This next lecture was from Dr. Barry Cassidy, a speaker from the Radiotherapy Institute who will discuss the application of Radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer.
New hormone drugs, tamoxifen has failed sometimes. (In 1999)
Drugs leave body after 24 hours.
Effects wear off 6-8 weeks after.
It is the same with Radiotherapy.
Carcinoma insitu – very early breast cancer. Some doctor’s wouldn’t even call it cancer as it is not invasive. Some cases of carcinoma insitu can be treated by radiation therapy.
Beta carotene has been proven to reduce the risk of cancer.
Ninety percent of cancer cannot be cured by chemotherapy. Colon, breast and lung cancerscannot be killed by chemotherapy, and these cancers make up 90% of all cancers.
Testicular tumors, ovarian cancer, leukemia’s in children, Hodgkin’s disease are very sensitive to chemicals and can be killed by chemotherapy.
Non Hodgekin’s Cancer, of the Lymph Nodes generally speaking, is very chemotherapy sensitive, also radiation works on these cancers.
Testicular cancer is very chemotherapy sensitive.
Dr. Hsin is a Palliative Physician, a Hospice doctor.
Non sensitive cancer:
It will do more harm than good to be given chemotherapy.
These include:
Non–small-cell lung cancer.
Liver cancer.
Renal Cell cancer.
Brain tumors.
Cancer of unknown primary.
Moderately Chemo Sensitive:
These include:
Small cell lung cancer.
Breast cancer.
Colon cancer.
Stomach cancer.
After surgery the cancer can return – 5 – 10 years which equals cured to a doctor.
Doctors give chemotherapy to improve the chances of survival and reduce the chances of relapse.
There are 3 types of Chemotherapy given:
Adjuvant chemotherapy, systemic chemotherapy and Palliative chemotherapy –all given to improve the chances.
The Immune System is lowered by Chemotherapy.
A Clinical trial took place:
Phase one trial – there was a request for volunteers. These volunteers were given drugs with no proven effect on cancer. The Clinical trial was required to give records of what damage the drugs will do. How much damage? Some volunteers died.
Phase 2: With the results of the Trial, the concentration of drugs is worked out.
Phase 3: New drug is compared with the gold standard, which has the best response etc., and is marketed.
“How long is my chemotherapy?”
This depends on:
1) Tumour size.
2) Symptom control.
3) Quality of life.
It is difficult to tell.
Adjuvant chemotherapy, where there is no more cancer, it has been surgically removed, is to prevent a relapse. Many don’t relapse anyway, even without 6 months of chemotherapy!
If cat scan shows up black, with defined edges, it usually indicates cancer, also ultrasound.
Liver cancer, surgery is only method, remove part of it, if can.
Not chemotherapy sensitive, liver cancer, but it does respond to Chinese herbs.
Symptom control- just check if symptoms are improving.
Quality of life – Stomach cancercannot be cured by chemotherapy.
A woman with stomach cancer could eat and drink after chemotherapy, but she had a goal in mind, her wedding, a new apartment, she was not cured but she achieved her goal!
Results of Chemotherapy:
hair loss
vomiting.
Bone marrow suppression.
Low resistance.
The bad part of chemotherapy, is that every organ of the body can be affected by chemotherapy. Very tired after chemotherapy. Many bad results from chemotherapy, a long list of side effects.
After chemotherapy there were results on the patients x-rays, but the patient had no energy. He took herbal medicine and massage to maintain his function – lung and brain tumor. He stopped chemotherapy. The chemotherapy couldn’t heal, but took away the quality of life. He was given a choice of two years of lying at home or one year of active life, without chemotherapy. The patient needs to decide on their fate.
Chemotherapy Costs:
1) Consultation.
2) Lab tests.
3) Medication. In Singapore, all of these are very expensive.
4) Others – most important! The carer, the person taking care of the cancer patient, may have to give up their job to help the patient, has to wait with the patient to see the doctor. Consider the carer when deciding whether or not to take chemotherapy.
Today’s doctor is:
1) Scientist.
2) Saint.
3) Shopkeeper.
Therefore5-10% people really benefit from chemotherapy!
The first person lives three years and the rest live longer.
The doctor will inform the patient that he has three years to live!
Gross misrepresentation. Very inaccurate. It is impossible to predict.
Statistics only.
Evidence based herbs – lots of evidence to support for immune system! Not much scientific evidence for it.
How do I prepare for chemo?
1) Nutrition.
2) Exercise.
3) Talk to others. It’s hard travelling alone.
Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
Oncologists always treat, forget to prevent!
What they practice full time is what is supposed to be done after communication and nutrition.
Support groups respond much better to treatments than those that are hidden at home.
Neuro phycho neurology – right frame of mind affects hormones. Lab studies have proven this! Too much trust is in Lab’s and chemicals.
To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always!
Dr. Hsin showed a slide of two handfuls of drugs, which were taken by a patient each day – add a dressing and it can become a meal!
Dr Hsinshowed a slide of a mother holding a baby that had a man’s head, a shirt and tie, a reminder to cuddle and hold close the person in need.
Dr. Hsin apologized for his lack of knowledge of nutrition care.
400 lymph nodes are around the neck and in underarms. Regional lymph nodes. Clusters of white blood cell – nodes.
Inject dye into tumor and wait and see how many lymph nodes are connected. Remove those. Lymph removal depends on the surgeon.
There is a group of doctors that are very aggressive with chemicals. They cause vomiting, hair loss, nausea, but this is no problem to the doctor, no worries to him, only to the patient.
There are injectable Chinese remedies.
Massage and oral Chinese medicine. Chi kung and tai- chi.
NB: Dr. Hsin also said that,
The Oncologist looks at the problem and focuses on the cure of the problem and often forgets about the patient.”
1st phase– the problems hit you, you receive the diagnosis.
2nd phase– The acute stress is gone but you still can’t see beyond the horizon.
3rd phase– No person’s land in between.
Survivors develop strategies that help them survive.
Phase 1:
After the diagnosis has sunk in, life is grey. Lap up kind gestures and acts of kindness. It does you good.
When words are used in empathy, it is not so much the words, but the emotion that sticks.
The good company of friends is worth a pharmaceutical shelf of medicines.
Praying: say what you feel like.
Take it easy on yourself, have what you enjoy, take it easy on yourself.
Phase 2:
NB:Yoga training was taken up by this doctor, Dr Giles. He did it for 20 minutes a day.
Talk through your worries when you need to, it reduces them significantly.
We want to feel that we are being cared for, mended spiritually, emotionally, physically and mentally.
Relaxation is important. Attend concerts and movies.
NB:Dr Giles took meditation and yoga and prayer as an antidote for all the negative, after his child was suddenly killed in a car accident.
One day a week be free from the News.
Walking is the cheapest, least hazardous exercise. Walk leisurely- enjoy social interaction.
Walking by the sea or in a forest helps us to see ourselves as a smaller creation, part of the big picture.
Enjoy good company- good sleep and good food.
Social help– people who help us are very important, relationships are important.
There is a lot of evidence to prove that relationships and touch are very important.
Social support can help people live longer.
Socially isolated – if you are it is difficult to make friends after diagnosis. You should do it before hand.
Spiritual values – become at peace with yourself and your Creator.
Believe that suffering has a meaning and bear their cross with them, or stay with people that have positive outlooks.
Joke: The greatest sin is to overcook fish!
(Everybody present roared with laughter!)
Feel fulfilled by helping others!
NB:After Dr Gile’s tragedy, he blew kisses to people who honked at him at the lights. He said that two women followed him home!
By giving you receive, physically.
People with Aides who helped others, lived 3x longer!
If you have cancer don’t make any big decisions, sit tight.
Seek information, misinformation can be very distressful.
Some people think that cancer is contagious.
For your GP doctor:
Make a list.
If you can’t get through it in one consultation, just tick it off as it gets done.
Get all of the information you feel you need.
If you feel rushed, confused or intimidated, tell your doctor to slow it down.
For Yourself:
Maintain fitness.
Use different methods of relaxing, feeling good and helping others.
Never let the treatment be worse than the disease.
Anything that is therapeutic has a thorn.
Every therapeutic rose has its thorn.
Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains drop out!
You’ll be happy if you strive for fitness, feel in control, be optimistic, have friends you can share confidence with.
Many people feel benefited from having cancer. They appreciate things they once took for granted.
Support groups make you feel better and add days to your life. Ventilate feelings, communicate, it helps you to cope.
Despair over diagnosis: sometimes getting the diagnosis can be worse than the disease.
A patient was ready to die and he asked the doctor if he had cancer. The doctor told the patient that he did not have cancer and the patient died with a smile on his face.
Forgive freely.
Prayer – If you pray, you change, and the way you look at life changes.
Happiness isn’t in the future, but here and now with whom you are with and where you are.
I was not brave, I was scared stiff, but the curiosity of the dive, knowing Who was “holding my hand”, gave me courage.
Diving can be thrilling!
My first dive came after I was pushed into a 30 meter diving pool at Beatty Park Swimming Pool in Western Australia when I was 15. I found my cycling skills very effective for keeping my head above water until I clawed the wall of the pool to escape drowning.
A year later it was the intimidating diving board. I watched a few jumping, a few people diving. I had to try. Prancing down the diving board to the edge overhanging the water was exhilarating, so was the decision to jump or dive.
I chose the dive, neatly tucking my head into my arms, forming into an arrow without too much hesitation, leaving the bouncing diving board.
Flying through the air with the greatest of ease was beautiful. I imagined myself as I did in my dreams, flying freely and effortlessly. My dream crashed when I broke the surface of the water with my hands. The rest was downhill all the way into the depths of the pool.
Pondering if I should attempt to reach the bottom of the pool, reality struck as my breath became more challenging to hold. The water changed rapidly to a deeper shade of blue, the thrill was becoming a thriller.
Putting panic aside, I connected to the One I had always known and loved, having faith this was indeed not my last moment on earth.
Gravity began pulling me upwards gracefully to the light. It seemed an eternal distance, like a light at the end of a long tunnel. I began to blow bubbles to avoid my head from splitting from the intense pressure of the water.
I felt a special moment between me and my Creator. There was nothing I could do but surrender, kick gently and paddle my arms with cupped hands powering my way to the surface.
Patience, hope and faith became my life’s lesson. Somehow I knew I would surface, keeping my eyes fixed firmly on the pale blue-lit water while surfacing.
I lost focus, my face surrounded with bubbles, fearing I would not make it. I thought of my parents, my stupidity at taking the dive, the risk, all for the thrill of it.
With each moment the surface became clearer, the more I surrendered the faster I surfaced. As my kicking and digging slowed, being almost faint with exhaustion with no breath left in me with no more thoughts, the miracle happened.
In surreal slow-motion my head surfaced through the pale blue circle I had focused so hard on. I gasped so hard I thought I would pass out.
I believed I was still alive, though not absolutely sure. Without knowing I found myself holding the wall of the pool, too weak to get out.
Again, without knowing how, I found myself on dry land, walking towards my towel and gear. It took me a few days to comprehend all that had happened. This is my first time to describe it in words, but the impression of it lasted my life time.
So often I related my first dive to my new endeavors including my wedding, natural childbirths for my two daughters, my experience in a hijacked airplane, cancer surgeries, reversing autoimmune diseases as a few examples.
It seems no matter how deep I fall, I know I will always rise again to the surface. My faith pulls me through every time.
The Thymus is the training ground for the immune system and is located under the chest bone, the sternum. Tapping this area, with your fingers, at least 20 times per day has the effect of stimulating the immune system.
B Cells are made in marrow and they spot viruses. After spotting the virus they become an ammunition factory of antibodies. This is not the most effective way of fighting cancer because they need ammunition to shoot.
T Cells fight and damage invading cells. They mop up war zones.
T Helper Cells are non-killing scouts that send messages to T Cells who kill on command from headquarters.
T Suppressor Cells are the Headquarters who regulate all production of cells and prevention of more production, keeping things at a correct balance. There is a Stop – Grow message between cells. Accelerator and brakes help to control cell division.
“Cytokines” say grow, and “Anticytokines” say stop. This red light, green light system needs to be balanced for controlled growth and good health. If the brakes fail the cells reproduce and divide without check, and tumors develop.
NK Cells poke “fingers” into cancer cells and injectgranules into the cancer cells (perforans), to kill their target. If their target is a cancer cell, they inject the granules and chemical reaction results in blowing a hole in the cancer cell to kill it!
The KSR’s (Stimulating receptors)detect between normal body cells and cancer cells and tell the NK when to kill. It leaves the normal cells alone. An inhibitory cell tells the NK cells to leave the normal cell alone and protects it!
If your immune system is fully switched on, you won’t get cancer.
Power of Prayer:
Three hundred patients in a group were separated into two groups. People from outside the group were given information on the cancer patients. One group of cancer patients was not prayed for and the other was.
The people prayed for had less death, were sent home earlier, had less cardio arrests, healed much faster and had less problems than the group that was not prayed for!
Any surgery can depress the immune system.
Do anything you can to take antioxidants after surgery to build it up to counteract the depression to your immune system.
An experiment was performed on mice, all of which had the same genetics. They all had oncogenes, which predispose them to cancer.
Some were given four times greater stress than the others, and they developed cancer. The highly stressed mice developed cancer, not the non-stressed ones.
Both groups were ‘oncogene’ predisposed. The gun was loaded, it just needed a trigger. Stress is often the trigger.
Japanese women have the lowest levels of breast cancer in the world. Yet, Japanese women in Hawaii have a much higher incidence of breast cancer. Could this be related to diet, or lifestyle?
A workaholic is someone who works 60-70 hours a week with no time for rest. They have high physical and emotional stress.
8 hours of sleep is required.
Interleukins (produced by sleep), are good for the immune system.
Laughter, singing, and quiet meditation and thinking positive thoughts also greatly benefit the immune system as does exercise recreation and healthy food.
The above have been found to be common in cancer patients.
Anger:
It is very important to express your emotions and tell the other person you are angry. An alternative to this is to run around the block, to get rid of anger.
Denial of any health problems, spending lots of time helping others at the neglect of your own health can sometimes be symptoms of denial, ignoring the problem or not wanting to face it or accept it.
All these things can lead to stress, which can encourage cancer. It is not what happens to you but how you react to what happens to you, that is experience!
It is important to focus on the person, not the disease, to change the outcome of the illness. A change of thought patterns causes different hormones and chemicals to be secreted in the body. So a positive mind and keeping on top of things is very important.
A total of 152 very ill patients were studied. Those with a positive attitude responded better to treatment and did better than negative patients with less serious diseases!
Depression is very bad for the immune system and Natural Killer Cell count. Look at your stress level to improve your immune system.
Lonely….a bitter word…misunderstood, a sad word…rejected…
But to be invisible also?
Do I matter?
The agony continued through the years.
Did I feel forgotten? Yes
Did I feel lonely? Yes
Did I feel invisible? Yes
Did I feel hurt, rejected, alone? Yes.
For many years I endured multiple surgeries, was bedridden for three years with Fibromyalgia and a combination of autoimmune diseases.
My supernatural grace came in the form of acceptance.
I felt accepted, accompanied, quite visible, honored, and loved by the invisible world of the Spirit.
The unseen forces and beings beyond the veil came to my rescue, ministered to me, strengthened me and became my grace.
I felt they were my reason to continue living. I felt comfort and companions in them, friends who truly understood, had time for me, fed my soul, nourished me and cared for me.
It reminded me of the ravens that ministered to Elijah at the brook Cherith. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. (1)
My help through loneliness came predominantly from the unseen world, beyond the veil.
I envisionedmeeting up with loved ones who had passed on, close friends, former lovers, children, my pets, my personal angels of the heart, conscience and protection.
I also envisioned people, who I had known to have passed on, who cared for me . I felt I was gifted with not only hearing them, but with all the senses in varying degrees at various times, according to my greatest need.
For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not. (3)
And there appeared an angel unto (me) from heaven, strengthening (me). (4)
I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. (5)
I found that changing my attitude to gratitude for God’s grace during my time of ‘tribulation’ was a constant reminder to me forever after; the good happy times, and the low times.
Did I ever recover from my health issues? Not yet.
Do I still receive the help from beyond the veil. Yes, I do.
Would I ever change or give up this special gift? Never.
I believe God has reasons for everything He does, and He always gives us grace.
I love the idea of grace being the embodiment of all that is supernatural.
Dated 1998: Dr. Ian Brighthope specializes in Nutritional Medicine with particular interest in cancer. He is the President of the Australian College of Nutritional Medicine and Fellow of the International College of Applied Nutrition, Fellow of the New York Academy of Orthomolecular Psychiatry and Author of a number of Books.
What are the reasons for nutrition for cancer patients?
-To put an antioxidant on every cell of your body.
-To increase resistance on the assault of Medical Professions.
–Selenium is a very important mineral. Everyone is deficient!
–Spontaneous Remission is very possible. Life style, diet, mental state all affect your health greatly!
–White sugar is the best-marketed drug on the market. It is a KILLER!Without exception, patients do better without it!
-Vitamin C is the most powerful Antioxidant, made available quickly to your body, with no side effects.
–Too much protein causes the liver to stress.
-Vegetable juices, carrot, celery, wheat-grass and beetroot, give lots of antioxidants.
-Any seeds suppress cancer, sunflower, sesame, pumpkin for example.
–Comfrey– accelerates the healing of wounds. Use as a tea. Use only for 1 month at the most, each time, as it can cause liver problems. You can grow it yourself.
–Wheat grass – You can grow your own. One thimble-sized juice is full of antioxidants.
–Echinacea Angustitolia – Excellent for chronic bronchitis. Can be taken by tablet or tea.
-Shelf Fungus – Mushrooms, shitaki mushrooms or powders, stimulate the immune system.
–Antibiotic Prescription is a plague of the human race.
Phytoestrogens-
-Legumes, soya products
-Grains, Linseed.
-Herbs- black cohosh, (important female hormone), red clover
-Soya lowers breast cancer.
-Hormone replacement increases Oestrogens, which is dangerous.
–Isoflavones – do have an effect on breast cancer- get on to it! Soy products!
-160mg\day recommended tablet for breast cancer. 120-180mg\day in 3-4 tablets a day. It is not cheap! Do it for 2-3 months and then drop to 1 tablet per day.
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