Hey, I can take it. I knew that those lines would be controversial and even offensive to some, but I stand behind them. Luddite views? Hardly. I love technology and I hate to see the wrong approaches pursued for dollars while other research lies dormant.

Does chemotherapy kill cancer cells? Sure. Do some people's cancer go into remission after chemo? Sure.

Do some people get worse and die quicker? Sure.

We've spent billions on cancer research and the doctor of today is still clueless as to its cause. When one doesn't know the cause of something a cure is pretty hard to facilitate. Chemo, at best, is simply a killer of cells - it takes the good and the bad indiscriminately.

It's fairly obvious to me that cancer is the breakdown of intelligent signals between cells. A tumor is the result of unintelligent cell reproduction. If we are to cure cancer we must address this breakdown in communication between the cells. There has been recorded instances of folks with cancer who were apparently "cured" by a lightning strike. Others swear they have been cured by the positive and affirmative belief that they would beat cancer and get better.

What does this tell me? Lightning is electrical energy. Thought is electrical energy too and travels through the nervous system and communicates with cells. What do I think happened to Johnny lightning or Jane Goodfeelings to afford their cures? If I were to hazard a guess, I would say the current polarized his cells at the moment of passage. Realigning them in a sense. The same thing I believe occurs with that positive attitude - a realigning of cells exposed to a specific electrical impulse and frequency.

Obviously we can't go around lightning striking folks or relying solely on "faith" healing, regardless of the few successes - but they should point us into new methods that don't destroy cells and instead address the communication between cells.

It's quite possible a powerful magnetic field or even a small current might realign living cells, in much the same way a bar magnet aligns a piece of iron it is exposed to, reestablishing an intelligent signal link between cancerous and non-cancerous cells. It's not only quite possible but probable that the destruction of the cancerous cell is entirely unnecessary, much less the wholesale destruction of cells as is performed by chemotherapy.

Non-invasive and non-destructive must be the advanced approaches to cancer treatment, since we know and have established that cancer, as a disease, can go into remission just as quickly it appears.

It's quite possible that if people understood that a communication breakdown between cells caused cancer that their own mind could, indeed, afford them a cure. The body is constantly healing itself without our instructions or thoughts and each cell has a built in code to instruct it to repair the body. However, the power of the mind need not be discounted when countless studies have shown that administered placebos cured almost as effectively as many drugs do. The simple faith in the physician and the conscious effort to go to the doctor has probably healed more folks of various illnesses than can be recorded.

I have a tough time reconciling the money hospitals and doctors make with chemo versus the pitiful success ratio the treatment has. This doesn't make me a luddite at all. It's an opinion and it's easily substantiated by statistics. Sure, it will be a very unpopular one when many cancer patients are presented with chemo as their sole salvation. However, there are some things the medical community does which I find repugnant and unintelligent. Among these are the wholesale pumping of Ritalin into kids as young as six, the prescribing of "happy" drugs to any woman or man who's depressed or habitually unhappy (though women are much more often prescribed these happy drugs), and the gratuitous usage of chemotherapy while discounting all other potential treatments.

I've lost two relatives to cancer, and several family friends - and It was painfully obvious to me that the chemo was very unsuccessful and simply sped their departure. Perhaps this has tainted my views. Unfortunately, when the doctor portrays chemo as the only option - the family usually rallys around it instead of seeking other potential treatments. And as long as the hospital has invested heavily in chemo equipment you are unlikely to hear many alternative treatment suggestions. It may be a very cynical view but chemo machines are providing large and steady revenue, just as is convincing millions of parents to begin administering drugs to their disobedient first grader.

It's billions of dollars in the bank.

Sorry to offend. Everyone's still free to seek the treatment of their choice, and you wont find me wasting my time picketing hospitals, but those are my views.

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