignore in their quest to |
| Beattie goes on to detail a Stanford University study | | | | survive cancer and reclaim their lives. |