Research: Some Cancer Diagnoses Kill Quicker Than The Cancer

Cancer Diagnoses May Be More Lethal Than The Cancer Itself




Sometimes called the nocebo effect (In contradistinction to the placebo effect), a doctor's negative attitudes and beliefs surrounding a diagnosis may infect the patient with despair and hopelessness, two psychospiritual states at the very root of dis-ease.  A more ancient example of this is known as "bone-pointing," which involved a shaman pointing a bone at someone whose death was said to be imminent from supernatural causes, resulting in that person dying through the power of suggestion (i.e. emotionally-induced trauma).

Why Is Cancer So Feared?

Cancer is the Big "C," one of the scariest words you will ever hear. But why? Is it really so incurable to be both loathed and feared at the same?

What if cancer were not some predetermined gene time bomb going off in your body, some fatalistic disease vector that by sheer bad or good luck touches down on this person, but not that person.

If you listen to the experts its a medical crap shoot. The discussion is always about risk and risk reduction. Do this, and you reduce your risk. Do this, and you increase your risk. The implicit metaphysics here is of a passive subject and an active object -- essentially a victim.

Is this the way things really are? Is that how we want to live? Mathematical epidemiology (calculating disease risk) requires too much formal training to make much sense to the individual trying to make healthy choices. Were we to listen exclusively to the experts, and act on their advice alone, we would be putting the responsibility for our lives in the hands of others, which is another form of fatalism -- the opposite of free will.

The truth is that cancer is profoundly misunderstood, making it almost impossible to treat effectively by conventional means. The entire field of natural medicine exists to show people an alternative to using toxic chemicals and radiation in the treatment of diseases which often result from poisoning with toxic chemicals and radiation.  There is hope for those who have been diagnosed with cancer, though it will probably not come from the conventional medical establishment -- at least not anytime soon.


  • New England Journal of Medicine. 2012 April 5th

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Cancer can't be cured as it is a form of cure. Sadly we fractionate our 'cures'. Heart problem? See the GP first, gives them that dollar. Then the heart doctor. Ooops, turn our to be kidneys, off to that guy... nope, its blood related since the urine shows... off to Mr. hematologist.. oh, there seems to be a adrenochrome issue, off to the neurologist. Oh well... looks like the levels are normal its psychological, off to the psychiatrist. They make cash along the way, everyone's happy. Get cancer, you'll look nice on your stats if you get chemo. Make it 5 years and your a 'survive' and our AMA journals are looking good again, but youll die 5.5 years later, who knows... If the radiation.... or anti- bios or other 'medicines' haven't killed or destroyed the patients endocrine system than maybe they have a chance, but the SSRI's should finish off the job. How insignificantly inept have our ideologies become that we cannot even understand the basis of all underlying conditions that effect or could affect the human body. The Mucus membrane and ballast of white blood cells (ph). Take care of these and you CANNOT get cancer, or ... anything... prove me wrong, all the best. -Former endocrinologist who's given up on what we used to call the Hippocratic oath and internal medicine (Profiteering murder).


I knew the day after my daughter was told that she had breast cancer that she had already given up and nothing I said changed her mind.She passed 11 months later after all the horrible poison they convinced her to take.About 2 weeks before she died she told me that she told me that she should have listened. Linda Hamilton Warsaw,In.

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