‘You Don’t Need a Mastectomy or Chemotherapy’: Excerpts from Natural News and the tale of a cancer survivor

“SHE’LL have empowered millions of women all over world. She is sexier than ever.”

The quote is by one Sharon Osborne, famous celebrity, pertaining to another famous celebrity, a household name, a sex icon: Angelina Jolie.

Jolie revealed in a New York Times op-ed that she had her breasts removed—a mastectomy. The actress was diagnosed with the “breast cancer gene.” There was up to 87 percent likelihood that Jolie would get breast cancer, said the doctors.

With the risks sky-high, Jolie went under the knife for preventive measures. Jolie wrote:

“I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.”

Following the revelation, Hollywood, the world—everyone sang praises. It was a courageous decision, no doubt (no one contested that)—and more so to put it out in public.

“This absolutely blew my mind. Angelina Jolie speaking out about a difficult decision that will inform + empower others,” said Nina Dobrev from hit teen show “The Vampire Diaries”.

On the other side of the equation, however, journalist Mike Adams wrote on www.naturalnews.com that Jolie was “duped by cancer doctors into self mutilation for breast cancer she never had.”

“Angelina Jolie was lied to. She didn’t have an 87 percent risk of breast cancer in the first place. All the women reading her NYT op-ed piece are also being lied to,” said Adams on his essay.

“The very idea that breast cancer is a ‘percent risk’ is a complete lie. In reality, everyone has cancer micro-tumors in their bodies, including myself. Cancer is not a disease you just ‘get’ like being randomly struck by lightning. It’s something you must ‘manage’ or ‘prevent’ day by day, meal by meal, through a lifestyle choice.”

“Even Jolie with her BRCA1 gene that’s linked to breast cancer can quite easily follow a dietary and lifestyle plan that suppresses BRCA1 gene expression . . . It can be done with simple foods that cost a few dollars a day. Those foods include raw citrus, resveratrol (red grapes or red wine), raw cruciferous vegetables, omega-3 oils and much more.”

In the rather lengthy essay, Adams concludes with the following summary:

• The claim that you have a “percent risk” of breast cancer is a big lie which implies you have no control over cancer.
• BRCA1 genes can be kept quiet (suppressed) through proper foods and lifestyle choices. A gene is not a death sentence.
• The implication that there is only ONE way to reduce breast cancer risk is a complete lie. There are thousands of options and strategies for preventing cancer. Never be cornered into surgery by a group of surgeons pushing irrational fear.
• Cancer micro-tumors exist in everyone. Cancer must be “managed” in everyone to keep it in check and avoid the growth of tumors.
• The cancer industry tricks women using unethical fear tactics to scare women with false statistics into high-profit cancer procedures that only cause them harm.
• The claim that cutting off healthy breasts somehow “empowers” women is sick and demented. Women are far more empowered by honest information on nutrition and healthy living that allows them to keep their bodies intact rather than being sliced up by dishonest cancer surgeons.

Nancy, a Filipina nurse, blogged about how her mother beat cancer without chemotherapy on nancysniche.wordpress.com:

“Mama was 60 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, stage IV.  She was irradiated only twice, had no chemotherapy whatsoever, but she lived for another 27 years,” Nancy wrote—the surgeon had told them that “he couldn’t give her a year, or a month.”

Nancy’s parents were both physicians, and she herself was a nurse (“an Oncological Nurse-Intern at the James Ewing Hospital of the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York City in the mid-1960s”). They knew the damage that chemo and radiation inflict on the body. Instead of taking that route, the family opted for day-by-day healthy living. They followed the advice in “World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17” by G. Edward Griffin: “…avoid excessive damage or stress to the body, minimize foods that pre-empt the pancreatic enzymes for their digestion, and maintain a diet rich in all minerals and vitamins—especially vitamin B17.”

Nancy and siblings took over the family’s farm to reduce their parents’ workload and stress. They switch to a vegetarian lifestyle with organic fruits and vegetables (“Absolutely NO animal protein”). Her mother took Amygdalin, which “destroys cancer cells without damaging other body tissues,” pancreatic enzymes (with chymotrypsin, given her mother’s age) to induce enzymes that “also prevent and destroy cancer”; and a selection of multivitamins and minerals, including Vitamin E and C. The author wrote:

“Except for a benign cyst found and excised from just above her collar bone a year after her mastectomy, my mother’s battle with the dreaded metastasis was quite successful.  The crucial factor . . . was that her healthy cells had not been damaged by the two exposures to radiation.  And because she had no chemotherapy whatsoever, Mama never experienced the rigors of nausea and vomiting, or the angst over losing her hair; best of all, she never lost her appetite.”

27 more years: “In her memory, and in memory of the war she won against cancer, I speak up, every chance I get, on the merits of Vit B17 and the pancreatic enzymes,” the author concludes.

Mastectomy, chemotherapy—in the end, and whatever the case, it seems best that women are informed of more options, especially in the context of the Philippines, where top health professionals pack their bags for bigger paychecks abroad; and where mastectomy and breast reconstruction are affordable only to those with pockets as deep as a Hollywood star’s.

More:

“My Medical Choice” by Angelina Jolie: www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html

“How Angelina Jolie was duped by cancer doctors into self mutilation for breast cancer she never had” by Mike Adams:  www.naturalnews.com/040349_Angelina_Jolie_breast_cancer_surgery.html

“My Mother Survived Cancer Without Chemotherapy”: nancysniche.wordpress.com/my-mother-survived-cancer-without-chemotherapy/