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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YOU HAVE 18 MONTHS REMAINING HERE ON EARTH:

What are you going to do with your time?

Who would you want to be with?

Where would you want to be?

If you could do your life all over again would you do it the same way?

Are you satisfied with the legacy you are leaving behind?

Are you currently spending time with the person / people that you want to be with?

Is there anyone you would need to apologize to?

Is there anyone / anything you need to release?

Just something to ponder…

EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT CLEANSING MY GRANDMOTHER AND AUNT STU HAD IN THEIR CUPBOARD – CREAM OF TARTAR

My grandmother would use cream of tartar in her yummy specialty chocolate cakes she would bake for us and then she would give it to us to cleanse our bowels, clean the kitchen and wash clothes. Crazy! Cream of tartar or Potassium hydrogen tartrate, has been used in everyday cooking for hundreds of years. Cream of tartar is also a by-product of the wine fermenting process (I know this because my family use to make wine – no not moonshine!). But homeopathic medicine recognizes cream of tartar for a number of health uses as well, some of which pre-date grandmothers chocolate cake:

Urinary Tract Infections

Before and even better than antibiotics, cream of tartar was a popular method to eliminate painful urinary tract infections. The cream of tartar changes your body’s pH level and helps kill the internal bacteria. Grandmother would mix a couple of teaspoons into a half-cup of warm water and just for me, she would pour it into a lead crystal wine glass and have me to drink, one to two times a day. Grandmother would also add a splash of lime juice, to give my body a nice vitamin C boost to stave off the infection.

Nicotine Detox

My great uncle use to smoke like a chimney. He kept a cigarette dangling from his lips, a cigarette behind his left ear and a pack in his shirt pocket. Uncle Jet was notorious for picking up half smoked cigs here and there and just light them up and start smoking.

Smoking is a powerful addiction, and each year people use thousands of methods, from prescription drugs to hypnotherapy, to help them quit. While weaning the body off of nicotine through the use of patches and gum has become increasingly popular, a number of home remedies favor immediate cessation and then a cleansing of the body. Grandmother to the rescue with her concoction of a teaspoon of cream of tartar into a glass of orange juice once a day. The orange juice helps the body fight the withdrawal, while the cream of tartar starts the nicotine detoxification process.

Heartburn

Heartburn, is just another effect of a poor digestive system typically associated with bowel disorders or constipation / IBS / etc. Heartburn is also associated with stress and spicy foods and can be very painful. I remember how Aunt Stu use to grab her pearl necklace and pound on her chest to try to ease the pain. Aunt Stu was such a drama queen. She often grabbed her pearls just for effect.

Aunt Stu was never one to subscribe to doctors orders and she was not about to give up her jalapeño peppers, which she ate like ice cubes. Whenever an attack occurred she would go to the cupboard and immediately mix a half teaspoon of cream of tartar with a half teaspoon of baking soda, and blend into in a warm or lukewarm cup of water. In just minutes she was relieved and her pearls dangled loosely.

Let the Sun Shine on the Breast of Beauties: Vitamin D Deficiency in Breast Cancer Patients (especially women of color)

OK... so they tell us to wear sunscreen to prevent sunburn, but the sun actually nourishes our body with Vitamin D... NATURALLY! So isn't it amazing that researchers from the University of South Carolina made a presentation at the 3rd American Association for Cancer Research Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Dsiparities in Miami. According to their research, Vitamin D deficiency may actually contribute the developmen of breast cancer.

The researchers at University South Cacalacki measured Vitamin D levels in 107 women who had received a breast cancer diagnosis within the past five years. Not only was Vitamin D deficiency widespread among the participants, but lower levels of the vitamin were also significantly correlated with triple-negative breast cancer.

I have never heard this term before, triple negative breast cancer, but it appears that this particular cancer is the most aggressive and hardest to treat form of the dis-ease as it is unresponsive to all the most conventional effective drugs. The researchers found that it was eight times more common in women with Vitamin D difeciency than in those with adequate levels of the vitamin.

A population study based on the California Cancer Registry found that women who were diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer were likely to be under the age of 40, Black or Hispanic, and were living at a low socioeconomic status. Their cancers were more aggressive than estrogen-receptor positive tumors, and were diagnosed at a later stage of the disease. In the five years after treatment, risk of recurrence was high.

Typically, darker skin acts somewhat as a block to producing Vitamin D when exposed to sunlight, which is the primary source of Vitamin D in most people. Only 15 percent of white women in the study had low levels of Vitamin D deficiency, 60 percent of black / brown skin participants had insufficient levels.

"[The study] corroborates other research showing racial differences in Vitamin D status and provides further support for a protective role of Vitamin D in breast cancer," the researchers wrote.

As more evidence of Vitamin D's role in disease prevention has emerged in recent years, health experts have become increasingly alarmed at the widespread levels of deficiency across the United States.

"Vitamin D deficiency is epidemic in America, and it contributes not only to the development of osteoporosis but to increased cancer and heart disease as well," writes Joel Fuhrman in his book Cholesterol Protection for Life.

Personally I have found one of the best supplements for Vitamin D intake is with Nordic Naturals. Yes, it is a fish oil supplement, but they have a line that is a pharmecuetical grade that provides a great dose of Vitamin D that will support your body with better absorption of your calcium intake as well as regulate your immune system and increase your cardiovascular health. Check it out for yourself http://www.nordicnaturals.com/en/Products/Product_Details/154/?ProdID=1517

The AMA and FDA will tell you that you can get a strong dose of your Vitamin D from cow's milk. If you knew what I know, you might think twice about it: http://curezone.com/foods/milk.asp

 

Promising Pomegranate Prostate Possibilities!

One of the most dreaded consequences of cancer is when the disease metastasizes -- meaning it spreads from the primary site where it started to other parts of the body. But University of California, Riverside (UCR) scientists have announced what could be a major breakthrough in halting metastasis. They've discovered components in the juice of Indian Apples (aka Pomegranate) that inhibit the movement of cancer cells and weaken the attraction of malignant cells to a chemical signal that has been shown to promote metastasis.

Specifically, the research team found that pomegranate juice seems to block the spread of prostate cancer i(in particular) cells to the bone. The group is planning additional tests to determine the effects of various doses of the natural pomegranate compounds and whether there are any side effects. 

Concentration of pomegranate juice was used on two types of laboratory-cultured prostate cancer cells that were resistant to the male hormone testosterone. Medical science has known for a while that when cancerous cells are resistant to testosterone, that it's an indicator those cells have a strong potential to metastasize. Not only did the research team find pomegranate juice killed many cancer tumor cells -- the pomegranate juice treatment also increased cell adhesion and decreased cell migration in those cancer cells that had not died.

When the scientists analyzed the pomegranate juice to figure out which specific ingredients produced the molecular impact on cell adhesion and migration in metastatic prostate cancer cells, Dr. Martins-Green, graduate student Lei Wang and undergraduate student Jeffrey Ho discovered phenylpropanoids, hydrobenzoic acids, flavones and conjugated fatty acids.

"This is particularly exciting because we can now modify these naturally occurring components of the juice to improve their functions and make them more effective in preventing prostate cancer metastasis," Dr. Martins-Green said in a media statement."Because the genes and proteins involved in movement of prostate cancer cells are essentially the same as those involved in movement of other types of cancer cells, the same modified components of the juice could have a much broader impact in cancer treatment."

The idea that pomegranates have an anti-cancer effect isn't new. In fact, evidence has been steadily accumulating over the past few years that along with other health benefits (such as soothing inflammation in the body (this is where Omega Fatty Acids come in handy) and potentially reducing the risk of heart disease) pomegranates have been strongly shown to prevent and/or treat cancer. For example, earlier in 2010, NaturalNews reported on a study published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research showing that phytochemicals known as ellagitannins found in pomegranate fruit could prevent the development of hormone-dependent breast cancer and halt the growth of estrogen-driven tumors.

In addition, in a 2006 study of prostate cancer patients who drank eight ounces of pomegranate juice every day, UCLA researchers found a decline in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels that suggested a potential slowing of cancer progression. More recently, the results of a long-term study published in the Journal of Urology concluded pomegranate juice may effectively slow the progression of prostate cancer, even when regular treatment has failed.

However, despite all the science showing pomegranate juice could have anti-cancer effects, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has come down hard on claims about those potential benefits. In Sept. 2010, the FTC filed a lawsuit against Pom Wonderful, the natural foods company that provided the pomegranate juice for the UCLA research and has supported other research on pomegranate juice, charging the company's claims about the juice's health benefits were misleading.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030862_pomegranates_cancer_cells.html#ixzz19cp5SIoV

HPV vaccine approved for anal cancer - Topix

Wednesday Dec 22 | Posted by: roboblogger

HPV vaccine approved for anal cancer

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Gardasil , the human papillomavirus vaccine approved in 2006 to prevent cervical cancer got the green light Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration for use in preventing anal cancer and other precancerous lesions caused by the virus.

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Nothing about the FDA or AMA even remotely surprise me anymore. So now Gardasil has been approved for anal cancer? Seriously? With all of the numerous reports of girls and young women that have experienced adverse affects from this drug, they still find it necessary to go even a step further.

If you pay close attention to the demographic of the which the advertising is positioned you will notice that it is intended for those that are among the lower rungs of the economic ladder. Now amazingly enough, because of the economic trial we are experiencing, there are numerous people that are now on the lower rungs of the ladder, but with one teeny weeny difference. They Understand/Know Better. They have been exposed to information that can help them to make powerful decision about how they want to and need to care for their health.

This, sad to say, is just a process of elimination by genecide of the ignorant and blantenly self righteously stupid.

Until we take responsibility for our own health and well being, "they" will continue what is good for you and want is not good for you and like mindless herded sheep, you will follow.

Thre are numerous avenues of information from the Health Ranger to The Issels Foundation (for those that are dealing with advanced stages of cancer).

Ultimately people YOU are responsible for your health. Your ill choice of diet, lack of exercise and alkalizing water...oh and those sorid harbour of nasty emotions (anger / hate / jealousy / even stress) all contribute to the creation you so readily have manifested. Instead of figuring out how you got yourself into the mess your in you run to the nearest white lab coat with a stethoscope and say, "Doc, I know I screwed up my health with my mindless lifestyle, but here... you fix me."

Ok, that's my rant for the day. This has been a Mad Monolouge by Madison Carlista.

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Hey there Friends,

It has been a moment since we have connected. I have been on a bit of a hiatus, dibbling and dabbling in the realms of unconscious living for about 2.5 months and I have to tell you that I am paying the piper for it. OK... LESSON LEARNED.... AGAIN!

Coming back however, I have discovered quite a bit about myself, hence the retitle of my blog page. There is still much to share about my journey of how I overcame cervical cancer, and much of it has to do with my personal development.

It is my belief that cancer is a dis-ease of emotion (e-motion / energy - in motion) and it is through my authentic journey that I want to share this.

Ok... I gotta run now, but I will be back at 'cha. Same time, same station. Until then, enjoy your day and...
I will see you on the other side of greatness!

Ciao!