Cancer Cure Now

While the role of DNA mutation is acknowledged, more focus is placed on the patient's own coping mechanisms in dealing with rogue cells.

Cancer is thought of a systemic disease caused by the body's inability to cope with an overload of toxins, as well as a failure of the immune system. Natural methods of cancer treatment aim to cleanse the body of toxins by aiding liver and kidney function, as well as boost the immune system so it can attack the tumor.

Genetic mutations occur continually that form small tumors throughout the human body, which are destroyed by a healthy immune system before they can grow to a large size.

This theory is bolstered by a 1996 study in Nagano, Japan, which used helical CT scanning on a group of 7,847 adult volunteers, both smokers and non-smokers, who had not been previously diagnosed with lung cancer.

 The study attempted to find lung tumors early, at a more easily treatable size. To the surprise of the researchers, the incidence of small tumors less than 2 centimeters in diameter, 1A pathological grade, was 1.1% in both smokers and non-smokers. Only larger tumors were more prevalent in smokers.

1 Yet, despite the finding of the Nagano CT scans, the incidence of symptomatic lung cancer is obviously not equal between the two groups. Smokers comprise almost 90% of lung cancer patients, and the risk of developing lung cancer for current smokers is 10% to 15%, 22 times higher than in non-smokers.

Obviously, something is occurring in the body between the time that tumors first appear as tiny clusters of cells and the development of invasive carcinoma. Another school of thought among non-establishment cancer researchers stresses the role of infectious agents in the development of all types of cancer. 

Generally speaking, alternative practitioners stress the role of the body's normal homeostatic mechanisms in preventing the development of tumors. Treatments often do not attack the tumor directly, but aid the body in performing this normal function.

The role of poor diet and environmental pollution in the weakening of the natural defense mechanisms is stressed. Long term lifestyle changes must be implemented to keep the body strong enough to resist cancer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Feng Li, MD, Shusuke Sone, MD, Hiroyuki Abe, MD, Heber MacMahon, MD, Samuel G. Armato, III, PhD and Kunio Doi, PhD, Lung Cancers Missed at Low-Dose Helical CT Screening in a General Population: Comparison of Clinical, Histopathologic, and Imaging Findings1 1 From the Kurt Rossmann Laboratories for Radiologic Image Research, Department of Radiology, MC-2026, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 (F.L., H.A., H.M., S.G.A., K.D.); and Azumi General Hospital, Ikeda, Nagano, Japan (S.S.). From the 2001 RSNA scientific assembly. Received August 13, 2001; revision requested September 20; final revision received July 3, 2002; accepted July 10. Supported in part by United States Public Health Service grant CA62625.