Johns Hopkins Is Not Finally Admitting There Are Alternative Treatments To Chemotherapy For Cancer

I don't recollect if I've mentioned it before, but I probably have, that being that I am a 26 year cancer survivor.

This week a high school classmate of mine died after a 4 year battle with brain cancer.

He was not the first in my class to die from cancer.

Currently several girls from my class are fighting breast cancer.

I think a study should be done to see why so many of my fellow classmates from the Skagit Valley have contracted cancer. Could it be the pesticides used on the agricultural fields, where kids picked berries, that is the cancer causer?

When I found out I had cancer it was at the time that the AIDS epidemic was starting. AIDS compromised the immune system. What did most AIDS victims die from? Cancer.

But, when I mentioned the obvious connection between cancer and the immune system, back then, my doctor scoffed. This was to be the first of many incidents that thoroughly soured me on the medical business.

When the tumor results came back for my particular cancer there was a high necrosis factor, meaning the tumor was dying. I argued that my immune system was already taking care of the tumor. I argued that the human body constantly produces cancer cells which the immune system eliminates.

I was scoffed at.

I read all the alternative therapy info I could find.

I rebelled against the conventional treatment. After the surgery I refused a followup removal of half my lymph system, knowing, by then, that the lymph system was integral to the immune system.

It did not take much research to learn that the treatment protocol for my particular cancer had not changed since the 1950s, hence I was able to anticipate each recommendation by my doctor, to his increasing aggravation and eventual chastising of me for trying to be a doctor.

I am very grateful I did not follow my doctor's orders. Knowing what is known now.

Had I allowed the lymphadenectomy the next treatment would have been chemotherapy. Even though a CAT scan and a lymphangiogram and other tests found no tumors.

I was convinced my healthy lifestyle, at the time, of jogging, eating like a health nut and other immune system enhancing behaviors had me on the right track to beating cancer.

26 years later I think it would be hard to make the case I was wrong. Knock on wood.

What got cancer on my mind today, was Betty Jo Bouvier emailing me an article about a supposed Johns Hopkins Cancer Research Update.....

This is an extremely good article. Everyone should read it.

Well, maybe everyone should read it, but the trouble is, Johns Hopkins did not release this Cancer Research Update. It is what is known as an Internet Hoax. That is not to say that there is not a lot of truth in the points being made. It's just that Johns Hopkins did not make these particular points.

But, even though this does not come from Johns Hopkins, I'll print it below anyway, because a lot of it resonates with me as to what I believe to be the truth about cancer (I deleted what I thought were crackpotty parts of this pseudo Johns Hopkins Cancer Research Update).......

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins Cancer Research:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size. 
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime. 
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors. 
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors. 
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system. 
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs. 
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction. 
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications. 
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.