Traditional research methodology, or 'quantitative research' is central to science and other methodologies are not usually acceptable. 'Qualitative research' is equally, if not more important at present time in reference to cancer. Other medical systems, such as Chinese or Ayurvedic medicine, Homeopathy or Naturopathy use far subtler tools in both diagnosis and treatment. They are based on seeing patient as a whole being and often use multiple interventions on several levels, simultaneously in treatment of dis-ease. Because they work at level of an individual patient, and from a different philosophy of medicine, it is almost impossible to analyse them with tools of reductionist science.

Our present rash of immune attacking diseases calls for a different kind of response than just drugs and surgery. A new medicine that combines established scientific excellence with traditional, alternative and natural treatments is needed. One that recognises humans as feeling, vibrant, energetic, spiritual beings as well as physical and mental. There are dramatic developments in treatment of cancer using energy systems, but information on this is actually suppressed. There is a movement towards an integrated medicine as more orthodox practitioners are starting to join in, led mostly by their patients.

From an energy point of view, when human body is weak or unbalanced it oscillates at different frequencies than when it is healthy. This less harmonious frequency shows a state of cellular, energetic imbalance in body. The physical body that is weakened in this way often needs help to shift to needed frequency, which strengthens immune system.

Some experienced medical doctors can make an intuitive diagnosis based on experience and can sometimes tell in a second or so what ails their patient. Posture, skin condition, nail, teeth and tongue all give clues, but experienced doctors may also intuitively pick up clues about their patients from energy and vibrational levels in a similar way to a gardener tending plants or a wild animal hunting its prey.

But modern doctors simply do not have time for level of attention given in many complementary and alternative therapies. This is one of reasons alternatives are more popular than ever. Professional detachment is an essential part of doctors' repertoire and it protects them in part from huge amount of need they encounter in day-to-day work.

Given track record of orthodox medical science into whole person medicine, it may well be another 200 years or so before it is able to assimilate new quantum sciences in relation to human body. For those people with cancer now, there are a deliberately limited options available from orthodox medicine.

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M.R.I. (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) places patient in a strong magnetic field that passes waves through body. The computer creates an image by analysing changes in magnetic alignment of hydrogen protons in our cells. P.E.T. scanning (Positron Emission Tomography) introduces short-lived radio isotopes into body tissues that are then flooded with gamma rays, recorded and then analysed by computer to produce images.

cytology and histology: Cytology is concerned with examination of individual cells. The main application in cancer is in detection of abnormal cells. Histology or hystopathology looks at groups of cells.

laboratory studies: Scientific methodology gives us many ways to analyse and examine bodily extracts.

2. Prognosis What follows initial diagnosis means identifying appropriate treatments, forecasting probable course and outcome of disease (prognostication) and standardising design of research and treatment protocols. You may be given option to take part in a clinical study to help assess effectiveness of a new treatment. Some health centres and surgeries are offered payoffs for enrolling patients in clinical trials which are often ongoing 'action research'.

3. Treatment There are four main types of treatment in conventional cancer treatment: surgery: this offers best chance when cancer is contained to a single area and has a low tendency to spread radiotherapy: invented over 100 years ago, this treatment bombards specific areas of body with gamma rays. chemotherapy: uses chemical cocktails that suppress growth cycles of all cells in body. biological therapy: This treatment uses B.R.M.'s (Biological Response Modifiers) such as Interferon or Interleukin-2 to modify biological systems.

Taking these treatments is no guarantee that cancer will not return. They do not involve looking for or eliminating any causes. To this extent orthodox Western medical approaches to cancer are only palliative.

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