Why use a Holistic treatment for Cancer?

It always surprises me to see that so many people still assume the best or only options for cancer are surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy (otherwise known as slash, burn, and poison). I refuse to believe that God put us here to live in fear of dread diseases and to ransom our health back from the medical profession for tens of thousands of dollars. It’s time to get the word out: cancer, like any disease, is not a random misfortune. There are reasons for these things. When you understand the reasons, you can get rid of them.





Conventional medicine considers cancer to be a localized disease of mutated cell growth multiplying
uncontrollably. As this mutated cell growth continues, a tumor or a mass is formed. The normal
process of cell growth, replication, differentiation, and maturation becomes unregulated, leading to
further uncontrolled growth in the body (Walters,1993).


I can agree with most of the above statement except for the idea that the cellular process is only
a localized disease. To me and many in the field of holistic medicine, cancer is not a localized
disease but a systemic disease. As the process of mutated cell growth occurs, a healthy immune
system will recognize this uncontrolled growth and will elicit a response by sending macrophages to the
region for cellular phagocytosis of the mutated cells (Walters, 1993). Also, the immune system promotes
the release of endogenous compounds to inhibit the uncontrolled cell growth (Diamond, 1997). This
process occurs almost daily in healthy humans and animals. It is felt that the disease of cancer is an
immune system deficiency and is an internal systemic disease process with a localized lesion.
Therefore, the treatment for cancer must address the immune system deficiency and the
internal disease process, and not only the localized lesion. 


Conventional medical treatment for cancer does what I call “cut, slash and destroy”. The use of surgery to cut out the local lesion, then use radiation to slash away any leftover local mutated cells, and finally use chemotherapy to destroy any fast
growing cells – which hopefully will include the metastatic cells (Walters, 1993). This entire process
is very suppressive to the immune system, which is at the root of cancer disease.


The holistic treatment for cancer should focus on immune system stimulation, correction of the
internal disease process, and destruction of the mutated cellular growth with natural nontoxic
compounds.



Diet
I would like to thank Dr. Gregory Ogilvie (1995)
from Colorado State University School of Veterinary
Medicine for researching to determine the proper diet
for the cancer patient. In simple terms, the best diet
is; low carbohydrates, moderate fats, and high
quality proteins.



Omega 3 Fatty Acids.
These products may be made with flaxseed oil or fish oils. These
oils can have beneficial effects on the heart,
cancer, diabetes, arthritis, skin, and most
important, they slow down the cachexia
(wasting disease) of the cancer patient
(Ogilvie, 1995). The dose may vary because
of digestive sensitivity. They say try to get to 250 mg
of Omega 3 per 20 lbs. per day or higher at least.



Anti-Angiogenesis. 
This is the biggest word in cancer therapy today. Every
pharmaceutical company is trying to make
a product to inhibit angiogenesis.
Angiogenesis is the process of the production
of new blood vessels. This is what allows the
cancer mass to grow. When the mutated cell
growth begins, there are two things that
happen: 1) hypoxia to the surrounding cells,
and 2) inhibited cellular nutritional uptake.
The surrounding cells to the cancer are
starving for food and oxygen. So the body
recognizes this by cellular communication
and starts to send out new micro-blood
vessels to the region. This only aids the
cancer to continue to grow faster and larger.
Anti-angiogenesis will inhibit the growth of
these new blood vessels and inhibit the
growth of the cancer (Boik, 2001; Diamond,
1997). 


There are a few that I use.



Natural products that would be used to treat cancer
must inhibit these seven pro-cancer events. The
actions that inhibit the seven pro-cancer events are:
1. Reduce Genetic Instability
2. Inhibit Abnormal Expression of Genes
3. Inhibit Abnormal Signal Transduction
4. Encourage Normal Cell-to-Cell
Communication
5. Inhibit Tumor Angiogenesis
6. Inhibit Invasion and Metastasis
7. Increase the Immune Response





Here are a just few I use:
Resverstrol – Stilbene from grapes and wine
which acts as an antioxidant, inhibits platelet
aggregation, inhibits 6 of the 7 pro-cancer
events, inhibits insulin resistance, and
inhibits abnormal estrogen action (Boik,
2001; Neilson, 2000).
Turmeric Extract – The extract is curcumin,
which acts as an antioxidant, strong antiinflammatory
effect, inhibits insulin
resistance, inhibits cancer cellular
proliferation, inhibits metastasis, inhibits 5
of the 7 pro-cancer events (Arbiser, 1998;
Boik, 2001; Dorai, 2000) .
Green Tea Extract (GTE) – A group of
flavonoids that acts as an antioxidant;
inhibits 6 of the 7 pro-cancer events; and has
in-vitro and in-vivo anticancer activity (Boik,
2001; Lyn-Cook, 1999; Sabzuka, 2000).





There are many single herbal and small formula
products that are used to kill cancer cells such as:




Artemisinin
this is an extract of Wormwood. 



Certain Mushroom Formulas
Very useful for immune
enhancing, energy boosting.





I try to place as many of the supplement products into my dog Lucy's food as
possible, for ease of administration. I use diet changes, supplements, immune enhancing herbal
products all at the same time. I feel the window of treatment for success is very short and to place the cancer into
remission requires aggressive therapy, so I throw the every protocol I can find at her cancer. The supplements are
started at low levels and increase slowly once the digestion system adjusted to the changes.



It is recommended no vaccines in cancer patients. Exercise the patient as much as possible.
It has been recommended to discontinue monthly flea and tick treatment, if these products
are being used. Pest control for the house should be discontinued, especially in the beginning of the
case. Any emotional, mental, and physical stress to the cancer patient will reduce the chances of success
in the holistic cancer treatment.




For a full list of what I use to give to Lucy


Why use a Holistic treatment for Cancer? Because Lucy went into remission using this method and still is. She is well beyond what vets told us what her expected life would be. With full quality of life.