What is Cancer, cancers tumors, tumor

Natural and alternative cancer treatment, cures, remedies, nutrition, and herbs

Blood Viscosity Causes MetastasesBlood Speed and Viscosity Determine Risk of Metastases

Dr. Warburg understood that slow blood speed allowed cancer to metastasize. Later, other researchers showed that if you can keep a localized cancer from metastasizing, your risk of dying from cancer decreases by an amazing 10-fold! Even though you may have cancer, you won’t die from cancer. Blood speed and viscosity have a connection to the spread of cancer.

This is a surprising, seldom-mentioned fact that was pointed out by world-renowned molecular biologist Robert Weinberg, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Weinberg was a former director of the Oncology Research Laboratory at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts and stated in his book “Of those patients who succumb to cancer, fewer than 10% die from tumors that continue to grow at the same site where they originally took root. In the great majority of cases, the killers are the metastases—colonies of cancer cells that have left the site of the original, primary tumor and have settled elsewhere in the body. It is these migrants, or rather the new tumors that they seed, that usually cause death.”

What causes metastasis? Blood clots. This is known, too “Dr. L. Michaels of Canada reasoned that if no clots were allowed to form, then metastasis from a primary tumor could not occur, and that people with only primary cancers would in that case be in a much safer situation. This he proved to be the case. He studied the medical histories of a large number of heart and stroke patients kept on permanent anti-coagulant drug treatment [anti-clotting] to protect their blood circulation, to ascertain the incidence of cancer deaths among them, and found the incidence to be only one-eighth of the expected number. The study covered the equivalent of 1569 patient-years and there was not a single case of death by cancer metastasis in the group.”

What prevents blood from “sticking together” and is also Nature’s natural blood-thinner that prevents blood clots? No, it’s not omega-3 like you are constantly told. It is omega-6 which is much more powerful. AA (arachadonic acid) is a critical omega-6 derivative and major biochemical component which occurs in virtually every cell we have. It is the building block of the most potent anti-aggretory (“helps blood thinning”) agent known, termed prostacyclin. AA also inhibits platelet adhesion making it a natural “blood thinner.” AA even helps SOLVE vascular problems as a response to injury.

Specific dietary changes and specific supplements can significantly improve blood viscosity. Alternative Physicians are trained to implement the most effective drugless therapies to reduce risk of metastasis by insuring maximal blood flow .

When an individual eats food, it combines with oxygen in the cell. In the cell, nutrients are metabolized into energy, carbon dioxide, water, and waste products of metabolism. While most alternative approaches attribute malnutrition as the etiology of cancer, often overlooked is the inability of the body to process the most nutritious food and the metabolic wastes generated from its processing. Problem arises from the metabolic process, the detoxification process or the elimination channels. Research show that a person has about 90 trillion cells. This translates to over 90 trillion "waste metabolic units” needing to be eliminated. Like overflow sewage, if these organs are themselves filled with back up debris, and, the blood cannot accept further debris from the cells, we end up with about 90 trillion waste containers completely filled with improperly eliminated wastes that accumulate in the body. It is the retention of these wastes, which frequently interferes with normal biological functions that cause organ degeneration like cancer by displacing oxygen from the cells and the shift in metabolism from oxidation to fermentation.

Cancer Treatment - Research - Cancer Prevention - Alternative Treatments

A.P. John Cancer Institute, specializing in alternative cancer treatments and research including colon, prostate, liver and lung cancer treatments and more.

Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. - "Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer. We know that conventional therapy doesn't work--if it did, you would not fear cancer any more than you fear pneumonia. It is the utter lack of certainty as to the outcome of conventional treatment that virtually screams for more freedom of choice in the area of cancer therapy. Yet most alternative therapies regardless of potential or proven benefit, are outlawed, which forces patients to submit to the failures that we know don't work, because there's no other choice. I started as a believer in chemotherapy. As a science writer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, I wrote articles praising the latest advances in chemotherapy. Because chemotherapy drugs were general cellular poisons, they could be terribly toxic. They were also very expensive for patients and for society as a whole. When I learned about the links between the pharmaceutical industry and the cancer establishment (later detailed in my book, The Cancer Industry) I understood the commercial reason that such an inadequate modality was so heavily promoted

Cancer is anaerobic process that occurs when lifestyles,dietary,environmental and genetic predispositions affect the metabolic process that ultimately lead to reduced oxygen supply,availability to the body and its utilization. Cancer can not survive with the presence of adequate oxygen. That is one good reason the heart never gets cancer. The heart needs oxygen and most heart attacks are in some way linked to low oxygen to the heart.

The following conditions leads to reduced oxygen supply to the body: reduced soil and food quality,deforestation,global warming,green house effect,malnutrition,aquaculture,stress,food processing with additives and preservatives and sedentary life. The end result is a feeling of strangulation,deprivation and suffocation in response to short oxygen supply. The resulting metabolic confusion is what leads to cancer. It is safe to say that cancer is actually not a disease but a normal response to our violation of natural order

It was a tradition for epidemiologist to work very closely with industries that make cancer causing products in order to get the data they need for their research :Similarly employees of the American Cancer Society retire and go on to work for industries like the tobacco industry that make cancer causing products. Such a co-operation often leads to cooptation-Epidemiologist Devra Davis, Atlanta Journal-Constitution September 30^th 2007.

Cancer is Yeast

Cancer is the body, at the cellular level, attempting to survive by reverting to a primitive survival mechanism. Surprisingly, it’s that simple. Most normal healthy cells get their energy by using oxygen in a process called “respiration.” This can be contrasted with the way cells utilize energy without sufficient oxygen, called “fermentation.” Fermentation of sugar provides a way for cells to keep going even in the presence of partial oxygen deprivation. In the presence of oxygen deficiency, cells that can’t obtain enough energy through fermentation perish. But the cells which succeed in utilizing fermentation exhibit their innate will to survive; these are the ones that don’t die from the oxygen deficiency.

As directed by Nature, in using this alternative source of energy, our cells are fulfilling their primary mission, which is to stay alive and reproduce. This takes place on all levels for all living things, and in the case of oxygen deficiency, cells are struggling to survive in a hostile environment of humans’ own making. That’s right we unknowingly have forced our own cells to become cancerous.

After it begins, the disease worsens, since most humans hosting it never feel the cancer growing and so we don’t take corrective measures. Once it shows up in lab tests, you’ve been hosting the cancer cells for years, often decades.

Nature has given every cell the potential to survive without oxygen, through fermentation. If that potential is not developed enough, then the cell will die when the oxygen drops below the 35% threshold. If none of our cells could run without oxygen, they would die immediately with no possible chance of future survival. Chronic deficiency of oxygen damages the mitochondria (energy producers) of the cell so the cell, if it can, reverts to the ancient energy source of fermentation of sugar. A cancer cell running on fermentation can stay alive (without growing) with just 20% of a normal cell’s energy.

But one major problem is that this method is very inefficient. The cells that can run on fermentation without oxygen stay alive and become more prevalent as the other cells die. But there is a huge price to be paid: lack of cellular intelligence-these cells have the intelligence of “dumb yeast” Cancer is not an “ultra intelligent” entity, as many misled researchers portray; instead, it is the “idiot cell” that can survive but do little more than reproduce more “idiot cells.” So these cells lose their differentiation as functional parts of the body and spread as useless masses of tissue, eventually interfering with and shutting down the body’s functions if nothing is done to prevent it.

Cancer is a Systemic Problem, Not a Local One. Many physicians think that cancer is a localized issue, meaning only the affected tissue is the problem because the genes are ruined there. This is incorrect. Cancer is not and has never been genetic in origin. What is correct is that the cancerous tissue is the MOST OXYGEN DEPRIVED TISSUE; that’s why that particular tissue became cancerous.

There are many underlying causes that can contribute to chronic oxygen deprivation. Some underlying conditions are a result of chronic inflammation or environmental toxin exposures. Chronic inflammation can arise due to over exposure to food intolerances, chronic infections, heavy metals, environmental toxins, GI dysbiosis, and candidal overgrowth. Specialty labs are able to determine the presence of conditions contributing to chronic inflammation and immune depression

What causes cancer ?

About a hundred years ago, the environment was awash with oxygen and less carbon dioxide. The plants were healthy enough to supplement us with additional oxygen and our lungs were larger. With industrialization comes deforestation and environmental degradations.The amount of oxygen in the environment has been drastically reduced. Like an elephant in a cage, our body struggles and groans as toxins displaces oxygen in our bodies. Coupled with reduced oxygen supply is the inability of our body to extract the scarce oxygen available in our body. Metabolic disease occurs when there is no enough oxygen to break down food in the body.

According to Nobel Laureate Linus Pauline - Our ability to manufacture vitamins and essential nutrients was discarded because our ancestors lived in close proximity to fruits and vegetables and our bodies did not need to produce them.

Vitamins and nutrients from food have very potent disease fighting properties and in cultures(Hunzas,Eskimos,Hopi Indians) where people consume diets rich in vitamins and essential nutrients, degenerative diseases are non existent and longevity is prevalent.

Our ancestors who ate high protein- low carbohydrate diets have less glucose to deal with. Their pancreas works less and produces glucagon which helps remove fat cells from their blood. This frees them for the energy needs of the body.

From the hunter gatherer era humans began to live in agricultural settlements referred to as the agrarian era about 10,000 years ago. This marks the beginning of sedentary life and meats of sedentary animals have higher fat content than those that live in the wild because of their reduced physical activities.

The shift to agrarian, agricultural or farming communities lead to the consumption of large amount of carbohydrates which put undue stress on the pancreas to produce copious amount of insulin to convert these simple carbohydrates to energy while storing the excess glucose as fat and cholesterol. As our metabolism shifted with time from fat burning to fat storing, degenerative diseases begins.The over deposition of fat and sugar from the metabolism of simple carbohydrates leads to constitutional acidosis and organ degeneration.

This agricultural era is followed by the industrial revolution about 100 years ago. More people left agrarian set up to work in factories thus increasing the need for grocery stores. These changes affect the way our metabolic system functions.The inability of humans to adjust to these environmental, dietary and internal toxicity from these transformations set the stage for metabolic and chronic degenerative afflictions that demands efficient detoxification and metabolic waste management

Before the industrial revolution, heavy metals were fossils confined to the earth crust except during volcanoes, eruption and earth quakes.
Currently we convert this natural endowment to products of modern luxury. Being heavy, the have relative densities that are about five to six times that of water. They rob tissues of oxygen and cause free radical damage.

The attendant civilization had made humanity to isolate products of modern luxury from natural resources and fossils deposited in the earth crust over millions of years.
The conversion of these natural resources into product of modern luxuries often lead to the formation of toxic intermediates, by products and wastes that are detrimental to human, soil and environmental immunity and predisposed human to immunological diseases like cancer.

An example is the release of Chlorofluorocarbon(CFC) also known as Freon into the atmosphere lead to its interaction with the ultra violet rays giving end products that punch holes in the ultraviolet filters nature put in place to protect us from excessive uv exposure. These intermediate and end products creates environmental fog, green house effects and other vices that are detrimental to environmental immunity and ability to sustain human life

Despite all available technological advances in medicine, there is something in the human body that has a natural revision to old type models. Multiple mechanisms active in a cancer cell allow it to act the way it does. There is intelligence in a cancer cell that enables it to compensate when one of these mechanisms is disrupted. The monodrug and mononutrient concept can target only one or a few mechanisms, and therefore the affected cell retains the ability to adapt like an octopus. As all researchers and physicians know, cancer cells are excellent adapters. There are two major processes that take place in diseased and healthy states namely- oxidation or fermentation. Oxidation takes place when the cells get enough oxygen to metabolize food; This is an alkaline healthy state. Fermentation takes place when there is no enough oxygen in the cells and the they revert to utilize sugar; This is an acidic state where cancer and chronic degeneration sets in.

When an individual eats food, digestion takes place in the mouth, stomach, and digestive tract where the digested food is absorbed into the bloodstream where it combines with oxygen in the cell. The process of breathing in oxygen for the metabolic needs of the body is called internal respiration while the process of combining oxygen with food is called internal respiration or metabolism. This whole process is cellular respiration. In the cell, nutrients are metabolized into energy, carbon dioxide, water, and waste products of metabolism. From the forgoing, metabolism is the break down of food when it combines with oxygen like a combustion engine that produces kinetic energy for the movement of an automobile through the mixture of gasoline with air. Oxygen breaks down cellular wastes.

As our immune systems are under attack from toxic substances that are everywhere - in the air we breathe, the food we eat, the stress we incur and the water we drink. Serious disease doesn't just happen. The accumulation of toxins compromises our immune system and wears the body down leaving us vulnerable to all sorts of maladies. It is at this point that infective, metabolic and chronic degenerative diseases occur

Starved of oxygen our bodies will become ill, and if this persists it will die, doubt if there is an argument about that. Dr. John Muntz. Nutritional Scientist.

Simply put, disease is due to the deficiency in the bodies oxidation process leading to an accumulation of toxins. These toxins would ordinarily be burned in normal metabolic functioning. Dr. Albert Wahl.

The sharpest of scientific minds are growing concerned that the human bodies are not getting anywhere near the levels of oxygen needed for peak health, vitality, immune system function, and longevity. They point to the growing evidence which suggests; the human bodies are meant to function at far higher concentrations of oxygen than it is currently getting; the total dissolved oxygen content of most peoples bodies today is considerably lower than what is needed to maintain health, high energy levels and benefit proper metabolism; and the lower the dissolved oxygen content is, the greater our susceptibility to chronic illness and disease.

Dr. W. Spencer Way writes in the Journal of the Amer. Assoc. of Physicians, Insufficient oxygen means insufficient biological energy that can result in anything from mild fatigue to life threatening disease. The connection between insufficient oxygen and disease has now been firmly established

Cancer has only one prime cause. It is the replacement of normal oxygen respiration of our bodies cells by an anaerobic (oxygen-deficient) cell respiration. Dr. Otto Warburg. Two-time Nobel Laureate Winner of the Nobel Prize For Cancer Research.According to the Journal of Experimental Medicine,the lack of oxygen clearly plays major roles in causing cells to become cancerous.

Cancer occurs when the human body’s oxygen availability and utilization drops lower than normal. Like fishing baits, cancer cells are attracted to oxygenating nutrients because of their sugar like molecular structures. These turns out to is a selective fatal attraction for the cancer cells. Most cancers have both malignant and benign harmless components. Alternative remedies are geared towards eradicating the malignant part of the tumor cells with less emphasis on the tumor size.

Oxygen deficiency, anaerobic distress and faulty metabolic waste management are the culprits in all cases of cancer and offers cancer patients. According to the National Cancer Institute, environmental toxins accounts for 80% of all types of cancers. When the toxicity level in the body reaches the cells of the body, two things happen- they mutate into cancer or the stop working.

In his book Oxygen and Aging. Dr. Majid Ali, M.D., president of Capital University Of Integrative Medicine in Washington, D.C. points out ‘the significance of oxygen in metabolic restoration and rejuvenation and he encourages people to get as much oxygen into their bodies from the most natural way possible. Degeneration kicks in when there’s not enough oxygen in the cells. The body’s ability to transfer oxygen to the cells becomes damaged with age. This transfer of oxygen from the blood to the cells is perhaps the most significant underlying factor in whether you live a healthy life or not! The more damaged the transfer mechanism becomes, the more likely we will become ill or more susceptible to illness as we age’. Dr Ali warns that ‘Star Wars, medical technology and gene therapies will not extend human life span unless we learn to preserve human oxygen metabolism’.

According to Dr Stephen Levine, Author of the book - oxygen deficiency: ‘a concomitant to all degenerative illness .In all serious disease states, we find a concomitant low oxygen state.low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease… hypoxia or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative diseases’.Without adequate oxygen presence metabolism is stalled, metabolic disease prevails, the body cannot get rid of cellular debris. We now have internal pollution and microbial proliferation. The built up toxins becomes poisonous to the cells and cause organ degeneration.

If oxygen deficiency is the common denominator in all cancers,the staging,classification and location is totally irrelevant to its cause and cure

As we restore oxygen level with nutrients,exercises,suppliments and herbal remedies we address cancer by reversing the metabolism of cancerous cells to normal cells.conversely radiation and chemotherapy drive this needed oxygen out of the cell -a stone age approach to cancer management

Sedentary life,the inability of the body to extract and utilize oxygen and the retention of wastes in the lymphatic-immune system where metabolic wastes are managed set the stage for stagnation and degeneration like cancer

Dr. Nancy Offenhauser's memoir takes the reader with unwavering honesty from her 2002 diagnosis of endometrial cancer to her 2004 cancer-free state. She leads us step by step through a wide range of natural medicines and modalities, entirely bypassing conventional allopathic medicine. Dr. Offenhauser's extraordinary medical memory reveals how she learned to listen to her own body by listening to her patients' bodies, including those damaged by pharmaceuticals and other procedures. "Healing Cancer Peacefully" inspires a renewed appreciation for the author's noninvasive, drugless chiropractic profession, as it was originally designed. Her chapter "Mapping the Road to Cancer" traces the author's illness back to such surprising influences as yeast, mold, Lyme Disease, stress, diet, past emotions, and overwork. Her bold, authoritative "Disclaimer of a Sort," "A New Look at Cancer," and "Invisible Survivor" further set this book apart. In this ecology-driven era, public acceptance of the natural healing of the body is the logical--and long overdue--next step. "Healing Cancer Peacefully" is today's convenient truth.Moore

In Cancer Is Not A Disease, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed health expert, Andreas Moritz, proves the point that cancer is the physical symptom reflecting our body's final attempt to eliminate specific life-destructive causes. He claims that removing such causes sets the precondition for complete healing of our body, mind and emotions. This book confronts you with a radically new understanding of cancer - one that outdates the current cancer model. On average, the conventional approaches of killing, cutting or burning cancerous cells offer most patients a remission rate of merely 7%, and the majority of the few survivors are "cured" for just five years or less. Moore

Why has the “War on Cancer” languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer’s basic causes—tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the general environment? This war has targeted the wrong enemies with the wrong weapons, failing to address well-known cancer causes. As epidemiologist Devra Davis shows in this superbly researched exposé, this is no accident. The War on Cancer has followed the commercial interests of industries that generated a host of cancer-causing materials and products. This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain that is being reclaimed through efforts to green health care and the environment.Moore

Peltason, an editor and breast cancer survivor, founded and hosted the First Person Plural Web site project, an online forum for women facing the disease. Their dialogue provides the content for this book, culled from the entries of 800 women across the U.S. and around the world. Peltason organizes the material into three general parts: Diagnosis, Living with Breast Cancer and The Big Picture, with such subtopics as Sharing the News, Being Womanly and Anniversaries and Milestones. Participants use screen names for privacy, approaching their disease with candor and freely discussing their feelings about their bodies and their relationships. At times, those overcome by anger and fear far outweigh those with a bright outlook, but when these survivors look in the mirror at the conclusion of the text, many envision a hopeful future. Perhaps the most poignant entries are from younger women, some of whom have been driven into early menopause and infertility by chemotherapy.Moore

Stages of disease manifestation

Though our body is well-equipped to eliminate wastes rapidly, problem begins when the organs like colon, liver, kidneys, lungs and skin which are responsible for waste-elimination fail to function correctly. One such complication is the stagnation and retention of wastes like what happens when the wastes disposal workers going on strike. Our body that nature originally designed to function like a self cleaning free flowing stream becomes a swamp where stagnation and disease infestation becomes manifest

• Acute Stage is the initial manifestation of a disease. It is accompanied by inflammation, pain, sensitivity, fever, discharge and high acidity.
• Poor living and dietary habits can contribute to the buildup of wastes and this can lead to the beginning of toxic settlements throughout the body.
• This is also referred to as the alarm phase. When some new stress factor strikes the organism it causes a sudden release of internal stress-hormones: If we are lucky, if we have positive coping skills or if we are taking adaptogenic herbs, we will smoothly progress further to the "adaptation phase".
• Adaptation stage is accompanied by the absorption of systemic toxins, dull aching pain, low metabolism, weakness, and lassitude.
• Devitalized foods and beverages, poor living habits, polluted environment, all lead to general buildup of excessive accumulations of toxic matter throughout the body. This is also referred to as the adaptation phase.
• If the stress factor continues (for example, in sport it might be heavy athletic training, excessive consumption of cooked food or emotional abuse) our body learns to tolerate the stressful stimulus – "adapt" - and increases its resistance to the stress factor.
• The "adaptation phase" is usually a safe period. The more we can stay in the "adaptation phase", the better.

• Chronic stage is characterized by low metabolic activity, increasing toxic buildup throughout system, lack of vitality. Heavy accumulations of toxic waste interfere with vital cellular activity. At least 80% of all recognized diseases could be classified as chronic. This is referred to as the exhaustion phase when the organism fails to fight physical, emotional or metabolic stress any more and simply gives up.
• In this "exhaustion phase", disease symptoms rapidly appear and get worse. This is considered the breaking point and chronic degenerative disease manifest.
• Degenerative stage shows no perceptible sensations in affected tissue, extremely low blood circulation, low nerve force, tissue decay.
• General breakdown of life supporting activity in affected area and often throughout entire system. Vital force at low ebb.

Diseases associated with stress and toxin may appear in the first "alarm phase", but they mainly appear in the third "exhaustion phase" when the organism cannot fight stress any more. This third phase usually develops after a period of months or years. Everything depends on the duration of the “adaptation phase". Sometimes the organism may be lucky and escape this third phase altogether, provided that it can keep the stress under control.

How stress cause disease

When under the influence of any of the emotional and mental stressors, the levels of the stress hormones in the blood shots up .Significant positive correlations exist between levels of endogenous cortisol and appetite loss, fatigue and nausea/vomiting in patients with degenerative diseases. High levels of cortisol suppress the activities of all arms of the immune system immune system whose primary responsibility is to destroy diseased cells from being overproduced. Similarly high levels of cortisol in the blood also suppress the levels of another hormone called melatonin that is responsible for calmness and restfulness. Low levels of melatonin leads to cellular disorientation, sleeplessness and insomnia. This forced the body to enter a "survival mode" that evolved to keep us alive in the short-term at the expense of fixing potential long-term dangers such as damage to DNA and cells. This would then lead to increased risk of developing disease. Stress involves a shift in blood flow from the digestive system to the brain and other major organs. This leads to improper digestion, release of improperly digested food into the blood stream causing a wide varieties of metabolic illnesses .

Stress causes the depletion of the ‘feel good’ hormones –adrenaline. Adrenaline is primarily responsible for the transport of sugar away from our cells. When adrenaline levels are depleted in the cells, sugar accumulates in the cells. This is really bad news because microbes like viruses, parasites and bacteria are sugar loving. They are attracted to the cells where the feed on the sugar. Sugar creates acidic environment. Excess sugar sets the stage for fermentation and disease

Cancer is the most extreme form of nutritional and metabolic malfunction. Metabolic rate is reduced. Oxygen uptake is disrupted and cell division is incomplete. The polarity of cells is altered and all biochemical functions are hampered. Membranes are defective, red blood cells collapse and the lymphatic system is sluggish. Cell functions are disorganized and the individual is confused’-Udo Erasmus,PhD

What is cancer ;what is tumor

As a mass, a tumor is a hard, painless lump which can press and erode vital structures impairing function or bleeding and perforation or obstruction of hollow organs. A tumor is a growth in the internal or external structures of the body. About 2500 years ago Hippocrates the Greek philosopher first identified cancer as “karkinos which originally meant “crab”. Cancer refers to abnormal cell growth that spread or metastasizes to other body parts. Cancer means crab in Latin .It was used to describe crablike presentations. The name cancer was given to the crab like tumors by the prominent roman doctor Galen. Unlike infective agents, cancer cells do not cause pain but their disruption of bodily functions is where the devastation and pain comes from.

Cancers often start as tumors. Tumors are either benign or malignant. Benign tumors do not spread and are usually non -life threatening except when their presence disrupt organ function. Obstructive benign tumors may require surgical intervention to erase pain, exploratory surgeries for diagnostic purposes or managed with drugs with out any fear of re occurrence. Malignant tumors are tumors that have propensity to metastasize or spread. The word malignant literally means ‘showing great malevolence or being disposed to do evil’. They are either liquid as in lymphoma or leukemia or solid mass. Malignancies in tumors are diagnosed when all the cells have the same origin. Malignant tumors unlike benign tumors consume healthy cells as they metastasize or spread from their point of origin. Tumors that are fast growing go away pretty fast and tumors that are slow growing like the lymphomas go away more slowly and the older and longer a tumor stays the more dangerous they become.

Both tumors and normal tissues need a blood supply for oxygen, nutrients, and waste removal. However, whereas normal vasculature is hierarchically assembled into efficient networks of arteries, capillaries, and veins, the blood vessels of tumors are a mess—chaotic, leaky and inefficient. Cancerous tumors need extensive network of blood vessels as to grow by activating certain mechanism in the body to make this possible.Tumors release angiogenic substances that enable endothelial cells that line blood vessels to grow. These substances are either vascular endothelial growth factors(VEGF), proteases,cytokines,oncogenes or other endogenous modulators of capillary growth that are yet to be discovered. It involves the development of new blood vessels (called capillaries) similar to what is obtained during normal pregnancy, during wound healing process and during disease processes. In diseased states like tumor formation, these new and weak tiny bloods vessels proliferate and act as supply lines for nutrients to tumor cell.

How significant is tumor size reduction during therapy
‘Most people let conditions control their attitudes instead of using their attitudes to control their conditions’-Allan Bellamy.‘Ulcers are not so much the result of what we eat, but of what is eating us’-Dennis Waitley

Malignant tumors are a small percentage of cancers and when remedies shrink the cancerous cells in a tumor, the tumor may be reduced in size to the extent that the cancerous part is neutralized because the tumor is a symptom and not the cause of the cancer. Holistic cancer treatments target and kill cancer cells, or revert the metabolism of cancer cells into becoming normal cells. Reduction in tumors size is not the primary focus of alternative cancer treatments. The goal is neutralizing the cancerous cells in the tumor to the point that the tumor may still be there but the cancer is gone. If the cancer cells are neutralized then metastasis becomes impossible. Tumor sizes are reduced when the cancerous part of the tumor dies. I.e. tumors often shrink down the part of the tumor that is cancerous. Conventional medicine that aims to reduce tumor sizes at all cost often succeed in achieving this aim with remedies that are often fatal to the patient-the cancer is gone and the patient dies.

How important is the location of your cancer?

The American Cancer Society indicates that in America, men have 1 in 2 chances of developing cancer while women have 1 in 3 chances of developing cancer and currently, about 8.9million Americans already have cancer. The most common types of cancers and number of cases in the USA in 2002 are: Breast cancer 205,000, Prostate cancer 189, 000, Lung cancer 169, 400, Colon Cancer 107, 300 and Skin cancer 58,300

Research at the Cancer Immunology Program at the Peter McCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia shows that the immune system can stop the spread of a cancerous tumor without actually killing it. .The tumor size is of significance and needs surgical intervention when the tumor obstructs philological and/or eliminative functions of any of the body organs and the life of the person is at risk. In this case the benefit must outweigh the risk. The down side of surgery is it never addressed the cause of the tumor. It only gives the tumor a locational address.

The obstruction of the tumor site often leads to the migration of the cancerous cells to migrate through the lymphatic and circulatory systems to other parts of the body where mini-cancer factories are started. This is the main reason why surgical interventions in cancers often results in metastasis and emotional drain. From an alternative point of view, sickness in any part of the body means the entire organism and not that isolated part needs restoration.

Understanding the concept of holism

Holism emphasizes that a disturbance at one level mental, emotional or physical can be explained by finding the cause and by correcting detrimental patterns, healing can be actively accomplished. It emphasizes that ‘the idea that a whole body cannot be analyzed by the sum of its parts or looking at one organ in isolation. Rather the parts can be analyzed by looking at the whole picture and looking at the system in its entirety can tell a lot about how the individual parts are. Parts of any whole organism cannot exist and cannot be understood in isolation except in their relation to the whole body because all bodily functions are interwoven and interdependent for functionality to occur.

Cancer in any part of the body is only expressing itself at the weakest or break point. The whole body is acidic and conventional remedies that focus on the organ of expression without looking at the whole organism is like blaming the policemen for prisoners in the jail house.The problem is not that organ,its the overall metabolism that needs to revert from fermentation to oxidation

The removal of tissues or organs from the body disrupts the overall balance of the organs systems and their interrelations and interactions with other organs systems that make the organism whole. Consequently any form of surgery compromises emotional, spiritual and physical wholeness. Surgery permanently compromises the function of the organs involved in relation to the whole organ system. The body never completely adapt to the loss of vital organs along with the vital function of organ removed. ‘Surgery removes outlets which nature has put in place to facilitate elimination of metabolic wastes’ says Dr Henry Lindlahr.

Dr. John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. – a nuclear physicist and a medical doctor, and one of the leading experts in the world on the dangers of radiation – presents compelling evidence in his book, Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease, that over 50 percent of the death-rate from cancer is in fact induced by x-rays. Medical radiation is a highly important cause (probably the principal cause) of cancer mortality in the United States during the Twentieth Century. The second is that medical radiation, received even at very low and moderate doses, is an important cause of death from Ischemic Heart Disease; the probable mechanism is radiation-induction of mutations in the coronary arteries, resulting in dysfunctional clones (mini-tumors) of smooth muscle cells.

Dr. Hardin Jones M.D, professor of medical physics and physiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He told an ACS panel, "My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals. For a typical type of cancer, people who refused treatment lived for an average of 12-1/2 years. Those who accepted surgery other kinds of treatment lived an average of only three years. . . . I attribute this to the traumatic effect of surgery on the body's natural defense mechanism. The body has a natural defense against every type of cancer." G. Borell, The Peroxide Story (Delano, Minnesota: ECHO, 1988), page 30. - Dr. Hardin Jones is a professor of medical physics and physiology at the University of California, Berkeley.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) says that the powerful drugs used in chemotherapy can themselves cause cancer and pose a risk to nurses, pharmacists and others who handle them. A housekeeper who dumps the contents of a bedpan into a toilet might not realize that the waste is toxic. "Sometimes, 80 percent of the active ingredient [in a drug] goes right through the patient's system," said Borwegen, who also served on the NIOSH work group.

William Campbell Douglass II, MD - "To understand the utter hypocrisy of chemotherapy, consider the following: The McGill Cancer Center in Canada, one of the largest and most prestigious cancer treatment centers in the world, did a study of oncologists to determine how they would respond to a diagnosis of cancer. On the confidential questionnaire, 58 out of 64 doctors said that all chemotherapy programs were unacceptable to them and their family members. The overriding reason for this decision was that the drugs are ineffective and have an unacceptable degree of toxicity. These are the same doctors who will tell you that their chemotherapy treatments will shrink your tumor and prolong your life! Thirty years ago, I worked with a radiologist who told me this: "If I get cancer, I'm going to Mexico." So if you get cancer, don't call your doctor; call your travel agent. There are alternative treatments available, but you will have to run the gamut of outraged chemotherapists, radiologists, and surgeons to find one. They will use cajolery, insults, fear, threats ("If you do this, I am off the case"), and misrepresentation to dissuade you." more

Chemotherapy: Afraid of Their Own Medicine In one survey, most oncologists specializing in lung cancer reported that they would not take chemotherapy if they had the disease. Yet, everyday these doctors give their patients chemotherapy. In conversation with an investigative reporter, one brain cancer specialist admitted that he would never submit to radiation if he had a brain tumor. Nevertheless, he continues to send patients for radiation, because he would be kicked out of the hospital if he didn't follow the accepted protocol. Based on information in: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Jan 1998; Spectrum, Mar/April 1998 The following respected scientists and doctors have articulated serious questions and opinions related to the efficacy of chemotherapy.. more...

In her book, 'Managing the Side Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy', Marylin J.Dodd, RN, PhD, describes side effects associated with radiation therapy. Dr. Dodd has 25 years of research experience helping patients and their families manage the side effects of cancer treatment. She is a professor of nursing at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing.

Questioning Chemotherapy

An Australian study suggests that the benefits of chemotherapy have been oversold … Why has it been oversold? Are you suggesting that medical oncologists in Australia are just sort of marketing shysters or what?' These were some of the questions posed by Dr Norman Swan when he presented the Health Report on ABC Radio National on 18 April 2005. Dr Swan was quizzing Associate Professor Graeme Morgan, the lead author of a controversial article entitled 'The contribution of cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adult malignancies'. This article reported that chemotherapy has improved survival by less than 3% in adults with cancer.

In 1987 Dr. Lana Levi, of the University of California wrote, “Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy... It does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancer. This fact has been know for over a decade. Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemotherapy than without it.”

The bottom line is this ..: The human body "WILL HEAL"... If we get out of our own way and allow it, it heals itself. It is our basic nature. Anybody who tells you other than that is trying to sell you something. No matter what you have been told. Don't give up on yourself and don't buy into the lines like ... ‘oh well you've had a good life'... 'at your age'... and the worst of all ...'there's nothing further I can do, I suggest you finalize your affairs'... How dare anyone tell you to give up! So much in society combines to convince us of the propaganda that some things never get better. It's up to you ... do you want to get better? Make things better? It is human nature to make things better, evolve and grow.”-Shé D'Montford, Shambhallah, Australia

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