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Info from Dr. David Williams (source for this article) Cancer's Natural Enemy Cancer rates in the U.S. are officially “off the charts.” A century ago the disease occurred in 1-in-100 people. Today, half of all adults will get some form of cancer in their lifetime. That’s 1-in-2 people! Why this alarming increase? It’s being caused by a steady and widespread breakdown of the immune system among our population. Cancer cells, you see, are naturally present in everyone’s bloodstream, but are kept in check by a special immune cell called NK (short for “natural killer”). When NK activity weakens—either from old age, poor nutrition, or stress—cancer cells are free to multiply and become tumors. That’s what’s happening throughout our country today. We need better treatments This isn’t the case in other countries. In Japan, for instance, a surprising new, natural cancer treatment involves stimulating the patient’s immune system so tumors are gobbled up by a feeding frenzy of NK cells. You might be surprised to learn that doctors trigger this sudden blast of immune activity with a natural substance found in certain Japanese mushrooms. These mushroom extracts are now one of the leading cancer prescription treatments in that country! Using the immune system like this is the next big frontier in medicine. It holds the promise of finding real cures, not just for cancer, but heart disease, arthritis, allergies, and many other ills. It’s one of my favorite topics, which is why I report on these discoveries so often in ALTERNATIVES. But even though the Japanese are doing a better job in the battle against cancer, it will take many years—if not decades!—before U.S. doctors accept the idea that the immune system is the key to beating cancer and other diseases. Sadly, that will be too late for most Americans who are now over 50—or younger people with a family history of these diseases. That’s the bad news. The good news is that scientists have recently isolated the active substance in these medicinal mushrooms (called active hexose correlated compound, or AHCC) and put it into capsule form. AHCC accomplishes the “impossible” The best news of all is that AHCC is now available here in the U.S. without a prescription. (Note: AHCC works even better if taken with Fucoidan, such as Doctor's Best brand from www.iherb.com or www.vitacost.com) ALTERNATIVES is one of the first and only U.S. publications to report on AHCC. (I recently devoted nearly an entire issue to it.) Since then, I’ve received so many inquiries that I’ve created a Special Report about AHCC and its unique, cancer-killing properties. If you’d like to learn more, I’d be happy to send you a copy absolutely free. Here are just a few highlights from my Report… AHCC stimulates NK cell activity quickly, literally causing them to destroy cancer cells in hours. A medical test (the NK cell function test) shows increased NK activity just 4 hours after treatment. Patients with liver cancer who took AHCC as part of their treatment regimen had fewer recurrences of tumors and enjoyed higher survival rates after surgery. AHCC often reverses the presence of pre-cancerous cells on the cervix (shown by abnormal Pap smears), returning tissue to normal in as little as 6 months. (Cervical cancer is one of the most difficult to treat, so this is a Godsend for high-risk women.) Studies show it can also be a powerful tool in the treatment of other cancers too—including leukemia, breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer. Unlike many cancer treatments that weaken the patient over time, AHCC makes patients healthier and stronger by increasing immune function. What I’d do if I had cancer If I discovered I had cancer, I would certainly take AHCC immediately to give my body extra power to fight the disease. If I had a history of cancer in my family, I’d definitely take it as a preventive. Most of the studies on AHCC were done on patients currently undergoing conventional cancer treatments. Research suggests that AHCC can greatly improve survival rates, while reducing the bad side effects of chemo and radiation. Since your immune system is your first line of defense against more than just cancer (it’s how your body fights off the flu, colds, recurring infections, pathogenic and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and virtually any other disease), AHCC offers benefits that go far beyond just cancer protection. People who would also greatly benefit from AHCC include: Those with a history of smoking or heavy drinking. Individuals working in the medical field who are exposed to highly contagious diseases. Elderly individuals with weakened immune systems. That’s because NK cells respond slower as we get older, resulting in recurring bouts of infection and noticeable decline in general health. I urge you to send for a free copy today—and to stay tuned to ALTERNATIVES so I can keep you updated on the newest developments in this story. (http://www.drdavidwilliams.com/order/nhb_cncr_order.asp) Note: Besides AHCC, there are other very effective immune boosters available today, such as BRM-4/MGN-3/PeakImmune4 (which I used to use), and a combination of Immune Assist Critical Care + Epicor + ProBoost Thymic Protein A + Andrographis (which I now use and believe is more effective). Over one million prescriptions of Vioxx were sold before the public learned the news of just how dangerous it was, but Alternatives readers weren't caught by surprise -- I warned about the dangers of Vioxx and other COX-2 arthritis drugs years before they were taken off the market (note: they've been put back on the market with a warning recently...) Official accounts blamed 140,000 cases of serious heart disease on Vioxx -- and up to 55,000 deaths. According to an FDA whistle-blower testifying before Congress, FDA officials knew about the side effect, but covered them up. This confirms what I've been saying for some time: We can't rely on the FDA to protect the public from dangerous drugs. Meanwhile, safe supplements are persecuted and ridiculed by doctors, drug companies and FDA officials. My job is to counter these unsubstantiated attacks with the scientific facts about natural remedies and alternative treatments. The fact is: there are safe, inexpensive and effective ways to solve your health problems without relying on risky, expensive and overly-hyped "miracle" drugs. Why U.S. Doctors are so out-of-touch with today's new cures It certainly isn't because we don't have new solutions and cures. Over 95% of today's worst health problems have already been solved by bright, young medical researchers both here and abroad. They have already overturned long-held theories in health and medicine, replacing them with new ideas, treatments and solutions, but there's a problem: this new life-saving information isn't getting to mainstream doctors fast enough to help them. Why so slow? Because new discoveries must have the full approval of the medical establishment in this country before they can be implemented. This is usually a long, drawn-out process because organized medicine is a huge bureaucracy that moves at a dinosaur's pace because of politics and profits. Learning from Mother Nature Nature is wise beyond our understanding. The human body is just one wondrous example. We should be tapping this wisdom to create new cures and treatments, instead of ignoring it. Fortunately, there's a new breed of doctors and scientists who think so, too. They're using this natural wisdom to gain an unprecented advantage over illness. My worldwide intelligence network includes thousands of natural-oriented doctors and scientists whose discoveries are changing health care in our country. For example... One of the leading cancer therapies in Japan isn't chemotherapy or radiation. Instead, doctors are learning how to stimulate the human immune system so tumors are gobbled up by the body's own natural defenses. Why I favor natural solutions It's not that I'm against drugs. They have their place, but they often do a lot of unnecessary damage. Chemotherapy, for instance, is so harsh it causes a 95% reduction in immune function in cancer patients, increasing the risk of a recurrence or metasisis. Instead of working with the immune system, the leading cancer treatment in the U.S. practically destroys it, leaving the patient vulnerable to cancer's return. (Note: in addition, most oncologists and radiologists "forbid" their patients from taking vitamins and supplements that have been proven to reduce the collateral damage the treatments do.) Your survival is up to you I'm convinced this natural approach will be the future direction of modern medicine -- and the only way our world will survive. HSI had an interesting article this month about the benefits of Concentrated Flax Hull Lignans for cancer patients and diabetics; they're from flax seed shells, or hulls, which typically don't make it into the bags of flax seed in the store, but the vast majority of the disease-fighting lignans are in the hull that encases the seed (the same with rice hulls, which are discarded or fed to pigs, although they can heal the sick and elderly...) One tsp of concentrated lignans equals the equivalent of two gallons of flax seed (there are practically no lignans contained in the oil, and the ALA in the oil can accelerate cancer in the many people lacking enough enzyme to convert it to DHA/EPA: http://www.jonbarron.org/newsletters/02/10-21-2002.php They also had some interesting testimonials, one from an 84-year old whose lung cancer was so advanced that he was told that he wouldn't make it three months until Christmas: when one of his doctors found out that he had been treating is cancer with concentrated lignans, she became angry and was convinced that the cancer had spread throughout both lungs and his esophagus. She thought "more aggressive" steps should have been taken. However, a scan showed that the cancer had not spread and was actually reduced to one tiny nodule in his lung. This was after he had been taking the lignans for only six months. They mention a Canadian studies with breast cancer cells being reduced by 34.2% after only one month of lignans, with 31% of the cancer cells completely killed and the expression of the cancer growth receptor Her2 (c-erB2) decreased by 71%. The source they give is: Concentrated Flax Hull Lignans, A.R.A.I., 817-320-8172; www.aidshivawareness.org/flaxhull.htm One 5.3oz cannister containing 32 servings costs $36 + shipping; for a limited time buy two and get one free. Another promising thing from Dr. David William's "Alternatives" newsletter this month is about modified citrus pectin (MCP), below: Cancer Declawed Cancer is one of the most frightening diseases of our time. Even with all the modern “miracles” at our disposal, cancer treatments are often questionable—and barbaric. Conventional medicine is still looking for a treatment that will “kill” the cancer before it kills the patient. Just as there isn’t a single causative factor for cancer, there isn’t a single effective, sure-fire treatment for all types of cancer. In past issues, I’ve discussed several natural products that have been shown to not only help prevent cancer in the first place, but also, in many cases, to treat and/or eliminate the problem altogether. Some are stand-alone products, but most can be used safely and effectively as adjunctive therapies to more conventional treatments if desired. I would still highly recommend these therapies and products if you’re ever diagnosed with cancer. They include such items as vitamin D, resveratrol, ImmPower (the mushroom extract AHCC), properly processed shark cartilage, magnesium and zinc, garlic, lycopene, saw palmetto, soy isoflavones, carotenoids, turmeric, IP6 (inositol hexaphosphate), and iron reduction techniques. In most discussions about cancer, the one area that doesn’t get enough attention is metastasis. This is the spread of the cancer from one organ or part of the body to another. While most cancers are still treated with some form of surgery in an attempt to remove the primary tumor, the procedure is commonly followed up with chemotherapy or radiation. The goal is to eliminate any remaining cancer cells that could otherwise migrate from the original site and form new tumors. The prognosis of most cancers becomes significantly less favorable once a cancer spreads. Metastases are the biggest threat from cancer. Breast and prostate cancer pose a whole new threat when they spread to the bone, as does colon cancer when it metastasizes to the liver. In most cases it is the metastases that are responsible for a patient’s death rather than the primary tumor. If you’re ever diagnosed with cancer, in addition to utilizing every reasonable therapy like those above it’s imperative to do whatever possible to limit its spread. I don’t claim to be an expert in cancer or cancer treatment. Cancer is a very complex and complicated disease. Research strongly suggests, however, that you have to focus on two main areas to stop a primary tumor from metastasizing. How Cancer Feeds The first area to consider is angiogenesis, or the growth of new blood vessels. Cancerous tumors naturally have weak, poorly formed blood vessels that must be continuously replaced with new ones. And without the constant formation of new blood vessels, a tumor can’t grow. By stopping angiogenesis, you don’t directly destroy a tumor, but instead little by little cut off its supply of nutrients and its ability to remove waste products. Without new circulation, the tumor begins to shrink and gradually turns into an inert mass of tissue. Since the mid-1960s, when Dr. Judah Folkman originated the idea of treating cancer with anti-angiogenesis compounds, a few compounds that address angiogenesis have become available to use for cancer treatment, and dozens more are currently being developed and tested. One of the most potent natural anti-angiogenic compounds I’ve seen to date is shark cartilage. When it’s processed properly (without excess heat or protein-damaging solvents), it has the ability to inhibit angiogenesis. Most shark cartilage products fall far short of that goal, however. The market has become flooded with inferior products and outrageous claims, which has kept shark cartilage from being considered seriously as a cancer treatment. It’s a stigma that still exists today. If you’re a long-time reader of Alternatives, then you probably remember my investigation into shark cartilage in the early 1990s. The product I recommended at that time, BeneFin, is still available, though not from the company that had been distributing it in the US. Instead, you’ll have to order it from the country of origin, Australia. You can get BeneFin from City Health Foods at www.cityhealth.com.au. Their phone number is +61-2-4929-2609 in Newcastle, New South Wales, in case you want to get up in the middle of the night to call them. [Editor’s note: More detailed information about shark cartilage is available in the Subscriber Center of the Alternatives Web site, www.drdavidwilliams.com.] How Cancer Spreads The second method of limiting metastasis focuses on keeping migrating cancer cells from clumping together and forming new tumors. Cancer cells that have broken free from the primary tumor (or are dislodged during surgery or a biopsy) circulate via the blood and lymph systems. Proteins on their surface, called lectins, are attracted to certain sugar molecules found on the surface of most cells. When several begin to attach in one area, a cluster is formed and the potential for a new cancer site is established. Research efforts have recently focused on the search for compounds that can attach to the lectins on the surface of cancer cells and keep them from clumping and/or attaching to normal cells. One natural product has repeatedly shown promise in preventing cancer metastases. It’s a form of pectin, a complex carbohydrate that is commonly used for gelling jams, jellies, yogurt, et cetera. If you’ve made homemade jams or jellies, the recipe most likely called for the addition of ordinary pectin. Pectin is found in practically all plants. It’s the structural fiber that helps give the cell walls of the plant their shape and strength. Years ago, when fiber was a leading health topic and hot-selling supplement, there was considerable interest in pectin, particularly citrus pectin. Earlier research had shown that supplementing the diet with pectin can improve bowel function and health, lower cholesterol, and help prevent cardiovascular disease. Some of these benefits stem from the increase in dietary fiber, and others from the unique chemical makeup of pectin itself. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, researchers began to experiment with modified citrus pectin (MCP). This is pectin that’s processed to split the complex carbohydrates into smaller sugar units that can be absorbed into the bloodstream. MCP just happens to be rich in the same sugar molecule (galactose) that the proteins on cancer cells (lectins) attach to. Once the cancer cells are “locked on” to the MCP molecules, they lose their ability to clump or penetrate normal cells. They then circulate in the system until they either die or are destroyed by the immune system. And, by “locking up” or neutralizing these cancer cells, MCP also helps lighten the load of the body’s immune system. In one of the earliest studies, researchers compared MCP to regular citrus pectin and examined their respective effects on lung tumors in mice. The MCP-injected mice had a significant reduction in lung tumor formation, while those given regular pectin had a significant increase. (J Natl Cancer Inst 92;84:438–442) Galectins (the type of cancer cell lectins that attach to the sugar galactose) are found on cancer cells of the prostate, breast, colon, and larynx, and on lymphomas, melanomas, and glioblastomas. By binding to the galectins of these various cancer cells, MCP can help inhibit the cancer from growing and developing into the more advanced stages—as well as help prevent it from metastasizing. MCP appears to exhibit an anti-angiogenic effect as well, though how it does so is not known at this time. The Evidence Speaks Initial MCP products were fairly crude by today’s standards. Improved processing methods break the pectin into smaller molecular weight components, allowing it to be absorbed more readily into the bloodstream. The improved absorption increases the benefits, as reflected in the latest research. So far, most of the cancer research on MCP has been conducted on animals or with cells in the laboratory. The results, however, are impressive. Prostate Cancer Researchers at Wayne State University in Detroit found that by adding MCP to the drinking water of rats, prostate metastases could be reduced dramatically. A group of rats were injected with live prostate cancer cells. Four days later, two groups were treated by adding MCP to their drinking water (0.1 percent for one group and 1.0 percent in the other). The third group received no MCP. After 30 days, 15 of the 16 rats in the untreated group had cancer metastases in their lungs, compared to 7 of 14 rats who received MCP at the lower level and 9 out of the 16 receiving 1.0 percent MCP. Though roughly half the rats in each treated group developed tumors, it’s very significant that those rats that received the higher amount of MCP had an average of only one metastatic tumor—compared to an average of nine lung metastatic tumors in the untreated group. (J Natl Cancer Inst 95;87:331–332) In another study, this time looking at prostate cancer in men, MCP wasn’t tested to see how it would affect the cancer itself, but rather to see if it could lengthen the time it took for the level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to double in men who had failed previous conventional treatments (radiation, cryosurgery, or radical prostatectomy). An increasing PSA level is generally recognized as an indication that the cancer is progressing; the longer it takes for the level to double, the better the patient’s prognosis. In four of the seven patients the doubling time increased by over 30 percent. Three years later, all the patients were still alive. Based on the doubling times for these patients before they entered the study, it was expected that at least two of the men would have died during that time. (Paper presented at the International Conference on Diet and Prevention of Cancer; May 1999; Tampere, Finland) (As I’m sure many readers will remember, I don’t believe that the PSA test is a very useful diagnostic tool, mostly because single readings can be very misleading. It is a reasonable test to track the progress of a disease that’s already been diagnosed, however.) In another study to test for PSA doubling time, eight of ten patients responded to the MCP treatment. Their PSA doubling time more than doubled in half the patients, with increases ranging from 129 percent to 941 percent after 12 months of treatment. (Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 03;6:301–304) Breast Cancer In a study similar to the one above, rats were injected with human breast cancer cells and then treated with MCP orally. Those receiving the MCP experienced significant reductions in tumor growth, angiogenesis, and metastases. (J Natl Cancer Inst 02;94:1854–1862) Colon Cancer Colon tumors were implanted in mice. The control group received untreated water. The others received either a low dose of MCP (0.8 mg/mL) or a high dose of MCP (1.6 mg/mL) in their drinking water. When compared to the control group, the low dose resulted in a 38 percent decrease in tumor size, and the high dose treatment resulted in a 70 percent reduction in tumor size. (Altern Med Rev 00;5:546–552) Making the Move to Real Patients Clinically testing a natural therapy on cancer patients is extremely difficult. This is certainly understandable, since everyone wants the best possible outcome for the patients, who don’t always have the luxury of time. The case with MCP is no exception. It is only recently that testing has progressed to human cancer patients. When you look at the results, it’s important to remember that only patients with very advanced cancer, for whom all other treatments had failed and no other therapies were available, were allowed to participate. That happens to be the case with the very latest study from Germany. (Clin Med: Oncol 07;1:73–80) At the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, researchers treated 49 patients with MCP. The patients’ ages ranged from 36 to 82 years. All had advanced solid tumors (colorectal, prostate, breast, kidney, lung, cervix/uterus, liver, pharynx, pancreas, stomach, bile duct, cartilage, or skin). Ninety percent had metastases. Most had suffered from cancer for more than three years, and over half had been treated with several chemotherapy regimens and other programs. The focus was on determining how well the patients tolerated the MCP, whether they experienced an improvement in their quality of life, and whether there was a notable clinical benefit (reduction in pain levels, less need for medication, improved ability to perform daily activities, and weight gain). Based on the starting condition of the patients, no one expected any long-lasting anti-tumor response or cure, and there was none. All the patients tolerated the therapy without any significant difficulty. Twenty dropped out of the trial before the end for various reasons—mainly because of a worsening of their condition. As a result, only 29 of the original 49 patients were able to be evaluated after receiving two cycles of MCP treatment. (Each cycle consisted of 5 grams of MCP three times a day for a period of two weeks.) Considering the health of the patients at the beginning of this study, I found it remarkable that just over 20 percent experienced an overall clinical benefit along with an improvement in their quality of life. Furthermore, 12 out of the 49 patients showed a stabilized disease during the first 8 weeks of treatment and 10 remained stabilized over the 16-week period. In six patients the disease stabilized for longer than 24 weeks while on the MCP. And one patient with very advanced prostate cancer experienced a 50 percent drop in his PSA level after 16 weeks, significant improvements in clinical benefits and quality of life, and a reduction in overall pain. At first glance, these results don’t look too promising. After all, those individuals who have some form of cancer want more than to “live a little longer” or to be “stabilized”—they want to be completely free of the burden of their cancer. But remember that these were people whose condition had been dismissed as hopeless. At that point, a cancer patient’s body is usually so depleted that any benefit at all, even some relief from pain, is seen as nearly a miracle. Given what we know about how MCP works, and given these latest findings, it’s obvious that MCP can and should be used very early in the treatment of cancer and not just at the end stages of the disease. The results in animals have already been very positive and now with these encouraging results we can expect to see the same in humans. Many doctors are afraid of recommending any natural therapy in the treatment of cancer unless there is supporting research data they could fall back on in the event of a lawsuit or disciplinary action by some regulatory board or government agency. It often takes studies like this one to first demonstrate the therapy is tolerable and doesn’t cause any worsening of a patient’s condition before it becomes a mainstream form of treatment. Initial research like this study provides the protection that physicians are looking for, and hopefully it will initiate the use of MCP in earlier-stage cancer patients and we’ll begin to see the true potential of MCP therapy. Prevention as Well as Treatment There’s another area where I feel MCP should be used routinely, and that’s for biopsies. I reported before how biopsies can actually increase the risk of spreading a cancer. When you cut or puncture a tumor, cancerous cells are released into the surrounding tissue where they can be picked up by the bloodstream or lymph system and transported practically anywhere in the body. And while the newer needle biopsies are less invasive, studies have shown there is still an increased risk of spreading the cancer throughout the needle trail. Taking 15 grams a day of MCP (5 grams three times a day) for a week before the procedure and then for two to four weeks afterward is the recommended dose for those undergoing a biopsy. MCP has an absolute lack of toxicity. Repeated animal studies have shown it reduces the size and number of tumors, as well as the size and number of metastases. It should be an integral part of any therapeutic program to treat or even prevent cancer. Choosing the Dose In practically all of the cancer studies, a dosage of 15 grams a day was used (5 grams taken three times during the day). This dosage for cancer is generally used as long as the cancer is active or present; a year is not unreasonable. After that period, a generally recommended maintenance dose is usually 3 to 5 grams daily. Again, it’s totally safe. There are no serious side effects, but it’s possible that some people might initially experience a little intestinal gas or mild stomach discomfort. This is temporary and not uncommon when increasing the amount of any type of fiber in the diet. I don’t know of any specific studies on the safety of MCP being used by pregnant or lactating mothers. There’s no problem with food grade citrus pectin, so I couldn’t see where MCP would be an issue, but again there are no specific studies to support that. The studies I outlined above utilized a product called PectaSol, which is marketed in this country by EcoNugenics. You can contact them at www.econugenics.com/MCP, or call them at 800-521-0160. This is the only MCP product I feel comfortable recommending. There’s no other product of this caliber on the market, and it has decades of research and use to support its claims of effectiveness. EcoNugenics has been on the cutting edge of MCP since the beginning. In fact, the German prostate study above utilized their latest product, which is just now being released, called PectaSol-C. Through a complicated, proprietary process they’ve been able to reduce the size (molecular weight) of the pectin components—improving their absorbability and, hence, their effectiveness. As a reader of Alternatives, you’re hearing about this new research and new product before anyone else. The company has agreed to make PectaSol-C available to readers of Alternatives before anyone else has a chance at it. Not only that, they’ve generously agreed to provide a discounted offer: If you buy three jars, they’ll send a fourth one along for free. Contact them at the above Web address or phone number, and be sure to mention that you’re a reader of Alternatives. I realize that as lengthy as this article has turned out to be, I’m able to give you only a brief summary of the studies that describe the benefits of MCP. If you’d like even more of the details of those studies, you can get an in-depth report from the maker of PectaSol-C. It’s available as a free downloadable file on their Web site, at www.econugenics.com/MCPreport. If you’ve been with me long enough that you remember my earlier writings about MCP, you may also remember that I discussed using it to treat prostate cancer. But the new evidence is so powerful that I believe PectaSol-C would be of benefit to any individual who has any type of cancer. Treating Cancer With Shark Cartilage (blocks new blood vessel growth) During childhood, the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) is essential. During this period, blood must be delivered to expanding organs and other body tissues. Angiogenesis in adults, however, can have disastrous effects. One of the most life-threatening circumstances dependent on new blood vessel growth is cancer. Cancer cells are, basically, normal cells that have only one function—reproduction. In their frenzy of uncontrolled growth, a haphazard maze of blood vessels develop, which must constantly be expanded and replaced. This constant drain of nutrients combined with the subsequent flood of toxic wastes, places an enormous strain on the body’s reserves. Eventually, the growing tumor mass begins to crowd and divert precious resources away from the vital organs. This eventually leads to their destruction and, ultimately, the death of the host organism. For decades, the majority of research efforts have concentrated on treating cancer with radiation, surgery, and toxic chemicals. It was only in the mid-1980s that a few farsighted researchers began concentrating their efforts on finding substances that would stop angiogenesis. The late Dr. Judah Folkman, of Children’s Hospital in Boston, is considered the pioneer in the study of angiogenesis and its role in cancer inhibition. [Dr. Folkman has shown that if a tumor can’t develop its own blood supply, it will stop growing when it reaches 1 to 2 cubic mm—the size of a pencil point. (Sci 87;235:442–447) Remember that 1 mm is only 0.04 inches!] It was a member of Dr. Folkman’s research team, Dr. Robert Langer of MIT, who discovered the benefits of shark cartilage. Initial studies were performed on rabbits. In one eye, tumors and tiny shark cartilage pellets were implanted in the cornea. In the other eye, tumors and identical-sized pellets without shark extract were implanted. After 19 days, the animals were sacrificed because the tumor masses in the untreated eyes had continued to grow unchecked. They had become “three-dimensional and necrotic.” The tumors next to the implanted shark cartilage pellets, however, showed little evidence of any growth or new blood vessel formation. Next, came research from Belgium showing that oral dosage of dried shark cartilage extract was just as effective as injecting it! Cancerous animals given the oral shark cartilage extract showed practically no tumor growth. In fact, after 21 days, their tumors were about 60 percent of their original size. On the other hand, after 21 days, the tumors in animals not taking the extract were 2.5 times their original size! (This unpublished study was performed at the prestigious cancer research center in Brussels, Belgium, Institut Jules Bordet, by Dr. G. Atassi in late 1989.) What’s amazing in all of these studies, is that shark cartilage extract doesn’t appear to have any direct effect on the tumors themselves. It works instead, by simply interrupting the blood supply and formation of new lymph and blood vessels. (J Appl Biochem Biotech 83;8:9) This probably explains why no toxicity was reported in all the studies performed in the last seven or eight years. Studies have been conducted in humans as well, though, as in the case with the MCP I wrote about in the May 2008 issue, the studies so far have been done using individuals who were already severely ill and for whom other forms of treatment had failed. The results show remarkable benefits for both quality of life and longevity: reduction in pain, reduction in tumor size, recovery of energy, and simple survival. I am frequently asked if I think shark cartilage could be used as a preventive measure against cancer. It seems that it could be, however there’s no long-term hard data to support this. I’ll be the first to admit that more research needs to be done, but I can tell you one thing for sure: If I had a history of either breast or prostate cancer (among others), I’d definitely be taking shark cartilage to help prevent any reccurrence. It’s a therapy that appears to provide enormous benefits while causing little, if any, adverse side effects. As a supplement, shark cartilage is expensive. As an adjunct to cancer treatment, it’s a bargain. A single 750 mg capsule of the extract retails for more than 30 cents, and a 400 gram jar is more than $80. The normal initial dosage in cancer cases, is 60 grams per day (split in equal dosages and taken 10 to 15 minutes before each meal). Once in remission, many reduce the dosage to one capsule for every 11 pounds of their body weight. (As in the study mentioned earlier, dosages given to animals is generally 750 mg for every 11 pounds of body weight.) Shark cartilage extract is a true breakthrough. It is non-toxic, and easy for anyone to administer, since oral consumption is the most effective route of delivery. And maybe, most important of all, it can be used in conjunction with any other form of cancer therapy whether conventional or otherwise. (Regardless of whether a person chooses chemotherapy, surgery or laetrile or Gerson therapy, shark cartilage extract can still be used safely and effectively without fear of jeopardizing any positive results!) Even still, there are a few instances when new blood vessel growth is necessary in adults and shark cartilage isn’t recommended. Some examples include: after a recent heart attack or certain types of strokes where development of collateral circulation is encouraged; during pregnancy; in cases of non-healing fractures and during muscle building programs. Over the years, I’ve seen hundreds of cancer treatment therapies come and go. While shark cartilage extract may not be the final answer, its unique ability to inhibit angiogenesis makes it an extremely viable adjunct to all cancer treatment programs. Modern Medicine Versus Nature in Treating Cancer by Tony Isaacs (NaturalNews) In contrast to at least 6000 years of the practice of natural medicine, Western medicine treats the body as a collection of parts instead of as a synergistic organism. When it comes to treating broken bones and injured body parts, mainstream Western medicine is unequaled. When this same approach is used to treat illness and disease - fixing or repairing the parts where the symptoms of underlying illnesses manifest themselves, modern medicine fails miserably In the instance of cancer, instead of addressing the causes of cancer - toxins, pathogens and a weakened immune system - we see instead treatments that either slash, burn or poison away the tumors and cancer cells, which further weakens an immune system cancer has already defeated and only worsens the conditions that led to cancer to begin with. Even if initially successful at getting rid of existing cancer cells and tumors, the end result is a weakened body which may have major organ damage and which is more susceptible to the reappearance of the original cancer, as well as other forms of cancer and diseases. For half a century or more, we have been told that a breakthrough or cure for cancer is just around the corner, yet the death rates for cancer remain virtually unchanged. Meanwhile, effective natural and alternative treatments which address and correct the actual causes of cancer continue to enjoy much greater success than the largely failed mainstream treatments - even as these natural alternatives are suppressed and come under increasing attack by the medical establishment. Profit plays a huge role in Western medicine and, because nature cannot be patented, there is no profit in conducting studies on natural remedies for cancer and illness. In fact, if studies were to prove the effectiveness of natural alternatives and those alternatives were to be approved for use in treating cancer and other illnesses, the result would be to admit cheaper, safer and more effective competition into a fiercely guarded market. Instead, such alternatives are heavily suppressed, discredited and passed off as "snake oil" and "voodoo medicine". The cold, hard fact is that cancer and other degenerative and chronic illnesses are big business - to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. When their only market place is our bodies, the vested interests of the trillion dollar world pharmaceutical empire, mainstream medicine and the institutions which depend on maintaining the status quo are not likely to allow such natural competition, even though the cost is millions of needless deaths and untold suffering. A better plan for maintaining and increasing profit is to continue to bring new drugs into the market place which treat only symptoms and have serious side effects that lead to still more drugs in a never ending cycle so that by the time a male American reaches 65 years of age, he takes an average of 15 prescribed and over the counter medications every day - when it all started out with one or two conditions that could have been treated safely and effectively by natural means. A good model for profit, but a horrible one for humanity. We now have over 15,000 patented and approved drugs, 95% of which have significant side effects. It is no accident that our doctors have been taught for generations, just as we have been, that the way to treat illness and disease is to prescribe approved medications – medications that are made by the single largest source by far of funding for medical education: the world pharmaceutical companies. What exactly has this mountain of medicine actually cured in the past half century? Certainly not cancer! By far the most effective way to beat and avoid cancer is to remove the causes of cancer and to make your body as inhospitable to cancer and illness as possible. To understand what steps we should and can take, we should understand what we know about cancer: We know that: * The development of cancer indicates that our natural first line of defense, our immune system, has been defeated and that the presence of either toxins and pathogens, or some imbalance in our bodies have led to the development of cancer and enabled it to gain an upper hand. * Cancer cannot develop without an impaired liver. * Cancer cannot survive in an alkaline environment, nor can it survive in a highly oxygenated environment. * Detoxing and cleansing our colons and liver helps restore balance, prepares our bodies to be better able to utilize natural immune boosters and cancer fighters and paves the way to rebuilding our livers and immune systems. * Cancerous cells are diseased, impaired and/or beset by pathogens and have lost the ability to die naturally via cellular apoptosis and be replaced by healthy cells. These cancerous cells simply become abnormal and outlive the other cells in their normal cell life/replacement cycle and end up crowding out a territory over time. * Iodine, vitamin D, and potassium are all vital to beat and ward off cancer. * Fresh air, pure water and sunshine are also vital to maintain healthy bodies which can fight off and beat conditions like cancer. * A natural diet of uncontaminated raw vegetables and raw fruits, with plenty of omega-3’s and balanced nutrition has been proven to be effective in numerous natural anti-cancer protocols. * A great number of natural botanicals and supplements, such as those containing beta glucans and other long-chain polysacharrides, the oleander remedy I have written about, Colloidal Silver, Inositol (IP-6), the ABM mushroom, South Africa's "Cancer Bush" sutherlandia frutescans, cat's claw, pau d'arco, corialus versicolor mushroom, and many others have been proven to boost the immune system, destroy pathogens, protect our cells, and beat cancer. * Sugar feeds cancer. * Stress contributes to cancer and prevents recovery from cancer. And so, when we go to an oncologist and are diagnosed with cancer what is the prescribed treatment? Does it incorporate ANY of the above elements? No, sadly it does not. Our doctor prescribes what he or she has been taught: cut out, radiate or poison the symptom and do nothing to address the underlying causes and natural imbalances that led to the symptom. As a result, the way is paved for the return of the cancer or the introduction of another cancer or serious condition. Even worse, the road to further illness is often made easier due to the damage to the immune system and major organs caused by the treatment of the symptom. Nature, on the other hand, enables us to address virtually every area of knowledge and concern. In a future installment, we will take a look at a suggested protocol based on what nature has to offer. Until then, Live long, live healthy, live happy! See: www.cancertutor.com --- Healing Illness - A Natural Anti-Cancer Protocol (NaturalNews) Western medicine treats the body as a collection of parts instead of as a synergistic organism. When it comes to treating broken bones and injured body parts, mainstream Western medicine is unequaled. When this same approach is used to treat illness and disease - fixing or repairing the parts where the symptoms of underlying illnesses manifest themselves - modern medicine fails miserably In the instance of cancer, instead of addressing the causes of cancer - toxins and a weakened immune system - we see instead treatments that either slash, burn or poison away the tumors and cancer cells, which further weakens an immune system cancer has already defeated and only worsens the conditions that led to cancer to begin with. As a result, the way is paved for the return of the cancer or the introduction of another cancer or serious condition. Even worse, the road to further illness is often made easier due to the damage to the immune system and major organs caused by the treatment of the symptom. Nature, on the other hand, gives us an array of tools to beat cancer and the underlying causes that lead to cancer, including foods, vitamins, minerals, supplements and lifestyle choices. Here is a suggested protocol based on what we know about cancer and its causes and what nature and lifestyle choices have to offer: As soon as possible, cleanse your body to get rid of built-up toxins like heavy metals and pesticides, as well as the undigested food, fecal matter and gallstones that build up in the body by cleansing your colon and liver and by chelation to rid the body of heavy metals. Such contaminants are breeding grounds for, and causes of, disease and illness. A toxic and unclean body weakens the body's immune system that should be your first line of defense. Plus, once cleansed, the body is much more receptive to the good measures you take to rebuild your immune system and fight disease. Cleanse your environment to the greatest extent possible and eliminate bad habits. In an ideal world, you would move to the country where there was plenty of fresh air and sunshine and less stress. In the real world you may not find that possible, so eliminate common toxins in your household, workplace and other places you spend time. If you have mercury amalgam fillings in your teeth, have them replaced. In many instances, this step alone has led to the elimination of cancer. Immediately eliminate bad habits and begin building good ones so that you will make sure that you no longer have habits that weaken your immune system and that you will be able to build your body to fight and conquer illness. A sedentary lifestyle with a poor diet, lack of pure water, sunshine (avoid 10am-2pm when your shadow is shorter than you) and fresh air, and constant exposure to toxins will in time lead to bad health conditions. Remember, bad health habits are open invitations for illness and disease to enter your body. Begin and maintain a healthy immune-boosting and cancer fighting diet. A good balanced diet, pure water, fresh air, sunshine and exercise are some of the essentials. You will find that a good diet does not have to be a bad tasting diet – far from it! However, it should be noted that the very best and most healthy diet is one that is close to the diet our ancestors evolved to utilize: lots of fresh and uncooked vegetables, fruits, nuts, roots and tubers, and fish and meat uncontaminated by growth hormones, artificial fertilizers or pesticides – and little or no grain or dairy products. It should be noted that of all the foods, essentially only raw vegetables and fruits contribute to an alkaline pH. Rebuild and strengthen the body's natural immune system. It is very likely that a weakened immune system contributed to your illness in the first place. It is absolutely certain that a rebuilt and strengthened immune system will help you beat your illness and keep it at bay. Again, good diet, nutrition and habits are all important – they lay the foundation for a strong and healthy immune system. However, they are not enough by themselves. You should build a good foundation and then make your body a healthy fortress against disease and illness. Quite simply, disease and illness hate healthy hosts. The stronger your immune system is, the harder it is for disease to survive and grow. And, to be the very strongest you can be, you need extra measures in the form of supplements as well as the healthiest foods. An oleander extract, very much like you get when you make oleander soup, was tested in Europe in 1986-1987 and found to have six times the immune stimulating activity of the most powerful immune stimulators known to man. Cleanse, restore and protect the liver before, during and after your anti-cancer and disease battle. Cancer cannot develop unless the liver is impaired to begin with. Plus, an effective cancer fighting regimen will result in the release of a cascade of toxins that are released when cancer cells die. Such a release can overwhelm an already impaired liver and can even be fatal if measures are not taken to protect and regenerate the liver. Some of the very best antioxidants used to protect and regenerate the liver are the ones used in the Berkson Clinical Study: Milk Thistle (silymarin), alpha lipoic acid and selenium. Balance your pH by using Metabolic Typing (another page on this website) and get plenty of oxygen at the cellular level. Cancer cannot survive in the presence of highly oxygenated cells. Dr. Johanna Budwig of Germany has shown that for proper cellular utilization of oxygen to take place our diets must contain adequate amounts of unsaturated fatty acids. Make sure you have plenty of iodine, potassium and Vitamin D. All have been proven to be essential in beating and avoiding cancer. As mentioned above, cancer cells have lost the ability to be shut off by the body in what is called cellular apoptosis. These cancerous cells simply become abnormal and outlive the other cells in their normal cell life/replacement cycle and end up crowding out a territory over time. Iodine goes in and both does away with the surrounding cyst where cancer has set up residence and then also goes in and allows the specific shut down of the individual cells that are abnormal, diseased, or beset with pathogens to make room for new cells. Drink plenty of pure water and get plenty of fresh air and sunshine. Water is essential for all healthy life; however, regular tap water contains trace amounts of hundreds to thousands of pesticides, carcinogens and other industrial pollutants. For that reason, the author recommends only the purest drinking water, such as reverse osmosis filtered water. Don't overdo the sunshine, but sunshine is essential to the production of vitamin D, and strange as it may sound, has been found to be essential in warding off melanoma as well as other cancers. Exercise in moderation. Regular exercise does not have to be grueling, but it is essential. Exercise stimulates the immune system, stimulates the production of natural human growth hormone, stimulates the production of hormones and pheromones that make us happier and healthier, and simply leads to a longer and happier life period. Innumerable studies have demonstrated the overall health benefits of exercise and the negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle lacking in exercise. It is not a coincidence that studies have shown that those who exercise only a few hours each week have up to 50% less chance of developing many different kinds of cancer. Trace minerals are essential in beating cancer and are in fact essential to virtually all of the body's important processes when it comes to utilizing vitamins, minerals and enzymes for good health. Two hundred years ago, the top layer of our soil contained up to 80 or more different minerals. Today, farming has stripped soils the world over of all but a handful of minerals, and even those remaining minerals are at levels that are only fractions of what were in the soil 100 years ago and continuing to decline. Man was designed to utilize at least 60 trace minerals on a daily basis, and did so for thousands of years by eating the plants that processed such minerals (and the animals that ate the plants with processed minerals). The only way to get an adequate supply now is to supplement, and the very best supplementation is from plant derived minerals, such as those that come from the famous prehistoric vegetable plant deposits in Utah and contain 75 trace minerals. Those who take them regularly report remarkable improvements in their health (and the author himself takes them religiously each and every day). The next element of beating your disease and keeping it at bay is to go on the attack. As a matter of fact, all of the elements of this anti-cancer and disease protocol are elements of attack, because they make the body strong and inhospitable to disease. What I am talking about here is more than just making the body inhospitable to your disease – I am talking about going on the attack and wiping it out! In the case of cancer, there are many very potent anti-cancer supplements, such as the ones listed above and several others. One such supplement, named Sutherlandia OPC (not to be confused with the European antioxidant of the same name), based on a remedy I have researched and written about, has been used for the past three plus years in South Africa to treat HIV and cancer. Of well over 400 HIV patients, all are still alive and well with their symptoms either reversed or stabilized. Of over 100 cancer patients, only 8 did not survive (5 were in their very final days and could not hold down the supplement and another three succumbed to organ failure as a likely result of prior traditional Western treatment via chemo). All the rest, save two who stopped taking the supplement once the tumors were gone and returned to their old lifestyles (and had the cancer return), are now alive and cancer free or else have their cancers in remission and tumors continuing to shrink. Compare that with the results of any mainstream medicine or treatment! Perhaps the supreme cancer destroyer I have found is Inositol/IP6, such as is found in the product Cell Forte. A one to two month intensive regimen is best. According to several users I have spoken with, it seems to just melt away tumors in a very short time period, and works well to normalize the PSA readings in prostate cancer sufferers. One caution - Inositol/IP6 may deplete minerals and/or interfere with mineral absorption, especially calcium and magnesium. Be sure to get plenty of Calcium and Magnesium (a good thing to do anyway) and take a good mineral supplement, preferably plant derived minerals (a second good thing to do anyway). Also, I believe that it is good to only take a maintenance dose most of the time and to take occasional breaks from the maintenance dose of up to one month. No more than one or two yearly intensive regimens is recommended. Colloidal Silver is another must in my opinion - it has been shown to be deadly to single cell organisms and pathogens. The caution with Colloidal Silver is that it is not specific and you need to supplement with probiotics (yet another good thing to do anyway - especially after cleanses). Many recommend that colloidal silver be taken with colloidal gold because gold appears to enhance the silver's actions when cancer is present. Also effective are the genuine Rife type machines, although they are hard to find and many inferior machines parading as Rife machines are out there. Remember, what you avoid can be just as important as what you consume: Avoid sugar and white starch to the greatest extent possible. Sugar feeds cancer and other illnesses and causes a myriad of other health problems. Refined sugar is also the number one single cause of health problems in the entire world! Likewise avoid bread and other items containing bleached white flour, which is essentially empty and harmful calories that convert to sugar once ingested. Other items to avoid include non-fermented soy, pork, MSG, ALL charred foods and foods cooked at high temperature, aluminum and coated cookware, micro-waved food, food in plastic containers and styrofoam. Find out your metabolic type in order to find out what to eat and what to avoid: one man's food is another's poison! The final key to winning your battle is your mental attitude. Remove as much stress from your life as you can and believe that you are going to win. Stress and worry accomplish nothing – worse, they are actually allies of illness and disease. You have surely heard the term "stress, the silent killer"? It's true! So you must do whatever it takes to remove stress from your life and make your mental attitude your ally. Practice EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), meditate, take yoga, change jobs, retire, go fishing, find a pleasant hobby – do whatever you must to remove stress and have a positive mental outlook. Just remember, anyone who introduces or keeps worry and stress in your life is neither a friend nor an ally during this fight. And make no mistake, it is a fight - likely the most important one of your life. But it is a fight you can and will win. Think it, believe it and live it! Some in the field of natural health will tell you that you can beat cancer through diet alone, or through diet and detoxing. In many instances that is true, and some of the most effective and popular natural anti-cancer protocols are based on such a premise. However, in my opinion, the more weapons you have in your natural arsenal, the greater your chances of success will be. That is why I advocate including one or more of the powerful natural supplements that have been proven to beat cancer and boost the immune system, and which address what we know about cancer. Our depleted soils and the introduction of modern industrial toxins and contaminants makes it hard to build a strong enough immune system through diet alone. Our immune systems were not designed to handle the multitude of modern toxins we now face, which is why cancer is largely a modern disease. As a final note: for those of you who continue to believe the big lie that the harsh and ineffective options offered by mainstream medicine (and its half century record of broken promises to deliver a cure or significant breakthrough) are superior to nature, I ask: When did God become a quack? Live long, live healthy, live happy! The Secret History of the War on Cancer A short while ago, a good family friend told me about a recently published book called "The Secret History of the War on Cancer," written by Dr. Devra Davis. In reviewing this book and listening to an NPR interview with Dr. Davis, I am convinced that it is the most important book that has ever been written about environmental causes of cancer. To learn more about "The Secret History of the War on Cancer," please view: http://drbenkim.com/secret-history-war-cancer.html To listen to the NPR interview with Dr. Davis, set your browser to this page . Here are a few of the highlights from Dr. Davis' work: * Aspartame can be a significant cause of cancer, and was only approved for use when Donald Rumsfeld performed his magic with government officials in 1981. * "A group of researchers at Yale now estimate that radiation from CT scans of the head and abdomen will kill 2,500 people a year." * Cellphones and ritalin DO pose dangers to human health, despite claims to the contrary made by spokespeople and "researchers" for these industries. In short, this is a must-read book for anyone who wants a good understanding of major environmental causes of cancer, and wants to be able to share this information with family and friends who continue to put their faith and dollars in conventional cancer fund-raising campaigns. Once again, the link to the review of this book can be found here. To read my thoughts on the "cure" for cancer, please feel free to view a blog entry that I published a short while ago on this topic: http://drbenkim.com/cure-for-cancer.html The Secret History of the War on Cancer For many years now, I have explained to questioning family members and friends why I cannot support conventional cancer-fighting fundraising campaigns. I am not completely against conventional medical treatment options for different types of cancer. For example, for a good number of people that I have worked with over the past several years, I have fully supported and encouraged surgical excision of malignant tumours. My wariness of the mainstream cancer-fighting industry pertains to what I believe is excessive and often times inappropriate use of chemotherapy and radiation, as well as the lack of attention that is given to relevant environmental and personal lifestyle factors. At long last, a devastating and truly noteworthy book on this topic has been published. It's called The Secret History of the War on Cancer, written by Devra Davis, PhD, MPH. I am grateful to have the permission of Andrew Nikiforuk, a well known Canadian journalist, to share his impressive review of Dr. Davis' book. I earnestly hope that The Secret History of the War on Cancer becomes a bestseller, as I believe that the people of our world desperately need to absorb its message. *** Andrew Nikiforuk's Review of The Secret History of the War on Cancer, written by Devra Davis, PhD, MPH. In 1936, the world's cancer experts assembled in Brussels to talk shop. The gathering heard a lot about workshop hazards and environmental toxins. A British scientist, who had studied identical twins, argued that cancer wasn't inherited, but mostly the product of early chemical exposures in life. A meticulous Argentine showed how sunlight combined with hydrocarbons could sprout tumours on rats. Others explained how regular exposure to the hormone estrogen prompted male rodents to grow unseemly breasts. Everyone agreed that arsenic and benzene were workplace killers, too. Since then, the cancer establishment has retreated from the truth faster than Canada's commitment to a greener country. What began as sincere investigation into the economic root causes of a complex set of 200 different diseases, at the turn of the 20th century, quickly degenerated into a single-minded focus on treatments after the Second World War, argues Devra Davis, one of North America's sharpest epidemiologists (her previous book, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, was a finalist for the National Book Award). In the process, industry and its propaganda hit men have used every opportunity to discredit, dismiss or disparage information on cancer hazards in the workplace or at home. So let me warn comfortable readers here and now. This courageous and altogether horrible book is about as unsettling as it can get. It painstakingly documents such a persistently foul pattern of deceit and denial that I often wanted to throw it against a wall and scream. Furthermore, Davis's hair-raising investigation - in what is easily the most important science book of the year - will rob you of any lingering, Disney-like fantasies you might have entertained about the nobility of cancer fundraising campaigns. And if you have lost a relative or friend to a malignant tumour (odds are you have), Davis will make you weep again, knowing that fraud and outright criminal neglect have turned a 40-year-long medical war into a questionable $70-billion charade. Even Davis can't hide her own disbelief at times: "Astonishing alliances between naive or far too clever academics and folks with major economic interests in selling potentially cancerous materials have kept us from figuring out whether or not many modern products affect our chances of developing cancer." She then diligently documents, for example, how some of the world's most prominent cancer researchers, such as the late Sir Richard Doll, the epidemiologist who was instrumental in linking smoking to health problems, secretly worked for chemical firms without disclosing these ties when publishing studies. Davis, a modern scientist committed to moral clarity, knows her stuff and then some. After decades of front-line battles against air polluters, she now heads the world's first Centre on Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. She too has smelled and felt cancer firsthand, having lost two parents and many friends, including the comic Andrea Martin*, to the disease. She shines, in short, with a burning indignation about the abuse of power in medicine. Her angry history of the way free and open discourse on cancers in the workplace has become as elusive as meaningful political debates reveals the rot with the bluntness of a chemo treatment. When men who bottled liquid lead as a gasoline additive in the 1920s started to drop like flies, General Motors blamed the workers and called lead a "natural contaminant." When dye-makers at DuPont got bladder cancer from working with benzidine in the 1930s, the company, like an errant spouse, first denied the findings. Then they refused to record cases. Finally, they suppressed or delayed publishing the results. After inhaling tar and poisonous fumes from coke ovens, black steel workers succumbed to waves of lung cancer in the 1950s. Yet industry argued that blacks were just more vulnerable to lung-consuming tumours. It took an enterprising study of dying Mormon coke-oven workers to challenge the lie. Damning studies on the health of asbestos workers couldn't find a home in the 1930s, and to this day, Canada shamefully remains an exporter of the lung destroyer. Benzene, a true-blue leukemia-maker that can cause workers to bleed out, has been the subject of 100 years of deceit and denial. When Myron Mehlman, a toxicologist with Mobil Oil, told Japanese officials in 1989 that gasoline with 5-per-cent benzene was damned dangerous and shouldn't be sold, the company fired him. Davis reports that ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Shell have invested $27-million in China to "contradict earlier claims that link exposure to low- and mid-levels of benzene to cancers and other diseases." In 1986, researcher William Fayerweather put together a computerized system for tracking the health of every worker at DuPont's chemical plants. Davis found that "neither he nor his system any longer work for DuPont." She reports that men and women who produced computer chips for IBM are now dying young from cancers of the breast, bone marrow and kidney. While China now leads a global economic boom, it's also exploring new opportunities for cancer. Even its secretive, Ottawa-like government now concedes that the country's industries use the nation's rivers as industrial urinals. Not surprisingly, China now lists cancer as its number-one killer. Many of Davis's findings simply stunned me. Consider the invasion of computerized imaging technology (CT scans) in modern medicine. Since its invention in the 1970s, CT scanning has become a $100-billion industry that creates nifty three-dimensional images, yet exposes patients to radiation. CT scans have become such a favoured technology that one in every three scans recommended for children is probably unnecessary. In the last 25 years, the amount of radiation zapping North Americans from scanning and the like has increased fivefold. Now ponder this stunner: "Modern America's annual exposure to radiation from diagnostic machines is equal to that released by a nuclear accident that spewed the equivalent of hundreds of Hiroshimas across much of Russia and Eastern Europe." Most physicians don't know that a typical CT scan equals 400 chest X-rays. A group of researchers at Yale now estimate that radiation from CT scans of the head and abdomen will kill 2,500 people a year. Davis also presents some disturbing data on aspartame, cellphones and Ritalin. Armed with what a prominent toxicologist would later describe as "uninterpretable and worthless" studies on aspartame, Donald Rumsfeld, then CEO of Searle & Co. (since acquired by Monsanto), used his formidable political contacts to gain government approval for the food additive in 1981. Yet the U.S. Air Force still reports that aspartame "can cause serious brain problems in pilots." Despite whatever malarkey you might have read, cellphone users still have double the risk of brain cancer and folks under 18 years of age really shouldn't be using them. Ritalin, the drug to slow kids down, can rearrange an individual's chromosomes, yet in some school districts more than 10 per cent of the students are now on the drug. As Davis notes, "Highly profitable industries have no incentive to ask whether the products on which they depend may have adverse consequences." Each and every chapter in this book offers a uncomfortable revelation. Pioneering research on the deadly effects of tobacco and environmental hormones by the Nazis secretly found its way to many of U.S. corporations producing the same questionable goods. The American Cancer Society spends less than 10 per cent of its billion-dollar budget on independent studies. The great Wilhelm Hueper, the bold pathologist who wrote the book on "occupational tumours," suffered one indignity after another for simply reporting the dangers of uranium mining. And on it goes. So, the strange reality of cancer fighting truly reads like one of Kafka's nightmares. Most of the 100,000 chemicals commonly used in commerce have not been tested. Their proliferation in the workplace has created a cancer epidemic and a medical-business industry to treat it. Given the toxic nature of many cancer treatments, including radiation and chemotherapy, Davis claims that cancer researchers and cancer physicians are dying in record numbers. Davis not only sheds light on this darkness, she also opens many hopeful doors. She celebrates tough, rural, blue-collar mothers who have taken on the companies that have riddled their children with cancer-makers. And she welcomes groups such as Health Care Without Harm, a novel coalition focused on getting toxic products out of hospitals. But her remarkable and disturbing history ultimately illuminates another hidden hydrocarbon holocaust. Our frightful addiction to fossil fuels has not only fouled the atmosphere but given us a wealth of chemicals, plastics and technologies that increasingly undoes the health of millions with cancers. It, too, has given us rich armies of PR men employing "the same expert public relations strategies that kept us tied in knots on tobacco." Davis knows that changing medical perspectives and priorities, from treatment to prevention, will be an enormous task. But she does not despair. In fact she ends her book with a simple Talmudic story. Faced with a complicated assignment, a group of workers rhyme off the usual excuses: They haven't got the tools or they haven't got the energy. But a good rabbi (sounding much like Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings) sets them straight: "It is not for you to complete the task," he says. "But you must begin." Davis's masterful book has shown us why we must begin rethinking cancer research and treatment now for our children's sake. The book at amazon.com: The Secret History of the War on Cancer To listen to an NPR interview with Dr. Devra Davis, click here: Devra Davis: Chemicals, Cancer and You Andrew Nikiforuk [http://andrewnikiforuk.com/] has written extensively about the cancerous legacy of uranium and oil sands mining in northern Canada. He is the author of Pandemonium [10], about how global trade and climate change threaten food security. Glyconutrients, Sugars and Polysaccharides Some books that you might be interested in for further research that explain about glyconutrients and cellular messaging, and the roles that mono- and polysaccharides and good and bad sugars play in our immune system and cancer. I would advise studying all of them in order to get a more complete picture, rather than just one or two, as each presents information missing in the others. One of the things mentioned is that we eat way too much glucose, fructose and galactose, and the other 5 essential sugars for our immune systems to recognize "friend" or "foe" are totally lacking in our diets today. From Dr. Blaylock: Avoid fruit juices. While fruit juices contain many anti-cancer flavonoids and vitamins, they also are high in sugar and many have high levels of fluoride. This is especially true for most commercial grape juices. Vegetable blenders (such as the Vitamix) have two real advantages over juicers. First, they do not waste anything. In addition to the thousands of nutrients inside them, plants contain numerous, often powerful phytochemicals on the outside of their leaves and stems. Among these phytochemicals are glycoproteins and polysaccharides which regulate immunity. Furthermore, plant pulp contains a lot of fiber. Second, vegetable blenders are a snap to clean. Not any blender will do, however. Rather, the machine must be powerful enough to turn vegetables and fruits into liquids (so that 95% of the nutrients are absorbed, versus 15-20% if chewed thoroughly). The vegetable blender that I have in my kitchen is the variable-speed Vita-Mix 5000. (Note: higher speeds will increase the contact temperature on the cutting edge of the blades and damage enzymes, so a variable speed blender is important). When blenderizing fruits and vegetables, of even more importance than using the right machine is choosing the right ingredients. In addition, you need to thoroughly clean the food with a safe vegetable wash before putting them in the machine. One of the common mistakes people make when preparing juice is using only their favorite vegetables or fruits, usually based upon taste. Using only one vegetable (or lot of one), such as carrots, is wrong for two reasons. First, some vegetables are very high in sugar and starch which can stimulate tumor growth. Second, you miss important phytochemicals found in other plants. Some special anticancer flavonoids are found only in certain vegetables and not others. Only by mixing a variety of specific types of vegetables can you take full advantage of these potent anticancer nutrients. Fruits are generally discouraged on the anticancer diet, despite the fact that they contain some very powerful anticancer and antioxidant flavonoids. They should be especially avoided by patients already having metastasis. Patients without metastasis can enjoy fruits with a low sugar content, such as strawberries, raspberries and grapefruit, but only in limited amounts. This means no more than half a cup a day. Low or sugar-free, concentrated fruit (particularly berry) extracts, such as ellagic acid/pomegranate/raspberry are a better choice. Note that they should not contain artificial sweeteners, either, except for stevia or Lo Han Guo. For more information, see Dr. Russell Blaylock's book, "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients" (http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Strategies-Patients-Russell-Blaylock/dp/0758202210). For a good explanation about alternative methods versus conventional, see: http://www.cancertutor.com/Other/NoCancer1.html "The 1931 Nobel laureate in medicine, German Otto Warburg, Ph.D., first discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells. The crux of his Nobel thesis was that malignant tumours frequently exhibit an increase in anaerobic glycolysis - - a process whereby glucose is used as a fuel by cancer cells with lactic acid as an anaerobic by-product - - compared to normal tissues. The large amount of lactic acid produced by this fermentation of glucose from cancer cells is then transported to the liver. This conversion of glucose to lactate generates a lower, more acidic pH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue from lactic acid build-up. Thus, larger tumours tend to exhibit a more acidic pH. But also understand that not all vegetables and fruits are equal at treating cancer. Some vegetables do not contribute significantly to treating cancer and some fruits do not contribute significantly to treating cancer (at least not that we know of at the current time). On the other hand, some vegetables are very potent cancer killers, as are some fruits. Q: If sugar is bad for people with cancer, how about honey, another simple sugar? A: Honey is a case of both a little good with a lot of bad. Honey contains simple sugars, the fructose (38 percent) and glucose (31 percent) feed cancer cells. Polysacharides and glucan molecules are not broken down into the particular sugar that feeds cancer -- glucose. Cancer doctors advise patients to use sugar-free extracts of ellagic acid/pomegranate, berries, etc. because the fruits themselves contain too much sugar. In fact, Blaylock advises no fruit at all with active cancer (only sugarless extracts in order to obtain the beneficial polyphenols without the harmful sugar), and afterwards only unripe fruit in strict moderation. He also advises to use very limited amounts of root vegetables, such as carrots, for the same reason. I have detailed information about which fruits and vegetables are best on my website. Cancer cells ferment sugar for energy, and cannot metabolize the lipids that normal cells do, nor develop energy in their mitochondria from ATP, so eating a lot of carbs and sugars are like throwing gasoline on a fire. Avemar has some impressive research, but Epicor, Immune Assist Critical Care, AHCC, MGN-3/PeakImmune4, PSP, PSK, AEC, and many other immune boosters do, too -- it's best to use several different types that boost different portions of the immune system. Fructose (as found in Avemar) causes a loss of serum glucose control in the blood, elevates LDL (bad) cholesterol and generates a lot of free radicals, among other detrimental things. For liver involvement, I would refer to the liver/detoxifying supplements on my website (Chemo Protocol and Cancer Protcol pages): 500mg curcumin and quercetin mixed well in 1TBS EV olive or purified fish oil 3 times a day; dandelion root, milk thistle extract, artichoke extract, etc. (whole herb standardized extracts). Parsley and the homeopathic Solidago and Bucco help with detoxification via the urinary system. Blending, not juicing, (juicing throws away the good pulp and skins) specific vegetables supports the intestines and all types of cancer. Calcium d-Glucarate, DIM, sulforaphane and other compounds found in lots of cruciferous vegetables, help with hormone-related cancers. Besides his book Dr. Blaylock has Breast, Prostate and two overall cancer newsletters that you can receive with a subscription(https://www.newsmaxstore.com/newsletters/blaylock/offer1.cfm). There is a lot of detail in Blaylock's book "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients" that I strongly recommend that you read. I have unfortunately seen many people die who insisted that sources of sugar (such as honey) and other unhealthy foods were okay for cancer just because they had the words "organic" or "natural" in front of them; just remember, "organic sugar will give you organic cancer (or diabetes)". It is true that there is no way to get rid of all sugar in your body. You wouldn't want to even if you could. For one thing your brain gets its energy from glucose, and you also need an adequate supply of eight specific simple sugars (monosaccharides) in order for your immune system to recognize friend and foe (there are actually surface receptors on various cells and pathogens that immune cells bump up against and "read") -- if your diet contains all eight. The problem is that we eat way too much of 3 of them and virtually none of the rest. See http://www.glycomannan.com/ for a good commercially-available product that I use and like (it's a lot less expensive than the MLM product, Mannatech's Ambrotose, that I used when I had active cancer). The object is to starve the cancer by not eating glucose, fructose and galactose in excess, and to get the proper amount of the remaining 5 sugars (glyconutrients / monosaccharides). It is correct that normal cells can derive their energy from fat -- and cancer cells cannot. I eat no glucose or white starch at all, and haven't for many years. As for carbs, I have a slice of Ezekiel sprouted whole-grain bread (lower in carbs than unsprouted) most days, and with 3 TBS of steel-cut (or whole) oats with 2 TBS of freshly-ground organic golden flaxseed and maybe 2 TBS of wild or brown rice at supper. That, along with 1 carrot in my vegetable juice blend and a banana or apple, supplies sufficient carbs/glucose for me now that I'm in maintenance mode. I use Stevia on my oats and no other sucrose, dextrose, glucose or fructose. I do take some fucoidan/fucose from wakame seaweed because it is a potent immune stimulator (Doctor's Best brand -- one 500mg capsule/d) and Astragalus (Paradise Herbs brand -- 1/d) because there are only very minute trace amounts in Glycomannan since people were complaining that these made the powder somewhat bitter (people dying of cancer complaining about a minor problem in something that could save them!) As for beta-glucans, they are combined with different protein molecules depending upon what food they originate in (providing that they have been carefully extracted with a special hot water process that preserves the protein molecules as well as the beta-glucan) and each stimulates a different portion of the immune system; that's why a mixture of medical mushroom extracts, a fermented yeast product, along with some thymus boosters (on my website) is better than a single ingredient. Help with Addictions Alcohol, Tylenol, NSAIDs, statin cholesterol drugs, etc. further stress the liver, which is already weak in a cancer patient (even if it doesn't already have tumors, too). Also, smoking contributes to cancer. Dr. Amen has been doing research on addiction and the brain: he's found that non-addicts are able to decide around and around in their minds over possiblities and come out of the loop successfully not choosing the thing or substance they're addicted to, most addicts have a chemical inbalance that keeps them in the same loop doing the thing they're addicted to over and over almost as if they were helpless to change it. Here's a link to many articles about his research: Two really good books by him that I would get to help break an addiction to maximize the chances of going on living are "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" and "Making a Good Brain Great": Dr. Amen uses various supplements to help bring addicted patient's brains back into balance and he tells what they are in his books. It sounds pretty exciting and worth getting his books -- for some people, their addiction problem to alcohol, smoking or drugs needs to be addressed in order to increase their chances of recovery from cancer. It frustrates me how so many people say that they'd rather die than give up junk food, alcohol, use a blender, etc. but then, when they are out of time, suddenly decide that having a healthy diet and lifestyle wouldn't be impossible after all so that they could go on living. I pray to God that, when these people finally realize this, that there is enough time left for them to beat this. It's like turning a great big ship: if you notice when it first starts turning off-course and apply corrective measures, gentle nudges can move it back on course, but once it starts turning really fast (and with tremendous force) the wrong way, it's extremely hard to stop its momentum. There would be a much higher success rate if people used natural methods initally, rather than after conventional medicine had destroyed their bodies and immune systems. From www.cancertutor.com: Did you know there are natural or alternative cancer treatments that can provide a 97% true cure rate on recently diagnosed cancer patients, and can even achieve a 50% true cure rate on cancer patients given up on by orthodox medicine? While this website has articles for recently diagnosed cancer patients (see the Yellow Box below this blue box), the main focus of this website is on identifying the very small number of the 300+ alternative cancer treatments which are strong enough to deal with the disastrous condition of cancer patients who have had extensive orthodox treatments, many of whom have been given up on by orthodox medicine. These potent alternative cancer treatments are generally not the best-known treatments!! All of the information on this website is FREE to the world. You don't need to pay a penny for any of this information, but you do need to do a lot of reading. Nor is anything sold from this website. This is a public service website. (http://www.cancertutor.com/) Part of the the problem why people think that natural medicine doesn't work is because people wait until they've tried every other option and are at death's door before they'll consider other options. Even natural medicine has very little chance of pulling back from the grave those people whom regular doctors have sent home to die, but in some cases (not many) it can even do that. See http://www.cancertutor.com/ Note: The 50% number Webster mentions is in SOME types of cancer with certain particular protocols that just happen to be right for that particular individual -- I do not advise waiting until a person is dying until they try natural medicine. The cure rate is very much higher for people who never have had conventional treatment than if they go with conventional treatment, like Webster says. See also: http://www.cancertutor.com/Other/NoCancer1.html An interesting video about cancer with Dr. Simoncini: Cancer - Step Outside the Box by Ty M. Bollinger If you’re concerned about the “C” word, then Cancer - Step Outside the Box is the book you’ve been waiting for. It reveals the most potent and well-proven alternative strategies for preventing and treating cancer... without surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation (i.e. the “Big 3”). Inside, you’ll find a wealth of information that your doctor probably doesn’t know. Here’s why: while at medical school, doctors not only receive biased information but also learn a very drug-intensive style of medicine. As a result, most doctors are still thinking “inside the box” when it comes to cancer. Sadly, the cancer “box” is largely the creation of multinational pharmaceutical companies attempting to peddle their poisons (such as chemotherapy) in an effort to increase shareholder profits. Sadly, these profits are oftentimes generated at the expense (both monetarily and physically) of the dying cancer patient. Did you know that the overall success rate for most cancers treated with the chemotherapy is a paltry 3%? In other words, it has a 97% fatality rate. And it is not only legal, but it is the only treatment recommended by most conventional oncologists! That’s right…the official position of most conventional oncologists is that the “Big 3” treatments (specifically chemotherapy) is the only treatment protocol that should be available to sufferers of cancer. Is this the “Twilight Zone” or what? BEWARE: If you attempt to step “outside the box” and find an alternative cancer treatment that actually works and increases your lifespan by years or decades, then you may be committing a crime. The “Big 3” conventional cancer treatments are more and more being enforced by gunpoint. Parents who attempt to protect their children from the dangers of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation may find themselves accused of kidnapping their own children! Just look at the story of Abraham Cherrix when you get a few minutes. Google it and you'll be amazed. . . Either we are free or we are slaves. There is no middle ground. You see, the Cancer Industry is like the slave owners 200 years ago. If you ran a plantation back in the slave days, you wanted to make sure that your slaves remained obedient, submissive, and illiterate. If a slave had the nerve to disobey “the master,” then he was beaten within an inch of his life. Books weren’t allowed, thus slaves were unable to learn to read. These steps were taken to insure that they would never have the boldness to venture off the plantation and the master would have a “slave for life.” In the Cancer Industry, patients are like slaves, and the slave owners want to make sure that they remain enslaved by suppressing information about alternative treatments and persecuting those who dare to question their authority and use an alternative treatment. Today’s world is like “the matrix.” White is black and black is white. The Cancer Industry is well organized, unbelievably well funded, and has total control over the news media due to the massive amounts of advertising dollars spent by Big Pharma. It takes time to get to the bottom of important issues, and therein lies the problem. People want to learn everything they need to know about something by watching an hour of TV; students want to learn complicated mathematics while they play video games. But this won’t work when it comes to learning about the cures for cancer. You must do your homework! This book, Cancer - Step Outside the Box, will probably challenge everything you have heard since you were born. From the crib, we have been taught to blindly believe everything we read in the papers and on the internet, what we hear on the radio, and what we watch on TV. You see, the world of cancer politics and cancer treatments is not a simple world, and it is impossible to overcome decades of constant propaganda and false information by casually reading for 45 minutes. Cancer - Step Outside the Box is packed with priceless information and cancer treatment protocols which are being used to to treat and even reverse cancer in multiple cancer clinics worldwide. Click HERE to read the Vic Whiley story entitled "Cancer Survivor." It is a very encouraging account of beating cancer through persistence, hope, and good alternative treatments. -- Ty M. Bollinger When your surgeon says "we got it all" -- don't believe him! If you're challenged with cancer and, after surgery, your doctor tells you you're cancer-free, this is imporatnat news for you. New evidence shows you probably have cancer cells in other places that simply haven't grown yet. For a long time, doctors though patients who developed cancer after a transplant did so because of the immune-suppressing drugs, but a startling finding suggest these cancers are from the donor organ! In the study, tests on female kidney recipients who later deveoped Kaposi's sarcoma, a type of skin cancer, found that the DNA of the cancers contained Y chromosome material. Y chromosomes are from males and would indicate the cancer came from male donor cells. Melanoma has been transmitted the same way. Now, how could a kidney transplant carry skin cancer cells to the recipient? When cancer goes into remission, it will often return at distant sites several months to many years later, so we know cancer cells migrate out from the primary site and seed other organs at a very early stage. Hence, in organ donors, their organs may be seeded with cancer cells, long before they know they have a cancer, and their immune systems were strong enough to hold them in check. In the recipient, who must take immune suppressive drugs to prevent organ rejection, the cancer cells have a huge edge on the immune system. Action to take: For years, we've heard doctors say to cancer patients, "we got it all." Only several months later, the same patient lies dying of the disease. I'm not a fan of one-stop cancer treatment (surgery) for this very reason: cancer is a systemic (covers the whole body) and lifetime disease, and must be treated as such. That's not to say that a cancer patient has to die of the same illness. In fact, I know the opposite is true, but now that you know cancer seedlings may be undetected, but living anywhere in your body, you might consider visiting an integrative doctor for systemic support and continuing to follow a very healthy diet and lifestyle along with taking specific supplements for life. I feel that the most advanced physicians for cancer will be those found on the website http://www.iptq.org/ -- Dr. Robert Rowen Our diets and lifestyles are really bad (along with all of the pollution and toxins, cosmetics, cleaning products, dryer sheets, commercial food, etc.): it seems like everywhere we go, we meet people with cancer -- and the media, government and doctors are doing their best to confuse anyone who might have a vestige of common sense remaining. For how to support your liver (very important in cancer): http://www.cancertutor.com/faq/faq_liver_damage.html Besides milk thistle, dandelion root, artichoke standardized extracts and the other liver support detoxifiers (Liver C/S, TMG, non-GMO Lecithin, etc. -- see my "Chemo Protocol" and "Hepatitis/Liver Support" pages), Dr. Blaylock talks about things that specifically help keep cancer in the liver from spreading (Arabinogalactan; lactoferrin; IP-6; Artemisinin; Maitake D or DM fractions or Immune Assist Critical Care). Here's where I got my Arabinogalactan: http://www.betterlife.com/prod_home_page.asp?prod_id=16813 [Food Science of Vermont Arabinogalactan Powder $15.99 027147 100 Grams]. Multivitamins, full spectrum multicarotenes, 500mg each of 95-98% Curcumin and Quercetin mixed well in 1TBS CP EV olive oil 3xday, plenty of enzymes on empty stomach often (see emails), lots of ellagic acid/pomegranate extract, lots of specific raw vegetables, healthy oils, etc. Dr. Blaylock says we now know that many cancers are related to inflammation and nutrients that reduce inflammation can by themselves slow, and occasionally even shrink, these tumors. Good anti-inflammatory supplements include: Zyflamend (http://www.vitacost.com/New-Chapter-Zyflamend); Boswellia (http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Boswellia-Extract); Apigenin (a component of celery, http://www.swansonvitamins.com/ -- Ultra Apigenin, SWU375), Curcumin, Quercetin, Kaempferol (found in fruits and ginkgo biloba), Amentoflavone (very powerful -- a component of ginkgo biloba, Swanson SW893), lactoferrin (found in Mt Capra Goat Milk Colostrum), enzymes, ginger, GLA (Borage and Evening Primrose oils), EV coconut oil, and purified fish oil. Another very promising weapon to reduce or prevent metastases is MCP, modified citrus pectin. The best source (used in clinical studies) is: PectaSol-C (www.econugenics.com/MCP or call 800-521-0160; ask about their buy 3 get 1 free special mentioned in Alternatives. See www.econugenics.com/MCPreport for more details of the studies.) 5g three times a day (15g/d) was used in the studies as long as the cancer was active or present; after that, the maintenance dose is 3-5g/d. (May2008 Alternatives newsletter by Dr. David Williams). Carrageenan powerfully increases inflammation by stimulating the COX-2 enzyme; many foods contain it. Avoid red meat (most of "heme iron" from meats is absorbed, while little of that in vegetables is -- unless you eat them with an acid, such as the acid form of vitamin C) and iron-containing supplements as iron stimulates cancer. White starches, such as flour, macaroni, most bread, etc. have iron added to them. Omega-6 fats (corn, soybean, vegetable, cottonseed, sunflower, safflower, etc. oils) increase inflammation while diets high in certain fruit extracts, vegetables and purified fish oil (omega-3) cause a dramatic reduction in cancer promotion and risk. A good website to see regarding metabolic typing, enzymes, supplements and lifestyle changes and their effect upon cancer is run by a colleague, Nick Gonzalez (http://www.dr-gonzalez.com/) Along with other types of cancer, Nick (and the doctor he studied under, Dr. Kelley) has done a lot of work with pancreatic cancer. Kelley cured himself of pancreatic cancer and went on to live another 45 years, until he died of heart problems. (I have information on pancreatic cancer on the page "Cancer&RawFoods") I would also like to recommend another colleague's book, "Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients" by Russell Blaylock, M.D. (http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Strategies-Patients-Russell-Blaylock/dp/0758202210/) and Jerry Brunetti's protocol: http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/interview-brunetti_may02.pdf Suggested Foods and Supplements for Cancer Patients From Life Extension Foundation: http://www.cancertutor.com/Other/Mirror_Lymphoma.html Cancer Adjuvant Therapy (useful supplements by Life Extension Foundation): |