Liver Cancer Prognosis - Treatment

Can your liver cancer prognosis be improved? Karon Beattie, a cancer survivor, has compiled a cancer treatment reference book detailing over 350 alternative cancer treatments that have been used by thousands of people who beat cancer. Although liver cancer is not highly responsive to conventional cancer treatments, Beattie gives numerous accounts of people surviving liver cancer by alternative treatments. She states that these treatments are not covered by the FDA and usually not patentable by drug companies, resulting in poor knowledge among doctors.

Specifically in relation to liver cancer, Beattie's book, "Natural Cancer Treatments That Work", describes a treatment that heats tumors without damaging surrounding tissue. She cites survival rates of 78.1% at four years after diagnosis of liver cancer with cirrhosis of the liver, for patients who had failed to respond to chemotherapy and radiation. This seems an astonishing outcome for a cancer given a poor prognosis by oncologists.

Beattie goes on to detail a Stanford University study that found a common antibiotic was successful in eliminating liver cancer. In 2004, Stanford scientists were able to "turn off" a cancer-causing gene in mice suffering liver cancer, turning cancer cells back to normal. In addtion, the author provides 104 first-hand accounts of people who beat liver cancer using natural and alternative treatments. If stories like this are true, why are they not a standard treatment for liver and other cancers?

According to Beattie, the creators of the gentle and non-toxic treatments detailed in her book, are respected Nobel Prize winners, doctors, biochemists, scientists and Ph.D.'s pre-eminent in their fields. She believes that many doctors may not be aware of these treatments because they can only prescribe, and indeed are trained to prescribe treatments that are regulated by the FDA. Many of the alternative treatments she lists involve herbs and vitamins that are outside the jurisdiction of the FDA.

Cancer sufferers and their loved ones will find these compelling accounts hard to ignore in their quest to survive cancer and reclaim their lives.