Page 23#3. whether to opt for chemotherapy or just go natural?
Before we go any further, let’s address that vexed question of whether to opt for
chemo or radiotherapy - or go “natural” and just do an alternative program
This is one of the most important questions for some patients and they agonize
over the choice before them. It is made so much more difficult by the dread that
a wrong decision could lead to fatal consequences. You see, everyone knows that
it is not really as straightforward as the oncologists like to claim.
There is no question that the older conventional therapies you will encounter
are pretty toxic. They are supposed to be: the idea is to kill the tumor but just
stop short of killing the patient. Unfortunately, it can be a dangerous and narrow
line between the two. Once your body defences are damaged, then you are in a
worse position than before because, in the end, your immune system is going to
be the only thing that’s saves you.
Obviously, all cases are different, so we can only talk in general principles. But
having been told you have cancer is a time of great fear and uncertainty; all the
more reason then to keep our thoughts clear and balanced. The first big relief is
that you can do both types of therapy in conjunction!
Talk about hedging your bets. It is possible to view holistic therapies as a stand-
alone treatment of cancer, leukaemia etc. But why not see them as an adjunct to
conventional therapy? Hit it both ways?
Modern chemical treatments for tumors are becoming quite specifically targetted
and not so “kill-’em-all” dangerous as old-time chemo and radio therapy. Modern
substances can be created which release their deadly load only on certain chosen
tissues: a sort of “smart bomb” for chemo. It might be wise to give these new
methods a chance, as they come onto the market.
But what you want then is to give your body every possible aid in resisting
the damaging chemicals or radiation, so that only the tumor gets hit, not
your valuable defence tissues. The big danger of powerful and sophisticated
conventional therapy, as I have explained, is that it harms your defences almost
as much as it does the tumor.
Doctors and drug manufacturers alike persist in seeing the body merely as the
battle ground, not as one of the key friendly combatants. Yet the body is capable
of exerting enormous influence on your behalf, against cancer (or viruses,
bacteria, parasites etc). It is stupid to ignore this important biological resource or