CANCER CURE/ CANCER MANAGEMENT Same Tools, Different Technician By Harry Chrissakis, Herbalist, M.H. M.T.
This article wraps itself around the comparison of 2 different paradigms. First is Modern Oncology’s idea of finding a cancer cure. The war on cancer started in the Nixon administration. That war on cancer has not done well and is still not doing well 50 years later. The research is great worldwide, yielding vast amounts of useful information which unfortunately the U.S medical establishment will not use. I am hoping that medical science will come to the conclusion that the frontal approach to cancer just isn’t working. The problem is not the tools: it’s the method of application based upon its model of health and disease. The difficulty with finding a cure is that it does not exist and very possibly will never exist and that is because of the unique nature of cancer. Cancer captures our D.N.A. (the brain of the cell). Virus can do the same but cancer is by far the most complete in its ability to do so. Attacking cancer (Chemo, Surgery,Radiation) is definitely part of a strategy. The problem is, it is first line therapy in modern Oncology. If a cancer is very strong and aggressive (highly evolved and very intelligent) it has taken many steps to be so. Those steps set up the infrastructure, so that the cancer can evolve, gain strength and spread. If you attack a strong cancer with only direct force, there is a very good chance it will recur (cancer learns). A different method of approach is to reduce cancers infrastructure and by doing so the cancer will be weakened indirectly and the drugs used often work better. Along with this if you strengthen the patient, then they can withstand the toxic therapy way better. All of this can happen before, during and after Medical Therapies. Many cancers, in the original diagnosis, are not immediately life threatening in their aggression. Yet, many of these cancers are over treated with surgery, chemo and radiation. Still, it is not the surgery, chemo and radiation. It is the model of the approach. This very generalized explanation actually has a great deal of power to it, because in these very simple strokes, it begins to redefine Oncology and the conceptual framework of its approach. It is not about the tools, but how and when they are applied and with what intent.
Let’s look at this intent part. What is the desired goal of Standard Practice Oncology? To cure cancer ! Only our immune system can rid us of cancer and that is only if it can recognize the cancer. This is the part that is so elusive to Oncology and Natural Medicine. In modern Oncology, we try to beat down cancer with our cannons, hoping that the patient will survive the therapy, only to find that the cancer has used those very same guns against us. We need to leave the cure up to our own body and get down to strengthening the patient, weakening the cancer and focus on management of cancer long and short term. This approach takes lots of work and study on the practitioner side and commitment on the part of the patient. In many cases, it may mean combining both therapies; surgery, chemo, radiation and Natural Medicine. It may also involve putting the big guns of Oncology on hold and or using them in a much more selective way, with the intent of developing truly integrated protocols. It also puts a good degree of responsibility into the patient’s hand, before, during and after Standard Care Therapy. Much of Natural Medicine is lifestyle change inclusive of the use of herbs, supplements, nutritional agents ect. Right now, what passes for integrated medicine, in cancer care, is pretty thin. It is mostly standard practice approach with nutritional/supplemental/herbal medicine batting cleanup. This approach is still based upon the same conceptual framework, which in turn produces the same dubious result. Cancer is a very different animal. In truth, it is the perfect study of crime. Defeating this type of crime takes lots of very individualized study. That person and that cancer in that person. Both must be studied as independent life forces and the information gleaned combined into 1 protocol. The process of cancer that has set into a person’s body has to be addressed properly because cancer is a systemic disease. It is not a disease based on location only i.e. Breast Cancer or Prostate Cancer are not just in the Breast or Prostate. Cancer changes the way the body works in general.
The use of genetic and molecular profiling is beginning to take greater hold of the medical community. Problem is getting new information (critical information) and applying it to the old model. Really, it is not about changing anything in a physical way. We have everything we need right now to do much better than we are, it is just not looked at that way.
Harry Chrissakis, Herbalist, M.H.M.T
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