Teen wins fight to use alternative cancer treatment - Alternative Medicine Message Board

kevinnader · 07-22-2006, 01:33 AM

Any one see this story?

A judge ruled Friday that a 16-year-old boy fighting to use alternative treatment for his cancer must report to a hospital by Tuesday and accept treatment that doctors deem necessary, the family's attorney said. The judge also found that Starchild Abraham Cherrix's parents were neglectful for allowing him to pursue alternative treatment of a sugar-free, organic diet and herbal supplements supervised by a clinic in Mexico, lawyer John Stepanovich said.

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That is sick! That is ridiculous. The state shouldnt decide what treatment you want. Heck,id try the herbal one too..

Hannigaholic · 07-23-2006, 04:17 AM

I think the fact that he was 16 is probably what swayed them - I don't know the law on when you can make your own choices though with regards to healthcare

I do agree but let's be honest, merely changing your diet isn't going to beat cancer

Mari526 · 07-23-2006, 11:12 AM

If you read the story, the boy went through three months of conventional chemotherapy and then found out several months later that the tumor had grown back. He is not deciding on alternative treatment alone either, his parents want him to try it too.
The courts became involved when they became aware his family was taking the boy to an alternative treatment clinic.
Don't be so quick to discount alternative treatment. IV Vitamin C is being seriously studied right now by the National Institute of Health. There have been documented cases where cancer patients have chosen IV vitamin C as their only form of treatment and had results far better then conventional chemotherapy with no side effects. These same patients had also tried conventional cancer treatments prior.

Janmarie2 · 07-24-2006, 03:22 PM

Did not get to read the rest of the story as they deleted it but as a caregiver of a Stage IV NSCLC( lung cancer) patient that is currently a 2 yr survivor (that never smoked a day in her life) it angers me that the government had any say in the matter. Diet can make a BIG difference in cancer and the book Beating Cancer With Nutrition is a great read for anyone battling cancer.

Those of you that pooey alternative treatment need to look at the facts. The drug companies make Billions of dollars each year on cancer treatment, yet in alot of cases they can not cure the cancer... can they? If they could cure cancer they would loose billions of dollars as the profit is much better trying to manage any disease as a chronic condition instead of curing it. Stop and think about it .The drug companies control alot of things and the government and FDA support them and back them and we tend to put blind faith in them.

If I discovered that eating red and yellow M&M's together cured cancer and cured hundreds of people you can bet the drug companies would see to it that the FDA and government call me a quack and ran me out of town.This happens alot to alternative treatments because who would suffer if what I discovered was true.... THE DRUG COMPANIES! Wake up people Money is what matters most as there would be a huge trickle down effect.. think about it.

My mom is on her 4th line of cancer treatment...will the chemo cure her.NO but it has bought her time. The drug Tarceva ( biological drug ) has bought her the most and when it quit working we asked about the similar drug that was out first Irressa. Irressa was removed from the market as they claimed it really did not work! Yet I have met people that had taken it and been stable or in some cases cancer free for 3 -4 years. What really happened was not enough people benefitted from it so the drug comapny did not make all the money they felt intitled too so they did more clinical trials that showed it did not work so they could pull it from the market.

If they had tested the people for those that show potential for responding and put only those people in the study the results would have been great but they wanted to show the opposite so they could remove the drug from the market so they gave it to people they knew would not respond as it really is a small percentage that do respond to it.The end results are screw those that were taking it and seeing results. Clinical trials can be stacked to see the results they want as the whole drug testing system is a bit screwed up.

Can alternative treatments cure cancer it probably depends on which ones you are talking about but I feel in some cases it can do as well as chemo in holding it off. We asked my mom's oncologist about Vitamin C or Ozone theraphy and he laughed and said," NO NO NO those could make you sick, could kill you and probably will not work" My reply was "oh you mean they are just like Chemo!" As chemo does those things too!

Without building up our immune system we will not cure many cancers as that is the secret I think.Given the right stuff our bodies can cure alot of disease but instead we destroy the immune system thus removing that ability for our body. The human body is an amazing thing too bad we threw away the owners manuel for the drug campanies profit! Ok enough venting for me but the blind faith people put in FDA approved drugs makes me nuts!

bellsudev · 07-29-2006, 01:24 AM

My daughter-inlaws mother had mouth cancer, had to have most of her tongue removed and a flap of skin was used as a replacement, when the doctor told them that she would have to have chemo, her husband asked if they could guarantee that it would work, the doctor at University of Minnesota, said he couldn't, as science really doesn't know if chemo works or not, but he recommended doing it anyway.