Introduction
Prostate cancer, meaning cancer of the prostate gland, is a common adenocarcinoma in men. The probability of getting prostate cancer rises with age. It is generally treated by surgically removing the small prostate gland or with radiation. It is generally detected by high PSA levels and/or by surgical biopsies.
If a person over 70 years old is diagnosed with prostate cancer, many doctors don't even bother to treat the cancer. Prostate cancer is so slow growing it is highly likely the man will die of something else before he dies of cancer.
It is generally believed that by the time symptoms of prostate cancer are observed by the patient, the cancer has spread beyond the prostate gland. In other words, unless the patient was proactive in getting his PSA levels checked, meaning the patient had his PSA level checked before symptoms appeared, it is likely the cancer had already spread beyond the prostate gland.
Having said all of that, it is now known that the PSA level is not a good indicator of prostate cancer. It is even a worse measure of how the treatment is progressing.
A much better test is a simple urine test. It is called the Navarro Urine Test. It is far more useful data than the PSA test, and more importantly it is a far better way to measure how well your treatment is working. See:
Treating Prostate Cancer
Is it necessary to have the prostate gland removed? That is where the paradox of prostate cancer begins.
If the cancer has already spread outside of the prostate area, surgery is of little or no value. It is like pouring water on the couch when the whole house is on fire.
Once the cancer has spread it may become fast growing and may have spread to vital organs. By this time, the slow growing cancer in the prostate area is no longer of any concern, it is the cancer in other areas that are of concern. Thus, if the cancer has already spread, surgery is of virtually no use.
For cancer that has metastasized, orthodox treatments for cancer do far more damage than good. See the article on alternative cancer treatments versus orthodox cancer treatments at:
But what about the situation where the cancer is still totally contained within the prostate gland? If the cancer is totally contained within the prostate gland, because the prostate cancer cells are so slow to multiply, it would be easy for alternative cancer treatments to kill the cancer cells!! Thus, if the cancer has not spread, alternative treatments would be the best solution.
In other words, it is never necessary to remove the prostate gland. However, the reality is that if a prostate cancer patient is reading this article, they have probably already had it removed, or even worse, have radioactive seeds in their prostate gland.
Prostate cancer surgery is anything but minor surgery. It is major surgery that has a high probability of very profound, very undesirable side-effects. I will talk about these in a moment.
In other words, for orthodox medicine, prostate cancer creates a paradox. If the cancer has spread beyond the prostate, both surgery and radiation are worthless, because the cancer in the prostate area of the body is no longer the main problem! If the cancer has not spread, then alternative cancer treatments can easily cure it because it is slow growing.
Alternative treatments are a far superior treatment for prostate whether the cancer has metastasized or not, that is one reason prostate surgery is never necessary.
And finally, surgical biopsies looking for cancer in the prostate gland, can, of themselves, release cancer cells into the bloodstream and may cause the cancer to spread throughout the body.
Once the cancer has started to spread, doctors sometimes want to do castration or some other procedure to help stop the cancer from continuing to spread from the general area of the prostate gland. As with the above case, once the cancer has spread, the worst problems for the patient are probably no where near where the prostate gland is located.
Let us consider the different orthodox treatments:
- “At present there are three major conventional treatment options for non-metastatic prostate cancer. Expectant management essentially means to watch and see if the cancer gets worse. Prostate tumours grow very slowly (doubling every four years) so for many men, especially older ones, this approach is quite viable. Expectant management often includes androgen-deprivation therapy (castration or estrogen). External beam radiotherapy involves the shrinking or destruction of the tumour by radiation. Radical prostatectomy involves surgical removal of the entire prostate gland. This procedure carries a substantial risk of subsequent impotence (60 per cent incidence rate) and incontinence (39 per cent incidence rate).”http://www.yourhealthbase.com/prostate_cancer_treatment.html
From the men I have talked to; radical prostatectomy has a 100% impotence rate.
There are other treatments, such as implanting radium "seeds," but in general orthodox treatments for prostate cancer are not the preferred treatment.
- "The number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer has increased dramatically since the introduction of the PSA (prostate specific antigen) test. Widespread use of the PSA test has led to more men undergoing biopsies, prostate surgery, radiation therapy, and castration (orchidectomy) - this despite the fact that no randomized clinical trial has ever demonstrated that screening and treatment will increase the life expectancy of men diagnosed with prostate cancer."http://www.yourhealthbase.com/prostate_cancer_treatment.html
Both of my quotes came from the same article. It would be worth everyone's time to read the entire article, which has a lot of statistical information about orthodox treatments!!
Warning: Dairy products (except for what is taken with the Budwig Diet, which is part of some alternative cancer treatments) should be avoided by prostate cancer patients. A product like Coral Calcium is good because it has recently been demonstrated that prostate cancer patients have a much higher chance of broken bones.
Preferred Treatment - LifeOne Protocol of Dr. Howenstine
Dr. Howenstine, who has moved to Costa Rica so that he can help cancer patients without being persecuted, generally works with cancer patients by telephone or email.
His comments to me specifically include prostate cancer as one of the types of cancer which respond well to his protocol.
Note that since he lives in Costa Rica, and he claims he has had good results with prostate cancer, he obviously does not endorse surgery under any situations.
See this article for contact information:
Important Comments
There are really two situations with prostate cancer. The most dangerous situation is that the cancer has spread throughout the body and is agressively spreading.
The LifeOne protocol may be strong enough for this situation, but if it happens to not be strong enough for this extreme situation, see this article for more ideas:
If, on the other hand your cancer is not extremely agressive, then the LifeOne protocol should easily be strong enough for your situtation.
However, it might be wise to check this article to see if there are any ideas in it which apply to your situation.
Diet
Absolutely no alternative cancer treatment will work without a proper "cancer diet." There are many vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, etc. that actually contain nutrients that kill cancer cells, stop the spread of cancer, and do other things that treat cancer.
On the other hand, there are other foods that FEED the cancer cells, such as processed sugar, processed grains, etc. It is critial, for any cancer diet that the patient understand perfectly that what you don't eat is just as important as what you do eat!!!
Article Last Updated: May 12, 2009
There are many prostate cancer hospitals in India, this is where people are most confused, which hospitals should be trusted and which hospitals can give satisfactory results at an affordable price for prostate cancer treatment. Here is the list.
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