Re: Updated: ALTERNATIVE CANCER TREATMENTS: CAUSES OF FAILURE

[Guest guest]

Is there also a list of CAUSES OF SUCCESS?

Thank you,

Joyce

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> ALTERNATIVE CANCER TREATMENTS: CAUSES OF FAILURE

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> The central purpose of the Center for the

> Study of Natural Oncology, a California

> not-for-profit corporation, is to help cancer

> patients find the most effective, yet non-toxic,

> cancer therapies that are available within their

> resources and then assist in obtaining and

> commencing therapies. ....

[Guest guest]

At 05:06 PM 5/11/2010, Joyce wrote:

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>Is there also a list of CAUSES OF SUCCESS?

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:

" When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however

improbable, must be the truth. "

The same logic holds for health: " When you have eliminated all

sources of treatment failure, whatever remains, however improbable,

must be your cure. "

Each of the causes of failure from my list can be rewritten as a key

to success. And yes, a dual perspective is important. Survey the

stars while you survey the mine field.

That said, I do think that I can write more on " Causes of

Success. " My list of failures was meant to help patients avoid

" paying their dues, " but it does not adequately address an

impoverishment of treatment choices. So many choices are proscribed

[sic] by authority that it is incomprehensible that a person would

further narrow their options by a sticking to an overly rigid

philosophy or by letting others make decisions for them, or by

jumping at the first treatments that cross their paths.

Many on the list are hostile to conventional medicine and

conventional research. It would serve them better to sluice it for

gold nuggets. For example, phase 1 cancer trials are almost

routinely granted by the FDA, but I have had friends with inexpensive

ways to very safely and effectively treat cancer, and they were given

a run-around by the FDA disallowing phase 1 trials. If you have the

time and the disposition I think it would be enormously fun to

research every denied phase 1 cancer trial.

Another example: I go through many cancer journals. Whenever I see

an interesting strategy that harks back to some plant with a Latin

name, I immediately Google it for a common name. That is exactly how

I learned that both dill and tomato can perform some of the same

functions as the bisphosphonates in stopping lytic bone metastases.

And another: Editorials and commentaries in peer-reviewed medical

journals often show remarkable insight in finding weaknesses in

research -- of course they also have their blind spots. Such

critical thinking constantly helps me sharpen my thoughts in

alternative cancer treatment. Duesburg who has written major

works on aneuploidy in cancer is now under attack for having

published an article where it is believed he " cherry picked " the

evidence. The peer-reviewed journal that published the article is

also under scrutiny. It is extremely rare that an alternative cancer

treatment popularizer undergoes this same sort of scrutiny. This

live-and-let-live attitude among the holistic crowd leads to many

air-headed practices that never die because no one criticizes them.