The majority of cancers cannot be cured by radiation
because the dose of X-rays required to kill all the cancer cells
would also kill the patients.
John Cairns
The Beginning of the Exotic Unknown Rays … the X-rays
Something unusual happened in the laboratory of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen on the evening of 8 November 1895. A paper coated with barium, platinum and cyanide produced a glow when exposed to an electric discharge from a glass tube. Roentgen had no idea what this light ray was, so he called it X-ray. When he held his hands in the path of the X-ray beam, he could make out the bones of his fingers. Later, Roentgen produced the first X-ray record by capturing his wife’s hand with a ring in her finger. For discovering the X-ray, this German physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901.
Ignorance
Soon afterwards, manufacturers saw the potential of this new discovery. The X-ray apparatus began to be mass produced. X-rays became a novelty and were widely and indiscriminately used.
Shoe shops installed X-ray machines so that customers could see if their feet fitted well into the shoes. Doctors used X-rays for treating all sorts of conditions. Children with fungus infections of the scalp were given X-ray treatments. Acne, birthmarks, tennis elbows, shoulder pains, shingles, enlarged thymus in infants, mumps, arthritis, keloid scars, skin diseases, etc. were all treated with X-rays.
None of these doctors had the slightest notion about the real dangers of exposure to X-rays.
Not long afterwards, it was found that the body parts exposed to the X-rays developed painful sunburn and ulcers, fingernails stopped growing, hair from the head fell out, etc.
Many X-ray workers died as a result of their practice and research and thousands of patients suffered as a result of the useless and dangerous treatments with X-rays.
The beginning of the 20th century saw the start of the use of radiation for medical purposes. Marie Curie, the famous French physicist, was the first person to be twice awarded the coveted Nobel Prize for her work on radioactive elements and the discovery of radium. Radium then was thought to be a panacea for more than 160 ailments. It was until radium had killed numerous people that its deadly effects were recognised. Among those who paid the price of ignorance was Marie Curie herself. She suffered bouts of weakness and nausea. Her fingertips were scarred and her bone marrow weakened. She eventually died on 4 July 1934.
Even today, what is not apparent to many people is that X-rays, even in small doses, can actually cause cancers. This fact is still hard to swallow or not visible to many people.
Points to Ponder: Today, such stupidity is obvious and easy to understand, but it was not so one hundred years ago. Compare this to the radiotherapy of today or the use of mobile phones without end? Will these be cases of stupidity in the next hundred years?
Robert Youngson and Ian Schott (in Medical Blunders) wrote:
- Not long after Roentgen’s discovery it was found that certain forms of cancers would seemingly “melt away” under the influence of X-rays. This was the beginning of radiotherapy. Many cures were claimed when, in fact, the tumours were merely reduced in size and soon recurred.
Dr. Richard Evans (in The Cancer Breakthrough You’ve Never Heard Of) wrote:
- Each part of the body can only tolerate a fixed amount of radiation. Once a therapeutic dose has been given, radiation is difficult to use again.
- It is my opinion that adjuvant radiation is used more often than necessary … it maybe preferable to defer postoperative radiation.
- The long-term risks of radiation therapy have not been completely determined.
Points to Ponder: What is holding back the medical researchers? It has been almost a hundred years since radiation was first used in medicine and still we do not know its long-term risk? Can this be possible? Or it is that some vested interests have been keeping the truth away from the public?
Read what John Robbins has to say in his book, Reclaiming Our Health:
It was August 1945. The atomic bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulting in the complete surrender of the Japanese Army, thus ending World War II
- The issue of radioactivity had become an intense topic of debate internationally. However, as the US military was developing nuclear warheads, this project went against the rising tide of public opinion.
- Therefore, it would be a tremendous public relations advantage if the nuclear project could be sold to the public as a peaceful atomic programme.
- Indeed, the media were quick to chip in and hailed radiation cancer treatment as one of the most fantastic events that had occurred in human history.
- The American Medical Association, as early as 1947, had already laid claim that medically applied atomic science had saved more lives than were lost in the atomic explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Lewis Strauss, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said: Focusing the powerful beams of deadly radiation on cancerous growth would be an example of the good use of atomic energy.
In his book, Robbins wrote:
- Documents uncovered in recent years reveal that the nuclear advocates deliberately covered up what they knew to be the real dangers of medical radiation and atomic fallout in order to sway public opinion in a pro-nuclear direction.
A Point to Ponder: What is being covered up? John Gofman, a medical doctor who worked on the Manhattan Project, was responsible for the production of plutonium-239 used in the production of the world’s first atomic bomb. He later established the Biomedical Research Division at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study how nuclear activities affected human health. In his book, Preventing Breast Cancer, Dr. Gofman wrote:
- Our estimate is that about three-quarters (i.e., seventy-five percent) of the current annual incidence of breast cancer in the US is being caused by earlier ionising radiation, primarily from medical sources … breast cancer cases would not have occurred as they did in the absence of earlier medical irradiation.
Robbins had the following to say:
- Radiation is routinely recommended for cancer patients despite the fact that there is no proven benefit to survival.
- Although cancer specialists know that very few cancer patients are cured by radiotherapy, they continue to recommend it widely because they consider it to be a relatively harmless procedure.
- Doctors are desperate that they are losing the war against cancer and want to do everything they can to fight the disease.
“Extracted From – Cancer, What You Need To Know About… Dr. Chris KH Teo”
