" Although many popular books on cancer talk about fighters and optimists,
there's no scientific proof that a positive attitude gives you an advantage
in cancer treatment or improves your chance of being cured."
"Timothy Moynihan, M.D., a cancer specialist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minn., helps debunk some of the most common misconceptions about cancer
treatment and explains the truth."
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer/HO00033
If you are a cancer patient, sit up and listen. The truth is being explained
to you by the Mayo clinic. Should you entertain old fashioned, unscientific
notions, they will be helpfully debunked, free of charge.
It is unlikely that a single holistic physician could be found on this
planet who would share the above quoted opinion of the Mayo clinic spokesperson.
The question is, how did this man arrive to the conclusion that it makes
no difference whether the cancer patient is a fighter and an optimist,
whether he/she has a positive or negative attitude? Why does this so-called
expert feel necessary to help cancer patients by debunking this "myth"
?
The answer is simple. The Mayo clinic is a great believer in high-dose,
full-scale chemotherapy, and a bitter enemy of all non-toxic or less toxic
methods of treating cancer. So, when you hit the patient with a massive
toxic load, causing horrific side effects and often irreversible biological
damage, it indeed may seem totally irrelevant what the patient's attitude
has been at the beginning of the treatment. By the end, her hair is gone,
she vomited half the time, and went through possibly the worst experience
of her whole life.
At that point, I'm sure she will agree with you, Dr. Moynihan, that her negative or positive attitude won't make any difference to her.
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