Chemotherapy
The use of chemicals through IV's, pumps, tablets and capsules.
Radio Therapy
The use of external and internal forms of radiation. They can be administered through x-ray or consumed through drink and eat method.
Hormone Therapy
The use of sex hormones produced by our bodies or drugs that block them to treat the onset of cancer. However, not all cancers can be treated with this due to the fact that some cancers need hormones to grow.
Biological Therapy
This treatment deals with the use of Monoclonal Antibodies, Cancer Vaccines, Growth factors for blood cells, Cancer growth blocks, (tyrosine Kinase inhibitors or Proteasome inhibitors), Anti-Angivgenics, Interferon and Inter Leukin2, Gene Therapy.
Bisphosphonates
These types of drugs are used to slow down or prevent bone damage and are showing great results where they are being used. Doctors use them to aid and prevent, bone thinning, to reduce the risk of bone breaking, reduce level of calcium in blood and also to reduce pain.
It has been suggested that Bisphosphonates may even slow down or stop development of secondary bone cancers.
Alternative Medicines
Now I would like to move on to alternative medicine and treatment of cancer. There is also much that can be said about this as well. If you check into it, you will be surprised to learn that there are even now cancer centers that only deal in this matter with cancer as well.
Plants and fruits have also been discovered to well with fighting cancers and some of them are as follows below.
Tart Cherries
Michigan State University scientists found that cherries dark coloring material is an excellent source of antioxidants known as anthocyanins…The antioxidant activity of tart black cherries is greater than that of vitamin E, the benchmark antioxidant. Dark colored cherries are very rich with a total of around 38 mg of anthocyanins in about 100gms fruit.
Cherries also have pain-relieving ingredients in them. Cherries also contain a dose of Cox inhibitors comparable to these over-the-counter pain relievers. Cherries also contain very high levels of Melatonin. Melatonin is the body's natural way of regulating sleep and has some anti-cancer properties.
Cranberries
These berries have extremely good anti-cancer agents. Cranberries are a rich source of flavonoids. Flavonoids are a variety of compounds found in plants and this compound was investigated for its anti-cancer activity. This was proved by the researchers at the University of Western Ontario. They found that regular consumption of cranberry products inhibited the growth of breast cancer tumors in animals.
Papaya
This plant is found widely in tropical American countries. Papaya leaf juice is claimed to have reversed cancer in many people living on the Gold Coast in Australia. Papaya leaves can be dried and ground and used instead of the juice. The astonishing curable property of these leaves has been demonstrated in mice. Tumors found in humans were injected in mice and these mice were treated with Papaya and the tumors disappeared completely .
Chaparral
Is an evergreen desert shrub, has long been used by Native Americans to treat cancer. It can be taken in the form of a tea. Modern medicine shot it down saying it was dangerous and should not be use. However, now researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have shown an extract may shrink some tumours.
Chaparral tea was widely used in the US as an alternative anti-cancer agent from the late 1950s to the 1970s.
The experts took a refined extract of it and tested it on subjects and found that those that it was tested on had no signs of liver damage. They also found that in those it was tested on that there was also evidence that tumors had began to shrink. This has started some “new” ongoing research into its usefulness in treating some forms of cancer.
Wild Blueberries
"The antioxidant characteristics in blueberries appear to be due largely to anthocyanins," Earlier research has led to hypothesis the pigment of red and blue fruits in Wild blueberries contain one of the highest anthocyanin levels of berries commercially available in North America.
Antioxidants neutralize the negative by-products of metabolism called free radicals, which can damage DNA molecules and lead to cancer. They also counteract environmental carcinogens, protect against cardiovascular disease, fight sun damage to skin and may thwart the effects of Alzheimer's and other age-related diseases.
This writer, medicine man can attest to the benefit of blueberries and their ability to fight cancer and many other illnesses that affect the human condition. I grew tired of the conventional forms of treatment as well as the side effects of them and I returned to my teachings of plant medicine.
Blueberries as well as several other kinds of berries, such as, black berries, goose berries, Raspberries, red and black current berries made my recovery from my disease come quickly and painlessly.
Like My mother the medicine woman of the North Country taught me even as a child, we must treat the whole person not just the symptoms if we wish to completely cure the patient.
So I treated my mind, body and soul. We must accept and embrace the illness, by doing so we face our fears of it and it allows us to move forward in the direction of the cure. Fear causes Stress and Stress in turn causes the chemical imbalance that causes the immune system to break down.
We must stay positive and know in our own minds that we have what it takes to beat this disease and any other that may come our way. If you can see it in your minds eye, then my friends, you also can hold it in your hands.
Thought becomes the manifestation of the solid. I hope my article will help those that read it. I have chosen to share it with you because if I can beat cancer three times, then so can you. Aho = Amen.
