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Originally posted by goBigtime
Sorry about your friend  ....
Don't get me wrong. There are COUNTLESS snake oil salesmen out there who would sell you a pile of dirt from their backyard and tell you it would cure whatever ailes you if they could (and techinically they can.. if you're sucker enough to buy it)
I'm not saying that any old "magic south american chewing bark" cure will be of value.
But things that have been around a long time, or treatments that have a lot history of USE and past research, should probably be looked into - preferably by organizations that do not make billions of dollars off of the diseases that the substance would treat or cure. Is that too much to ask?
Please bluff, tell me exactly what cancer is - in your own words.
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She was not really a friend of mine, a teacher. I now really disapprove of that diet, but okay, at the time I didn't know much about cancer, I now think it had metastasised at the time she took that diet, so it wasn't really a choice between regular and alternative, regular chemos would just have been palliative and wouldn't have cured her.
Cancer is an unrestrained growth of tissue starting in one cell in which DNA is damaged. Certain genes that, in a healthy cell, control growth by inhibiting it or stimulating the division of the cell are now modified, in a way that other factors from inside or outside the cell have no influence on this process anymore. Furthermore, for a tumor to become a cancer, it must have certain features that enable cells to invade and penetrate sourrounding tissue (if not, the tumor is benign and simple excision would be curative in most cases).
Now what exactly are you referring to when using the word 'alternative medicine'? Name a method.