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25 Questions You Absolutely Must Ask Your Cancer Specialist Before Undergoing Treatment 25 Questions You Absolutely Must Ask Your Cancer Specialist Before Undergoing Treatment By Gary Tunsky, ND 06/2007 Over the course of six decades layers of inertia toward true scientific research in the field of cancer epidemiology has rendered orthodox medical thinking, practices and beliefs obsolete. All answers to reversing cancers are outside the realm of orthodox medical thinking with their lethal, quick fix, magic bullet mentality of pharmaceuticals, chemotherapy, radiation and risky surgery, with little thought for the long-term health of the patient. The preface of this article is to help you see why treatments as dangerous and consistently unsuccessful as radiation and chemotherapy continue to dominate the field of oncology. I also want to reveal beyond a shadow of a doubt that mainstream cancer doctors are limited to tumor removal or strategies of containment, at best. How can you expect your doctor to reverse your cancer when he knows very little about the disease? Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay the best, not heal the best. Decades of political cover-up have kept you and mainstream cancer doctors in the dark about scientifically proven, valid, non-toxic treatments for reversing cancer. When you begin to ferret out economic interests and monopolization motives, it helps you to understand why alternative cancer therapies are suppressed or barred from the public’s awareness and from all medical school curriculums. For many years I have observed that people who are diagnosed with cancer face a distressing informational vacuum about many aspects of the disease from their doctors. What cancer is; how it happens, the chances of survival; treatment options and what medical and scientific communities are doing about the epidemic are not being thoroughly answered. This article attempts to address that vacuum. The following 25 questions are intended primarily for people who have an interest in learning about the true facts of cancer in a question and answer format, but who have neither the time nor the energy to absorb complicated biological concepts and bewildering medical terminology. Because this article addresses simple common sense, it requires little or no formal background in biology or oncology. I hope and pray that after reading this article you will share this information with all your friends and loved ones before making a deadly mistake of choosing the wrong treatment option. 1. Doctor – after you remove my tumor with chemotherapy, radiation or surgical procedures, what are you going to do to address my cancer? Comment: Being that cancer is a whole body metabolic disease from head to toe due to a weakened immune system, weakened organs, tissues and cells, low metabolic cellular energy, acidic pH, low oxygen tissue environment, toxic emotions, nutritional deficiencies, etc., the only treatment protocol to reverse cancer permanently and to prevent secondary tumors from manifesting is to address the primary causes of cancer. There is not one cancer treatment in mainstream medicine that administers non-toxic treatments to boost and modulate the immune system, correct nutritional deficiencies, strengthen organs, cells and tissues, remove cancer causing toxins from the body, alkalize the pH, increase metabolic energy or strengthen the emotional and spiritual state of the patient, which are all necessary for ridding cancer. Oncologists are brainwashed into believing that the tumor is the cancer while the tumor is just the side effect of cancer, which is a whole body metabolic disease. Their whole medical education is based on a false premise of tumor removal not cancer removal. If the cure for cancer were in tumor removal, they would have cured cancer 50 years ago. 2. Doctor – because my cancer has multiple interacting factors in various combinations, what was it that caused my cancer? Comment: The best answer science can come up with in 60 years of research is a defective gene or a virus. Their education does not focus on cancer origin, only on tumor removal. Because all cancers are multi-faceted with over 25 contributing factors in combination, there is no single cancer-causing agent that can be pinpointed. (Example: was it stress induced, was it the toxic environment, could it have been all the years of contaminated beverages, or the power lines outside my house or a combination of all of them?) 3. What post treatment modalities do you have that isolate the tumor sites and cancer cells and prevent the poisonous by-products of chemotherapy and radiation from destroying my neighboring healthy cells and distant tissues and organs? Comment: Nothing in mainstream medicine’s toolbox can isolate only cancer cells without destroying healthy cells. All mainstream cancer doctors have no detoxification or cellular protection treatment modalities to offer. With their kill mode mindset, they hope they can kill all the cancer cells without killing you first. All mainstream cancer treatments destroy neighboring and distant cells, which are needed for health and proper organ function and prevention of secondary tumors from manifesting in the future. Only non-toxic treatment modalities that are found in alternative medicine can protect healthy cells, tissues and organs from being destroyed. 4. What non-toxic treatments do you have in your medical toolbox that can repair the cellular DNA damage done by chemotherapy and radiation to prevent secondary tumors and future tumor sites from occurring? Comment: Unfortunately there is no cancer drug, chemo agent, radiation or surgical procedure to date that will repair cellular DNA damage done by their treatments. All mainstream cancer treatments damage, not repair, cellular DNA. All non-toxic treatments that repair cellular DNA damage are found in alternative medicine outside of mainstream medicine. 5. Do you have any treatment methods that are non-destructive and beyond the strategies of tumor removal or containment? Comment: The answer is no. While mainstream medicine seeks a quick fix, magic bullet, linear approach to cancer treatment, there is no single treatment, linear approach for cancer treatment and there never will be. All mainstream cancer treatment protocols are focused on tumor removal or tumor containment, not your cancer. They are limited to four destructive tools: cancer drugs (pharmaceuticals), cut (surgery), burn (cobalt radiation), or poison (chemotherapy). Take your pick. You will receive one or more of these primitive, destructive treatments. These treatments are analogous to giving a gorilla a hammer to fix a computer; chances are he’ll do more harm than good. Because cancer is a multi-faceted disease, it demands multi-faceted treatment protocols that can only be addressed outside of mainstream medicine. There is no non-toxic treatment to date in mainstream medicine that can reverse the cancer process. 6. The reason I have cancer is that my organs, cells and systems, especially my immune system, are in a severely weakened state due to an overexposure of accumulated toxins throughout the years. What can you do to remove the cancer causing chemicals and toxins that are imbedded in my organs, tissues, bloodstream and cells? Comment: Mainstream medicine has no detoxification procedures to cleanse the liver, kidneys, blood, colon, or lymph, which limits their long-term success and allows the cancer to return because they leave the growth medium for cancer intact. You have to go outside of mainstream medicine for detoxification methods using herbs, homeopathic remedies, colon irrigation, coffee enemas, botanicals, etc. to remove cancer causing, toxic residues. 7. The direct triggering mechanism of cancer is the fermentation of a healthy cell due to oxygen deprivation. What can you tell me about an exotic form of oxygen – a non-toxic, tri-atomic (O3) molecule called ozone (auto-hemotherapy or ozone insufflations) to drown out the tumor from the inside? Comment: Most mainstream doctors know very little, if anything about ozone other than it creates smog in the atmosphere. Because cancer is anaerobic (meaning it survives and thrives in a low oxygen environment), you can flood tumor sites with oxygen by ozone therapy. Ozone, which is O3, is probably the most powerful, non-toxic cancer treatment in the world and yet still remains largely ignored by all U.S. research institutes and regulatory agencies. Ozone therapy can only be administered outside of mainstream medicine. 8. Since nutritional deficiencies are a major factor in contributing to my cancer, what nutritional assessments do you use for diagnosing nutritional deficiencies and imbalances? Comment: Because of their limited knowledge of nutrition in medical school training (less than two hours in most medical universities), nutrition, diet, or even nutrient assessment testing procedures are obsolete in allopathic medicine. Due to their ignorance in the direct correlation of diet to cancer origin, you will not even see it addressed in mainstream medicine. However, nutrition is absolutely necessary to reverse and prevent not only cancer, but all disease. The building blocks of every organ, cell, tissue and even your immune system come from nutrition, not toxic pharmaceuticals, chemo or radiation. The only way to address nutritional deficiencies is outside of mainstream medicine. 9. With sugar being the main fuel source for tumor growth, called sugar fermentation or sugar glycolysis, what dietary regimen will you give me that addresses the foods and beverages that I should avoid so as not to feed my tumors? Comment: Mainstream doctors are totally oblivious to the sugar/cancer connection. Therefore, the best advice you will receive is to eat anything you want to prevent yourself from losing weight. In their ignorance, doctors are actually feeding the tumors with sugar, saturated fats and cancer-causing chemicals, preservatives and additives found in the standard American diet. Just take a look at the menu in all the top cancer institutes such as M.D. Anderson. You will find cheesecake, coca cola and sugar laden beverages on their menu.
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