Prostate Cancer Peter Starr
by Peter Starr, HAEF Founder and a fourteen-year prostate cancer survivor without surgery, drugs or radiation.
According to the American Cancer Society:
2. There are in the region of 230,000 new diagnoses every year.
3. One in every six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, a rate that is 30% higher than women with breast cancer.
4. Assuming that most of these men have a significant other, there are almost 6 million people in the USA currently affected by prostate cancer.
5. Around 29,000 die of the disease each year
Every man over the age of 50 lives with the concern that he might be that one man in six that will hear the dreaded statement “Your results showed positive for prostate cancer.” In spite of all the early testing, and invasive, sometimes high-tech and expensive treatments, prostate cancer kills around 29,000 men each year, a rate that Dr. Julian Whitaker M.D. points out has not improved in any meaningful way in 70 years. The treatments leave many, many men impotent, incontinent and with a 40% possibility that the cancer will return I a relatively short amount of time.
Although prostate cancer is common, it is not a simple disease and conventional treatment does not guarantee a cure or even remission. So what is a man to do?
Considering that 70% of men who have their prostate removed
(radical or robotic prostatectomy) make the decision for surgery within 48 hours of diagnosis, it would appear that educating men and their partners about all aspects of the disease and the many approaches to treatment would be a great service. That is what my book is all about. It is also a natural sequel to my documentary Surviving Prostate Cancer without Surgery, Drugs or Radiation, which was broadcast on many PBS stations.
It may sound that prostate cancer is a disease that only affects men, but this is not so. Most men who get diagnosed have a wife or significant other who most certainly is affected by the treatment decision the man will make. That, in my opinion, is why when a man educates himself about the disease and the treatment options available to him, that he include his wife at every stage of the decision making process.
In my experience, urologists rarely take the time to educate their patients effectively enough for the patient to make an informed decision based on all known treatments available to them. Without this overview of all aspects of the disease and treatments, both conventional and so called “alternative”, “holistic” or “natural”, a man(or his partner) is ill-equipped to make a treatment decision, the results of which will live with them for the rest of their lives.
In the fourteen years since my own diagnosis, I have studied prostate cancer and the conventional treatments offered. I continue to study all aspects of treating the disease that are not covered by conventional medicine. Much of this is covered in my documentary where I interviewed 56 M.D.s, N.D.s and other practitioners. This visual treatise has helped thousands of men and their partners understand that prostate cancer may appear in the prostate in the form of a tumor, but that the disease is systemic. In other words the tumor was allowed to grow because of a malfunction of one or more of the body’s systems.
There are four pillars to the discovery process we take in order to understand just what is happening in the body that could create prostate cancer. It is my belief, and that of many doctors with whom I consult, that cancer does not happen randomly, there are reasons. Cancer is the result of a series conditions presented to the body that our normal defense mechanism, our immune system, cannot handle. Before we can look at reversing the disease, we must first understand what is happening in the body that we can change. Otherwise, as we witness so often, if you do not change the environment of the body, away from the state of the body that brought on the cancer, even though the gland is removed, the cancer can and so often does return.
The four pillars are:
1. Finding our what the body is deficient in. We do this with a 62 item blood analysis.
2. Finding out what your body is toxic with. We do this in a variety of ways including fecal and urine analysis.
3. Looking at your hormonal system. Frequently in men with prostate cancer we find depleted free testosterone and elevated estrogen (Estradiol E2).
4. Examining and addressing what we call “emotional trauma”. This is a catch-all phrase dealing with stress and unresolved emotional issues that create body stresses.
Once we have the results of these tests, then can then determine, or at worst, have an idea of the stresses your body is enduring that has allowed the cancer to grow. More details of this process are in my documentary “Surviving Prostate Cancer without Surgery, Drugs or Radiation” and will be discussed in my upcoming book.
Treatments that are recommended following the tests will vary greatly depending on the findings from the tests. But generally it includes:
1. Balancing the internal body chemistry through deletion of certain food items, supplementation, changes in diet to introduce needed nutrition.
2. Detoxification of toxins found in those tests. Often that amounts to removing heavy metals such as mercury, nickel, lead and cadmium.
3. Balancing the hormones to being the body back to a pre-cancer hormone levels.
4. Introducing the patient to one of more programs to address unresolved emotional traumas.
As a Foundation, we provide education, not medical treatment. For treatment, we can refer and recommend particular doctors and clinics as might be appropriate.
My new book, 'Prostate Cancer – Why we get it and what to do about it', due for publication shortly, is an up-to-date review of the disease, a comprehensive view of treatments, and the personal story how one man decided that the treatment itself that was offered by his urologist, presented more risks than he was prepared to take. That man, the author, concluded that his long-term survival demanded that he get an education in all aspects of the disease and put into practice what he learned.
For more information about Peter Starr, to purchase his 3 DVD set ‘Surviving Prostate Cancer without Surgery, Drugs or Radiation’, or to learn more about his upcoming book, 'Prostate Cancer – Why we get it and what to do about it', go to www.survivingprostatecancer.org. To contact Peter for a personal consultation, or to book him for a talk, write him at peter@healingartsmedia.net