I am sorry Ray but this really is rubbish.
I happen to be a physician so I do know what I am talking about.
If you are not already aware Jeremy, in a former life, was a neurosurgical trainee before changing careers to law.
There are no "conspiracy theories" where good therapy for "cancer" is wilfully withheld by the medical profession.
If the management you suggest worked it would be implemented by the medical profession.
Tony,
I'm not into conspiracy theories. My statements are based upon reports I've read of scientific research on the subject. If you google the internet on the subject, as well as Google Scholar, you should find dozens of references to university-based research.
Perhaps you could do all these research establishments a favour by contacting them and advising them that they are wasting their time and money investigating the matter because you, being a physician, know that it's all rubbish.
Unfortunately, most of the research so far has concentrated on rats and mice in a laboratory. It's difficult to put humans in a completely controlled environment for a significant period of time, and it's also very expensive.
I can appreciate that any recommendation of serious fasting as a treatment for
any condition is going to be hugely problematic because people enjoy eating so much.
Another facet of the problem is that it is not possible (logically) for fasting to be implemented by the medical profession. It could only be
recommended by the medical profession, but would have to be
implemented by the patient. In other words, it would be a
self-treatment, and that raises other obvious problems of an ethical nature.
The reality is that most people simply do not have the will-power to fast seriously for several days at a time without eating anything at all. They tend to cheat on themselves. They tend to kid themselves along the lines, "Well, I haven't eaten anything for 2 days, so one or two tasty hamburgers, or this healthy 'smoothy' drink of fruit and vegetables, shouldn't do me any harm", and so on. Self-reporting is notoriously unreliable.
There could also be a problem that certain people with pre-existing medical conditions who are dependent upon certain types of medication might suffer harm from the practice of fasting.
Here's a general article that covers the issue quite well.
http://www.canceractive.com/cancer-active-page-link.aspx?n=3408and here's an extract:
"Leading cancer centres and experts such as Dr Valter Longo of University of Southern California, Professor Thomas Seyfried of Boston, Dr Dominic D´Agostino, Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, University of South Florida, and the Max-Plank Institute show that fasting can play an important therapeutic role in the treatment of cancer."
You might also find the following report of a new study on the matter, interesting.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/778613"For the first time ever, a randomized controlled trial that uses calorie restriction as a treatment for cancer — and measures a cancer-related outcome — was approved by the institutional review board at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and is on its way to the clinic.
In the entire field of cancer research, there have only been a handful of studies of calorie restriction as a cancer treatment," Stephen Freedland, MD, from Duke, told Medscape Medical News. But none of them were randomized clinical trials."I think this trial began in 2013, so it's too late, Tony, for you to contact them to advise them they are wasting their time.
Now, to end this post I think it only fair that I should declare any personal or professional financial interests which could skew my opinion on this matter and result in a biased outlook.
I don't have any.
