Liver cancer specialist

Introduction

My experience is not as a research scientist, even if I have performed considerable studies in most venues linked with cancer research. My experience includes the 'Art and Science' of healing and for the past 33 years I have been deeply involved in its practice, treating a considerable number of cancer patients, using a wide range of alternative methods, including my own. Thus, I have reflected deeply on how to recognize the multiple pathways leading to cancer and how to approach breast cancer according to each individual.

Entering this new millennium, let me recall that the cure of breast cancer remains unsuccessful and that it is still the number one killer of women. We are far from the medical claim made over two decades ago with the promise that by the year 2000, cancer "will be definitively cured."

More than any other cancer, breast cancer is an emotional disease, which for women is a depressive condition, often demanding mutilation, followed by aggressive treatment, a long period of painful illness, of hope, recurrence and death.

Thus, I believe that there is a need for harmonization of diverse points of view and medical strategies. It is obvious that breast cancer requires an alternative approach to the historical treatment options of surgery, chemotherapy and irradiation.

The Local Disease

A surgeon can remove a primary tumor relatively easily or perform a mastectomy, but a cancer that has metastasized usually reaches so many places that cure by surgery becomes impossible. The bad news is that 100% of the tumor is never extracted and 0.1% of tumor tissue remains after surgery (106 cells). Silicone breast implants are responsible for functional immune impairment, serious infection and localization of new tumor growth.

Widespread evidence suggests that conventional tumor treatment by chemo/radiation may seriously damage healthy tissues, such as bone marrow, and increase oxidative stress leading to immunodeficiency, inducing secondary tumors and accelerating metastatic growth. Some tumors with a fast turnover may even grow during chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy reacts with the genetic material of the cell (DNA). The drugs produce cross-linking of bases in DNA strands, which blocks replication of nuclear DNA during mitosis (cell division). However, chemotherapy is very toxic, since it is nonselective and damages healthy cells in the same way it is supposed to kill tumor cells. It can also suppress and damage the immune system to the extent that patients can die from infections rather than the cancer. These treatments often provide only temporary improvement. Many patients are not aware that the disease is put into remission only to reappear in the future. However, conventional treatments with chemotherapy/radiation are frequently effective in helping breast cancer patients survive for the first four years following surgery.

The Local Disease and Conventional Therapy

* On first diagnosis, about 1/3 of breast cancer patients have metastases in lymph nodes, that further colonize the lung, bone, liver and brain.

* The spread of metastases is usually determined by the localization and size of the tumor and the number of invaded lymph nodes.

* Surgery is responsible for 70% of the metastasis risk.

"Surgery might actually lead to spread of cancer and increased death from breast cancer in younger women" (Lancet 2001, 357:1048).

* 40-60% of patients develop metastases during breast cancer treatment.

Kirby I. Bland, Edward M. Copeland. The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Diseases, 1996, Vol. 1, p. 1593.

Tumor is resistant to radiotherapy Goldstein L.J. 1995. Current Problems in Cancer 16.69.23.

Laurent Schwartz (cancer specialist) Metastasis: The truth on cancer. In 80% of breast cancer cases, the response to chemotherapy is only partial. 1998 p.79-81.

Biopsy can increase tumor growth. A textbook jointly published by the American Cancer Society and University of Rochester states: "biopsy of cancer tissue may lead to the spread of metastasis."

When radiation and chemotherapy were given together, the incidence of secondary tumors was approximately 25 times the expected rate. Ralph Moss, PhD, The Cancer Industry, 1996, P.73-78.

The Great Illusion of Chemotherapy: conference presentation by Ralph Moss at the German Society of Oncology, Baden Baden Oct. 28, 2000.

According to Gayle Page (Nursing School of Johns Hopkins University, USA), stress, such as surgery, favors tumor development by suppressing the activity of particular cells of the immune system.

Researcher at the National Health Institute -- Candice Pert, PhD. Investigation of the link between catecholamines, endorphins and other chemicals produced by the brain as they influence cancer.

Jean Achterberg, PhD demonstrates a clear link between the attitude of cancer patients and their quality of life (Imagery in Healing, New Sciences. Boston 1985).

In my own experience, radiation and chemotherapy appear to be of limited value. They may reduce a tumor over a limited time, but not only does it start to grow again, but the spread of metastases and appearance of secondary tumors developing at distant sites is precipitated.

Professor Manfred Van Ardenne explains that chemotherapy damages host defense mechanisms and thereby restricts therapy and encourages metastasis and tumor growth (Oxygen Multi-step Therapy -- Physiological and Technical Foundations).

Most of my cases are women with relapses and secondary tumors or metastases which have spread to the lungs, bones, liver and brain. The period to reactivate the dormant cancer can vary from one year up to 10 years and even more.

The level of the defense system, stress status, dietary style, immune deficiency and the condition of the whole body, all exert a decisive influence on the manifestations of recurrence and metastasis. Prevention is necessary, not only to avoid cancer but even more to prevent recurrences. New sessions of chemotherapy may be fatal for the patient, since in a recurrence condition the body has already suffered from aggression, has less defense compared to the first treatment and therefore may respond very poorly to new toxic therapy.

To approach cancer, we need to learn more about the total-body-concept-defense that must be seen as the entire part of a disease and thus need a total approach to cancer disease.

Breast cancer appears to be a hormonal disease. Physicians administer antiestrogens to women with breast cancer. However, hormone therapy frequently proves ineffective, because we do not look at the body as a whole, we do not consider how the liver is functioning and we do not realize that good nutrition comes first. For the last hundred years, science has spent a considerable amount of time studying cell physiology and mechanisms of diseases, but forgot or ignored the body itself, some important organs and how they can be related to health status.

For instance, the bowel may interfere in the development of various diseases. From an iridology standpoint, we have always claimed that intestinal dysfunction is related to most organic! chronic and degenerative dysfunction.

There is an interrelation between most of the organs and the bowel. The study of embryology leaves no doubt about that. There is a connection between the intestine, the nervous system and the brain. Bowel stasis leads to autointoxication that disturbs the nervous system and energy transfer to every organ of the body. Electromagnetic impulses are transferred from intestinal neurons to the brain via the nervous system. Up to now, the intestine has been a neglected organ, but more recently a physician and professor at the Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at Columbia University, Michael Gershon, discovered that the intestine is connected to the brain and contains about 100 million neurons and 70 to 80% of our immune cells.

We always found breast cancer patients to have a very low energy status, confirmed by the Vega DHM724 test. This new modern apparatus checks the energy level of the brain and of the small and large bowel. The two sectors always indicate low energy level. This shows that those patients demonstrate an underactive and toxic bowel. Based on these observations, I developed the "chart of toxins and energy transfer in breast cancer." This correlates with Chinese medicine, which claims that breast cancer is an emotional disease to a greater extent than any other cancer.

Tumor recurrence is accompanied by a dramatic loss of energy level in the body with decreasing energy at both the physical and the brain levels. That may lead to depression in the form of anxiety, which depresses organic function, especially in the liver and the immune system.

For Chinese medicine, worry and depression lead to splenic injury and weakness. Depression affects the liver (Breast Cancer: The Protocol Journal of Botanical Medicine. 1998-59-60-61, Vol 23).