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There are several factors regarding cancer treatment
regimens conspiring to create a catch-22 situation, preventing the
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My heart is always cheered when I read research
investigating the mode of anti-cancer action of a natural substance so
was very interested in the research update by Shitaba et al
from Osaka Health Science University, Osaka Japan regarding the
antitumour growth and antimetastatic activities of alpha-mangostin, from
the mangosteen fruit, which has a long history of medicinal use in
Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine.
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As we are poised on the brink of moving into the new year 2013, this Issue 202 of Positive Health
PH Online similarly bridges many of the gaps which certain forces
believe to separate complementary / alternative medicine from
conventional / orthodox healthcare. As long time, devoted readers of PH
Online realize, I do not subscribe to the notion that various techniques
/ disciplines of healthcare constitute separate worldviews of medicine.
I have long been an advocate of the vision that healthcare is
multi-faceted and that there are a multitude of various disciplines and
techniques, practised by different practitioners. Hence, I don’t see the
sense of considering that osteopathic practitioners are alternative,
but that physiotherapists are conventional, or that nutritionists are
alternative but dieticians are orthodox.
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Positive Health PH Online readers appreciate
how, in healthcare as in all other endeavours, our treatment approaches
are influenced by our worldview - our education, training, beliefs, i.e.
how we perceive and understand illness and how to optimize health.
Evidently, how we have been brought up, how we view the world, what type
of training and profession we have followed, will all ‘colour’ our
worldview. This also extends to our every domain - politics, religion,
economics, architecture, entertainment. Army generals generally see
events on the ground differently than politicians or religious leaders
or the people affected. These are self-evident truths. |
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What a world we live in today, being inundated, even
assaulted with endless scandals of sexual impropriety by politicians,
priests and popular media figures. As if it is not enough to be assailed
nightly by bad economic forecasts, pointless murders and killings at
home and abroad, and the hideous, shocking wars being played out across
so many corners of the globe.
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No matter how many years I have been Editor of Positive Health
PH Online - about 19 years and 201 issues - there is nothing that
brings home more clearly the stark reality of illness, particularly
cancer, than when people I know and have been helping to locate research
or physicians, inform me that their or their loved one’s prognosis is
now ‘terminal’.
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Integrated Cancer Treatment today is a total misnomer.
Physicians are prevented from proposing or administering any treatments
other than surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy in view of the
stranglehold of the 1939 Cancer Act, and in a de facto catch-22
situation, because these are the only treatments acknowledged and
recognized by the medical profession and the law, these same treatments
are the only approaches for which evidence is recognized. |
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Welcome to 2013 and the Feb Issue 203 of Positive Health PH Online - our 19th year of publication!! www.positivehealth.com/issue/issue-203-february-2013
I say this every issue that there are a selection of
superb and thought-provoking editorial features which are highly
original and informative. However it is true for Feb Issue 203 and you
should require no further prompting to immerse yourself in these pearls
of wisdom:
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It seems unbelievable that here we are with Issue 200 of
Positive Health PH Online. The launch of PH was inspired by a
suggestion from my partner and co-director Mike Howell while I was
building the Cancer and Nutrition database for the Bristol Cancer Help
Centre in 1993.
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