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 IMMUNITION REPORT
Volume IV, No. 4
By Frank M. Jordan
Chemotherapy and
Radiation Treatments -
Truth and Consequences
Plus Nutritional Aids
Chemotherapy and Radiation as Cancer Treatments
Cancer cells lose
their ability to be controlled in natural growth and reproduction by the body
and multiply very fast, often migrating to other parts of the body in addition
to the original site.
Normal cells know when to stop growing, particularly in repair situations, but cancer cells are different from normal cells in ignoring the body’s signals to
stop growth. The cancer cells become erratic and keep multiplying rapidly and,
if not controlled or killed, the cancer cells disrupt normal and essential cell
functions, crowd out normal tissue of organs and eventually, if not stopped, cause organ failure
resulting in death.
Chemotherapy
(chemo) and radiation are two of only three sanctioned medical procedures
(surgery is the third) utilized in the
treatment of cancer. Chemo involves antimetabolites that attempt to disrupt
cancer cell growth and reproduction and cytotoxic (cell poisoning) drugs to kill
cancer cells. Chemo and radiation are
also utilized to shrink the cancer tumor size prior to surgery, with an
objective to make removal both less invasive to the patient and more effective
in removing the cancerous tumor or tumors.
Chemotherapy was
first developed as a U.S. Army poison gas program during World War II, a fact
seldom revealed to those in treatment.
Chemotherapy is the chosen sanctioned therapy when cancer has metastasized, or
spread beyond the original site of origin. Cancer has metastasized in cancer
patients in 50-70% of diagnosed cancer cases, a condition status that
unfortunately reduces success statistics for "cure." Control by reduced
reproduction of cancer cells and tumor size shrinkage are much more frequent
results than a factual "cure" and are positive developments in cancer treatment.
Success rates for
chemotherapy have been highest in ovarian, testicular and Duke’s C cancers.
Cures by chemotherapy and radiation regimens in other cancers are less
successful involving all-to-often
misleading statistics. As an example, cancer is considered cured if a patient is cancer-free for 5
years after treatment; even if cancer reoccurs in year 6. This equates
cancer remission for a 5 year period with cure and, while certainly a positive
development, the word "cure" should equate to "gone" or cancer being no longer
present to any extent in any amount. While approximately 50% of cancer
patients receive chemotherapy in some form, the success rate according to Dr. Ralph Moss,
author of Questioning Chemotherapy, is only 2 to 5% for a cure.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers and organized medicine present more optimistic
industry success rates at about 25%, with rates varying by type and stage of the
form of cancer treated and the definition of "cure." If cancer,
particularly breast cancer, is "cured," why do most Oncologist insist on a
post-operative "chemotherapy" treatment plan that is debilitating due to side
effects and financially a heavy burden even though they, "got it all?".
Radiation
treatments for cancer, or radiotherapy, involve the use of radioactivity
including
ionizing radiation from Gamma-rays, X-Rays or Cobalt-60 as killing agents in
therapy. Approximately 60% of cancer patients receive radiation in some form.
Radiation is aimed at killing the malignant cells and tissues involved in cancer.
Radiation can in fact damage cancer cells, but radiation can also cause
secondary cancers after the primary cancer has been treated; thus being
classified as a carcinogen defined as a cancer-causing agent.
In addition to
being carcinogens, chemotherapy drugs and radiation are in many instances
classified as free radicals responsible for cancer-causing mutations to the
body's deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA. Free radicals are in
actuality molecules that have lost an electron and are therefore "unpaired,"
similar to a sparking wire uncontrolled in the body. The "unpaired" molecules
"steal" an electron from any nearby molecule in an attempt to replace their
missing electron, leading to the creation of more free radicals and initiating a
chain reaction. Excessive free radicals in the body are to be avoided and a
serious detriment to
attaining and maintaining good health.
As with any
prescription pharmaceutical drug, the prescribing physician must evaluate risk
versus reward of the drug or drugs prescribed, with the presumption the reward
of curing the treated disease is more beneficial than the risk of the
prescription drug's known bad side effects in the body. In prescribing
post-operative chemotherapy after claiming "we got it all," especially with
breast cancer patients, it is hoped a thorough evaluation of the risk of
injecting a patient's body with additional poison carcinogens known to cause
serious side effects such as fatigue, a suppressed immune response and even
cancer, is conclusive in determining the possible reward of killing cancer cells
that supposedly are no longer present more than offsets the certain and serious
negatives from the treatment itself!
Many chemotherapy
drugs (antimetabolites) are aimed at controlling the growth and reproduction of cancer cells,
instead of destroying cancer cells. Chemotherapy is
similar to spraying pesticides on plants to kill 99% of the bugs. The problem
is the super bugs in the 1% that survive reproduce even more rapidly and are the
most resistant to the chemo drugs and radiation poisons supposed to control
them. A secondary problem is while shrinkage of a tumor is a positive
development, especially prior to surgery, tumor shrinkage too often has been
made synonymous with cure by the Cancer industry and this unfortunately is not
true because a shrunken malignant tumor is still a malignant tumor if it is
still present in the body!
Chemotherapy Drug Types and Purpose
Chemotherapy
drugs are classified in five categories:
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Alkylating cytotoxic agents: The
genetic material or DNA of a cell is composed of molecules named bases. These
bases must be duplicated and paired precisely when the cell divides. Alkylating
agents interfere with the orderly process of bases pairing, thus preventing
successful cell division. The drugs Cytoxan and L-Pam are in this category.
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Antimetabolites:
Antimetabolites are chemical compounds absorbed by the cell, similar in fact to
vitamins and other nutrients. Antimetabolites disrupt the cell metabolic
process. Methotrexate, 5-FU and 6-MP are examples.
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Antibiotics: Antibiotics
are designed to fight bacterial infections by disrupting the synthesis of RNA, a
substance the cell needs to make essential proteins. Cancer therapy antibiotics
include Bleomycin and Adriamycin.
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Steroids:
Prednizone and estrogen supposedly work in cancer treatment by preventing
production of proteins and key enzymes, but the exact process is unknown to
date.
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Miscellaneous: Vinblastine and Vincristine actively prevent cell replication or
doubling. L-Alparaginase is an enzyme that destroys asparagines, an amino acid
some cancer cells must source from the blood stream and cannot produce.
More chemo drugs are developed almost daily, with advances hopefully being made
to make the drugs more targeted in killing cancer cells without nausea and hair
loss, and less damaging to the bone marrow, immune cells, nutrient delivery and
creation of other cancers.
Chemotherapy and Radiation Status Today
What
is most disturbing is mainstream medicine dictates only chemotherapy, radiation
and surgery are currently accepted treatments for cancer, with even nutrition
unbelievably considered an alternative form of treatment. Cancer is a disease
that destroys normal cell function and in turn tissue and organs; i.e. a disease
of abnormal metabolism. Up to 40% of cancer patients are dying of malnutrition,
but this aspect of cancer and the contributions to malnutrition due to
treatments of chemotherapy and radiation are all but ignored.
Why
can’t the main stream medical establishment embrace the contributions of
nutrition, vitamin therapy (Vitamin C particularly) and immune response
enhancement to fighting cancer, in addition to other effective alternative
methods? Dollars? This should not be an "us versus them" or
"pharmaceutical/surgery versus natural" or any other ridiculous focus other than
taking the best of all health sciences to cure the cancer of the patient.
Why should anything be excluded that can be beneficial simply because it is
natural versus synthetic and cannot be patented to produce billions of dollars?
If
chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are so successful after hundreds of millions of dollars
in research, why has the cancer death rate per 100,000 population TRIPLED since
1900? All but
ignoring
the source of food for cancer is sugar and the destructive effects of
chemotherapy and radiation on the immune response is unexplainable. Hopefully
extensive research will be done in the future to reduce or eliminate the negatives
of the treatments and statistics relating to success will be accurate, without
marketing gimmicks to make results appear better than reality. Cancer
patients deserve the truth and access to any treatment or substance that can be
beneficial to managing symptoms or contribute to a cure.
Dangers of Chemo and Radiation
Chemotherapy patients are 14 times more likely to develop leukemia than patients
who have not undergone chemo and chemo patients are 6 times more likely to
develop cancer of the bones, joints and soft tissue.
Chemotherapy causes the barrier of the intestine to become permeable and leaky,
allowing detrimental bacteria and fungi to enter the bloodstream (fibromyalgia
possible cause?). Nutrient digestion is impaired by destruction of the villi in
the intestinal wall of the small intestine. Chemo suppresses the immune response
while severely depleting Taurine, a key ingredient of bile needed for
fat-soluble vitamin absorption, cell membrane integrity and calcium/sodium
balance.
Most forms of chemotherapy cause depletion of Vitamin A and interfere with
intestinal absorption of Vitamin K, needed for proper blood density. Dermatitis
on the skin is common, while hemoglobin (red blood cell) levels are lowered
after chemotherapy.
Radiation therapy damages bone marrow by X-ray or Gamma-ray emission, while
causing a severe decline in needed Vitamin C concentration in the bone marrow
and the body’s sodium/potassium balance. Further, radiation therapy shrinks the
spleen and thymus gland, while causing a reduction in white blood cell counts
known as lycopenia. Regarding the immune response, both helper T-cells and suppressor
T-cells are reduced.
Bottom
line, risk versus reward is a major question in using chemotherapy and radiation
in cancer treatment. Many have benefited in increased life span, but too
often with limited
cure achievement, but there are aids to making these treatments more effective
while reducing negative side effects many times ignored.
Can Chemotherapy and Radiation Be More Effective?
Are there ways to make radiation and chemotherapy more effective against cancer
and less destructive to white cells and red cells produced by the bone marrow
that are essential for oxygen and nutrient delivery in the body and thus energy
itself?
A study
by D.J. Allendorf and associates presented at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Comprehensive Care Symposium in 2003 reported, “Oral treatment with whole
glucan particles may be a useful therapeutic intervention following radiation
exposure to accelerate myeloid [bone marrow] recovery and increase
survival after radiation exposure.”
Dr.
Myra Patchen and associates from Harvard U. published the following results,
“These studies suggest that glucan, a macrophage activator, can synergize the G-CSF
to further accelerate hemopoietic [formation of blood cells] regeneration
and increase survival following radiation-induced myelosuppression [bone
marrow suppression].”
As to
chemotherapy, A. A. Tohamy in a peer reviewed article in November 2003
published: “This protective effect of beta-glucan could be attributed to its
scavenging ability to trap free-radicals produced during the biotransformation
of these anti-neoplastic [abnormal tissue growth chemotherapy] drugs.
Beta-glucan also markedly restored the mitotic
[cell division] activity of bone marrow cells that had been suppressed by the
anti-neoplastic drugs.
These results indicate that in addition to known immunopotentiating activity of
beta-glucan, it plays a role in reducing genotoxicity [capability to cause cancer] induced by
anti-neoplastic [abnormal tissue growth] drugs during cancer
chemotherapy.”
These
research studies and presentations translate to mean Beta 1,3/1,6 glucan helps
protect against free radicals produced by chemotherapy drugs and radiation
attempting to stop cancer cell multiplication.
A
major damage factor from chemotherapy and radiation is in inhibiting and
damaging bone marrow and spleen production of blood cells – white and red. Dr.
Myra Patchen in peer-reviewed publications further reported,
“Both
glucan P [particulate taken orally as a supplement] and glucan-F enhanced
the recovery of peripheral blood white cell numbers, platelet numbers and
hematocrit [red blood cell concentration] values. In addition, both
agents increased endogenous pluripotent hemopoietic stem cell numbers in
sublethally irradiated mice. … In the spleen, all aspects of hemopoiesis
[formation of blood cells] increased after glucan administration.”
Beta
1,3/1,6 glucan and the potent form of MG Glucan ingested orally:
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Nutritionally
aids in protecting the white immune cells from damage from the cytotoxicity
(cell poisons) of
chemotherapy and radiation.
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Nutritionally
aids in replacing needed white immune cells, red blood cells and platelets in the bone
marrow after treatment.
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Nutritionally
aids
“Phagocytosis” by white immune cells that ingest and devour dead or damaged cancer and other
cells, thus removing toxic damaged and dead cells from the body.
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Nutritionally
helps promote an improved immune response to enhance God’s protection for us against
other health invaders including fungus, bacteria and viruses.
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Nutritionally promotes
replacement of red blood cells in the bone marrow to orally aid in restoring energy and reducing nausea by
enhancing delivery of oxygen to cells.
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MG
Glucan is a more potent form of Beta 1,3/1,6 glucan due to a U.S. Patented
process for isolating the nutritional immune cell potentiator, with amounts of
20 mg to 40 mg daily suggested. At minimum 10 mg should be taken orally before sleep
as the immune response is most active in repair and activity in deep sleep. MG
Glucan taken orally will additionally aid nutritionally in promoting wellness
from
leucopenia, hair loss, nausea, pain and vomiting. Additional beneficial natural
substances include:
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Glutamine
is essential as a supplement in both radiation and chemotherapy by increasing
the susceptibility of cancer cells to the cytotoxic [poison] effects of the
chemicals and radiation. To minimize diarrhea, take 18,000 mg (18 grams) of glutamine for
3 days before chemo with 30,000 mg (30 grams) per day for 14 days afterward to minimize
pain and mouth sores (oral mucositis), with beta carotene also helping reduce
the severity of mouth ulcers.
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Thymic
protein A (TPA) counteracts for many the suppression of the immune cells for many, while
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DMSO considerably reduces the toxic side effects of Cyclophosphamide, a common
chemo drug.
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Vitamin A with 25,000 IU per day (do not exceed except under physician
guidance),
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Vitamin E with 400 IU daily and
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Vitamin C (intravenous under physician supervision preferably) are nutritionally
beneficial.
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Hyperthermia, or heat therapy, often increases the effectiveness of chemo.
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Whey
protein enhances benefits of radiation therapy by depleting the glutathione
content of cancer cells.
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Shark
liver oil with alkyl glycerols are useful to women with uterine cancer prior to
radium and X-ray therapy to reduce treatment damage to non-cancer cells.
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CoQ10
with 200 mg daily oxygenates cells while boosting cell metabolism to replenish
damaged cells.
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Use
N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC) with 1,800 mg per day
for nutritional aid in reducing nausea, vomiting and bladder hemorrhaging, ,
plus the
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Herb
ginger, preferably in a tea.
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Supplement with Taurine of 2,000 mg per day recommended,
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Grape
seed extract to slow cell mutation,
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Astragalus to help regain cell function,
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Proteolytic enzymes with bromelain to diminish cancer cell integrity (7 tablets
3 times daily suggested) and
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Cat’s claw for toxicity relief.
A sick
mind cannot help a sick body. Fran Di Giacomo, author and cancer survivor says,
“Laughter frees the mind from the shackles of despair and, in turn, empowers
the body.” Where there is humor together with a spiritual promise, there is
hope for the present and future in cancer and life.
MG
Glucan oral intake is suggested at minimum two weeks before beginning
chemotherapy and/or radiation treatments and to continue for at minimum 60 days
afterward. In summary, make informed decisions and utilize all beneficial
sources.
For detailed
research sources go to
www.betaglucan.org, a non-commercial website dedicated to beta glucan
research and information and go to the sections on "chemotherapy", "radiation"
and "cancer".
About the Author:
Frank Jordan has a post-graduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin
and is a co-patent holder on U.S. patents issued or in application related to
the immune response in conjunction with researchers at the University of
Nevada School of Medicine, Dept. of Microbiology. Frank Jordan's most
recent book is "Frankly Speaking, Vol 1" which reviews 50 different common
medical conditions with thoughts and suggestions. Jordan also hosts the
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise national radio show heard in all 48 continental U.S.
states weekdays. Learn more about Frank Jordan on the web at
www.hwwshow.com .
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