Cancer Treatment Reviews

Hair-loss often occurs as a side effect due to cancer and its treatment. They can be quite emotionally distressing and lose your self-esteem. By proper understanding and preparation, this can be conquered and tolerated.

Hair-loss occurs when hair falls out from the follicles that are present in the pores of skin. Usually when they fall off new ones are replaced in its place. If any sort of damage happens to the follicles, then hair growth can be stopped either temporarily or permanently. Usually cancer does not lead to follicle damage or hair loss. Its treatments often lead to hair loss.

The cancer treatments that lead to hair-loss are chemotherapy and radiations. In chemotherapy, very powerful and strong drugs are heavily pumped into the body to act against the cancer cells. These drugs have many side effects. They lead to the destruction of healthy hair cells and follicles. In radiation treatment, high energy rays are used to destroy the cancer cells, by focusing the rays upon them. It causes hair loss when the rays are used for the treatment of cancer cells on the scalp of head or the follicles.

The amount of hair lost due to these treatments can vary from person to person. It depends upon the intensity of treatment. In certain cases hair loss is a sudden reaction while in certain others it’ll take time. In some cases hair from both the head and scalp is lost. In some other cases, hair of the head might be lost completely while in some other cases can be in patches. In chemotherapy hair loss begins after 2-3 weeks of the commencement of treatment. In radiation treatment, hair loss begins after the 1st treatment itself. Continue Reading

Essiac Tea is a herbal based preparation that has been promoted as a cure against cancer. Most of essiac tea reviews received in respect of the product have received a reasonable amount of definiteness, and hence a generic line of products having the name of essiac tea are being marketed in various places under various names and prices.

Essiac tea as formulated and used by Rene Essiac as a cure for Cancer for over 60 years and during her life time, she has been using essiac tea preparations to remove the side effects of the Cancer treatment and later on, it was used for the treatment of cancer itself.

Various Essiac tea reviews received later when the essiac tea was manufactured as a commercial product, and marketed as an alternative medicine for Cancer has not found favor with the clinical tests that were conducted on pure scientific considerations. But, the original recipe used by Rene Cassie was used by her in her clinic for more than 60 years and during all these time she has been using the same formula to treat the cancer patients.

Essiac Tea as used by Rene was subjected to favorable essiac tea reviews and some of her patients reported that her esssiac tea preparation had cured them miraculously of cancer. But, at the same time, some other essiac tea reviews stated that though their cancer was not fully cured by the essiac tea, the pain and agony due to the cancer was relieved and their life was made bearable only due to the use of Essiac tea. Continue Reading

Can your brain cancer prognosis be improved? Oncologists consider brain cancer to be one of the deadliest cancers, but Karon Beattie, a cancer survivor, has compiled a reference book containing in excess of 350 alternative cancer treatments that thousands of cancer patients have used to overcome their condition, including brain cancer.

Beattie gives accounts of people surviving brain cancer by natural treatments. She states that these treatments are not within the FDA’s jurisdiction, resulting in low awareness among doctors.

In one example, Beattie reports that some physicians have used a nutritional supplement to achieve complete remission of aggressive, stage IV cancers that had metastasized.

Specifically in regard to brain cancer, her book, “Natural Cancer Treatments That Work”, describes how a British doctor successfully treated a Grade 4 brain tumor with a herbal mixture. The patient is alive two years later, long after oncologists had predicted.

Beattie also details a patient whose brain tumor vanished completely after taking a combination of nutritional supplements known to stop the spread of cancer cells, preventing metastasis. This seems an astonishing outcome for a cancer given a poor prognosis by oncologists.

Further, Beattie gives 131 first-hand accounts of people who beat brain and spinal cord cancers using alternative and natural treatments. If stories like these are factual, why are the treatments not used more widely for brain and other cancers?

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