The Antineoplastons, developed in the 1970s, were another immunologic treatment for cancer which threatened (and threatens) to cut into the $50 billion/year cancer chemotherapy business. The clash between their discoverer, Stanislaw Burzynski, and the cancer establishment also deserves qualification as a paradigm dispute because he hypothesized the presence of a secondary or subsidiary immune system-a major challenge to immunologic theory. Chemotherapy in different patients with similar histology and staging of cancer can vary widely. Some patients, even with an advanced stage of cancer, respond beautifully to treatments and are in remission for long periods, while others even with early stages of cancer go downhill, slowly or rapidly, no matter what you do. Statistically we can predict prognosis and quote percentage survival rates based upon a large number of patients but this may not apply to an individual cancer patient, who is either cured of cancer or dies due to cancer. We always try to explain away this differential progress of cancer by terms like "Biological Behaviour", "Aggressiveness of Cancer", "Host Factor", "Immunity" etc. Genetic research has identified some cancer genes in every cell, termed as oncogenes, but what turns them "on" and what turns them "off" is not yet clearly known, in spite of a plethora of theories and hypotheses.
Radiation therapy includes surface therapy [skin tumours, obstinate skin complaints] and depth therapy [tumours]. In addition to X-rays, radiotherapy also uses cobalt and cesium.
Lead is used as protection against X-rays, which are lethal for cells, particularly cells that divide quickly, such as cancer cells, but also cells that produce blood [bone marrow], intestinal epithelium cells, and sex cells. A side-effect of exposure of the upper half of the abdomen is so-called X-ray sickness: nausea, vomiting, anorexia, weakness, dizziness, mostly vague complaints that arise some hours after intensive exposure. A barely visible redness can also appear on the skin a few hours after exposure. After one or two weeks, a persistent erythema occurs. Larger doses give rise to dermatitis with swelling, oedema and blisters and finally serious tissue destruction with the formation of an X-ray ulcer. The clinical symptoms are hair loss, cessation of sweat and sebaceous fluid, teleangiectasia, pigmentation, ulceration, atrophy, and fibrosis with great sensitivity to infection and slow healing of wounds. Furthermore, blood and blood-producing tissue can be damaged [leukopenia, anaemia], as well as the sexual organs [sterility], the skeleton [cessation of growth, degeneration] and lungs [obstinate dry cough].
"A profound remedy whose isopathic value for complaints secondary to old x-radiation would alone make it one of our valuable remedies in this day of frequent x-radiation therapy. However, in addition to this isopathic use, X-ray has a wide spectra of unusual homoeopathic symptoms. X-ray appears to operate at the formative level within the human being, both psychologically and physiologically. The primitive, inchoate basis if life itself is affected." [Stephenson] In medicine, iridium is used for cancer radiation therapy.
"Co-59 is the only naturally-occurring cobalt isotope. Other isotopes, all of them radioactive, have been artificially produced. Among these, Co-60, which is normally produced by irradiating Co-59 with neutrons in an atomic reactor, is especially important. Natural cobalt is often added to hydrogen bombs; upon explosion, many neutrons are liberated, which convert the cobalt to Co-60, causing a considerable increase in the total amount of radioactive fallout. Co-60 is also used in cancer research and as a source of X rays for radiation therapy." [Grolier]
radiation therapy side effects are hair loss,neuralgia,nausea,vomiting etc.
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