My mother is diagnosed with cancer, stage IV. Chemo has not worked in fact made her worse. Consultants have said go home and have some quality of life but she has been told its months not years.
Faced with this, as her son do nothing and wait for the inevitable or try the use of apricot kernels. I discussed this with her and we both agreed the kernels give her “some” hope to live for so she has been taking them since february. Its now july and she has put on weight , loves her food and has minor aches and pains, but is not on any pain killers.
Fingers crossed it continues.
If apricot kernels do contain cynanide and will kill her, what differnce does it make as she has limited time left according to the experts. I can understand the reluctance when you are first diagnosed, with cancer , do i take chemo or go for the alternative approach but when you have no choice either way , whats the difference.
The oasis of hope hospital uses a form of both and has better stats then using just conventional chemo.
I find it quite shocking that there has been very little research into these kernels from the big cancer hospitals, they do offer alternative treatments, but these are massage, acupuncture etc, none have been brave enough to try kernels, I am sure its not because of a lack of voluteers. So why is this?
Where doctors correct about not taking folic acid all them years ago during pregnancy, ?
A glass of red wine is good for you one year and bad the next.
All fat is bad for cholestrol, ok wait a minute now its good for you if its good fat..
We are never going to get any research done because its only the big companies that pay for research in the first place. I agree there may be some suggestion that ther kernels are a money making excercise and do nothing, but faced with no hope whats so ever I know what I would choose if it was me.

Charlie

About findings from formal studies that various treatments are unsuccessful, in spite of definite anecdotal (e.g., a sample of 1) evidence:

Let’s consider the possibility that many troublesome conditions – e.g., brain cancer, rheumatoid arthritis – may not be result from a single malfunction or disease-causing entity! Such diseases are entirely different from say, diptheria, which is caused by a specific bacillus which has certain chemical sensitivities which make it possible to kill the bacillus, and cure the disease.

Each of these multifactorial causes may be correctible with a specific treatment, such as apricot kernels. But the other causes are not affected at all by the selected treatment.

Therefore, formal studies which requiree a statistical finding that the result must have a less than 5% possibility of being by chance to be “significant” will fail to prove a positive effect, because only a limited prcentage of cases will be “cured” by any one treatment. If my analysis is correct, there will never be a silver bullet which will cure such conditions with many causes,

Unfortunately,for these multifactorial conditions, at this time medical science is unable to determine what is the specific cause, and therefore what the treatment should be, It also seems likely that since all treatments have side effects, it is quite difficult for the body to withstand treatments with multiple agents, in the hope that one of them may be the curative element for the specific malfunction causing this particular case of disease.

Let me know what you think!

Rich