Is cancer contagious? is the root cause misdiagnosed and ignored?

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surfingtheapocalypse , " Bren " <bstelcer@l...>

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Is cancer contagious? is the root cause misdiagnosed and

ignored?

 

 

Is Cancer Contagious? - a case of 'root-cause' misdiagnosis? See

article below.

 

Inge's Comment: Have we been barking up the wrong tree all along?

Interestingly, both Dr. Wm.. Koch and Dr. Royal Rife (and many

others) associated " infectious agents " with cancer - 80 years ago-

and both of their treatments had phenomenal success rates - but were

banished.

 

These treatments were both banished from medical practice because

they did not conform to " Conventional and Accepted Practice " as

defined by the AMA (American Medical Association). Their SCIENCE was

ridiculed, persecuted and " prosecuted as a violation of the medical

LAW " - which seems to occur consistently, especially when high-profile

doctors stubbornly insisted on curing these

diseases " unconventionally " by practicing " real health care " . God

forbid that we should tolerate such travesty!

 

Although it is a bold statement to make, I contend that

the " regulatory powers that the AMA has been able to exercise over

the practice of medicine during the past 100 years has been the

single greatest impediment to solving most of our major health

problems, literally preventing and/or eliminating the most

insightful, innovative, and effective treatments for many of our most

serious diseases - researched and developed by genius scientists and

physicians over decades. "

 

There is something seriously up-side-down when SCIENTIFIC

OBSERVATIONS and DISCOVERIES are not valued and subjected to the test

of time, but rather, are either " intentionally " ignored and

denigrated, or BANISHED through courts proceedings, as a matter of

medical LAW.

 

When one takes the time to research and follow up on the history of

American medicine, it becomes obvious that " the regulatory powers "

(the hi-jacked gatekeepers for the pharmaceutical-based sickness

industry) have not allowed the survival of any treatment or solution

that is simultaneously basic, simple, economical, effective, easily

administered, cell-health-centered, and an economic threat to the

financial viability of the " pharmaceutical-based sickness industry " .

The elimination of " competition " seems to have taken precedence

over " maintaining and/or restoring health " - and continues to do so,

judging from the new regulatory restrictions proposed on nutritional

and herbal products - presently being implemented on a global scale.

This is an exercise in " health prevention " , not health protection.

 

When doctors become truly free to practice and implement the

authentic research and clinical experience documented in the medical

literature, you would witness an explosion in effective health care,

and the reversal of many major disease processes. Unfortunately,

with the present infiltration and stranglehold that the

pharmaceutical industry has within all Medical Associations and

government regulatory agencies, this will not happen until the entire

population demands this health revolution.

 

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The following article is a real eye-opener - and certainly says

volumes about the billions spent on tresearch in the perpetual " War

on Cancer " .

Highlights have been added

 

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Is Cancer Contagious?

 

By David Holland, MD

 

I recently spoke with a nurse who was diagnosed, as an adult, with

leukemia. She endured the chemotherapy regimen her doctors

prescribed, only to suffer from a secondary fungal infection during

that time. The intensity and duration of the antifungal treatment

rivaled that of the chemotherapy. At any rate, she recovered from

both afflictions and went back to work.

 

Later, as a result of another workup -- which included a liver

biopsy -- for some returning symptoms she had, bad news was again

brought up. " Your leukemia has returned, " her oncologist told her,

and he proceeded to lay out the next line of chemotherapy drugs she

would have to take.

 

Given that her chances of dying were much higher now that her cancer

had returned, she opted to get a second opinion on her biopsy before

proceeding with her next round of chemotherapy. She took her tissue

sample to another hospital, and what she was told there was

absolutely stunning: " You don't have leukemia, " remarked the

pathologist, " what you have is a fungal infection! "

 

The scenario that her doctors figured was that her previous fungal

infection had returned -- a total possibility. But for this nurse,

more questions were raised. She thought, for example, " If they

diagnosed my fungal infection as leukemia this time, is it possible

that they were wrong the FIRST time? Was my leukemia really a fungal

infection to begin with, and was my so-called 'secondary' fungal

infection I had earlier really a full-blown manifestation of what

originally might have looked like leukemia? "

 

Of course, she would never get answers to these questions, for to

fully investigate thoughts like these might imply that a diagnostic

error was made on the part of either her initial oncologist or

pathologist.

 

Nevertheless, an intense six months later -- some of it spent in the

hospital -- of high-dose, powerful antifungals finally achieved a

cure for her fungal infection. Today, she is again back at work,

exuding more than ever with compassion for her patients. It really

struck me when she told me where she works, because in her case, her

occupation may very well relate to what she had suffered over the

past two years. It turns out that she works at a bone-marrow

transplant center, and is in daily contact with children with

leukemia.

 

Now, the thought of her " acquiring " something as grave as leukemia

would almost be preposterous to some. But the temptation to scratch

our heads and wonder about this is unbearable. What if she really did

have a fungal infection -- and NOT leukemia -- her first time around?

And if so, did she " catch " this from her precious little patients?

 

Fungal infections not only can be extremely contagious, but they also

go hand in hand with leukemia -- every oncologist knows this. And

these infections are devastating: once a child who has become a bone

marrow transplant recipient gets a " secondary " fungal infection, his

chances of living, despite all the antifungals in the world, are only

20%, at best.

 

And then the unthinkable thought arises: what if all of these

children didn't even have leukemia, but rather a fungal infection,

just as this nurse did? If doctors, in the 21st century, could

mistake a fungal infection for leukemia in this nurse, could the same

fate have fallen upon these children?

 

Doctors in general are not very good at diagnosing fungal infections

because their medical school training is based so heavily on the role

of bacteria and viruses in the area of infectious diseases. Fungi

have been a forgotten foe ever since the advent of antibiotics. Once

we had a drug that could kill bacteria, the interest in and the study

of fungi fell to the wayside.

 

Laboratories display the same difficulty in diagnosing fungal

infections: current tests for detecting the presence of fungi are

both terribly scant and sorely antiquated.

 

Despite these training and technical inadequacies, there have been at

least a few good reports that implicate the role of fungi in causing

leukemia.

 

For example, in 1999 Meinolf Karthaus, MD, watched three different

children with leukemia suddenly go into remission upon receiving a

triple antifungal drug cocktail for their " secondary " fungal

infections.(1)

 

Pre-dating that, Mark Bielski stated back in 1997 that leukemia,

whether acute or chronic, is intimately associated with the yeast,

Candida albicans. (2)

 

Finally, almost 50 years ago, Dr. J. Walter Wilson, in his textbook

of clinical mycology, said that " it has been established that

histoplasmosis and such reticuloendothelioses as leukemia, Hodgkin's

disease, lymphosarcoma, and sarcoidosis are found to be coexistent

much more frequently than is statistically justifiable on the basis

of coincidence. " (3)

 

Histoplasmosis is what we call an " endemic " fungal infection. It is

most commonly acquired in regions surrounding the Ohio and

Mississippi river valleys in the United States. One becomes ill by

merely inhaling the tiny fungal spores of this fungus. (For more

information on histoplasmosis and other endemic fungi, you can visit:

http://www.doctorfungus.org/). Three similar reports like this over

the span of 40 years should convince us to at least study the role of

fungi in cancers like leukemia a little more thoroughly.

 

The late Milton White, MD., did exactly this. He fully believed that

cancer is a " chronic, intracellular, infectious, biologically induced

spore (fungus) transformation disease. " (4) Using the proper

isolation techniques (involving saline instead of formaldehyde as a

tissue transportation medium between the operating room and the

pathology lab), he was able to find fungal spores in every sample of

cancer tissue he studied. His lifetime work has been routinely

dismissed as nothing more than an unproven postulate.

 

Regardless, wouldn't you expect all of this information to make front-

page headlines in every newspaper across the country, if not the

world? Instead, every one of these findings was merely a brief

mention -- only curious thoughts that one might entertain but never

take seriously.

 

The fact is, if leukemia and fungal infections " co-exist " so

frequently, and if an antifungal drug cocktail effectively cured at

least these three children of their leukemia, then I say we put the

brakes on right there. Is there a need to go any farther, except to

more deeply investigate the need for antifungals in treating leukemia

and not just the secondary infections that arise in the course of

chemotherapy?

 

In his book, The Germ that Causes Cancer (http://iknowthecause.com),

author and television host Doug Kaufmann asserts that not only fungi,

but also foods play a role in the etiology of cancer. He has seen

children become free of their documented leukemia once the child's

parents simply changed the child's diet. Kaufmann's diet is base on

the widely-published problem of mycotoxin contamination of our grain

foods.

 

Grains such as corn, wheat, barley, sorghum, and other foods such as

peanuts, are commonly contaminated with cancer-causing fungal

poisons, or " mycotoxins. " (5,6) One of them, called aflatoxin, just

happens to be the most carcinogenic substance on earth. If this is

indeed a problem, Kaufmann asserts, then cereal for breakfast and

soda pop for dinner may not be conducive to a cancer-free lifestyle.

 

A case in point: in a grain-based diet, we consume, on average, from

0.15mg to 0.5mg of aflatoxin per day. (7) Further, he states, it is

not the sugar alone that is the problem in our western diet, but the

fungal toxins that are found in the sugary grains. More than once has

Kaufmann interviewed a caller (on his health talk show) who

absolutely craved peanut butter and popcorn just prior to their

diagnosis of cancer.

 

Fungi are such a nuisance in carbohydrate foods in particular because

fungi need carbohydrates to thrive. Therefore, it is rarer to see

fungal contamination problems in foods like vegetables and high-

protein foods.

 

Kaufmann goes on further to explain how even antibiotics may play a

role in the disease process. Antibiotics destroy the normal,

protective gut bacteria, allowing intestinal yeast and fungi to grow

unchecked. These internal, gut yeast make toxins, too. This can lead

to immune suppression, symptoms of any autoimmune disease, or even

cancer. " If the onset of any symptom or disease- cancer included- was

preceded by a course of antibiotics, " he maintains, " then look for a

fungus to be at the root of your problem. "

 

Doug and I will be talking more about the role of fungi in cancer and

other diseases, such as diabetes, in our upcoming seminars. Check out

our website (http://iknowthecause.com) to find the location nearest

you.

 

David Holland, MD

Co-author, The Fungus Link, Infectious Diabetes.

20 May 2003

MediaTrition, Inc.

 

 

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References:

 

1. Karthaus, M. Treatment of fungal infections led to leukemia

remissions. Sept. 28, 1999

 

2. Bielski: Boyd, W. Introduction to medical science. 1937. Lea &

Febiger. Philadelphia, PA.

 

3. Wilson, J.W. Clinical and immunological aspects of fungus

diseases. 1957. Charles C. Thomas. Springfield, IL.

 

4. White, M.W. Medical Hypotheses. 1996;47,35-38

 

5. Mycotoxins: Risks in Plant, Animal, and Human Systems. The Council

for Agricultural Science and Technology. Task Force Report No. 139.

Jan 2003. Ames, IA.

 

6. Etzel, R.A. Mycotoxins. Jan 23, 2002. 387(4). Journal of the

American Medical Association

 

7.Cheeke, P.R. Natural toxicant in feeds, forages, and poisonous

plansts. 1998. Interstate Publishers, Inc. Danville, IL

 

 

 

URL is http://www.mercola.com/2003/may/24/cancer_contagious.htm