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Cancer is not prejudiced; it chooses whoever it wants. Many survivors do not realise they are to be followed by long-term side effects. Doctors do not talk about the complications or pain issues after radiation cancer treatment. How does one decide where to go for treatment after they have been diagnosed with cancer? Cancer life expectancy is the prime concern of most of the cancer patients worldwide.

It is an indicator of the minimum chances of survival of a patient after getting diagnosed with cancer and may vary from person to person. Therefore, there is need of an independent, third-party biostatistician to analyse the cancer statistics related to patients who were treated at cancer hospitals. This project needs high levels of competency and qualifications of the independent researchers.

Unnecessary treatment of cancer and other diseases is pervasive. “It’s the worst kind of financial toxicity because you’re incurring costs for something with no benefit,” said Dr Scott Ramsey, director of the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research. The cancer treatments cover surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps the patient’s immune system fight cancer. The immune system helps body fight infections and other diseases. It is made up of white blood cells and organs and tissues of the lymph system. Cancer immunotherapy is the use of the immune system to treat cancer. Immunotherapies can be categorised as active, passive or hybrid.

Cancer treatment needs drugs that assist the patient’s immune system. Unfortunately, there are no such established research products that may be used for the treatment of cancer

These approaches exploit the fact that cancer cells often have molecules on their surface that can be detected by the immune system, known as tumor-associated antigens; they are often proteins or other macromolecules. Active immunotherapy directs the immune system to attack tumour cells by targeting TAAs. Passive immunotherapies enhance existing anti-tumour responses and include the use of monoclonal antibodies, lymphocytes and cytokines.

The injections of vitamin C could be a way to help fight blood cancer. Vitamin C helps genes to kill off cells that would cause cancer. Patients who took high doses of vitamin B6 and B12 supplements had a higher risk of lung cancer, a new study found. Scientists found that people who took alternative medicine were two and half times more likely to die within five years of diagnosis.

This is a low estimate, says Johnson, skewed by the fact that prostate cancer, for example, takes longer than that to develop into a life-threatening disease. The people in the analysis who opted for alternative treatments tended to be wealthier and better educated. In the US, medical insurance doesn’t cover unproven treatments, so only wealthier people can afford the most expensive treatments, says Johnson.

People pay more out-of-pocket for alternative treatments than they do for standard therapies. Reputable medical and cancer experts do not recommend alternative products and practices because there’s no proof that they are effective. All cancers are different, and no one treatment works for every cancer or everybody. Even two people with the same diagnosis may need different treatments.

Scammers take advantage of the feelings that can accompany a diagnosis of cancer. They promote unproven — and potentially dangerous — remedies like the black salve, essiac tea, or laetrile with claims that the products are both “natural” and effective. But “natural” doesn’t mean either safe or effective when it comes to using these treatments for cancer. In fact, a product labelled “natural” can be more than ineffective: it can be downright harmful.

Nuclear energy is not a civil economic activity but is an appendage of the atomic weapon industry of so-called defines contractors. The powerful corporate interests behind nuclear energy and nuclear weapons overlap. The use of ionising radiation is increasing for cancer treatment, so is the potential for health hazards.

Even low doses of ionising radiation can increase the risk of longer-term effects such as cancer. It is impossible to remove traces of radionuclides impurities from high enriched uranium fission produced products needed for cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment. Producers admit that other radiotoxic products are also produced at relatively high yields in nuclear fission; a few commonly encountered are Iodine131, Ruthenium103, Cesium137 and Strontium90. Once administered into bones, by replacing calcium, they irradiate bone marrow with high energy penetrating beta particles and destroy white blood cells.

Risk estimates suggest that even small amounts of radiation pose a cancer risk. The effects of a radiation dose are either prompt or delayed. Prompt effects occur within the first several months after exposure. Delayed effects occur over many years. The delayed effects can include cancer and damaged quality of life. What level of radiation is safe? No one knows for sure. This question is of ongoing interest to scientists and researchers.

A secret US Atomic Energy Commission document, dated 17 April 1947, reveals that physicians were aware of these radiation hazards but simply ignored them. Under the title ‘Medical Experiments in Humans,’ the memorandum read: ‘It is desired that no document be released which refers to experiments with humans that might hurt public opinion or result in legal suits. Documents covering such field work should be classified ‘Secret’’.

In the nuclear arms race, the government doctors and scientists brainwashed the public into believing that a low a dose of radiation is not harmful. Some officials even tried to convince people that ‘a little radiation is good for you.’ Unethical and dangerous experimentation undoubtedly continues in secret up, ostensibly under the guise of ‘national security’.

The cancer treatment is one of the most bald-faced cover-ups in medical history. Chemotherapy is ineffective and extremely toxic. Regardless, 75 percent of cancer patients are directed to receive chemotherapy. A rigorous review of chemotherapy revealed that it fails for 98 percent of people.

A 14-year study by two oncologists in Australia reported in the film A Shocking Look at Cancer Studies that conventional treatment such as chemotherapy for all of our major cancers is utterly ineffective — far below a ten percent success rate.

Chemotherapy is a barbaric and pointless procedure. It attacks and kills not just cancer, but also all the living, healthy cells in the body and ultimately cripples the body’s immune system. While this extreme treatment has been called effective against testicular cancers and lymphocytic leukaemia, in many cases, it’s hard to tell which the supposed ‘therapy’ will kill first — cancer or the patient. In fact, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say most people, who die from cancer, actually die from cancer treatments.

The writer is a nuclear scientist and former advisor/technical consultant at Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and is a member of International Advisory Council of Nuclear Emergency Action Alliance

Published in Daily Times, February 14^th 2018.