Cancer
5 Dangerous Cancer Myths
1. You are going to die.
Yes, we’re all going to die. But no doctor can tell you when you’re going to die unless you give him permission. In this case, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People routinely (but subconsciously) “obey” their doctors and die right on schedule because they put their faith in doctors instead of in God. If you don’t think it’s your time to go, get thoughts of death out of your head and start focusing on building health. You have options. Many options, in fact. One person who survives a deadly end-stage cancer disproves the “rule” that everyone has to die from it. Fortunately, the survivors group is getting larger and larger as people discover more tools for improving health.
2. This is God’s will for you.
God allows suffering, it is true. But think about it: Cancer was all but nonexistent throughout human history until the 1600s, when chimney sweeps started getting it from the toxins they inhaled day after day. God didn’t suddenly decide He needed to kill people off with a horrible disease in modern times, nor that the incidence needed to accelerate in the last forty years. He didn’t create the toxic environment that is damaging our cells and weakening our immune systems. Industrialization did this. And each of us can take steps today to lessen the impacts of stress, toxins, and infections on our health.
3. You have to take action now if you want a chance of living.
Cancer is only an emergency if a tumor is about to close off a blood vessel or other important tube, smash or eat through tissue you need in order to function (like nerves), or otherwise cause rapid loss of life or organ. In the overwhelming majority of cases, you have time to gather information; obtain second, third, and fourth opinions; consider your options; and pursue the treatment you feel the most confidence in and peace with.
4. Just do this treatment (surgery, chemo, or radiation) and you’ll be fine and can go back to business as usual.
Just because you can’t see a tumor anymore doesn’t mean it’s completely gone. Everyone knows several people who were “in remission” and then died of metastatic cancer 5-10 years later. Moreover, none of these treatments is without serious long-term risk. Every treatment should be undertaken with careful consideration to make sure it is the best option for your circumstances. Once the cancer appears to be in remission, you need to remember that cancer doesn’t just “happen” for no reason. You created it. Unintentionally, of course, but you didn’t “catch” it from someone or something. Going back to business as usual—as tempting as it is to want to put this whole ordeal behind you and pretend it never happened—is a recipe for growing more tumors. If you haven’t fixed why you got the tumor in the first place, how do you know the same factors aren’t going to cause it to develop again somewhere else?
5. You cannot undertake natural measures and conventional treatment at the same time.
Oncologists of the past were taught that your only hope of survival is found in chemicals, knives, and burning cancer cells. Increasingly, oncologists are recognizing the limitations of standard cancer treatment and welcome the assistance of natural approaches that do not interfere with their efforts. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. For example, you need your immune system to be as strong as possible because you have to rely on it to finish off the job, no matter how many tumor cells are killed by external forces. You also need to use the power of your mind to assist in healing you instead of accelerating your demise. When you’re dealing with such a life-and-death matter, it would be foolish to write off any treatment that has the potential to help, merely because it doesn’t fit your philosophy. Your focus needs to be on finding approaches that work—or at least have worked for others—regardless of your preconceived notions. Refusal to use every reasonable tool you can get your hands on would be like sitting on your roof as the flood waters engulf your home and refusing rescuers in a boat because you are expecting God Himself to pick you up and take you to safety.