Cancer

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CANCER

When someone has cancer, they often need to have surgery. The surgery can be simple, as in the removal of a small tumor, or, complex if the tumor has grown to involve nearby organs, tissues, and glands.     In some cases, more than one procedure is required. The first procedure is a biopsy that [...]

Alternative Cancer Therapies – VITAMIN B17

The Remarkable Secret Nutrient That One Doctor Claims Can Lead To “Cancer Cells Dying Off Like Flies”     In the kingdom of the Hunzas, high up in the Himalayas, people commonly live to be over 100 and some incedibly to 120. Remarkable no case of cancer has ever been recorded here, a fact which [...]

Alternative Cancer Therapies – Macrobiotic Diet

A macrobiotic diet is based on eating grains as the basic food, supplemented with various vegetables. It avoids using any highly processed or refined foods. As well as what you eat, macrobiotics also has advice on how you should eat it: chewing the food thoroughly is part of the diet.     At the core [...]

Alternative Cancer Therapies – Biofeedback

Biofeedback involves the use of monitoring instruments attached by electrodes to the head or body, to give the person suffering from cancer information about their heart rate, temperature, blood pressure, muscle tension and so on, in the form of signals to the patient that are provided by the therapist using the machine.     With [...]

Alternative Cancer Therapies – Detoxification

Strictly speaking, a toxin is a poisonous substance produced by living cells or organisms. But among the substances known to cause cancer there are a number of poisons made by humans or released into the environment by human activity, and these are commonly included in discussions of detoxification treatments for cancer. Our bodies are designed [...]

Alternative Cancer Therapies – Electrotherapy

It is known that enzymes control cell activity. The most important enzyme for making DNA, and so for the growth of any cell, is ribonucleotide reductase, which building blocks of DNA. This enzyme is heavily involved in the growth of cancerous cells, so a lot of research has gone into creating drugs to use in [...]

Alternative Cancer Therapies – Herbal Extracts

Herbal medicine, sometimes known as phytotherapy, has been practised for hundreds of years. It uses the chemical properties of plants, or of mixtures of plant extracts, to treat illness and to promote health. As is the case with many alternative therapies, the aim of herbal medicine is to restore your body’s ability to protect and [...]

Alternative Cancer Therapies – Hulda Clark’s Zapper

Claims by Hulda Clark to be able to cure cancer using a special machine called a “zapper” – at great expense to the patient, from a clinic in Mexico – are not founded on any scientific principles. Clark has got a couple of (very old) American and Canadian degrees in natural sciences and is a [...]

Alternative Cancer Therapies – Magnetic Resonance Therapy

There is considerable controversy about the healing effects of magnets and electro-magnetic fields. Those advocating the therapy claim it can relieve pain caused by arthritis, headaches, including migraine, and stress. It is also claimed the therapy can heal broken bones, improve circulation, reverse degenerative diseases, and cure cancer. You will also find arguments that magnets [...]

Alternative Cancer Therapies – Oxygen Therapies

Oxygen therapy is a treatment that has been developed in the light of knowledge of the role oxygen may play in discouraging the growth of cancer cells. While oxygen is said to destroy the cells that cause the disease, the benefits of oxygen therapies have not been scientifically proven. The need for extra oxygen is [...]