Intolerable cancer pain should be a thing of the past

Cancer pain is often correctable without painkilling drugs.

My naturopath mentor taught me this by realizing it for his clients. One chap with bone pain from prostate cancer found Malcolm's nutritional management the most effective way of relieving his pain.

Cancer cells have anaerobic (independant of oxygen) metabolism.
Large amounts of sugar are partially broken down to lactic acid, to produce energy, resulting in a very acid environment.
This low Ph is responsible for some of the pain, presumably by irritating nerve endings in the vicinity.

One approach to cancer therapy uses bicarbonate to neutralize this acidity. Dr. Simoncini is widely quoted in this area.

Organic germanium, and ozone are two more examples of treatments based on these observations.

Bill Henderson has lots of raw organic vegetables (alkali forming) as the first item on his good foods for cancer list. He is spot on in his ideas about cancer, from my perspective.

Any treatment which kills cancer cells, including apricot kernels, can relieve the pain.

Even if you are receiving standard medical care, adequate pain relief is a must.

There are many agents used, depending on which type of pain is present. Neuropathic, bone, colic - all require different approaches.

Your description of the qualities of your pain, is one thing your doctor will be going on, so be as careful as possible with the information you provide.

Bill Henderson says that everyone should have a healthy person with them as their advocate, and one of their functions is to ensure messages get across accurately.

Notes on conventional cancer pain relief treatments.

A new study¹ looks at a small group of people from 2004, who were given palliative radiotherapy in the last weeks of their lives.

26% reported improvement or stabilization of their symptoms.

Radiotherapy is usually "fractionated," given in multiple small doses. Here it is often better to have it in a single or a few fractions.

Preventing Painful Prostate Cancer

Prevention is better than cure.

It stands to reason, screening for prostate cancer should be a good idea. You would certainly think so, from the attention in the media.

This is however, controversial. Big studies have failed to show a benefit.

Another study² has just been published, involving 10,000 men screened and the same number just observed, over 14 years.
They found 450 more cancers, 34 fewer deaths from prostate cancer per 10,000 men screened. This was 1 fewer death in 294 screened.

Quite a number of the other 293 men would have undergone needle biopsy of their prostates, which carries some risk.

Positive diagnosis of cancer was followed by active treatment in 60% initially, rising to 72% at the end of the study. This is because it can be hard to tell if a given cancer will be nasty or never likely to cause trouble.

I personally have opted not to be screened. I do a lot to keep healthy, which is true prevention, rather than earlier detection of established disease as above.

References for cancer pain page

2. Lancet Oncology. Published online July 1, 2010

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