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Keeping Healthy During Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy brings its own special kind of darkness; it assails the body and ravages the spirit. But there is much you can do to live well while helping chemotherapy do its job.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy uses cytotoxic (cell-killing) drugs to target cell division or other subtly different characteristics of cancer cells, hoping to destroy the cancer without killing or permanently disabling the patient. The best way to avoid cancer therapy is to avoid cancer through prevention. True prevention includes drinking pure water and eating fresh, organic and raw foods.
Homeopathy as Integrative Medicine
At a recent lecture at the Centre for Integrated Healing, a Vancouver clinic that combines conventional and alternative therapies, Paul tells me he's been cancer free for more than six months. While undergoing chemotherapy for stomach cancer, Paul alleviated the side effects with homeopathy.
The Failure of Chemotherapy
"Some 35 years of intense effort focused largely on improving treatment must be judged a qualified failure. Results have not been what they were intended and expected to be.