Doll made of liver cancer cells
On Tony Isaacs’s Curezone, a forum member is asking advice on how to treat advanced liver cancer. The patient in question – the forum member’s mother – has previously undergone surgery. However, according to Tony Isaacs, it is precisely surgery that causes cancer to metastasize:
Tony Isaacs, as well as many other alternative “health advisors” for that matter, regularly make the claim that surgery is the main cause for cancer to metastasize. Since we have a pathologist on board here, I decided to ask him whether there is any truth in this. Here’s what he said:
There is no such thing as a protective coating separating a cancer from the normal structures of an affected organ. Some cancer cells loose their adhesiveness, which probably contributes to their invasiveness, but this is a property of the cancer cells itself.
There has been a discussion of risks of implants of cancer cells after needle biopsy of metastatic lesions. Because of this risk it has been contraindicated to do a liver biopsy if curative surgery was an option. But the risk is so low, that this restriction is being removed from the forthcoming guidelines.
Surgeons strive to remove healthy tissue at a safe distance from the cancer itself. And the surgical margin clearance is a very important factor in the chance of survival. With rectal cancer we have increased the survival to 82 % by introducing chemoradiation before the operation. See for instance this study. This makes the tumor shrink to such an extent that margin clearance is technically possible.
But Tony has not explained how he believes metastases arise when the tumor has not been touched in anyway by a surgeon.
No, indeed he has not. Well, perhaps he’d care to enlighten us on this some day… 
13 responses so far ↓
jli // November 8, 2009 at 4:06 pm
When Tony first made his appearance on this blog, he told us that he had conducted extensive research on cancer, and that he understood the alternative as well as the conventional aspects. This is an example of how Tony completely misunderstands some very simple facts about cancer anatomy and conventional cancer treatment. If he had done his research properly he would have known that the surgeons make their best efforts not to cut into the cancer, and that the pathologist reports it if they do. This is also an aspect where the usual big pharma shill is useless. Involvement of the surgical margin is a factor (in some cancers) in determining if a patient will be offered chemotherapy. In other words pathology reporting of free surgical margins reduces the profits made by the pharmaceutical industry. For photos of cancers that were cut into by me (after they where removed by the surgeon) you are welcome to look at these: http://www.123hjemmeside.dk/cancer_is_not_a_fungus/21160725 . They show what cancer really looks like, and also illustrate that if a protective coating really existed it would be easy do detect.
This a case of evidence of absence. Not simply absence of evidence.
beatis // November 8, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Thanks jli.
Given the countless blunders on his website, I can’t help wondering whether this man is crazy, stupid or intentionally deceptive.
jli // November 8, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Well – one thing is for sure: He is demonstrably wrong – and very fact-resistant thus far.
evenarsenicisnatural // November 8, 2009 at 5:40 pm
“Given the countless blunders on his website, I can’t help wondering whether this man is crazy, stupid or intentionally deceptive.”
All of this and more, serving to misinform others and to turn a profit for himself.
Gee, if all those potions and formulas he peddles are so effective in health maintenance, why did his partner-in-crime Luella need to be recently hospitalized and treated with **gasp** allopathic/western medicine? Or why did Tony himself suffer from a back ailment for weeks?? You do use these ‘natural’ products yourself, doncha?? Why didn’t they work??
**crickets**
beatis // November 8, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Thankfully, Luella binned all her conventional medication the minute she left the hospital and was only cured with Tony’s colloidal silver – or at least that’s what we’re told.
How Tony could ever suffer from anything at all except a broken bone is a complete mystery to me.
beatis // November 8, 2009 at 7:48 pm
@jli:
That’s a very serious affliction, wouldn’t know what to cure it with.
jli // November 8, 2009 at 8:32 pm
I´m not sure fact-restistance is curable as the only remedy available is “facts”. I´m afraid we will have to settle with vaccination
beatis // November 8, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Oh dear… I’m afraid that won’t go down smoothly at-all.
jli // November 8, 2009 at 9:13 pm
That would certainly explain why he banned a participant on his blog who (based on his extensive knowledge of modern oncology) expressed disagreement with him.
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beatis // November 14, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Tnx!
johan // November 17, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Cancer cells can not thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and took a deep breath can help get more oxygen to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means to destroy cancer.
beatis // November 17, 2009 at 2:43 pm
OMG! Why do you believe all this nonsense??
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/eto/content/eto_5_3x_oxygen_therapy.asp