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A British cancer patient was given ‘unnecessary’ chemotherapy for more than 14 years, UK hospital officials have admitted. Lawyers representing the man say they are aware of at least 12 other patients who have had similar experiences and that these may be just the “tip of the iceberg.” Meantime, the BBC and other mainstream/legacy media outlets carrying the story make no mention of the fact that science-based natural approaches to cancer have been shown to be both effective and safe. In doing so, these outlets perpetuate the lie that chemotherapy is a ‘necessary’ treatment for the disease.
The man was initially treated for a cancerous brain tumor. According to UK National Health Service (NHS) guidelines, the chemotherapy drug he received, temozolomide, should not be used for longer than six months. Lawyers handling the case say prolonged exposure to temozolomide increases the risk of secondary cancer and chronic liver disease, as well as reinforcing the psychological fear of death. As is common following chemotherapy treatments, the man reports experiencing symptoms including fatigue, joint pain, gastrointestinal distress, recurrent mouth ulcers, and nausea.
The case apparently came to light after the patient’s original hospital consultant retired. The new consultant who took over his care discovered that the four-week chemotherapy cycles he had been receiving were ‘unnecessary.’ Ian Hardy, chief executive of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, the hospital group responsible, has reportedly admitted that the man’s treatment “was not evidence-based.”
The man’s lawyers say the prolonged chemotherapy treatment has had a devastating impact on him and that it has taken a significant toll on his health, wellbeing, and quality of life. They also say they are aware of at least a dozen other patients affected in a similar way and that this is likely to be just the tip of the iceberg, with many more lives adversely impacted.
In carrying this story, the subtle message conveyed by the mainstream/legacy media is that if used ‘correctly,’ chemotherapy is a ‘necessary’ treatment for cancer. Such reporting makes no mention of the fact that science-based natural approaches to cancer now exist that have been shown to be both effective and safe.
In a study published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America in September 2005, scientists at the National Institutes of Health showed that vitamin C selectively kills cancer cells. In this respect, their work essentially confirmed the discoveries of Dr. Rath and his research team who, over three years earlier, had presented their findings at the 19th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference in Florida and published details of the scientific breakthrough in the ‘USA Today’ newspaper.
Subsequently, in 2006, the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association followed up on this research direction when it published details of two cancer patients who had been cured using intravenous vitamin C and nutritional supplements. A third cancer patient who had followed a similar treatment regimen lived for seven years from diagnosis, remaining mostly cancer-free throughout this time despite being a long-standing cigarette smoker.
In recent years, with a growing number of studies recognizing that high-dose vitamin C is a promising agent in the treatment of cancer, there has been increasing interest in combining it with chemotherapy. Reflecting this, an article published by the government-funded United States National Cancer Institute in January 2020 evaluated high-dose vitamin C therapy and concluded that “given the current high financial cost of new cancer drugs, it seems rational to improve the effectiveness of current therapies by studying their clinical interactions with vitamin C.” The authors predicted that “the implementation of this treatment paradigm could provide benefit to many cancer patients.”
Since then, a randomized clinical trial published in October 2024 has found that adding high-dose, intravenous vitamin C to chemotherapy doubles the overall survival of patients with late-stage metastatic pancreatic cancer from 8 to 16 months. The publishing of further, similar studies in the years ahead seems inevitable.
Using high-dose vitamin C alongside conventional cancer treatments will ultimately only be a stepping-stone, however. Dr. Rath’s scientific approach to cancer is based on a patented combination of nutrients that has been successfully tested against more than 55 different types of cancer cells. Cutting-edge studies carried out at the Dr. Rath Research Institute have demonstrated that these nutrients are able to inhibit cancer cell invasion and metastasis, cancer cell multiplication and tumor growth, the formation of new blood vessels to feed tumors (angiogenesis), as well as induce the natural death of cancer cells (apoptosis). Effectively blocking even one of these key mechanisms can be sufficient to control cancer.
Ultimately, the effectiveness and safety of nutrient-based approaches to cancer demonstrate that chemotherapy is not simply unnecessary, it is also outdated. With growing numbers of patients now understanding this, it is no longer a matter of whether an end will eventually be brought to the use of toxic drugs in cancer, but when. Clearly, the mainstream/legacy media cannot be trusted on matters related to health until it tells the truth about this.