Imagine you could treat cancer by taking a pill, then directing a laser light toward the location of the tumor. The growth would dissolve with no chemotherapy, and no harm to healthy tissue.
It might sound futuristic, but a select number of cancer patients already benefit from the method, called photodynamic therapy. An upgrade for the procedure could save thousands more cancer patients from the horrors of chemotherapy.
"It's an approach that I really like," said Karen Brewer, a professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech and lead author of the research on Tuesday at the American Chemical Society annual conference in Chicago. "We stand to make a really major improvement, instead of trying to treat one new kind of tumor or make the patient a little less sick."
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This new form of targeted tumor destroyal may be an improvement over most of the current slash and burn cancer treatment technigues but it is yet another example of modern medicine treating a symptom instead of the underlaying imbalance that caused the symptom.
In the instance of cancer, cancer is not a disease and the tumor or cancerous part of the body is not the problem - it is merely a symptom of an underlying imbalance that has caused our natural first line of defense, our immune system, to be overwhelmed and allow cancer to gain a foothold and multiply.
Treating the symptom by removing or destroying the cancer does nothing to remove the toxins or address the imbalance that may have caused it, nor does it rebuild and boost the immune system to prevent the cancer or other forms of cancer from returning.
Most conventional treatments, including chemo, radiation and surgery leave the immune system and major organs weakened, often help spread the cancer, and pave the way for the reuurn of the cancer or the advent of other forms of cancer and disease.
De-toxing the body, changing to healthy diets and lifestyle and adding proven natural anti-cancer and immune building foods and supplements are far safer, more effective and less expensive than modern medicine.
Tony Isaacs
author of "Cancer's Natural Enemy"
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