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Kelly Spencer - Happy Healthy YOU
(A wellness column by Kelly Spencer: writer, life coach, yoga & meditation teacher, holistic healer and a mindful life enthusiast!)
In last week’s article (Cancer, the disease is half the battle) I shared information and reports on the statistics, rates and conventional treatments and their efficacy.
I was surprised by the feedback through phone calls and emails from many folks, including those in the medical industry that reached out and confirmed their experiences to support this information.
Through the years, I have also heard discussion and reports on “alternative” treatments that have always left me wondering why they are not discussed more or furthermore, why they have not been approved by health insurance.
In books and documentaries such as “Cut Burn Poison” and “The Truth about Cancer: A Global Quest,” a truth is described that is disputed by many in the medical and pharmaceutical community. The truth of profit.
In the documentary, Cut Poison Burn, alternative insight is offered into the “so-called War on Cancer” and the cancer “industry.” It gives a perspective through the experience of one family and a viewpoint of the federal government who, despite claiming they will "leave no stone unturned" to fight cancer have not found cure and little progress in treatment. As well the drug companies that are threatened by
alternative cancer treatments that can't be patented or produce sufficient profits.
In the nine-episode docu-series called The Truth about Cancer, by author Ty Bollinger, Bollinger travels the world interviewing 131 doctors, researchers, and several cancer survivors to address their preferred methods of holistic care. He shares shocking cancer statistics, uncovers “the lies of chemotherapy” and has bold claims of Big Pharma falsifying “research” based medicine with tactics like ghostwriting articles. The docu-series shares many holistic insights that have shown to be extremely beneficial to many individuals.
In the 1930s, a scientist-inventor named Dr. Royal Raymond Rife invented a stunning advancement of the microscope. Rife worked with cell transformation and different frequencies of light on micro-organisms with the claim of killing microbes inside the cancer cells and the cancer cells reverting into normal cells.
Rife’s report on cancer treatment using his method stated, “The first clinical work on cancer was completed under the supervision of Dr. Milbank Johnson, M.D., which was set up under a special medical research committee of the University of Southern California. Sixteen cases were treated at the clinic for many types of malignancy. After three months, fourteen of these so-called hopeless cases were signed off as clinically cured by a staff of medical doctors and Alvin G. Foord, M. D., pathologist for the group.”
In 1940, Dr. Arthur W. Yale, M.D. reported that Rife's discoveries were unique and unbelievable and that they “may be able to eliminate the second largest cause of deaths in the United States."
However, there were powerful people whose careers were based on the status quo and Rife's discovery was ignored. One of these authorities was Dr. Thomas Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute. (Note: the Rockefellers are one of the most powerful families in USA history, with huge investment in politics and the medical and pharmaceutical industry, with a net worth estimated of $10 billion.)
For decades, Dr. Rife continued working on the anti-cancer frequency machine while collaborating with many doctors, scientists and institutes, including John Crane, an engineer and scientist and in 1960, ninety machines were distributed "for research and verification on notarized contracts."
It is claimed that the AMA (American Medical Association) and the FDA (Federal Drug Association) raided Crane's office. $40,000 in equipment was claimed to be taken along with all engineering data, research records and reports, pictures off the wall, private letters, invoices, tape recordings, electronic parts. It is reported that doctors who had the machines were visited and forced to give them up.
In 1964, Dr. Les Drown, chiropractor, provides a statement of the Rife machine's efficacy. An American Cancer Society representative subsequently forces him to "sign over" his Frequency Instrument or go to jail. Also that year, Dr. Charles W. Bunner, stated he could provide "proof of effectiveness." The California Department of Health forbid him to use the instrument, and presented him with a court order to have it destroyed.
In, 1966 Dr. Eleanor Alexander-Jackson and colleague Dr. Livingston presented a paper at an American Cancer Seminar in Arizona. When Dr. Alexander-Jackson returned to Columbia University, she discovered that she and her work had been terminated.
It was also reported that these claims could not be proved and were conspiracy bred.
Christopher Bird's 1976 New Age Journal article contained a summation of the political cover-up as perceived by the Lee Foundation of Nutritional Research in Milwaukee. According to Bird, the Lee Foundation "maintains that Rife, his microscope and his life work were tabooed by leaders in the U.S. medical profession and that any medical doctor who made use of his practical discoveries was stripped of his privileges as a member of the local medical society."
Wow. Seems like a big conspiracy theory, leaving one to question where the truth lies? Many medical authorities have reduced the many alternative treatments and discoveries, such as Dr. Rife’s, as unfounded quackery and unsafe for use. It certainly would be easier to believe that modern conventional treatments of cancer had our best interest in mind but with very little progress over the decades and hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue a year in pharmaceutical profit, I am left scratching my head.
Last week, CBC reported that Josée Blanchette, a Radio-Canada television show columnist and broadcaster, stated on the show Tout le monde en parle (a proactive show known to take on the establishment and “sacred cows”), that she is a three-time cancer survivor and spoke on her own decision to quit chemotherapy.
CBC reported that Blanchette said “she recognized the success of chemotherapy as a treatment for children with cancer, as well as for adults with leukemia. But she argued that chemotherapy does not work well for a majority of other adult cancers.”
Blanchette cited a published article in the Australian journal 'Clinical Oncology' in 2004. The three authors - all oncologists - reviewed studies on the five-year survival rates of adult patients treated during the 1990s who had chemotherapy for 22 kinds of major malignancies.
The authors found the chemotherapy success rates for some cancers averaged between 2.1 to 2.3 per cent.
The bombshell has created upheaval with oncologists, cancer patients and the million plus viewers of the program. Prominent Quebec oncologists have called her wrong-headed, reckless and dangerous.
This is a bit of a controversial discussion and a hot topic, as we have become accustomed to not question the system in place and to trust placing the care of our well-being, in the hands of medical professionals.
However, there are alternative treatment options that aren’t usually talked about. I am not suggesting you or your loved ones not go to an 'allopathic' medical doctor nor I am saying don’t access the conventional methods of treatment. I am suggesting you research and read and ask and inquire.
Next week’s article will be Part Three in this series, called “Cancer Pt. 3: Prevention.” I will discuss some more holistic options as well.
There will be a “Cancer and Alternative Options” seminar and discussion open to the public, on February 3rd, 7-9 p.m., February 10th 7-9 p.m. and Saturday, February 18th 2-4 p.m. If you would like to hear a different perspective for you or someone you love and hear about alternative options for prevention and treatment, please feel free to attend. Guest speaker is John MacDonald, a man that said “no thank you” to chemo and 18 months later, his cancer is gone. To book a seat at any of these seminars, please call 519-688-1188 or email info@indigolounge.ca.