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Home | Disease & Illness | Breast Cancer I'm quite cynical about Breast Cancer Awareness Month. All throughout October I see stories about brave cancer survivors- women who survived their toxic treatments and went on to run marathons. I see stories about new, expensive cancer breakthroughs... on broadcasts lucratively sponsored by pharmaceutical companies. The same multinational corporations that also manufacture plastics, pesticides and fragrance chemicals that actually cause cancer! Whether you count by dollars or numbers of people employed by it, Cancer is one of the largest industries in the country. How is it that the companies that cause cancer also manufacture the cancer drugs? News programs are little more than propaganda machines for the pharmaceutical industry. Watch carefully this month. How many breast cancer stories will show women being healed by natural, non-patented medicine? None. Why is it that the research we're asked to fund looks for new treatments (as long as they can be patented), but never at the carcinogenic effects of plastics, pesticides and fragrance chemicals? Because it would rock the industrial boat that funds the research. Their definition of "prevention" is earlier detection. My definition of "prevention" is not getting it in the first place! So why did I choose to risk my life with alternative medicine? Two women whom I loved very much died of breast cancer not long before I got it. More accurately, they died of their cancer treatments. One was like a mother to me, the other, like a sister. They were both seemingly healthy when the cancer was discovered. Indeed one had no tumor site at all. At her annual physical, the doctor found some cancer cells trapped in a lymph node. That's what lymph nodes are supposed to do. Her immune system was working well. They gave her every test they could to find the location of the cancer, to no avail. Then they proceeded to bombard the poor woman with "as much chemo as we can give you without actually killing you." After that, they gave her radiation therapy because the cancer cells resembled the breast cancer for which she had had a mastectomy eighteen years earlier. Once she had no immune system left, the cancer that her body had been keeping at bay took over with a vengeance. It spread to her hip bone. They radiated it. Oops! Too strong. The radiation killed her hip bone so she needed a hip replacement. More chemo. No more visits from her beloved grandchildren because she had no immunity to germs. The bone cancer spread to her arm. She had a painful surgery for that. Then to her skull- exactly where her mobile phone antenna had touched her head. The last three years of life for this once-vital, beautiful woman were spent in pain, wretched illness and isolation. She never complained once. She just accepted it as her fate. I held her hand as she died. My other friend was only in her late 30's when they found the lump. She was a healthy vegetarian who practiced yoga, meditation, and alternative medicine. One day when she was getting a chiropractic adjustment, the doctor said her thyroid felt a little funny and suggested she get it checked. She did, and it was fine. But the new doctor felt a breast lump and prescribed a mammogram and biopsy. Yep, take a little sealed-up tumor, crush it, radiate it and poke it repeatedly with a needle. Then act surprised when it suddenly metastasizes like crazy. The doctor actually told my friend that she had likely had the tumor for at least ten years. My friend wanted to do alternative cancer therapies. Her oncologist said she should only do them as an adjunct to conventional treatment. Within a year she had lost her breast and was almost killed by chemo and radiation. The natural medicines, which are much more gentle, had no hope of working on a body that was so ravaged and sickened. Within another year she had lost the other breast, had more rounds of chemo, and died shortly after that. The next year I found my lump, and within six weeks I had six lumps. I consulted with an M.D. and several alternative doctors that were not in the mainstream. I read a bunch of books they recommended. I prayed and fretted, then decided that, live or die, I was going with non-toxic alternative medicine. I called my late friend's husband and told him the news. He said, "Whatever you do, don't let the doctors get their hands on you. My wife told me before she died that she was sorry she ever listened to them. I believe that if she had gone a natural route she would be alive today." So here is my advice for Breast Cancer Awareness:
I wrote a resource paper describing "How I Beat Cancer". It is intended as a tool to help people choose the best treatments for their individual needs. Wishing you and yours the best of health! Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
Siri Amrit Kaur is a cancer survivor and proponent of natural medicine. She started Tigerflag Natural Perfumery at www.tigerflag.com to give people beautiful and healthful options to chemically-laden perfumes, soaps and candles.
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