Cancer and the immune system.

[Guest guest]

Dear List,

 

Today we were discussing how cancer is forcing people to study

alternate system. I have read that cancer is an immune system

disorder. Everybody has cancerous cells in his body but only when the

immune system is jeopardised does the cancer cells wreak havoc.

 

You all must have noticed that Cancer mostly affects people who

resort to lifestyle vices and thus endanger their immune system. One

of my friends with cancer was a heavy smoker, smoking upto ten

packets a day since the last 20 years.

 

Thus while tackling cancer doctors are now thinking of methods to

strengthen the immune system. I guess this will lead to a change in

perception as to how disease is viewed by the mainstream.

 

However they are still talking of vaccinations to tackle the menace

of cancer. Contrary to popular views, vaccinations have a detrimental

effect on the body's immune system.

 

How cancer is now being perceived to be an immune system disorder is

brought out in the following article, where it is plainly admitted

that while the Human Papilloma Virus, thought to cause cervical

cancer in women, is present in many women not all develop the cancer ;

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050701061847.htm

 

I have heard a reputed oncologist discuss, in a Rotary Club meeting,

that if, instead of resorting to surgical procedures and

chemotherapy, the patients are encouraged to let go of bad habits and

combine the effects of good diet and exercise, the longevity of

patients more than double. The effect of prayers on cancer patients

is also being studied. I guess this holds good of all forms of

chronic diseases.

 

Nowhere in mainstream medicine will you find more openness today than

in case of cancer studies. This is because, having noted the side

effects of surgery and chemotherapy, many people simply switch over

to alternate forms of treatment.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.