Cancer Treatment Essays (1804 words) - RTT, Ribbon Symbolism

Cancer Treatment There are many ways to treat cancer. In fact, when you enter "cancer treatments" into any web browser you will find millions of web sites on how to treat cancer. Some examples of these treatments are chemotherapy, oxygen therapy, vitamin D therapy, food therapy, immunotherapy, and many others. Certain types of therapies go with certain types of cancers. For example, vitamin D therapy goes with breast cancer and immunotherapy goes with colon cancer. Cancer has taken the lives of millions of people and I believe it is important to inform people of what treatments are circulating in the medical profession. The human genome project's goal is to map and sequence the tens of thousands of genes that make up the human genome (Johnson 222). The project is sponsored jointly by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy and has an expected cost of 3 billion dollars (Johnson 222). The project makes genetic diseases its focus. Over 500,000 people die each year because of cancer (Johnson 222). The genome project will be able to identify harmful hereditary genes such as cancer and eliminate them. Thus, cancer can be prevented and people will live longer. Oxygen therapy uses the fact that the cancer virus is anaerobic (Gallcci 2). All this means is that cancer can only live through the absence of oxygen. There have been many cancer patients who have been cured by oxygen therapy (Gallcci 2). As a matter of fact, exposure to oxygen will kill most cancers completely (Gallcci 3). In 1931 Dr. Otto Warburg was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his discovery that the cause of cancer is a lack of oxygen at the cellular level (Gallcci 2). Scientists have extracted air from bubbles preserved in fossilized amber; when that air was analyzed it contained 38 percent oxygen (Gallcci 3). This is very important because the air which we breathe at the moment has an average oxygen content of 21 percent or less (Gallcci 3). A human being cannot survive at 7 percent oxygen or lower. A procedure used to increase the level of oxygen in the body is the use of hydrogen peroxide or H202 (Gallcci 3). When hydrogen peroxide is added to the body, the H202 transforms into H20 and oxygen (Gallcci 4). The oxygen atom then attaches to a cell, and levels of oxygen go up immediately. Only food grade hydrogen peroxide can be used. Then once it has been diluted it can be given intravenously, absorbed through the skin, or ingested (Gallcci 4). Your doctor will not tell you about this process; that is, an American doctor will not. One reason is that there is no cash incentive for the medical industry to promote it. In other countries such as Germany, Russia, and Cuba it will cost around ten U.S. dollars (Gallcci 4). Vitamin D therapy can lower the risk of getting breast cancer up to 30% (Smith 16). A study on nearly 5,000 women found this to be true. Similarly, women who lived in sunny climates had a much lower risk of getting breast cancer (Smith 16). The answer to this phenomenon is vitamin D, which is produced by the skin when it is exposed to sunlight. For the full treatment to take effect doctors recommend exposure to direct sunlight for about 10 to 15 minutes (Smith 17). There is a cure formula for organ cancers. Cancer is caused by a certain parasite (Beckwith 2). It takes 60 days to kill the parasites which cause organ cancer (Beckwith 3). Once the cancer is killed it can take as long as 180 days to return to normal health (Beckwith 2). Evidence for this parasite has been uncovered in every type of cancer known to man (Beckwith 3). Over 100 cases of organ cancer were cured using this herbal formula (Beckwith 2). This herbal method of curing cancers is not supported at all by United States doctors for a couple of reasons. For one, the practitioners of this herbal therapy disregard scientific facts. They do not believe that lung cancer is caused by smoking, colon cancer is caused by a low roughage diet, retinal blastoma is caused by a rare heritited gene, and pancreatic cancer is caused by alcohol consumption (Beckwith 4). Also, many of the people which have gone on these herbal diets have died. So, there is a much higher chance of someone dying from using the herbal treatment than having their cancer cured by it. This treatment's effectiveness also varies on the person's