For decades, conventional medicine has used toxic chemical warfare against cancer. Patients are faced with the punishing effects of the disease itself as well as the brutal side effects of the treatments.
Chemotherapy, the most widely used cancer treatment in the developed world, often causes a host of devastating reactions in the body – including new cancers.
But there is a notable shift in the way doctors are approaching cancer treatment, with a primary focus on the immune system.
At a 3-day conference in Colorado last weekend, healthcare leaders from across the globe gathered to discuss the biggest issues facing patients today. With over 175 speakers and panels, there was one clear message that stole the show:
Chemotherapy is toxic, and the immune system is our best bet in the fight against cancer.
Can a Weakened Immune System Cause Cancer?
Professor of Immunology Daniel Davis delivered a lecture lauding the benefits of the immune system in fighting chronic disease. Unlike chronic inflammation, he explained, acute inflammatory response allows the body to defend against microbial invaders, cancer-causing cells, and environmental toxins, and helps heal injuries and infections. He elaborated:
Our own body’s remedy, the immune system, is far more powerful than any medicine we have devised.”
Author of The Beautiful Cure, Professor Davis described how the body’s immune system is the most powerful weapon we have against disease. However, it can be damaged by things like environmental toxins, stress, and poor diet. If we can find ways to harness and support the power of the immune system, he believes it can be far more effective than any medicine.
And professor Davis was not alone.
The following morning featured a panel discussing the role of immunotherapy in cancer treatment. Experts in the fields of cancer and immunology described the harmful effects of chemotherapy and other toxic treatments as “a brutal and all-too-often unsuccessful way to treat cancer.”
Elizabeth Wayne, a professor of biological and chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon and TED fellow, was a breath of fresh air:
A lot of our drugs are warfare drugs that we’re just hoping people don’t die from afterward. It’s always fascinating to me that one of the first drugs we went to was mustard gas.”
Fellow panelist Miriam Merad, an immunology professor at Mount Sinai and extensively published researcher, agreed:
As an oncologist, I just couldn’t accept chemotherapy toxicity. We have an immune system that’s been shaped for millennia to fight against damage, and I thought that we should be able to use it to fight against cancer cells.”
Chemotherapy: The “Scorched Earth” Approach
And they’re absolutely right. Chemotherapy drugs were originally derived from the mustard gas used in the First World War. Rather than supporting the immune system, chemotherapy destroys it, leaving patients susceptible to infections, chronic pain and nausea, and even secondary cancers! Chemotherapy is a “scorched earth” approach to defeating cancer; doctors are simply gambling that your body can survive longer than the cancer.
Sadly, this is often not the case. Many cancer patients die as a result of the treatments, rather than the disease itself.
Fortunately, the recent health conference is not the only beacon of hope when it comes to cancer treatment. A recent study published in Frontiers in Immunology showed that most cancers can be destroyed by the patient’s own immune cells. The research focused on a molecule called L-selectin, which was able to dramatically increase the ability of T-cells to fight cancer.
How Does Immunotherapy Work?
The most common immunotherapies in use today are called checkpoint inhibitors. T-cells are a type of white blood cell that identify and destroy damaged, infected, and cancerous cells in the body. However, they have a fatal weakness – they carry molecules inside them called immune checkpoints, which the immune system uses to shut the T-cells down when they don’t need them.
Cancer cells have the ability to activate these checkpoints, effectively stopping the T-cells in their tracks. But immunotherapies called “checkpoint inhibitors” take the proverbial brakes off of the immune system, allowing the T-cells to attack and destroy the cancer. The new research found that immunotherapy can useful for treating a much wider array of cancers than was previously thought.
This growing movement to harness the power of the immune system is a step in the right direction. James Allison, who won the Nobel Prize last year for his research on immunotherapy, recently appeared on the podcast “Point of Discovery,” hosted by University of Texas at Austin’s College of Natural Sciences. What he shared was fascinating.
He described how skeptical the medical community was to using immunotherapy at first, believing it could never work. But his research, along with fellow Nobel Laureate Tasuku Honjo, quickly proved them wrong.
Sure enough, we injected this antibody… which blocks the breaks, and we saw tumors just melt away. In almost every tumor that we did… we found almost no tumors we couldn’t cure in mice.”
He described a patient with advanced melanoma who was about to transition to hospice care. After her first immunotherapy treatment, her tumors “vanished.” 18 years later, she is still healthy. Perhaps the most famous patient to benefit from immunotherapy is former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
After his skin cancer metastasized to his brain and liver, the outlook was dire. Patients with this type of cancer generally survive less than a year. But Mr. Carter is healthy and completely cancer-free nearly four years later, a powerful endorsement for the immune system.
There are plenty of things to be concerned about when it comes to conventional cancer treatment – but the tides are turning. More and more doctors are recognizing the lunacy of using toxic chemicals to treat disease. They’re instead turning to our God-given, natural defenses for answers. It seems these promising results are just the tip of the iceberg.
Is there anywhere in Australia that supports or offers this treatment even as a trial?
Hi Vicki –
Thanks for your comment.
Most of the doctors and health experts we know of are within the United States. However, during our Live Event 2017 series, Dr. Patrick Quillin suggested contacting The Institute of Functional Medicine to locate a practitioner in your area.
If you are interested, here is the link to search for a Functional Medicine Practitioner in your area: https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner/
Hope this is helpful to you!
Blessings and love!
Can you please send me some good advises what to do when our pets, like the dog get cancer? I have a Golden Retriever that I am afraid has some health problems according to that, and would like to know what options we have to heal in a holistic way – as for us human beengs.. ?
Would like to be prepared before I see the veterinary…
More than grateful for answers from you!
Yours sincerely Unni Grimen, Norway unnimb@broadpark.no
Hello Unni –
We’re so sorry to hear about this! Please know that your precious Golden Retriever is in our prayers.
Unfortunately, we are unable to give any kind of medical advice. The best advice we can give you is to reach out to a veterinarian or one of the experts interviewed in our docu-series, The Truth About PET Cancer.
Please note that we are not able to select an expert for you.
Here’s the link to The Truth About PET Cancer Expert List:
https://thetruthaboutpetcancer.com/our-experts/
Also, the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association has a resource to search for holistic veterinarians here: https://www.ahvma.org/find-a-holistic-veterinarian/
You could try reaching out to see if there are any holistic vets in your area – otherwise, they can probably give you advice over the phone.
Wishing you both many blessings, love, and a healthy body! Thank you for reaching out to us about this.
Hope this info above is very helpful to you. Please feel free to reach out to us again when you need to.
Blessings and love from our entire TTAC family to you and your precious Retriever!
Hello. My husband was recently diagnosed with squamous cell carcinona that has metasticised in his liver, spine, lungs, and skull. Although we did not want to go the chemo and radiation route, we felt we had to since his cancer had grown and spread so quickly and we had to stablize him. . We want to proceed with alternative treatment center, but it is so confusing with everything that is out there. I know there were treatment centers featured in your documentaries, but it is difficult to know what direction to take and where to go for Stage 4 cancer treatment. We don’t have a lot of time or money to waste. What resources would you suggest to make a decision about treatment centers that use immunotherapies, as well as other cutting edge treatments?
Hi Karen –
We appreciate you reaching out to us about this.
I’m so sorry to hear about your husband’s diagnosis – I’ll be sure to pray for him.
Unfortunately, we are unable to give any kind of medical advice. The best advice we can give you is to consult with one of the doctors we interviewed in the Global Quest series so they can give you the most appropriate advice based on your husband’s exact condition.
Please note that we are not able to select an expert for you.
We’ve created a page with the experts’ contact info as it was available to us.
Here’s the link to the actual webpage:
http://thetruthaboutcancer.com/experts-info-sheet/
We do have one more resource you may be interested in. During our Live Event 2017 series, Dr. Patrick Quillin suggested contacting The Institute of Functional Medicine to locate a practitioner in your area.
If you are interested, here is the link to search for a Functional Medicine Practitioner in your area: https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner/
I’m also attaching the info about the Hope4Cancer clinic in Tijuana, MX if you’d like to reach out to them.
http://www.hope4cancer.com/
https://hope4cancer.com/schedule-a-call/
Please also see the resources below in case they will be helpful to you.
From our beginning, we have supported charities that really help these cancer patients.
HealingStrong:
http://healingstrong.com/
https://www.facebook.com/healingstrong
HealingStrong supports MANY cancer patients and are amazing. HealingStrong, a nonprofit organization, is supported 100% by volunteers, who are experienced in using natural strategies. The organization’s mission is to educate, encourage, equip, and empower those seeking comprehensive natural strategies to heal strong and stay strong.
HealingStrong Connect Groups meet monthly in various areas of the U.S. and South Australia to link others interested in natural strategies, holistic protocols, and local resources. Their groups focus on mind, body and emotional healing based on Biblical promises, as they believe the God of the Bible is our healer. For more information on how to start a group, or become involved in one, please go to http://www.healingstrong.org/groups, and like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/healingstrong.
Cancer Crackdown is so awesome and helps patients without a lot of money get supplements and treatments and even helps them raise money:
http://cancercrackdown.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CancerCrackdown
Also, the Independent Cancer Research Foundation is another charity that we support, also known as Cancer Tutor. They have been a TREMENDOUS help for cancer patients and have a TON of life-saving information they give out freely and they do real research into treatments for cancer that are outside of the toxic Big Pharma Big 3:
https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/independent-cancer-research-foundation/
The best that we can suggest is to contact Healing Strong and Cancer Crackdown for any need in financial resources.
We also support Mary Beth’s “Nick Gonzalez Foundation” which is bringing Nick’s protocol to the people…which is one of the most powerful cancer-killing protocols out there.
I hope this is helpful! Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us again if there’s anything else we can help with.
Wishing you endless blessings and love!
I was diagnosed with Stage 0-1 breast cancer DCIS and early stage of IDC. I had my mastectomy last Sept. 9 and the onco wants to put me in AI for 5 years. I told him I don’t like the side effects of it. I have to make a decision for myself if I will take it or not. I switched to plant based since I got diagnosed last June.
Do I take the AI or not? Thanks.
Hi Arlene –
We appreciate you reaching out to us about this.
I’m so sorry to hear about your diagnosis – I’ll be sure to pray for you.
Unfortunately, we are unable to give any kind of individualized medical advice. The best advice we can give you is to consult with one of the doctors we interviewed in the Global series.
Please note that we are not able to select an expert for you.
We’ve created a page with the experts’ contact info as it was available to us.
Here’s the link to the actual webpage:
http://thetruthaboutcancer.com/experts-info-sheet/
Also, during our Live Event 2017 series, Dr. Patrick Quillin suggested contacting The Institute of Functional Medicine to locate a practitioner in your area.
If you are interested, here is the link to search for a Functional Medicine Practitioner in your area: https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner/
I’m also attaching the info about the Hope4Cancer clinic in Tijuana, MX if you’d like to reach out to them.
http://www.hope4cancer.com/
https://hope4cancer.com/schedule-a-call/
Please also see the resources below in case they will be helpful to you.
From our beginning, we have supported charities that really help these cancer patients.
Cancer Crackdown is so awesome and helps patients without a lot of money get supplements and treatments and even helps them raise money:
http://cancercrackdown.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CancerCrackdown
Also, the Independent Cancer Research Foundation is another charity that we support, also known as Cancer Tutor. They have been a TREMENDOUS help for cancer patients and have a TON of life-saving information they give out freely and they do real research into treatments for cancer that are outside of the toxic Big Pharma Big 3:
https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/independent-cancer-research-foundation/
We suggest contacting Cancer Crackdown for any need in financial resources.
We also support Mary Beth’s “Nick Gonzalez Foundation” which is bringing Nick’s protocol to the people…which is one of the most powerful cancer-killing protocols out there.
I hope this is helpful! Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us again if there’s anything else we can help with.
Wishing you endless blessings and love!