Cancer Cure Now

Conventional cancer treatments, while usually better than nothing, leave a lot to be desired. First of all, with many cancers such as those of the lung, breast or prostate, the term "cure" is used with caution or not at all. Doctors speak in terms of 5 and 10 year survival rates, temporary remissions during which time the patient slowly becomes more debilitated from both the continued growth of the tumor as well as the toxic treatments and mutilating surgeries used against it. In the case of some cancers, such as lung cancer, pancreatic cancer or glioblastoma (a form of brain tumor), even the short term two-year survival rates are very low. Tumor cells are like bacteria in that some of them have "resistance" to drugs intended to kill them. Most tumors contain a small number, approximately 2%, of MDR (multiple drug-resistant) cells which are unaffected by chemotherapeutic agents. After the initial round of chemo, all of the cancer cells that are not resistant are destroyed. Since this accounts for the vast bulk of the tumor, it initially appears to be effectively shrunken. However, the remaining MDR cells start to multiply and the tumor regrows with a cell population which consists entirely of resistant cells. The next time chemo is used, it has no effect. This is why giving chemo after a cancer reoccurs often results in treatment failure. Only alternative health care offers treatments proven to be effective against MDR cells. In the journal Nature in November 2006, Canadian and Italian researchers report that cancers are caused by rogue stem cells, which themselves divide slowly but which create a second generation of cells which then replicate rapidly to form tumors. 1 Dr. John Dick, who first published a 1994 article in Nature linking stem cells to leukemia, feels this study will cause a revolution in the methodology of cancer treatment. Stem cells are highly resistant to all the standard cancer therapies currently in use. The stem cell theory explains the inability of radiation or chemotherapy to ever completely remove every last cancer cell, because the slow-growing rogue stem cells at the base of the tumor are relatively insensitive to measures targeting fast-growing cells. Such treatments only destroy the fast-growing progeny of such cells, and as soon as the treatments cease, the stem cell will produce another generation of them. The cancer returns, and spreads at an even faster pace than before because conventional treatments have weakened the immune system which keeps cancer in check. This would not be the first time stem cells have been suggested as the cause of tumors. As early as 1855, famed pathologist Rudolph Virchow suggested that embryonic remnants caused tumors, a suggestion echoed by Scottish embryologist John Beard in 1902. It has been noted by numerous scientists over the decades that only a small minority of cancer cells actually have the potential to regrow the original cancer, but this knowledge was never practically applied as treatments have traditionally been fixated on defeating only the fast-growing cells.