Treating Prostate Cancer: What You Need To Know

Do you think it necessary to have the prostate gland removed? That is where the paradox of prostate cancer begins.

You see the truth is that if the cancer has already spread outside of the prostate area, surgery is of little or no value. It is like pouring water on the sofa when the whole house is on fire.

Once the cancer has spread it may become fast growing and may have spread to vital organs. By this time, the slow growing cancer in the prostate area is no longer of any concern; it is the cancer in other areas that are of concern. Thus, if the cancer has already spread, surgery is of virtually no use.

But what about the situation where the cancer is still totally contained within the prostate gland or what is termed localized or organ confined prostate cancer? If the cancer is totally contained within the prostate gland, because the prostate cancer cells are so slow to multiply, it would be easy for alternative cancer treatments to kill the cancer cells or revert them into normal cells. Thus, if the cancer has not spread, alternative treatments would be the best solution.

In other words, it is never necessary to remove the prostate gland. However, the reality is that if a prostate cancer patient is reading this article, they have probably already had it removed, or even worse, have radioactive seeds in their prostate gland.

Prostate cancer surgery is anything but minor surgery. It is major surgery that has a high probability of very profound, very undesirable side-effects. I will talk about these in a moment.

For orthodox medicine, prostate cancer creates a paradox. If the cancer has spread beyond the prostate, both surgery and radiation are worthless, because the cancer in the prostate area of the body is no longer the main problem. If the cancer has not spread, then alternative cancer treatments can easily cure it because it is so slow growing. Alternative treatments are a far superior treatment for prostate cancer whether the cancer has metastasized or not, that is one reason prostate surgery is never necessary.

Once the cancer has started to spread, doctors sometimes want to do castration or some other procedure to help stop the cancer from continuing to spread from the general area of the prostate gland. As with the above case, once the cancer has spread, the worst problems for the patient are probably no where near where the prostate gland is located.

Furthermore, you cannot “cut” cancer out because cancer is a systemic disease which begins with a weak immune system. How does cutting something out improve the immune system?

To understand why surgery is generally worthless for a cancer patient, Let us consider the different orthodox treatments:

• “At present there are three major conventional treatment options for non-metastatic prostate cancer. Expectant management essentially means to watch and see if the cancer gets worse. Prostate tumours grow very slowly (doubling every four years) so for many men, especially older ones, this approach is quite viable. Expectant management often includes androgen-deprivation therapy (castration or estrogen). External beam radiotherapy involves the shrinking or destruction of the tumour by radiation. Radical prostatectomy involves surgical removal of the entire prostate gland. This procedure carries a substantial risk of subsequent impotence (60 per cent incidence rate) and incontinence (39 per cent incidence rate).”

There are other treatments, such as implanting radium “seeds,” but in general orthodox treatments for prostate cancer are not the preferred treatment.

• “The number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer has increased dramatically since the introduction of the PSA (prostate specific antigen) test. Widespread use of the PSA test has led to more men undergoing biopsies, prostate surgery, radiation therapy, and castration (orchidectomy) – this despite the fact that no randomized clinical trial has ever demonstrated that screening and treatment will increase the life expectancy of men diagnosed with prostate cancer.“

The Cancer Diet
Completely no alternative cancer treatment will work without a proper “cancer diet.” There are many vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, etc. that actually contain nutrients that kill cancer cells, stop the spread of cancer, and do other things that treat cancer.

On the other hand, there are other foods that FEED the cancer cells or FEED the microbes inside the cancer cells, such as processed sugar, processed grains, dairy products, etc. It is critical, for any cancer diet that the patient understands perfectly that what you don’t eat is just as important as what you do eat

Did you know that 90% of cancers are preventable?

In addition to the 14 million new cases each year, diagnoses of cancer are expected to increase by 70% in the next 20 years. Fortunately, only 5-10% of these cases are attributed to hereditary genetics.

This means 90% of cancers are preventable! The other causes? Environmental toxins, poor nutrition and other stressors are incredibly toxic influences on your health!

Dr. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu, N.D, Dip, MSc, PhD(A.M) is a registered alternative medical practitioner with specialty in Orthomolecular oncology , prostate cancer researcher, policy maker , expert & functional medicine, recognized as an authority in men’s health. Dr. Nyarkotey is the founder and director of the Men’s Health Foundation Ghana ; De Men’s Clinic & Prostate Research Lab , Dodowa, Akoto-House. He can be reached on 0541090045. E-Mail:oburalph30@yahoo.co.uk

ref. http://www.cancertutor.com/prostate_cancer/