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I have friends who are coming to me with different information they hear about, much like you have when you are pregnant, those who have been there will immediately know what I'm talking about. You're supposed to get some nerves cut at the base of your neck and you'll never have another headache, you're supposed to do this or do that.
The latest packet of information that was passed to me intrigues me and angers me at the same time. The first dozen or so pages are all hype with no info. The antennae start twitching madly so you KNOW you won't get the meat of THIS info unless you part with $$$$ to get it. Somewhere along the way I have encountered a site that collates alternative cures and refuses to include any that are like this. If you have to pay to get to the info you can't be featured on her site. That is classy. Anyhow, supposedly the good folks at food & drug administration and the people with $$$ and former/late president Reagan are all privy to the information this guy claims to have. German doctors are supposedly leap years ahead of us on battling cancer and doing it without making their patients go through chemotherapy. He claims that our drug companies want to get rich from us so the want to keep us from knowing about what they know in Germany. There is supposedly a special $250,000 machine only available in Germany, that heats the body to 105 to 107 degrees and kills cancer cells. There are some machines that deliver the heat to isolated areas and some to the entire body. One of the clinics costs about 500 euros for the treatment. This is aimed at CANCER, but when you think about it, we are dealing with tumors and much of how we deal with them is like dealing with cancer. The book this guy wants to cell is supposedly full of information for preventing cancer by ridding your body of toxins, too. He claims the Germans use mistletoe (which is poisonous) as part of their treatment for breast cancer. Suzanne Sommers is another celebrity he cited as one of the people who has gone to them. What do you think about all of this?
The latest packet of information that was passed to me intrigues me and angers me at the same time. The first dozen or so pages are all hype with no info. The antennae start twitching madly so you KNOW you won't get the meat of THIS info unless you part with $$$$ to get it. Somewhere along the way I have encountered a site that collates alternative cures and refuses to include any that are like this. If you have to pay to get to the info you can't be featured on her site. That is classy. Anyhow, supposedly the good folks at food & drug administration and the people with $$$ and former/late president Reagan are all privy to the information this guy claims to have. German doctors are supposedly leap years ahead of us on battling cancer and doing it without making their patients go through chemotherapy. He claims that our drug companies want to get rich from us so the want to keep us from knowing about what they know in Germany. There is supposedly a special $250,000 machine only available in Germany, that heats the body to 105 to 107 degrees and kills cancer cells. There are some machines that deliver the heat to isolated areas and some to the entire body. One of the clinics costs about 500 euros for the treatment. This is aimed at CANCER, but when you think about it, we are dealing with tumors and much of how we deal with them is like dealing with cancer. The book this guy wants to cell is supposedly full of information for preventing cancer by ridding your body of toxins, too. He claims the Germans use mistletoe (which is poisonous) as part of their treatment for breast cancer. Suzanne Sommers is another celebrity he cited as one of the people who has gone to them. What do you think about all of this?
Yes seeing is believing, but I must say a while back, maybe last year I read somewhere about something being put into the tumour and the heat killing it off without damaging surrounding tissue, it read really well, but have not kept paper, it was in the Daily Mail
In the meantime, it sounds a bit like those conspiracy theories which would have you believe that you can run your car on water but the patents have been bought out and buried by the oil companies, etc.
If it's such good news, why does he charge for the info?
John
As far as I know, it is true that Laser technics to "burn" cancer cells are improving quickly last few years. Every 3 months you can read about a new scientific development : accelerated particules with more energy (higher temperature)and more precise laser, give better results in shorter time.
It is done by official scientific searchers, from different countries. You have read about germans, last I read was an american lady-searcher. They mostly cooperate to develop specific tools corresponding to specific forms of cancer (brain, breast...).
Most of the tools are still experimental.
As pituitary adenomas are less frequent than some forms of cancer, I'm afraid we are not a priority on the list. It will take time but will come someday.
Now conc. alternative people selling Hope, I am a bit dubitative...
By polarchip
How many of you read the Acromegaly News over in the sidebar? I take a look at it from time to time, and I found one of the current articles up there to be particularly exciting - It talks about the the Kanzius Method of treating ...
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Although I am not aware of this treatment being available in any given place. The man who developed it has since passed on. This was also originally meant to treat cancer. If anyone knows more about it, please add a post.