The Green Quote: Suzanne Somers Says “Poisonous” Chemotherapy Killed Swayze

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by Michael Parrish DuDell September 21, 2009
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KMY-000908“They took this beautiful man and they basically put poison in him. Why couldn’t they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins in his body? I hate to be this controversial. I’m a singer-dancer-comedienne. But we have an epidemic going on, and I have to say it.”

- Suzanne Somers discussing her thoughts on Patrick Swayze’s recent death. Now listen, I’m all for taking an holistic approach to healing, but I don’t think Somers has a leg to stand on when it comes to nutrition. This is a woman who’s diet book includes recipes for Deep-Fried Turkey with Fried Onions and Herbs, Deviled Eggs and Tuscan Pan-Fried Steaks. What do you think about Suzanne’s comments? Chime in and share your thoughts!

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  • http://www.veganjapan.net herwin

    hey mikey P., + 1!

    “gotten rid of the toxins in his body” is a catchy phrase selfappointed nutritionists but the notion of cumilating “toxins” in our body that we can get rid of with a diet (or a visit to an expensive health spa) is rather scientifically unproven to say it politely.
    a healthy (vegan) diet with fresh veggies sure has its positive effects on our health bt that doesnt rule out the use of medicines sometimes.

    • Dr B. Taylor

      Unfortunately, Pancreatic cancer is not curable in any way. The patient frequently insists on treatment so chemo is offered. Also the whipple is devastating on the body, leaving it unable to absorb nutrients properly, and is a life long condition. Fortunately the patient does not live long after.

      Again, we are now looking into NOT giving treatment for this cancer, since it does not provide benefit, and indeed shows it rapidly decreases survival time.

      Hospice therapy is just as effective, and patients live approx 8-12 months longer without any treatment whatsoever. We do not know why at this point, but follow up shows this trend to be occurring on a regular basis.

  • VeggieTart

    And considering pancreatic cancer is one that is usually caught late in the game and rarely survivable, that Swayze lived as long as he did is a miracle.

    I’m all for holistic treatment as well, but there are times when you have to let conventional medicine step in. Perhaps a two-pronged approach–holistic and conventional–might work as well.

    • Dr. Jai

      My mother died of pancreatic cancer. She was told that it was caught early. She lived almost the same amount of time that Patrick Swayze did after his diagnosis. She had the radical “whipple” procedure to take out every thing she needed for proper digestion of nutients from her meals. She also immediately began chemo after the surgery. I found it very odd that she was told that she did not have to change her diet after having an operation where a portion of her stomach, gallbladder, pancrease and intestine was removed. Of course, I understand now why her doctors did not recommend a significant change in her diet. Courses in nutition are electives in medical school. They are not a required portion of their program. Many just do not know much about good nutrition. Interestingly enough, the last time I went for an evaluation by a medical doctor, he looked to be morbidly obese. Statisically, it is rare that individuals diagnosed with this deadly disease are alive after 2-5 years with treatent. Chemo did not extent Mr. Swayze’s life. It just made him another statistic. My mother may not have lived much longer without conventional treatment, but wasting away in a bed curled in a ball is not what I’d qualify as living. If traditional methods have not change the outcome (time before dying)why not try somwthing else. The medical profession has been given alot of time and money with no different results. I have been diagnosed with (early) stage breast cancer, I have every intention of living a longer, healthier life that does not include being balled up in a bed, wasting away hoping that(they) get it right this time. While there are those that may choose to wait on the hope of tons of research by the brightest of minds and millions of dollars spent already I’d rather spend my time on my knees in prayer than at a toilet. The human body can only stay alive for a short time without air, water, food (nutirents such as vitamins, minerals, etc.)I do not think any one has died from a lack of the essential element chemo.

      Dr. Jai

  • http://RawfoodsRetreat.com erin

    Suzanne Somers has more of a leg to stand on when it comes to nutrition than medical doctors. Do you know most receive little or NO training in that area? Sad is it not? But then again they are MEDICAL doctors using medicine (not nutrition) to heal. Whereas Somers refused chemo and survived her cancer.

    The medical doctor down here who I have worked with believes chemo is a poison (as do many others)

    Running a raw vegan health retreat and seeing people heal I would say it does indeed work. I think people have been brainwashed for so long by the medical industry that even the veg folks defend them.

    What was his quality of life? The poor man. I would rather die than be shot up with that stuff. The irony is that if you refuse chemo AND do a real plan you might just NOT die and might just live.

    http://Hippocrates.org and many other medical centers with MD’s on staff have been saving lives for years with a RAW vegan diet. They don’t save them with drugs or chemo. They get them off that crap and they’re the real deal.

    Do we wonder why Japan has such low rates of cancer? Wonder how Eastern Medicine has been around for centuries yet Western is brand new yet we still support it? BRAINWASHING.

    Eventually you’ll all come around.

    Peace,

    Erin
    vegan retreat director

  • http://RawfoodsRetreat.com erin

    Ah I get too fired up. Meant to say Hippocrates a HEALTH center (not sure if they call themselves a medical center despite MD’s on staff) and it’s http://HippocratesInstitute.org … It’s an institute where MD’s believe in healing with raw vegan diet and realize the poisons that you are pumped up with (like Patrick) eventually kill you (have you noticed how many do chemo, live then get sick again, eventually dying (like my own relatives)

    It’s all about big pharma. They can’t put a patent on poisonous drugs like chemo (go look it up- do your research)

    BIG Pharma loves it when even the veg’s think that if you use their overpriced poisons that you’re better off than using natural vegan holistic regimens to heal….

    And no offense but bottom line is Suzanne Somers who refused chemo is still alive. Patrick Swayzee who accept it isn’t.

    Erin

  • Sammi

    But erin, not to be rude, Suzanne Sommers admitted to Larry King that she received radiation therapy for her cancer: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/28/lkl.00.html

    Larry King Live
    Suzanne Somers Reveals She Has Breast Cancer
    Aired March 28, 2001 – 9:00 p.m. ET
    THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

    LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, an exclusive Suzanne Somers goes public, with a very private matter, breaking her silence about tabloid headlines and setting the record straight.

    And then revelations of a very different kind from Joan Rivers; she is the subject of a new E! True Hollywood story.

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She was passionate all right; passionate for men; passionate for women.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    CHRIS ROCK, COMEDIAN: She stole my jokes and she stole my car keys.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    JULIA ROBERTS, ACTRESS: It is a sad story, really.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    KING: Is she laughing or heading to court? She will join us, in Los Angeles, all next, on LARRY KING LIVE.

    KING: We begin with Suzanne Somers. This was arranged late this afternoon, and, the result of this headline in the new issue of “Enquirer,” called Surgery Secret Behind Fitness Queen’s Body; Suzanne Somers Plastic Surgery Scandal. Thigh Master Beauty Caught Leaving Lipoclinic. You have never seen this, right?

    SUZANNE SOMERS, ACTRESS: Well, I saw the black and white fax of it, but I haven’t seen it all in full color.

    KING: And, you have stayed silent for a couple days.

    SOMERS: Well, when stuff like that comes out, you hope it will go away. So I didn’t give it any energy. And it doesn’t deem to be going away. KING: What could be more embarrassing, for a person pitching fitness: do this, work my machine, follow my diet. And we find you leaving a liposuction clinic.

    SOMERS: Right.

    KING: Meaning that it looks fraudulent. What happened?

    SOMERS: Well, I chose your show to come on tonight to talk about something that is very hard for me to talk about, that I have never told anyone. In the last year I have been battling and surviving breast cancer, and I was in that clinic, and it all has to do with my breast cancer.

    But it just, you know — I have had such an honest relationship with the American public. I mean, I have written books on alcoholism, and blending families, and they have been with me on my ups and downs and sides. And this was just one of those things — I think the most shocking words I ever thought, I never thought, I would ever in my life hear someone say to me that you have breast cancer. And it was — it has been so…

    KING: How did you first hear of this?

    SOMERS: Oh, my press agent sent it through the fax and said…

    KING: And your press agent didn’t known about the breast cancer or did they?

    SOMERS: Yeah they did. They kid.

    KING: Your husband.

    SOMERS: My husband, my family, just, people. I was trying to keep it quiet…

    KING: What was the clinic you were leaving?

    SOMERS: It is the Lasky Clinic here.

    KING: Plastic surgery?

    SOMERS: Yes. That is where people go to…

    KING: They have liposuction.

    SOMERS: Nipped and tucked and lifted.

    KING Would you tell us what you had done there?

    SOMERS: What I had done had to do with my breast cancer. And when I was in radiation, for six weeks, it blew out all my hormones, and, burned the top of my stomach, and…

    KING: : They had to do grafts of some kind or…

    SOMERS: No, you know, it is so…

    KING: : It’s hard to talk about, but at least it gets it straight.

    SOMERS: It is hard to talk about. It is — have you ever seen me at loss for words? I have never been at a loss for words.

    KING: I wasn’t a mastectomy.

    SOMERS: No, no, no, no. I was able to save my breast, and…

    KING: You were treated.

    SOMERS: They did a nice job.

    KING: You were treated; radiation?

    SOMERS: Radiation, and I — see I had a mammography; my annual mammography and this was something…

    I work as a oncological mental health counselor. Suzanne Sommers can’t say for sure what cured her. She used holistic treatments, but out of her own mouth, she had radiation therapy (hence, she had chemo).

    I do not doubt that she BELIEVES in her heart that the holistic treatments and her diet are what saved her. But believing it and it being true aren’t the same. I think that she is putting a dangerous message out there that there is ONLY one way to treat cancer. Patrick Swayze was given an initial prognosis of 6 months to live, if i recall. He lasted almost 2 years, so he exceeded expectations. Also, Suzanne Sommers had breast cancer, which has a survival rate of over 90% (though I am excluding IBC, which has much lower rates). Pancreatic cancer has an overall surivival rate of around 5-10%, and that’s with serious medical intervention. So to compare the two of them, i think, is sort of comparing a cold to pneumonia.

    Farah Fawcett, if i recall, did both chemo for her first attempt and achieved remission, had a reoccurence, sought holistic treatments in Germany, and died soon after. No treatment is a guarantee of sucess, ever. The most successful cancer patients I see are those who have medical intervention in tandem with nutrional counseling, mental health support, and family/community interactions. It all works together, and I just think that to proport that something, anything is a cure all or the best possible chance, like ms. sommers does here, is really short-sighted. does she know for a fact that patrick swayze never sought alternative treatment? I don’t get how she can outright dismiss a treatment that has increased the odds of surviving cancer and by extension people who choose it.

  • Krista

    I tried the vegan diet for a while and my CA125 increased rapidly. I have ovarian cancer. I am sure a vegan diet is good, but it is not a cure for late stage cancer like Patrick Swayze had. Suzanne Somers has Stage One breast cancer. HUGE difference. We do need new treatments, but give me one that works and really works. Do you have any stage 4 pancreatic cancer patients who have been saved by a vegan diet? I bet not.

  • alissa

    Suzanne Somers is an idiot. And this is not a “green” quote, btw.

  • http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9FD18926170ED901&search_query=earthlings Whoever…

    I agree with you completely Erin… once again :)

    Actually, from what I’ve gathered (and I want to emphasize I’m not an expert at all on this subject) the chemotherapy success rate is extremely low.

    Are there any other studies (conducted by impartial entities) regarding alternative therapies? Why not?

    Chemotherapy is used because they believe they don’t have better methods to treat cancer (or so they say)… and they only try it when ‘everything’ else fails.

    And yes, pharmaceutical companies just want to make the highest possible profit. They’re not interested in curing diseases. That would put them out of business in no time…

    Have you ever wondered why the drugs used for most non-lethal diseases only treat the symptoms instead of curing the actual disease? Why? I mean, with all the scientists working out there, with all the money used on research, with all the unnecessary tests on millions of animals and they still haven’t found the cure for most common diseases?
    So, they’re not that smart after all are they? So why should we believe their treatments are the best?

    Let me just mention I’m not against medical doctors. I believe they have also been lied to. What I believe is that pharmaceuticals have much more information than what they want us to know! Bear with me please.
    These days I’m into conspiracy theories :)

    Erin, I believe you’re going to love these sites, especially the first one:

    http://projectcamelot.org/

    http://www.westonaprice.org/splash_2.htm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTOXkyaFv4

    *

  • jeanruss

    As the parent of a child who died from bone cancer at 18, I have to totally agree aith Suzanne. Our child was one of 6 who got osteosarcoma in a 6 month period in 2001. This is a one in a million disease and a cluster in a short period points to chemical poisoning. Our experience with Big Pharma’s hold on the FDA as well as doctors is truly despicable. Suzanne is telling the truth and people who aren’t familiar with the true state of USA healthcare don’t understand.

  • RAIN

    I come to realize and now been studying nutrition for now over 3 years on a daily basis. I have come to the conclusions that these are the most important things to do for diet.

    Eat a Vegan diet.
    But that not alone will cure all.
    Eat whole foods not processed foods and limit these as much as possible.
    Sugar (Fructos in specific) if it does not come in fruit don’t eat it. To many sugar addicts out there.
    Limit Stress with and increase high intensity activity 3 to 5 times a week.
    Get the following in your diet
    B12, Vitamin D3 if your not exposed to good sun, and Omega 3s now Salba seeds are proven to be the highest source of Omegas found so far.

    Follow these you should be in good standing. Of course consult with a nutritionist before.

    I agree the chemo probably killed him. People with week immune systems don’t do well with chemo and radiation treatment. Cancer takes a long time for most people. Cancer survivors are recorded only to live past 5 years or more. Most if they die 5 years later are still considered survivors. Which is bull. Cancers often when tumors are cut out come back. Eating right has shown in several clinics to reverse its self with the right diet even terminal cancer. I often find that people under chemo and radiation therapy die often very quickly as apposed to those who decide to not take this treatment. I still have not seen any study that proves that chemo has not killed patience who die under 5 years. Until I see that it is safe I refuse to believe it is the right answer to fighting cancer.

  • sorry

    erin,
    sorry for your loss. suzanne received surgery and radiation for localized breast cancer (not metastatic). she was likely cured by these treatments with a 90+ chance of no recurrence. chemotherapy in her case would have been adjuvant chemotherapy to reduce her risk of recurrence by 1/3 (only 3% in her case). please do not confuse her case with p.s. case where less than 5% are alive at 2 years (which he almost made it). sorry, but your comments are ill informed. period.

  • http://www.pdtcancertreatment.com Gab

    Fact remains .. regardless of anyone’s opinion – chemotherapy is a poisonous and highly toxic treatment. Patients feel that it is their only option because their oncologists rarely offer them any other options. Chemotherapy has also only advanced approx 5% in the past 50 years. Please do not believe all the statistics you may read in published articles about the success rate of chemo etc. All is not what it seems…. Caveat emptor

    Suzanne is correct – Patrick died from the poisons pumped into his body. Yes, he may have died anyway …. however, as one very honest journalist put it “Patrick continued his movie role throughout his DEBILITATING TREATMENTS”

    DEBILITATING TREATMENTS?? I was under the impression that ‘treatments’ were suppose to to heal and help us… the journalist was correct in his slip of the tongue… yes CHEMO, RADIATION, INVASIVE SURGERY, EVEN BIOPSIES…. all DEBILITATING & in most cases unnecessary.

    The UK now has a major initiaive with individuals such as Sire David Frost, Sir Alex Ferguson, Robert Plant and dozens of others, who are comapainging for the treatment called Photo Dynamic Therapy. Please see their extraordinary website at http://www.killingcancer.co.uk/home.asp

    This treatment for cancer (PDT) is non toxic, has no side effects, has the potential to BUILD the immune system (rather than killing it) and is an outpatient treatment usually cmpleted within 10 -14 days… patients leave the treatment CANCER FREE. PDT has been hidden for far too long and we are now ready to treat in the USA. Please see our website at :
    http://www.pdtcancertreatment.com and please share this monumental leap forward in cancer treatment with as many in your network as possible – you will be saving much ‘debilitating’ pain and heartache by sharing this information.

    Its time now to leave chemo behind and move forward in the light of PDT.

    ~~~~~~~~~

  • Corinne Peters

    I totally agree with the above info. regarding chemo/radiation.

    The people of Canada have been donating money for the cure for the last
    50 yrs. or more, I should think by now the scientists have found a better
    treatment to help the human body rid of all the drugs that make them feel
    worse instead of better. I should say it’s now time to leave chemo behind
    snd move forward.

    Corinne

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