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The video below will perhaps help you understand my own cynicism concerning the medical establishment. Although it relates to the situation existing within the United States I am aware of similar problems in most other Western countries.
One important comment I would make though is that in general, medical doctors are not a part of the money grabbing conspiracy run by their political masters within their professional bodies. They are themselves ruled mercilessly by those bodies and suffer dire consequences, both personally and professionally, if they step outside the rules or challenge the status quo.
Moreover, there is little opportunity for change considering the huge sums of money involved in the shenanigans between such bodies and both government agencies and Big pharma. Just imagine the political power and financial influence involved here.
For a long time now I have considered Papaya Tea to be a very important ingredient in my armory of prostate cancer treatments. I consume three 8 oz glasses each day of my own brew.
Essentially, I cut up two whole leaves (as you would cabbage) and slowly boil it up in an earthenware pot for about an hour (longer for a stronger brew) letting the water content reduce by one third.
The brew is then strained into glass bottles and refrigerated when cool. It will keep fresh for about three days. Throw out if it becomes cloudy.
It is quite bitter to the taste but I sometimes overcome this by adding Pomegranate Juice (Organic 95% concentrate) to each glass, though I can comfortably take it without the juice.
Two other methods of preparation – which I have not tried – include drying the leaves in the sun until crisp, and then boil. Yet another is to pulverize the leaves contained within a muslin cloth and then squeeze the resulting juice into a very small cup or other container. Only a very small amount (spoonful or two) will be gained by this method but it is said to be highly concentrated.
The following article, from http://www.wsoctv.com/ tends to support using Papaya juice as a valid cancer fighting agent.
Extract from the article:
“When the cancer cell lines were incubated with the papaya leaf extract, investigators saw a two-pronged effect. First, many of the cancer cells died. Second, the extract also boosted the immune cells, improving the ability of those cells to secrete chemicals that help the body fight cancer. Another advantage is that the papaya leaf extract had no toxic effects on normal cells”.
It soon becomes evident to new readers of this blog that I am an erstwhile advocate for natural prostate cancer treatments and in that vein I offer you this very interesting article form geologist, Professor Jane Plant, who cured her regressive cancer with a sensible diet learned from her experiences in China. Moreover, Prof. Plant intimates the same regimen ‘may’ kill off for prostate cancer too. I firmly believe that it will.
Here are two paragraphs from the article promoting her book ‘Your Life In Your Hands’.
Professor Jane Plant is an eminent geologist. In 1987, aged 42, and with two young children, she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time. Five years later the cancer returned four times – and, as she explains in her book Your Life in Your Hands, this was “despite a radical mastectomy, three further operations, 35 radiotherapy treatments, several chemotherapy treatments and irradiation of my ovaries to induce the menopause”. The doctors gave her three months to live.
The answer had to be found in the diet of the Chinese – no dairy food. Her diet became totally dairy-free but full of food containing cancer protective ingredients; she was careful to reduce her intake of hormones and chemicals from food; and altogether changed her lifestyle
Golly gosh! Do my eyes deceive me? Or is what I have just read true?
Dendreon Inc. in the USA has placed a price tag of $93,000 for its Provenge prostate cancer treatment. Yes, that’s correct, $93,000 for three separate doses administered over a one month period.
And just what does it do for the patient? Well, if it was me paying that ridiculous amount I’d want a guarantee for longevity, say past the century mark.
But no, claimed to be the first drug designed to train the body’s immune system to fight cancer all it will do is give a cancer patient an additional – wait for it – 4.1 months longer to live than those given a placebo.
Now I ask you. Who in their right mind would fork out $93,000 dollars to extend what is probably already a painful, miserable existence, for an extra four months of hell? And who would have the gall to expect their fellow citizens to foot such an outlandish bill on their behalf?
So why the high cost? Well, forgive me for being so cynical but it appears that with US Regulators having already approved the drug it must now be covered under the rules of the U.S. Medicare health plan, the government’s health plan for the elderly and disabled. The drug company is no doubt fighting hard to ensure that the government does indeed pay. Moreover, the United States Social Security Act requires it to be so.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the drug company knew that fact all along and well before it set the market price. No doubting they will have already factored in many additional billions of dollars they will earn from this into their bottom line for 2010.
Dendreon’s stock rose 2.9% (by 93 cents) to $33.84 following the announcement.
Regular readers will know that I don’t place much stock in the use of blood, prostate specific antigen, PSA, results as a reliable predictor of prostate cancer without, that is, assessing the more reliable time staging between readings, together with other clinical analysis.
Considerable research and analysis is being done however on the PSA factor and I thought the following article from www.urotoday.com worth bring to your attention.
My own initial PSA reading of 7.4 in April 2006, and with a score of 9 (5+4), on the Gleason scale, gives some cause for concern if I am to seriously consider the message in the press release below. However, with the natural health regimen I follow I feel confident I can personally overcome the research findings. I am mindful here that of the 4568 men involved in the study it is most unlikely any would have been participating in holistic therapies. As such, they would not have been considered for the study.
Baseline PSA predicts risk of death from prostate cancer
Monday, 12 July 2010
DURHAM, NC USA (Press Release) – July 9, 2010 – Men who have a baseline PSA value of 10 or higher the first time they are tested are up to 11 times more likely to die from prostate cancer than men with lower initial values, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers.
Scientists say the finding, appearing early online in the journal Cancer, supports routine, early prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening among healthy men with normal life expectancy — a practice several studies have recently questioned.
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