远离医院立竿见影：癌症福音

福音，既指指有益于众人的好消息，也有耶稣所说的话及其门徒所传布的教义的意思。

什么成了癌症福音呢？这是今年在英国的一个关于最新反主流癌症治疗的一个会议，叫“Spirit of Health Congress 2015”。



癌症难治，现代医学也没有百分之百的法子，不少人都觉得医生、医院、药厂、仪器厂家、保险和政府串谋欺骗广大群众，大部分现代医学的疗法不但没用，反而有害，除了让病人倾家荡产，痛苦不已外，还啥用都没有。相反，你不是听到民间真正有智慧的百姓，已“自然疗法”，尤其是“综合疗法”（holistic，包括草药、食疗、养生、锻炼等），许多现代束手无措的癌症举手擒来，对许多见不到希望的癌症患者，这是希望之光。

据《每日电讯报》介绍会议不大，但专家介绍的疗法很厉害，疗效达80%以上，会费只要£89，值。一个参会的老太激动不已：“正是我要的！”

好了，细节你自己读。

当今微博的时代，标题党是主流，像这
让体内癌细胞多睡觉

完全没有任何依据，堆砌在一起，大家还觉得是灵丹妙药，健坛还有人抄一遍（换个标题，有创意）：
主流医学终于承认癌症细胞完全不用放化疗*


病倒晚期，能坚持的住，难啊。


《每日电讯报》2015.05.25
The fake cancer cure conference the 'healers' tried to keep secret
"That's what I need!" an elderly lady called out from the audience, her frail voice filled with excitement

It was a surreal scene at the Spirit of Health Congress 2015, a UK conference about alternative medicine.

The speaker appeared to impress the audience with numerous "cures" for cancer, including one that he claimed had an "80 per cent cure rate". He then revealed that his friend had been miraculously cured from lung, lymph node and bone cancer with a salt used by sheep farmers.

"That's what I need!" an elderly lady called out from the audience, her frail voice filled with excitement. "I have a lung cancer that has metastasised quite badly."

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Adrian Jones, the speaker, an Australian naturopath who has no medical qualifications, gave her a reassuring reply: "Maybe you should talk to me some time."

Forty men and women, many of them elderly and suffering from a range of diseases, including terminal cancer, were gathered in a community centre in Sussex for the conference.

Two venues had already cancelled the event over concerns about the speakers, after The Telegraph exposed one "healer" who was offering a bleach cure for autism and HIV. The organisers of Spirit of Health Congress have since been careful to shield the event from scrutiny.



The Spirit of Health Congress was held in Shoreham-by-sea (Alamy)

Those paying £89 to attend the conference on May 4 were given no venue details. Instead, they were instructed to meet in a nearby town, from where they were given train tickets to Shoreham-by-Sea.

If the shadowy arrangements deterred some, many of those who made the journey were clearly desperate. One attendee said: "We had no answers left - but now we have answers."

While there is still debate over regulation of alternative medicine, and whether consumer protection is adequate, one law is supposed to protect the most vulnerable.

The 1939 Cancer Act prohibits advertising that claims to treat or cure cancer. It is a law that several practitioners at the conference condemned.

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Among the treatments discussed as a "cancer cure" at the event was a topical paste commonly referred to as black salve.

The US Food and Drug Administration has described the paste as a "fake cancer cure", and is overseeing a number of legal prosecutions in connection with the substance.

The ointment, also known as drawing salve, contains sanguinarine - derived from bloodroot - and is often mixed with zinc chloride, a corrosive chemical. The paste is used on a topical area to destroy skin tissue, leaving behind a black scar which later falls off.

Video footage of the event obtained by The Telegraph shows Mr Jones telling the audience: "The immune system appears to combine with the salve to kill the cancer."

The video also shows Mr Jones saying that the salve offered a "100 per cent guaranteed cure for any sort of skin cancer" and that a liquid version, Amazon Tonic III, provides a "70 or 80 per cent cure rate for internal cancers".

When a man, who was recovering from throat cancer after successful radiotherapy treatment, asked if he would have been helped by treatment with black salve, Mr Jones replied: "Absolutely, absolutely." He suggested that gargling the corrosive substance would have been the best option.

Medical experts say that black salve is dangerous and highly caustic. Cancer Research UK describes it as "an extremely dangerous substance". The paste is banned in several countries, including the US and Australia, but not in the UK.


Publicity for the Spirit of Health Congress

The British Association of Dermatology added its voice to the warnings. Nick Lowe, consultant dermatologist, said: "Dermatologists are very alarmed and concerned about the non-scientific proof suggested with these treatments. This wrong advice can be lifethreatening."

Although the 1939 Cancer Act is meant to protect cancer sufferers from such claims, it is little used, with just 21 convictions between 1984 and 2013.

At the conference Mr Jones said that under the laws "we are not allowed to be seen to be promoting the use of black salve". He told the audience that he was not promoting use of black salve, but giving a presentation "as a medical journalist, an observer" and making no claims about it.

However, Mr Jones then acknowledged that he had "probably already shot my mouth off".

Although he said he was merely "an observer" of the practice, he provided detailed advice about how he treated his cancer patients.

"With my melanoma patients, I generally advise that they have what we call the internal version of the black salve... One name for that is Amazon Tonic III, has anyone heard of that? Made by my good friend and colleague Greg Caton in Ecuador."

Caton is a convicted felon, who was sentenced in 2004 to 33 months in prison for weapons possession, defrauding customers and violating FDA regulations in relation to alternative health products.

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Mr Jones also claimed that 92 per cent of cases of breast cancer are linked to root canal work.

Mark Kishon Christopher, another speaker, styles himself as a Reverend of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing. He told the audience that he can "disqualify" the Cancer Act. With just a few hours training, he said, one can learn to "pull down any judge on the planet". Judges, he said, were "all liars, thieves, rapists, murderers and pillagers".

Last month, The Telegraph revealed that campaigners sought to ban Jim Humble, a former gold prospector from Las Vegas, who had claimed he could cure Ebola, Aids and autism using industrialstrength bleach.

Amid criticism from doctors and scientists, the venue cancelled the event and plans for Mr Humble to attend were dropped.

Dirk Schrader, another speaker at the Shoreham-by-Sea event, told the audience that he had been warned not to speak about the product, known as Miracle Mineral Solution. Mr Schrader suggested the substance could be used in place of antibiotics in treating cats and dogs.

Video footage of the Spirit of Health Congress was obtained by the Good Thinking Society, a group of scientific experts who pledge to promote rational debate.

Michael Marshall, project director, said the claims being made by practitioners at the event appeared illegal and could cause serious harm.

He said: "The dangerous misinformation at the Spirit of Health event is shocking, particularly with regard to serious conditions such as cancer."

When contacted by The Telegraph, Mr Jones said: "Any and all my comments were presented with the stated and carefully worded disclaimer, in summary, that I presented such comments as a journalist, who is merely presenting what practitioners and/or lay people have said about certain matters."

"I did not, and do not, make 'claims' about a topical paste that may or may not have 'certain rates of success at treating cancers', as you allege, and would consider such assertions as defamatory."

Mr Kishon Christopher and Mr Schrader did not respond to requests for comment.