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Posted by: richard	Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:04:58 GMT
A cancer specialist is warning people with cancer off being "exploited by alternative therapists" inthe latest British Medical Journal. His article outlined below stops short of saying; when the biomedical model says there is no hope, take it like a man! My mother died of cancer 15 years ago. Over a period of seven years and many operations most of her intestine was removed, right up to her death she maintained her profile on Irish TV and radio in her fight for social justice dying happy just four hours after it was announced Nelson Mandela was to be released. Hope is what kept her going the last two years of her life, when she was told the cancer was terminal and she did not have long to live. An event that transformed her battle with cancer was a week spent at the Bristol Cancer Centre. This centre came in for criticism a few years ago because research showed their success was much less than the NHS. Researchers forgetting people who go to Bristol have been told there is no hope by the NHS. Bristol gave my mother the hope that she could still live her dreams and she did. A patient of mine was recently told the chemo had not worked and after 2 years medical treatment there was little more the doctors could do, she canceled her next chiropractic appointment through her husband. I asked her husband to ask her to come in for a chat I told her about my mother and Bristol and reminded her about chiropractic not being simply a treatment for her back pain it has improved the quality of her life. This is an intelligent woman, she is not under the impression chiropractic cures cancer. She does know that chiropractic has helped her in the past and she has nothing to loose by going to Bristol and continuing chiropractic care. When I saw her again three days later she was transformed. Had booked her week in Bristol and was up beat again. There are those who would say I am not being scientific or following the "best evidence" They may say its palcebo, surely "placebo" is the body doing what it is supposed to do, heal and regulate itself. Thats our philosophy for healthy children.
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