I think it's such a complicated thing, cancer. My Dad has been vegetarian since 1970, has always eaten fresh food and vegies (I mean, Mum would give us girls slices of cabbage and capsicum, raw, as snacks whilst we were hanging about the kitchen!), drunk green water (chlorophyll), surfed, did yoga - followed an alkalising diet, mostly, though enjoyed a red wine or three once a week, never smoked, always did yoga, surfed - lived an uber healthy lifestyle, and HE GOT A SUPER AGGRESSIVE CANCER. Now, everyone was totally shocked at that one. What, your DAD??? Of all people - knowing that he did everything - and Imean everything - right. He didn't work or play with toxic chemicals or anything - and the only real explanation for it was that 'it happens'. There's no way any alternative to chemo would have saved him - he had a sponataneous heart attack the year before (another WHAT the - turns out something just dislodged in one of the arteries and stuff gathered there and blocked it) so of course him and Mum got even MORE healthy after that, if that was possible at all. Anyway, the tumour grew and grew and he didn't know it was cancer (a lump in his groin)and went about his daily healthy living and then they had the biopsy. Whilst the doctors MUST know that certain conditions make cancer more likely - and I believe they do - these haemotoligists etc aren't idiots - they also know that chemo is an effective treatment and there are different methods of delivery and dosages these days that can help the process. Now, it's hell on earth - death for the body and spirit - but he'scoming good. There's no chance bicarb soda or any alternative would have cured him, and there's no way we could take that chance. I agree that medicine needs to find alternatives, thing is, there IS a lot of research into it, but so far nothing is quite as sure as chemo, and there is so much conflicting information about it out there, that there's no real way to tell for sure what is absolutely going to work. And people with cancer can't be listening to home medicines to cure them - they need medical professionals that know what they are doing. Even our naturopaths here which are fantastic natural doctors will say - go get chemo, and we'll nurture your system back to health afterwards, and in the meantime, here's what you can do. Poor Dad was blaming himself --- what did he do wrong?? But sometimes, it's just a thing with no meaning or rhyme or reason - just a spontaneous fuck up of cells and there we go. Anyway, I'm not saying you are wrong, but that's it's more complicated that that, and I worry about people who are all for alternative remedies faced with cancer and this dilemma about mainstream vs supposedly alt medicine - it's such a terrible thing to face when it SEEMS to conflict with your values. I was quite upset when someone said to me 'oh, chemo is SUCH POISON and so BAD for your body' when Iwas talking about my Dad and I'm like, yeah, IKNOW, but this poison might just save him and that's a chance we are all willing to take.