Cancer is Not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism
You may be surprised to learn that a person suffering from the leading causes of cancer (which constitute the real illness) would most likely die quickly unless he actually grew cancer cells. In this paper, provide evidence in this regard.
I further argue that the cancer will only occur after all other defense mechanisms and healing in the body have failed. In extreme circumstances, exposure to large amounts of cancer-producing agents (carcinogens) can cause a collapse of the body's defenses within weeks or months and allow rapid and aggressive growth of a cancerous tumor. In general, however, it takes many years or even decades, so-called "evil" to form tumors.
Unfortunately, basic misconceptions or total lack of knowledge about the reasons behind tumor growth have become "malignant" tumors into vicious monsters who have no other purpose but to kill in revenge for our sins or abusing the body. However, as we are about to find out, cancer is on our side, not against us. Unless we change our perception of what cancer really is, continue to resist treatment, especially the more "advanced" methods. If you have cancer, and cancer is indeed part of the complex survival responses of the body and not a disease, and suggest that it is, must find answers to the following pressing questions:
* What reasons force your body into developing cancer cells?
* Once you have identified these reasons, it will be able to change? What determines the type and severity of cancer that are affected?
* If the cancer is a survival mechanism, which must be done to prevent the body resorting to such drastic defense measures?
* Since the body's original genetic design always favors the preservation of life and protection against adversities of all kinds, why would the body permit self-destruction?
* Why do almost all cancers disappear by themselves without medical intervention?
* No radiation, chemotherapy and surgery actually cure cancer or cancer survivors heal due to other reasons, despite these radical treatments, with the charged side effect?
* What roles do fear, frustration, anger, low self-esteem and repressed play in the origin and evolution of cancer?
* What is the spiritual growth lesson behind cancer?
To address the causes of cancer, must find satisfactory answers to practical questions. If you feel the inner urge to make sense of this life-changing event (cancer that is), it is likely that it will recover. Cancer can be your best opportunity to help restore balance in all aspects of your life, but also may be the harbinger of severe trauma and suffering. In any case, you are in control of your body.
To live in a human body, must have access to a certain amount of power to prolong life. You can use the energy inherent in a nurturing and self-sufficient or a destructive and debilitating. If you choose consciously or unconsciously self-neglect or abuse in the loving care and respect for yourself, your body is likely to end up having to fight for his life.
Cancer is but one of many ways the body tries to change the way we see and treat yourself, including your body. Inevitably, this raises the issue of spiritual health, which plays at least as important a role in cancer as physical and emotional reasons do.
Cancer appears to be a very confusing and unpredictable disorder. It seems that the strike very happy and sad, rich and poor, smokers and non smokers, very healthy and less healthy. People of all backgrounds and occupations can have cancer. However, if they dare to look behind the mask of their physical symptoms, such as the type, appearance and behavior of cancer cells, you will find that cancer is not as random or unpredictable, as it seems.
What makes 50% of the American population so prone to develop cancer, while the other half have no risk at all? Blaming genes is not an excuse to cover up the ignorance of the real causes. Also, any good genetic researcher will tell you that such belief has no scientific logic and pure and simple (as explained in the book).
Cancer has always been an extremely rare, except in industrialized countries during the last 40-50 years. Human genes have not significantly changed for thousands of years. Why is change so drastically now, and suddenly decides to kill dozens of people? The answer to this question is surprisingly simple: the damaged or defective genes do not kill anyone. Cancer does not kill a person affected by it! What kills a cancer patient is not the tumor, but the reasons behind various mutations in cells and tumor growth. These causes should be the center of each treatment for cancer, but most oncologists typically ignore them. Constant conflicts, guilt and shame, for example, can easily paralyze the body's most basic functions, and lead to growth of a cancerous tumor.
Having seen thousands of cancer patients in a period of three years, I began to recognize a certain pattern of thinking, believing and feeling that was common to most of them. To be more specific, I met a cancer patient who does not feel burdened by a bad self-image, unresolved conflict and worries, or past emotional trauma that still lingers in your subconscious. Cancer, physical illness can not occur unless there is a strong undercurrent of emotional distress and deep frustration.
Cancer patients often suffer from low self-esteem or dignity, and often have what I call a "pending" in your life. The cancer may actually be a way to reveal the source of such internal conflicts. In addition, cancer can help reach an agreement with that conflict, and until it heals completely. How to pull weeds is to pull them along their roots. This is how we treat cancer, otherwise, can be repeated over time.
The following statement is very important in cancer screening, "Cancer does not make a person gets sick, the illness of the person who causes cancer." To treat cancer successfully requires the patient to full again at all levels of your body, mind and spirit. Once the causes of cancer have been properly identified, which will become apparent what needs to be done to achieve full recovery.
It is a medical fact that every person has cancer cells in the body all the time. These cancer cells remain undetectable through standard tests until they have multiplied to several billion. When doctors announce to their cancer patients that the prescribed treatments had successfully removed all the cancer cells, which merely refer to tests that can identify the number of detectable cancer cells. Standard cancer treatments can reduce the number of cancer cells to an undetectable level, but this certainly can not eradicate all cancer cells. While the causes of tumor growth remain intact, the cancer may redevelop at any time and in any case.
Curing cancer has little to do with getting rid of a group of detectable cancer cells. Treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation are certainly capable of poisoning or burning many cancer cells but also destroys healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, etc, which often leads irreparable permanent damage to all organs and body systems. A real cure of cancer does not occur at the expense of destroying other vital parts of the body.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people who once were "successfully" treated for cancer die from infections, heart attacks, liver failure, kidney failure and other diseases due to cancer treatments generate a massive amount of inflammation and the destruction of organs and body systems. Of course, these killers are not attributed to cancer. This statistical omission makes it appear that they are making progress in the war against cancer. However, many more people are dying of cancer treatment of cancer. A real cure or cancer can be achieved when the causes of excessive growth of cancer cells are removed or arrested.
Power in the Word
Cancer is the second leading cause of "cause" of death for Americans. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1.2 million cases will be diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. in 2008. More than 552.000 Americans die from it. Among men, the top three cancer diagnoses are expected to prostate cancer (180,400 cases), lung cancer (89,500 cases), and colorectal cancer (63.600). The main types of cancer among women are breast cancer (182,800 cases), lung (74 600), and colorectal cancer (66,600 cases).
Cancer is not just a word, but also a statement that refers to abnormal or unusual behavior of cells in the body. However, in a very different context, cancer is known as a star sign. When someone tells you that you are a "cancer", are you trembling with fear of death? It is unlikely, because their interpretation of being the sign of Cancer does not mean you have cancer, the disease. But if your doctor called his office and told him he had cancer, the most likely to feel numb, numbness, fear, hopelessness, or all the above.
The word "cancer" has the potential to play a very worrisome and precarious, that is capable of delivering a death sentence. Being a cancer patient seems to start with a diagnosis of cancer, although the causes may have been there for many years before feeling ill. Within a short time, the word "cancer" can turn a person's world upside down.
Who or what in this world has made this simple word or a statement with such great power that can preside over life and death? Or does it really? Could it really be that our collective belief, social, that cancer is a deadly disease, in addition to the aggressive treatments that follow diagnosis, are largely responsible for the current dramatic escalation of cancer in the Western Hemisphere? Too extreme, you could say! In this book, however, I'll make the point that cancer can have no power or control over us, unless we unconsciously allow it to grow in response to the beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, thoughts, feelings we have, and life choices to make.
Could we be so afraid of cancer if we knew what caused it or at least understand what their fundamental purpose is? It is unlikely that yes! If truth be told, most likely everything possible to eliminate the causes and, consequently, establish the preconditions for the body to heal.
A little knowledge (which is what we call ignorance) is indeed a dangerous thing. Almost everyone, at least in the industrialized world, knows that water from a dirty pond or lake pollution can cause life-threatening diarrhea, but still very few realize that the holding in resentment, anger and fear or eating fast foods, chemical additives and artificial sweeteners, is no less dangerous than drinking polluted water can only take a little longer to kill a person of small amoeba can.
Erroneous sentence
Everyone knows that if the foundations of a house is strong, the house can withstand external challenges such as a violent storm. As we shall see, cancer is only an indication that there is something missing in our body and life as a whole. Cancer shows that life as a (physical, mental and spiritual) everything is on shaky grounds and is quite fragile, to say the least. It would be absurd for a gardener to water the leaves of a tree species when he knows very well that the real problem is not where it appears, that is, symptomatic level (of leaves). When watering the roots of the plant, which naturally assists the causal level, and therefore, the plant regenerates quickly and automatically.
To the trained eye of a gardener, the symptom of withering leaves is not a terrible disease. He recognizes that the state of dehydration of these leaves is more than a direct consequence of retired food they need to support themselves and the rest of the plant.
Although this example from nature may seem a simplistic analogy, which offers a deep understanding of complex disease processes in the human body. It accurately describes one of the most fundamental and powerful control of all forms of life on the planet. However, that may have become experts in handling the functions of our body through the tools of allopathic medicine, this basic principle, highly evolved of evolution can not be suppressed or violated without paying the high price of suffering effects side shot and the pain - physically, emotionally and spiritually.
I want to challenge the statement that cancer is a deadly disease. Also, I will demonstrate that cancer is not a disease at all. Many people who have received a "terminal" cancer sentence actually defied the prognosis and to refer the whole experience.
The need for answers
No cancer that has not survived by anyone, no matter how advanced it was. If one person has succeeded in curing your cancer, you must be a mechanism for that, just as there is a mechanism for creating cancer. Each person on the planet has the ability to both. If you have been diagnosed with cancer, may not be able to change the diagnosis, but it is certainly within their power to change the destructive consequences it (the diagnosis) can have on you. The way to see the cancer and the steps to take after diagnosis are some of the most powerful determinants of their future welfare, or the lack thereof.
The indiscriminate reference to "cancer" as a fatal disease by professionals and lay people alike has turned cancer into a disease with tragic consequences for the majority of cancer patients and their families today. Cancer has become synonymous with extraordinary suffering pain and death. This is true despite the fact that 90-95 percent of all cancers appear and disappear on their own volition. Not a day passes without the body is making millions of cancer cells. Some people, under severe stress time more cancer cells than normal and cancer cells form groups that disappear once they feel better. The secretions of the cancer drug DNA, interleukin II, the fall in the physical and mental strength and increase again when you are relaxed and happy. Therefore, most cancers vanish without any medical intervention and without causing any real damage.
Just then, millions of people walking around with cancer in your body without having any idea they have it. Similarly, there are millions of people to cure their cancers without even knowing it. In general, there are many spontaneous remissions of cancer are not diagnosed and treated for cancer.
The truth is that relatively few cancers actually become "terminal." However, once diagnosed, most cancers are not yet a chance to disappear on their own. They are led immediately with an arsenal of deadly weapons of destruction of cells, such as chemotherapy drugs, radiation and the knife. The problem with cancer patients is that, terrified by the diagnosis, to submit their bodies to all these cut / burn / poison procedures, the more likely they can not reach the day of the final sentence, "We must tell our deepest regret that there is nothing you can do to help. "
The most urgent issue is not how advanced or dangerous a cancer is, but what we do to not end up dying from it. Why do some people go through cancer as if it were the flu? Are they just lucky or is there a mechanism that causes the healing work? In other words, what is that element that prevents the body from cancer of natural healing, or what is the hidden element that makes cancer so dangerous, if it is dangerous at all?
The answers to these questions lie with the response of the person who has cancer, and not to the degree of "evil" or at an advanced stage that seems to have progressed. Do you think that cancer is a disease? You most likely answer with "yes" given the "informed" considers that the medical industry and the media have fed the masses for many decades. However, the most pressing issue is still rarely asked: "Why do you think cancer is a disease?" You can say, "Because I know cancer kills people every day." He asks: "How do you know that cancer is killing people" would probably say that most people with cancer die so obviously it must be cancer that kills them is also possible that the reason?. All medical experts tell us.
Let me pose another question, a strange one: "How do you know for sure that you are the daughter / son of your father and not another man?" Is it because your mother told you that? What makes you think that his mother told him the truth? Probably because you believe him, and they have no reason not to. After all, she is his mother, and mothers do not lie about these things. Or do they? Although you never know what the person you think your father is, in fact, his father, however, have turned what subjectively believe in something you just "know" in an irrefutable truth.
Although there is no scientific evidence that cancer is a disease (compared with a survival mechanism), most people insist that it is a disease, because this is what they were told to believe. However, their belief is only hearsay on the basis of opinions of others. These people heard from someone else. Finally, the "truth" of a disease cancer can be traced to some doctors who expressed their subjective feelings or beliefs about what he observed and wrote about some review articles or medical reports. Other doctors agree with your opinion, and quickly became a "well established" fact that cancer is a cruel disease that somehow gets hold of people to kill. However, the truth of the matter can be very different.
The wisdom of cancer cells
Cancer cells are not part of a malicious disease process. When cancer cells spread (metastasize) throughout the body, is not its purpose or goal to disrupt vital bodily functions and infect healthy cells and destroy his army (the body). Self-destruction is the subject of any cell unless, of course, is old and worn out and ready to be converted into one and replaced. Cancer cells, like all other cells, know that if the body dies, it dies too. The fact that some people assume that cancer cells are there to destroy the body does not mean that cancer cells have a purpose or capacity.
A cancerous tumor is neither the cause of progressive destruction nor indeed lead to the death of the body. There is nothing in a cancer cell that has anywhere near the possibility of killing anything. Which eventually leads to the disappearance of an organ or entire body is a cellular tissue atrophy resulting from the continued deprivation of nutrients and vitality. The drastic reduction or shutdown of vital supplies nutrients to the cells of an organ is not primarily a consequence of a cancerous tumor, but in reality its main cause.
By definition, a cancer cell is a normal and healthy cell that has undergone genetic mutation to the point where they can live in an anaerobic environment (an environment where oxygen is not available.) In other words, if you deprive a group of cells of vital oxygen (its main energy source), some of them will die, but others manage to change its genetic software program and mutate into a most ingenious way: the cells be able to live without oxygen and derives its energy needs from such things as waste products of cell metabolism.
It may be easier to understand the phenomenon of cancer cells when compared with the behavior of common microorganisms. Bacteria, for example, are divided into two main groups, aerobic and anaerobic, that is, those who need to use oxygen and can live without it. This is important to understand because we have more bacteria in our bodies that have cells. Aerobic bacteria thrive in an oxygenated environment. They are responsible for helping with the digestion of food and manufacture of important nutrients such as vitamin B. Anaerobic bacteria, however, may appear and develop in an environment where oxygen does not reach. They break down waste materials, toxic deposits and dead cells, dead.
The agency believes that cancer such as an important defense mechanism that makes even the growth of new blood vessels to ensure the much needed supply of glucose and, therefore, the survival and spread of cancer cells. It is known that cancer cells do not cause but, prevent death, at least for a while, until the wear of an organ leads to the disappearance of the whole organism. If the triggers for cancer (causal factors) are well cared for, this result can be avoided.
It is commonly believed that our immune system protects us against cancer. However, this is only partly 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 an accumulation of toxins, congestion and emotional stress.
Cancers and all other body tissues are stuffed with cancer that kills white blood cells such as T-cells. In the case of kidney cancer and melanoma, for example, white blood cells make up 50 percent of the mass of the cancers. Since T cells can easily recognize foreign or mutated cell tissue, such as cancer cells, which can be expected from these immune cells to attack cancer cells right away. However, the immune system allows cancer cells to recruit and actually increase the spread of cancer to other parts of the body. Cancer cells produce specific proteins that tell immune cells to leave them alone and help them grow
Why 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 to keep the deadly cancer carcinogens and caustic metabolic waste matter away from the lymph and blood and, therefore, from the heart, brain and other vital organs. Kill cancer cells jeopardize its survival. Cleansing the body of accumulated toxins and waste products through the various cleaning methods advocated in my book Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation (chi www.en. Com) eliminates the need for cancer.
Cancer is not a disease, is the ultimate survival mechanism and more desperate than the body has available. Just take control of the body when all other conservation measures have failed. To really cure cancer and what it represents in the life of a person who must come to understand that the reason the body allows some cells to grow abnormally is in your best interest and not an indication that you are about to destroy itself. Cancer is an attempt to heal the body, body. Blocking this healing attempt can destroy the body. Support the body in its healing efforts can save it.
I further argue that the cancer will only occur after all other defense mechanisms and healing in the body have failed. In extreme circumstances, exposure to large amounts of cancer-producing agents (carcinogens) can cause a collapse of the body's defenses within weeks or months and allow rapid and aggressive growth of a cancerous tumor. In general, however, it takes many years or even decades, so-called "evil" to form tumors.
Unfortunately, basic misconceptions or total lack of knowledge about the reasons behind tumor growth have become "malignant" tumors into vicious monsters who have no other purpose but to kill in revenge for our sins or abusing the body. However, as we are about to find out, cancer is on our side, not against us. Unless we change our perception of what cancer really is, continue to resist treatment, especially the more "advanced" methods. If you have cancer, and cancer is indeed part of the complex survival responses of the body and not a disease, and suggest that it is, must find answers to the following pressing questions:
* What reasons force your body into developing cancer cells?
* Once you have identified these reasons, it will be able to change? What determines the type and severity of cancer that are affected?
* If the cancer is a survival mechanism, which must be done to prevent the body resorting to such drastic defense measures?
* Since the body's original genetic design always favors the preservation of life and protection against adversities of all kinds, why would the body permit self-destruction?
* Why do almost all cancers disappear by themselves without medical intervention?
* No radiation, chemotherapy and surgery actually cure cancer or cancer survivors heal due to other reasons, despite these radical treatments, with the charged side effect?
* What roles do fear, frustration, anger, low self-esteem and repressed play in the origin and evolution of cancer?
* What is the spiritual growth lesson behind cancer?
To address the causes of cancer, must find satisfactory answers to practical questions. If you feel the inner urge to make sense of this life-changing event (cancer that is), it is likely that it will recover. Cancer can be your best opportunity to help restore balance in all aspects of your life, but also may be the harbinger of severe trauma and suffering. In any case, you are in control of your body.
To live in a human body, must have access to a certain amount of power to prolong life. You can use the energy inherent in a nurturing and self-sufficient or a destructive and debilitating. If you choose consciously or unconsciously self-neglect or abuse in the loving care and respect for yourself, your body is likely to end up having to fight for his life.
Cancer is but one of many ways the body tries to change the way we see and treat yourself, including your body. Inevitably, this raises the issue of spiritual health, which plays at least as important a role in cancer as physical and emotional reasons do.
Cancer appears to be a very confusing and unpredictable disorder. It seems that the strike very happy and sad, rich and poor, smokers and non smokers, very healthy and less healthy. People of all backgrounds and occupations can have cancer. However, if they dare to look behind the mask of their physical symptoms, such as the type, appearance and behavior of cancer cells, you will find that cancer is not as random or unpredictable, as it seems.
What makes 50% of the American population so prone to develop cancer, while the other half have no risk at all? Blaming genes is not an excuse to cover up the ignorance of the real causes. Also, any good genetic researcher will tell you that such belief has no scientific logic and pure and simple (as explained in the book).
Cancer has always been an extremely rare, except in industrialized countries during the last 40-50 years. Human genes have not significantly changed for thousands of years. Why is change so drastically now, and suddenly decides to kill dozens of people? The answer to this question is surprisingly simple: the damaged or defective genes do not kill anyone. Cancer does not kill a person affected by it! What kills a cancer patient is not the tumor, but the reasons behind various mutations in cells and tumor growth. These causes should be the center of each treatment for cancer, but most oncologists typically ignore them. Constant conflicts, guilt and shame, for example, can easily paralyze the body's most basic functions, and lead to growth of a cancerous tumor.
Having seen thousands of cancer patients in a period of three years, I began to recognize a certain pattern of thinking, believing and feeling that was common to most of them. To be more specific, I met a cancer patient who does not feel burdened by a bad self-image, unresolved conflict and worries, or past emotional trauma that still lingers in your subconscious. Cancer, physical illness can not occur unless there is a strong undercurrent of emotional distress and deep frustration.
Cancer patients often suffer from low self-esteem or dignity, and often have what I call a "pending" in your life. The cancer may actually be a way to reveal the source of such internal conflicts. In addition, cancer can help reach an agreement with that conflict, and until it heals completely. How to pull weeds is to pull them along their roots. This is how we treat cancer, otherwise, can be repeated over time.
The following statement is very important in cancer screening, "Cancer does not make a person gets sick, the illness of the person who causes cancer." To treat cancer successfully requires the patient to full again at all levels of your body, mind and spirit. Once the causes of cancer have been properly identified, which will become apparent what needs to be done to achieve full recovery.
It is a medical fact that every person has cancer cells in the body all the time. These cancer cells remain undetectable through standard tests until they have multiplied to several billion. When doctors announce to their cancer patients that the prescribed treatments had successfully removed all the cancer cells, which merely refer to tests that can identify the number of detectable cancer cells. Standard cancer treatments can reduce the number of cancer cells to an undetectable level, but this certainly can not eradicate all cancer cells. While the causes of tumor growth remain intact, the cancer may redevelop at any time and in any case.
Curing cancer has little to do with getting rid of a group of detectable cancer cells. Treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation are certainly capable of poisoning or burning many cancer cells but also destroys healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, etc, which often leads irreparable permanent damage to all organs and body systems. A real cure of cancer does not occur at the expense of destroying other vital parts of the body.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people who once were "successfully" treated for cancer die from infections, heart attacks, liver failure, kidney failure and other diseases due to cancer treatments generate a massive amount of inflammation and the destruction of organs and body systems. Of course, these killers are not attributed to cancer. This statistical omission makes it appear that they are making progress in the war against cancer. However, many more people are dying of cancer treatment of cancer. A real cure or cancer can be achieved when the causes of excessive growth of cancer cells are removed or arrested.
Power in the Word
Cancer is the second leading cause of "cause" of death for Americans. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1.2 million cases will be diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. in 2008. More than 552.000 Americans die from it. Among men, the top three cancer diagnoses are expected to prostate cancer (180,400 cases), lung cancer (89,500 cases), and colorectal cancer (63.600). The main types of cancer among women are breast cancer (182,800 cases), lung (74 600), and colorectal cancer (66,600 cases).
Cancer is not just a word, but also a statement that refers to abnormal or unusual behavior of cells in the body. However, in a very different context, cancer is known as a star sign. When someone tells you that you are a "cancer", are you trembling with fear of death? It is unlikely, because their interpretation of being the sign of Cancer does not mean you have cancer, the disease. But if your doctor called his office and told him he had cancer, the most likely to feel numb, numbness, fear, hopelessness, or all the above.
The word "cancer" has the potential to play a very worrisome and precarious, that is capable of delivering a death sentence. Being a cancer patient seems to start with a diagnosis of cancer, although the causes may have been there for many years before feeling ill. Within a short time, the word "cancer" can turn a person's world upside down.
Who or what in this world has made this simple word or a statement with such great power that can preside over life and death? Or does it really? Could it really be that our collective belief, social, that cancer is a deadly disease, in addition to the aggressive treatments that follow diagnosis, are largely responsible for the current dramatic escalation of cancer in the Western Hemisphere? Too extreme, you could say! In this book, however, I'll make the point that cancer can have no power or control over us, unless we unconsciously allow it to grow in response to the beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, thoughts, feelings we have, and life choices to make.
Could we be so afraid of cancer if we knew what caused it or at least understand what their fundamental purpose is? It is unlikely that yes! If truth be told, most likely everything possible to eliminate the causes and, consequently, establish the preconditions for the body to heal.
A little knowledge (which is what we call ignorance) is indeed a dangerous thing. Almost everyone, at least in the industrialized world, knows that water from a dirty pond or lake pollution can cause life-threatening diarrhea, but still very few realize that the holding in resentment, anger and fear or eating fast foods, chemical additives and artificial sweeteners, is no less dangerous than drinking polluted water can only take a little longer to kill a person of small amoeba can.
Erroneous sentence
Everyone knows that if the foundations of a house is strong, the house can withstand external challenges such as a violent storm. As we shall see, cancer is only an indication that there is something missing in our body and life as a whole. Cancer shows that life as a (physical, mental and spiritual) everything is on shaky grounds and is quite fragile, to say the least. It would be absurd for a gardener to water the leaves of a tree species when he knows very well that the real problem is not where it appears, that is, symptomatic level (of leaves). When watering the roots of the plant, which naturally assists the causal level, and therefore, the plant regenerates quickly and automatically.
To the trained eye of a gardener, the symptom of withering leaves is not a terrible disease. He recognizes that the state of dehydration of these leaves is more than a direct consequence of retired food they need to support themselves and the rest of the plant.
Although this example from nature may seem a simplistic analogy, which offers a deep understanding of complex disease processes in the human body. It accurately describes one of the most fundamental and powerful control of all forms of life on the planet. However, that may have become experts in handling the functions of our body through the tools of allopathic medicine, this basic principle, highly evolved of evolution can not be suppressed or violated without paying the high price of suffering effects side shot and the pain - physically, emotionally and spiritually.
I want to challenge the statement that cancer is a deadly disease. Also, I will demonstrate that cancer is not a disease at all. Many people who have received a "terminal" cancer sentence actually defied the prognosis and to refer the whole experience.
The need for answers
No cancer that has not survived by anyone, no matter how advanced it was. If one person has succeeded in curing your cancer, you must be a mechanism for that, just as there is a mechanism for creating cancer. Each person on the planet has the ability to both. If you have been diagnosed with cancer, may not be able to change the diagnosis, but it is certainly within their power to change the destructive consequences it (the diagnosis) can have on you. The way to see the cancer and the steps to take after diagnosis are some of the most powerful determinants of their future welfare, or the lack thereof.
The indiscriminate reference to "cancer" as a fatal disease by professionals and lay people alike has turned cancer into a disease with tragic consequences for the majority of cancer patients and their families today. Cancer has become synonymous with extraordinary suffering pain and death. This is true despite the fact that 90-95 percent of all cancers appear and disappear on their own volition. Not a day passes without the body is making millions of cancer cells. Some people, under severe stress time more cancer cells than normal and cancer cells form groups that disappear once they feel better. The secretions of the cancer drug DNA, interleukin II, the fall in the physical and mental strength and increase again when you are relaxed and happy. Therefore, most cancers vanish without any medical intervention and without causing any real damage.
Just then, millions of people walking around with cancer in your body without having any idea they have it. Similarly, there are millions of people to cure their cancers without even knowing it. In general, there are many spontaneous remissions of cancer are not diagnosed and treated for cancer.
The truth is that relatively few cancers actually become "terminal." However, once diagnosed, most cancers are not yet a chance to disappear on their own. They are led immediately with an arsenal of deadly weapons of destruction of cells, such as chemotherapy drugs, radiation and the knife. The problem with cancer patients is that, terrified by the diagnosis, to submit their bodies to all these cut / burn / poison procedures, the more likely they can not reach the day of the final sentence, "We must tell our deepest regret that there is nothing you can do to help. "
The most urgent issue is not how advanced or dangerous a cancer is, but what we do to not end up dying from it. Why do some people go through cancer as if it were the flu? Are they just lucky or is there a mechanism that causes the healing work? In other words, what is that element that prevents the body from cancer of natural healing, or what is the hidden element that makes cancer so dangerous, if it is dangerous at all?
The answers to these questions lie with the response of the person who has cancer, and not to the degree of "evil" or at an advanced stage that seems to have progressed. Do you think that cancer is a disease? You most likely answer with "yes" given the "informed" considers that the medical industry and the media have fed the masses for many decades. However, the most pressing issue is still rarely asked: "Why do you think cancer is a disease?" You can say, "Because I know cancer kills people every day." He asks: "How do you know that cancer is killing people" would probably say that most people with cancer die so obviously it must be cancer that kills them is also possible that the reason?. All medical experts tell us.
Let me pose another question, a strange one: "How do you know for sure that you are the daughter / son of your father and not another man?" Is it because your mother told you that? What makes you think that his mother told him the truth? Probably because you believe him, and they have no reason not to. After all, she is his mother, and mothers do not lie about these things. Or do they? Although you never know what the person you think your father is, in fact, his father, however, have turned what subjectively believe in something you just "know" in an irrefutable truth.
Although there is no scientific evidence that cancer is a disease (compared with a survival mechanism), most people insist that it is a disease, because this is what they were told to believe. However, their belief is only hearsay on the basis of opinions of others. These people heard from someone else. Finally, the "truth" of a disease cancer can be traced to some doctors who expressed their subjective feelings or beliefs about what he observed and wrote about some review articles or medical reports. Other doctors agree with your opinion, and quickly became a "well established" fact that cancer is a cruel disease that somehow gets hold of people to kill. However, the truth of the matter can be very different.
The wisdom of cancer cells
Cancer cells are not part of a malicious disease process. When cancer cells spread (metastasize) throughout the body, is not its purpose or goal to disrupt vital bodily functions and infect healthy cells and destroy his army (the body). Self-destruction is the subject of any cell unless, of course, is old and worn out and ready to be converted into one and replaced. Cancer cells, like all other cells, know that if the body dies, it dies too. The fact that some people assume that cancer cells are there to destroy the body does not mean that cancer cells have a purpose or capacity.
A cancerous tumor is neither the cause of progressive destruction nor indeed lead to the death of the body. There is nothing in a cancer cell that has anywhere near the possibility of killing anything. Which eventually leads to the disappearance of an organ or entire body is a cellular tissue atrophy resulting from the continued deprivation of nutrients and vitality. The drastic reduction or shutdown of vital supplies nutrients to the cells of an organ is not primarily a consequence of a cancerous tumor, but in reality its main cause.
By definition, a cancer cell is a normal and healthy cell that has undergone genetic mutation to the point where they can live in an anaerobic environment (an environment where oxygen is not available.) In other words, if you deprive a group of cells of vital oxygen (its main energy source), some of them will die, but others manage to change its genetic software program and mutate into a most ingenious way: the cells be able to live without oxygen and derives its energy needs from such things as waste products of cell metabolism.
It may be easier to understand the phenomenon of cancer cells when compared with the behavior of common microorganisms. Bacteria, for example, are divided into two main groups, aerobic and anaerobic, that is, those who need to use oxygen and can live without it. This is important to understand because we have more bacteria in our bodies that have cells. Aerobic bacteria thrive in an oxygenated environment. They are responsible for helping with the digestion of food and manufacture of important nutrients such as vitamin B. Anaerobic bacteria, however, may appear and develop in an environment where oxygen does not reach. They break down waste materials, toxic deposits and dead cells, dead.
The agency believes that cancer such as an important defense mechanism that makes even the growth of new blood vessels to ensure the much needed supply of glucose and, therefore, the survival and spread of cancer cells. It is known that cancer cells do not cause but, prevent death, at least for a while, until the wear of an organ leads to the disappearance of the whole organism. If the triggers for cancer (causal factors) are well cared for, this result can be avoided.
It is commonly believed that our immune system protects us against cancer. However, this is only partly 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 an accumulation of toxins, congestion and emotional stress.
Cancers and all other body tissues are stuffed with cancer that kills white blood cells such as T-cells. In the case of kidney cancer and melanoma, for example, white blood cells make up 50 percent of the mass of the cancers. Since T cells can easily recognize foreign or mutated cell tissue, such as cancer cells, which can be expected from these immune cells to attack cancer cells right away. However, the immune system allows cancer cells to recruit and actually increase the spread of cancer to other parts of the body. Cancer cells produce specific proteins that tell immune cells to leave them alone and help them grow
Why 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 to keep the deadly cancer carcinogens and caustic metabolic waste matter away from the lymph and blood and, therefore, from the heart, brain and other vital organs. Kill cancer cells jeopardize its survival. Cleansing the body of accumulated toxins and waste products through the various cleaning methods advocated in my book Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation (chi www.en. Com) eliminates the need for cancer.
Cancer is not a disease, is the ultimate survival mechanism and more desperate than the body has available. Just take control of the body when all other conservation measures have failed. To really cure cancer and what it represents in the life of a person who must come to understand that the reason the body allows some cells to grow abnormally is in your best interest and not an indication that you are about to destroy itself. Cancer is an attempt to heal the body, body. Blocking this healing attempt can destroy the body. Support the body in its healing efforts can save it.
What You Should Know About Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and the second leading cause of cancer death, exceeded only by lung cancer in 1985. A woman living in eight of the 85 years will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives.
Currently there are over 2 million women living in the United States have been treated for breast cancer. About 41,000 women will die from the disease. The probability of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 33. However, the mortality rate from breast cancer is going down. This decrease is probably the result of early detection and improved treatment.
Breast cancer is not just a women's disease. The American Cancer Society estimates that 1,600 men develop the disease each year and about 400 may die of the disease.
Breast cancer risk is higher among those who have a mother, aunt, sister or grandmother who had breast cancer before age 50. If only a mother or sister had breast cancer, the risk doubles. Having two first degree relatives who were diagnosed increases your risk up to five times the average.
Although no one knows exactly what causes breast cancer, sometimes the culprit is an inherited mutation in one of two genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2. These genes normally protect against disease by producing proteins that protect against abnormal cell growth, but for women with the mutation, the risk of developing breast cancer may increase up to 80 percent, compared with 13 percent among the general population. In fact, over 25 percent of women with breast cancer have a family history of disease.
For women without a family history of breast cancer, the risks are more difficult to identify. It is known that the hormone estrogen fuels many breast cancers, and several factors - diet, excess weight and alcohol consumption - can raise levels of estrogen in the body.
The first signs
Early signs of breast cancer are:
- A tumor that is usually only one company, and most often without pain is detected.
- An area of the skin of the breast or underarm is swollen and has an unusual appearance.
- The veins on the surface of the skin becoming more prominent on one breast.
- The affected breast nipple is inverted, develops a rash, changes in skin texture, or has a discharge other than breast milk.
- A depression in a surface area of the breast.
Types and stages of breast cancer
There are many different varieties of breast cancer. Some are fast growing and unpredictable, while others develop more slowly and steadily. Some are stimulated by estrogen levels in the body, a result of a mutation in one of the above two genes - BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is usually divided into comedo (black dots), in which the cutting surface of the tumor shows extrusion of dead cells and necrotic tumor similar to a pimple, and non-comedo type . DCIS is early breast cancer that is confined within the ductal system. The distinction between types of comedo and non comedo-is important because comedocarcinoma in-situ generally behaves more aggressively and may show areas of micro-invasion through the wall of the surrounding tissue.
Ductal: This is the most common type of breast cancer, representing 78 percent of all malignancies. On mammography, these lesions can occur in two ways - star (star) or circumscribed (rounded). The stellate lesions generally have a worse prognosis.
Medullary carcinoma: This malignant tumor is composed of 15 percent of breast cancers. These lesions are usually well defined and can be difficult to distinguish from fibroadenoma by mammography or ultrasound. With this type of breast cancer, prognostic indicators estrogen and progesterone receptor were negative 90 percent of the time. Medullary carcinoma usually has a better prognosis than other breast cancers.
Infiltrating Lobular: Representing 15 percent of breast cancers, these lesions usually appear in the upper outer quadrant of the breast as a subtle thickening and are difficult to diagnose by mammography. Infiltrating lobular can involve both breasts (bilateral). Microscopically, these tumors have a linear array of cells and grow around ducts and lobules.
Tubular carcinoma: This is described as orderly and well-differentiated carcinoma of the breast. These injuries represent about 2 percent of breast cancers. They have a favorable prognosis with nearly a 95 percent survival rate at 10 years.
Mucinous carcinoma, representing 2.1 percent of breast cancers and has a favorable prognosis. These lesions are usually well circumscribed (rounded).
Inflammatory breast cancer: This is a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer is usually evidenced by changes in the skin of the breast such as redness (erythema), thickening of the skin and the prominence of the hair follicles resembling an orange peel. The diagnosis is made by skin biopsy, which revealed tumors in the lymphatic and vascular channels around 50 percent of the time.
Stages of breast cancer
The most common type of breast cancer is ductal carcinoma. Begins in the lining of the ducts. Another type, called lobular carcinoma, arises in the lobules. When cancer is found, the pathologist can tell what kind of cancer it is - if started in a duct (PDA) or a lobe (lobar) and whether it has invaded nearby tissues in the breast (invasive).
When cancer is found, special laboratory tests of tissue is usually done to obtain more information about cancer. For example, the hormone (estrogen and progesterone) receptor tests can help determine whether hormones help the cancer grow. If the results show that hormones do not affect cancer growth (a positive), cancer is likely to respond to hormonal therapy. This therapy deprives cancer cells of estrogen.
Other tests are sometimes done to help predict if a cancer is likely to progress. For example, radiographs and other laboratory tests are performed. Sometimes a breast tissue sample is marked by a gene, known as the human receptor for epidermal growth factor-2 (gene HER-2) that is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer recurrence. special examinations of the bones, liver or lungs are made because breast cancer can spread to these areas.
A woman's treatment options depend on a number of factors. These factors include your age and menopausal status, general health, size and location of tumor and stage of cancer, the results of laboratory tests, and the size of your chest. Certain characteristics of tumor cells, for example, depend on hormones to grow are also considered.
In most cases, the most important factor is the stage of the disease. The stage is based on tumor size and whether the cancer has spread. The following are brief descriptions of the stages of breast cancer and the treatments used for each stage. Other treatments may sometimes be appropriate.
Stage 0
Stage 0 is sometimes called noninvasive carcinoma or carcinoma in situ. Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) refers to abnormal cells in the lining of a lobule. These abnormal cells seldom become invasive cancer. However, they are an indicator of increased risk of developing breast cancer in both breasts. The treatment for lobular carcinoma in situ is a drug called tamoxifen, which can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer. A person affected may choose not to receive treatment, but to control the situation by having regular checkups. And from time to time, the decision to have surgery to remove both breasts to try to prevent cancer development. In most cases, removal of lymph nodes under the arm is not necessary.
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) refers to abnormal cells lining a duct. DCIS is also called intraductal carcinoma. The abnormal cells have not spread beyond the duct to invade surrounding breast tissue. However, women with ductal carcinoma in situ have an increased risk of invasive breast cancer. Some women with DCIS undergoing breast-conserving surgery followed by radiotherapy. Alternatively, you can choose to have a mastectomy, with or without breast reconstruction (plastic surgery) to rebuild the breast. Lymph nodes under the arm is not usually removed. In addition, women with ductal carcinoma in situ may want to talk to your doctor about tamoxifen to reduce the risk of developing invasive breast cancer.
Phase I and II
Phase I and Phase II are the early stages of breast cancer in which cancer has spread beyond the lobe or duct and invaded nearby tissue.
Stage I means the tumor is about an inch wide and cancer cells have not spread beyond the breast.
Stage II means one of the following:
The tumor in the breast is less than 1 inch wide and the cancer has spread to lymph nodes under the arm.
The tumor is between 1 and 2 inches (with or without spread to lymph nodes under the arm).
The tumor is larger than 2 inches but has not spread to lymph nodes under the arm.
Treatment options for breast cancer are early stage breast-conserving surgery followed by radiation therapy to the breast, and mastectomy, with or without breast reconstruction to rebuild the breast. These approaches are equally effective in treating breast cancer in early stage. (Sometimes radiation therapy is also given after mastectomy.)
The choice of breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy depending on size and location of tumor, size of breast cancer characteristics, and how the person feels about breast conservation. With either approach, the lymph nodes under the arm usually are removed.
Chemotherapy and / or hormonal therapy after primary treatment with surgery or surgery and radiotherapy is recommended for stage I and more frequently with breast cancer stage II. This added treatment is called adjuvant therapy. Systemic therapy is sometimes given to shrink the tumor before surgery is called neoadjuvant therapy. This is given to try to destroy any remaining cancer cells and prevent cancer from recurring, or coming back in the breast or elsewhere.
Stage III
Stage III is also called locally advanced cancer. At this stage, the tumor in the breast may have the following:
More than 2 inches wide and the cancer has spread to lymph nodes in the armpit.
Cancer is widespread in the lymph nodes under the arm.
The cancer spreads to lymph nodes near the breast bone or other tissues near the breast.
Inflammatory breast cancer is a type of locally advanced breast cancer. In this type of cancer, the breast looks red and swollen (or inflamed) because cancer cells block the lymph vessels in the skin of the breast.
Patients with breast cancer Stage III usually have a local treatment to remove or destroy cancer in the breast and systemic treatment to stop the spread of the disease. Local treatment may be surgery and radiotherapy in the chest and armpits. Systemic treatment may be chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or both. Systemic therapy can be administered before local therapy to shrink the tumor or afterward to prevent the disease from recurring in the breast or elsewhere.
Stage IV
Stage IV is metastatic cancer. The cancer has spread beyond the breast and lymph nodes under the arm to other parts of the body.
Treatments for breast cancer are stage IV chemotherapy and / or hormonal therapy to destroy cancer cells and the control of the disease. Patients may have surgery or radiotherapy to control cancer in the breast. Radiation can also be useful to control tumors in other parts of the body.
Recurrent
Recurrent cancer means the disease has recurred despite initial treatment. Even when a tumor in the breast seems to have been completely removed or destroyed, the disease sometimes returns because undetected cancer cells remained somewhere in the body after treatment.
Most recurrences occur within the first 2 or 3 years after treatment, but breast cancer can recur many years later.
Cancer that returns only in the area of surgery is called a local recurrence. If the disease returns in another part of the body, repetition is called metastatic breast cancer. The patient may have a treatment or a combination of treatments for recurrent cancer.
Currently there are over 2 million women living in the United States have been treated for breast cancer. About 41,000 women will die from the disease. The probability of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 33. However, the mortality rate from breast cancer is going down. This decrease is probably the result of early detection and improved treatment.
Breast cancer is not just a women's disease. The American Cancer Society estimates that 1,600 men develop the disease each year and about 400 may die of the disease.
Breast cancer risk is higher among those who have a mother, aunt, sister or grandmother who had breast cancer before age 50. If only a mother or sister had breast cancer, the risk doubles. Having two first degree relatives who were diagnosed increases your risk up to five times the average.
Although no one knows exactly what causes breast cancer, sometimes the culprit is an inherited mutation in one of two genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2. These genes normally protect against disease by producing proteins that protect against abnormal cell growth, but for women with the mutation, the risk of developing breast cancer may increase up to 80 percent, compared with 13 percent among the general population. In fact, over 25 percent of women with breast cancer have a family history of disease.
For women without a family history of breast cancer, the risks are more difficult to identify. It is known that the hormone estrogen fuels many breast cancers, and several factors - diet, excess weight and alcohol consumption - can raise levels of estrogen in the body.
The first signs
Early signs of breast cancer are:
- A tumor that is usually only one company, and most often without pain is detected.
- An area of the skin of the breast or underarm is swollen and has an unusual appearance.
- The veins on the surface of the skin becoming more prominent on one breast.
- The affected breast nipple is inverted, develops a rash, changes in skin texture, or has a discharge other than breast milk.
- A depression in a surface area of the breast.
Types and stages of breast cancer
There are many different varieties of breast cancer. Some are fast growing and unpredictable, while others develop more slowly and steadily. Some are stimulated by estrogen levels in the body, a result of a mutation in one of the above two genes - BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is usually divided into comedo (black dots), in which the cutting surface of the tumor shows extrusion of dead cells and necrotic tumor similar to a pimple, and non-comedo type . DCIS is early breast cancer that is confined within the ductal system. The distinction between types of comedo and non comedo-is important because comedocarcinoma in-situ generally behaves more aggressively and may show areas of micro-invasion through the wall of the surrounding tissue.
Ductal: This is the most common type of breast cancer, representing 78 percent of all malignancies. On mammography, these lesions can occur in two ways - star (star) or circumscribed (rounded). The stellate lesions generally have a worse prognosis.
Medullary carcinoma: This malignant tumor is composed of 15 percent of breast cancers. These lesions are usually well defined and can be difficult to distinguish from fibroadenoma by mammography or ultrasound. With this type of breast cancer, prognostic indicators estrogen and progesterone receptor were negative 90 percent of the time. Medullary carcinoma usually has a better prognosis than other breast cancers.
Infiltrating Lobular: Representing 15 percent of breast cancers, these lesions usually appear in the upper outer quadrant of the breast as a subtle thickening and are difficult to diagnose by mammography. Infiltrating lobular can involve both breasts (bilateral). Microscopically, these tumors have a linear array of cells and grow around ducts and lobules.
Tubular carcinoma: This is described as orderly and well-differentiated carcinoma of the breast. These injuries represent about 2 percent of breast cancers. They have a favorable prognosis with nearly a 95 percent survival rate at 10 years.
Mucinous carcinoma, representing 2.1 percent of breast cancers and has a favorable prognosis. These lesions are usually well circumscribed (rounded).
Inflammatory breast cancer: This is a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer is usually evidenced by changes in the skin of the breast such as redness (erythema), thickening of the skin and the prominence of the hair follicles resembling an orange peel. The diagnosis is made by skin biopsy, which revealed tumors in the lymphatic and vascular channels around 50 percent of the time.
Stages of breast cancer
The most common type of breast cancer is ductal carcinoma. Begins in the lining of the ducts. Another type, called lobular carcinoma, arises in the lobules. When cancer is found, the pathologist can tell what kind of cancer it is - if started in a duct (PDA) or a lobe (lobar) and whether it has invaded nearby tissues in the breast (invasive).
When cancer is found, special laboratory tests of tissue is usually done to obtain more information about cancer. For example, the hormone (estrogen and progesterone) receptor tests can help determine whether hormones help the cancer grow. If the results show that hormones do not affect cancer growth (a positive), cancer is likely to respond to hormonal therapy. This therapy deprives cancer cells of estrogen.
Other tests are sometimes done to help predict if a cancer is likely to progress. For example, radiographs and other laboratory tests are performed. Sometimes a breast tissue sample is marked by a gene, known as the human receptor for epidermal growth factor-2 (gene HER-2) that is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer recurrence. special examinations of the bones, liver or lungs are made because breast cancer can spread to these areas.
A woman's treatment options depend on a number of factors. These factors include your age and menopausal status, general health, size and location of tumor and stage of cancer, the results of laboratory tests, and the size of your chest. Certain characteristics of tumor cells, for example, depend on hormones to grow are also considered.
In most cases, the most important factor is the stage of the disease. The stage is based on tumor size and whether the cancer has spread. The following are brief descriptions of the stages of breast cancer and the treatments used for each stage. Other treatments may sometimes be appropriate.
Stage 0
Stage 0 is sometimes called noninvasive carcinoma or carcinoma in situ. Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) refers to abnormal cells in the lining of a lobule. These abnormal cells seldom become invasive cancer. However, they are an indicator of increased risk of developing breast cancer in both breasts. The treatment for lobular carcinoma in situ is a drug called tamoxifen, which can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer. A person affected may choose not to receive treatment, but to control the situation by having regular checkups. And from time to time, the decision to have surgery to remove both breasts to try to prevent cancer development. In most cases, removal of lymph nodes under the arm is not necessary.
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) refers to abnormal cells lining a duct. DCIS is also called intraductal carcinoma. The abnormal cells have not spread beyond the duct to invade surrounding breast tissue. However, women with ductal carcinoma in situ have an increased risk of invasive breast cancer. Some women with DCIS undergoing breast-conserving surgery followed by radiotherapy. Alternatively, you can choose to have a mastectomy, with or without breast reconstruction (plastic surgery) to rebuild the breast. Lymph nodes under the arm is not usually removed. In addition, women with ductal carcinoma in situ may want to talk to your doctor about tamoxifen to reduce the risk of developing invasive breast cancer.
Phase I and II
Phase I and Phase II are the early stages of breast cancer in which cancer has spread beyond the lobe or duct and invaded nearby tissue.
Stage I means the tumor is about an inch wide and cancer cells have not spread beyond the breast.
Stage II means one of the following:
The tumor in the breast is less than 1 inch wide and the cancer has spread to lymph nodes under the arm.
The tumor is between 1 and 2 inches (with or without spread to lymph nodes under the arm).
The tumor is larger than 2 inches but has not spread to lymph nodes under the arm.
Treatment options for breast cancer are early stage breast-conserving surgery followed by radiation therapy to the breast, and mastectomy, with or without breast reconstruction to rebuild the breast. These approaches are equally effective in treating breast cancer in early stage. (Sometimes radiation therapy is also given after mastectomy.)
The choice of breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy depending on size and location of tumor, size of breast cancer characteristics, and how the person feels about breast conservation. With either approach, the lymph nodes under the arm usually are removed.
Chemotherapy and / or hormonal therapy after primary treatment with surgery or surgery and radiotherapy is recommended for stage I and more frequently with breast cancer stage II. This added treatment is called adjuvant therapy. Systemic therapy is sometimes given to shrink the tumor before surgery is called neoadjuvant therapy. This is given to try to destroy any remaining cancer cells and prevent cancer from recurring, or coming back in the breast or elsewhere.
Stage III
Stage III is also called locally advanced cancer. At this stage, the tumor in the breast may have the following:
More than 2 inches wide and the cancer has spread to lymph nodes in the armpit.
Cancer is widespread in the lymph nodes under the arm.
The cancer spreads to lymph nodes near the breast bone or other tissues near the breast.
Inflammatory breast cancer is a type of locally advanced breast cancer. In this type of cancer, the breast looks red and swollen (or inflamed) because cancer cells block the lymph vessels in the skin of the breast.
Patients with breast cancer Stage III usually have a local treatment to remove or destroy cancer in the breast and systemic treatment to stop the spread of the disease. Local treatment may be surgery and radiotherapy in the chest and armpits. Systemic treatment may be chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or both. Systemic therapy can be administered before local therapy to shrink the tumor or afterward to prevent the disease from recurring in the breast or elsewhere.
Stage IV
Stage IV is metastatic cancer. The cancer has spread beyond the breast and lymph nodes under the arm to other parts of the body.
Treatments for breast cancer are stage IV chemotherapy and / or hormonal therapy to destroy cancer cells and the control of the disease. Patients may have surgery or radiotherapy to control cancer in the breast. Radiation can also be useful to control tumors in other parts of the body.
Recurrent
Recurrent cancer means the disease has recurred despite initial treatment. Even when a tumor in the breast seems to have been completely removed or destroyed, the disease sometimes returns because undetected cancer cells remained somewhere in the body after treatment.
Most recurrences occur within the first 2 or 3 years after treatment, but breast cancer can recur many years later.
Cancer that returns only in the area of surgery is called a local recurrence. If the disease returns in another part of the body, repetition is called metastatic breast cancer. The patient may have a treatment or a combination of treatments for recurrent cancer.
Cancer Diet - Minerals
by: Marilyn Bennett
A cancer diet needs a good balance of minerals because minerals are needed by all cells for proper function. Patients are often found to be mineral deficient, so this is an area of the diet that needs particular attention.
There are two classes of minerals. Macrominerals, such as the well known calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium and phosphorus, and microminerals, such as boron, chromium, copper, iron, iodine, germanium, sulfur, silicon, vanadium, zinc, manganese and molybdenum.
The good news is we will get most of the minerals we need, provided we are eating a diet based on a wide variety of fruits and veggies, with the addition of nuts, seeds and grains.
Where we can get in to trouble is that minerals are washed out of soils with constant rain, and modern fertilizers don't usually contain the wide variety of minerals we need. Organic gardeners usually use rock minerals on their soils and this results in organic produce have a much higher and broader range of minerals.
Germanium is one micromineral that cancer patients are often low on. It is essential for immune function and is critical to tissue oxygenation. Cancer grows rapidly where there is low oxygenation of cells. Germanium is found in broccoli, celery, garlic, onions, rhubarb, sauerkraut and tomato juice as well as aloevera and ginseng.
Iodine deficiency has been linked to breast cancer in more than one study. Seasalt contains iodine and a variety of minerals rather than the isolated highly processed iodine additive in table salt. Asparagus, garlic, lima beans, soybeans, sesame seeds all contain natural iodine along with the nutrients needed for good absorption.
Large amounts of brassicas eg brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower, along with peaches, pears and spinach can block absorption of iodine, so ensure there is a balance of iodine rich foods in your diet.
Selenium has been linked to cancer. Selenium and Vitamin E work together to attack free radicals. Selenium is critical for pancreatic function, and pancreatic enzymes are critical to the bodies ability to fight tumour activity. This mineral is generally found in meat and grains, however countries such as New Zealand and much of America is known to have selenium deficient soils.
As there have been several studies showing that good selenium levels have significantly reduced the risk of cancer, this is one mineral you want to have enough of.
Food sources that should be included frequently in a cancer diet are: brazil nuts, broccoli, brown rice, brewers yeast, chicken, kelp, onions, salmon, seafood, tuna, wheatgerm and whole grains. Garlic, chamomile, ginseng and parsley are all easy to use concentrated forms that can be added to the diet daily.
A couple of warnings:
Be very careful about self-dosing with minerals as several of them will block absorption of others if the dose is too high.
Again, eating a variety of foods, with particular notice taken of those that have high mineral levels is the safest way to go. If you wish to explore mineral supplementation further, talk to your naturopath or nutritionist. But whatever you do, don't ignore the importance of these vital elements to your well being.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)