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Cancer of the bowel
(colon and rectum)
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:
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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)
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The location of
irritation or injury as a trigger for cell growth.
In the case of
hormonal dependent cancer, the type of hormonal upset.
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