Are There Safer Ways of Killing Cancer Cells?
Conventional oncology largely uses chemotherapy to destroy cancer cells. There can be no doubt that chemotherapy works, and that in every cancer case, cancer cells need destroying. Chemotherapy is backed by high quality clinical trials and has been studied extensively for nearly 40 years. Practically every known solid tumour has a solid evidence base and the oncologist will be able to give you a pretty accurate percentage success rate for any particular treatment regime, in any particular solid cancer. However, clearly, chemotherapy has a downside as it is a highly toxic treatment and in many patients is poorly tolerated. There are studies in conventional oncology literature implying that a significant number of patients can die of chemotherapy, as opposed to the cancer. A play on BBC2, called WIT, enacted a harrowing story about an English Professor dying of cancer. The heroine was brilliantly acted by Emma Thompson.
