Taken from A Code Red Alert from the Health Sciences Institute:
Cancer Drug Quadruples Cancer Risk!
Breast cancer patients – beware! Common breast cancer drug tamoxifen may quadruple your risk of developing a more aggressive cancer in your healthy breast. FOUR times the risk!
A new study (published in Cancer Research) found that tamoxifen therapy brings on a 4.4-fold increased risk of a specific, particularly aggressive form of breast cancer (called estrogen receptor negative contralateral breast cancer)...along with all of its other risks. Risks that include blood clots, stroke, and uterine cancer, just to name a few. On top of those potential risks, about 40% of women who do suffer through tamoxifen treatment suffer a cancer recurrence.
Of course, the researchers say this new finding – the four- fold risk of aggressive cancer – is no reason to stop taking tamoxifen, claiming that the benefits outweigh the risks.
DQ's note: As I reported at www.tbyil.com in the article "Chemo Does Not Cure - Often It Inflicts Damage and Spreads Cancer" (the entire article can still be found on the home page of the website):
As reported at the 27th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Dec 2004, (abstract 6014), German investigators from Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, have shown that taxol (the "gold standard of chemo") causes a massive release of cells into circulation.
Such a release of cancer cells would result in extensive metastasis months or even years later, long after the chemo would be suspected as the cause of the spread of the cancer. This little know horror of conventional cancer treatment needs to be spread far and wide, but it is not even listed in the side effects of taxol.
As has oft been stated, chemo does not cure cancer - it merely attempts to eliminate the tumors and cancer cells that are symptoms of the underlying causes of cancer, and does so with little success and great risks. In some instances it may appear to eliminate tumors and cancer cell masses, though most often it merely destroys some of the cancer cells. In the process, it often inflicts a very high price.
Besides spreading cancer cells, chemo inflicts serious and perhaps irreversible damage to the immune system, the body's natural first line of defense against cancer and other illness - thus paving the way for the remaining cancer cells or future cancers to overwhelm a body that is even less able to beat the cancer that got past the immune system in the first place.
Every day I'm becoming more convinced that cancer drugs are mostly evilness that destroys the body. I dispense tamoxifen to someone and this person looks forward to me coming in every day.
What mainstream medicine NEVER advertises or advises their cancer patients is that virtually all chemo drugs are themselves classified as Class 1 carcinogens.
Just lost someone to 'cancer' but I personally believe it was the high doses of coumadin that did this person in :( When we dispense chemo pills we have to wear nitrile gloves and pregnant nurses aren't allowed to dispense chemo. I'm trying to turn my discouragement to something positive though.
Besides spreading cancer cells, chemo inflicts serious and perhaps irreversible damage to the immune system, the body's natural first line of defense against cancer and other illness - thus paving the way for the remaining cancer cells or future cancers to overwhelm a body that is even less able to beat the cancer that got past the immune system in the first place.
Taken from the 100% plant based diet book "The RAVE diet"
"Another reason why animal protein causes Cancer has to do with digestive enzymes - or a shortage of them as a result of eating animal foods. Cancer cells have a protective protein coating around them which makes them invisible to the immune system. The pancreas produces two enzymes that help digest animal protein. In addition to digesting animal protein, only these enzymes can dissolve the protein coating around the cancer cells. Once the protein coating is disolved by the enzymes, the cancer cells become visible and the immune system can do it's job of destroying them.
Animal protein requires a lot of enzymes to digest it and eating a diet high in animal protein can cause a shortage of pancreatic enzymes. When this happens, cancer cells will keep their protective protein coating and remain invisible to the immune system - and start multiplying. The more animal protein you eat, in other words, the more you impair your body's natural defenses against cancer."
He references the following:
This was first documented by Dr. John Beard in his book published in 1911, The enzyme treatment of cancer and it's scientific basis. For more information, see the write up in Richard Walters, Options - The Alternative Cancer Therapy Book.
The two enzymes produced by the pancreas are "Tripsin and chymotripsin"
thanks so much to the original poster, Dquixote1217, for this.
When I had recurrent Breast Cancer , the 2nd time, they tried to get me into a then experimental program to take tamoxifen which I refused after thinking about it briefly.
Now I am so glad I did. This was before I knew about Richard
Schulze and his incurables program. I had a total of three lumpectomies and finally after months of research in the medical library (I did not have access to a computer then) decided to get radiation.
They had to give me more radiation than normal due to chest size and position of the cancer.
I was told I would have four side effects by the radiation doctor who also had had breast cancer and radiation.
1 severe third degree by the 2nd week
2 would wind up with a breast as hard as a rock
3 twingy. shooting sensations through my breast the rest of my life
4 I am sorry but I forget what the 4th one was
I did took 150 supplements a day, mostly antioxidents, used guided imagery, and used an external cream made of fresh aloe vera, vitamin E and calendula cream in the bathroom immediately after the radiation.
I did not tell them I was doing this.
The result was they kept telling me how lucky I was that I had no burning as usually everyone does by the 2nd week. I had none until the 5th and last week of radiation.
I never had a twingy sensation ever and my breast tissue is not hard but normal.
I do really regret having the treatment now that I know the incurables, hoxsey, Essiac etc will cure this but then I did not know.
I have been cancer free for over 15 years and I am very happy especially after reading this that I never took tamoxifen. The idea of them selling it to scared people to prevent cancer seemed so wrong to me to gain more costumer for their drug.
Thank you for posting this..it made me feel very happy that I refused this drug even though I was very scared then. I might not be cancer free so long if I had listened to my doctor. In fact, I deeply regret having radiation then too now that I know so much more than I did then unfortunately. who knows what damage that did to my cells even with all the antioxidents. A live cell test I took soon after showed extensive free radical damage to my cells.
I recently was diagnosed with diabetes and after research and seeing people cured with a primarily raw vegan diet and reading several books on this like the halleluia diet, the cure for diabetes by Cousins, eat to live, etc, I have decided to become a vegan.
MY allopathic doctor who is EXTYREMELY into alternative health told me to eat no fruit or grains which I personally did not think was healthy. Reading what you said here
"Cancer cells have a protective protein coating around them which makes them invisible to the immune system. The pancreas produces two enzymes that help digest animal protein. In addition to digesting animal protein, only these enzymes can dissolve the protein coating around the cancer cells. Once the protein coating is dissolved by the enzymes, the cancer cells become visible and the immune system can do it's job of destroying them.
Animal protein requires a lot of enzymes to digest it and eating a diet high in animal protein can cause a shortage of pancreatic enzymes"
I see how a plant based diet may further help the pancreas and how an animal based diet may harm it and how it may do harm also not mentioned in this post.
When I continued to research cancer, I found 5 programs that had a high incidence of anecdotal evidence of cures and the one thing I noticed they all had in common was a lot of raw fruits and vegetables.
I heard that the enzymes in the produce also eats the protein coating surrounding each cancer cell that you mentioned that prevents the immune system from killing it.
I also once read that green tea also dissolves this protein coating thus allowing the immune system to rapidly kill the cancer cells. Most of these cancer cells seem to be rapidly destroyed often within several weeks or less, often amazing doctors who find no trace of cancer to their surprise.
Continue on the program though to find all the cancer cells that may be hidden and continue in a lifestyle change as Dr Schulze says that once it recurs it is harder to heal naturally the 2nd time around so prevent that reoccurance by continuing a vegan diet, lots of raw produce, detoxing, exercise etc.
Keep spreading the word till eventually the info becomes mainstream and thanks for the posts in this thread.