This form of cancer is the most common form of malignancy in Western countries, and causes the most cancer deaths. Cancer of the intestine is rare. (See Fig 20.1, appearing earlier in this chapter) There is no doubt, therefore, that colon cancer is directly attributable to the poisonous milieu in the colon caused by constipation and the residues of the high fat, high protein Western diet.

   Countries with a high consumption of beef--Australia, USA, Canada, New Zealand, England, Scotland and Argentina--suffer from a high incidence of bowel cancer. Scotland has the highest bowel cancer rate in the world, with the worst incidence around Aberdeen, the cattle raising center. The Scottish consume 19% more beef per capita than the English and their bowel cancer rate is precisely 19% greater than the English.

   Similar to the relationship between beef consumption and colon cancer, there is also a strong relationship between beer drinking and colon cancer.

   This latter relationship is held to be accountable for the higher incidence of colon cancer among males.

The role of hypothyroidism

   The thyroid gland is an important component of the immune system, and it is significant that cancer is most common among hypothyroid people (hypo = low) and least common among hyperthyroid people. Thyroid suppressing drugs have been shown to increase the growth of all kinds of cancer. Dr Broda Barnes said that in cancer transplant experiments with animals the transplant would seldom take unless the animal's thyroid had first been removed.

   Hypothyroidism, although generally unsuspected, is very common says Dr Barnes (see book list), not only in the various "goiter belts" around the world but among all populations on high protein diets. Dr Barnes pointed out the observations (1954) of Dr J. G. Spencer, pathologist at Frenahay Hospital, Bristol, England, that the goiter areas of 15 countries and four continents consistently show a higher incidence of cancer than adjacent areas of the same countries, and that Austria with its high incidence of goiter has the highest incidence of cancer of the Western countries.

   The majority of people have low thyroid activity due to their diet, says Dr Barnes, but of the thousands of patients he has put on thyroid therapy, not one has developed lung cancer, and only six deaths have occurred from cancer of any kind.

Different types of cancer

   It has been postulated that there are as many as one hundred types of cancer and therefore the cancer problem is a very complicated one. On the other hand, sensible analysis of the subject reveals instead that cancer is a single, constitutional complaint preventable by the simple act of purifying the constitution and that therefore the cancer problem is in fact a comparatively simple one.

   Primary cancers may make their appearance in any one of a number of sites, the location depending on several factors:

1. The degree of local circulation of blood, which determines the degree of pre-cancer. (See The Liver and Cancer: A New Cancer Theory by Kasper Blond, MD, 1955)
2. The location of irritation or injury as a trigger for cell growth.

In the case of hormonal dependent cancer, the type of hormonal upset.