1. Can anyone explain why gastric stomach cancer cannot be cured. It is like a definate indication when identified that the patient absolutely will die within a very short time. There is no treatment available to help the patient, except medications for the pain the poor individual suffers. Usually the medical staff will advise that Chemo won't help, it will just weaken the patient.

Posted at 8:36PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Dick Cole

2. i had breast cancer

Posted at 8:38PM on Feb 9th 2006 by ALMA

3. Nearly 18 months ago I was diagnosed with colon cancer. I do not smoke and do not drink excessively. I ate a relatively healthy diet with a mix of fruits and vegetables. One of the biggest risk factors for colon cancer is constipation, I definitely never had that problem. I believe that chemicals in our environment have a lot to do with the formation of nearly all cancers. These chemicals provide the trigger that sets the metabolic transformations that allow cancer cells to develop and grow. I believe that the best long term cure for most cancers will be control of all chemicals until testing proves that these chemicals are safe.

Posted at 8:48PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Gary Lee

4. Any new chemical product has to be rigourisly tested even to do small batch production. I work at a company which develops coatings and plastics and rubber etc... When a product is developed in gram quantities for the 1st time it is run thru a chromatograph with mass spectography to see what all the components are . Extensive testing MUST be done by law to even consider going into production with it.
This is for ALL products.
It is true that many subtances such as Gasoline were put into use before these tests were required, but imagine if you had to abrubtly stop using gasoline. No more driving your car starting right now.
In the past effects of substances was ignored by greedy businessman,even when scientists warned them.DDT was bad for birds at the very least.
Now it has gone to the other extreme and people get up in arms over many harmless things .The silicone breast implant controversy comes to mind. Silicone is basically sand and is inert . There was no basis for any lawsuits just a lot of emotional hype. Another more current one is second hand smoke . ALL the well done studies shown no damage from second hand smoke or inconclusive because the number of variables is too high and a lack of a control. There is a BIG difference between inhaling directly from a cigarette and inhaling around a smoker. Well designed studies have shown that installing an apropiate HEPA filter in a room with smokers would result in cleaner air than a room with no filter and non-smokers. It may stink or be unpleasent but it will not hurt you unless you are in a phone booth for hours with a smoker and the door closed.
Learn what the scientific method is and use it in evaluating what is going on. It is the ONLY way not to be fooled by greedy money men or empty emotional hype.
Science and technology are our only hope of developing alternative fuels and providing food for our over populated planet.
Learn all you can about chemistry and biology and read studies yourself to determine if they have any validity .
Truth and Freedom used to be the American Way. It could be again! Watch your Government!

Posted at 8:59PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Dan Ceska

5. I had breast cancer

Posted at 9:03PM on Feb 9th 2006 by kim

6. To Dick Cole with gastric stomach cancer. The very best website I have found on alternative therapies for Stage IV cancers is: http://www.cancertutor.com. Hope this info can be of enormous help to you, as it has been to me. M Burch

Posted at 9:28PM on Feb 9th 2006 by M Burch

7. I had breast cancer and was given only a few months to live. That was 10 years ago. Since then many of my friends have died from various cancers. I do believe there is something in the environment that can contribute to this disease, perhaps in the air, in the water or in the foods. I have since heard that dairy cattle are being fed hormones to increase their milk production. Not to feed the poor, but to feed the pockets of greedy people in the dairy industry. Put 2 and 2 together. We ingest the milk and the hormones go into our bodies.

Women who are pregnant are told to keep away from drugs, alcohol and smoking. Because???? what they ingest or inhale will go to the babies. So that is proof that to me that what goes into dairy cattle, is being passed on to us who are drinking the milk.

The same problem occurs within our meats, because animals are eating grain chemically treated.

When will our country go back to basics, and make our food healthier to eat, as the foods were when families grew their own gardens and raised their flocks and herds without big business stepping in with their ways to increase their CEO's pensions?

Lobbiests are to blame also, giving incentives and vacations to members of congress.

Posted at 9:28PM on Feb 9th 2006 by jerrilynn

8. To Dick Cole with gastric stomach cancer. The very best website for alternative therapies to Stage IV cancers is: http://www.cancertutor.com. Hope this info helps you. M Burch

Posted at 9:33PM on Feb 9th 2006 by M Burch

9. Let's just say that all of a sudden they were able to test all of those hundreds of thousands of synthetic chemicals and they found that every single one of them were bad for us? If there are no alternatives that are safe, how many of us would be willing to sacrifice the convenience the products with those chemicals have allowed us? It would mean giving up almost everything and that is unrealistic as far as I'm concerned. In fact, it would be nearly impossible.

Posted at 9:45PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Sandi

10. Where can we buy meat that has no hormones? I have also noticed that 4 times in less than a year the meat I have bought at this one grocery store is either tough (beef) and twice their chicken has made me sick, but it smelled fresh.

Posted at 9:54PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Michelle Crandlemire

11. These chemicals are some of the many reasons for cancer. This is not a scientific comment, but may make sense: Cancer is your body's reaction to combat or destroy foreign and dangerous agents entering any of our systems. When our body's defense cells are not strong enough to destroy those agents, they become "insane" and start to auto-destroy any nearby tissue.

Posted at 10:03PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Florencio A Vargas

12. Humans are being so bombarded by chemicals, solvents and other things that cause cancer (where such few are even tested), that one can no longer say, "When God says it's time to go.....your dying"! Surely, even God is shocked by the blatant disregard of human life.

Posted at 10:06PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Susan

13. Go for those cancer tests. Early treatment and many curative can be started. Watch items which can cause allergic reactions for anything irritating can be a cancer causing substance. Take care of your body.

Posted at 10:33PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Patricia Mraovich

14. My father died of Kidney cancer 19 years ago and my mother died of breast cancer 2 years ago. Sadly, they both had a difficult time letting go of anger and let resentment fester. Harboring resentment is like taking poison and expecting someone else to die. These negative emotions can devastate our already taxed immune systems.

I agree all the chemicals we're exposed to are are a HUGE player, but why doesn't everyone get cancer?

With my family history, I eat organic, and all my personal care products are safe enough to eat. No propylene glycol, methyl paraben, or other petroleum based ingredients. I don't get acrylic nails or even wear polish. And I us only safer, low chemical cleaners.

But, probably my most powerful cancer prevention is to keep short accounts with others... because I know resentment can kill.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Posted at 10:37PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Kathy

15. Ironic that my father died 54 years ago from gastric stomach cancer and no progress has been made it treating it in spite of the billions of research dollors and all the deaths from it since then. How slowly we are progressing!

Posted at 10:51PM on Feb 9th 2006 by James McNulty

16. If you have cancer of any kind, I would definitely get Kevin Trudeau's book "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know". Read it from page one...don't skip around in it...if you do, it will not be as informative or understandable. Another excellant book is titled "The Maker's Diet". I do not recall the author's name. Both of these books offer a lot of good information and hope to anyone suffering a disease that doctors have called incurable. There is hope, so don't give up, and don't accept a death sentence from the doctors. God created the human body to heal itself. You just need to know what to do to help it along. Kevin Trudeau's book has pages of lists of web sites and licensed alternative practioners and additional books to research your condition. Good luck.

Posted at 11:11PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Judith Eardley

17. for dick cole, re stomach cancer; my father had two-thirds of hs stomach removed due to cancer. he got no other medical therapy. my mother gave him essiac tea till he died several years later, of other causes. a scan showed he was totally cancer-free when he died. go to www.essiac.net for more info, and good luck...

Posted at 11:15PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Melissa

18. We can blame the government--the environment--the generic drugs--chemicals--our heritage--and a whole host of bad influences, but please know that "all sickness and disease are from satan".

This is part of the spiritual warfare that Ephesians 6:11-12 talks about: where we do not wrestle with flesh and blood...but with rulers of darkness in this world, etc. Jesus defeated satan through his death and resurrection, see Colossians 2:15 and John 12:31. You can beat cancer because Jesus already beat it for you.

Take this prescription everyday and read these scriptures OUTLOUD everyday at least 3 times a day: Genesis 6:3; Deuteronomy 30:19-20; Psalms 118:17; Proverbs 4:20-23; Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 8:17; 1 Peter 2:24; 3 john 1:2; Hebrews 11:1; Romans 10:17; and others as you search the scriptures for comparable healing scriptures.

Confess these affirmations everyday: I am healed by the blood of the Lamb. By Jesus' stripes I am healed. By the power of the Holdy Spirit I am healed. In Jesus' mighty name, I am healed. With long life, God will satisfy me. I shall live and declare the works of the Lord. I will walk by faith and not by sight. I will call things that are not (still seeing/feelings signs of sickness) as though they are (perfect health). I am only moved by the Word of God. I only believe the Word of God. I rebuke the devil in Jesus's name so he has to flee. In Jesus name, satan be gone. Be gone you evil spirit of cancer. I am well. I am healed by the power of Jesus. To God be the glory.

Now praise the Lord that the has bealed you. Believe you are healed. Believe and receive your healing...now and forevermore. It is done.

By discussing cancer and it's effects, you are giving "it" power over you. Claim God's word over this sickness...do not give it power, if you truly want to be healed.

Let's pray for each other's healing here is this blog. Remember, Job was healed when he prayed for his companions.

Posted at 11:17PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Candee Freeman

19. This is to Sandi who asks who among us would be willing to give up our conviences? Every single person who has gone through chemo and rad therapy, or had a son or daughter do so. Nothing is as sad as to watch a four year old being poked and prodded. You can say how can we give up our way of life, but when it's you or a loved one it's an easy choice let alone an impossible one. Selfish societies always prove to be it's own best enemy.

Posted at 11:21PM on Feb 9th 2006 by vicki

20. I believe that the perservatives that are in or on the foods we eat is the reason for so many getting cancer. I know everyone wants to say it is from smoking but I don't believe smoking is the real cause. Yes I am a smoker and I'm sick of hearing how bad smoking is for you. I am in my middle 40's and my great grandparents and grandparents lived long healthy lives. My great grandfather lived to be 103 the reason being is because he had a garden, for most of his life butchered his on meat and ate pure lard. My grandmother lived to be 96 and she smoked had a garden. So I just don't believe that it is the smoking I believe it is what we eat.............I know I'm going to get some flack over this but hey thats life and its my life so I should be able to choose not have it dictated that I cannot do this or that here or there. What about alcohol nobody is getting on there case and tells them they can't drink when they go out to eat or when they go to a ballgame or concert. Please excuse the spelling.

Posted at 11:21PM on Feb 9th 2006 by Tammy Smith