What to do WITHOUT using oncology/when oncology does not work?

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To finish my study as an aware oncologist, I ponder where the success statistics are.

  • Are there head to head trials done to establish if this extremely lucrative and health destroying process we call oncology worth it?
  • Why have we not won the war in cancer?  

A lot of resources poured into this since 1971.

Having spent much time pondering the research available through medically reputable sources, I seek further afield – as the patients would have.  I decide to use the falsification approach and try to prove conventional medicine is unsafe.

This gets me into far more trouble than I want to contend with. I Googled to find what people do when they don’t choose orthodox treatment.  I find a lot of similarities to what each say – and all are not doing just one thing.

I wonder if there are any studies that have matched those with orthodox treatments for cancer, and those who refuse conventional treatment and whether the research would be allowed.

As I found a figure of 4.4% (and can’t find it to quote it) who refuse all orthodox treatment, I wonder if there have been studies of these people to see how they went.

Further researching gets me in deeper trouble.  How is it possible that as many people get better with NO treatment as with all we can offer them? That those not near a centre are likely to be better off?  Has the Emperor no clothes on?

http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/fraud/chemo.htm

Finally, as many of us have found – we as oncologists are duty bound to act within an ethical consideration for what we have been taught.

  • Is what I am doing to patients ethical?
  • Do I let them fully understand that buying them time is not the same as realistically living well?

The world of oncology would be far better off if more thought out of the chemical box.

To study any one of the CAM therapies; the ones that are complete, especially traditional systems, is usually seen as a life’s work.

Finishing off with a quote from an old Chinese herbal master –

‘What is referred to as medicine in China is in fact (nothing but) art. Prescribing in western medicine proceeds on the basis of matching specific disease with specific prescriptions (so there is) little variation between individual physician’s treatment. The highest calibre Chinese physicians rely on context and individual ability in writing their formulas. Ten different physicians will thus write out ten different prescriptions, that can be extremely different to each other’ Liang Shuming 1921(Scheild, p 13).

References

(all referenced 18/3/12)

  • Scheid, Volker, Mac Pherson, H ed, Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare, Churchill Livingstone, 2012