Cancer studies often downplay chemo side effects: Researchers spin their results

The results of breast cancer drug trials are routinely ‘spun’ to make the treatments appear more beneficial than they actually are, doctors claim today.

In two-thirds of the studies scrutinized, toxicity and serious side effects from chemotherapy, radiation or surgery were not even listed in many paper’s abstract summaries, which is usually the only part that practicing doctors read.

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Super Healthy Food We Buy At Costco

So I’m often asked “Where do you buy your food?” Well when I first started this journey in January 2004, organic food was pretty scarce in Memphis, TN.
Now (thank the Lord on high) it is much easier to find.

We shop at various places like Whole Foods aka “Whole Paycheck”, Kroger, Fresh Market, and local Farmer’s Markets. And Micah does a pretty good job of keeping up with which store carries what, and who has better prices etc.

But one of our favorite places is Costco. A couple years ago we discovered that they have a really impressive selection of organic food and health food. So I thought it would be fun and helpful to take pictures of the super healthy food we buy at Costco on a regular basis.

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Chris Beat Cancer Top 5 posts of 2012

Well it’s New Years Day and I’m sitting on the couch in my jammies drinking my morning concoction (16 oz of ozonated water with 4 grams of vitamin c and green tea extract)
and reflecting on what a terrific year 2012 was.

Nine years ago today I was in the hospital recovering from colon cancer surgery.
And the year that followed (2004) was the toughest year of my life physically and emotionally. That was when I radically changed my diet and lifestyle and took my health into my own hands….

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Study: Mistletoe Effective Against Colon Cancer

What a perfect story to post three days before Christmas!

“Mistletoe gives the kiss of death to cancer.”

In a new study, Zahra Lotfallani, a researcher at University of Adelaide in Australia,
(that’s her in the pic) found that one type of Mistletoe extract called Fraxini, when compared to chemotherapy, was more effective against colon cancer cells and less toxic.

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Penny Heals Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer Naturally!

My name is Penelope Villabert. In June 2011 I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer progressing to stage 4 with metastasis in the liver which had multiple cysts. The tumor in my pancreas was as big as a fist and inoperable. I was told I had only 3-6 months to live…

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Study: Are cancer patients’ hopes for chemo too high?

(Reuters) At least two thirds of people with advanced cancer believed the chemotherapy they were receiving might cure them, even though the treatment was only being given to buy some time or make them comfortable, according to a U.S. survey.

Researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that 69 percent of patients who were terminally ill with lung cancer, and 81 percent with fatal colorectal cancer, did not understand that their chemotherapy was not at all likely to eliminate their tumors.

“Their expectations are way out of line with reality,” said lead researcher Deborah Schrag of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institution in Boston, speaking to Reuters Health…

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