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Accomplishments: I authored my first book: S2O - The Sexy Side of Holistic Health Healing and Anti-Aging LifeStyle Manual: My Personal Journey from Cervical Cancer. I am a Naturopathic Wellness Coach and Colon Hydrotherapist (although no longer practicing) I have created s2oProductions: The #1 live, interactive, televised online variety programming channel (check it out www.s2oProductions.tv) My corporate background is in Public Relations and Marketing Communications. CERVICAL CANCER SURVIVOR: NO SURGERY, RADIATION, DRUGS OR CHEMO. 8+ YEARS AND ROCKIN IT OUT!!! / BRAINIAC / LOVER / ROCK STAR / ENTREPRENEUR / MONEY MAKER / DREAM STAKER / SPEAKER / MOTHER / DAUGHTER / BUSINESS WOMAN / THRILL SEEKER / STRONG LEADER / HUMBLE SERVANT / SEX SYMBOL / DREAM FULFILLER / MASTER NETWORKER (My Rolodex is CrAzY!) / DAY DREAMER / ACTION ACTIVIST / DIVA B'DAZZLED. Living my life to inspire one person at a time to shine their light a little bit brighter to pay it forward so we all can shine!

Monday, January 17, 2011

Sensitive to Chemotherapy? Great for Cancer Patients... Read on...

“The second biggest killer in America is medical ignorance and it is the number one reason people die”

-- Bill Faloon, Co-Founder of Life Extension Foundation

 

According to conventional medicine the purpose of chemo is to kill cancer cells, but that it also kills healthy cells along the way. When I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and given the prognosis of 3-6 months I was told by my conventional doctor that my only option was to have surgery followed by chemotherapy and/or radiation. Now at the time I was not given any other options from my doctors. Not even the kind of chemotherapy that was available. They were going to just give me the “standard of care”. To be very honest, I did not know there were different kinds of chemotherapy until recently when I was reading Knockout Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer (and how to prevent getting it in the first place), by Suzanne Somers (I LOVE this Woman!)

 So there are, as far as I have come to understand, various kinds of conventional chemotherapy drugs – Adriamycin, Cytoxan, and Taxotere are the most popular. Adriamycin, which is the most popular, is proven to be  ineffective in up to 92% of women it was administered to – this is according to a study done at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and now confirmed in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

 Well, I hope this quick note gives you a bit of information to follow through on whether you are facing this challenge yourself or if someone you love is facing this challenge. There is what is called Chemosensitivity Test. It is a test that can help to determine if the chemotherapy that is suggested by your doctor (if a particular one is suggested at all) is the best conventional therapy to treat the cancer. In Germany and Greece, chemosensitivity tests are routinely conducted in order to determine which type of chemo should be utilized for a specific cancer patient.

Chemosensitivity test is just a matter of harvesting the cancer cells out of the patient’s blood. The cells are broken down genetically in a lab to discover which markers are compatible with treatment of the tumor. This test can tell which drugs would be most effective for the particular cancer and which would be ineffective or even harmful.

 Dr. James Forsythe a board certified oncologist and homeopath documented the impact of chemosensitivity testing by sharing one of his patient’s stories:

  “I had a patient from Sacramento who six months ago had been on a heavy-duty chemo protocol called FOL-FOX (containing oxaliplatin, 5FU, and Avastin). We found out from the German chemosensitivity test that two out of the three of those drugs were completely ineffective against his cancer cells. I switched him over to a sensitive drug and he’s now out playing golf three days a week and his liver has cleared up completely on recent follow-up scans”

There is always a choice, but as long as we make it a choice to remain ignorant and continue to give our power away without consideration we will forever remain the victims of our own creation.

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