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| radiologist, an internist, an OB-GYN or urologist, perhaps a nutritionist, and, in a few cases, maybe even an herbalist. Everyone will have an opinion. The surgeon will usually recommend surgery, sometimes invasive surgery, with the promise that the cancer will be removed along with an extra layer of tissue in order to get ''clean margins.'' Next, the oncologist will step in with a recommendation of chemotherapy; this may be one chemo drug or a combination of drugs. And then, just to make sure the cancer is eliminated, local radiation therapy will probably also be suggested. After all this, breast cancer patients will likely be advised to undergo hormone or tamoxifen therapy. This complicated barrage of surgery, chemo, radiation, and perhaps hormone therapy is all directed against the return of one single cancer cell. How can you decide what's best for you? For openers, at least one other opinion is definitely advisable. |
| Although I believe that chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery may be necessary in certain circumstances, I deeply believe that they are not the best choices all the time. The more experience I gain in working with people who have cancer, the more confidence I have that the natural approach I recommend can be successful in combination with the conventional medical approach or even all by itself in many cases. At this time, I am not ready to make this claim for every person with every type of cancer, but maybe some day I will be able to do that, too. I feel very confident using my approach alone for certain cancersfor example, prostate cancer, postmenopausal breast cancer, cervical cancer, and many low-grade lymphomas. With other aggressive cancers, such as pancreatic cancer, acute leukemias, and childhood brain tumors, the challenge remains difficult, but I continue to seek and find more effective ways to deal with these forms of cancer in natural ways. Many of the people I see do not come to me until all else has failed and it is hard to know what the outcome would have been had seen them when they were first diagnosed, before surgery and chemotherapy treatments. This is when cancer is what I call "virgin" cancer: It has not yet mutated or become resistant, which leads to "super" cancer. Cancer is easier to prevent than to cure. |
| Surgery will remove the primary tumor or the cancerous growth but not the causative factors; in many cases it can and will cause aggressive spreading of the cancerous growth. Radiation may inhibit a local recurrence, but neither surgery nor radiation addresses cancer as a systemic disease. |
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