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.Patients usually are not scheduled intofindings so far.Here is a brief outline of the four optional modeschemotherapy unless their condition seems so hopeless that theof cancer therapy:loss of life appears to be inevitable anyway.Some doctors refer toSURGERY: Least harmful.Sometimes a life-saving, stop-gap meas-this stage, not as therapy, but experimentation, which, frankly, is aure.No evidence that patients who receive radical or extensive surgi-more honest description.cal options live any longer than those who receive the mostAnother reason for using drugs in the treatment of cancer is conservative options, or, for that matter, those who receive none at all.Believed to increase the likelihood of disseminating cancer to otherthat the doctor does not like to tell the patient there is no hope.Inlocations.his own mind he knows there is none, but he also knows that theWhen dealing with internal tumors affecting reproductive or vitalpatient does not want to hear that and will seek another physicianorgans, the statistical rate of long-term survival is, on the average,who will continue some kind of treatment, no matter how useless.10-15%.After metastasis, the statistical chances for long-termSo he solves the problem by continuing the treatment himself.survival are close to zero.In his book The Wayward Cell, Cancer, Dr.Victor RichardsRADIOLOGY: Very harmful in many ways.Spreads the cancer andmade it clear that chemotherapy is used primarily just to keep theweakens the patient's resistance to other diseases.Serious and painfulpatient returning for treatment and to build his morale while heside-effects, including heart failure.No evidence that treated patientslive any longer, on the average, than those not treated.Statistical ratedies.But there is more! He said:of long-term survival after metastasis is close to zero.Nevertheless, chemotherapy serves an extremely valuable rolein keeping patients oriented toward proper medical therapy, andCHEMOTHERAPY: Also spreads the cancer through weakening ofprevents the feeling of being abandoned by the physician in patients immunological defense mechanism plus general toxicity.Leavespatient susceptible to other diseases and infections, often leading towith late and hopeless cancers.Judicious employment and screening ofdeath from these causes.Extremely serious side-effects.No evidencepotentially useful drugs may also prevent the spread of cancer quackery.(2)that treated patients live any longer, on the average, than untreated[Emphasis added.]patients.Statistical rate of long-term survival after metastasis is closeHeaven forbid that anyone should forsake the nauseating,to zero.pain-racking, cancer-spreading, admittedly ineffective "provenVITAMIN THERAPY: Non-toxic.Side effects include increased ap-cures" for such "quackery" as Laetrile!petite, weight gain, lowered blood pressure, increased hemoglobinHere, at last, is revealed the true goal of much of the so-calledand red-blood cell count.Eliminates or sharply reduces pain without"educational" programs of orthodox medicine psychologically narcotics.Builds up body's resistance to other diseases.Is a naturalsubstance found in foods and is compatible with human biological1."Ambulatory Arterial Infusion in the Treatment of Primary and Secondaryexperience.Destroys cancer cells while nourishing non-cancer cells.Skin Cancer," Sixth National Cancer Conference proceedings, op.cit.2.Victor Richards, The Wayward Cell, Cancer; Its Origins, Nature, and Treatment,1.Unproven Methods of Cancer Management, op.cit., pp.17,18.(Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1972), pp.215-16. 158 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part One A NEW DIMENSION OF MURDER 159Considering that most patients begin vitamin therapy only after they The reason for this is simple
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