Cancer and Vitamin C
Vitamin C as a Cancer Treatment has been used for decades, in combination with other remedies.
The debate, Is Vitamin C Effective For Treating Cancer? ran tonight, 18 September, 2010, on ‘Sunday’, presented by John Hudson.
The most striking thing, I thought, was the difference between those doctors who were open to the idea of using Vitamin C as part of a cancer treatment, and those doctors who were closed to the idea of Vitamin C having any value, even though they had never tried it.
Someone in the know should really do some research into the psychology behind the closed-minded attitude which many doctors have, and compare it to the psychology of an open-minded and more positive doctor. I know which of the two I would rather put my faith in.
Incidentally, the two doctors who were open to the use of Vitamin C were both women. The other doctors who were against the use of Vitamin C were adamant that Vitamin C was not effective, and trotted out with the usual phrases about there being no research which proves conclusively that Vitamin C is any good, and that it might even do harm, they said. These are ridiculous and unintelligent statements, considering their lack of knowledge about Vitamin C use – they haven’t tried it, let alone read about it – and ridiculous too when you consider that chemotherapy and radiation therapy actually harm the healthy cells whilst they are attacking the cancer cells, yet this aspect of conventional therapy was conveniently overlooked in the discussion.
Vitamin C has actually been found to be effective in minimizing the negative side effects of radiation and chemotherapy treatment.
It is an unfair response too, on the part of these negative-thinking doctors, when you consider that many patients who have been administered Vitamin C by the hospitals, are only given it at the last moment, when all else has failed and the patient is very weak:
“See, it didn’t work” they will say when the patient did not recover. Vitamin C or any other treatment is not likely to do much good if it is administered just before death..
Other reasons for not giving Vitamin C to cancer patients was that ‘It might interfere with the chemotherapy and radiation treatments”……”The kidneys might be damaged” they said, about giving Vitamin C to a patient who was soon to die: Again- No mention of their radiation and chemotherapy causing any damage to kidneys or other organs. At this stage, anyway, the worry about Vitamin C affecting the kidneys is not a realistic concern. What is wrong with giving Vitamin C a try, if the patient is about to die, and all other ‘treatments’ for cancer are obviously not working?
Vitamin C for Pain Relief: At the very least, high doses of Vitamin C help reduce pain and suffering: This is a FACT. This alone, is good enough reason to administer Vitamin C, even if the patient is not expected to live.
Yet still, these doctors, Professor Shaun Holt and Dr Michael Jameson, seem determined to undermine the benefits of Vitamin C, publicly stating that Vitamin C does not have an effect on cancer, and that they will not try it.
Proof That Vitamin C Affects Cancer Cells : This is a hot debate at the moment, because we were told on the news within the past couple of weeks, that New Zealand doctors had proved that there is definitely a link between Vitamin C and cancer, and that Vitamin C does inhibit some cancers, and even reduce others. However, these reported findings were not discussed on tonight’s ‘Sunday’ programme.
We were fortunate to have the Christchurch hospital specialist who is in charge of the Otago University Research team on the show. This specialist, who had a well considered and intelligent approach, was convinced that Vitamin C could help save people’s lives, but said that they needed more money for research to work out things like the best dosage, and what other therapies might be complimentary to Vitamin C therapy. She was hopeful that the government might give the university some money for research so that more could be learned about how to use Vitamin C for cancer patients.
Dr Sue Levin supported the use of Vitamin C in hospitals as part of a cancer treatment. She said Vitamin C was ‘a necessary part of treatment’, but that Vitamin C was not a ‘stand-alone’ treatment.
Research money usually comes from the drug companies, who are not keen to be doing any research into the effects of Vitamin C – I wonder why?
Hospitals Refused To Administer Vitamin C: We had more controversy over the use of Vitamin C recently, when Auckland hospital denied the use of Vitamin C for a patient who had swine flu. After the man’s family threatened to take legal action if the hospital did not administer Vitamin C, the hospital backed down, gave the vitamin C, and the man recovered.
This case was discussed earlier in the week, on Wednesday, TVNZ Channel 3: “60 Minutes’ programme. An Australian doctor, Ian Goodhope, who is a Vitamin C specialist, had much to say on the issue of Vitamin C: “Anyone who deprives a patient of the use of Vitamin C is guilty of neglect” , he said. He is promoting the use of Vitamin C for Swine flu, and has had good results on the use of Vitamin C.
It would be good to have Dr Goodhope’s thoughts on the use of Vitamin C for cancer. He said that there is ‘plenty of research and good material on the use of Vitamin C’ – I know that there is much literature on cancer treatments, and the use of Vitamin C as a complementary therapy: Dr Gerson used Vitamin C as part of his cancer therapy in the middle of the 20th century, and he has written a famous book about some of his cases and the treatments which he used.
The approach of medical people into the use of Vitamin C is interesting: Many doctors are still are looking for a ‘cure’ as such. Vitamin C is a great complementary therapy for cancer, as it is a powerful antioxidant and detoxifyier, but it should never be regarded as being the only thing required to cure someone of cancer.
The important things to consider in really curing someone of cancer are high nutrients in the form of raw foods and juices, and detoxification: When someone has cancer, detoxification has to be done very speedily, to stop the cancer from growing, and to begin the process of reduction.
Dr Gerson never used such huge doses of Vitamin C for treating cancer, as I recall. The more important thing is that toxins are cleared quickly form the bowel, in order to beat the cancer. Vitamin C helps in negating poisons, and in helping to clear the bowel. However, it is ESSENTIAL that the bowel be cleared quickly in advanced cases of cancer. The two most important tools to get this achieved are castor oil and enemas.
High Fiber Foods and Maximum Nutrient Value: Raw food and their juices provide maximum nutrition, but also provide large amounts of fiber which is essential in reversing the situation of cancer.
Dr Gerson was adamant that people should NOT have chemotherapy and radiation treatment if they wanted to recover using his method. Radiation and chemotherapy harm the organs and the cells so much, that dietary and detoxification methods are less likely to achieve a cure if these orthodox treatments have been used first.
In the case of the poor young 20 year old boy, who died from cancer while this programme was being made, I believe that if he had been able to use the other treatments in the Gerson therapy, namely enemas and castor oil, he might still be alive today. It still may have been too late, of course, especially with his having undergone radiation and chemotherapy, but many people who have been abandoned by orthodox medicine because it is believed they have only a short time to live, have recovered when these two extra therapies have been administered.