03.06.2015
In my daily research I came
across a report so alarming I put aside planned writing in order to
bring this to the attention of those who care about life. It has to do
with one of the main treatments for cancer used in modern
medicine—chemotherapy. New research has documented that chemotherapy,
far from ridding anyone of cancer actually feeds the growth and spread
of cancer.
Sometimes it almost seems like the drugs
industry works overtime to find new ways to hurt, cripple or even kill
us. Scientist Peter Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
in Seattle in a write-up of a study of why cancer cells were so easy to
kill in the lab but not inside our bodies, found that healthy cells
damaged by chemotherapy secreted more of a protein called WNT16B which
boosts cancer cell survival. “The increase in WNT16B was completely
unexpected,” Nelson told AFP.
He added that,“WNT16B, when secreted,
would interact with nearby tumor cells and cause them to grow, invade,
and importantly, resist subsequent therapy.” That would explain why in
cancer treatment, tumors often respond well initially, followed by rapid
regrowth and then resistance to further chemotherapy.
The study was conducted by a team of
scientists from different cancer research centers, universities as well
as from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. It was published
online in August 2012 in the journal Nature Medicine. Among their
alarming conclusions was that, “The expression of WNT16B in the prostate
tumor microenvironment attenuated the effects of cytotoxic chemotherapy
in vivo, promoting tumor cell survival and disease progression.”
Mustard Gas Toxin
While their study results were alarming
enough, more alarming is the complete absence of aggressive action to
reexamine the entire field of cancer treatment. Chemo’s origins go back
to World War I research into the human effects of exposure to mustard
gas. Scientists discovered that the gas was a potent suppressor of blood
cell production. During World War II researchers at Yale University
School of Medicine in further study of nitrogen mustards, reasoned that
an agent that damaged the rapidly growing white blood cells might have a
similar effect on cancer. Left out was how to target only cancer cells
and not healthy cells. In December 1942, the scientists gave several
patients with advanced lymphomas (cancers of the lymphatic system and
lymph nodes), a chemotherapeutic drug intravenously. Their improvement
was called remarkable. The media concentrated on the remarkable
improvement and did not bother to note that soon after treatment all
were dead.
The chemotherapy revolution in cancer
treatment was off and running. In the 1950’s the first chemo drug used
commercially was mustine or Chlormethine. Mustine under the code-name
HN2 is a chemical warfare agent. Adverse effect include:
“Hypersensitivity reactions, including anaphylaxis…Nausea, vomiting and
depression of formed elements in the circulating blood…Jaundice,
alopecia, vertigo, tinnitus and diminished hearing.”
The research and development of mustine
as a possible anti-cancer chemotherapy was led by Cornelius P. Rhoads,
director of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in wartime secrecy
and published in 1946 after the war. Rhoads came to Memorial
Sloan-Kettering from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
There during the 1930’s as part of the
Rockefeller family’s obsession with eugenics, Rhoads spent six months in
Puerto Rico, a stateless island often used covertly for human
experimentation with new drugs.
In Puerto Rico in 1931 Rhoads wrote a
letter to a friend in Boston where he stated, “Porto (sic) Ricans are
beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of
men ever inhabiting this sphere. What the island needs is not public
health work but a tidal wave or something to totally exterminate the
population. I have done my best to further the process of extermination
by killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more.”
Rockefeller family spin doctor, Ivy Lee,
launched a major damage control campaign over the scandal and managed
to get Rhoads on the cover of Time as a “life-saving” hero.
Deadly consequences
The subsequent use of toxic
chemotherapies on perhaps millions of cancer patients since then have
hardly been encouraging. Published side effects of today’s chemo drugs,
the largest share of which are made by Roche, are horrendous. They
include “depression of the immune system, often by paralysing the bone
marrow and leading to a decrease of white blood cells, red blood cells,
and platelets. Anemia and thrombocytopenia… sepsis, or as localized
outbreaks, such as Herpes simplex, shingles, or other members of the
Herpesviridea.”
It gets worse. Because of the chemo
resulting in immune system suppression, patients often get typhlitis, a
life-threatening gastrointestinal complication of chemotherapy.
Typhlitis is an intestinal infection which may manifest itself through
symptoms including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, a distended abdomen,
fever, chills, or abdominal pain and tenderness. Typhlitis is a medical
emergency. It has a very poor prognosis and is often fatal. It can
cause infertility failure in men and ovarian failure in women. All that
in addition to the well-known hair-loss, dry skin, damaged fingernails, a
dry mouth (xerostomia), water retention, and sexual impotence.
In 2004 the Department of Radiation
Oncology, Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Australia, conducted a
long-term investigation into the contribution of chemotherapy to 5-year
survival in 22 major adult malignancies. The results were shocking: The
overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to
5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1%
in the USA. The study came to the following conclusion: “..it is clear
that cytotoxic chemotherapy only makes a minor contribution to cancer
survival. To justify the continued funding and availability of drugs
used in cytotoxic chemotherapy, a rigorous evaluation of the
cost-effectiveness and impact on quality of life is urgently required.”
Chemo is massively toxic and kill any
rapidly dividing cell, tumor or normal. The three best-selling cancer
drugs worldwide in 2013 were all made by Roche—Rituxan, Herceptin and
Avastin. For all three top chemo drugs sales totaled more than $21 billion.
And the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center now documents how chemotherapy drugs act as carcinogens—they
cause cancer which is why, depending on the patient’s immune strength
and dosage, within five years a staggering number die after the chemo
that was to have saved them.
I was in Beijing several years ago on a
speaking tour and had severe back pain after the long flight. My Chinese
publisher organized a treatment from a doctor trained in Traditional
Chinese Medicine (TCM). She was also the grand-daughter of the chief TCM
doctor of the Last Emperor who she said was still alive and chipper at
93 and passing his wisdom on to her and her brother. She told me at the
Beijing medical university where she studied, the students were told,
“One third of patients die of the psychological shock of being told by a
doctor that they have cancer. Another third die from the negative
effects of chemotherapy and radiation. The last third simply die.”
It would be useful for all doctors in
active practice perhaps to rethink the principal ethical mandate of all
physicians since the time of Hippocrates– “nil nocere” – do no harm. The
evidence is overwhelming now that chemotherapy only does harm. Would
the oncologists promoting chemo to their patients ever take the same
were the roles reversed?
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and
lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is
a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the
online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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