Grieving and Creativity

By Janette Thomas
Any parent faced with the prospect of losing a child is in one of the darkest, saddest places imaginable. Faith, friends and medical assistance all look to bring comfort and of course they do, but nothing takes away the reality staring you in the face. Your child needs you to be strong and to make the last months of life as pleasant and soothing as possible.

My husband and I asked our teenage son what he would like to do as the cancer inched its way through his body. Always positive and gifted with a happy disposition his answer amazed us. He wanted no talk of death and dying but rather a focus on life and creativity. He was confident about his final destination and wanted the remainder of his journey to be one of joy for everyone.

On his wish list was to paint all the front window sills, see a second liquid amber planted in the front garden and to finish the brick wall of a garden area he had designed. To many these would appear strange choices for a gifted athlete, academic and musician. He wanted the house flooded with light and music. He requested that we issue an open invitation to his friends to join him for meals and when he was up to it, a game of table tennis.

Such was his determination that he continued all of these activities until 48 hours before leaving this world. He finished the brickwork and gave instructions for the type of plants to be placed in the garden. The window sills were also finished. He encouraged his brother and sister to express their feelings through their chosen fields. For one it was music (14) and the other fashion and design(16).

His legacy apart from his vibrant faith was to be found in the physical beauty he left behind. His garden flourished and in the weeks immediately following his death, as a family, we were galvanised into action. New flower beds were dug up and planted out in the colours of his favourite football team. Fragrant plants were added and now 24 years later, I look at the glorious colours that are a constant reminder of his hope, to leave the world brighter and lovelier for his having been part of it.

Wisteria winds its way over an arbour, gardenias spread their exotic fragrance and the riot of red geraniums and purple bougainvillea dazzle the senses. Looking back, we all worked through grief in a meaningful and creative manner.

Our daughter's fashion and design skills saw her gain 3rd in the state of NSW in her final school exams. To this day she designs and creates and is passing on her passions to her children, while her chosen career path is in the medical field. Our son likewise, pursues music and shares his love for it with his family and friends, but his career too, is in the medical field. Both of them are keen gardeners and their artist's palette is reflected in their choices of foliage and colour, harmony and contrasts, textures and fragrances.http://ezinearticles.com/?Grieving-and-Creativity&id=5502497

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Can Natural Remedies Really Defeat Cancer?

By Lee K Duncan and Ty Duncan
So many people these days are turning to alternative methods to battle cancer, why is this? The sad thing about conventional treatments is the success rates for surviving from cancer is very low, 7% to be exact. That means that 93% are going through these harsh treatments and still dying. I don't know about you but these numbers don't make me jump up and run to try these treatments, they make me want to find an alternative way of defeating cancer than the way that everyone else is programmed to do.

We are all so programmed to do what everyone else does when they get cancer, run to the doctor and follow his treatment plan. That's what we are programmed to do, all of us. There are better ways to defeat cancer than the conventional methods that are failing in my opinion. I believe that Mother Nature has already provided us with the tools we need to defeat any disease. First we must look and try to understand the reason behind why we are diseased in the first place and what causes our bodies to be vulnerable to them.

With much study we have come to the conclusion that environmental pollutants are to blame for disease and illness. They have been studied for century's now and the same thing is said about them, they cause cancer and disease. Is everyone so closed minded that they won't look at a natural method that could save their life and has already saved many lives? So many lives have changed to where they look to their future with open eyes and an open mind instead of the dread that comes from conventional treatments and methods that simply don't get to the root of the problem.

What stops you from finding something that could change your life and has a much better survival rate than conventional methods that leave about 600,000 people to die where these they leave their loved ones and friends behind. The other sad thing about conventional treatments is by the time you realize they are not working up to your expectations; it's too late to search for an alternative. Some alternative tools to help your body like the one we have can actually be used in conjunction with conventional treatments because of how safe they are.

The Food and Drug administration has given this method we use a GRAS status meaning it is safe for pregnant women and even infants to take. You won't get that with conventional methods because of how harsh they are for anyone going through them. Mother Nature gives us all a better chance to survive from anything that comes our way. We have the right tools to defeat disease and illness and you won't have to lose your hair or have time lost in bed after being brought to the point where you are almost dead trying to kill the disease.

The time is now to find new ways to beat diseases like cancer because it is your life and your choice on whether you want to take a chance on a low percentage rate or a higher one. Your body is the cure; there is no drug and no doctor or even natural remedy that can cure cancer. Doctors can only provide your body with tools but it's the intervention of the right tools at the right time that give your body the fighting chance, how about it? Want to fight cancer on your own terms or do something that everyone else has been programmed to do? I believe you have stumbled on the right tool now. Your only clicks away from healing and recovering so don't wait; fight the good fight on your own terms by learning more.

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Poison That Can Cure

By Sarah Kerr
Ordinarily after the physical examination, when you see a group of people in nurse scrubs, you feel like your stomach is full of butterflies... especially if one of those tells you to approach the doctor personally, you feel like being so nervous, right? It is true most probably, if you tend to manifest symptoms of having something severe. What then will you feel if one of the doctors in doctors lab coats says to you, "You are positive for having cancer cells"? You might shout for grief.

It is a known fact that chemotherapy is a poison. It is a poison which according to some, cures... but according to others, kills the patient before the cancer cells kill them. As you go on with your reading, you can already identify if chemotherapy is actually a poison that cures or a poison that harms. You may act like a medical professional wearing various nursing scrubs, as you are having a research about this cancer treatment.

The pros of chemotherapy are that it reduces the risk of developing the symptoms of cancer most especially in the advanced stage, and that it gives hope to the patient that his life will be prolonged. But, the cons of chemotherapy start from the feeling of being so ugly; mostly of the cancer patients suffer discomfort by having hair loss and drying of skin. Other patients also suffer from tiredness as well as bowel movement in a very frequent interval. Some of the people in doctors lab coats even say that it deteriorates the quality and value of life rather than the other way around.

Radiation and chemotherapy may be of benefit to some cancer patients if it is done earlier. But, if you are already suffering from bladder cancer for instance (where it is diagnosed in the later stage), chemotherapy is no longer advisable. Actually, all of the people in doctors lab coats have difference in opinion here. Some believe that chemotherapy is not curing even considering earlier detection of cancer, others contradict it.

But there is something that you must know about chemotherapy. And that is the long-term effect of which to the cancer patients. It is possible because some of the effects of chemotherapy exist long after the treatment has already ended. Such can very much affect some of the internal organs of the patient such as the heart, the lungs, and others. It might have complication to them to the extent that it will then cause their sudden death.

Chemotherapy is a poison. Some poisons can cure. In this case, chemotherapy may prolong the life of the cancer patient if treated earlier. However, it may also expedite the life of the victim if given later than usual.

Sarah Kerr is a practicing nurse and a freelance writer based in Georgia, She has published articles in medicine, medical scrubs, and other topics related to health and medicine. She currently lives in Woodstock.http://ezinearticles.com/?Poison-That-Can-Cure&id=5500633

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Can You Overcome Cancer Naturally?

By Lee K Duncan and Ty Duncan
There is something so wonderful, that I have learned about our bodies, their ability to heal. It has been given to us by the powers that be. When our bodies are in balance they are able to defeat disease and illness because when you're in balance your body's tissues are so loaded with oxygen that diseases like cancer can't even begin to grow or spread. Disease needs an acidic state to survive and in that state is where your body is weak and unhealthy, that is the only way you can be susceptible to disease.

The problem that we face in this day and age is the onslaught of environmental pollutions that are destroying our planet and since we are all part of this planet, we too are feeling the effects of this polluted state. Our bodies are amazing in their natural way of removing these pollutants from our bodies. The problem we face now is the amount of environmental pollutions is so high that our bodies are being overwhelmed and are unable to keep up any longer. What happens to the toxins that your body can't remove? Unfortunately your body is forced to absorb what it can't remove into tissues and organs where over time can cause several kinds of health problems, mostly cancer.

The toxic burden that we all face used to happen in years. Now it is taking only 9 months before your body is burdened with toxins and heavy metals to the point that we are now losing 1 out of every 3 people to cancer. It is time to take action against this threat of environmental pollution and unfortunately the fight from the outside in is a losing battle. No one wants to change their ways. Look at china; they are so crazy on powering their homes and industries with power made by coal burning plants. Emissions from coal burning plants are huge contributors to cancer and unfortunately china is sharing their pollution with the world as we are doing the very same thing.

We must now look within to fight the battle and that battle is the removal of these toxins and heavy metals from our bodies before they are left to cause disease, pain and eventually premature death. Fortunately for all of us, Mother Nature has provided a natural method to help us remove this burden and do it on a daily basis. We take in high amounts of toxins daily and removing these toxins daily helps bring back the balance that your body needs to survive in these polluted times.

The balance that your body needs is out there for you, and it's all natural meaning it has zero side effects. Conventional means of bringing balance back to your body is failing; we must turn to alternative natural methods to help us over come diseases like cancer and so many other kinds of disease. The natural way is so easy to use; most find it hard to believe because we are so programmed to believe that conventional methods are the best way to go. I'm here to tell you there are natural ways that can help you overcome cancer simply by removing the root cause that is causing cancer in the first place.

What if I told you so many have been able to defeat disease simply by removing the pollution that resides in all of us? It has been proven that if we provide the right tools for our bodies they can find that natural balance that we all must have to survive. Prevention from disease is your best bet, but if you are already burdened with disease then do yourself or someone you love a huge favor and learn more about this amazing method. You may find that you can change your life on your terms and leave diseases like cancer in your past where they belong.

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What Are the Most Prevalent Diseases in the World?

By Veronica Elizabeth Paul
What is cancer?

Cancer is a collective term use to refer to malignant tumor or uncontrollable cancerous cell growth within the body. Cell is the smallest unit in our body and it contains carbon and mostly water that can be ionized or become more reactive easily and affect a change in cell's genetic material called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). If the damage DNA is not repair then it may replicate and mutate to become dangerous cancerous cell. Any human part that do not replicate or reproduce like hair, nails, teeth are immune from cancer.

Risk factors of getting cancer?

Common factors those affecting frequencies of cancer are: age, gender, race, family history, genetic, diet (high fat, cholesterol, fried foods, artificial food additive are all bad for health), lifestyle (smoking, alcohol abuse, drugs, etc), health condition, environmental factors (chemical, UV, biological, radiation etc). Once the cancerous cell starts to replicate in our body and it will start to destroy and attack our normal cell which causing many symptoms appearing as warning sign to us that our body is getting sick and weak.

Cancer Diagnosis?

People will start to be panic and looking for health professional for screening and diagnosis before getting the right treatment to either cure it (if the cancer is in early stage) or prevent it from recurrent (when the cancer already being removed) or slowing down the cancerous cell mutation to prolong one's life (when about reaching terminal stage). The most frequent diagnosis methods includes symptoms observation, physical examination, laboratory test (include blood test, urine test, body chemical test, etc) and various forms of screening tests (X-Ray, CT scan, MRI, PET)

Cancer treatment?

In general, cancer is classified based on three main criteria which are the location of tumor (topography), histological (morphological) and tumor behavior (size, invasive, spread, grade). There are three most frequent recommended treatments for most cancer patient are surgery (plays role as either diagnostics or curative or palliation), chemotherapy (using anti-cancer drugs to kill cancer cell), radiotherapy (a type of high frequency radiation to kill cancer call) and follow-up checkup/visits to prevent recurrent of cancer.http://ezinearticles.com/?Most-Common-Diseases-in-the-World&id=3739943

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One of 7 Ways To Fight Cancer - Surgery And Or Radiation Are Ways to Fight Breast, Prostrate Cancer

By Joan Lynch
Surgery and or Radiation Therapy is one of seven ways to fight cancer that was mentioned in a previous article titled Fight Cancer- Here Are Seven Tips For You To Fight Breast, Prostate, Melanoma And Other Cancers. Below is information on surgeries and or radiation therapy that your physician may prescribe for breast or prostate cancer.

Surgery and or Radiation For Breast Cancer Is One of 7 Ways to Fight Cancer

Breast surgery to remove a tumor (segmental mastectomy or lumpectomy) may be followed by radiation treatment.

The surgery may remove a section of the breast or the entire breast as in a total mastectomy. Some women lose both breasts. During radiation treatment the skin may become red and swollen. These procedures may leave the breast scarred, different in shape, feel, or size. Later on there may be areas of numbness or decreased sensation or the surgical scar. They may have chronic pain in their chests and shoulders after radical mastectomy.

Women may feel less attractive after the procedures. They may feel less secure about whether their partner will accept her and consider her desirable. Women may have breast prosthesis but find it inadequate as a substitute for the breast she lost.

If at all possible it is better to use cancer prevention from one of 7 ways to fight cancer described in a previous article titled Fight Cancer- Here Are Seven Tips For You To Fight Breast, Prostate, Melanoma And Other Cancers.

Surgery and or Radiation For Prostate Cancer Is One of 7 Ways to Fight Cancer

Prostate cancer can be treated by surgery, radiation, or hormone therapy.

One of the hormone therapies is estrogen shots that may be given once every 6 month. A man is put at the risk of serious side effects such as hot flashes, impaired sexual function and weakened bones. There are other hormones therapies but to include them would make this article to long.

Surgery may remove the prostate totally or remove part of the tumor. Some of the side effects are impotence, leakage of urine or stool.

Radiation therapy is the high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells or keep them from growing. It may be external done with a special x-ray machine or internal radiation with are radioactive substance sealed in needles, seeds, wires that are placed directly into or near the cancer.

There is increased risk for bladder and or rectal cancer. There may be impotence and urinary problems post radiation therapy.

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Dr. Otto Warburg wrote "The Metabolism of Tumors" and "New Methods of Cell Physiology". He acknowledged cancer has countless secondary causes but cancer has only one primary cause. It is the replacement of oxygen in normal cells by fermentation of sugar. He wrote that fermentation is the way cancer cells support their growth and have a lower pH, as low as 6.0 due to lactic acid production. He maintained there is a direct relationship between pH and oxygen.

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Elizabeth Edwards Loses Her Battle With Breast Cancer

By Cathy Chapman, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Edwards, the estranged wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, was diagnosed with cancer when her husband was the vice-presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2004. Elizabeth Edwards was on numerous talk shows and wrote several books about her struggles as a woman with cancer and, later, as a woman betrayed by a man who portrayed himself as a faithful family man. She passed away on December 7, 2010.

When you are in the public limelight, there is little hope of privacy. Your words and actions are interpreted and misinterpreted by anyone who has an opinion. I did not know the Edwards' family except through the media, but I do have an opinion as do many others.

People with cancer, or any catastrophic illness, need to do everything possible to strengthen their immune system. The following are recommendations on the emotional level to assist in this process:

Surround yourself with supportive peopleEliminate as much stress as possible, Release and let go the past,

The emotional work of healing is usually done privately. Elizabeth Edwards did not have that opportunity. Some of this was by choice. She said "yes" to the talk shows and she wrote the books. She was not the one who chose to have an affair and father a child.

I can't begin to imagine the emotional devastation she felt when it was confirmed that not only had her husband been lying about the affair, he had fathered a child. From the mind-body psychology perspective this also had to have devastated her immune system. At the time she was fighting to remain strong for her children and her husband, he was denying her in the arms of another woman.

From a therapist's perspective, he wasn't denying his wife, as much as it looked that way. He was attempting to find comfort. You could say that he was a very weak man who could not cope with his wife's illness in a healthy and adult manner.

Elizabeth Edwards must have been a woman of great strength. She struggled with anger, fear, despair and rage. She told Oprah she wanted to forgive her husband. I don't know if she accomplished that before her passing. The reports say that he was there at her bedside, with their children and her siblings, when she passed from this life to the next.

None of us knows how we will handle crisis until we are in the midst of them. Elizabeth Edwards had to face losing her entire life as she knew it. She had to face leaving her children motherless. Her husband had to face losing his wife. His fear of losing her, and his inability to be strong for her, ultimately resulted in his losing her much earlier than he needed to.

If William Shakespeare had written a tragedy about this family, it would be studied in universities. The fatal flaw of both would have produced books analyzing this tragedy. Instead of fiction, there is a family filled with pain at losing a mother and wife. There is a man who is filled with his own shame and regret that he couldn't be the man he wanted to be... and then there are the children who have to struggle with losing their mother and the image of the father they thought they knew.

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How Can Your Thoughts Affect the Outcome of Cancer?

By Lisa Carsrud
Whatever you think, is your reality. How you think and the feelings behind your thoughts affect your current life and your future. Your thoughts and attitude can also affect your overall health and wellness. Are most of your thoughts positive or negative? Do you usually see the good in things or the bad? Are you grateful for what you have or do you complain about everything? If you ask yourself these questions, really think about it, and examine yourself in this context you can see what your attitude is. You may wonder why this matters. What could this possibly have to do with cancer?

Our mind and body are connected. If you live a life that is filled with negative thoughts, an ungrateful attitude, and resentful feelings toward others it will affect your body in a negative way. When you live your life with negative thought patterns you are bringing stress into your life and stress has a derogatory effect on us physically.

On the other hand positive thoughts produce positive outcomes. If you have gratitude, joy and love in your heart your chance of beating cancer is much better.

It may sound odd, but during this time in your life you should focus on joy, love, and what you have to be grateful for. There is always something to be grateful for and when you have that kind of mindset you will always come out on top. Be grateful for the healing that you already know is taking place! You have a choice; you can have an attitude where you see the good in everything or the bad. You can choose to be joyful or grumpy. Just remember that being positive can aide in the healing of cancer.

Another way to help your body heal is to release the healthy chemicals in your body. Our bodies have the ability to produce hormones and chemicals that are beneficial for mental and physical health; and have the potential to heal and strengthen the immune system. How do we release these chemicals? One way is through laughter. No one can dispute that laughter is a good thing and good for you. When we laugh endorphins are released. Endorphins are natural pain killers and give a general sense of well being. Laughter also boosts the immune system by helping antibodies attack dysfunctional and infected cells. It can also increase natural killer cells that attack viruses and some types of cancer cells. Stop watching television shows or movies that are scary or sad. Only watch funny shows and movies.

Other great ways to release those healthy chemicals is by giving and receiving love and affection. Everyone needs affection and it can be as simple as a hug. There is nothing better than to have love in your heart and to give and receive love. You don't even need to be in a relationship to experience love. You can love a child, friend, pet, sibling, God, or perhaps you love your garden. Just focus on the feeling of love. Nothing bad can ever come from focusing on love and joy. Most importantly, don't forget to love yourself!

These suggestions are not meant to replace medical treatment for cancer. This article is meant to give you information that can help you heal cancer and ideas that you can use with medical treatments. Good luck on your journey. Be positive and be well!http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Can-Your-Thoughts-Affect-the-Outcome-of-Cancer?&id=5471265

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Exercise Benefits For Cancer Patients

By Mark Warrington
Exercise is known to help with our overall health and preventing certain diseases. Many doctors recommend having a daily workout routine that you can do to ensure good health. Exercise is also recommended by doctors to patients but on a strict recommendation. Cancer patients who are either recovering or under going radiation or chemotherapy benefit a lot from working out.

It is important to ask your doctor before doing any exercise because there are several precautions that need to be done and counterindications that have to be checked to ensure the patient's safety. A cancer patient's number one problem is fatigue which is a common symptom during therapy. The fatigue cancer patients experience may be caused by the cancer itself, insomnia, the cancer treatment or even anxiety. Cardio exercises help get rid of the feeling of fatigue although it may cause you to think that it will get you tired. Cardio exercises help improve your stamina which in turn makes you stronger and lowering the cases of fatigue you can get during therapy. It also helps improve circulation which helps flush out toxins. Improved circulation ensures that you have the right amount of red blood cells in your body. Radiation therapy reduces red blood cell levels that lead to anemia but that can be helped with exercise. Red blood cells are important because they carry oxygen needed by our organs.

Cancer patients suffer a lot from the side effects of the therapy that they receive but those side effects can be reduced when you exercise. Nausea is the most common side effect of chemotherapy and that can be prevented with exercise because it increases our heart rate allowing better circulation of the oxygen in our blood that fights nausea and weakness. Most chronic patients experience a form of depression one way or another and cancer patients are not an exception. This is normally because of the changes in the body caused by either the illness or the therapy. This can be batteled with exercise as this helps reduce stress and depression levels with the endorphins released while we are working out.

As mentioned earlier, cardio exercises are the recommended form of exercise for cancer patients as per a doctor's recommendation. It is important that the exercise start from a low to moderate intensity so the patient can adjust and, like most workouts, the difficulty can gradually increase. If the patient is under going therapy, it is understandable if there are days that they are not able to meet their target. The important thing is to still get a workout and to work around any symptom that the therapy may cause.

Everyone needs exercise, even those who in the hospital who are getting help. Don't forget that old saying, how can others help you if you do not help yourself.http://ezinearticles.com/?Exercise-Benefits-For-Cancer-Patients&id=5515864

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Learn the Truth About Cancer, Myths and Facts

By Alan Wighton
People today are faced with so many distorted facts about cancer and too many just accept what's on offer. Most will blindly follow authority without stopping and applying a bit of common sense. The following is information on what we are being told and believe to be the truth about cancer as well as facts we're not being told.

Myth 1; People believe that cancer is a result of fate or bad luck, not the result of something they did.
Fact; All cancers no matter where they appear in or on the body are caused by the way we now live. They are all self caused. Many people blame genetics but that's just an excuse to lay the blame on something beyond their control.

Myth 2; Nobody knows what causes cancer or why there is so much of it today.
Fact; Cancer is not evenly distributed around the world, and is only a problem in western developed countries and is rare in undeveloped countries. It has many contributing factors such as our wrong food choices, toxic chemicals and our sedentary lifestyle.

Myth 3; Only doctors know how to treat cancer with their 3 treatments of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
Facts; While our mainstream medical system is very good at diagnosing cancer there is no question that alternatives or natural treatments are much more effective. Cancer is a degenerative disease and all degenerative diseases can be reversed. It's never too late to do something about it.

Myth 4; All cancers if detected early can lead to a complete cure of the disease.
Fact; Believing that early detection leads to a cure is a carefully orchestrated deception. Cancer statistics are measured by a five year survival period, which is if you are still alive 5 years after being diagnosed you are statistically a survivor so the earlier they can detect cancer the sooner the clock starts running that measures this 5 year period. That is, it helps their statistics.

Myth 5; Doctors are taught that cancer is a foreign lump and if they can remove it all they have successfully beaten the disease.
Fact; Cancer will develop because of a condition within the body and by just removing the foreign growths, that doesn't remove the condition that caused these growths to appear. That's why it will often return as they haven't removed the reasons why it first grew.

Myth 6; I don't need to change the food I eat as my doctor told me it has nothing to do with cancer.
Fact; The food you eat everyday is without doubt the most causative factor in the development of cancer. "We are what we eat" and the typical western diet of processed food and convenience food is not known for its health giving qualities.

Myth 7; Getting sun burnt when we were young is the reason why someone will develop cancer of the skin or a melanoma.
Fact; For something that provides life on this earth the sun has received an enormous amount of bad press lately. Cancer commonly grows in some weak spot and the sun may determine where a growth will develop because of the irritation caused by the sunburn but it's our appalling diet that causes it to grow. The sun has many health giving qualities as it provides us with vitamin D which we need.

Myth 8; The only way to stay cancer free is to have regular check ups.
Fact; Regular check ups is a great way to recruit people into the cancer industry, Most cancer checks are highly inaccurate and 20 to 30 percent of mammograms for breast cancer can produce false positives or false negatives. PSA tests for prostate cancer are also highly unreliable. Biopsy which is taking a small sample is much more accurate but very invasive. Preventing cancer by learning about its causes and practicing prevention is a much safer option.

Myth 9; The cure for cancer is just around the corner and we will only need to take a pill in the future to overcome the disease.
Fact; Progress with cancer research is a myth and sustaining hope for the development of a safe and effective drug is pointless. There are only natural ways to completely rid the body of cancer and that is to remove the factors that caused it to grow in the first place and allow the body to heal. It work's for everyone.

Myth 10; Radiation and chemotherapy are safe and effective ways to remove cancer.
Fact; Both these treatments are carcinogenic and if someone who has undergone these treatments survives for long enough, they could or will develop independent cancers that are a direct result from those treatments. There are many other problems with these treatments as well.

The safest option to not die of cancer is not to get it in the first place and you do that by practising a little prevention. Cancer has many contributing factors which will weaken the immune system and it's a weak immune system that will allow cancer cells to become established. The first requirement for anyone that's been diagnosed with cancer is to strengthen the immune system and you do that by eating the food that's been designed for human beings.http://ezinearticles.com/?Learn-the-Truth-About-Cancer,-Myths-and-Facts&type=sv&id=5514777

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Autologous Stem Cell Transplant Used in the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

By Dennis Dinger
The best current treatment for multiple myeloma is known as the "Arkansas Treatment" -- which includes several cycles of chemo, lots of different cancer-fighting drugs, and an autologous stem cell transplant. Actually, it calls for two stem cell transplants in a row, known as a "tandem" transplant, but the early chemo cycles damaged the author's heart muscle so he only qualified for the first transplant. This chemotherapy regimen carries the name Arkansas Treatment because the doctor who developed it lives and practices in Arkansas.

When the author asked the question, "Why two transplants?" the answer given was that some of the cancer cells hide and are difficult to find. So if the first transplant works well, the second should take care of any and all remaining cancerous cells. When they collected the stem cells, their goal was to collect 10 million. They return about 5 million to the patient during each transplant.)

The first few days of this cycle were the easiest. Once again, the author moved into a hotel room within a mile of the cancer clinic for the duration of this procedure. The first two mornings at the clinic were the days they administered the "high dose" drug. This particular drug is one that directly attacks and kills all cancer cells. Most of the other drugs used in earlier cycles of chemo worked in indirect ways to attack the cancer. This drug has been around for years and it goes directly after the cancer cells.

Actually, this drug has a broader effect than just attacking cancer cells. It attacks all fast-reproducing cells in the body which includes, of course, the cancerous cells, but also includes hair follicles, skin, and many good blood cells. They call it a "high dose" step because they give the patient sufficient drug to kill all targets. Some of this drug was administered Monday morning, and the rest was administered Tuesday morning. Both were relaxed days. The infusions didn't take very long and the author was quickly released to return to his hotel room. On Wednesday, they infused a bag of saline, but nothing else. That, too went quickly, and the author was once again sent back to his hotel room.

Thursday was designated day "0" because it was the day the stem cells were reinfused into his body. They described this day as the "first day" of the author's "new life." The stem cell infusion went easily and quickly, as well. And once again, the author returned to his hotel room. Each of the following days called for the author to return to the clinic to have his blood counts checked. Any minerals needed in the blood could be infused, but generally, most of those days were short stops at the clinic.

The reasoning behind the transplant procedure appears to be this: Since they collected the patient's stem cells at an earlier date and they were safely in storage, the high dose drug could not affect them in any way. So they conveniently missed the effects of the high dose meds. When they were once again returned to the patient on the Thursday of that week, the high dose drug in the patient's system was no longer effective, so it could not cause any harm to the newly infused stem cells. Following reinfusion of the stem cells, all that was left to do was wait. The staff explained that it would take 9 to 11 days for the stem cells to locate properly and to begin working again. At that point, blood counts would once again begin to rise.

The author remembers that following the reinfusion of his stem cells, he felt fine. His blood counts were still relatively high and he was told he didn't need to stay isolated in his hotel room. It was only that Sunday and Monday that the blood counts dropped off precipitously and he had to hide away in his hotel room. This drop in blood counts came from the effects of the high dose drug. In addition to the precipitous drop in blood counts, the author's energy dropped off precipitously as well. To rearrange his position on the bed, from lying there propped up by a pillow, to move slightly and fluff up the pillow, was a real chore. Walking from the bed to the bathroom was quite difficult. During this time, they had connected a portable pump and large bags of saline to the PICC line in the author's arm. A second portable pump, connected to the second lumen on the PICC line maintained a very slow flow of an anti-nausea drug. If needed, the author could push a button on that pump and it would dispense a much more substantial volume of the drug directly into the blood stream where it could do its thing. No trying to take pills and hoping they would stay down long enough to become effective.

This system was great! Even though the author really didn't need to use the anti-nausea meds, it provided peace of mind because the author knew that if needed to press the button, it would deposit the meds right into his blood stream where they would do their thing! Press the button, and -- instant relief. The most difficult part of this process was getting up the energy to pick up the bag holding the pumps and fluids and carrying it to the bathroom. The fact that saline was being pumped into the patient 24/7 during those days forced frequent visits to the bathroom -- whether he could muster the energy to do it or not!

During those days, his white blood cell counts were near zero. Normal values are in the thousands. During that time, the sheet showed values of 100 -- which means that values around 50 would have been rounded up to produce the 100s shown on the CBC sheets. The oncologist had predicted at the start of chemo that the author would probably not get sick (meaning nauseous) during the process of chemo. The only thing he predicted was that the author's energy would be extremely low. The lowest energy days of the whole six months of chemotherapy treatments were during the week following the administration of the high dose drug and the reinfusion of the stem cells.

The transplant nurses all said that the blood counts would begin to rise once again, due to the functioning of the new stem cells, about the second weekend (days #9-11 according to the new count.) That prediction too was accurate. Sunday's test results indicated the blood counts were about to rise, and Monday's results had them sufficiently high that the author was released from the hotel room and allowed to go home.

During the time when blood counts were particularly low, they were very careful to monitor body temperatures which could have indicated an infection of some sort. The stem cells themselves, as they positioned themselves back in the bone marrow cavities of the bones, could cause slight temperature rises. But during the evenings in the hotel room when body temperatures rose a little, taking over-the-counter anti-inflammatories were sufficient to cause the author's body temperature to drop back into the normal range. Had the body temperature risen and stayed high, they were prepared to admit the author to the transplant ward of the hospital as an inpatient. That didn't happen though. This whole procedure was performed as an outpatient procedure. A week's stay at a nearby hotel was much less expensive than a single day as an inpatient at the hospital.

Having gone through this autologous stem cell transplant, the only good reason for not wanting to do the second was that it meant the author would lose his hair again (... and that wasn't a very good reason.) The echo-cardiogram results proved the undoing of the second transplant. The author's heart function had deteriorated throughout the chemotherapy sessions to the point where his "left ventricular ejection fraction" (the efficiency of the heart) had dropped well below normal. The author is now seeing a cardiologist and taking pills for the treatment of congenital heart failure, but he is alive and functioning relatively normally on most other fronts.

Energy levels today are not as high as they once were, but the author can still be active and participate in normal activities (albeit very slowly). Sometimes unusual things happened -- for example, it is now easy to fall asleep while typing at the computer -- which never happened before. Standing in one spot for long periods of time is difficult. It is easier to walk slowly, than to stand still. When necessary, the author uses a wheelchair, but most of the time a cane suffices.

The result of the whole chemotherapy process, including four cycles followed by the high dose/stem cell transplant procedure is this: the author is currently "as clean of the cancer as he can be," according to the oncologist. Next week will be the two year anniversary of the stem cell transplant. It has been a successful procedure. Not all cancers can be treated with stem cell transplants, but this one -- multiple myeloma -- can. If other multiple myeloma patients are reading this article, please note that the author's overall experience with this treatment process has been a good one!

Dennis Dinger is a survivor of multiple myeloma. Diagnosed in June, 2008, he received five cycles of the Arkansas Treatment: four of chemotherapy, plus the fifth -- the high dose and the autologous stem cell transplant. His book, My Bout with Multiple Myeloma, chronicles his battle - to include the year prior to diagnosis, the treatments, and the recuperation period following all treatments. Throughout 2010, the cancer was in complete remission. For more details on the book, click on My Bout.

In this book, he includes descriptions of most of the procedures to which he was subject, he gives helpful hints and suggestions to others who may have to deal with this or other cancers. The book was written for those who have been similarly diagnosed, as well as for their family members and friends who may be called upon to support their loved ones through similar battles. Dennis Dinger is a Christian who is a Professor Emeritus of Ceramic and Materials Engineering at Clemson University. Since his cancer diagnosis and treatments, he has been spending his days studying and writing Christian books. His most recent book attempts to bridge the chasm between technology and Christianity. It is entitled Global Climate Change, the Bible, & Science. His other Christian books are The Coming of the Lord Draweth Nigh, a study of prophecy and the Revelation, The Tribulation to Come, a study of the Revelation of John, and Absolute Truth for a Relative World. All books are available in Kindle and paperback

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The Perfect Tool to Overcome Cancer

By Lee K Duncan and Ty Duncan
If you were going to remove a Phillips head screw with a flat-head screwdriver, what are your chances you could get it out? How about removing a bolt with a pair of pliers? Again, what is the chance you could remove it with that tool? I would say the percentage of these tools actually working is pretty low, and I would have to say the same thing about conventional cancer treatments that the medical field uses on people every day. The percentage of the chemotherapy tool working on your cancer and defeating it is about 7% right now. To me this means that this tool to defeat cancer is not the right tool because of how low the percentage of it working actually is, in fact this number makes me a bit sick to my stomach.

If only 7% of people with cancer are defeating their cancer, that means that 93% of the people who went through this same treatment did not survive. That shows me that we are not using the right tools to defeat this disease and there are other treatments out there. A lot of people are now turning to alternative methods to find a better tool to help them overcome their disease. Natural methods are really starting to catch people's attention because natural methods are having greater results than 7%. I read a study done by a Dr. Cousens who took 65 level 4 cancer patients all sent home to die, with nothing that could be done to save them. An expiration date was stamped on their forehead. He used a method that is not well known yet but what happened was staggering, out of these 65 patients 51 or 78% of them experienced complete remissions! That sounds so much better than 7% doesn't it?

This was done with a method that has zero side effects and is so simple that most people can't believe that it works. Does this sound too good to be true? I am here to tell you that it isn't, it has worked for so many people and it could very well work for you. The thing is, is that this method does one thing and one thing only, it removes things from the body that don't belong there, things that could be causing your disease in the first place. So, what I'm saying is if you're looking for a cure, you're wearing it right now and that cure is your body. There is no doctor and no drug that can cure any disease, the cure for disease is your body's ability to heal on its own. Our bodies are amazing creations and with the right tools they can overcome any disease or illness.

So, do you see that there are right tools for the job and wrong tools for the job? I don't know about you but things are easier if you have the right tools. What you can see from conventional methods is it takes a long time to see results and by the time you realize it isn't taking care of what you want, it's too late to try to find a new tool. Do yourself a big favor and learn more about this amazing discovery and give your body the tools it deserves to overcome disease. You owe it to yourself to learn more because right now at this very moment you have stumbled upon something so remarkable that it will sound too good to be true. With what I have seen this do and what it has done for my family and many others how could you not see that this is a gift. This gift will help you or those you love become whole and balanced again. What are you waiting for; let's fight the good fight together!

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Your Battle With Cancer Can Be Won

By Lee K Duncan and Ty Duncan
So, cancer has declared war on you? If so, then you have a lot of battles coming up in your life to combat this huge problem that affects many people around the world. The sad thing is that conventional treatments don't really give you the weapons capable of defeating this disease and the percentage of battles won against this disease are at a low 7%. This means that out of all the people going through this harsh barrage of treatments 93% have lost the war against this life threatening disease. We are so programmed to just do these kinds of treatments that we cheat ourselves out of a real solution that shows so much more hope for defeating this disease.

Over the years cancer has taken so many lives, this year alone some are saying that over 600,000 lives will be taken this year. What does that say about our conventional treatments? What it says to me is that if these methods were working to our expectations then so many more people would be surviving instead of such high percentage of death. You are probably reading this article because you are searching for another way; you are seeing like many others that there must be a better weapon to fight cancer. I am here to tell you that there is such a weapon but it isn't what you think.

The perfect weapon to defeat cancer is your body, your body was designed to cure disease and heal its self. The problem we face now is the onslaught of what I would call the reason why so many people are getting this disease in the first place. That reason is environmental pollution, the invisible killer. We don't even know it's around, we cannot see it although we can sometimes smell it in the air like car emissions or power plant emissions. All these emissions are shown to be causing cancer but since it is hard to see, we don't really understand that this is a major threat to our bodies. A toxic burden used to take years to become a problem in the human body, and now it only takes only 9 months to reach this toxic burden. Cancer is the end result of a toxic overload.

So, now we understand what is causing the problem. The next battle plan would be the assistance in helping your body completely remove these pollutants right? There is a simple solution that can do just that and what you need is the ability to remove these toxins on a daily basis. You may be asking yourself "doesn't your body remove these pollutants on its own?" The answer is yes but the problem we face now is pollution is becoming so high, that our bodies are losing the battle to remove them all. The end result is our bodies break down and the hostile takeover of your body begins. This is how the war begins.

To win the battle against disease we must give our body the right weapons to fight this and that weapon is something that can remove these pollutants right down to the cellular level. These toxins can cause damage to your tissues and organs right down to the cells. Having the right tool brings back balance to your body where your tissues are infused with oxygen. An oxygen rich body stomps out diseases like cancer, allowing you to recover on your own. Disease needs an acidic body to be able to grow and spread. When you can balance your body into an alkaline state, your body is high in oxygen where disease can't even start in the first place. We take out the garbage from our homes on a daily basis; we need to take out the garbage from our bodies on a daily basis as well. So, what are you waiting for, let us help you win the war against cancer. You owe this to yourself!http://ezinearticles.com/?Your-Battle-With-Cancer-Can-Be-Won&id=5511452

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War On Cancer, Will We Win?

By Katie Casavant
Every day there is another person lost to the battle of cancer. In the more than thirty years that we have seen overcome the less destructive treatments of the disease this could be avoided. It is not just will power that may be lost, but an overall decline in morality has occurred in the last several years related to this progress made.

Earlier in 2009, Barack Obama vowed to "launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American". This would expand a "war on cancer" first declared by Richard Nixon in 1971, the National Cancer Act.

Still, there are disparities in Cancer incidence. Related to the mortality and survival in relation to race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Unfortunately, residents of poorer counties have a higher cancer death rate than residents in more affluent counties. Why is this? To put it simply, poorer people are facing more obstacles to obtaining and using health insurance and often will not seek help if they cannot afford it.

Cancer Institutes such as The Cancer Treatment Centers of America are privately funded hospitals. My question is, where is the immediate coverage for patients that cannot afford substantial self-cost pay rates without the medical benefits needed? I spoke with Whitley Graham.

"Typically, the cost for treatment is covered by the patient's medical benefits. Without medical benefits the self-cost pay can be substantial" Graham stated.

These people who lack access to healthcare are more likely to go undiagnosed and die of cancer than others who have easy access to healthcare. It is not just poorer people that are suffering from the affects of this disease. Even accounting poverty rates, some racial groups, e.g. African Americans, American Indians/Alaskan Natives have a lower five-year survival rate than non-Hispanic Whites.

Last year my mother was diagnosed with Leukemia. I am lucky to be able to have the family healthcare to help with these medical benefits we needed, but what if we did not have that? She would not be cancer free as she is now, and just one year later with a first stage detection of the disease.

According to SEER Program Data, which stands for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results, poorer counties have the lowest survival rates.

The facts are that cancer education can often be irrelevant and outreach efforts are insensitive to many poor people. The fatalism about cancer prevails among the poor and prevents them from gaining quality healthcare.

All of these factors bring up the social injustice in the matter of cancer. In addition poverty and culture, social injustice such as racism are critical factors in creating and maintaining disparities. The history of one racial group can determine the socioeconomic status of that group. It has been determined that African Americans are less likely to receive standard treatments for cancer even with the same insurance and economic status. This is what I do not understand. There is no reason to deny someone of the same treatments of another because of their socioeconomic status.

We know that there is much disconnect between what we discover and what is delivered to all Americans in the form of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. These disconnects are all parts of these disparities which can all be prevented.

What we need to be doing is offering immediate coverage that is under-insured for a diagnosis of cancer so that no person will go untreated or undiagnosed for that matter. In the areas which cancer is very common, we should be focused on providing relevant education to those people and giving them quality, as well as easy, access to healthcare. Systems that monitor treatment according to standards of care should be established and rid of the bias in healthcare. Every individual, no matter what his or her status, needs to be responsible for promoting his or her own health.

Research studies should be supported to determine the economic cost of cancer. We need to measure this cost to the nation of treating cancer and inform the public about these aspects of the economics of healthcare.http://ezinearticles.com/?War-On-Cancer,-Will-We-Win?&id=5464229

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With Cancer, Do We Have the Power to Choose Between Life and Death?

By Alan Wighton
Do we have the ability to active our self healing process if we are dealing with cancer? Do we have the power to choose between life and death? Can we reclaim the responsibility for our health we have so willingly handed over to doctors and our current mainstream medical system? The answer is yes, but we have to be prepared to make lifestyle changes and also changes with our beliefs and attitude towards life.

People die of cancer because of their beliefs or their obedience to authority and also because of our blind faith in our health care system. They know their cancer is real, not imaginary, they have seen it on x-rays or CT scans They have seen others die before them when been told, sorry there is nothing more we can do for you so naturally believe the same fate awaits them.

Our beliefs about cancer are actually the same as with the Australian tribes of Aborigines when someone points a bone at them. The bone is like a deadly germ. They believe it gets into their system and kills them even though they are in perfect health. It's their beliefs or their obedience to authority that kills them. If they do not change their beliefs they die, if they change they live.

For someone who's been given a terminal diagnosis there is no person, no pill or no treatment that can help them and the quicker they realize they have to help themselves and make important lifestyle changes the sooner they will overcome cancer. What doctors don't know because they are not taught is there are other ways to treat cancer and that is to activate the healing powers that we all have and allow the body to heal naturally. We do that by removing the reasons why cancer first grew and when you remove the cause of the problem the body through the immune system will heal.

In this modern world of ours we are so impressed by technology and methodology that we see illness only as a mechanical breakdown in our anatomy. We believe we can discover the malfunction and fix it with our drugs or surgical procedures. Unfortunately this way of treating cancer often doesn't work as we've spent billions of dollars in research trying to solve the problem and there's not a shred of evidence to say we are winning the war against the disease.

We need to wake up to the reality that each of us creates our own illnesses. We have caused it. With a disease like cancer, we are not dealing with a complex medical problem. All cancers are simply a disease of a weak immune system and the answers are to strengthen this system and allow the body to heal. It works with all cancers and it works for everyone because everyone has an immune system or a built-in repair system.

Doctors when asked what has caused the problem will answer they don't know but when you consider that cancer is only a problem in the developed world and seldom appears in undeveloped countries they are not really focused on the causes but only on their treatments. The causes of cancer are simply modern day living. It's our processed foods, or foods that's been interfered with by man, our lack of exercise because of motorcars and other labour saving devices we use and the many chemicals we surround ourselves with that's all been extracted from crude oil. Crude oil and cancer are closely related.

It is impossible for a healthy person to get cancer and the typical western diet is not known for its health giving qualities. To strength the immune system there are 7 laws we must abide by and they are fresh air, water to drink, some exercise, a little sunshine, adequate rest, the consumption of food that's been designed for humans and hopefully a happy heart, that is without too many stress related problems. Of course today we shut ourselves in houses with little fresh air circulating, we drink sugary drinks and cancer cells thrive on refined sugar and we don't get sun exposure because we are told it's dangerous. Most of us cringe at exercise and many of our foods are processed and are no longer fresh.

The bottom line is we need to take charge of our health as no one can do it for us, appropriate diet and lifestyle changes are your first line of defence. Our medical system can not match the astonishing healing powers of natural living. Unfortunately in today's world the almighty dollar reigns supreme and almost everything we do revolves around making money. That is especially true with all cancer treatments in place today.http://ezinearticles.com/?With-Cancer,-Do-We-Have-the-Power-to-Choose-Between-Life-and-Death?&id=5416799

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