According to Webster's New World Dictionary, "Cancer is the uncontrolled purposeless growth of cells that disrupt body tissues and metabolism; which tends to spread locally and to distant parts of the body."
Cancer is caused by an infectious agent; a pleomorphic bacterial microbe named by the late Dr. Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, Progenitor Cryptocides, (P.C.) meaning the giver of life and the giver of death. How can a microbe give both life and death? This may be hard to believe until you understand something about the cancer microbe. This microbe is present in all human beings and secretes a well known hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG).
The microbe is present in sperm. When fertilization occurs the microbe and the HCG bind to specific receptor sites on the ovum. In the placenta, which is formed by the fertilized ovum, the microbe multiplies enormously, reproducing itself in great numbers all of which secrete the HCG hormone. This hormone presents a barrier between the mother's immune system and the developing fetus. Indeed, the HCG hormone protects the baby from being destroyed by the mother's immune system. HCG is found in only four places in man; in his sperm, placenta, bone marrow, and blood.
All cells contain the P.C. organism in hidden form. It comes out of hiding and goes to work in repairing a cell when it is injured. After the cell is repaired P.C. goes back into its quiescent stage. Indeed, it is part of cellular physiology. However, in a cancer patient, when a cell is injured the microbe emerges to repair the damage but never goes back into its resting stage. Instead it advances in its lifecycle and becomes a free-living pathogen. According to Dr. Livingston-Wheeler, the microbe invades other cells and the HCG that it secretes causes a genetic change in the nucleus of the cell which transforms it from a normal cell into a cancer cell, causing it to multiply uncontrollably. Thus a tumor is formed.
When our immune system is strong, antibodies are formed by our T-cells, against the pathogenic free-living form of the microbe and it is controlled. When our immune system is weak the microbe proliferates without control. The more the microbe proliferates, the more HCG is produced, the more uncontrolled tumor growth occurs. Without antibodies to attach to the cancer microbe and cancer cells, the macrophages of the immune system are unable to destroy the tumor. Antibodies are formed under the influence of absissic acid which is a breakdown product of betacarotene, a vitamin precursor found in yellow and green vegetables, especially carrots.
The cancer microbe has certain needs and characteristics which cause it to thrive. The kind of conditions that cause the cancer microbe and the cancer cells to thrive also directly cause weakening of the immune system. Reversing these conditions will weaken the cancer and strengthen the body's immune system. These conditions you must memorize!
#1 Cancer thrives in an acidic, anaerobic (oxygen deprived) environment.
#2 Cancer feeds on and is a fermenter of sugar.
#3 Cancer thrives on elemental iron (Ferrous Sulfate)
#4 The byproducts of fermentation are harmful unstable molecules
(free-radicals) which damage cell membranes and cellular DNA and cause
further weakening of the immune system.
Perhaps you have never heard that cancer is caused by a microbe. Perhaps you have a hard time believing that this is so. If you would like to see a summary of the scientific discoveries over the past one hundred years that has led me to believe that cancer is caused by a microbe, click on scientific evidence.
Carcinogens are substances thought to cause cancer, when in fact they are substances which damage cells and cell membranes and thus influence the cancer microbe to develop into its pathogenic form and proliferate. Carcinogens also directly weaken and impair our immune systems' ability to fight disease. Listed are environmental factors which seem to be associated with the development of cancer.
Carcinogens and % of Cancer Deaths
€Smoking 30% !!!!!!!
€High saturated fat/red meat diet 30% !!!!!!!
€Infectious agents 5%
€Reproductive factors 4%
€Alcohol 3%
€Inactivity 3%
€Ionizing Radiation 2%
€Environmental pollutants 2%
€High salt intake 1%
€Medical products 1%
€Occupational hazards
You can decrease your risk of damaging your cells and immune system and thus decrease your chances of getting cancer by 60% just by not smoking and eating a vegetarian diet. You can improve your chances even more by avoiding the other carcinogens in the list. Pay special attention to your home environment by getting all poisons out of your house and into your garage or trash can. Stress directly suppresses your immune system. Cut it way down by simplifying your life.
As a ray of hope, in 1971, President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, claiming we would have a cure in 5 years. Yet 27 years later with over $35 billion spent on research, $1 trillion spent on therapy and 7 million causalities later, we are no closer to finding a cure with traditional therapies than we were three decades ago. Indeed, on Wednesday December 26, 1990, United Press International news wire reported that cancer had overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States between the ages of 35 - 64, the age when most of us expect to be the most productive.
Recent cancer statistics indicate that one out of every four deaths in the U.S. is due to cancer. Cancer now accounts for 500,000 deaths per year. One out of every three Americans will develop and have to deal with cancer some time in their life. Two out of every three American families will have a member with cancer. Cancer now is the major cause of death in children between the ages of 3 - 17, our next generation. By the year 2000 it estimated that cancer will be the leading cause of death among all Americans. Over $100 billion dollars is spent annually on the detection and treatment of cancer. Where has all that money gotten us?
Although the most recent statistics shows a slight decrease in the death rate from cancer, most of this is due to people getting educated and changing their nutrition habits, not from therapeutic advances in traditional treatments. Many both outside and within the cancer establishment are admitting that the war on cancer has turned into a "medical Vietnam" with very little progress to show for all the money spent. It is estimated that 1.3 million Americans will learn they have cancer just in 1998.
So why, after so many decades of fighting the cancer war, are we no further ahead? Is it perhaps because most doctors and our patients do not understand the enemy? Could it be our military intelligence gathering has been incomplete or even misguided? Perhaps not understanding our enemy has led us to fight him with ineffective outdated weapons.
Let us take a look at what kind of weapons traditional medicine has to offer you when you hear the big C word. And remember, whatever they do to your cancer they do to you since like the Trojan Horse of Greek mythology, the cancer cell has taken up residence not outside, but inside your body. In an all out battle to destroy the cancer at whatever cost to your health, rather than outsmart it, they can poison you with chemical warfare, burn you with radiation or mutilate you with surgery.
Sure, these methods will kill or remove cancer cells, but at what cost to you and your immune system, which is the only thing your body inherently has to fight disease, including cancer? The cost is often too high! All three traditional therapies stress or weaken your immune system with chemotherapy being the worst. And though the cancer may suffer a blow and be weakened for a while, it often returns with a vengeance the likes of which you have not seen heretofore. For now the body's natural defenses have been so compromised that it barely has any fighting chance to ever win against this now more formidable enemy.
Why make the body the battle field? Why not make it a valuable ally and enlist its efforts in the war against cancer? As history confirms, most battles are not won by outgunning the enemy but by outsmarting the enemy. The same holds true for the enemy we call cancer. For not until we truly understand the cause of cancer can we ever expect to outsmart it. To understand its cause is to understand its weaknesses. Then with pinpoint accuracy we can send our well honed weapons into its Achilles heel and then indeed we will gain the victory over it.
You now longer have to be a cancer statistic! If you don't have it you can drastically decrease your chances of getting it. If you have cancer you can understand it and learn how to enlist the massive healing ability of your God-given immune system to beat it. What might have been the diagnosis of death and despair can now be the ultimate challenge and victory of your life. Remember, you are not alone. Hundreds and thousands of others have done it before you. The power is in your hands. So get educated and take charge! You have the ability to heal yourself. All you have to do is to get started!
Copyright 1998 Harry A. Knopper M.D.