I have gotten liver cancer in 2 months before diagnosing. I want to use herbal treatment for treatment. Is there a site providing herbal liver cancer treatment?
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I would discuss this with your doctor before you do any such thing. It could be very dangerous using nonFDA approved products
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There is no known reliable website that will provide the information that you seek. There are however plenty of websites that are able and willing to take your money. I have personally known many people who have 'tried out' herbal treatments for cancer (we keep an extensive database for a rare type of cancer). . and all have experience progression of disease or have passed away. Every one of them. One young man decided to have no chemo treatment at all but did have one small tumor removed. He concentrated fully on alt med and diet, sought out the advice of a naturopathic .. did everything natural (it cost him a small fortune . . about 2 or 3 thousand dollars a month) . . he tried this for over six months and a few weeks ago discovered that his cancer had not only returned but had spread throughout his body. He is now a stage IV. I truly wish that there were alternatives that worked . . just think how much easier treating diseases like cancer would be! But it is all just wishful thinking . . . you can try it . . but do so with the understanding that cancer is a progressive disease . . it won't let you make mistakes. If this is the wrong decision for you than the cancer will spread and there will be little left to stop it. Cancer is deadly and deceptive. Cancer rarely has symptoms until it is very advanced . . and by than it is too late. Many people believe after using alternative meds that they feel great so the herbals must be working . . what they don't realize is that if they took nothing at all and only ate pizza they would feel exactly the same. Cancer is very, very deceptive. There are some reports that herbals can intefere with treatments and may actually encourage the growth and spead of cancer. As long as you are aware that there are no reliable research into safety of the products you will use, no known dosages (how much to take in order to be effective and for how long to take it - and that it can cost a small fortune to keep purchasing these products . . ) Well . . good luck. Incidentally, in order to determine if any cancer treatment is working or not . .tumors can be measured using CT or PET. If you decide to try herbals you should make sure you have a CT to measure the progress or lack of progress in your disease. If the cancer continues to grow within six weeks of using the herbals than it is probably not working.
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Cancer develops because, for some reason, the cells start to multiply so fast that they form a tumor and keep growing in number. Cancer can be slow growing or very fast growing and aggressive. Cancer can develop in one area and break off and go to other organs also. That means if it is in the lungs, it can go to the liver, or develop in the liver and go to the bones. These cancer cells push on the other healthy cells in the liver and can cut off their blood supply which gives them nourishment and oxygen. These cells will die and form scar tissue inside the liver. The professionals have found out that they need certain drugs directed right at the tumor to try and destroy it, or try to cut off the blood supply to it, or try to destroy the cells as much as possible that continue to multiply. There is a new development known as Gamma knife where the radiation goes directly to the tumor and not the surrounding tissues. Which helps keep the patients from having so many side effects that normally would occur just radiating the whole body. http://radonc.yale.edu/clinical/radiosurgery.html There is a new surgical instrument that they can use to take tumors out of the body that is ultrasonic and will remove the tissues and leave the blood vessel and nerves alone known as Cusa: (this site is talking about using it for women, but it is also used for liver tumors) http://www.ump.com/articles/cusa/CUSA.htm This instrument help stop from having blood transfusions used during this time. There is also an instrument that is used known as Tissue Link that uses hot water that will gently close these vessels in the liver. I don't have a link for that. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. is where I know that they have used these instruments. (http://www.jeffersonhospital.org I know it is tempting to use herbal medications...but these medications can interact with medications the doctor may be giving you...they can also cause more damage when you are not sure which one to use and the amount. All medications goes through the liver to be processed. There are many drugs on the market that can harm the liver very easily when taken with other things...like over the counter pain med and alcohol together. Using herbs that have not been tested to see how the liver handles them, can cause more damage...most herbs have not been tested and the few that have been have been found out to be a great problem The liver, once it is damage, lacks in its ability to process drugs and the dosage has to be adjusted per patient and how bad the damage is. You will be taking a risk in doing this. If you really think about this...the herbs you will be taking is going to be processed through your digestive system and has to be absorbed into the body through the liver, which is not as good as if the medication is directed straight at the tumor itself. I hope you will reconsider and, if you do take anything, have it cleared to be okay to do so by your doctor. Sorry to hear you are going through this all.
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