For us at ABVA, the bible of cancer therapy is a book titled “The Other
Face of Cancer” by Manu Kothari and Lopa Mehta. It stays uncontested for over
five decades! Just to give you a glimpse of the book here are some conclusions:
1. Right not
to diagnose, treat a tumour which is at peace with its owner.
2. No
treatment is also a form of treatment.
3. Patient
declining treatment had longest longevity. The untreated has better and longer
co-existence with the tumour.
4. Assess pros
and cons of any treatment vis-a-vis the disease.
5. Ask the
treating doctor what he/she would do for self in such situation.
6. Must you be
treated seek surgery; insist on minimal irradiation, chemotherapy.
7. “Less is
more”: Lumpectomy as good as radical surgery; opt for conservative organ
saving/ limb saving surgery.
8.
Symptomatic treatment constitutes the best clinical
management and forms the back-bone of any specific therapy; insist on being
treated for symptoms and no further.
9. Dr. Manu
Kothari has documented 333 references in his book. One message is that whether
you undertake surgery plus radiation plus chemo therapy or opt for very minimal
surgery (if at all), the end results are the same. The difference is you can
save money and suffering (morbidity) if you avoid extensive surgery plus
radiation plus chemo therapy.
Shobha Aggarwal at ABVA had written a piece on 17
Dec. 2020 in which she wrote that were she to be diagnosed with cancer what she
would do: https://countercurrents.org/2020/12/illusionary-diagnostic-techniques-in-modern-medicine-a-first-person-account/
Many of these above statements may surprise most
people. But people like us have been campaigning and advocating along these
lines. Our experience of about 4 decades has been that even revolutionary
activists fall for the establishment line of treatment rather than the
alternatives within allopathy.
Thus thrives the global medical industry.
