{"id":687,"date":"2013-03-17T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T12:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=687"},"modified":"2013-06-09T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T13:19:14","slug":"generic-cancer-part-1-generic-cancer-generic-cancer-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/generic-cancer-part-1-generic-cancer-generic-cancer-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic Cancer Part 1: What is Generic Cancer, Does Generic Cancer Kill?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What is ‘generic cancer’?<\/strong> Is there such a thing as generic cancer? How common is it? What causes it? What is the best treatment? Can it be cured?<\/span><\/p>\n

Modern medicine views cancer as a disease. It uses surgery to cut the disease from the body, chemicals and radiation to attempt to kill the disease. At the same time, modern medicine admits that it cannot \u2018cure\u2019 this disease called cancer. Medicine considers a cancer to be \u2018dead\u2019 if it does not recur for 5 years after treatment.\u00a0 If it re-appears after 5 years \u2013 it is considered to be a \u2018new cancer\u2019.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this series of blog posts, I will discuss an alternative view of cancer, from a perspective of Healthicine<\/a> \u2013 the arts and sciences of health and healthiness.\u00a0 Medicine views cancers as diseases.\u00a0 This viewpoint limits what medicine sees, how it sees, and what alternatives are tested and available for treatment.\u00a0 Medicine declared \u2018war on cancer\u2019 more than 40 years ago \u2013 and cancer continues to win most of the battles.<\/p>\n

I am not a doctor.\u00a0 I cannot cure cancer and cannot tell you how to treat or cure your cancer. This blog is about health, and <\/span>health freedom<\/a>, not about cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason medicine cannot cure cancer is too simple. <\/span>Cancer is a symptom<\/strong> \u2013 and only the underlying unhealthinesses can be cured.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US National Library of Medicine<\/a> says \u201c<\/span>Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancerous cells are also called malignant cells.<\/em>\u201d Is this uncontrolled growth a disease, or is it a symptom of an underlying unhealthiness? The Library of Medicine does not consider this question.<\/span><\/p>\n

They go on: \u201c<\/span>Some cancers can be cured. Other cancers that are not curable can still be treated effectively. Some patients can live for many years with cancer. Other tumors are quickly life threatening.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading between the lines, they say \u201cMost cannot be cured.\u201d\u00a0 They don\u2019t bother to ask why.\u00a0 But the question \u201cwhy can\u2019t we cure cancer?\u201d holds the clue to a true understanding of cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t we cure generic cancer? \u00a0Most cancers are generic first.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our medical systems view each cancer as a bad tree.\u00a0 Each cancer is attacked with all the force the medical system can muster.\u00a0 But medicine doesn\u2019t see the forest for the trees. The forest is generic cancer.\u00a0 If we are to learn the truth about cancer, to beat cancer, we need to understand generic cancers.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is generic cancer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Generic Cancers are Carcinomas.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are four basic types of tissues in the human body: connective tissues, muscle tissues, nervous tissues, and epithelial tissues. Eighty to ninety percent of all cancers are diseases of the epithelial tissues. These cancers are called <\/span>carcinomas<\/strong>. Generic cancers are carcinomas. That\u2019s the first clue to understanding generic cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other cancers are much less common than carcinomas and may be fundamentally different in type, cause, and other factors. We need to study generic cancers first and best.\u00a0 They are the most common.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0We don\u2019t know the cause of Generic Cancers.<\/span><\/p>\n

There two types of cancers, <\/span>cancers where we know the cause<\/strong>, and <\/span>cancers where we don’t know the cause.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We can compare generic cancer to<\/span>\u00a0a cola-drink where you don\u2019t know the manufacturer. You know it\u2019s a cola. It has the name of the local store, but they don\u2019t make cola. Generic colas. We don\u2019t know who or what created them.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s actually more complicated.\u00a0 Every generic cancer has at least two causes. If you\u2019ve ever watched a legal proceeding abut a car accident, you have learned that truth has many sides and each accident can have many causes.\u00a0 Many cancers have more than two causes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every cancer has a trigger cause \u2013 the trigger that created one or more malignant cells.\u00a0 And a growth cause \u2013 that allows these malignant cells to live and reproduce.\u00a0\u00a0 A bit like a slippery road \u2013 and an unprepared driver.\u00a0 Which is the cause?\u00a0 One is the trigger \u2013 the other is a failure to react properly to the trigger.<\/span><\/p>\n

A generic cancer is a cancer where we don\u2019t know the cause(s). A cancerous cell only develops when a normal cell is damaged <\/span>in a number of ways<\/strong>.\u00a0 Eg. It actually takes <\/span>many causes<\/strong> to create a single cancer cell.<\/span><\/p>\n

If we know the cause, it\u2019s not a generic cancer. When I say we ‘know the cause’, I mean really, really know. When there is no question about the cause, it is not a generic cancer. Sometimes there is a ‘single cause’ and anyone who studies the specific situation agrees about the cause. These cancers do exist. They exist in research projects \u2013 where we create cancers in lab animals to study them. When many people are exposed to high levels of radiation, and they get cancer shortly afterwards, we know the cause. Virtually everyone who is exposed to that level of radiation gets cancer shortly afterwards. Smoking, on the other hand, does not cause cancer reliably. Your lungs might be black from years of smoking \u2013 but cancer free. What\u2019s up with that?<\/span><\/p>\n

The US National Library of Medicine<\/a> admits that \u201c<\/span>the cause of many cancers remains unknown<\/em>\u201d In most cases of cancer, we don’t know the individual causes. We may have some clues \u2013 but often these are just guesses. Doctors don\u2019t look for causes. Once a cancer is found, our medical system moves immediately to \u2018treatment\u2019. Patients don\u2019t look for causes \u2013 they want a cure.<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe we need to use an illness view for specific cases of cancer, but we need a health view to understand cancers from an overall perspective. If we want to find the most effective treatment for a specific cancer, we need to identify the causes in order to find the best treatments. \u00a0Early detection is currently used to promote \u2018early killing\u2019 of cancer.\u00a0 It should be used to promote earlier identification of the causes \u2013 to determine if addressing the cause(s) can cure the cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

GreenMedInfo recently reported that inflammation is a cancer trigger.<\/a>\u00a0 Without the ability to create inflammation \u2013 mice were unable to create breast cancer cells.\u00a0 We might ask \u201cIs inflammation the cause of generic cancers?\u201d NO.\u00a0 Normal inflammation is a symptom of healthiness.\u00a0 Inflammation arises when our body tissues are attacked \u2013 or believe they are attacked.\u00a0 If our tissues cannot become inflamed \u2013 they are unhealthy. This presents an interesting challenge for our understanding of inflammation, cancers, and causes of cancers.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also important to distinguish between the \u2018creation\u2019 of cancer cells and the \u2018uncontrolled growth\u2019 of cancer cells.\u00a0 It may be that inflammation (or the cause of the inflammation) \u2018creates\u2019 cancer cells.\u00a0 But we don\u2019t know if it helps them to reproduce or not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3. The cause of Generic Cancers is Environmental.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is one more thing that\u2019s important about generic cancers, although we don\u2019t know the specific cause of an individual generic cancer; we do know the cause of most generic cancers in a general sense. The cause of generic cancer is \u2018environmental\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the book <\/span>Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Patterns in the U.S. Population: An Interdisciplinary Approach<\/a><\/strong> , \u201c<\/span>The term environment refers not only to air, water, and soil but also to substances and conditions at home and at the workplace, including diet, smoking, alcohol, drugs, exposure to chemicals, sunlight, ionizing radiation, electromagnetic fields, infectious agents, etc. Lifestyle, economic and behavioral factors are all aspects of our environment.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, everything causes cancer.\u00a0 Or did you already know that bit of nonsense?<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, the statement \u2018cancer is environmental\u2019 is easily mis-interpreted.\u00a0 Cancer is caused by unhealthiness of the tissues, and the symptoms of cancer are malignant cells. Our cells don\u2019t see the \u2018the environment\u2019.\u00a0 Our cells only see what is next to them, in our bodily tissues. \u00a0That\u2019s their environment, day in and day out.\u00a0 Our tissues are the environment where our cells live.\u00a0 Healthy tissues, healthy cells.\u00a0 Unhealthy tissues, unhealthy cells. How healthy are your tissues?\u00a0 How can you tell?\u00a0 What can you do about it?<\/span><\/p>\n

There are lots of opinions about how to health cancer.\u00a0 Eat a healthy diet; minimize toxic foods, toxic air, exercise.\u00a0 But really: what does science have to say?\u00a0 What diet is healthiest for your tissues?\u00a0 What research exists measuring the health of your tissues?\u00a0 What research measures the effects of \u2018healthy\u2019 diet on your tissues? To be honest, I don\u2019t know of any.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to be enlightened.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Generic Cancers have not yet metastasized.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cancer starts as a single malignant cell.\u00a0 Because all illness has a cause, it is very likely that the cause(s) that created a single malignant cell created more than one malignant cell.\u00a0 Cancer doesn\u2019t happen by accident. If a tissue is unhealthy enough to create a cancer cell, it is unlikely that it will create only a single cancer cell.<\/span><\/p>\n

A cancer cell reproduces without restraint and creates clumps of cancer cells \u2013 called tumours.\u00a0 If the cause created many cancer cells at once \u2013 there may be many cancerous tumours. Your body might detect many of the cancerous cells and remove them, leaving fewer cells to develop into tumours.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cells in a tumour sometimes change again \u2013 in a way that releases them from the tumour and lets them to migrate through the body.\u00a0 This is metastasis and these cells are called CTCs or Circulating Tumour Cells.\u00a0 However, many cells that detach from the tumour are not likely to result in other tumours. \u201cIt is estimated, in fact, that among the cells that have been detached from the primary tumor, only the 0.01% can form metastases\u201d, according to research published in the <\/span>American Journal of Cancer Research<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Metastasis is hard\u00a0for cancer. Most cancers never reach this stage. Generic cancers are cancers that have not yet metastasized. Most cancerous tumours do not kill.\u00a0 Cancer does not usually kill until it metastasizes. Therefore:<\/span><\/p>\n

Generic cancers don\u2019t usually kill. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can that be true? Can it be true that generic cancers don\u2019t usually kill?\u00a0 If we define generic cancers as cancers as carcinomas, where we don’t know the cause, that have not metastasized, then they don\u2019t usually kill.\u00a0 However, we need to recognize that:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many people die from cancers.
\n<\/span>b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most people who die from cancers die from cancers that have metastasized
\n<\/span>c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When people are diagnosed with cancer \u2013 60 to 70 percent have cancer that has metastasized.<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers at Louisiana State University<\/a>\u00a0“looked at more than a thousand autopsy cases and found 250 cases of cancer. Of those, 111, or 44 percent, had undiagnosed or misdiagnosed cancer tumors. Fiftyseven of the deaths were due to the cancer.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That is to say, only 57 of 250 cancers \u2018killed\u2019 the patient. Most, over 77 percent of the cancers found, were cancers that didn’t kill. Even of the diagnosed cancers, only 41 percent of the diagnosed cancers were the cause of death.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, in summary, generic cancers are:<\/span><\/p>\n

– carcinomas \u2013 cancers of the epithelial tissues
\n– cancers where we do not know the individual cause
\n<\/span>– cancers that are caused by environmental factors
\n<\/span>– cancers that have not yet metastasized
\n<\/span>– cancers that don\u2019t usually result in death<\/span><\/p>\n

Each cancer is individual. But in order to study generic cancer, we don\u2019t need to study trees \u2013 we need to understand the forest. \u00a0The forest is the tissues of our body, where cells, and cancerous cells, live and grow.<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe the only way to defeat cancer is to make the forest healthier \u2013 not try to kill selected cells \u2013 by making the forest, our tissues, less healthy. \u00a0We have an unhealthy view of cancer – that’s why we continue to fail in our cancer war. \u00a0We need to adopt a healthy view of cancer – to learn to create healthiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

We need to health our bodies, instead of trying to \u2018kill cancer\u2019. We need to wake up our health, instead of trying to drug, hibernate, or kill our diseases. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To your health, tracy
\n<\/span>Founder: Healthcine.org<\/span><\/p>\n

This post is the first of a series of posts about Generic Cancer as viewed by Healthicine<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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