Curing Leukemia: Is There Hope?

From the office of Dr. Laurence Magne, author of www.cancer-free-for-life.com

The term leukemia refers to a large number of related cancers that begin in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow, not any single condition or disease. The traditional medical approach to treatment doesn't’t accomplish its goal of curing leukemia.

Bone marrow is responsible for extremely vital bodily functions, including the production of red blood cells, which deliver oxygen to the body; platelets, which are responsible for blood clotting; and white blood cells, which fight infection.

Obviously, the location of the cancer makes leukemia extremely dangerous. The diagnosed danger to the patient, and the physician recommended treatment, generally hinge on which of the four basic types of leukemia the patient has.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia develops from an acquired genetic injury to the DNA of a single bone marrow cell. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia develops from a malignant disorder creating a number of small lymphocytes in blood lymph nodes, spleen and bone marrow.

It’s impossible to miss the sick irony of the fact that both types of leukemia have demonstrated links to chemotherapy and radiation when it is used to treat other forms of cancer. The treatment for one form of cancer can certainly put you at risk for different forms of cancer in the future.

Once your physician has diagnosed your specific form of leukemia and reviewed your overall health, a treatment plan will be recommended to you. However, you need to be careful not to expect that the recommendations will be overly effective in curing leukemia.

The following is an extremely brief and blunt review of the options likely to be suggested to you by your physician:

Poison may be recommended, in the form of chemotherapy. This treatment was originally discovered in Mustard Gas, a deadly weapon of chemical warfare. When recommending this treatment, your physician is simply betting that the poison will kill the leukemia cells before it kills the rest of you.

Instead of poison, your physician may recommend burning you deeply with radiation treatment. During this form of attack, a highly specific area of your body becomes the focus of a radiation beam. Radiation is a carcinogen which may also cause a variety of unknown mutations and problems.

After one or both of those highly attractive options, you may very likely end up needing a bone-marrow transplant. The main reason for this requirement isn’t because the cancer originated in the bone-marrow but, rather, because the previous treatments destroyed healthy bone-marrow as well.

Since all of these options are independently damaging to the immune system, any combination of them is extremely damaging and doesn’t move you any closer to curing leukemia.

If you find yourself on the unexpected end of a leukemia diagnosis, the first thing you need to do is educate yourself to the best of your ability. Do not depend on your physician to do this. While your physician may have your very best interest at heart, it’s unlikely that she was ever truly exposed to any of the alternative cancer treatments available.

Take responsibility for your life, explore your options and begin curing leukemia by curing your self..