Chemotherapy For Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer is a disease that afflicts up to 25,000 women in America every year. This disease begins with tumors in the ovaries, but the disease spreads as the tumors eventually attack other parts of the body. Some women have their ovaries removed when the disease is caught at an early stage. However, at a certain point in the disease's progression, surgery becomes futile, and the patient's best hope becomes chemotherapy.

The problem with chemotherapy is that it is extremely uncomfortable, even painful, and many women are discouraged by the overall survival rates of ovarian cancer victims. Still, for others, anything is worth trying for that fighting chance to live.

Before you decide whether or not chemotherapy is for you, it's best to know the facts:

Ovarian cancer chemotherapy uses powerful chemicals to kill the cancerous cells in your body. These chemicals enter your body sometimes through drugs taken orally, but more often they are directly pumped into the blood stream using an IV needle and a tube.

Chemotherapy is uncomfortable. It usually makes you feel much worse before you start to feel better. Patients undergoing chemotherapy often feel nauseous. They usually lose their hair.

These effects happen because the chemicals killing the cancer cells are also, at the same time, killing healthy cells. The expectation is that the cancer cells will be eradicated before the healthy cells are. This is why it is very important for chemotherapy patients to take care of their bodies and keep their healthy cells fit to stay in the lead.

But after the chemicals do their job, then you start feeling better. In fact, even in cases where chemotherapy is unable to treat the cancer many doctors still prescribe chemotherapy because even in situations where not all the cancer cells are killed, chemotherapy destroys enough of them to still give the patient relief from some of the cancer's symptoms.

There is another important thing you need to know about ovarian cancer chemotherapy: no matter what happens to you, when you subject yourself to it you are giving other people a better chance of fighting the disease. Every ovarian cancer chemotherapy session gives the medical community a better understanding of how to best treat ovarian cancer. New facts that could be discovered during your treatment may one day help your daughter, your granddaughter, and many other women that come after you - whether or not the chemotherapy helps you yourself.

Althaf Ahmed runs Chemotherapy Side Effects, a blog that answers people's everyday questions related to business and life. You can read more How to advices at How To Do Anything

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Cancer is a Fungus

Solving the cancer issue is like a puzzle. You hear many things, but it is sometimes difficult to put the pieces together. In his recent book, Dr Tullio Simoncini, an Italian Oncologist says,
"Much evidence indicates that this is the road to take: the analogy between psoriasis - an incurable disease of the skin that many treat as fungus - with tumors, which is also an incurable disease of the organism; the symptomatological overlapping of systemic candidosis and cancer; and the strict genetic relationship between mycetes and neoplastic masses. These are all elements that support and confirm the point of view that all types of cancer, as happens in the vegetal world, are caused by a fungus."

The good Doctor goes on to explain, "A fungus infection - that of the Candida species - could supply the explanation for why a tumour occurs; and it is in this direction that research should move in the attempt to solve the problem of cancer once and for all."*

Dr Simoncini regularly attends medical conferences and does interviews to explain what's wrong with conventional cancer theories and treatments, to present his fungal theory of cancer and to describe case studies involving patients healed with sodium bicarbonate, a powerful anti-fungal. His book, Cancer is a Fungus: A revolution in the therapy of tumors (Edizioni Lampis), is available in Italian, Dutch and English from the website (see below)

So, is the cause of cancer a common fungus? A yeast infection as common as Candida?
Other reports and articles seem to be supporting this information.

* "Grapes' Anti-fungal Agent May Fight Cancer" 3/16/02
* "Grape Skin Protein Kills Cancer Cells" 6/9/04
* "Chlorophyll Derivative May Cut Liver Cancer Risk"
* The CBS News story, "Fungus Among Us May Cure Cancer"
* "Plants, Fungi, Sea Creatures Tested In Hunt For Cancer Drug" - Frederick, Maryland, Dec. 20, 2004

Follow the money. If Cancer is a fungus, then the American Cancer Society would be out-of-business.

Follow the money. Billions of dollars in research would be down the drain, and the drug companies would have nothing for which to make a new drug.

IF taking a simple, common and inexpensive product like Yeast Balance from Enzymatic Therapy or Candida Gone from Renew Life, or Yeast-Cleanse from Solaray, or many other products from your health food store may be the answer. We are not doctors or pharmacists and we do not prescribe, but you can be sure that a good yeast cleanse will be part of my health regime in the future.

*Excerpt from the book, "Cancer is a fungus", by Dr Tullio Simoncini, Oncologist ©2007.

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