Cancer, chemo, radiation and … dandelions

:cough: ‘Example’, not ‘Exemple’. Just letting you know.

Fascinating. As an Advocate since my own cancer diagnosis Jan 1993, I have used and explored the world of natural cancer strategies. I founded Annie Appleseed Project to share the many concepts and substances I found – many of which I personally used (but it ain’t about me).

I’ve brought up the use of complementary therapies – now called Integrative Oncology – a fairly well-accepted concept now as many of the major cancer centers have an Integrative dept for those dealing with cancer – did you forget that in your clever little cartoon story? Looks like you did, sadly.

You also seem to ignore that pesticides are never really going out of our soil, water or even air. Could this be part of the reason cancer is on the increase worldwide? How about the fact that so many eat artificial foods – much less actual fresh fruits and veggies daily – than the NCI suggests?
The lack of physical activity? The way we all deal (badly) with stress?

I have personally spoken, privately AND publicly with Pharma execs about integrative oncology – contrary to your remarks above – they consistently tell me: « Ann, it can’t be patented » and walk away with no more to say. As an Advocate I deplore that $ first attitude.

Additionally having set up that ONLY Level I trials are acceptable, and setting that bar at around $400 million, what other industry could afford such clinical trials? But the natural substances DO have a preponderance of other levels of evidence.

Your schtick is cute, but really quite inaccurate in a variety of ways. I would welcome a dialogue on this.

I would suggest reading the The Truth about Cancer by Ty Bollinger. Funnily enough one of the things that inhibit cancer cells is crushed dandelion root. Perhaps there is more than one way to skin a cat. We are still using 1960’s medical knowledge – why haven’t we advanced. Because natural methods are cheaper and don’t have the side effects of chemo and radiation. Cancer is a multi money making business which is cruel beyond belief. When you see someone on chemo and they don’t want to face one more treatment they would rather not wake up in the morning and they break down in the process of telling you. Cancer survives on gluten and sugar. On Ty’s videos there is one treatment suggested that means taking Selenium, Chromium and I am not quite sure of the third supplement – something like cellaca and it stops the cancer cells only from absorbing gluten and sugar. Chemo only does a fraction of that and has horrific side effects and effects normal cells and the cancer cell is not killed and soon just goes around the chemo.

I would love to see you do a comic debunking some of the most common myths about what « causes » and « cures » cancer. I have a form of cancer called GIST What I hate is when people share what they think they know about cancer… about how they think I might have « gotten » it or what they heard/read about how to cure it. I actually had a dental hygienist explain how she read that milk causes cancer… using the example that Asians do not use dairy and they don’t get as much cancer. Then she proceeded to tell me that sugar feeds cancer and so I should cut out any form of sugar. Not only would it cure my cancer, but I would lose weight too (the Gleevec that saves my life, also causes weight gain, along with a myriad of other side effects). All of this helpful information was delivered while I was in the dental chair, with her hands in my mouth. I would love something to share with these, I suppose, well-meaning people (when their hands are not in my mouth) That would tell them politely and with humor, that they have no idea whatsoever what they are talking about and should keep their stupidly ill-formed opinions to themselves. Actually, It would be great to print out a great cartoon and be able to hand it to these helpful people…. even if they did have their hands in my mouth!