Page 1211 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 April 1994
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Chapter 4, which is one that I use a lot, is totally about diet and nutrition and how nutrition can make such a big difference to recovery rate, to remissions, and so on. This chapter, as I am sure Mr Stevenson would be aware, is almost standard reading, even in the traditional medicine area. It is very hard to understand why the AMA have come out as hard as they have against a - - -
Mr Stevenson: No, it is not.
MRS CARNELL: Yes, it is, because there are lots of doctors who do understand that traditional medicine, or orthodox medicine, is not the only way to treat cancer. But it does not work on its own either, Mr Stevenson. I think that is the issue. We have to balance both.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Carnell, your time has expired.
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MADAM SPEAKER: It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Ms Follett: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
CANCER TREATMENT
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
Debate resumed.
MR DE DOMENICO (4.30): Very briefly, Madam Speaker, I rise to endorse the points made by Mrs Carnell and, to a certain extent, those made by Mr Connolly. I can speak on this topic from a personal point of view because I am one person - and there are very many in this Territory - who has had cancer. I can quite understand how people feel when they are first told by their doctor that they have cancer. The first reaction is to assume that you are going to die and the first question you ask is, "How long have I got?". When told by people, you learn to respect incredibly that things are not as bad as they seem; once your feet hit the ground again you realise that there is still not a lot being done traditionally that could be done to prevent the disease. The point that needs to be made is that the disease, in certain circumstances, is preventable, that in certain circumstances it is curable. In a lot of instances, it is really up to the individual with the disease as to how preventable and how curable it is.
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