" ... The monstrous 126 billion dollar cancer industry, hell bent on preserving its profits at any cost, continues its murderous rampage to this day.The mind of the beast wells up with excitement at the thought of 50% of all humans alive being one day diagnosid with cancer. Only an informed population of people, willing to stand up for themselves and make thir own health decisions, can put an end to the cancer industry's reign of terror. ..."
Mark Sloan, in his book "The Cancer Industry", 2019 (61)
Can Poisons (Chemotherapies) Cure Cancer?
Preamble
First of all, I need to say that my heart goes out to all those that have fallen victim to this terrible diseases and I wish to each one of them the best of the outcomes regardless of the treatment plan that they have embarked on. I have also fallen victim to this disease and I understand the physical and emotional difficulties. I offer the discussion below as my own "cold" scientific assessment of the state of cancer treatment today and, absolutely, this assessment is not intended to diminish the hopes of anyone being treated for cancer. And in fact, this discussion may have positive impacts if it convinces some of the patients to improve and supplement their diets and add daily exercises while they are undergoing whatever treatment they have embarked on (1,7,26,27,).
I believe that radiant good health flows from good nutrition and good lifestyles, and not from prescription drugs or any other drug. I believe this so strongly that I have put my life "on the line" to prove it!
Discussion
In general, Modern Medicine focuses on treatment of symptoms rather than treatment of root causes (36). Cancer symptoms manifest as too many Cancer cells. So Modern Medicine relies on powerful toxic drugs to kill cancer cells. Unfortunately these drugs kill all cells ... even the healthy ones! The root causes for so many Cancer cells are never addressed.
What is the difference between treating symptoms and treating root causes? The following analogy is useful to bring home the meaning of "treating the symptoms" approach to deal with diseases.
Cities have several underground watermains. Consider a situation where one such water main breaks and results with a lot of water flooding the street above. Attacking this problem using the Modern Medicine method for treating diseases, would have the city mobilize their maintenance crews to set up pumps on the street to keep pumping the water away, day in and day out, to maintain the street passable. In the mean time, the water escaping from the broken watermain below starts causing more problems such as water seeping into people's basements, underground soil erosion, and sink holes.
On the negative side, the above approach to deal with the broken watermain will never solve the problem and will add significant costs to the city road maintenance budget. On the positive side, it keeps the street passable, and creates several more jobs, such as, for the people manning the pumps, for pump repair technicians, for tank trucks drivers to carry the water away, for truck mechanics, for pump manufacturing industries, and for public relation staff to explain and justify what is being done to the tax paying public.
The broken watermain is the root cause for the flooding of the street, and, clearly, unless the broken water main is repaired, the flooding of the street will never be "cured".
Unfortunately for Cancer patients, or any other patients, it is the symptoms which are being treated. In the case of Cancer, the symptom is that there are too many Cancer cells and they are proliferating fast and crowding out the healthy cells and causing health issues. So doctors quickly start treating the patients with powerful chemotherapeutic drugs to kill Cancer cells. Where possible, surgery and radiation is used to remove Cancer cells. But the underlying reason why the are so many proliferating Cancer cells and why is the body not destroying them remains unaddressed. So, can treatment of symptoms cure Cancer? It is clear from the watermain example above, that treatment of symptoms will never lead to a Cancer cure! Treatment of symptoms, if a drug is foundthat it targets Cancer cells only, will be able at best to reduce Cancer to a chronic manageable disease but never cure it.
What does "chronic manageable disease" mean? It means that the patient remains alive, but sickly, for as long as thet stick to the prescribed treatments. As an example, Diabetes has been reduced to a chronic manageable disease. Just as in the case of the watermain analogy above, this increases health costs significantly, and result in many more jobs for the health industries. Currently there is no ongoing research (I could not find any yet!) aimed at treating the root causes of the Cancers, namely, research to find an approach to get the Immune System of a Cancer patient functioning again. so that it is re-enabled to kill cancer cells. I need to add that our body is a "system" where every one of its parts affects every other of its parts. So, to re-enable our Immune System requires re-enabling every part of our bodies. My experiences so far indicate that this can be done only with good nutrition supplemented by large doses of vitamins and sufficient minerals, and further supplemented by vigorous daily physical activities.
Below, I have outlined my understanding of current Cancer treatments and it is this understanding that has motivated me to put my trust in my own body amazing, but widely underestimated or ignored, power of being able to keep itself healthy if well nourished. This "well nourished" must recognize the unique Biochemical Individuality of each one of us (4,5,5a,23). Again, there is no ongoing research (I could not find any yet!) in this area which is very important because each individual has unique nutritional needs which must be taken into account when designing a suitable diet. Because of lack of research in this very important area, I have described in the Health and Nutrition page the only empirical way available today to determine if our diets suits our individuality. Namely, eliminate from our diet foods that we do not feel good with, and add to our diet foods that we feel good with. And we must remember that there is no "one size fits all" formula for good nutrition.
Toxicology in Modern Medicine
The concept of toxicology in medicine is that diseases can be cured by giving the patient a controlled amount of a suitable poison. Paracelsus (1493-1541) is considered the father of toxicology, although its use can be traced back to several centuries before. In Paracelsus view, items such as mercury, lead, arsenic and antimony, all well known poisons, were cures for several diseases. Could it be that he lived only 48 years because of his beliefs in the curative power of poisons?
Modern medicine is largely based on toxicology (use of poisons). Even the humble Aspirin is a "poison" which kills several people every year due to accidental overdoses and suicides (24). And even the modest dosage of 81 mg daily, which was touted to be a life saver for everybody, is now officially discouraged because it has been linked to several case of strokes and inter-cranial bleeding (22).
Cancer Treatments
Cancer treatments, namely, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, and Targetedtherapy, are all based on the use of powerful "poisons" to kill cells with the never as yet achieved objective of killing Cancer cells only. Scientists today understand, better than ever before, the "poisoning" mechanisms of these drugs and they use intimidating terms to explain these poisoning mechanisms. But any understanding or explanation of the poisoning mechanism, does not change the fact that these drugs are powerful poisons. The intention of these drugs is to kill Cancer cells only, but they also kill healthy cells because these drugs are not able to tell the Cancer cells apart from the healthy cells. The failure to target only the cancer cells causes several serious and even life threatening side effects (25). These drugs in effect "carpet bomb" the body in the hope of killing a relatively few bad cells. These drugs are so intensely poisonous that their administration has to be suspended periodically to allow the patient to recover enough before resuming administration.
Immunotherapy (Checkpoint Inhibitors) and Targetedtherapies (Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors) are considered promising advances against different types of malignancies. However, the mainstay of cancer therapy continues to be radiation and surgery for localized disease, and chemotherapy for systemic (physiological) disease. The vast majority of the chemotherapeutic agents used, such as anthracyclines, alkylating agents, and antimetabolites, were developed many decades ago (25).
Immunotherapy, Targetedtherapy and Chemotherapy are presented as if they are different. However, in terms of the final results, there are not different: they are all designed to kill cells. These treatments both employ substances or molecular manipulations that, in final analysis, are "poisons". The main difference between Immunotherapy, Targetedtherapy and Chemotherapy is the way that these treatments kill cells.
Chemotherapy kills cells, cancerous or not, targeting mostly fast replicating cells. Chemotherapy drugs kill cells by disrupting cell DNA synthesis.
Immunotherapy kills cells, cancerous or not, by disabling the body's Immune System Checkpoints. Disabling these checkpoints, makes the Immune System attack not only foreign cells (such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi) but also the body own cells which includes Cancer cells. We need to remember here that Cancer cells are not foreign cells: they are the body own cells which have become defective.
Targetedtherapy kills cells, cancerous or not, by disabling the biological reaction that initiates cell replication. If cells cannot replicate they get old and die.
The disappointing truth is that chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and Targetedtherapy, are not able to target and kill only the cancer cells. As a result, all these therapies cause large numbers of serious side effects including death, and serious secondary cancers (25). These side effects all cause debilitating and unbearable suffering which, nonetheless, patients endure in the slim hope of a cure.
This approach of attacking Cancer with poisons that kill cells has been used for more than one hundred years and it has not led to cures: Lots of Cancer "Heroes" but no real cures. The patients that survive for a while, do so horribly mutilated, such as with breasts removed, with stomachs removed, and with colon removed partially or totally. At best this approach, if ever successful, can only hope to change Cancer into a chronic manageable disease, but not a cure. That is, it may be possible to keep cancer patients alive as long as they keep taking the drugs.
A common underlying objective of the research in the above described cancer treatments is to discover a drug, or drugs, that can carry out the task of the Immune System as well as the Immune System would be able to do itself if healthy. I consider that this objective will never be achieved because the "the powers that be" in Cancer research are wildly under-estimating the infinite complexity of the Immune System and of the many biological reactions needed for good health with all reactions initiated and coordinated throughout our body with exquisite precision! When any of these reactions are impeded or diminished, the effects reverberate throughout the entire body in ways that are not yet, and maybe will never be, fully understood. Drugs will never be able to replace the body Immune System and concomitant biological reactions and coordination! Should we fear that the current push to utilize the recent discoveries into molecular biology, such as used for the Covid-19 vaccine, is "loading the bases" for several "Frankenstein" creations?
As noted above, this underlying objective of current Cancer research has been pursued for more than one hundred years, and has not worked yet. As this research rests squarely, or it should rest, on science, it must be carried out consistent with the "Scientific Method". According to this method, hypotheses that do not work must be discarded in favour of new ones. As the current hypothesis of Cancer research has not worked for more than one hundred years, is it not time to try a different hypotheses?
A new hypothesis that I would like to suggest is that Cancer, as well as any other diseases, is caused by: (1) Bad nutrition caused by consumption of large amount of sugar, junk foods and drinks, and the several kinds of processed food with endless list of additives, including sugar, to increase shelf life and make them addictive; (2) Lifestyles drugs, recreational or vanity-encouraged drugs, and body treatments such as cosmetics, hair dies and manicure products; and (3) Daily ingestion of too many prescription drugs. All of these factors conjure up to cause the body to start malfunctioning in many ways. As a result, the body Immune System also starts malfunctioning giving rise to inability to kill effectively foreign invaders as well as our own defective (cancer) cells, and therefore resulting in Cancer. Acceptance of this hypotheses would redirect cancer research towards the development of nutritional and lifestyles regimens to restore our body, including our Immune System, to good health and thus cure Cancer and any other disease!
Today there is a very good scientific understanding of nutrition to make the body healthy. With the existing scientific knowledge alone, if all the money that is being spent on current cancer research were to be directed towards development of nutritional and lifestyle regimens to make the body healthy, Cancer would be not just cured, but prevented! I believe so strongly in this, that I have put my life "on the line" to prove it.
Why are new Cancer cure hypotheses not seriously considered for Cancer research? Consistent with with the Shoemaker Principle, the Cancer institutions and Cancer fuelled industries and professions will do anything, that they can get away with, to insure that their services remain needed. Accordingly, nothing short of a "revolution" by us, the patients, and in the way that our governments regulates the health industry, will force this change.
In the mean time, we, the Cancer patients, need to dare taking charge of our own health: adopt a healthy diet supplement with vitamin mega-doses, adopt a healthy lifestyle, and avoid prescription drugs and any other drugs "like the plague"! This is exactly what I have been doing, and it is working well beyond my wildest expectations! (See pags "My Regimen" and "Body Changes")