| If one were to judge by television advertising and | | | | what is not equally heralded is the fact that it |
| news reports, it would seem that the “war on | | | | increased the risk of endometrial uterine cancer by |
| cancer” is all but won. What are the weapons | | | | about 15%. (Patient Information: Nolvadex, Zeneca |
| being heralded? Drugs, research, tests and exams. | | | | Pharmaceuticals) |
| They miss the point. | | | | Are such results worth the financial devastation and |
| “Prevention” is promoted as meaning | | | | miserable life that chemotherapy, radiation and |
| catching the disease early. Really. That also misses | | | | surgery impose? Is that the way to spend one's |
| the point. Is it “prevention” if you call 911 | | | | remaining days? If such therapy does add a couple |
| when you come home and see smoke billowing from | | | | of months, are those couple of months really worth |
| all your windows? Do we just live with a carpe diem | | | | the poking, prodding, pain, unrelenting nausea, |
| philosophy and wait for the doctor to tell us we have | | | | disfiguring, destruction of the immune system and |
| a lump in our breast or a swollen nodular prostate? Is | | | | increased susceptibility to other diseases? "Yes" |
| the cause of cancer a lack of one of the new cancer | | | | would be a hard answer to justify. |
| drugs? Is the cause of cancer really unknown, | | | | In the face of a cancer diagnosis most people just |
| requiring endless research? | | | | throw up their hands in terror and surrender to the |
| First, let me put to rest the propaganda that the war | | | | conventional cancer therapy death process. The |
| is being won. Since President Nixon declared the war | | | | feeling is that something must be done, and, since |
| (1971) and after over 200 billion dollars have been | | | | "doctors know best," one must begin the "fight" by |
| spent on research (remember, one billion is a | | | | following the advice of the doctor. But fighting does |
| thousand million), more Americans will die of cancer in | | | | not mean surrendering to the will of another person |
| the next 14 months than have died in all U.S. wars | | | | who has their own personal agenda and narrowed |
| ever fought combined! (Where are the protest | | | | field of view dictated by the club they belong to. |
| marches?) Soon, cancer will overtake heart disease | | | | That misses the point. You must do something. |
| as the number one killer. | | | | Here's the on-point best approach: |
| Decades ago, early in the war, there were some | | | | 1. Prevention means adjusting your life right now so |
| dramatic successes such as with Hodgkin's disease | | | | that you are living in tune with your design. Cancer is, |
| and some forms of childhood leukemia. There can be | | | | quite simply, the reaction of cells subjected long |
| little doubt that debunking (surgical removal) of large | | | | enough to an environment they are not designed for. |
| cancers brings benefits. But the big killers such as | | | | The genetic apparatus loses its bearings, becomes |
| colorectal, lung, prostate and breast cancer remain as | | | | insane, if you will, and regresses to embryonic infancy |
| threatening as ever. Survival gains are measured | | | | and just begins multiplying recklessly. What is the |
| primarily in additional months (not years) added to life, | | | | proper environment? It is that food, air, water and |
| not in cures. The placebo effect is by and large | | | | lifestyle you are genetically designed for. The proper |
| ignored. (People getting a sugar pill placebo in cancer | | | | healthy preventive living context is encapsulated in |
| studies have been known to lose their hair and some | | | | the Wysong Optimal Health Program™. |
| actually cure themselves by simply thinking they will | | | | 2. If you get cancer, don't panic. First thing is follow |
| be cured.) A percentage of people can experience | | | | #1 advice. Learn. Gather as much information as you |
| remissions spontaneously and from simple lifestyle | | | | can from all resources, not just what the medical |
| adjustments, but the cancer therapy is always | | | | establishment provides. We try to gather such |
| credited with the cure. (Investigations, "Placebo | | | | information for you in The Wysong Directory of |
| Learning: The Placebo Effect as a Conditioned | | | | Alternative Resources. |
| Response," 1985; 2(1):23. O'Regan B, et al. 1993. | | | | 3. Think about what has happened in your life that |
| Spontaneous Remission: An Annotated Bibliography. | | | | has caused the disease. It is caused, it does not just |
| Sausalito, CA. Talbot M. 1991. The Holographic | | | | happen. Correct your life. |
| Universe. New York. Harper Collins Publishers. | | | | 4. You take control of your own body and you make |
| Townsend Letter, 2004; 251:32-3.) | | | | the decisions. Determine to set right what is wrong |
| Statistics can always be massaged to create the | | | | and do it. Taking control is essential to not feeling like |
| result desired. This practice is rampant in cancer | | | | a helpless victim and sinking into hopeless despair |
| research. Animal models (euphemism for real living | | | | – a sure mindset to speed the disease along. |
| and feeling caged creatures being tortured by the | | | | 5. Think long and hard before submitting to unproven |
| millions) do not prove effectiveness across species | | | | cancer therapies. If the doctor cannot prove |
| boundaries to humans. Neither do laboratory cell lines. | | | | effectiveness (at least prove that you will be better |
| That's why all the "breakthroughs" based on tumor | | | | off with the therapy than without) and if you are |
| shrinkage never pan out. For-profit drug companies | | | | not willing to take the risk of all the contraindications, |
| and National Cancer Institute grant-based research | | | | then don't submit because you think it is "all that can |
| ignore metastases (the spreading cells of cancer | | | | be done." It isn't. See #2 above. |
| through the body) in their positive reports. Instead | | | | All good things in life are hard. In our modern world, |
| they highlight and focus on more easily obtained lab | | | | good health takes effort and attention. Preventing |
| results, such as "tumor shrinkage,” and on easily | | | | and reversing disease also takes effort – your |
| manipulated clinical data such as "five-year survival." | | | | effort. Begin today to take charge of your health |
| Twelve new "improved" drugs introduced in Europe | | | | and be the best you can be. Most chronic |
| between 1995 and 2000 were no better than the | | | | degenerative diseases have long latency periods, the |
| drugs they replaced. But the prices were all higher, in | | | | time between when the disease begins and it |
| one instance by a factor of 350 times. One new | | | | manifests in overt symptoms. Most everyone reading |
| "revolutionary" drug, Erbitux™, found to "shrink" | | | | this has such disease brewing within at this very |
| tumors but not extend the lives of patients at all | | | | moment. So take advantage of the window of |
| costs $2,400 per week. Avastin™, another costly | | | | opportunity and give your body a chance by living |
| chemotherapeutic, by the best calculation, extended | | | | the life you were designed to live. That will not only |
| the lives of 400 colorectal patients by 4.7 months. | | | | prevent disease from gaining a foothold, but reverse |
| Tamoxifin™ is proven to be effective in decreasing | | | | disease that is incubating within. |
| breast cancer. Risk is decreased by about 15% but | | | | |