Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism (Book Excerpt)

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NaturalNews) What you are about to read may rock or even dismantle the

very foundation of your beliefs about your body, health and healing. The

title, Cancer Is Not a Disease, may be unsettling for many, provocative to

some,

but encouraging for all. This book will serve as a life-altering

revelation for those who are sufficiently open-minded to consider the

possibility

that cancer is not an actual disease. Instead, they will begin to view cancer

to be a profoundly elaborate and final attempt by the body to heal itself

and stay alive for as long as circumstances permit; circumstances that, as

you will discover, are most likely in your control.

It will perhaps astound you to learn that if you are afflicted with any of

the root causes of cancer (which constitute the real illness) you would

most likely die quickly unless your body actually grew cancer cells. In this

work, I propose the understanding that cancer is a healing process that we

ought to support, not suppress or fight. I provide evidence that this

rather unorthodox approach to healing cancer is far more effective than the

methods that involve destroying it.

I further claim that cancer - the body's final healing mechanism - will

only kick in after the body's main waste removal and detoxification

mechanisms have already been rendered inefficient.

In extreme circumstances, exposure to large amounts of cancer-producing

agents (carcinogens) can bring about a collapse of the body's defenses within

several weeks or months, which may subsequently require a rapid and

aggressive growth of a cancerous tumor to deal with it. By and large, though,

it

takes many years, or even decades, for so-called 'malignant' tumors to form

and become diagnostically noticeable.

Unfortunately, basic misconceptions or complete lack of awareness about

the true reasons behind malignant tumor growth have turned misaligned cells

into vicious monsters that indiscriminately attempt to kill us, perhaps in

retaliation for our sins or abusing the body. However, as you are about to

find out, cancer is on our side, not against us. Unless we change our

perception of what cancer really is, it will most likely resist treatment,

particularly the most advanced and commonly applied methods. If you have

cancer,

and cancer is indeed part of the body's complex survival responses and not

a disease, as I claim it is, you must find answers to the following

important questions:

- What reasons coerce your body into developing cancer cells?

- Once you have identified these reasons, how will you need to deal with

them to allow your body to heal?

- What determines the type and severity of cancer with which you are

afflicted?

- If cancer is indeed a healing mechanism, what will you need to do to

avoid the body having to employ such extreme measures of self-preservation in

the future?

- Since the body's original genetic design always favors the continuance

of life and protection against adversities of any kind, how then could the

body possibly permit a genetic change to occur that causes its own demise?

- Why do almost all cancers disappear by themselves, without medical

intervention?

- Do radiation, chemotherapy and surgery actually cure cancer in some

people, or do cancer patients heal themselves, in spite of these radical,

side-effect-loaded treatments?

- What roles do fear, frustration, low self-worth and repressed anger play

in the origination and outcome of cancer?

- Why do so many children develop brain tumors or leukemia?

To deal with and heal the root causes of cancer, you ought to find

satisfying and practical answers to the above questions. If you feel the inner

urge to make sense of this life-changing event (cancer, that is), you will

greatly benefit from continuing to read this book. Cancer can be your greatest

opportunity to help restore balance to all aspects of your life, but it

can also be the harbinger of severe trauma and suffering if you perceive it

as a threat to your life.

Either way, you will discover that you are always in control of your body.

To live in a human body, you must have access to a certain amount of

life-sustaining energy. You may either use this inherent energy for nourishing

and healing the body or waste it on fighting a battle against a disease that

medical theory believes is out to kill you. The choice is ultimately yours.

In case you consciously or unconsciously choose negligence of, or going

into battle against, your body over loving attention and self-respect, it

will likely end up having to fight for its life. Bottom line, the main issue

in question is not whether you have cancer but how you perceive it and what

you are going to do about it.

Cancer is but one of the many possible ways the body forces you to alter

the way you see and treat yourself, including your physical body. You may

either make out cancer to be something dreadful that leaves you victimized

and powerless or see it as an opportunity to stand up for yourself, your

values, and self-respect. This inevitably brings up the subject of spiritual

health, which I believe plays at least as important a role in cancer as

physical and emotional reasons do.

Cancer appears to be a highly confusing and unpredictable disorder. It

seems to strike the very happy and the very sad, the rich and the poor, the

smokers and the non-smokers, the very healthy and the not so healthy. And

although cancer occurrence among children used to be extremely rare, it is not

rare anymore.

People from all backgrounds and occupations can have cancer. However, if

you dare look behind the mask of its physical symptoms, such as the type,

appearance and behavior of a cancerous tumor, you will find that cancer is

not as coincidental or unpredictable as it seems to be.

What makes 50% of the American population so prone to developing cancer,

when the other half has no risk at all? Blaming the genes for that is but an

excuse to cover up ignorance of the real causes or lure people afflicted

with cancer into costly treatment and prevention programs.

Later in the book, I will discuss the most recent research done on

possible genetic inheritance factors in relation to cancers of the breast,

lungs,

and many others. You will be astounded to find out that genes have little,

if anything, to do when members from several generations of the same family

develop the same types of cancer. In fact, top genetic researchers now

affirm that gene-behavior is ultimately determined by the way we eat, think,

emote and live our lives. Genes don't just accidentally malfunction one day

and cause cancer in everyone related to them (family members).

Cancer has always been an extremely rare illness, except in industrialized

nations during the past 50-60 years. However, human genes have not

significantly changed for thousands of years. Why would they change so

drastically

now, and suddenly decide to attack and destroy the bodies of nearly half

of the population? The answer to this question, which I will further

elaborate on in this book, is amazingly simple: Although genes may be

undergoing

mutation for reasons discussed later, even if they became damaged or faulty,

they still would not be able to kill anyone.

It is important to know that cancer rarely causes someone to die, although

it undeniable that many people afflicted with cancer also die.

Nonetheless, unless a tumor causes a major mechanical obstruction in a vital

organ or

severely impedes the blood flow to it, or the lymph drainage from it, a

cancer patient is much more likely to die from the reasons that lead to cell

mutation and tumor growth than from the cancer itself.

Every cancer therapy should be focused on the root causes of cancer, yet

most oncologists typically ignore them. For example, a diet consisting of

junk foods that are typically deprived of any nutritional value and real

energy causes chaotic, traumatic conditions in the body that are identical to

those experienced during physical starvation. In this book, I will elaborate

on how such a process of self-destruction is bound to require a major

healing response on behalf of the body.

It is becoming increasingly evident that almost all cancers are preceded

by some kind of traumatic event in the past, such as a divorce, the death of

a loved one, an accident, the loss of a job or possessions, or an ongoing

conflict with a boss or relative. The body has no other choice than to

respond to such profound stress factors with predictable biological survival or

coping mechanisms that may involve temporary abnormal cell growth. That

most doctors agree with the theory that the resulting tumor is a disease, not

a healing mechanism, doesn't mean it is true.

Cancerous tumors are merely symptoms of disease that are caused by

something else that may not be obvious at first. It is clear, though; they

don't

just pop up for no reason. For one thing, constant emotional conflicts,

resentment, guilt and shame can easily suppress the body's immune system,

digestive functions and basic metabolic processes, and thereby create the

conditions for the occurrence of a cancerous tumor.

Fortunately, the psychological stress/cancer-connection no longer lingers

in the realm of fiction and uncertainty. Supported by ample scientific

evidence, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) make this

important statement on their web site: " Intensive and prolonged stress can lead

to a variety of short- and long-term negative health effects. It can disrupt

early brain development and compromise functioning of the nervous and

immune systems. In addition, childhood stress can lead to health problems later

in life including alcoholism, depression, eating disorders, heart disease,

cancer, and other chronic diseases. "

In spite of the undeniable evidence that backs up the CDC's claims, most

medical doctors rarely acknowledge or attempt to treat these root causes of

disease but instead focus on eradicating its symptoms. Perhaps, this

crucial, potentially fatal, flaw permeating almost the entire medical field is

rooted in the complete absence of the stress/disease connection; the

mind/body relationship is certainly not taught at medical schools.

After having seen thousands of cancer patients over a period of three

decades, I began to recognize a certain pattern of thinking, believing and

feeling that was common to most of them. To be more specific, I have yet to

meet a cancer patient who does not feel burdened by some poor self-image,

unresolved conflict and worries, or past emotional conflict/trauma that still

lingers in his subconscious mind and cellular memories. I believe that

cancer, the physical disease, cannot occur unless there is a strong

undercurrent

of emotional uneasiness and deep-seated frustration.

Cancer patients typically suffer from lack of self-respect or worthiness,

and often have what I call an unfinished business in their life. Cancer can

actually be a way of revealing the source of such an unresolved, inner

conflict. Furthermore, cancer can help them come to terms with such a

conflict, and even heal it altogether. The way to take out weeds is to pull

them

out along with their roots. This is how we ought to treat cancer; otherwise,

it may recur eventually.

I often hear the argument that the emotional stress/cancer connection may

apply to adults but certainly cannot apply to young children who have

fallen ill with leukemia or brain cancer. I tend to disagree, and the CDC's

position in this matter confirms my understanding. Childhood stress can lead to

cancer, according to the CDC. And, " human beings experience stress early,

even before they are born, " say the CDC on their web site.

It is a scientific fact that some of the most powerful influences that a

child a can experience occur while it is still in the mother's womb. It has

been clearly demonstrated that what a mother goes through emotionally and

physically has a strong impact on the emotional and physical health of her

child. My book Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation describes in

greater detail how strongly fetuses react to ultrasounds and that this can lead

to developmental problems later on.

There is further evidence that not having a normal childbirth but being

born by Cesarean section can have traumatic effects on babies. In addition,

not breastfeeding a baby and keeping a baby in a separate room from the

mother can cause a biological separation conflict which can even cause crib

death. Not sensing and feeling the heartbeat of the mother turns out to be

anxiety-provoking for an infant. Prematurely born babies are particularly

traumatized by separation anxiety.

Furthermore, vaccinations cause biological shocks, similar to mini

strokes, besides exposing the baby to numerous carcinogenic toxins contained in

vaccines. The pain of the injection and the resulting healing response may

also have trauma-evoking consequences.

Absence of breastfeeding is well known to cause psychological, emotional,

and developmental problems to a young child.

Direct exposure to the radiation emanated by cell phones while in the womb

and thereafter can profoundly affect the health of children, according to

recent research.

An inadequate diet that includes sugar, cow's milk, animal proteins, and

fried foods, and other junk foods, greatly affects children, too. And if

mothers drink alcohol, eat junk food or take medication during pregnancy, or

were vaccinated themselves, this also has a detrimental effect on the baby's

health.

Babies treated for infection with antibiotics is severely damaging to

their growing immune systems. It has been shown recently that babies have as

many as 250 chemicals in their blood, many of which are highly carcinogenic.

Mothers, who are not in good health and still breastfeed their babies,

actually contaminate them. In series of studies, the poison fluoride, added to

the municipal drink water in the United States and other countries, has

been clearly linked to causing cancer of the bone (osteosarcoma), and other

types of cancer. The good news is that after having endorsed fluoride in

drinking water for decades, in January 2011, the CDC issued an urgent warning

that the current levels of fluoride in drinking water can cause serious

harm to children.

Clamping the umbilical cord too early, instead of the required 40-60

minutes after birth, can reduce the oxygenation of the blood in the baby by

over

40%, and prevent filtering toxins out of the blood through the placenta.

This relatively new practice is found to have severely negative effect on

the growth of children. Whatever affects a child physically, also affects it

emotionally and psychologically. In other words, one doesn't need to be a

grown up to be gripped by emotional trauma.

Research findings also demonstrate that childhood stress can impact adult

health. One of the largest studies of its kind, the Adverse Childhood

Experiences (ACE) Study, demonstrates a link between specific 1)

violence-related stress, including child abuse, neglect, and repeated exposure

to intimate

partner violence, and 2) risky behaviors and health problems in adulthood.

The ACE Study, a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente's Health Appraisal Clinic in San

Diego, covered over 17,000 adults participating in the research from 1995 to

1997. It collected and analyzed detailed information on the participants'

past history of abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction as well as their

current behaviors and health status.

The ACE Study findings have been published in more than 30 scientific

articles. They revealed that childhood abuse, neglect, and exposure to other

adverse experiences are common. Almost two-thirds of study participants

reported at least one ACE, and more than one in five reported three or more.

The

ACE Study findings suggest that certain experiences are major risk factors

for the main causes of illness and death, as well as poor quality of life

in the United States.

Remember, prolonged emotional stress can compromise the immune system and

thereby render the body susceptible to virtually every type of illness,

including cancer. I will return to his important subject later.

The first chapter of this book provides you with profound insights into

what cancer really is and stands for, seen from a physical perspective. It is

an understanding of cancer you may never have come across before. This new

and yet timeless comprehension of cancer allows for new approaches

targeted at actually healing the causes of cancer instead of merely fixing its

symptomatic manifestations.

You will also learn about the astonishing discoveries made by leading

cancer researchers that prove cancer is not caused by cell mutation alone but

requires the support and participation of the entire organism. Furthermore,

check out the new findings that show why so many diagnosed cancerous tumors

are actually completely harmless and disappear on their own.

Chapters Two and Three deal with the physical and emotional/spiritual

causes, respectively. For clarity sake, I have tried to separate these

categories, although I am very much aware that such a division is arbitrary and

non-existent. I have done this for one purpose only: to emphasize that healing

the causes of cancer must include restoring one's physical, emotional and

spiritual well-being.

Leaving out just one of these factors would undermine the chances of full

recovery and eventually lead to the recurrence of cancer (most medically

treated cancers reoccur). At least, such an incomplete approach would

seriously affect one's mental and physical health and, foremost of all, one's

state of happiness and self-worth.

The following statement, which runs like a red thread through the entire

book, is very important in the consideration of cancer: " Cancer does not

cause a person to be sick; it is the sickness of the person that causes the

cancer. " And I will add to this statement that " Once a cancer has occurred,

its main purpose is to return the sick person to a balanced condition of

mind, body and spirit. "

This is so contradictory to what conventional medicine and the media want

you to believe, that it may sound outrageous to you. Yet whether cancer

heals you or leads to your demise has actually more to do with what is going

in your personal life than with the cancer itself, that is, how aggressive

it is, or how early it is being detected.

Take , for example. At age 58, he was diagnosed with lung cancer

during a routine health checkup. Although, he never felt bad before the

diagnosis, his health declined rapidly during the following two weeks. He lost

his

appetite, he couldn't sleep anymore, his breathing became very shallow and

he suffered severe panic attacks and chest pain. He died 20 days after the

diagnosis. The death certificate said he died from lung cancer, but it is

clear that without the cancer diagnosis, none of these overwhelming

stress-induced effects would have occurred.

There is no doubt (anymore) that emotional stress can shut down your

immune system and not only prevent your body from healing, but actually make

you

very ill. There is medical evidence to show that during severe stress,

people can die from a massive heart attack without any prior heart condition

or clogged arteries.

Your ability to recover your health requires you to become and feel whole

again on all levels of body, mind and spirit. Once the cancer causes and

other impediments to feeling whole have been properly identified, it will

become apparent what needs to be done to achieve complete recovery. This is

the subject matter of Chapter Four.

It is a medical fact that every person has millions of cancer cells in the

body at all times in his life. This is not an indication that there is

something wrong with us. On the contrary, as we shall see, this forms an

essential part of maintaining the body's healthy equilibrium.

These millions of cancer cells remain undetectable through standard tests.

However, they show up as tumors once they have multiplied to several

billion. When doctors announce to their cancer patients that the treatments

they

prescribed had successfully eliminated all cancer cells, they merely refer

to tests that are able to identify the detectable size of cancer tumors.

Standard cancer treatments may lower the number of cancer cells to an

undetectable level, but this certainly cannot eradicate all cancer cells. As

long as the causes of tumor growth remain intact, cancer may redevelop at any

time, in any part of the body, and at any speed.

Curing cancer has little to do with getting rid of a group of detectable

cancer cells. Treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are certainly

capable of poisoning or burning many cancer cells, but they also destroy

healthy

cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, heart,

lungs, etc., which often leads to permanent irreparable damage of entire

organs and systems in the body.

The toxic chemicals contained in chemotherapy drugs alone can cause such

severe inflammation in every cell of the body that even the hair follicles

can no longer hold on to the strands of hair.

A real cure of cancer does not come at the expense of destroying other

vital parts of the body. It is achievable only when the causes of excessive

growth of cancer cells have been addressed and the body is being properly

supported through its healing process. Cancer is the healing process that the

body may choose to reestablish homeostasis. Not recognizing cancer as a

healing mechanism can turn out to be fatal, and it often is.

This book is dedicated to dealing with the causes of cancer, not with its

symptoms. Treating cancer as if it were a disease is a trap that millions

of people have fallen into and they have paid a high price for not attending

to its root causes.

While I strongly believe that cancer is a final healing phase, not a

disease, I am fully aware that most people consider cancer to be a dreaded

disease. I make no claims that my understanding of cancer is the only correct

one, but I propose it is one of many correct ones.

The old saying, **Knowledge is different in different states of

consciousness,** reveals *truth* to be a subjective projection of the mind,

conscious

or subconscious. In other words, if you insist that cancer is a terrible

disease that may take your life, this death-fright belief of yours is likely

going to fulfill your dreaded expectation. Remember, emotional trauma

suppresses the immune system and prevents healing. Likewise, if you perceive

cancer to be a healing phase that deals with an underlying imbalance, your

truth is also going to help you achieve a positive outcome of your uplifting

expectation.

It is unfortunate that the medical profession has by and large discouraged

patients to participate in, or affect, their own cures. Patients are

rarely included in the process of healing. Instead, medical treatments are now

propagated to be the sole remedy for today's ills. In truth, whether a

person heals or doesn't is largely controlled by the state of the body, mind

and

spirit of the person. Accepting this as fact can have enormous

self-empowering effects which I consider essential for healing to occur and be

effective.

Power in the Word

Cancer is the second leading cause of death for Americans. According to

the American Cancer Society, a total of 1,529,560 new cancer cases and

569,490 deaths from cancer were estimated to have occurred in the United

States

in 2010. Among men, the top three cancer diagnoses are prostate cancer,

lung cancer, and colorectal cancer. The leading types of cancer among women

are breast cancer, lung cancer, and colorectal cancer.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of underprivileged people who

have cancer, but will not even receive a diagnosis because they cannot afford

health insurance or a visit to the doctor.

Cancer is not just a word, but also a statement that refers to abnormal or

unusual behavior of the body's cells. However, in quite a different

context, cancer is referred to as a star sign. When someone says you are a

*cancer*,are you going tremble with fear of dying? Such a reaction is unlikely,

because your interpretation of being of the cancer sign does not imply that

you have cancer, the illness. But if your doctor called you into his office

and told you that you had cancer, you would most likely feel shocked,

paralyzed, numb, terrified, hopeless, or all of the above. The word 'cancer'

has the potential to play a very disturbing and precarious role in your life,

one that is capable of delivering a death sentence, and as you will

discover in this book, actually execute it.

Although being a cancer patient seems to start with the diagnosis of

cancer, its causes may have been present for many years prior to the patient

feeling ill. Yet within a brief moment, the word 'cancer' can turn someone's

entire world upside down.

Who or what in this world has bestowed this simple word or statement with

such great power that it can preside over life and death? Or does it really

possess this power? Could our collective, social conviction that cancer is

a killer disease, along with the trauma-generating, aggressive treatments

that follow diagnosis, actually be mainly responsible for the current

dramatic escalation of cancer in the Western hemisphere? Such a thought is too

far-fetched, you might reply! In this book, however, I will make the

convincing point that cancer can have no power or control over you, unless the

beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, thoughts, and feelings you have, allow it.

Would you be as afraid of cancer if you knew what caused it or at least

understood what its underlying purpose was? Unlikely so! If the truth were

told, you would probably do everything you could to remove the causes of the

cancer and thereby lay the ground for the body to heal itself.

A little knowledge, which I also call ignorance, is in fact, a dangerous

thing. Almost everyone, at least in the industrialized world, knows that

drinking water from a filthy pond or polluted lake can cause life-threatening

diarrhea. Yet, relatively few people realize that holding on to resentment,

anger, and fear, avoiding exposure to the sun which causes vitamin D

deficiency, not getting enough sleep on a regular basis, holding a cell phone

to

your head for an hour each day, being regularly exposed to X-rays,

mammograms or CATS scans, or eating junk foods, chemical additives, and

artificial

sweeteners is no less dangerous than drinking polluted water. These habits

of life may just take a little longer to kill a person than poison or tiny

amoeba do, but there is no more doubt that they can.

Mistaken Judgment

We all know that if the foundation of a house is strong, the house can

easily withstand external sources of stress, such as a violent storm or even

an earthquake. As we shall see, cancer is merely an indication that

something has been missing in our body and in our life. Cancer reveals that

some

aspect of our physical, mental and spiritual life stands on shaky ground and

is quite fragile, to say the least.

It would be foolish for a gardener to water the withering leaves of a tree

when he knows so well that the real problem is not where it appears to be,

namely, on the level of those withered leaves. The dehydration of the

leaves is merely a symptom of lacking water in the less apparent part of the

plant - its root system. By watering the roots of the plant, the gardener

naturally attends to the causative level, and consequently, the whole plant

becomes revived and resumes its normal growth. To the trained eye of a

gardener, the symptom of withering leaves is not a dreadful disease. He

recognizes that the dehydrated state of these leaves is but a direct

consequence of

withdrawn nourishment that they need to sustain themselves and the rest of

the plant.

Although this example from nature may appear to be a simplistic analogy,

it nevertheless offers a basic understanding of some very complex disease

processes in the human body. It accurately describes one of the most powerful

and fundamental principles controlling all life forms on the planet.

However skilled we may have become at manipulating the functions of our body

through the tools of allopathic medicine, this basic law of nature cannot be

suppressed or violated without paying the hefty price of suffering

ill-health on the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.

I fervently challenge the statement that cancer is a killer disease.

Furthermore, I will demonstrate that cancer is not a disease at all. Many

people

who received a 'terminal' cancer sentence actually defied the prognosis

and experienced complete remission.

The Search for Answers

There is no cancer that has not been survived by someone, regardless of

how far advanced it was. If even one person has succeeded in healing his

cancer, there must be a mechanism for it, just as there is a mechanism for

creating cancer. Every person on the planet has the capacity to do both.

If you have been diagnosed with cancer, you may not be able to change the

diagnosis, but it is certainly in your power to alter the destructive

consequences that it (the diagnosis) may have on you, just as did. The

way you perceive the cancer and the steps you choose to take following the

diagnosis are some of the most powerful determinants of your future wellness,

or the lack of it. (Please also see Chapter Three, *Demystifying Cancer*.)

The indiscriminate reference to cancer as a killer disease by

professionals and lay people alike has turned cancer into a disorder with

tragic

consequences for the majority of cancer patients and their families. Cancer has

become synonymous with extraordinary fear, suffering, and death. This

perception continues despite the fact that up to 90-95 percent of all cancers

can

appear and disappear of their own accord.

Not a day passes without the body making millions of cancer cells. Some

people, under severe temporary stress, make more cancer cells than usual.

These cancer cells cluster together as tumors that will disappear again once

the stress impact has subsided and after a healing response (as indicated by

symptoms of illness) has been completed. I will elaborate on the exact,

predictable way this occurs in Chapter Three.

I wish to mention at this point that according to medical research,

secretions of the DNA's powerful anticancer hormone, Interleukin II, drop under

physical and mental duress and increase again when the person becomes

relaxed and joyful. Low secretions of Interleukin II increase the incidence of

cancer in the body, and normal secretions of this hormone keeps cancer at bay.

However, people are generally not under severe stress all the time. Since

the incidence of cancer rises and falls with the experience of severe

stress, many cancers vanish without any form of medical intervention and

without

causing any real harm. Accordingly, right at this moment, millions of

people are walking around with cancers in their body without having a clue that

they have them. Likewise, millions of people heal their cancers without

even knowing it. Overall, there are many more spontaneous remissions of

cancer than there are diagnosed and treated cancers.

The New York Times published an article in its October 2009 issue, page

D5, that certainly raised some eye-opening questions in view of facts that

have become highly inconvenient for advocates of the cancer business. The

article, written by Kolata, is entitled **Cancers Can Vanish Without

Treatment, but How?**

In the article, Kolata points out that the arrow of cancer was supposed to

point in one direction, like the arrow of time, that is, to grow and

worsen. In October 2009, a paper published in The Journal of the American

Medical Association noted that **data from more than two decades of screening

for

breast and prostate cancer call that view into question.**

More sophisticated screening technologies find many small tumors that

would not cause a problem if they were left alone, undiscovered by screening.

These tumors are as dormant and harmless as small scars on the skin. As the

paper concedes, these tumors were destined to stop growing on their own or

shrink, or even, at least in the case of some breast cancers, disappear.

**The old view is that cancer is a linear process,** said Dr. Barnett

Kramer, associate director for disease prevention at the National Institutes of

Health (NIH).**A cell acquired a mutation, and little by little it

acquired more and more mutations. Mutations are not supposed to revert

spontaneously.**

Until recently, cancer researchers and doctors alike have falsely assumed

(and projected their assumption as scientific fact), that cancer results

from cell mutation (alteration of the genetic makeup of the cell), which then

takes on a life of its own. However, the leading edge of cancer research

points toward the discovery that uncontrolled and senseless cancer cell

division does not take place all.

As Dr. Kramer points out, it is becoming increasingly clear that cancers

require more than mutations to progress. They need the cooperation of

surrounding cells and even, he said, **the whole organism, the person, whose

immune system or hormone levels, for example, can squelch or fuel a tumor.**

This makes cancer, Dr. Kramer said, **a dynamic process.** His statement

obviously raises an important question. Why would the entire body, including

the brain, nervous system, immune system and endocrine system, as well as

the personality and all the cells surrounding a cancer, support its growth?

The answer is both fascinating and encouraging.

As the title of this book proposes, cancer is not a disease at all, it

rather is a healing mechanism. The entire body supports the growth of a cancer

so long it is in its best interest. Once the cancer no longer serves a

purpose and the healing is complete, it either disappears or moves into a

dormant, harmless state.

The new view that cancer does not take a predictable path, i.e., from

mutation to disease, was difficult for some cancer doctors and researchers to

accept. But apparently, more and more of the skeptics are now shifting gear

and acknowledge that, contrary as it seems to everything they had thought,

cancers can in fact disappear on their own.

One of the converts is Dr. M. Kaplan, the chairman of the

department of health services at the School of Public Health at the University

of

California, Los Angeles. " At the end of the day, I am not sure how certain I

am about this, but I do believe it, " said Dr. Kaplan. He added, " The weight

of the evidence suggests that there is reason to believe. "

Still another cancer specialist, Dr. Epstein at s Hopkins

University, says that disappearing tumors are well known in testicular

cancer. According to Dr. Epstein, during an operation on a man's testicle, a

surgeon may just find scar tissue in place of a large diagnosed tumor.

The growing evidence that cancers can go backward or stop is now

undeniable, and researchers are left with no other choice than to reassess

their

notions of what cancer really is and how it develops. Still, in my opinion,

unless they recognize that cancer is a healing mechanism orchestrated by the

entire organism to correct an underlying imbalance, they will continue to

search for ways to fight cancer instead of supporting it through the healing

process. This, however, requires trust in the body's wisdom, not suspicion

that the body is faulty or broken.

The newly made discovery that cell mutation alone cannot cause cancer but

must be supported by surrounding cells and the entire organism, speaks for

itself. I have always viewed cancer as a friend of the body who assists it

during turbulent times. Certainly the body seems to treat cancer as a

friend, not an enemy. I believe that we should do the same.

In her article, Kolata writes about a fascinating statement made by Thea

Tlsty, a professor of pathology at the University of California, San

Francisco, and one of the world's most distinguished cancer researchers. Dr.

Tlsty

says that cancer cells and precancerous cells are so common that nearly

everyone by middle age or old age is riddled with them. That was discovered

in autopsy studies of people who died of other causes, with no idea that

they had cancer cells or precancerous cells. They did not have large tumors or

symptoms of cancer. **The really interesting question,** Dr. Tlsty said,

**is not so much why do we get cancer as why don't we get cancer?**

In the same context, I want to put forward this most intriguing

question:**Why do some people feel sick when they have cancer while others who

also

have cancer live completely normal, healthy lives?** I will elucidate this

crucial topic throughout the book.

Kolata raises yet another curious point: **The earlier a cell is in its

path toward an aggressive cancer, researchers say, the more likely it is to

reverse course. So, for example, cells that are early precursors of cervical

cancer are likely to revert. One study found that 60 percent of

precancerous cervical cells, found with Pap tests, revert to normal within a

year; 90

percent revert within three years. Doesn't this show a different trend

than previous proposed by cancer theorists?**

Of course, this prompts the question whether it is in fact better to leave

many cancers untreated, so that they may either go into dormancy and

become harmless, or disappear on their own. For many decades, doctors and

health

agencies have been pushing the agenda of early detection on the general

population with claims that it is vitally important to catch cancers at an

early stage. They argue, this allows for better and more successful

treatment. However, once again, their assumptions may have been wrong all

along.

Kolata further explains that **the dynamic process of cancer development

appears to be the reason that screening for breast cancer or prostate cancer

finds huge numbers of early cancers without a corresponding decline in

late stage cancers.**

In other words, discovering so many extra cancers through new and better

screening methods has not reduced the incidence of advanced cancers. This

clearly contradicts the assumption which asserts that early detection, which

normally leads to early treatment, has any overall preventative or cancer

incidence-reducing benefits. It also implies that many cancers are better

left alone. This prompts the hypothesis that many early cancers go nowhere.

With regard to breast cancer, there is indirect evidence that some actually

disappear. Screening for breast and prostate cancers has clearly failed to

reduce occurrence.

For good reason, s Hopkins now offers men with small prostate tumors

an option of an **active surveillance,** instead of having their prostates

removed or destroyed. In the rare case that the cancer grows bigger, they

can still have it removed. However, the frightening diagnosis of having

prostate cancer discourages most men from going this route of wait and see.

**Most men want it out,** s Hopkins' Dr. Epstein said. I credit the decades

of senseless fear-mongering by medical professionals and the quick-fix

obsession among patients for this unfortunate situation.

I will add to this that the high doses of ionizing radiation emitted by

cancer screening devices, such as Computed Tomography (CT) and mammography,

etc., have actually contributed to the incidence of various types of cancer.

Cancers associated with such radiation exposure include leukemia, multiple

myeloma, breast cancer, lung cancer, and skin cancer. (For more details,

see Ionizing Radiation in Chapter 5.)

In a Canadian study, researchers looked at the behavior of small kidney

cancers (renal-cell carcinomas) which are among the cancers that are reported

to regress occasionally, even when far advanced. The double blind control

study, led by Dr. Gleave, Department of Urologic Sciences at

Vancouver General Hospital [N Engl J Med 1998; 338:1265-1271, April 30, 1998],

compared an immunomodulating drug treatment, interferon gamma-1b, with a

placebo in people with kidney cancer that had spread throughout their bodies.

Despite the lack of placebo-controlled trials, interleukin-2 and

interferon have become the central component of most immunotherapeutic

strategies

for metastatic renal-cell carcinoma. The new study was supposed to show that

these immunomodulators could control or reverse these kidney cancers, which

are very resistant to chemotherapy.

Six percent of subjects in both groups had tumors that shrank or remained

stable, which led the researchers to conclude that the treatment did not

improve outcomes. The big question is, does treating cancer have any

significant effect on clearing up cancers, or is it up to the body to determine

that? At least in this study, the 6 percent of participants who benefited

somewhat showed that whether they received medical treatment or not made no

difference, except that those in the placebo group lived on average 3.5 months

longer than those who received the drug treatment.

Dr. Gleave says that these days more patients are having ultrasound or CT

scans for other reasons and learning that there is a small lump on one of

their kidneys. In the United States, the accepted practice is to surgically

remove those tumors. But, based on his findings, he asks, **Is that always

necessary?**

According to the NY Times piece, Dr. Gleave's university is now

participating in a countrywide study of people with small kidney tumors, asking

what

happens when those tumors are routinely examined, with scans, to see if

they grow. Apparently, about 80 percent do not change or actually regress over

the next three years.

The conclusion I draw from this important piece of research is that we are

barking up the wrong tree if we believe we can outsmart the body. The body

regresses or stops the growth of a tumor when it deems it necessary, not

otherwise. If we poison, burn or cut out a tumor, the body may need to grow

another one in order to continue or complete its healing activity.

The main flaw in the medical cancer theory lies in the assumption that

cancer needs to be subdued in order to save a cancer patient's life. Until

recently, nearly all scientists shared the opinion that unless a cancer is

treated and stopped, it is destined to grow, spread and eventually kill the

person. This is obviously not the case. Millions of people live with all

kinds of cancer without a problem, and even without being aware of it,

according to the work of Dr. Tlsty and many other top scientists.

The truth is, relatively few cancers actually become **terminal** A vast

number of cancers clearly remain undiagnosed and are not found until autopsy.

Usually, these people don't die from cancer, but from something else, such

as an accident. They don't even have symptoms that could prompt the doctor

to prescribe any of the standard cancer-detecting tests. Doesn't it

astonish you that 30 - 40 times as many cases of thyroid, pancreatic and

prostate

cancers are found in autopsy than are detected by doctors? So is cancer

really the dangerous disease we were being told it is?

In 1993, the British medical journal Lancet published a study that showed

early screening often leads to unnecessary treatment. The reason for that?

For example, although 33 percent of autopsies in men reveal prostate

cancer, only about 1 percent die from it.

After age 75, half of males may have prostate cancer, but mortality rates

only range from 0.1-2.4 percent. More specifically, the overall 5-year

relative prostate cancer survival rate for 1995-2002 was 99 percent. The 5-year

relative prostate cancer survival rates by race were 99.9 percent for

white men and 97.6 percent for black men, regardless whether they had few or no

signs or symptoms of prostate cancer, were free of disease, or had

treatment.

New government recommendations (as of August 2008) call for oncologists to

no longer treat men with prostate cancer past the age of 75 years because

the treatments do more harm than good and offer no advantages over no

treatment at all.

It must be noted that these low mortality rates especially apply to those

who have neither been diagnosed with cancer nor received any treatment for

cancer. Since according the government's own admission, mortality rates

increase when cancers are being treated, it evidently shows what does the

killing.

Once diagnosed and treated, the vast majority of cancers are never given a

chance to disappear on their own. They are promptly targeted with an

arsenal of deadly weapons such as chemotherapy drugs, radiation, and the

surgical knife. Dormant tumors that would never really cause any harm to the

body,

may instead be aroused into powerful defensive reactions and become

aggressive, not unlike relatively harmless bacteria that turn into dangerous

super-bugs when attacked by antibiotic medication. It makes absolutely no sense

that at a time you need to strengthen the body's most important healing

system, the *immune system*, you would subject yourself to radical treatments

that actually weaken or destroy the immune system.

The problem with cancer patients today is that, terrified by the

diagnosis, they submit their bodies to these cutting/burning/poisoning

procedures

that, more likely than not, will lead them more rapidly to the day of

reckoning. The final sentencing may sound like this: **We have to tell you with

our deepest regret that there is nothing more that can be done to help you.**

The most important question a cancer patient may need to ask is not, **How

advanced or dangerous is my cancer?** but, **What am I doing or not doing

that puts my body into a situation of having to fight for its life?** Why

do some people go through cancer as if it were the flu? Are they just

lucky, or is there a mechanism at work that heals them and restores their

health? On the contrary, what is the hidden element that prevents the body from

healing cancer naturally, that makes cancer so dangerous, if indeed it is

dangerous at all?

The answers to all these queries lie with the person who has the cancer,

and does not depend on the degree of a particular cancer's *viciousness* or

the advanced stage to which it appears to have progressed. Do you believe

that cancer is a disease? You will most likely answer, **Yes,** given the

*informed* opinion that the medical industry and mass media have fed to the

masses for many decades. Yet, the more important but rarely asked question

remains, **Why do you think cancer is a disease? " ** You may answer,

**Because I know cancer kills people every day.** I would then question you

further, **How do you know that it is the cancer that kills people?** You would

probably argue that many people who have cancer die, so obviously it must be

the cancer that kills them. Besides, you may reason, all the expert doctors

tell us so.

Let me ask you another question, a rather strange one: **How do you know

for sure that you are the daughter/son of your father and not of another

man?** Is it because your mother told you so? What makes you think that your

mother told you the truth? Probably because you believe her; and you have

no reason not to. After all, she is your mother, and mothers do not lie

about these things. Or do they? Unless you have your father do a paternity DNA

test, or you look like him, you will never really know with absolute

certainty that the person you believe to be your father is, in fact, your

father.

Nevertheless, your subjective belief has turned into something that you

*know* to be an irrefutable truth.

Although no scientific proof exists to show that cancer is a disease

(versus a healing process), most people will insist that it is a disease

because

this is what they have been told to believe. Yet this belief is only

hearsay based on other people's opinions. Finally, the infallible doctrine that

cancer is a disease can be traced to some doctors who expressed their

subjective feelings or beliefs about what they had observed and published them

in some review articles or medical reports. Other doctors agreed with their

opinion, and before long, it became a *well-established fact* that cancer

is a dangerous disease that somehow gets hold of people in order to kill

them. However, the truth of the matter may actually be quite different and

more rational and scientific than that.

Wisdom of Cancer Cells

Cancer cells are not part of a malicious disease process. When cancer

cells spread (metastasize) throughout the body, it is not their purpose or goal

to disrupt the body's vitals functions, infect healthy cells and

obliterate their host (the body). Self-destruction is not the theme of any cell

unless, of course, it is old and worn-out and ready to be turned-over and

replaced. Cancer cells, like all other cells, know that if the body dies, they

will die as well. Just because some people assume that cancer cells are

there to destroy the body does not mean cancer cells have such a purpose or

ability.

A cancerous tumor is neither the cause of progressive destruction nor does

it actually lead to the death of the body. There is nothing in a cancer

cell that has even remotely the ability to kill anything. What eventually

leads to the demise of an organ or the entire body is the wasting away of cell

tissue resulting from continued deprivation of nutrients and life force.

The drastic reduction or shutdown of vital nutrient supplies to the cells of

an organ is not primarily a consequence of a cancerous tumor, but actually

its biggest cause.

By definition, a cancer cell is a normal, healthy cell that has undergone

genetic mutation to the point that it can live in an anaerobic surrounding

(an environment where oxygen is not available). In other words, if you

deprive a group of cells of vital oxygen (their primary source of energy), some

of them will die, but others will manage to alter their genetic software

program and mutate in a most ingenious way: the cells will be able to live

without oxygen and derive some of their energy needs from such things as

cellular metabolic waste products.

It may be easier to understand the cancer cells phenomenon when comparing

it with the behavior of common microorganisms. Bacteria, for example, are

divided into two main groups, aerobic and anaerobic, meaning, those that

need to use oxygen and those that can live without it. This is important to

understand since we have more bacteria in our body than we have cells.

Aerobic bacteria thrive in an oxygenated environment. They are responsible for

helping us with the digestion of food and manufacturing of important

nutrients, such as B-vitamins. Anaerobic bacteria, on the other hand, can

appear

and thrive in an environment where oxygen does not reach. They break down

waste materials, toxic deposits and dead, worn-out cells.

The body sees the cancer as being such an important defense mechanism that

it even causes the growth of new blood vessels to guarantee the

much-needed supply of glucose and, therefore, survival and spreading of the

cancer

cells. It knows that cancer cells do not cause but, prevent death; at least

for a while, until the wasting away of an organ leads to the demise of the

entire organism. If the trigger mechanisms for cancer (causal factors) are

properly taken care of, such an outcome can be avoided.

It is commonly believed that our immune system protects us against cancer.

However, this is only partially true. On the one hand, the immune system

readily destroys the millions of cancer cells that a healthy human body

produces as part of the daily turnover of 30 billion cells. On the other hand,

the immune system takes no action to eradicate cancer cells that develop in

response to a build up of toxins, congestion and emotional stress.

Cancers and all other tissues in the body are larded with cancer-killing

white cells, such as T-cells. In the case of kidney cancer and melanomas,

for example, white cells make up 50 per cent of the mass of the cancers.

Since these T-cells easily recognize foreign or mutated cell tissue such as

cancer cells, you would expect these immune cells to attack cancer cells right

away. However, the immune system allows cancer cells to recruit it to

actually increase and spread the cancer to other parts of the body. Cancer

cells produce specific proteins that tell the immune cells to leave them alone

and help them to grow.

Why would the immune system want to collaborate with cancer cells to make

more or larger tumors? Because cancer is a survival mechanism, not a

disease. The body uses the cancer to keep deadly carcinogenic substances and

caustic metabolic waste matter away from the lymph and blood and, therefore,

from the heart, brain and other vital organs. Killing off cancer cells would

in fact jeopardize its survival. Cleansing the body of accumulated toxins

and waste products through the various cleansing methods advocated in my

book Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation (_www.ener-chi.com_

(http://www.ener-chi.com/) ) removes the need for cancer.

Cancer is not a disease; it is the final and most desperate survival

mechanism the body has at its disposal. It only takes control of the body when

all other measures of self-preservation have failed. To truly heal cancer

and what it represents in a person's life we must come to the understanding

that the reason the body allows some of its cells to grow in abnormal ways

is in its best interest and not an indication that it is about to destroy

itself. Cancer is a healing attempt by the body for the body. Blocking this

healing attempt can destroy the body. Supporting the body in its healing

efforts can save it.

s Moritz's book, Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival

Mechanism, explains the root causes of cancer and how to eliminate them for

good.

Available through _www.amazon.com_ (http://www.amazon.com/) or

_www.ener-chi.com_ (http://www.ener-chi.com/) .

About the author

s Moritz is a medical intuitive; a practitioner of Ayurveda,

iridology, shiatsu, and vibrational medicine; a writer; and an artist. He is

the

author of the international bestseller, The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder

Flush; Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation, Lifting the Veil of

Duality, Cancer Is Not a Disease, It's Time to Come Alive, Heart Disease No

More, Diabetes No More, Simple Steps to Total Health, Diabetes—No More,

Ending

the AIDS Myth and Heal Yourself with Sunlight. For more information, visit

the author's website: _www.ener-chi.com_ (http://www.ener-chi.com/)