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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (556923)	3/25/2010 7:45:47 AM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1574752

Even more clearer than that... webmd.com May 15, 2009 -- Actress Farrah Fawcett's fight against anal cancer has included treatments in Germany that aren't approved in the U.S., sparking debate about cancer patients' options when they want more than what's approved by the FDA. The people ate up with worrying about coat hanger abortions just turned the whole health care system into coat hanger medicine.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (556923)	3/25/2010 2:07:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574752

Europeans believe that bolstering the immune system can help the body fight the cancer. Americans believe that killing the cancer is the best way to go. Unfortunately, the poisons and radioactive treatments American MDs give cancer patients to kill the tumors damages the body. Some day in the future, I am sure the American approach will look barbaric. Treatments in Germany Ursula Jacob of Germany's Alpenpark Clinic has treated Fawcett. In an interview with Access Hollywood, Jacob says that, in Germany, Fawcett was given "natural supplements and also immune treatments" that were tailored to her specific case. Those treatments improved Fawcett's quality of life and "the tumor shrank in size and also the mass of the tumor shrank," Jacob said. "For a long time, two-and-a-half years, she was in really good shape." Jacob recently flew to California to see Fawcett, but says she can't give Fawcett the care she got in Germany while Fawcett is in the U.S., because those treatments aren't FDA approved. The treatments, which Jacob didn't describe in detail, are "normal" in Europe, Jacob says. Fawcett's friend, Alana Stewart, told the Access Hollywood reporter that Jacob was there "more to be a friend and a support to Farrah than to give treatments. She's under treatment by her American doctors." webmd.com