Suzanne Somers: “Chemotherapy Killed Patrick Swayze”
Actress Suzanne Somers, herself a cancer survivor, believes chemotherapy killed Patrick Swayze.
Swayze, 57, died on September 14 after a nearly two year battle against pancreatic cancer, likely brought on by years of cigarette smoking.
The former Three’s Company star gave her opinion on the Ghost star’s death while speaking at a party for Tom Ford’s movie, A Single Man, at the Toronto Film Festival last Thursday. In a new interview with Toronto National Post columnist Shinan Govani , Suzanne — who has a book coming out on cancer — said:
“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?”
In 2001, the Thighmaster frontwoman revealed she was battling breast cancer. After having surgery to remove the lump followed by radiation treatment, she refused chemotherapy against the advice of her doctors in favor of alternative treatment.
“I hate to be this controversial,” she continued. “I’m a singer-dancer-comedienne. But we have an epidemic going on, and I have to say it.”
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On September 21st 2009, KM wrote:
The actress knows very little about Pancreatic Cancer. I watched my father die of pancreatic cancer in 3 months at age 56. He did alternative treatment in NYC. No chemo. He was stage 4 and followed a particular diet, popped hundreds of enzymes and “nutrients” each day and still died.
Chemotherapy didn’t kill the actor. Pancreatic cancer did. Even the leading authority on alternative pancreatic cancer treatments–Dr. Kelley–died of pancreatic cancer even though he believed in a holistic approach.
It is important to remember that not all cancers are the same. Patients respond differently. Reading up on Pancreatic Cancer and becoming educated (check out http://www.lustgarten.org or http://www.pancan.org) on this form of cancer is crucial before making an ignorant comment.
I spend so much time writing about health issues, talking to doctors and raising awareness and funds for PC research and to see an actress make a blanket statement about medicine is very troubling.
On September 21st 2009, justgroovy wrote:
Another know-nothing semi-celebrity spreading their “wisdom” about a subject they have little practical experience with. Cancers come and go for various reasons, sometimes spontaneously, but anyone that assumes that another person will have the same results as they did with any particular treatment program is nuts.
Just because some quack convinced her to invest a big chunk of change in an “alternative” treatment program does not mean that Suzanne is alive because of the treatments. The facts are, we a society live much longer that we did as a whole just 50 years ago and the longer you live, the more chance you have of developing a cancer of some type.
I have a friend who had acute lymphocytic leukemia 25 years ago and after radiation and chemo he went into remission and is still walking this earth. I wouldn’t bet that he would have the same results cleansing his system of toxins. I’m convinced I would be visiting his grave on holidays and not his happy home. Since he was a marathon runner who ate a very restrictive organic diet, I don’t think he could have improved much on his nutritional intake.