A Wall Street Journal article found in the July 8th edition entitled Pricey Drugs Put Squeeze on Doctors, by Marilyn Chase, describes the soaring price of chemotherapy in the cancer market. For instance, the average cost of a course of Avastin, which targets a type of lung cancer, is approximately $56,000. 20% co-pay comes to $11,200. The article explains that the burden of costs is accelerating to the point that oncologists can no longer afford to continue to pay the difference when patients cannot pay.

Here’s my take on this issue: Billions have been spent in the last 20 years in research for treatment and prevention of cancer and there has been no significant change. Conventional medicine, with all its research funding, has provided no cure. Chemotherapy, despite its dastardly side effects, remains the preferred method of treatment. Several of my colleagues and I refer to this as “the killing strategy”—somewhat like going in with a bazooka to take a wart off of a finger. Chemotherapy kills cancerous and healthy cells, so the tradeoff often leaves the victim too weak and sick to mount a healthy immune response.

A hundred years ago, Dr. Warberg conducted some of the best research ever done on the cause of cancer. His research found that by improving the fluidity and health of the cell membrane, oxygen transport could more freely enter the cell and provide protection against all cellular breakdown, including cancer. His research techniques were impeccable by anyone’s standard. Another physician had to leave the country because his research provided simple methods of ridding the body of harmful cancer cells. Today Dr. Lentz, whose practice is in Germany, rids the blood of tumor necrosis factor receptors with great success, which then permits the body to use its own immune system to kill the cancer cells. His method is an absolutely fascinating approach to the treatment of cancer and may be one of the finest treatments in the world today. Dr. Donsbach has located his practice in Mexico because he cannot do his effective (and safer) cancer treatments in the United States. His treatments are not permitted in this country.

There is very strong research on high doses of vitamin C as an anti-cancer agent. The medical profession has largely ignored research on this simple and inexpensive form of treatment. And additionally—though it may seem bizarre to suggest this—we might try looking into what’s causing cancer in the first place: processed foods, toxic elements and emotions, pollutions and poisons in what we eat, drink, and think!