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In his book: Cancer Recovery Guide, pg. 28, Jonathan Chamberlain wrote:

The truth is mind and body are one. The body affects the mind and the mind affects the body … all thoughts are much facts as physical symptoms.

When my wife Bernadette learned that despite all the surgery, radiation and chemotherapy her tumour had returned, she was informed that she had three months to live. She was told this on 17 ...

Kill Cancer Cells, Kill Patients Too

Dr. John Lee wrote: Chemotherapy is an attempt to poison the body just short of death in the hope of killing the cancer before the entire body is killed.

Most of the time it doesn’t work. 

Der Spiegel, 4 Oktober 2004 had this article: Giftkur ohne Nutzen(The Useless Poisonous Cures): Increasingly sophisticated and expensive cellular poisons are being given to seriously ill patients … patients do not actually live a day longer.

Read the news report below and see if you understand what killed the patient. Singapore’s DBS CEO dies from cancer 

SINGAPORE, April 11 — Richard Stanley, the chief executive of Singapore’s DBS Group, died from an infection resulting from leukaemia this morning, the bank said, after his medical conditions deteriorated yesterday.

“After a brave fight Rich, passed on at about 8.45 this morning. His immediate family was by his side as he slipped away peacefully,” a DBS spokeswoman told Reuters.

DBS, which ...

The Chemo Brain   Source: Science Blog, a Journal Article at SpringerLink,  USA Today

Chemotherapy is rarely the best option as a cancer cure therapy, as it simply does not address the underlying cause. A UCLA study has shown that chemotherapy can change the blood flow and metabolism of the brain in ways that can linger for 10 years or more after treatment. We can call this condition, “chemo brian”.

“People with ‘chemo brain’ often can’t focus, remember things or ...

This lady came to seek our advice regarding her husband’s liver cancer. Listen to our conversation.

Lady: If he does not take chemo – it will be three to four months (to live).

Chris: If he takes chemo?
L: Double it, six to eight months (to live).

C: But cannot cure?
L: Cannot. The doctor said that patients who take this chemo have only fifteen to twenty percent success. Don’t know why he ...

 Compiled by Yeong Sek Yee & Khadijah Shaari

1.   Perilous Approach: Avastin and Sutent Promote Growth of Breast Cancer Stem Cells

(Note: Many patients in Malaysia have been treated with this very expensive drug)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently revoked approval of Avastin for treating breast cancer. The reversal was in response to clinical trials showing ...