What I have said so far you probably recognise to be true, not because it agrees with what you have been taught but because it agrees with your own experience. If so, you may have already realised that the ‘best’ treatment in the eyes of the doctor is often not the best treatment in the eyes of the person with cancer. Unfortunately, doctors rarely allow patients to come to their own conclusions as to the best treatment. They don’t offer alternatives, they don’t give basic information, often they don’t even justify their own treatment advice. Basically most doctors treat people with cancer like dependent children.

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Remember, back in Chapter 2, we compared cancer cells with weeds in a garden? Treating cancer is like trying to get rid of weeds once they are established. As with surgical removal of cancer growths, we can just pull the weeds out. This is unlikely to get rid of them permanently because we can only pull out what we can see. We know that any seeds or roots left behind may produce more weeds in the future. In addition, if the weeds are growing close to the normal plants and have extensive root systems it is likely that we will have to pull out and damage normal plants if we are to get rid of all the weeds we can see.

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