The Chemotherpy Mafia follow up info

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I received this from 'What We Now Know,' a publication put out by Casey Research

(an investment firm).... last week they published the article " The Chemotherapy

Mafia "

Here's today's message from the newsletter and below it is the original article:

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Re: “The Chemotherapy Mafia”

Your responses to “The Chemotherapy Mafia” were again so many that we had to put

most of them on a separate page (see link below). Since we expected divided

opinions, we were quite amazed that there were virtually no opposing views. Here

is a representative letter:

My father refused chemotherapy in 1974. He had stage 4 prostrate cancer, which

had metastasized to the lungs as did many of the WWII vets. He lived over a year

and lived a relatively good last year.

My stepfather had the exact same cancer in the same stage in 1993. He had the

radiation and chemo. His last time was spent in a hospital bed at home with a

feeding tube, and very ill. He lived 4 months after diagnosis.

After watching this, I am not sure I would choose chemo as my father was so much

happier and more healthy than my step-dad in his final days.

Even in 1974, there was immense pressure for my father to have chemo. The

doctors even called me to their office and asked me to sign the release, and

when that did not work to have him declared incompetent so someone else could

sign for him. One doctor had the audacity to tell me that I was " signing his

death warrant " if I would not sign the permission for the chemo. Looking back, I

am amazed that I refused them even with all their coercion since I was only 22

years old at the time and the only adult child. (My parents were divorced and my

mother had remarried).

My husband's mother went to Mexico in 1970 and had treatments and lived over 15

years after the doctors told her it was hopeless.

( B.)

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amazing.

The Chemotherapy Mafia

On July 20, 1995, the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission

raided the office of Glenn Warner, MD, an oncologist with unusual views on

healing, and revoked his medical license. Allegedly, Warner had cured more than

1,000 patients from terminal cancer—not with chemotherapy and radiation but with

diet and exercise regimens, certain immunotherapeutic drugs, and other holistic

methods. When he appealed his case in court, the commission’s attorney, Beverly

Goetz, argued that cancer patients were “incapable” and “unqualified” to decide

whether they received quality care or not. Only experts—like the members of said

commission—were capable of making that judgment call, she said.

Unfortunately, this standpoint seems to prevail in the United States these days.

Self-determination takes a backseat in favor of state-mandated “health care.” A

fact that becomes eerily obvious in cancer cases where minors are involved.

But first, we should ask how valuable chemotherapy really is. There is no doubt

that cancer is big business in the U.S. While in 1990, $3.53 billion was spent

on chemotherapy, the number more than doubled to $7.51 billion only four years

later. By 2009, so the latest projections, cancer therapy products and services

will rake in over $27 billion.

As the unfortunate Glenn Warner put it: “We have a multi-billion-dollar industry

that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of

research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three doses

of that poison.”

Other experts agree.

Alan C. Nixon, PhD, former president of the American Chemical Society, states,

“As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that

physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more

harm than good.”

Alan Levin, MD, of the University of California Medical School agrees: “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. . . Women with

breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it.”

His opinion is echoed by Ralph Moss, former assistant director of public affairs

at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and author of the book The

Cancer Industry: “In the end, there is no proof that chemotherapy actually

extends life in the vast majority of cases, and this is the great lie about

chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumor and

extending the life of a patient.”

Even the General Accounting Office (GAO) found in a 1987 study on the progress

of cancer treatment that “For a majority of the cancers we examined, the actual

improvements have been small or have been overestimated by the published rates.

.. . Progress has been made, but not as great as that reported.”

More and more cancer patients and their families are feeling skeptical about the

value of chemotherapy and radiation as well. However, not allowed to think for

themselves, some states have imposed mandatory treatment.

The first widely published case was that of Wernecke, a 12-year-old Texan

who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease in January 2005. After undergoing four

rounds of chemotherapy, her cancer went into remission.

The doctors advised subsequent radiation treatment, but father Wernecke

had informed himself on the Internet and was taken aback by an article in the

New England Journal of Medicine, written by DeVita, former director of

the National Cancer Institute. DeVita stated that radiation “by itself increases

the risk of late second solid tumors in the irradiated field and the incidence

rises steeply when radiotherapy and chemotherapy are combined.” Other mentioned

side effects were stunted growth, sterilization, and an increased risk of breast

cancer.

Worried about the harmful long-term effects, ’s parents decided to forego

the radiation and follow up with holistic therapies. When Wernecke took

her child out of the hospital despite protests of the oncologists, the Texas

State Department of Child Protective Services issued an Amber Alert. The mother

was arrested and sent to jail for kidnapping. was put into foster care,

along with her three brothers who were later released.

At a court hearing in June, a radiologist asserted that ’s cancer had

returned and that she needed to undergo treatment again. Even though said

in a video statement that she was not willing to undergo radiation, she was

ordered by the courts to do so. What’s more, convinced that the Werneckes

negatively affected her decisions, CPS cut off all communication with their

daughter. Left to her own devices, the 12-year-old decided to make the choice

herself, resisting treatment by pulling catheters out of her arm and disobeying

doctors’ orders.

After a ten-month ordeal, at the end of October 2005, a district judge ruled

that could rejoin her family and seek alternative treatment out of state.

“On June 11th, celebrated her 14th birthday at home with family and

friends,” her father writes in his blog. “ is doing very well. . . but she

is not cancer free yet, so there is still a battle to win. She is in better

physical condition than ever.” A happy ending?

Recently, another story broke the news: The case of Virginian teenager Starchild

Abraham Cherrix. The 16-year-old, diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease last summer,

had undergone three months of chemotherapy that, in his own words, left him weak

and nauseated. When the doctors told him in February that the cancer was back,

he refused more chemotherapy.

“I think it would kill me the second time,” said Abraham, who instead opted for

a sugar-free, organic diet and herbal treatments at a clinic in Mexico. Here,

too, Child Protective Services and the courts became involved, and a

six-month-long battle began. In May, a judge ruled that Abraham’s parents were

guilty of neglect for supporting their son’s decision; he also ordered shared

custody between the parents and the Accomack County Department of Social

Services, with the possibility of the Cherrix’ losing custody entirely.

Yet Abraham refused to comply with court orders, cheered on by supporters of

holistic medicine: " I think it's my body. I can choose what's best for my body.

If I don't have the right to do that, then I don't have any rights at all

anyway. "

At the Cherrix’ request, a second judge stayed the first court order until

trial, scheduled to begin on August 16.

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