I think it is very interesting, a must read!


> AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND
> ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE
> IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .
>
>
> Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:
>
>
> 1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do
> not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few
> billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more
> cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests
> are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached
> the detectable size.
> 2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
>
> 3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be
> destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.
>
> 4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple
> nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
> environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
>
> 5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet
> and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
>
> 6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells
> and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow,
> gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver,
> kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
>
> 7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and
> damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
>
> 8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce
> tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not
> result in more tumor destruction.
>
> 9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and
> radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence
> the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and
> complications.
>
> 10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and
> become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause
> cancer cells to spread to other sites.
>
> 11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by
> not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
>
>
> WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
>
> a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off
> one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like
> NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is
> harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses
> but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to
> make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea
> salt.
>
> b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
> gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk
> and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being
> starved.
>
> c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based
> diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather
> than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth
> hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people
> with cancer.
>
> d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole
> grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an
> alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including
> beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily
> absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to
> nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes
> for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most
> vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3
> times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F
> (40 degrees C).
>
> e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine.
> Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties.
> Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins
> and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
> 12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
> digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes
> putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
>
> 13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining
> from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein
> walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy
> the cancer cells.
>
> 14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence,
> Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the
> body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements
> like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death,
> the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or
> unneeded cells.
>
> 15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and
> positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger,
> unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic
> environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to
> relax and enjoy life.
>
> 16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment.
> Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to
> the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to
> destroy cancer cells.
>

This is an urban myth:
snopes.com: Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins Hospital (http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp)

This is complete hogwash and poppycock. This is coming from a cancer survivor myself. I've done enough research on my own to tell you this is ridiculous.


15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and
> positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger,
> unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic
> environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to
> relax and enjoy life.

I will agree with that though.

1. Some truth

2. I think we need to agree what makes a cancer cell here. There is no clear cut line between fine and cancerous, the mutations take time to build up. Most times the aberrant cells are spotted and either kill themselves or are killed before they make more of themselves.

3. The immune system does have a prominent role in detecting rogue cells.

4. Untrue

5. Strengthening the immune system will help fight pre cancerous cells.

6. True, unfortuanely. However new more targeted drugs are being developed, but they will end up being very expensive (like herceptin).

7. True but worded in a scaremongering way. With radiation therapy the radiation is focused onto the unhealthy tissue, however damage can still be done around the site. Radiation Therapy and You - National Cancer Institute (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/radiation-therapy-and-you/page2)

8. Yup there is no magic bullet.

9. True but it is not really the 'toxic burden' as much as any fast dividing cell is targeted. Your immune system contains many fast dividing cells to respond quickly to threats.

10. Sometimes true unfortuanely.

11. Not true. This seems to be getting confused with the warburg effect Warburg effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect)

> WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Your beginging to anthromorphise cancer here. Yes a helathy diet low in sugar and salt is good but it doesn't starve a cancer.

b. "Cancer feeds on mucus." What? This statement is ridiculous.

c. I would like some evidence here. Once again this is just healthy eating advice (which I'm not against) re packaged as anticancer advice.

d. You don't get enzymes form your food in this way. Enzymes are made by you in your cells using protein building blocks (amino acids) that they have got from protein you have digested earlier. This paragraph is a rime exampe of the whole piece mixing known science (denaturing of enzymes) in with absolute nonsense.

e. Standard healthy eating advice again. I don't think it will miraculously cure anyone of cancer.

12. Meat is one of the easier to digest foods. Fat is hardest along with plant material, refined sugar is the easiest (you can get that in your bloodstream under your tongue). Meat for Digestion - TIME (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,732262,00.html) Here is how the digestive system actually works http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/

13. "Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering." They have the same covering of normal cells a lipid bilayer studded with proteins (receptors, channels, adhesion enzymes) "eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein
walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy
the cancer cells." Just complete nonsense. Your digestive enzymes do not get freed up to circulate your bloodstream fighting cancer like some sort of digestive calvary. Which is what I think it is trying to say but in the athours mind I think anything is possible.

14. I can't comment on the validity of this point.

15. Believe what you want if it makes you feel better.

16. Another case of getting confused about the Wargurg effect and how far you can take it read this critique for an in depth understanding
Oxygenation Therapy: Unproven Treatments for Cancer and AIDS (http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/oxygen.html)


Oh dear what a shambels of proper science smashed up with nonsense to make it sound believable. I order to pester sick people, possibly out of money, offfering false hope and sometimes distracting them away from possible real cures.

It annoys me that there is an industry geared towards exploiting the vulnerable.