"Participating" In Your Cancer Recovery
I'm happy to say my brother finally went for a second opinion on his cancer therapy treatments for his colon cancer....although I feel it would have been more beneficial had he gone for a second and third opinion prior to having the surgery to remove part of his colon.
His main reason for taking this step was the inconsistencies he was receiving at each step of his treatment from his current medical team. First off, prior to surgery he was told that he had a 20% chance of having a colostomy bag and if he did, it would be 2-3 months only. Well as soon as he got out of surgery, he was told that he would have to have the colostomy but still just for 2-3 months. Once released from the hospital, he was then told he would have to have it for at least 6 months!
Then he was told for his chemotherapy treatments that he would have a little box belted on that he could hide under his shirt, and would have to wear for 2-3 days while the chemo was being pumped into his body. When he went in for his appointment to have this contraption "installed"....well....now it's not a little box that he'll wear under his shirt, but a "fanny pack"!
To say he's getting discouraged with the conventional medical physicians, is an understatement. He lost his cool a little with this last change and actually decided that they weren't going to tell him what he could and couldn't do. He told them he would only go with the smaller container....period!
I read an article written by an M.D. who is Medical Director of The Miro Center for Integrative Medicine in Evanston, Illinois and Professional Advisory Board Member, NOHA., that hit the nail on the head when she stated that all doctors should be treated as "consultants" in your quest to cure any disease or injury. They know only what they've been taught in medical school, which in the United States, is usually limited to whatever specialty they've studied....period. It does not encompass other methodologies that could also enhance the standard medical treatments because that is not included in their studies!
Here is another article done by scientists in California that have studied Asian herbs to find out if they would be effective against fighting breast cancer. Yes, they tested a lot of them.....and the vast majority had no affect on the cancer itself (to me...that doesn't mean they would not help in you fight against cancer)....but they did find two that definitely attacked the cells and killed them! This was in 2001! Why was this not on every front page of every newspaper and headlined on every tv news hour? This should have been major news....yet, like me, I bet you didn't hear about it.
Just more info for opening up your horizons in "participating" in your cancer treatment and not be just another statistic for the typical medical industry to add to their numbers. You have nothing to loose and everything to gain by adding other methods of treatment to your arsenal against cancer.
His main reason for taking this step was the inconsistencies he was receiving at each step of his treatment from his current medical team. First off, prior to surgery he was told that he had a 20% chance of having a colostomy bag and if he did, it would be 2-3 months only. Well as soon as he got out of surgery, he was told that he would have to have the colostomy but still just for 2-3 months. Once released from the hospital, he was then told he would have to have it for at least 6 months!
Then he was told for his chemotherapy treatments that he would have a little box belted on that he could hide under his shirt, and would have to wear for 2-3 days while the chemo was being pumped into his body. When he went in for his appointment to have this contraption "installed"....well....now it's not a little box that he'll wear under his shirt, but a "fanny pack"!
To say he's getting discouraged with the conventional medical physicians, is an understatement. He lost his cool a little with this last change and actually decided that they weren't going to tell him what he could and couldn't do. He told them he would only go with the smaller container....period!
I read an article written by an M.D. who is Medical Director of The Miro Center for Integrative Medicine in Evanston, Illinois and Professional Advisory Board Member, NOHA., that hit the nail on the head when she stated that all doctors should be treated as "consultants" in your quest to cure any disease or injury. They know only what they've been taught in medical school, which in the United States, is usually limited to whatever specialty they've studied....period. It does not encompass other methodologies that could also enhance the standard medical treatments because that is not included in their studies!
Here is another article done by scientists in California that have studied Asian herbs to find out if they would be effective against fighting breast cancer. Yes, they tested a lot of them.....and the vast majority had no affect on the cancer itself (to me...that doesn't mean they would not help in you fight against cancer)....but they did find two that definitely attacked the cells and killed them! This was in 2001! Why was this not on every front page of every newspaper and headlined on every tv news hour? This should have been major news....yet, like me, I bet you didn't hear about it.
Just more info for opening up your horizons in "participating" in your cancer treatment and not be just another statistic for the typical medical industry to add to their numbers. You have nothing to loose and everything to gain by adding other methods of treatment to your arsenal against cancer.
posted by J. Martin at 10:20 PM
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