Re: The Cancer Challenge


"Peter Moran" <pmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Max C." <maxc246@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes. We learnt about all that in Med school. While hailed as being the
very first time that any biochemical difference had been demonstrated
between cancer cells and normal cells, the emphasis of cancer cells on
anaerobic metabolism may be mainly forced upon them by their tendency to
outgrow their blood supply and it is not a critical matter for their
survival. Cancer cells grow quite well in 20% oxygen (room air) in the
test tube, and oxygen therapies such as hyperbaric oxygen have not
proved
helpful.

The oxygen based methods advocated within alternative medicine such as
rectal and IV hydrogen peroxide are potentially dangerous (at least one
fatality) and wouldn't provide enough oxygen to do the slightest thing
anyway. Oxygen pills are obvious scams.

Why?

Because I find it distressing that Dr. Warburg should be awarded a
Nobel Prize for his discovery, only to have his findings largly ignored
by modern medicine.

While I have no familiarity with the hydrogen peroxide therapy you
mention, I find it ironic that you should call it "potentially
dangerous" while only quoting 1 fatality, considering how many
thousands have died on a chemo regimen.

When a method is useless the risk/benefit ratio becomes infinite.
Certainly the use of chemotherapy should be subject to careful
risk/benefit analysis and informed consent and probably sometimes is not.
One of the oncologists I worked with seemed a little too aggressive, but
the others were careful not to use chemotherapy unless there was some
chance of working, and they would stop it a flash if it wasn't.

As it happened, the aggressive oncologist produced long term remission in
one of my patients who had liver secondaries from colorectal cancer, a
cancer generally unresponsive to chemotherapy. That was with 5FU and no
side effects at all. I had advised this patient not to have chemotherapy.
It is difficult to always know what is right, even when you are in the
game, so it is a bit odd that so many are so sure about what they know
when at considerable distance from the coal face..


In my opinion, what we learned from Dr. Warburg was to shut off the
energy supply to the cancer cells. The cancer cells he studied became
anaerobic. They subsisted on a type of fermentation of sugar,
increasing the acidity in the immediate area which kills off healthy
cells and sets the stage for additional cancer cells. Corn syrup
provides a high amount of glucose which has been shown to feed cancer
cells.

In the first half of the 20th century, if you wanted lab mice that were
susceptible to implanted cancer cells, you fed them a diet with large
amounts of corn syrup. Dr. Royal Lee stated in many of his lectures
that of the mice fed such a diet, 90% of them could be expected to grow
cancer cells injected into their bodies. Alternatively, 100% of the
mice that were fed a whole, raw food diet would reject the cancer cells
when injected. The mice were all practically the same, with the only
exception being their diets.

I have no idea what an "oxygen pill" is, but I feel comfortable
agreeing with you that they're probably a scam. However, have you ever
read up on the use of Cesium with regards to cancer? I have no first
hand experience of it and have only recently discovered its use in
cancer treatment, but if you Google the words cancer and Cesium you'll
find tons of literature on it as well as many success stories. The
basic theory is to reduce the pH level of the cancerous area using
cesium in an attempt to increase oxygenation. I honestly haven't read
enough about the theory to give it a thumbs up or down, but the results
I've read seem positive.

Testimonials are easy to come by. This is one of the least plausible
methods on offer.

http://www.stopcancer.com/
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I suppose my point is that medical science is too quick to jump to
chemo and radiation for my taste. I think those options should be a
last resort, after all nutritional and supplemental options have been
exhausted.

The problem is that they just don't work, noticeably. There can be no
real doubt about that. Most of the methods analysed on my web site
include the usually recommended diets and supplements. Hoffer/Pauling's
orthomolecular treatment has been shown not to work in a cohort study.

We doctors also have a lot of personal experience of our patients trying
these methods - probably,collectively,more than anyone. Of course it
can be argued that we are ignoring spectacular results but I never saw
any, and my oncologist colleagues report the same.

Yes, this departs from what you hear in alternative circles, but what do
you know, really, about those cases? There are innumerable ways in
which testimonials fail to reflect the truth.



Peter Moran



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