
Dangers of Chemotherapy and the Alternatives
If you or someone you love has experienced some of the dangers of chemotherapy, you know all too well its grueling, debilitating, and potentially permanent side effects. Yet, people with all states of cancer routinely choose to undergo this harrowing treatment. This is because people believe that chemotherapy will dramatically increase their chance of survival.
In 2004, 3 oncologists from Australia authored a paper on the benefits of chemotherapy treatment for adults with the most common kinds of cancer. They concluded that chemotherapy contributes just over 2% of improved survival rates for cancer patients. In fact, they said 2% should be regarded as chemo’s “upper limit of effectiveness.” Some people die from complications caused by conventional cancer therapies, but it's never cancer that kills them. More often than not, conventional cancer therapies have been shown to be more dangerous than the disease, that they cause more harm than good.
“Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors.”— Allen Levin, MD, UCSF — The Healing of Cancer
"Cancer deaths are at an all-time high...the potential help that alternative therapies could offer is still being suppressed." -- The Guardian of London, Sept. 29, 1990