What is Cancer?
By Simon Mitchell
Cancer is a process that has always affected animals,
it is just as common in domestic and farm animals, birds and fishes
as it is in humans. Western scientific medicine has been effective
in minimising infectious diseases.
Many of us are living longer and cancer has almost
been accepted as a normal feature of the ageing process. But statistics
do not bear this out. The incidence of cancer is increasing in all
age groups.
Because cancer cells take some time to grow to a stage
where they are a large enough mass to be identifiable, it might be
18 months to 3 years, even 30 years before the disease is diagnosed
by a doctor. By then we can be more than half-way down the path to
a terminal illness. Due to our psychological make-up we are often
immobilised by the news.
We tend to minimise it or deny that it has happened
to us. We get depressed. ‘Why me?’ A cycle of immobilisation
- minimisation - depression often occurs. Those who do break out of
it and manage to accept the reality start testing for options, often
‘against the clock’ find out that cancer is an awesome
and complex subject providing a great example of opening a ‘whole
can of worms’.
Information overload, specialist language, ignorance
of alternatives, vested interest, lack of co-operation, paradigm gaps,
lack of access to specific information or treatment and a host of
barriers such as language translation exist that prevent understanding
the problem let alone the latest research.
Since an allopathic doctor (Western surgical doctor)
is generally the first point of contact for this dis-ease, cancer
is mostly treated only with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery and
more recent biological breakthroughs in hormone treatment. Despite
billions spent on research these are basically the same options we
had fifty years ago. Essentially the basic treatment of cancer has
not changed for many years.
Orthodox treatments for cancer can be brutal and expensive
but in the face of scientific medical evidence are the best we have.
Solid information on alternatives is confusing, contradictory, unproved
and unsupported by current medical models.
Many medical doctors view alternatives or complementary
approaches with doubt. Those that do endorse them do so mainly because
they might enhance the patients quality of life or contribute to palliative
care (palliative: ‘relieving pain or alleviating a problem without
dealing with the cause’).
Many complementary and alternative practitioners point
out that allopathic cancer treatments are only palliative because
they treat effects without looking at causes. An example is using
pain killers to take away a headache. Although it is highly useful
and very convenient it is no guarantee that the headache won’t
re-occur. Similarly the orthodox treatment of cancer is more concerned
with treating the dis-ease than the patient.
How does it start?
In cancer, a cell, or group of cells, loses touch
with where it is in the scheme of things, its ‘synergy’,
and starts replicating for itself. The word synergy comes from the
Greek ‘sunergos’, meaning ‘working together’.
Synergy is the interaction of two or more agents, that produces an
combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects, in
this case - us.
All the cells in a healthy body work together to give
us life. They exist as unique individual cells in their own right
but also have a higher function, contributing to the life-form of
which they are part. Every one of the two thousand billion cells in
our bodies has as many working parts as a passenger airliner so it
is quite usual for some of these cells to suffer damage.
We all have the potential for cancer. Even a healthy
body carries about 10,000 malignant cells and a fully functioning
immune system will remove them. But what do cells ‘get’
that change them, click them out of the whole system of our body to
become selfish and self-replicating?
Some doctors refer to this simply as ‘insult’.
What happens when you insult a cell so often it gets upset? Just like
you or I might do - it gives up on the host and sets out for itself.
Our consumer culture is presently rich in ways for us to insult our
cells and stress them without us even realising.
The growth begins when oncogenes (controlling cell
growth and multiplication) in a cell or group of cells are ‘transformed’
by carcinogens. Cell insult often starts with ‘free radicals’,
which are unstable atoms or molecules produced by the body as part
of its natural defence against disease.
Sometimes the body over-reacts in its production of
these and produces more than it needs. Recognised stressors that can
spark overproduction include cigarette smoke, smog or pollution, too
much ultraviolet light, illness or even too much exercise!
Free radicals contain a negative charge that makes
them highly reactive. As soon as they are produced they start looking
for other molecules with positively charged particles. The reaction
they have on meeting is called oxidisation, and this reaction can
have a harmful effect, damaging the D.N.A. inside cells or cell membranes
and opening the door for cancer.
When a cell is changed into a tumour-forming type,
the change in its oncogenes is passed onto all offspring cells. Hence
a small group can become established and then start dividing rapidly.
Usually these cells ‘give up’ on their normal specialised
task in the body and escape from normal controls such as bodily hormones
and nerves.
Cancer has no regard for the condition of its host
only the success of its own growth, it is ‘anti-synergistic’
and a parasite to the body, consuming nutrients and contributing nothing.
It converts the energies around it to its own use and blocks any attacks
by suppressing the body’s own immunity. This immunity self-attack
is an emerging pattern in modern diseases.
Cancer cells interact with each other and cells around
them. They affect the growth of cells nearby and elsewhere in the
body, they change the immune system to benefit themselves, they can
avoid or destroy normal body defences such as lymphocytes. They can
even persuade the body to grow new blood vessels to feed a tumour.
Cancer cells move seemingly ‘at will’
around the body, dissolving the glue of healthy cell walls to pass
through and set-up camp elsewhere, creating metastases (secondary
growths) seemingly anywhere. It is a highly complex disease with over
a hundred definable types and many variables within each.
Cancer is a form of chaos that grows inside us. It
is no wonder this most frightening and mysterious of diseases is immortalised
in the ‘dreaming mechanisms’ of our media. Movies such
as the Alien series capitalise on our fears of something unknown and
unwanted growing inside us.
Cell insult happens in a number of ways and if the
right conditions for cancer exist it will start to grow through cell
multiplication. Once the cancer growth gets going, and the conditions
that engendered it are still present, the growth continues at various
rates, depending on the host and what they provide. Cancer grows best
in an P.H. acid body with lots of glucose, oxygen and easily accessible
nutrients.
Even with immortal cell replication it can take many
years before a cancer becomes noticeable. A million cells together
create only a small growth. Diagnosis is still difficult at this stage
as there may not be any visible evidence of cancer.
This is an extract from 'Don't Get Cancer' a new
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