• An evil witch or diabolical sorceress that nonchalantly wanders around seeking innocent victims to destroy
• A mystery beyond understanding
• A disease for which we know no causes
• A disease for which there are no good answers or cures
• A disease only medical doctors know how to treat and control
• A disease to fear and dread
• A reason to give up on life and living
• A tumor

Cancer does not just happen. Normal healthy cells don't just spontaneously metamorphose into abnormal cells unless deprived, debilitated, poisoned, and damaged.

Cancer is the sum of all the processes which transform normal, healthy, alive, cells into abnormal, damaged, denatured, and toxic cells. Tumors are merely the end result of this process. Tumors are not the cancer. The process that creates the tumors is the real cancer.

Cancer is a disease of cells. Understanding cancer is understanding cells. Treating and curing cancer is treating, normalizing, supporting, sustaining, nourishing, protecting, and regenerating cells.

The study of cancer is the study of all these points. Medical research, over generations, has progressively unveiled the secrets of the world inside living cells -- secrets that have kept us in ignorance about cancer for centuries. There is no more mystery about cancer, but there are many complexities.

Cancer, in each patient, is the sum combination of a body's cells' reactions to all the chemicals, drugs, pollutants, and radiations that saturate our environment and of all the stresses, hazards, and abnormalities of our lifestyles and our civilized conditions of living.

Believing that cancer is beyond the abilities of science and doctors was justifiable during the centuries when we knew little or nothing about cells, their physiology, their biochemistry, and the impact that chemicals, drugs, and radiations have on them.

We are no longer in the dark ages of science. The era of cancer ignorance is past. Libraries of information exist about cells, their nature and functions, how they multiply and divide, and what agents control cell proliferation. It is no longer justifiable to claim that we don't know the nature and causes of cancer.

It is true we don't know "the" cause or "a" cause for there is no such thing as a single simple cause. There are only multiple causes. Cancer is a complex illness. By correlating all facts and causes together cancer becomes understandable.

It is only as we allow our minds to be mesmerized by the misconceptions of past centuries that we have difficulties accepting and mastering the realities of cancer. We need to take a look again at the whole cancer concept with minds completely free from beliefs and conclusions procreated in the centuries of ignorance and to replace these misconceptions with the scientific discoveries of the last fifty years

Clear, common sense and realistic awareness of everything about cancer can cancel out your fears and replace them with assurances that there are a multitude of answers that make possible the overcoming of cancer.

Cancer is the sum of poisons, attackers and abnormalities that transform normal cells (such as the one illustrated below) into biochemically distorted, abnormal, and sick cells (such as the one illustrated on the next picture).

Cells are molecular structures of proteins, minerals and trace minerals, oils, and thousands of enzymes. Cell nuclei house chromosomes. These govern and control the life, functions, growth and dividing of cells.

Cells are surrounded by, and float in, body fluids, like fishes in an ocean. In constant contact with all the substances in those body fluids, they are subject to chemical reactions with them. Anybody with high school chemistry knows that it is not possible to place two chemicals of radically different natures in contact with each other without each reacting with the other. Everything in our bodies, tissues, organs, fluids, and cells contains chemicals. They are vulnerable to chemical reactions.

If the inner body environment, or "ocean," is healthy, the cells will remain healthy. If the inner body environment is polluted and full of poisons the cells will eventually be damaged by those poisons.

Nature has created an almost impregnable and formidable protective suit of armor covering of cells -- the cell membranes. As long as cell membranes are healthy and intact, cells resist all invaders and attackers.

Cell membranes are also made up of proteins, oils, minerals, and lecithin. They control cell nutrition by selectively allowing the absorption of molecules only, which are identical to those which original form their structure. They repel and reject all substances of a nature different to their own special biochemistry -- including poisons and carcinogens.

Deficiencies, denaturing, and deterioration of its membrane is the start of cell disintegration and of its transformation into a cancer cell. It is only when cell membranes succumb to reactions with the toxic chemicals, in which they are immersed and become chemically damaged, then they lose their power to defend themselves and block the infiltrating of poisons and carcinogens, which pierce the membrane barrier and enter into the cell protoplasm. They react with, destroy, and displace the cells organelles, enzymes, and other cell components. Cells lose their identity and become cancer cells.

It may take years for body pollutants and poisons to damage, break down, and destroy cell membranes.

Possibly the most powerful and effective protector of the structure and functions of cells against attackers and invaders are their membranes. Membranes also play a major role in the control of what cells absorb, and in the control of cell growth, cell division and multiplication. By powers of a magnetic attraction, cell membranes act as the gates whereby needed nutrients enter into the cells.

The cell diagram on the previous page shows a damaged membrane pierced in many places. Many of its inner structures have been denatured and destroyed. It no longer functions in its normal ways. This picture is typical of a cancer cell. As cells become over filled with excesses of any kind, they swell beyond their normal size. When close to double in size, they normally divide into two cells. Their excessive proliferation creates masses of billions of cells. These are tumors.

Cancer societies and medics constantly promulgate statements that we do not know the causes and nature of cancer. Yet you can read about them in your newspaper and hear them on T.V. They are listed in journals of toxicology. They are no secret; they are no mystery; they are the key to understanding cancer.

In all cancers there are three categories of causes.

1. Predisposing causes: those which weaken cells and their resistance to disease.
2. Contributing causes: those which overload body organs, cells, the organs of detoxification and elimination, and hinder them from metabolizing toxins and wastes.
3. Triggering causes: Highly toxic substances which denature, damage, and transform normal cells into cancer cells. The most lethal of these killing agents are termed carcinogens.

(You are not expected to read in detail or remember the long list of causes that follows on the next page. Skim over them quickly. You may not know the chemical names. They are known to chemical scientists. This list is to make you aware of how many known causes of cancer we constantly live with in our civilization.)

The DIRECT CAUSES OF CANCER -- The CARCINOGENS

Cell damaging, denaturing chemicals

• Chemotherapy-- the most powerful, specific, destructive chemical
• Benzopyrene, P.C.B.s, BHT, BHA
• Asbestos in home insulations, machinery, etc.
• Nitrites -- secondary amines from nitrosamines
• Mycotoxins, Aflatoxin, B1
• Chemically-processed non-food form (multi) vitamins, minerals and trace minerals without their enzymes
• Especially cadmium, nickel, aluminum, lead, arsenic and sodium

Environmental carcinogens

• Polyvinyl Chloride PVCs
• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's)
• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
• Specific metals: lead, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, nickel, aluminum, zinc, plus minerals when taken in a non-food form, such as in supplements
• Chemical fertilizers

Air source carcinogens and radiation

• Exposure to radiation and radon
• Potash-type fertilizers
• Tobacco
• Cigarettes and second-hand cigarette fumes
• Highly toxic chemical fumes
• Industrial fumes
• Carbon monoxide from road and air traffic fumes
• Fumes from garbage disposal dumps

Pesticides

The five common categories of pesticides are:

• Organo-chlorines
• Organo-phosphates
• Alachlor: the most widely used pesticide, mostly on corn
• Captan: used on apples, cherries, grapes, nectarines, peaches, pears, and strawberries
• Ethylene bisdithiocarbamate: used on potatoes and tomatoes
• Parathion: used on peaches, pecans, walnuts, and wheat.  It is the leading cause of poisoned workers in California.

Food form carcinogens

• The rancid fats from barbecued meats and fishes
• The rancid oils from roasted coffee
• Chemical smoking agents used to smoke foods, meats, fishes
• The rancid, chemically treated, hydrogenated oils
• Fried foods, fat foods, chips, fries, hydrolyzed proteins
• Amines + sugars = pralines
• Microwaved foods
• Foods grown in nitrate rich areas

Water source carcinogens

• Fluorides, chlorine, chlorides
• Dioxin
• Industrial water polluting effluents
• Saliva solubilized thallium: used in the mercury in amalgams. (Thallium kills instantly on contact.)
• Water, wells in nitrate rich areas
• Poisonous solubles of water pipes, plastic bottles, and water treatment chemicals

Carcinogenic food additives

• Sucaryl - Saccharin
• Aspartame
• Cyclamates
• Butter Yellow
• Nutri-Sweet
• Sweet and Low
• Yellow OB
• Yellow AB
• 1,000 food additives, preservatives, colorings, flavorings

Medical source carcinogens

• The side effects of medical treatments and surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation and radioactive materials
• The I.U.D.s. and vaginal creams
• Many medical drugs routinely used for chronic ailments
• Diethylstilbestrol and "the pill"
• Chemical inter-reactions between prescription drugs, and with the chemicals and drugs in our foods
• Hallucinogenic drugs, marijuana, cocaine

Miscellaneous carcinogens

• Pyrrolizidine alkaloids
• Hydrazines
• Bracken fern
• Safrole and ertragole
• Glycoalkaloids
• Coumarins
• Quinones, phenols
• Phenol esters
• Cycasin
• Ethyl carbonates
• Acetylaldehyde
• Coal tar
• Catechol (catecholamines)
• Canavarine
• PAH
• Vicine and convicine

 

Body and metabolic type factors

• Environmental poisons, toxins, wastes, and pollutants
• Retained stagnating body wastes from fault elimination
• Body pollutants from faulty digestion and metabolism:
   

  Indole	Indican	Skatole
  Hydrogen Sulphur	Neurine	Urobilin
  Methylmercaptan	Cadaverine	Putrescine
  Pentamethylenediamine	Butyric acid	Histidine
  Methyguanidine	Muscarine	Ammonia
  Ptomatropine	Cresols	Butoline
  Beta-imidazolethylamine	Sepsin

Food form contributing factors

• Caffeine, coffee, tea, chocolate -- methylxanthines: these are chemical cell- damaging agents found in caffeine (rancid coffee beans or powder), tea, and chocolate
• Theobromine, theophylline -- constituents of coffee, tea, chocolate
• Alcohol -- their additives and agents: acetylaldehyde
• Nitrosamines, PAH -- flavoring and coloring agents
• Non-foods -- Foods which supply nothing to health, resistance, or immunity
  
  

• -	Fats in meats -- Pork, bacon, ham
  -	Scavenger foods
  -	Rancid wheat germ and ground cereal grains
  -	Dead Foods; Denatured foods
  -	Canned foods
  -	Overcooked foods
  -	All foods prepared with preservatives
  -	Stale foods
  -	Dry boxed cereals
  -	Pasteurized foods, milk, honey
  -	Chemical imitation, instant, non-foods
  -	Coffeemate and imitation creams
  -	Ensure and similar vitamin and mineral supplements
  -	Isolated, refined, processed amino acids
  -	Table salt
  -	Sugar foods:
  		Soft Drinks	Cakes, pies	Cookies
  		White sugar = glucose, sucrose		Desserts
  		Fruit sugars (fructose)	Brown sugar
  		Milk sugars -- lactose	Chocolate bars

Contributory Environmental Factors

• Chemicals in drapes, carpets
• Glues in fabricated woods
• Industrial pollutants and effluents
• High-tension wires

Air Pollutants

• Sprays, pesticides
• Aerosols
• Consumers' gases and hydrocarbon fumes
• Industrial fumes
• Cigarette fumes

"Smoking alone is not a sufficient explanation for the occurrence of cancer. But a combination of life stress and smoking constitutes a powerful instigator of the diseases." [Eysenck, 1988]

Infections

• Fungi in jaw bone cold abscesses
• Root Canals
• Viruses
• Mouth and gum infections
• Parasites
• Infected bladder and/or kidneys
• Other abscesses