The Cancer Files: Why are the best cancer treatments not used?

Part 2: Alternative Cancer Treatments

Prostate cancer: what treatment is best?

If you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, study shows that the best thing to do is nothing

Cimetidine (Tagamet)

Cimetidine, used for heartburn, has a better track record than chemotherapy against a range of cancers. Why is it not used more often?

Laetrile

You will find a vast amount of information about laetrile on the Internet. Doctors have derided it as quackery for half a century — now conventional medicine has discovered it works and is cashing in.

Digitoxin and other heart drugs

Studies throughout the last century demonstrate that breast cancer deaths could be reduced by 90% with digitoxin, a cheap, generic heart drug. Other heart drugs have also shown remarkable benefits — yet oncologists refuse to use them even though they appear to be better than regular cancer chemotherapy drugs.

2009 study: New Hope For Cancer Comes Straight From The Heart

Medical News Today, in an article dated 06 Jan 2009, reports that Johns Hopkins researchers have finally caught up with what I wrote (above) over 8 years ago.

Dipyridamole

Dipyridamole is another cheap, generic drug that appears to have anti-cancer properties. Wayne Martin tells of it here.

Oral urea for liver cancer In the 1980s, two Greek doctors had surprisingly good results in liver cancer with oral urea. Why don't we hear of it? Why isn't it used.

Coley's Toxins

Coley's Toxins

Between 1891 and his death in 1936, Dr William Bradley Coley had a cancer cure success rate of over 50% and with terminal patients. This is much better than conventional medicine can achieve. His treatments are still used today — outside of regular medical circles. See Wayne Martin's article in the February/March 2003 edition of the Townsend Letter to Doctors.

I have been asked how to make Coley's Toxin. Here are the instructions.

Good news for cancer patients

Where cancer chemotherapy has an overall 'cure' rate of around 2.5%, Coley's toxin's overall cure rate was over 50%.
    Used for over 60 years, its history is full of cases where terminally ill cancer patients who had been given up as hopeless, were completely cured of cancer, living on for many years with no symptoms of cancer and with no sign of cancer at autopsy.
    After years in the doldrums, this most effective cancer therapy is making a comeback — I hope.

A new hypothesis to explain Coley's Toxins and to improve survival outcomes Coley was about 50% successful. Dr Joseph Thuo suggests a reason why that wasn't 100%.

A short case history. A man with multiple tumours and a poor prognosis gets a fever — and his cancer is cured.