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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (557006)	3/25/2010 3:13:30 PM
From: HPilot	Respond to of 1574854

Often the patient is taking drugs that bolster the immune system and at the same time is taking chemo and radiation treatment.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (557006)	3/25/2010 3:27:38 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

Ted, there are so many things wrong with this post of yours: > 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. - You're pushing non-sensical stereotypes. I am not pushing anything. I am not saying one is right and the other is wrong. Its just two different POVs. - You're trivializing the vast amount of cancer research going on here in America and across the world. (I should know; a couple of my close friends are oncologists.) Hardly. Cancer is a difficult disease to defeat. Chemotherapy and radiation treatments are all Americans have at this point. All I am saying there will be a point some time in the future when these current treatments will be considered barbaric. - There are MANY different kinds of cancer and MANY different kinds of treatments. To say that Europeans do things one way and Americans do it another way is extreme overgeneralization. True....I was overgeneralizing. I was more trying to identify the two different perspectives. Europeans have done more work with trying to bolster the immune system. Its how I am trying to 'cure' my COPD and asthma. - Health care is highly regulated here in America, and for good reason. Too many "snake oil" salesmen out there trying to take advantage of the sick and dying. True but I don't see how its relevant to our discussion.....unless you think Germans are snake oil salesmen. - Even after German treatments, Fawcett still eventually succumbed to her cancer. True. Neither Americans nor Germans have a cure for her form of cancer. - You forgot to quote this part of the article, which clearly illustrates the holistic nature of Fawcett's alternative therapy: > The theory, Sands says, is "if you bolster the immune system and make it vibrant, then you can kill off cancer cells." But Sands says that approach doesn't have solid scientific proof. "It's really based mostly in theory more than in science." That's because most American doctors believe if its not theorized here in the US its BS.....its the i-node syndrome. The therapy I am doing has gone through clinical trials in Russia, AU and the UK. When I show it to American MDs, they still pooh pooh it without looking at the data. - The point remains that Fawcett went to Germany not because of higher quality of health care. She went there because she wanted to try something different. She went there for another form of medical therapy.