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Old 09-24-2008, 10:38 AM  
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Originally Posted by cherrylula View Post
a vegan diet and absolutely no alcohol is all I can suggest.

I have numerous cases of cancer in my family, and the only patterns I have found through experience is the survivors didn't eat animal products (hormones encourage the growth) or drink alcohol (accellerates the metastasizing). And of course no cigarette smoking.

cancer is a malfunctioning of the cells when your body doesn't have enough healthy anti-oxidants to kill the bad cells. Our bodies fight this process off everyday.

Much luck to your friend, I don't trust doctors and their experiments, it killed my mother faster with their poisonous "treatments," but to each their own. (she died from breast cancer spread to the lungs at age 38)
can I just point out some details....

hormones encourage the growth This is true, but a cancer cell is already growing uncontrollably. You cannot stop it from growing, although *if* you could cut of all hormones to it (your own natural ones included), you would kill it.

cancer is a malfunctioning of the cells when your body doesn't have enough healthy anti-oxidants to kill the bad cells No - anti-oxydants help to prevent damage to DNA caused by free radicals. Every cell in our body goes throw hundreds of thousands mutations each and every day. The cell has a mechanism to detect and repair them. It occurs and is repaired by/during DNA synthesis. Free radicals on the other hand accelerate DNA damage to a level where our repair mechanism cannot cope. Anti-oxydants "mop up" free radicals, which is a Good Thing?

Our bodies fight this process off everyday. Yup, and our body fights potential cancer cells everyday too - it's called the immune system. It can recognise a rogue cell and destroy it. The most successful anti-cancer treatment to date was published 3 months ago, where a guy with metastases all over his body had blood removed, white cells grown in the lab specifically to detect the cancer cell, then the amplified blood re-injected into him. His own cells attacked and killed all trace of his cancer. Paper was published 5 years after his treatment and the guy is cancer free still.

And of course no cigarette smoking. Cigarette smoke is like free-radicals. It accelerates DNA damage. The damage is done if you have cancer. Stopping smoking will not in any way shape or form help your cancer to be treatable at all...
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