Shocking and Disturbing: American Cancer
Shocking and Disturbing: American Cancer Society confesses that conventional treatments cause more cancer!
Education NOT Radiation! True Health Care NOT Sick Care!
According to a document released by the American Cancer Society, the more radiation therapy you receive, the more likely it is you’ll develop a secondary cancer caused by that radiation
This information is followed by a new study which found that secondary cancers in Americans have increased a  300 percent since the 1970s, all of which are a completely new type of cancer and not a reoccurrence of an old cancer.
In addition, radiation is responsible for 1.5 percent of cancer in the United States, and this is not just from cancer therapy treatments but also from other sources of radiological imaging such as mammograms and coronary artery and CT scans, the latter of which delivers 100 to 500 times the radiation of an ordinary X-ray.
Children exposed to radiation much more likely to develop breast cancer
Children who have received radiation therapy as a cancer treatment are much more likely to develop breast cancer later on in life. Age at the time of radiation plays a factor as the “therapy” affects the development of other tumors including lung and thyroid cancer, gastrointestinal and stomach cancer and bone sarcoma.
If a patient undergoes chemotherapy and radiation, the chance for developing some type of secondary cancer increases even more.
Chemotherapy is actually considered a greater risk factor in causing leukemia than radiation and has been linked to the following secondary cancers: myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS, the most common) acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Chemotherapy increases the risk of developing hard-to-treat leukemia according to current medical savants.
The alkylating agents in chemotherapy drugs are to blame, as they interfere with cellular DNA, sometimes causing the development of AML and MDS, which may then progress to ALL.
Some alkylating agents known to cause cancer include:
• mechlorethamine • chlorambucil • cyclophosphamide (cytoxan) • melphalan, • lomustine (CCNU) • carmustine (BCNU) • busulfan
This means that the longer you receive this kind of cancer treatment, the more likely you are to develop a secondary cancer.
The longer you receive treatment involving alkylating agents, as well as the higher the dose, the more likely you are to develop a second cancer, with the risk for leukemia rising about two years following treatment and peaking between five and ten years, after which the risk reportedly dwindles.
Secondary cancers caused by chemo drugs are “hard to treat and have a poor outcome”
Though not as risky, other chemotherapy drugs can also cause second cancers. Chemo drugs cisplatin and carboplatin act similarity to alkylating agents in the way they attack cancer cells, in turn also increasing certain types of leukemia that are difficult to treat and often have a poor outcome.
If cisplatin or carboplatin are given in combination with radiation, the risk for developing leukemia rises.
Topoisomerase II inhibitors, a class of chemo drugs that inhibit cells from being able to repair DNA, also contribute to the risk of developing leukemia, particularly AML, which develops much sooner (within two to three years) after treatment compared with alkylating agents.
• Etoposide (VP-16) • Teniposide • Mitoxantrone (Novantrone)
Another class of chemotherapy drugs called anthracyclines, which are also topoisomerase II inhibitors, cause leukemia as well but aren’t as risky as the other drugs mentioned.
• Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) • Daunorubicin • Epirubicin (Ellence) • Idarubicin
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