As we strive to understand the process of "carcinogenesis” or cancer creation, the past twenty years has provided a plethora of good and cogent insights into the development of the some 200 + forms of cancer. Great works in genetics, cell, and molecular biology have pointed the way to prevention techniques and treatments better than that of the past fifty years or so.

During the mid to late nineties seminal research was published by immunologists and cell/molecular biologists. It was pointed out that some 70 trillion plus cells make up the human body with a continual cell turnover and replacement process going on round the clock. The replacement of old cells by new is in excess of 20 billion cells daily with perhaps 10,000 of these cells not replicating properly to fully differentiated, normal cells. The figure of how many became frank cancer cells was placed at 200 to 600 per day having lost genetic control leading to malignancy. Normally the immune system cellular elements, the T-cells, the CD-56 cells known as NK or "Natural Killer" cells, macrophages, and other defensive mechanisms come into play immediately and destroy these cells and many of the other aberrant, incomplete cells; a process that goes on continually. This is the natural activity that protects and prevents us from developing cancer tumors, yet we all have cancer everyday that is normally thwarted by good immune reaction.

Then why do we develop cancer? The immune system with all its facets and separate elements is very powerful but it can also become fragile. If the immune system is suppressed, particularly the NK cells which are our first line of defense against virally infected cells and new cancer cells, then some of the cancer cells escape and begin to replicate as "immortal cells" without genetic control and eventually form malignant tumors. This is known as the “initiation stage” where genes such as the P-53 gene, also known as the master or “gatekeeper” gene, the P-27gene, the P-21 gene, the P-16 gene, all genes involved in orderly cellular replication are damaged or mutated.

It is not difficult for the average immune system to become compromised or suppressed; Mother Nature normally down regulates the immune system during pregnancy and gestation; all pregnant ladies develop cancer. This is dealt with when they deliver and the immune system is up regulated and once again becomes competent with normal activity restored and destroys any in place cancer.

In this country our degraded environment with fast food stuffs, air and water pollution by way of pesticides, chlorination, fluoridation, toxic food and drink additives, xenobiotic chemicals and drugs of all types-medical, recreational, both legal and illicit, and hundreds if not thousands of negative, environmental hazards all contribute to ongoing immune suppression. These are the factors which we consume internally by way of eating, breathing, or skin absorption and can act to cause the damaged genes to express damaged proteins which begin to build the structures of both benign and malignant tumors; this is known as the “promotion stage.”

We have in this country a 50 billion dollar plus health food industry, a misnomer if there ever was one, worse now that the pharmaceutical giants have joined the game, grinding out all kinds of hyped so called health aids and miracle transformation products designed to separate you from your hard earned cash. Sadly even the wonderful vitamin and mineral products Mother Nature provides end up being synthetic copies or heat fractionated products with all viability by way of natural enzymes, trace mineral activators, sterols, naturally occurring fatty acids, and a thousand more subtle activating factors being destroyed. For decades doctors have been telling their patients not to bother with vitamin/mineral products as "you'll just be peeing out expensive urine"; they were right but they really didn't know why, today we do. All the stuff you buy of this particular category, whether it is in a health food store, drug store, supermarket, and or vitamin catalogues are for the most part rejected by the body as unnatural and are rapidly processed out in the urine and feces before they cause nutrient scouring or immune stress suppression. Natural formulas as found in food contain vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, and a myriad of other elements all in a complex form; this is the only way that the body at a cellular level recognizes these substances to be good nutrition and life giving. It is to be well remembered that all that supports life and limb has to be utilized in complex form; only whole food complexes can provide this.

And on to stress; are our lifestyles in this country of competitive turmoil, inflated egos and those striving to have them, at all social, business, professional, governmental, you name it levels, fractured families, fractured economics, on top of fractured environments; is this placid or stressful? The answer is obvious but so what. Well continued stress is a major factor calling into play the "fight or flight" adrenal gland hormones, namely epinephrine and norepinephrine with other hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline exerting powerful influences; their continuous presence can severely compromise the NK cells by sedating them to a lethargic state where new cancer cells can slip by eluding the native surveillance mechanism these cells contain. Normally these adrenal hormones are expressed when high stress conditions exist but turn off when stressful events cease. Today the stress events are continuous and we see more cancer, particularly breast cancer where the estrogens come into play and contribute to the development of these cancers in stressed and immune suppressed women.

In my experience as a clinical biologist working with cancer patients over a good number of years, I have not seen many successes (nee cures) with the use of medically accepted and standard conventional approaches. These are modalities employing surgery, which indeed may be necessary, chemotherapy of all different types, and radiotherapy which is basically the application of radiation with the potential of terrible pitfalls; there will be in many cases a combination of both. We may see a temporary arresting of cancer tumor progression bought at the punishing price of illness, skin changes and eruptions, hair loss, general debilitation and morbidity in many cases leading to mortality. These protocols may also lead to severe immune suppression, psychological depression, loss of appetite, nutritional mal absorption with protein calorie malnutrition, and disruption of gut flora balances which may produce intestinal dysbiosis, leaky gut syndrome, and systemic fungal infections.

When a person is first diagnosed with cancer they are involved with tremendous, personal emotional conflicts and challenges as a result of this devastating news; panic may reign and they may immediately turn to their physician, as they should in most cases, seeking help and advice. This will invariably set them on the treatment road by way of surgeons, oncologists, radiologists backed by an infrastructure of expensive testing, rehabilitation, counsel people, and in many cases hospice teams. Most cancer patients and their families believe this the right and proper thing to do and it may be. For the most part the average cancer patient on their own or with potential family help, or with outside help, do not investigate their condition/diagnoses (cancer type, grade, stage, blood work), and alternative and/or complimentary approaches to help or modify their condition.

This leads to the “let George do it” syndrome where one surrenders their individuality to the forces of unquestioned trust, “Doc just give me the pill”; this can be a pretty tough pill. The average treatment doctor is basically a nice person who wants their patients to be healed and cured; they are frustrated and saddened by the outcomes they see. These doctors, including most oncologists, are not using integrative medicine such as IPT (insulin potentiation therapy), immune stimulants that gear up the cellular immune activity including the AHCC group ( foremost is RM-10 with the sugars of twelve organic, Asiatic mushrooms and other inclusions), plus enhanced nutrition, pH balancing, oxygen infusion techniques, and many other healing approaches within numerous healing protocols. And, and they are not using the vast panoply of phytochemical products, in addition to those modalities mentioned above, that have been proven through exhaustive experience (evidenced based medicine) and research to have pronounced healing properties.

We know that chemotherapy and radiotherapy used to shrink tumors also damages healthy cells and encourages surviving cancer cells to become more chemo resistant and multiply as they become better supplied with vascularization (more capillary supply); these protocols can also encourage the formation of new cancer cells or secondary cancers. The mechanics of all of these processes are coming to light and providing new understanding of why cancer treatment protocols of the past fifty years or more have resulted in little improvement in cure and survival rates.

The following insights come from an excellent article by Walter Wainright, a research biologist, published in the “Townsend Letter For Doctors” August-September 2010 edition, entitled “The Management of Estrogens, Estrogen Receptors, Estrogen Metabolism, and Cellular Immunity in the Treatment of Cancers”; be not put off as this is not about women’s hot flashes, sweats, dryness, instability, or any other PMS or onset menopausal/postmenopausal symptoms and complaints; estrogens receptors are found on all cells of the body except those of the urinary tract and pertain to possible cancer development in any of those body cells.

“The management of estrogens, estrogen receptors, estrogen metabolism, and cellular immunity becomes more important in cancer treatment now that we know more about the cell subsets in tumors. We know only one tenth and not more than nine tenths of one percent of the cells in a cancer tumor are cancer stem cells. These are the cells in a tumor that can metastasize to vital organs, these are the ones that kill people. We now also know that chemotherapy and radiation do not kill cancer stem cells. Chemotherapy and radiation only kill the cells in a tumor that are not dangerous unless tumor size is a factor due to space limitations, like brain tumors. This is why the death rate has not changed. The war on cancer goes on because chemotherapy and radiation do not kill the cancer stem cells.

Chemotherapy, in addition to lacking the ability to kill cancer stem cells, causes cell mutations that are resistant to subsequent chemotherapy treatments. After chemotherapy treatment the growth of the surviving cancer stem cells is faster because there is a greater blood supply to feed the surviving cancer stem cells. The cancer stem cell growth was restricted when they were less than one percent of the total cells in the primary tumor. When the tumor shrinks the blood supply to feed the surviving cancer stem cells is increased. A major obstacle to their growth is now removed. The cancer patient is now destined to greater numbers of cancer stem cells and mutated cells in the tumor. Both are resistant to the treatments that were hoped to cure the patient of their cancer.”

No doubt most oncologists and their peerage will either deny the above or ignore it as their practice may be confined to the box. Open minds are not necessary to make money!

There is not going to be any meaningful health care reform in the foreseeable future regardless of grandiose, government programs promising the moon as there is too much money involved in organized medicine to let it really come to pass. To quote Dr. Bruce West publisher of the medical/health newsletter “Health Alert”, which I urge all of you interested in medical self help to subscribe to, it is one of the best out there:

“Health care has been carefully woven into every aspect of your life by the organizers and sellers of its products and services, including doctors, nurses, hospitals, universities, pharmaceutical makers, medical equipment makers, and many, many more. For convenience we will call these groups “organized medicine.” Dr. West goes on to say that this intrusion and control goes far beyond this country and is worldwide in scope due to the international pharmaceutical industry and to organizations such as the United Nations and its minion, the World Health Organization (WHO). The costs of health care are spiraling out of control as excessive procedures, screenings, drug overuse, use of hi-tech technology, and the desire to make profits, excessive in so many cases, is pervasive throughout the medical international community; this will not be ameliorated soon and the health consumer and taxpayer will bear the costs which in time will most likely bring down the system ie. Medicare/Medicaid bankruptcy along with the demise of many state and local health support programs.

On a practical basis this country could not economically stand the impact of cutting back the cancer industry with its supply and support systems, the ongoing research programs at all levels, and the payrolls, and let’s also consider the vast amount of human activity and money engendered through the cardiovascular treatment procedures of angiography leading to angioplasties, coronary artery bypasses, stents both coated or not, and the drugs that follow rendering many victims (ah patients) into the realm of coronary invalidism for life which in most cases the duration does not exceed that of those who refused the procedures. It is big, big money and our economy, shaky as it is, could not handle a major downsizing of these large medical industries; so it ain’t gonna happen!

Education is always the key to intellectual freedom and is most important when it comes to ones individual health concerns; seek knowledge and ask questions all the time, be not intimidated by a health professional who is arrogant, does not have time to explain, and believes “George” has all the answers, fire him or her, there are some very good and compassionate professional people out there.

Lets now go on to check out special phytochemicals that can bring healing to the body and work synergistically with other phytochemical naturals that bring the sun’s stored energy to bear as the body recognizes it for good. It is within the expanding realm of phytochemical usage that the future of healing lies regardless of all the conventional hype, hoopla, obfuscation, trial manipulation, outright fraud, downright lies, along with niave and ignorant media support of the medical industry and “Big Pharma” as we see today with our breathless medical reporters. However they can’t beat or deny “Mother Nature”; time and the pervasive spirit of human intellect will prevail. More and more people will become aware as more and more procedures, theories, and drugs are thrown on the ever expanding medical trash heap. No treatment with the hope of success should be absent of phytochemical protocols.

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