Dr. Jeffrey Dach, MD

Published on jeffreydachmd.com

We have lost the war against cancer.  This becomes obvious by taking a quick look at the chart below.  Cancer Death Rates have declined slightly since 1975 due to reduction in lung cancerrates from decreased cigarette consumption.  Otherwise, there has been little change.  

Above left lung cancer cell dividing courtesy of NIH.  Below chart image courtesy of Scientific American.

The Failure of Chemotherapy

In 1997, John C. Bailar M.D. explained how we lost the “War Against Cancer”: 

“The failure of chemotherapy to control cancer has become apparent even to the oncology establishment.”  

Here is a quote from Dr. Haines in Lancet:  

“The misplaced battlefield analogy has led to 40 years of toxic and overly aggressive chemotherapy in incurable solid cancers for which no studies have shown that maximum tolerated doses of chemotherapy achieve longer survival or better quality of life than do minimum effective doses. This approach has led to inappropriate and toxic therapies for many patients … ”

Dr Carlos Garcia says cancer treatment with chemotherapy has a 97% failure rate: Three Per Cent Efficacy Of CHEMO On Cancer by Carlos Garcia MD.

Chemotherapy Kills Normal Cells As Well As Cancer Cells

The obvious flaw in cancer chemotherapy treatment is the non-specificity.  In other words, cancer chemotherapy kills cancer cells as well as normal cells.  This unwanted toxicity to normal cells accounts for the adverse side effects of chemotherapy, namely nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, weight loss, bone marrow suppression with anemia, hair loss etc.

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