“The more malignant the tumor, the more resistant it is to treatment,” says Dr. The key problem with radiation is that while it reduces the tumors’ size, it makes them more malignant. But as with chemo, it is non-cancer cells that are often destroyed.” “The rationale is the same as with surgery,” says Dr. The final option uses radiation to burn out cancer cells. The basic hope behind chemo is that it kills the cancer… before it kills the patient. And all your cells are systematically poisoned.īut anyone submitting to chemo can expect: It uses chemicals to kill the growth of all your body’s cells. Worse, it does plenty of damage along the way. “Cutting it is rarely the answer.”Ĭhemo also fails to fix the problem. “Cancer is a systemic disease,” says cancer expert Dr. All it can do is relieve some of the pain caused by a cancerous mass pressing against organs. Once cancer spreads, surgery is practically useless. That’s because surgery causes the cancerous cells to break away from the tumor and infect other organs… thus spreading the cancer. Instead, cancer often spreads after surgery. The big problem is that these options aren’t very effective.įor example, surgery doesn’t really address the problem. And all we’ve come up with are the three options that Douglas is looking at… chemo, radiation, and surgery. Since Nixon made his promise, we’ve spent $30 billion on finding a cure for cancer. It’s a simple, all-natural solution… And it may be able to cut your risk of cancer by 70 percent. The answer may be found in your own back yard. If conventional treatments can’t help us combat cancer, what can? And the best clinical research shows that while people are diagnosed with cancer earlier, they are living with it no longer than they were back in 1977.
Yet more people die of it each year than the year before. Thirty-three years have passed since Nixon promised us a cure for cancer. But these standard therapies don’t seem to do much good against cancer. The conventional response to cancer is exactly what Douglas is currently looking at… chemo, radiation, and surgery.
Over 1,500 people die of cancer every day in the U.S… and one in three people are living with it. That’s because cancer is still the world’s number one killer. This diagnosis is a poignant reminder that cancer can strike any of us, at any time. While the public is watching his new film, Douglas will be undergoing chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. The news comes just weeks before he appears in the hotly-anticipated sequel to Wall Street. He announced the news on the Late Show with David Letterman last week. You’ve probably heard the news that 65-year-old screen star Michael Douglas has Stage IV throat cancer.
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