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How cancer starts
Anti-Cancer
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How
cancer starts The general medical viewpoint of cancer being a cellular upset initiated by some quirk of nature, and localized somewhere within an otherwise healthy body, is absolutely untenable to anyone possessing an enquiring mind and reasonable power of observation. Based solely on the existence of the localized symptom (ie. the cancer growth) and completely inconsistent with most of the known facts, this viewpoint, as a basis for cancer treatment and research, has prevented and continues to prevent any chance of solution to the cancer problem. Although the "novel" concept of cancer being a constitutional disease primarily of dietary origin has been in existence at least since 1809 when Dr Richard Lambe of London wrote a treatise on the cure of cancer using a diet of raw fruit and vegetables, only recently has the cancer "establishment" started to seriously investigate this possibility, having in the past ruthlessly suppressed such notions and all those who held them. Among the many independent physicians who over the years have used dietary methods in researching and treating cancer, are four of the 20th Century's greatest men of medicine, selected here because their descriptions of the cancer process most adequately explain the subject.
Compassionate men and competent authors, typically "ahead of their time", these doctors between them had over 200 years experience in researching and successfully treating cancer in all its stages. Because the opinions of these great doctors on the causes of cancer essentially agree, and because their achieved successes prove their common theory in the absence of any other tenable hypothesis, the explanation which follows is a composite of their theories and observations. The cancer milieu Although individually only a tiny component of the body, every single cell is a living organism in its own right, and needs to be constantly supplied with nutrients, fuel and oxygen, at the same time needing to be cleansed and its waste products to be removed. Responsible for this care is the extracellular fluid (lymph) surrounding the cell which derives from the bloodstream and is continually changing. The quality of this fluid is, of course, dependent on the quality of the blood which is in turn dependent on the quality of the diet and the efficiency of the liver. Not only must the liver supply the bloodstream with the proper nutrients, it must at the same time keep it as free as possible from toxins. The Western diet and other civilized indiscretions result in a toxic, fat-clogged bloodstream and eventual liver impairment, responsible for the deterioration of the cellular environment to that known as the "cancer milieu". Oxygen In 1947 Dr F. Windesch of Germany demonstrated that by intermittent withholding of oxygen, normal body cells could be changed into cancer cells. This discovery was confirmed in 1953 by Drs Goldblatt and Cameron (Experimental Medicine, 97, 525, 1953). Dr Otto Warburg, the Director of the Max Planck Institute of Cell Physiology, in Germany, stated in 1955 that a lifetime of research had convinced him that cancer was caused by oxygen deprivation to the cells. Dr H.A. Schweigart, another German, found that cancerous tissue always is depleted in oxygen. Dr W. Spencer Way of Florida, writing on the importance of oxygen (Journal of the American Association of Physicians, December, 1951) said: "This confirms the finding of Fischer who kept cancerous mice under a pressure of two atmospheres for 14 hours and cured their cancer. If agents acting as catalyzers were used, the results were even better".
As described in Chapter 11, the degree of viscosity of the bloodstream is a key factor in all disease, more so than ever with cancer. Apart from anything else, the freedom of the blood to flow is a crucial factor alone. As we have seen, the degree of freedom to flow is determined mainly by the viscosity of the blood. The connection between high blood viscosity and poor oxygen supply with cancer is clear. Referring again to Dr Dintenfas' paper on blood viscosity: "Wardle in 1967 suggested that it is the increased blood viscosity in the small digital arteries which is responsible for the common symptom of malignancy. Red cell aggregation, platelet aggregation and hypercoagulability can contribute to this syndrome. Crenated red cells, raised fibrinogen, increased platelet stickiness are all common features of malignancy." It is commonly known that the ESR (red cell sedimentation rate, see Chapter 10) of cancer patients is always high. Dr Melvin Knisely stated in 1947: "Thus far, completely unagglutinated blood has been found only in strictly healthy animals and men. No severely ill person has yet been seen who did not have intravascular agglutination of the blood and visibly pathologic vessel walls." (From the paper, "Sludged Blood," by Melvin H. Knisely, Edward H. Bloch, Theodore S. Eliot and Louise Warner, Hall Laboratory of Anatomy, University of Chicago, Department of Zoophysiology, University of Copenhagen, and Departments of Anatomy and Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, Science, Nov 7, 1947.) It appears that in tissues provided with reasonable circulation, primary cancer does not readily occur, and furthermore, should it have already started, there will be no metastasis in tissues where free circulation is maintained. The following extracts from Dr Leopold Dintenfas' book, Rheology of Blood in Diagnostic and Preventive Medicine (1976) explain why: "Olwyn (1971) in his editorial, reviewed the effect of anticoagulants on tumor metastasis and noted that a number of investigators found a significant protection from metastasis by the application of heparin, plasmin, warfarin or decoumarol. In an informal survey of 200 patients with a history of myocardial infarction or cerebral arterial insufficiency, receiving heparin daily or every second day for periods of two to 22 years, Griffith (1971) found no instance of malignant tumor. Michaels (1971), who reviewed 540 patients on oral anticoagulant therapy for thromboembolic disorders) found presence of metastasis reduced eightfold against statistical expectation." A similar study by Dr Bjorn Stinkvist, University Hospital, Upsala, Sweden, on women maintained on digitalis for cardiac problems, showed that spreading breast cancer was only one-tenth of the rate experienced by women not on digitalis, and even when it occurred the cancer was less aggressive. Impairment of free circulation can also be caused mechanically by tight clothing or plain inactivity. In a number of cases tight-fitting brassieres have been suspected as a factor in breast cancer, particularly in overweight women.
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