Scientists from the Seattle based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have stumbled upon a very inconvenient truth.
Chemotherapy is so damaging to the healthy cells surrounding a tumor that it changes their DNA, causing fibroblasts, those cells involved in wound healing and maintaining connective tissue, to produce a molecule called WNT16B that actually encourages prostate tumors to grow and invade neighboring cells.
The researchers also confirmed these findings for breast and ovarian cancer tumors.
The unsettling findings reported by the journal Nature Medicine in August 2012, helps explain why cancer patients sometimes derive little to no benefit from chemo treatments, essentially enduring the worse than death side effects for naught.
Peter Nelson, the study co-author said, “The increase in WNT16B was completely unexpected”.
It also sheds light on why tumors might shrink from an initial round of chemo only to regrow later becoming resistant to further rounds of the devastating treatment. Peter Nelson confirms the eventual resistance tumors develop to chemo adding:
“WNT16B, when secreted, would interact with nearby tumour cells and cause them to grow, invade, and importantly, resist subsequent therapy“.
Professor Fran Balkwill, a UK based expert on the tumor microenvironment commented that these findings are in line with other research which has demonstrated that “cancer treatments don’t just affect cancer cells, but can also target cells in and around tumors”.
Researchers seem unfazed by these disquieting results that, though unexpected, did not seem to give them any pause whatsoever in questioning chemo as a valid tumor treatment for the long term.
Instead, they chose to stick their heads further into the sand suggesting that drugs to inhibit the production of WNT16B were in order for “new and improved” chemo treatments.
If one drug doesn’t work, let’s just add another, then another, then another ….
Apparently, “chemo brain” affects cancer researchers too.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Chemo originated from the toxic mustard gas used in the WWl and was discovered to be useful in shrinking tumors around the 1950s. However, researchers knew that it was all a fraud due to the way chemo destroyed the immune system and actually made later tumors worst. While there have been people “cured” by chemo, but you rarely hear the other side of the story where it only came back worst than before and the deadly side affects affect quality of life forever. Read “Questioning Chemotherapy” by Ralph W. Moss PhD. He’s a pioneer in investigating alternative cancer treatments.
If they get a good lawyer, he can use this new information to fight for them. Isn’t there a Cancer treatment Center of America out there? They use alternative therapies…
Not surprised at all 🙁
I am desperately trying to help a family in Chicago find a lawyer. The Jay Mathew’s family experienced the medical kidnapping of their 8 year old daughter, Selena. They got bullied from he get-go for trying alternative therapies first. They went in to the ER for some unusual swelling and wound up losing custody of their daughter from DCFS and forced chemo has begun. The details are even worse. The Dad is a pharmacist and read on the package inserts that NOT ONE of the agents in chemo they are using on his daughter is APPROVED for use in pediatrics by the FDA. Of course, yes, chemo causes more illness…always.
That is just tragic. There must be plenty of lawyers in Chicago. Maybe they could talk to the WAPF chapter leaders in the area and poll their members for suggestions?
Many drugs used in pediatrics are used off label because adult trials of the size the FDA wants are much easier to conduct. Just because a drug lacks an FDA indication for pediatric use does not mean that the physician is acting inappropriately. They are probably following the protocol from a smaller study published in a specialized journal.
This TERRIFIES me. Discovering cancer in a doctors office and loosing custody of my child to the state because I don’t want to cut, poison, burn them as my first resource. It’s scary enough for myself, but my BABIES? Anyway, God forbid.
I would contact ParentalRights.org. They are strong advocates of parental rights over states rights and may have resources for you. I have to say, the examples I’ve seen have not been good. I’m so sorry for this family.
I am sharing this article.
had to share, I have been saying this for years, no one listens
Wow…. just say NO to DRUGS!
Thanks for the info!
Sarah have you heard of the book The Germ That Causes Cancer by Doug Kaufmann? He has a show called Know The Cause on TV…fascinating! He believes a lot of modern diseases are fungal/mycotoxin based and medical schools don’t teach mycology! He has a diet protocol and supplements to follow but he’s very WAP friendly, recommends grass fed meats, coconut oil, organic veggies.
Another really good book is: Cancr is Not a Disease It’s a Survival Mechanism by Andreas Moritz. I just finished it. It gives a very different view of cancer that really makes sense, Ans he tells how to correct the problem that caused it in the first place. A very interesting read and it gives control to the people. We can beat it and we don’t need “medical professionals” to tell us what to do. We have the control. WE CAN HEAL OURSELVES!