Executive Summary

• Chemotherapy is presented as effective against cancer.
• What is the actual effectiveness of Chemotherapy?

Introduction

Centers that provide chemotherapy treatment usually do not discuss the general effectiveness of chemo. This article will delve into this topic.

Taking the Long View After Being Diagnosed With Cancer

This video does a good job of explaining the actual effectiveness of chemotherapy.

Comments on the study presented in this video are from the article The Emperor’s New Clothes – Can Chemotherapy Survive? It should be noted that this article was published in 2006, and the study presented in the video. The Contribution of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy to 5-year Survival and its Malignancies was published in 2004. This study has had zero impact on the practice of chemotherapy. I have taken what I think are meaningful quotes from this study. 

The Establishment Explanation of Chemotherapy

This video explains how chemotherapy works and does explain some of the negative aspects of chemotherapy. However, anyone can propose a hypothesis of how the mechanism works — particularly after a treatment has been around for decades, it is not only the mechanism that must be explained, but there must be strong evidence that the treatment works. The proposed improvement explained in this video is primarily due to pharmaceutical companies rigging the math. 

The Origins of Chemotherapy

This is from the book Tripping Over the Truth: How The Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine’s Most Entrenched Paradigms.

But it was what he carried in his bags when he returned home that he would be remembered for. His suitcases were packed full of tissue samples from the affected victims. Doctors soon got to work analyzing the specimens.