Synopsis:
This article describes the importance of the immune system in fighting
cancer and the damage done to the immune system by conventional
medical treatments
Man used to be the hopeless victim of his
circumstance. When Louis Pasteur developed the idea that bacteria cause
disease and chemicals can kill bacteria, modern medicine was born. Ever
since that day, we have struggled to develop chemicals in order to
enhance our health.
I do not wish to discredit the excellent work done
by medical researchers in developing effective medicines. I remember in
the 1920's and 1930's when mastoid infections were rampant and children
were routinely given the disfiguring "mastoid operation" which
left one ear laid back over the hole where the porous mastoid bone had
been scraped out of the skull. One could scarcely go shopping without
seeing one of these little boys or girls with one side of their skull
caved in behind their ear. Chemical intervention by the means of
antibiotics has delivered society from this scourge.
However, there is a philosophy which says that we
live in an ocean of bacteria and viruses.. it is not the microorganisms
that cause disease, it is an inefficient immune system. We see the
evidence of this truth constantly around us. One person in an office
gets a very bad cold. The one sitting next to him doesn't get a sniffle.
Certainly both were exposed to the same microorganisms. What is the
difference? It is in the differences between their immune systems, isn't
it? That's why we get a flu shot, to build up our immune system against
the infection. The immune system destroys cells foreign to the body.
A popular expression in one area of the
alternative medical treatment of cancer is this; "All cancer is
the result of an immune system that didn't destroy mutant cells"
Obviously, cancer cells are foreign to the body. The immune system of a
healthy person destroys "10,000" mutated (cancer) cells every
day. When this defense ceases, the cancer can multiply and become a
clinical case of cancer.
An AMAS test (Covered elsewhere in this series)
measures the level of this normal activity by measuring the waste
products of the action of the immune system against these cancer cells
as this waste is found and measured in the blood serum.
Conventional medical practice knows that their
treatments of chemotherapy and radiation are devastating to the already
weakened immune system, but they have very little in their black bag of
surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy to deal with the problem. The
chemotherapy agents that were used on me actually cause cancer. It says
so right on the label. Conventional medicine makes the best trade off
that they can with what they have, so they damage the body in their
attempt to damage the cancer cells.
Sometimes this system works and a patient recovers
and lives, cancer free, for a long time. Usually, the cancer will recur
in five or six years and then conventional medicine has nothing to do
but to try to make the patient comfortable and to extend the patient's
life as long as they can. They can not effectively treat recurrent
cancer.
Now, suppose that instead of damaging the body's
only defense against cancer with chemicals and radiation, we focus on
strengthening the immune system so it will do it's job? This is exactly
what a large segment of alternative cancer treatment does.
First, we must identify the cause of the distress
to the immune system. Sadly, it is no secret. The biggest cause is in
the way that we eat. We destroy the enzymes in our food by cooking. The
pancreas can double it's size in trying to keep up with the demand and
then it quits in exhaustion, severely compromising our immune system and
establishing a climate that is vulnerable to the formation of a clinical
case of cancer.
This topic is continued under the heading
"Enzymes".
If you search under "intestinal
parasites" you will find many thousands of sites. The one below has
a lot of interesting information.
Scroll down the home page and click on
"Parasite Gallery" for pictures of these creatures that
inhabit your body.
For more information, you
can get instant access to the Cancer Treatment Books below. And
while they are not free, the authors have done extensive research and
some have had experience with thousands of cancer patients!
During
the past 100 years, medical practice has been conformed to the restraints
brought about by legal intervention to exclude many former practices and to
limit therapies to those that conform to the standards of the FDA and other
agencies. Prior to this time, many alternative protocols were openly
available. Some of these treatments are highly effective but are illegal to
prescribe because they don't conform to the current legal requirements.
It is therefore necessary for this site to limit its offering to information
only. We are not allowed to prescribe, so all decisions and outcomes are the
responsibility of the patient. If you have any doubts as to the validity of
this information, it is your responsibility to make your own choice and to
be responsible for the outcome of following your choices.