• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Rethinking CAncer

Alternative Cancer Therapies

Header Right

Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy
Non-Toxic Biological Approaches to the Theories, Treatments and Prevention of Cancer
2023
Our 52nd Year
  • Resources
    • Articles
      • A Different Concept of Health and Disease
      • Balanced Diet
      • Food as Medicine
      • Detoxification
      • Emotional Healing
      • Understanding Body Function
      • Adjunctive Therapies
      • Miscellany
      • Long-Term Recovery: Case Histories
    • Cancer Forum Magazines
    • Audio Presentations
    • Video Presentations
    • Bioprepair & Cancer FAQ
    • Recipes
      • Drinks & Shakes
      • Breakfast Ideas
      • Hors d’Oevres
      • Soups
      • Dressings, Sauces & Dips
      • Salads
      • Entrees
      • Vegetable Side Dishes
      • Desserts & Snacks
      • Miscellaneous
    • Book Reviews
    • Recommended Reading
    • Research Studies
    • Books
  • News
    • Foods of the Week
    • Spice of the Month
    • Rethinking Cancer Newsletters
  • Film
    • The Bio-Repair Patients
    • The Physicians
    • Filmmakers
    • Rethinking Cancer Film Credits
  • Practitioner Directory
  • About Us
    • About Biorepair
    • About FACT
    • About Ruth Sackman
  • Donate
  • Search
  • Shop
  • Cart
  • Resources
    • Articles
      • A Different Concept of Health and Disease
      • Balanced Diet
      • Food as Medicine
      • Detoxification
      • Emotional Healing
      • Understanding Body Function
      • Adjunctive Therapies
      • Miscellany
      • Long-Term Recovery: Case Histories
    • Cancer Forum Magazines
    • Audio Presentations
    • Video Presentations
    • Bioprepair & Cancer FAQ
    • Recipes
      • Drinks & Shakes
      • Breakfast Ideas
      • Hors d’Oevres
      • Soups
      • Dressings, Sauces & Dips
      • Salads
      • Entrees
      • Vegetable Side Dishes
      • Desserts & Snacks
      • Miscellaneous
    • Book Reviews
    • Recommended Reading
    • Research Studies
    • Books
  • News
    • Foods of the Week
    • Spice of the Month
    • Rethinking Cancer Newsletters
  • Film
    • The Bio-Repair Patients
    • The Physicians
    • Filmmakers
    • Rethinking Cancer Film Credits
  • Practitioner Directory
  • About Us
    • About Biorepair
    • About FACT
    • About Ruth Sackman
  • Donate
  • Search
  • Shop
  • Cart
Alternative Cancer Therapy

Lung Cancer Treatment
May Hurt Instead of HelpBy The Associated Press

May 7, 2020 //  by RethinkingCancer//  Leave a Comment

The common practice of exposing lung cancer patients to radiation therapy after surgery may do more harm than good and should not be used routinely, a study has found.

Many lung cancer patients undergo radiation therapy after surgery to treat any remaining cancer cells. But the results of previous studies examining the effectiveness of the treatment have been contradictory or inconclusive.

In the largest study of its kind, an international team of researchers combined information gathered over the past 30 years in nine studies involving 2,128 lung cancer patients worldwide.

Patients who had been treated with radiation therapy after surgery were 21 percent more likely to die than those who only had surgery, according to the study published today in The Lancet, a British medical journal. Researchers are unsure why.

About 900,000 people worldwide are diagnosed with lung cancer every year, according to the World Health Organization.

Dr. Gordon McVie, director general at the Cancer Research Campaign in London and a lung cancer specialist who was not part of the study, said the research was authoritative and important.

“It should be compuLsory reading for chief executives of hospitals. In many parts, this is routine treatment. It has been assumed that it was a good idea,” he said. “I was unsurprised that radiotherapy didn’t prolong survival, but what I’m really concerned about is that it could actually do harm. There is a very clear message here.”

The patients in the study had non-small-cell lung cancer, which accounts for 80 percent of lung cancer cases. A total of 1,056 had surgery and radiotherapy while 1,072 had surgery alone.

The detrimental effect wa.s worst in patients in the early stages of the disease, the study said.

In those with more advanced but still operable lung cancer, the study said radiation therapy did not seem to cause harm although it also did not appear to help.

Researchers concluded that radiation therapy should not be given routinely to patients in the early stage of non-small-cell lung cancer and that its role in the treatment of more advanced stages of the disease “is not clear and may warrant further research.”

The Associated Press, reprinted from Newsday, July 24, 1998

Category: 16_1-2

Previous Post: « History of MedicineBy William Howard Hay, M.D.
Next Post: Immunization – An “Adverse Event”By Beth Topp »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Watch Our Movie

Rethinking Cancer The Movie

Newsletter Sign-up

Amazon Smile Rethinking CAncer

E-book Editions

detoxification

Available to buy on:
Amazon | iTunes | B&N

triumph over cancer

Amazon | iTunes | B&N

healing cancer

Amazon | iTunes |
B&N

Featured Posts

  • Being Smart With Your Smart Phone
  • Bentonite Clay — The Gentle Cleanse
  • A Really Good Brownie
  • Rethinking Cancer Newsletter #78
  • Healthy Ginger Snaps Recipe

Footer

F.A.C.T.

Established in 1971, the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (FACT) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization that supports non-toxic, biologically sound alternative cancer therapies. FACT is the creator of the documentary film Rethinking Cancer and rethinkingcancer.org.

Contact Us

FACT
PO Box 1242
Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10113

info@rethinkingcancer.org.

twitter facebook youtube

Amazon Smile Rethinking CAncer

Menu

  • Alternate cancer therapy Resources
  • News
  • Film
  • Alternative Cancer Therapy Practitioner Directory
  • About FACT
  • Donate to Rethinking Cancer

Copyright © 2023 Rethinking Cancer - Alternative Cancer Therapies · All Rights Reserved · Web Design by Conceptstore.co.uk