Cancer’s Cause, Cancer’s Cure

By Morton Walker, DPM

Dave Thackeray
Jul 24, 2017 · 2 min read

The C word is guaranteed to terrify anything that walks and talks.

There are some diseases we can cure ourselves. Acute and chronic conditions that can be managed with very little outside assistance.

But when it comes to cancer, without professional medical assistance we are entirely helpless. We associate cancer with death. Without fast diagnosis it spreads like a weed inside our bodies, taking control of our vital systems and consuming us from the inside out.

The statistics about cancer are sobering.

  • About 1 in 4 (22.62%) of us men will die from it, with cancer of the prostate far and away the most common.
  • Almost 1 in 5 women (19.13%) will meet their end due to cancer.

So why isn’t more being done to find cures?

Kent Hunter, a cancer biologist at the National Cancer Institute, said:

The problem with cancer is that it’s actually our own cells that have lost the ability to control their growth. And so the body has a very difficult time distinguishing cancerous cells from normal cells.

This is why we need chemotherapy and radiotherapy. But active strides are being made elsewhere leveraging technology via the IBM Watson Health model to personalise medicine that is less invasive and more targeted to only the cells that have ‘gone bad’.

In Cancer’s Cause, Cancer’s Cure we see an alternative approach. Dr. Mirko Beljanski, a microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, has discovered botanical agents that in some cases can kill off cancerous cells leaving their healthy cousins intact.

We all view with some cynicism and hostility the big drug companies who through size and shoulder barging render it impossible for new techniques and technologies to gain widespread acceptance and adoption. How many times do we see on the news stories about people who couldn’t get treatment for a terminal illness because it was cost prohibitive?

But equally you have to be sceptical about wonder cures that come from nowhere. Legion are examples of people who believed in naturopathy and homeopathy, the latter of which has been proved to be as effective to the body as flossing to the gums.

Cancer’s Cause, Cancer’s Cure is quite a difficult read, being clumsily scripted in parts. But it brings tonic to those who think the only way to cure cancer is by also destroying most of the good stuff inside us.

I expect many more books on this subject to educate my eyes in coming years. I’ll keep you apprised.

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