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Treatment Options
Treatment Options For Cancer
When a child or teenager is diagnosed with cancer, the entire family is stunned, and overwhelmed with fear for the child’s life.
Cancer is a huge challenge and many difficult decisions need to be made under intense stress at a time when parents feel numb, confused, and unable to think clearly.
Fathers and mothers have a sincere need for someone to guide them in making the best possible decisions for their child’s treatments and recovery. They do not have time to search the 2,290,000 cancer Web sites. Children Against Cancer saves you time. We’ve done the research for you.
Depending on the type of pediatric cancer, most oncologists want the child hospitalized straightaway and to begin aggressive conventional therapies – the only treatments promoted by the Cancer Establishment – that may include a combination of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy - toxic treatments intended to kill cancer cells, but that offer no guarantee of success and may further endanger the life or future health of the child.
When a child or teenager is diagnosed with cancer, the entire family is stunned, and overwhelmed with fear for the child’s life.
Cancer is a huge challenge and many difficult decisions need to be made under intense stress at a time when parents feel numb, confused, and unable to think clearly.
Fathers and mothers have a sincere need for someone to guide them in making the best possible decisions for their child’s treatments and recovery. They do not have time to search the 2,290,000 cancer Web sites. Children Against Cancer saves you time. We’ve done the research for you.
Depending on the type of pediatric cancer, most oncologists want the child hospitalized straightaway and to begin aggressive conventional therapies – the only treatments promoted by the Cancer Establishment – that may include a combination of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy - toxic treatments intended to kill cancer cells, but that offer no guarantee of success and may further endanger the life or future health of the child.
Guidance You Can Trust
If a child in your family has cancer, we offer a wealth of guidance that you can trust. You have a right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of a wide range of treatment options. Our goal is to provide straight talk and accurate information from a host of highly respected, progressive cancer specialists from around the world, including:
• Naturopathic Medical Doctors (N.M.D./N.D.)
• Nutritionists and Herbalists (Certified)
• Medical Doctors (M.D.)
• Doctors of Osteopathy (D.O.)
• Health Experts, including Ph.D.s
This page is a general overview of cancer treatment options including Conventional, Alternative, and Complementary.
If a child in your family has cancer, we offer a wealth of guidance that you can trust. You have a right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of a wide range of treatment options. Our goal is to provide straight talk and accurate information from a host of highly respected, progressive cancer specialists from around the world, including:
• Naturopathic Medical Doctors (N.M.D./N.D.)
• Nutritionists and Herbalists (Certified)
• Medical Doctors (M.D.)
• Doctors of Osteopathy (D.O.)
• Health Experts, including Ph.D.s
Conventional • Alternative • Complementary
Children Against Cancer does not endorse one treatment over another. Our goal is to provide you with a clear, unbiased, general summary comparing conventional, alternative, and complementary therapies:
• Their benefits
• Risks
• Side Effects & Late Effects
• Possible future health concerns for your child
Practitioners of conventional therapies have been in the majority worldwide for about 60 years. Studies show that most doctors will not offer alternative nontoxic treatments that they are not personally knowledgeable about or trained in providing.
Second Opinion
Health experts suggest that you seek medical counsel from more than one licensed pediatric cancer specialist, including a physician skilled in orthodox, conventional treatments as well as a licensed doctor with knowledge in providing alternative, natural medical approaches. A “second opinion” will help you make intelligent choices based on facts, not intimidation.
Children Against Cancer believes it is important that the choices you make for cancer treatments for your child or loved one be made only in partnership with a knowledgeable, licensed, board-certified health practitioner.
Legal Challenges
You may need to consult a law firm qualified to advise you on possible legal challenges from government agencies who may try to interfere if you choose alternative cancer treatments for a minor child that are not “approved” by the conventional Cancer Establishment.
CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS
Most pediatric oncologists will treat childhood cancers aggressively with a possible combination of:
• Surgeries
• Radiation
• Chemotherapy drugs
• Drugs to treat side effects
• Bone marrow transplant
• Stem cell transplant
• Blood transfusions
Surgery
When a child or teen is diagnosed with a malignant solid tumour, the conventional approach is for a surgeon to operate to remove a small piece of the malignancy for a laboratory biopsy, and then perform what is known as a tumour resection, cutting out the malignant tumour along with nearby healthy tissue in order to achieve a “clear margin”. In some cases, nearby organs and lymph nodes suspected of being invaded by cancer cells also are removed.
If the malignant tumour is too large to remove safely, chemotherapy or radiation may be ordered to help shrink it before surgery. In cases of bone cancer in an arm or leg, the doctor may amputate. However, if the limb can be saved, a bone graft or artificial bone may be inserted where the cancerous bone was removed. As the child grows, additional surgeries may be necessary to lengthen the artificial bone.
A child who will be given fluid containing chemotherapy drugs will usually be taken into surgery to have a Port or a Central Line inserted into the upper chest near the collarbone.
Chemotherapy: Anti-cancer Drugs
The most widely used cancer treatment around the world is known as chemotherapy, or chemo, which are patented, highly toxic, “designer poisons” intended to circulate in the blood stream to kill cancer cells that may have spread from the original cancer site to other parts of the body. Unfortunately, the poisons also kill healthy cells and severely damage the child’s immune system, inviting life-threatening infections to develop.
Chemical Warfare
The history of chemotherapy is traced back to World War I soldiers who were poisoned by Sulfur Mustard used in chemical warfare. The mustard gas destroyed many of the lymphocytes in their white blood cells. After World War II, researchers at Yale University, USA, found that Nitrogen Mustard, also used for chemical warfare, destroyed cancer cells in experiments. The chemotherapy industry was conceived.
According to the American Cancer Society, there now are more than 100 chemo drugs available, and many more “promising drugs” are expected to be developed by the multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry. Patients treated with chemo drugs often suffer from severe side effects, spawning the creation of additional drugs intended to “manage” nausea, heart damage, and other health problems, thus adding more synthetic chemicals to the child’s body burden.
Carcinogenic Drugs
Incredibly, many toxic poisons known as chemotherapy drugs, intended to kill cancer cells, are themselves carcinogenic! The International Agency for Research on Cancer – part of the World Health Organization – lists at least 30 toxic chemo drugs that are likely to cause a second or third cancer in patients later in life:
- Nine chemotherapy drugs and two combined therapies are listed as “known carcinogens”.
- There are nine other chemo drugs listed as “probably carcinogens”.
- Yet another ten or more chemo drugs are “possible carcinogens”.
Port-A-Caths & Central Lines for Chemo Drugs
Children and teens going through conventional cancer treatments will often need to have frequent blood tests done, as well as fluid chemo drugs administered. To make it simpler for the nurses and less painful for the child by reducing the number of needle sticks, the patient is taken into surgery, and put to sleep under general anesthesia.
The surgeon will cut a small opening in a vein in the child’s neck area, then insert a thin, flexible plastic tube known as a Central Line that is fed down the vein until the end of the tube is in the right atrial chamber of the heart. The other end of the tube comes out of the chest and has a removable stopper. The tube will stay in place for several months, or longer. Sometimes the area becomes irritated or infected and antibiotics (more drugs!) will be prescribed for your child.
A Port-A-Cath is a plastic device that is surgically implanted beneath the skin in the upper part of your child’s chest and has a small “reservoir” that connects to a main vein. Chemotherapy drugs will be administered through the port opening.
Some external catheters have two tubes that hang out from the skin to receive two chemo drugs at the same time.
Some chemo devices are designed to be implanted beneath the scalp.
The Challenge
Doctors face the challenge of guessing whether or not the combination of drugs called the “chemo cocktail” will be effective in poisoning all of the cancer cells, shrink a solid tumour, or whether the toxic chemicals cause too many debilitating side effects for your child.
Some cancer cells not eradicated by chemo become even more aggressive and resistant to the drugs, so different combinations may be tested. Cancer cells not destroyed are likely to cause a second cancer years later that is difficult to cure.
The duration of chemo treatment, and types of drugs used depend:
- On the type of childhood cancer
- If the cancer has spread to other sites in the body
- Whether the toxic chemicals cause too many severe side effects
Chemo Cash Bonuses
Something to ponder: Life Extension (November 2007) printed an article reporting that although chemotherapy drugs have a high rate of failure, major medical centers and drug companies compensate oncologists with “chemo bonuses” (cash) as a financial incentive to prescribe certain expensive anti-cancer drugs, including for terminally ill patients with no hope of recovery.
Starting Chemotherapy
“Unproven” Drugs
The Cancer Establishment claims that alternative cancer therapies are “unproven” and therefore not recommended. Incredibly, according to Dr. Joseph Mercola, who was trained in both conventional and alternative medicine: “There are 85 ‘unproven’ cancer drugs used today in toxic, conventional treatments.”
Dr. Mercola goes on to say, “Effective cancer treatment is a matter of definition. The Federal Drug Administration defines an ‘effective’ chemo drug as one which achieves a 50% or more reduction in tumor size in 28 days. In the vast majority of cases there is absolutely no correlation between shrinking a tumor for 28 days and the cure of the cancer, or extension of life for the patient.”
Radiation Therapy for Childhood Cancers
X-rays were discovered in 1894 and by the 1900s, scientists believed that radiation might become a powerful source of treatments for controlling cancer.
In today’s conventional cancer practice, radiation treatments usually are given in a series of daily sessions, lasting about 15-20 minutes each, and continue for several weeks. The oncologist will use a specific type of machine to direct a high-energy beam of ionizing radiation toward the area of your child’s body to be treated, although sometimes it is given internally. Radiation itself is not painful, although side effects may be severe.
Universal Carcinogen
According to cancer specialists, “Ionizing radiation is a known universal carcinogen in humans”. Its lethal effects are shown to both mutate and sterilize all cells in its path, including healthy cells along with malignant cells.
Radiation therapy is not particularly helpful in killing cancer cells that have spread to other parts of your child’s body. Despite the many potential side effects, the conventional doctor’s mindset is: “The primary goal is to manage and control the cancer and this takes priority over side effects.”
According to Dr. Samuel Epstein, prominent cancer specialist, children treated with radiation and chemo, both toxic therapies, face an increased risk of developing a second cancer by tenfold!
Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Transplants
A bone marrow transplant may be recommended as a life-saving medical procedure for a child whose bone marrow is damaged after intensive chemotherapy or radiation treatments.
Radiation or chemotherapy given in high enough doses will utterly destroy bone marrow cells, causing the child to die from anemia, bleeding, or infection if they do not receive healthy new marrow from a transplant.
Conventional oncologists consider a bone marrow transplant the last hope of a “cure” for cancers that don’t respond to toxic treatments.
What is Bone Marrow?
Bone marrow is found inside the “core” of long bones, and also in the soft, spongy center of flat bones found in the hips, spine, ribs, sternum, and skull. This is where certain cells produce and store about 95% of the body’s red, white, and platelet blood cells. Each cell has an important function to maintain life and the bone marrow is a vital part of your child’s body. Because blood cells live a short time, they must be constantly renewed from stem cells, also found in bone marrow as well as in the bloodstream.
Complex Decisions
Making the decision for a bone marrow transplant for your child is difficult because of the severe side effects and risks for serious, life-threatening or permanent complications.
Different Types of Transplants
Depending on who the donor is, there are different types of bone marrow transplants (BMT) that include the following:
• Autologous. The donor is your child. The patient’s own stem cells are collected, either by harvesting bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells that are frozen and stored. Your child will then go through intensive high doses of chemotherapy or radiation to try to kill cancer cells before the transplant procedure.
• Syngeneic. The donor is an identical twin, whose bone marrow is identical to the child who is diagnosed with cancer.
• Allogeneic. Another suitable donor may be the child’s sister or brother, who is not a twin. Parents usually are not suitable donors, although another member of the family may be a good match.
Parents whose child needs a bone marrow transplant and no match is found in their own family, may find an unrelated donor on one of the global Volunteer Bone Marrow registries.
How Stem Cells Are Collected
Stem cells may be harvested from the bone marrow or from the circulating cells found in the blood:
• Bone Marrow Harvest. The donor is taken into surgery, and put to sleep under anesthesia while the doctor collects stem cells with a needle that is placed into the soft, spongy marrow of a bone, usually the hip or sternum.
• Peripheral Blood Stem Cells. A needle is placed in a vein and blood is withdrawn and circulated through a machine that removes stem cells, and returns the blood and plasma back into the donor through a needle in his or her other arm.
It is important to note that the stem cells discussed in this article are not the controversial embryonic stem cells.
The Transplant Procedure
The bone marrow that has been harvested and frozen is thawed and filtered to remove any tiny bone particles or fat. The marrow is then transplanted into your child the same way a blood transfusion is given, by a catheter inserted into a vein. The bone marrow cells then return “home” to the spaces left empty after the harvesting.
Complications
Your child may need to remain in hospital for several weeks to recover from serious, even life-threatening complications that may include:
• Viral or fungal infections
• Low red blood cell or platelet count
• Pneumonia
• Organ damage
• A graft failure when the immune system rejects the
transplant
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Side Effects & Late Effects
Of Conventional Cancer Treatments
Of Conventional Cancer Treatments
“As to diseases, make a habit of two things: To help, or at least to do no harm.” - Hippocrates, Father of Medicine
The Dark Side of Conventional Treatments
Parents whose child has been diagnosed with cancer frequently complain that their oncologist did not disclose many of the potential risks before conventional treatments began.
The dark side of conventional “cures” is that surgeries, chemotherapy drugs, radiation, bone and stem cell transplants carry the risks of causing life-threatening complications, debilitating Side Effects and Late Effects, aggressive second cancers and death.
Warning! Chemo Drugs Are Hazardous Waste
All of the chemotherapy drugs injected into your child’s body intended to kill cancer cells are poisons and regulated as “Hazardous Waste” by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Certain stringent protocols and precautions must be taken to protect pharmacists, nurses, and doctors who handle or administer chemotherapeutic drugs.
Health professionals receive specific training to avoid direct contact with chemotherapy drugs because they are so dangerous that they may cause:
• Severe burns and damage if spilled on the skin
• Abnormal changes in DNA
• Fetal defects or miscarriages in pregnant nurses
• Cancer
Doctors and nurses who handle chemo drugs must protect themselves by wearing masks, special gowns, thick gloves, and goggles. Pharmacists who prepare chemo drugs are required to have special ventilation in their workplace. After the drugs are administered to your child, the plastic IV tubing, needles, and medication bags and anything exposed to chemo must be put into specific bags to be disposed of as Hazardous Waste.
Surgery: Side Effects
Major surgery to remove a malignant tumour causes pain and possible complications, depending on the complexity of the operation and what part of the child’s body is operated. The following can usually be expected:
- Nausea and vomiting (from general anesthesia)
- Tenderness in the throat (caused by a tube inserted into the windpipe during surgery to help the child breathe)
- Thirst
- Swelling and pain around the incision
- Restlessness, sleeplessness
- Scarring at incision
- Constipation
- Loss of appetite
Post-surgical complications may include:
- Hemorrhage, blood loss
- Infection of the wound
- Wheezing, coughing
- Fever
- Chest pain
- Damage to nerve endings
- Pneumonia
Chemotherapy: Side Effects
The oncologist may tell you that your child may experience some “unpleasant” side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, and hair loss due to the toxicity of chemotherapy drugs.
The truth is, chemotherapy is poison! Poisons designed to kill and destroy cancer cells. There is a limit as to how much of the toxic drugs can be given to a child because they also destroy and kill healthy cells and tissue. The doctor will determine the maximum amount that your child can tolerate by the severity of the side effects that may include a few or several of the following:
- Abdominal colic
- Anemia
- Anxiety
- Appetite loss
- Baldness
- Bladder inflammation, blood in urine
- Bleeding: rectum, vagina
- Blindness
- Bone marrow destruction
- Bruising
- Candida: thrush
- Convulsions
- Cognitive problems, also known as “Chemo brain”: confusion, retardation, learning problems)
- Constipation
- Dehydration
- Depression
- Diarrhea
- Dry mouth
- Delirium
- Difficulty walking, motor skill changes
- Discoloration of skin
- Dizziness
- Double vision
- Drooling
- Ear damage, hearing loss
- Edema, fluid retention
- Electrolyte imbalance
- Esophagus inflammation
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Fluid accumulating around the lungs, abdomen, arms or legs
- Headaches
- Heart damage, heart failure
- Immune system damage
- Infections: bacterial, fungal, yeast
- Kidney damage
- Liver damage
- Loss of sensation
- Muscle pain
- Mouth ulcers, bleeding lips, tongue, causing eating to be painful
- Nausea, vomiting, loss of nutrition
- Nerve damage
- Pain
- Paralysis
- Psychological problems
- Reproductive organs damage
- Shortness of breath
- Skin problems: rash, changes in skin colour, sensitive to the sun
- Sleeping problems: nightmares, insomnia
- Sloughing of the entire lining of the intestines
- Sterility (inability to have children)
- Taste disturbances: food may taste metallic, bitter, salty
- Weakness
- Weight loss due to inability to eat
Radiation: Side Effects
Radiation therapy is not without its own list of many potential side effects, but conventional oncologists argue that trying to destroy cancer cells “takes priority” over risks. Following is a list of possible adverse effects your child may experience depending on the site and dosage of radiation given during treatments:
- Breathlessness
- Candida (Thrush infection)
- Damage to the skin at site of treatments
- Depression
- Diarrhea
- Difficulty swallowing solid foods
- Drowsiness
- Dry cough
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Food tastes metallic or bland
- Hair loss, baldness
- Headaches
- Inflamed bladder (Cystitis), pain while urinating
- Loss of appetite
- Mucous-like discharge or bleeding from rectum
- Muscle cramps
- Nausea, vomiting
- Scar tissue
- Sensitivity to sun and cold winds
- Skin feels burned, sore, itchy, turns red, peels
- Sore, dry mouth
- Swelling
- Tooth decay
- Unsteadiness
- Weakness
- Weight loss
Additional pharmaceutical drugs may be included along with cancer treatments to help “manage” side effects, adding their own burden of side effects to the child’s weakened body.
Many children die from chemotherapy poisons.
Many children die from chemotherapy poisons.
Late Effects: Double-Edged Sword for Survivors
“A diagnosis of childhood cancer lasts a lifetime!”
There are approximately 300,000 childhood cancer survivors in the United States of America.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine (October 12, 2006), there are a host of adverse health problems and complications that may not appear until years after treatments end. Studies have confirmed an “extraordinarily high incidence” of specific late effects and permanent complications and disabilities in childhood cancer survivors.
Research studies found that at least two-thirds of childhood cancer patients experience at least one long-term medical complication, known as a “late effect”, traced to the aggressive toxic conventional treatments that include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and bone marrow transplants. One-fourth of survivors reported having “three or more major health problems magnified by childhood cancer treatments.”
Second Cancer Tragedy
Chemo and radiation may kill the original malignancy, yet the tragedy is that many pediatric cancer survivors face a high risk of death from a second cancer years after treatments.
According to Dr. Samuel Epstein, cancer specialist, children treated with toxic chemotherapy and radiation for leukemia increases the risk for the child to develop a second cancer “by more than tenfold”.
Although they may vary in severity, Late Effects may include:
• Anemia
• Bone death, bone thinning, joint problems
• Brain damage, learning disabilities, retarded
• Cancers
• Cataracts
• Dental decay
• Dry mouth, decreased saliva
• Emotional problems
• Facial deformity
• Growth hormone deficiencies
• Hearing loss
• Heart problems: decreased function
• Infertility, sterility (male and female)
• Kidney damage
• Liver toxicity
• Lung function problems
• Pain
• Pregnancy difficulties
• Stroke
• Suicidal thoughts and attempts
• Thyroid complications
• Vision problems: blurred, double, glaucoma
Keep Medical Records
If your child has been diagnosed with cancer, it is important to keep all medical information organized that includes details about treatments given. It is likely that the information will be valuable for follow-up monitoring and care during the remainder of the childhood cancer survivor’s life.
Selected Sources: Conventional Childhood Cancer Treatments, Side Effects and Late Effects
Royal College for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland
Life Extension (November 2007)
International Agency for Research on Cancer
Children’s Cancer Foundation, Singapore, China
Samuel Epstein, M.D., The Cancer Gate
The Children’s Hospital, Colorado, USA
Pharmecology Associates, LLC
Washington State Dept. of Ecology, USA
Cancer Net
Dr. Joseph Mercola
Ralph Moss, Ph.D.
Paul Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.
Cancerbackup, United Kingdom
James Howenstine, M.D.
Chidren’s Cancer Institute, Australia
Papac, RJ, Origins of Cancer Therapy, Yale J Biol Med 2001
U.S. National Cancer Institute
American Cancer Society, USA
New England Journal of Medicine
Cancer Monthly
Radiation Treatment Guide
Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian
Alternative Medicine Offers Hope
Alternative Cancer Treatments
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship…To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic….The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as for religious freedom.” - Benjamin Rush, M.D. A signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington, America’s first president.
Royalty Speaks Up
Charles, the Prince of Wales, whose personal friend was healed by natural, alternative cancer therapies, told the media: “Rather than dismiss such experiences, we should further investigate the beneficial nature of these treatments.”
Charles, the Prince of Wales, whose personal friend was healed by natural, alternative cancer therapies, told the media: “Rather than dismiss such experiences, we should further investigate the beneficial nature of these treatments.”
European Alternative Oncology
According to German Cancer Therapies, written in 2003 by Dr. Robert Morton, himself a physician, professional medical journalist, and authority on nutrition and alternative cancer healing methods, European oncologists prefer large combinations of:
• Herbal remedies
• Organic nutrition
• Vitamins and minerals
• Phytonutrients found in certain plants
• Neutraceuticals
• Enzymes
and numerous other immune-supporting methods used successfully for more than 100 years by progressive cancer specialists with thousands of patients healed worldwide. Many natural cancer therapies have been fully documented with nearly 90% success against some cancers.
No one therapy stands alone. Depending on the type of malignancy, select combinations of natural therapies work together, synergistically, to enhance, nourish, balance and fortify the front line of defense – the immune system – to allow your child’s body to hopefully combat cancer and heal itself. Because they are natural, unlike synthetic chemo drugs, the body recognizes the alternative treatments as pure, gentle and safe and does not reject them. Side effects are rare and very mild.
Nature’s Pharmacy
Alternative medicine dates back to 3,000 B.C. when knowledgeable healers used Nature’s pharmacy: plants, herbs, nutritious whole foods, pure water, and sunshine to heal diseases and improve health. Today, science shows that Nature provides more than 200 non-toxic, effective therapies that directly or indirectly destroy cancer cells. They offer new hope for achieving “spontaneous remission” and astounding success in healing without dangerous side effects. And science continually discovers new knowledge about natural sources of healing.
By definition, Alternative cancer treatments can best be understood as a comprehensive approach using combinations of the safest, most effective natural therapies instead of toxic chemo drugs and radiation.
There is a grassroots awakening spreading like wildfire across North America and other countries, where millions of people have a new interest in learning more about natural, alternative, advanced medical approaches for treating and healing cancers.
And yet…
When the United States Congress recently called upon the Cancer Establishment to evaluate nearly 200 new scientific studies that supported the success of all-natural, non-toxic cancer therapies, but the request was flatly refused!
No Choice
Many times parents, under extreme stress, have felt bullied into giving their informed written consent for toxic, conventional treatments for their child.
If they decide to go elsewhere for alternative cancer care, oncologists have been known to report parents to local Child Protection agencies who tell the Court that the parents’ refusal of standard treatments is a “criminal offense.” The doctor may testify that the child should be compelled to go for chemotherapy and radiation.
Often, the Court agrees with the doctor’s opinions unless the parents can show medical evidence that it is not best for their child and the media provides intense coverage about the case.
Complementary Therapies
Allopathic (medical) doctors are prohibited from treating your child with alternative therapies except to help relieve the debilitating side effects caused by toxic chemotherapy and radiation.
Known as Complementary or Integrative treatments, the Cancer Establishment has recently given approval for aromatherapy, meditation, acupuncture, nutrition, and pet therapy to be included with chemo, radiation and bone marrow transplant treatments to help improve “the quality of life” for the cancer patient.
New Laws & Lawyers Needed
Parents complain that they deserve the freedom of choice to take their child for therapies with alternative medicine from licensed, board-certified pediatric oncologists who have extensive training in, and are advocates of, effective natural medical treatments for children battling cancer.
The U.S. Congress needs to uphold Constitutional “medical freedom” as mentioned by Benjamin Rush, M.D., and each state should pass new laws that protect the rights of parents to choose the treatments they believe are best for their child’s health, after researching all options, without harassment from Child Protection agencies and the Courts.
Until then, lawyers should come forward and offer to represent families, pro bono, who face a legal challenge over childhood cancer treatment options.
Loud Public Outcry
A recent Internet-based survey done by News Channel 5 TV in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, found that 83% of nearly 400 responders voiced support for the “parents’ right, not the State’s, to choose the kind of treatment for their kids.”
Thanks to a loud public outcry against government agencies and Courts forcing kids to go through harmful conventional treatments, the Court has recently dismissed charges of “neglect” brought against parents who prefer nontoxic cancer treatments. The Court apparently is satisfied when shown that the child battling cancer with alternative therapies will be under the care of a “Licensed physician who meets the minimal standard care.”
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Selected Sources: Alternative Cancer Treatments
Benjamin Rush, M.D.
Dr. Robert Morton
Samuel Epstein, M.D.
Charles, the Prince of Wales
Ralph Moss, Ph.D.
Medicine Net
Journal of Clinical Oncology, 12/01/2006
Cancer Tutor
