[gomoho]

LATEST CANCER INFORMATION
from Johns Hopkins

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY …


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 multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and 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, gastro-intestinal 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 foods it needs to multiple.

What cancer cells feed on:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Note: Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.


b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells will starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes t o nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.

To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water--best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines will become putrified 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 body's 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, unforgiving 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.

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[quirky3]

I totally agree! I think there is true merit to that approach!

[graciegirl]

snopes.com: Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins Hospital

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by gomoho

LATEST CANCER INFORMATION
from Johns Hopkins

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY …


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 multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and 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, gastro-intestinal 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 foods it needs to multiple.

What cancer cells feed on:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Note: Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.


b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells will starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes t o nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.

To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water--best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines will become putrified 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 body's 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, unforgiving 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.

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EXCELLENT POST...........I had a similar discussion (as above) about 20 years ago with a doctor who just happens to be a neighbor of ours.
Most doctors and nurses we know WOULD NOT have chemo....or radiation. Many would seek alternative treatment.

Hubby and I were just discussing last evening the thing about the cancer cells floating around in our bodies.

If someone was "over doctoring" or testing constantly.........and they were diagnosed with a type of cancer, proceded to have chemo and radiation, developed the neuropathies often associated with the drugs used, etc. and declined in body and spirit............eventually passing...

v.s

Someone who didn't doctor.......or run for tests....had the same cancer cells, but which were never discovered.....thus, never treated, thus they still are surviving.............is that a plausible theory?

We've known so many YOUNG people recently who had all the best treatments at Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H., in Boston, Mass, at Mount Sinai in N.Y.C..........and they are all gone, unfortunately.

It seems more are suffering with cancer than we recall in our youth or younger adulthood. We also have noticed that all the tests that were once promoted..........are now said not to be needed.......or needed less often. Just food for thought.

YOURS WAS AN EXCELLENT POST.......and thanks for sharing it.
I just read it aloud to my husband. It is true that our food sources today are not what they used to be........especially with the hormones and antibiotics in the meat supply. Our ancestors did not get cancer as they ate simpler foods.......prepared at home, in a simple fashion.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

snopes.com: Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins Hospital

I am sorry Gomoho. I know you posted it thinking it was valid.

It is one of those things that sounds good and may be true...but it isn't from Johns Hopkins according to Snopes. See above.

I posted it's invalidity for a good reason, not to argue with someone I respect mightily..

I am a cancer survivor and so is our daughter. Although we are getting close to better treatments, cancer and radiation is often the only way to survive and I don't want anyone to walk away from treatment that will keep them alive.

[senior citizen]

Cancer Kick – Robin Roberts’ cancer cure may have caused her new illness — and she’ll need …


We are all so happy to See Robin Roberts back after her bone marrow transplant......however, her original cure no doubt caused the new illness
as she herself has explained on camera several times.........

[mainlander]

Originally Posted by gomoho

LATEST CANCER INFORMATION
from Johns Hopkins

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY …


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 multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and 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, gastro-intestinal 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 foods it needs to multiple.

What cancer cells feed on:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Note: Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.


b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells will starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes t o nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.

To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water--best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines will become putrified 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 body's 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, unforgiving 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.

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Thank you for sharing, most interesting and thought provoking. Much appreciated.

[lightworker888]

I think that regardless of the source of the info, the idea of creating a more healthy internal environment or "soup" has great merit. If you can maintain an alkaline, oxygen and antioxidant rich environment by healthy eating and thinking and being, then the cells in your body will not have the environment to support mutating and multiplying excessively to create tumors.

The eating part is something that has been explored quite extensively on this forum, but the effects of positive thinking and being are as important if not more so, as our thinking affects our perception which guides our responses to life choices and situations, and the goal to maintain a healthy internal "soup" is very much affected by the way our cells are vibrating.

Anyone familiar with energy work and muscle testing can demonstrate how words, colors, thoughts and in fact all information that we receive through our senses, affect our body's ability to maintain a healthy vibration. Chiropractors use this system all the time to find the areas that need attention. Eastern medicine uses aspects of that for diagnosing.

We so often forget that we are not just physical beings, but emotional, mental and spiritual beings and I believe that the physical signs are the last place the body talks to us when we haven't paid attention to the non-physical aspects of ourselves.

We are all so unique that there really isn't a one size fits all way to guarantee optimal health, and we are all doing the best we can, given all that we personally know and can incorporate.

But this article at least may provide some food for thought for those who are inclined or interested in pursuing this line of thought. It will resonate with them and they can explore the ideas through so many related articles and books. It is not new and it is not "wrong", It is just another way of dealing with your health and wellbeing.


LW888

[Villages PL]

In some ways, the debunking by Johns Hopkins is almost as bad as the email hoax, as far as being misleading. For example, they say that cancer is a genetic disease and quickly explain that it can be a genetic mutation caused by environment, diet and smoking. So, in fact, for the most part, the root cause is not genetic. The root cause is the environment, which, for the most part, involves one's lifestyle. The CDC estimates that only about 2 to 5% of cancer is caused solely by genes.

For the most part, genes by themselves don't cause disease. Do you think there's a cancer gene just sitting there in your body waiting for you to turn 65 or 75 so it can give you cancer? Genes need to be turned on in some way. And, for the most part, we turn them on through our lifestyle.

When it comes time to protect their turf, I think doctors often overreact. And that's why they want you to think that cancer is a "genetic disease".
Why didn't they call it a "lifestyle disease" and then explain that only 2 to 5% of cancers are caused solely by genes?


P.S. I found "Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR)"

Search: ATSDR - Cancer and the Environment - What causes cancer?

ATSDR must be a division of CDC because if you scroll all the way down you will find an address and phone number for the CDC.

[graciegirl]

Dear heavens, give me patience.

and BoyHowdy too.

Johns Hopkins IS NOT the source of the original article.

If any of you are diagnosed with cancer PLEASE go to a good oncologist and follow his directions. A neighbor decided on the natural treatment for the same cancer I had and is no longer on this earth.

Chemo and radiation is not for sissies but in many cases it is all we have to kill cancer these days.

It won't hurt to eat a healthy diet but we are talking about hopes and dreams rather than reality.

[KathieI]

I have always tried to live by the article that was written. Long before people talked about organic foods, pesticide free fruits and vegetables, eating less fats and red meat, I lived the 60's with this principle in mind. I lived by Adele Davis and others who believed in healthy eating. Veggies were my #1 choice in foods and I never had a weight problem.

We all know the damage that chemo and radiation do to the body, but if you have ever had a doctor tell you that you had cancer, the first thing out of my mouth was how bad is it and how can we get rid of it. When he tells me localized radiation and removal of the tumor should do it.. I was elated. I had heard the horror stories about radiation and the damage it does but I also had heard about new technology of radiation called The Savi system. So after researching all my options, I decided to go the way of Savi radiation and enroll in the advice of my oncologist of mammos be conducted every 6 months and continual exams by my oncologist along with the prescribed anti-cancer pill, Tamoxifen (which I did not want to take). Again with major research, my oncologist gave me an alternative pill that is newer on the market and has proven to have excellent results with my particular type of cancer.

I do believe we all try to live healthy lifestyles because not one of us wants to hear the C word, do we. But if it does occur, we should all investigate all the possibilities of treatment and look at the data on successful and non-successful cases and decide which way to go.

I trusted all my doctors and nurses and I'm so glad I did. So far, we have good results and I'm hoping it continues for the projected 5 year time frame and that I can get back to a normal lifestyle.

I do hope that you all listen to your doctors and decide after careful investigation which is the proper method of treatment. But in the meantime, we should all eat healthy, avoid stress, increase meditation and relaxation time and keep up on all the life saving medical tests that we know will save our lives.

[gomoho]

WHOA!!! just got home and sorry to have started a controversy and even more so for posting without validating the info. Wish I had omitted the Johns Hopkins part 'cause I personally feel there is a good amount of valid information in the article. But, I agree with Gracie 100% if you are currently being treated for cancer with chemo or radiation, please don't go willy-nilly looking for alternatives and stick with your doctor's plan.

However, like I said I do believe there is some truth in the article and hopefully we are all intelligent enough to work with what we think is reasonable. Remember they thought Christopher Columbus was crazy!!!

[Villages PL]

One more thing about being diagnosed with cancer: Better and better equipment is finding cancer earlier and earlier, for those who go for regular check-ups. The problem with finding cancer in a very early stage is that sometimes, if left alone, it will either go away by itself or not progress. But, often, doctors will recommend some kind of treatment.

Here are a few examples: Almost all elderly people have a few cancer cells in their thyroid but dying of thyroid cancer is rare.

Almost all eldery men have a few cancer cells in their prostate but treatment is not always advisable.

Breast cancer, if discovered at a very early stage, may either go away by itself or not progress.

If you doubt this, read, "Should I Be Tested For Cancer?" Maybe Not And Here's Why.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by lightworker888

I think that regardless of the source of the info, the idea of creating a more healthy internal environment or "soup" has great merit. If you can maintain an alkaline, oxygen and antioxidant rich environment by healthy eating and thinking and being, then the cells in your body will not have the environment to support mutating and multiplying excessively to create tumors.

The eating part is something that has been explored quite extensively on this forum, but the effects of positive thinking and being are as important if not more so, as our thinking affects our perception which guides our responses to life choices and situations, and the goal to maintain a healthy internal "soup" is very much affected by the way our cells are vibrating.

Anyone familiar with energy work and muscle testing can demonstrate how words, colors, thoughts and in fact all information that we receive through our senses, affect our body's ability to maintain a healthy vibration. Chiropractors use this system all the time to find the areas that need attention. Eastern medicine uses aspects of that for diagnosing.

We so often forget that we are not just physical beings, but emotional, mental and spiritual beings and I believe that the physical signs are the last place the body talks to us when we haven't paid attention to the non-physical aspects of ourselves.

We are all so unique that there really isn't a one size fits all way to guarantee optimal health, and we are all doing the best we can, given all that we personally know and can incorporate.

But this article at least may provide some food for thought for those who are inclined or interested in pursuing this line of thought. It will resonate with them and they can explore the ideas through so many related articles and books. It is not new and it is not "wrong", It is just another way of dealing with your health and wellbeing.


LW888

Your fourth paragraph is so true..........as is the fifth paragraph.

Excellent post............as everyone is a unique being, inside and out.

Plus, some people's journey on earth may be long while others are short for a reason.........they may be more spiritually advanced and can "graduate" to the next level of being...........

Your posts are always intelligent, kind and caring.....an old soul for sure.

[ConeyIsBabe]

Interesting information.