Cancer

DENTAL/CANCER CONNECTION

by Dr. Gerald H. Smith

Author of Reversing Cancer: A Journey from Cancer to Cure

It is estimated that 70% of all medical illnesses are directly or indirectly caused by human intervention in the dental structures (teeth and jawbones). This includes: impacted teeth, infected root canalled teeth, new and recurrent decay around old fillings, cysts, bone infections in areas of previously extracted teeth, granulomas and areas of bone condensation to osteitis represent some of the more common factors.

Toxicity from dental restorative materials

Dental amalgam fillings slowly leak mercury, tin, silver, copper and sometimes nickel. All of these metals have various degrees of toxicity. A fairly large mercury filling contains enough mercury to kill a child if given as a single dose!

The most common symptoms caused by amalgam fillings are:

  • Chronic fatigue
  • Tendency to chronic inflammatory changes- rheumatoid arthritis, phlebitis fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Chronic neurologic illnesses, especially when numbness is one of the primary symptoms
  • Lowering of pain threshold

Allergy to dental materials used to restore teeth:

Having an allergic response to dental materials (gold alloys that include palladium, silver, platinum, iridium, mercury fillings, acrylic denture material which contains methyl methacrylate, chrome cobalt partial denture framework, nickel based crowns, composite resin crowns containing polyurethane) is a common cause of intractable pain, chronic fatigue, food allergies, chronic sinusitis and headaches.

Use of dental liners, that is, bases under permanent restorative filling materials can also be the causative agent for an allergic response and body toxicity. A new toxicity disorder discovered by Dr. Omar M. Amin, Ph.D., Neurocutaneous syndrome (NCS), linked components (ethyltoluene sulfonamide and zinc oxide) in the calcium hydroxide dental bases (Dycal, Life and Sealapex) as sources for the observed symptoms of NCS. The neurological aspects of NCS are characterized by pinprick and/or creeping, painful and irritating movement sensations, often interpreted as parasite movements subcutaneously or in various body tissues or cavities including the head. In no case was the movement sensation related to parasites, which were always found absent. Additional neurological symptoms include memory loss, brain fog, and lack of concentration and control of voluntary movements, pain, depleted energy and depressed immune system that may invite various opportunistic infections. In many cases, lesions are associated with swellings in the arms and legs. Blood vessels may also become enlarged and elevated, and the head may become hot and turn red and the gums and the teeth may turn gray.

Amin’s study concluded that the toxicity of the dental sealants (Dycal, Life and Sealapex) was well demonstrated in studies conducted in patients and controlled laboratory conditions by many workers.

Download Dr. Amin’s Article on Dental Sealant Toxicity.

Electro galvanism

When two dissimilar metals are present in the mouth with saliva, an electric current will flow. Saliva acts as an electrolyte when it mixes with amalgam fillings, to create a measurable electric current of 900 millivolts. This current overpowers the body’s normal 450 millivolts, interferes with energy flow to the brain and is suspected as a catalyst in many illnesses.

Other alloys, such as nickel in the metal base of bridges and under porcelain crowns, have been documented to lower the T-4 and T-8 lymphocyte levels (David Eggleston,DDS. “Effect of Dental Amalgam and Nickel Alloys on T-Lymphocytes: Preliminary Report”, J. Prosthetic Dent, 1984, 51(5);617-623.) In predisposed patients, exposure to nickel can be a contributory factor in the development of cancer of the lungs, nasal passages and larynx.

Any metal materials in the mouth such as gold crowns, chrome cobalt partial dentures, mercury fillings, titanium implants, etc. will set the stage for galvanic currents. In 1985, a research team (A. Knappworst, E. Gura, D. Fuhrmann and A. Enginalev) revealed that when mercury fillings were in close proximity to gold crowns, the mercury release was ten times greater when compared to mercury fillings alone (p132. Mercury Poisoning from Dental Amalgam- a Hazard to Human Brain by Patrick Stortebecker, MD, Ph.D. published in USA by Bio Probe, Orlando, FL). Electro galvanism frequently is the cause for the following symptoms:

  • Lack of concentration and memory
  • Insomnia
  • Psychological problems
  • Tinnitus
  • Vertigo
  • Epilepsy
  • Hearing loss
  • Eye problems
  • Mouth pain

Removing the mercury and other metals and replacing them with biocompatible non-metal restorations will resolve the galvanic issue.

Mercury and tin are prime neuro-toxic substances. Mercury has the ability to destroy and or damage the transport fibers inside each nerve. The latest research from one of the top German toxicologists, Max Daunderer, MD, reveals that the entire jawbone (upper and lower) has become a toxic waste dump for the following substances:

  • Pesticides
  • Solvents (mostly present in lower jaw)
  • Formaldehyde (mostly lower jaw)
  • Amalgam (mercury, tin, copper and silver) – jawbone and maxillary sinus
  • Palladium (from gold/palladium alloys)- mostly upper jawbone

Through biopsies, Daunderer found that virtually all inhaled toxins are stored in the jawbone in the areas adjacent to the root tips. Also of great interest is Daunderer’s serial biopsy on malignant tumors in-patients that had amalgam fillings and found, predictably, amalgam in the tumor. The concentration is highest in the center of the tumor (malignant melanoma, brain cancer, bladder, stomach, colon and tongue cancer).

Focus on Foci – by Josef Issels, MD

By lowering resistance, head foci are a contributory cause in the development of neoplasia. The extent of the disease-provoking activity of a focus in distant parts of the body depends on whether the body is able to oppose the focus with its own defense mechanism. As long as the focal situation is kept under control by the local defense mechanism, no focus-induced remote effects will arise. On the other hand, distant effects will arise when the body’s resistance has more or less broken down: control of head foci will then gradually collapse, and there will be consequential gradual increase in generalized focogenic intoxication. This will cause an inevitable deterioration of the body’s defense power with a concomitant promotion of malignant growth.

Root Canalled Teeth and Cancer

Boyd Haley, Ph.D., a researcher, at the University of Kentucky has estimated that 75% of root canalled teeth are infected. Another researcher, Hal Huggins, DDS, has shown that the toxins liberated by infected root canalled teeth are almost 1000 times more toxic than botulism. Botulism is the most toxic substance known.

Austrian researchers have exhaustively studied the finer details of the entire dental structure. They have established that there is a lively metabolic interchange between the interior and exterior milieu of the tooth, and that this two-way process takes place along many thousands of hyperfine, capillary canals joining the pulp cavity to the exterior surface of the tooth.

Very careful conservative measures may possibly seal off the vertical central dentinal canal, but it will never reach the lateral “twigs” branching off from this tube. Nor can it ever close off the innumerable capillary canals. Some protein will always remain in these secondary spaces. If this protein becomes infected, toxic catabolic products, such as thio-ethers, thio-ethanols and mercaptans will be produced, and conveyed into the organism.

In 1960, it was established by W. Meyer (Goettingen) that within devitalized teeth the dentinal canals and dental capillaries contain large microbial colonies. The toxins produced by these microbes in a tooth with a root filling can no longer be evacuated into the mouth, but must be drained away through the cross-connections and unsealed branches of the dentinal and capillary canals into the marrow of the jawbone. From there, they are conveyed to the tonsils, and thus the flow systems of the body. In fact, the conservative treatment may literally convert a tooth into a toxin producing “factory”.

Bartelstone (USA) and Djerassi (Bulgaria) have reported that endodental exchange may also take place in the opposite direction. If radio-iodine, I-131, is deposited in an evacuated pulp cavity which is then sealed off with a filling, the iodine will appear in the thyroid some twenty hours later, as can be demonstrated by taking a scintograph of the thyroid region. Similarly, dyes can be washed out of a sealed pulp cavity. (Any substance produced by any of the structures in the oral cavity, teeth, gums, tonsils, will be drained by the lymphatic system and carried directly to the thyroid gland.)

The close interlacing of the lymphatic and endocrine systems in the head, make it unavoidable that brain cells are more intensively toxified by the circulating focogenous agents and may suffer particularly heavy damage. The lymph ducts of the head region join Waldeyer’s tonsillar ring, and if there is such congestion, waste fluids will be pressed through the porous base of the skull into the lymphatic spaces of the brain. Toxogenous changes, especially within autonomic nuclei, are regularly found in cancer patients, as verified in the 1930’s by Muehlmann (USSR), and they may be a consequence of a life-long inhibition of cerebral aerobiosis due to focogenous intoxication.

All these findings prove conclusively that within solid dental structures, there may proceed an unimpeded substantial interchange in either direction. Consequently, odontogenic toxins, wherever they may have been produced, are able to diffuse and circulate within the organism.

The German study group of Eger-Miehlke has investigated the pathogenic significance of these “endotoxins”. They examined the changes in healthy experimental animals after injection of accurately defined, minimal quantities of the endotoxins from an odontogenous granuloma.

A single injection of a minimal dose seemed to develop a defense-activation effect. But after repeated injections, there was severe liver damage, and the animals died within weeks. Apart from the fatal liver damage, inflammatory and degenerative changes were found in all other organs, especially in the joints, muscles, and blood vessels. These results brought clear experimental proof for the first time that focogenic toxins act as causal agents for severe diseases in animals corresponding to similar chronic conditions in man.

The most dangerous of all odontogenous toxins are undoubtedly the thio-ethers, for instance dimethylsulfide. Other severe toxins from root-canal bacteria include thio-ethanols and mercaptans which have been found in the tumors of women who have breast cancer. These toxins drain through the lymphatic system down the cervical chain of lymph nodes and ultimately in to the breast tissue.

In a series of tests performed at Dr. Issel’s clinic it was observed that patients with odontogenous and tonsillar foci had a heightened level of dimethylsulfide in their blood. After intensive treatment of the foci, this level returned to normal in just a few days.

Thio-ethers are closely related, both in their structure and their effect, to mustard gas and other poison gases used in the First World War. To give you an idea of its poisonous effects the following is a list of the major symptoms:

  • Blisters the skin
  • Eyes become very sore
  • Vomiting
  • Internal and external bleeding
  • Attacks the bronchial tubes, stripping off the mucous membrane
  • Throat feels like it is closing with sensations of choking

Thio-ethers are “partial” antigens, haptens, and thus they also tend to combine with the normal proteins in the body, “denaturizing” them. Such denatured proteins become “non-self” agents, which the body must deal with as such. The production of antibodies adapted to the situation will be provoked, and they will home in on the target antigens wherever they are. The process of “auto-aggression” will be set in motion: self-destruction of agent’s alien to the organism. Extensive structural cellular damage will result and help create the environment for cancer.

Druckrey (Heidelberg) found among other things that transformation of a normal cell into a malignant cell requires a certain quantity of a carcinogen -the carcinogenic minimum dose. It does not matter whether this quantity is supplied in a single dose or in a number of smaller doses, because the toxic effects of each dose are stored, and accumulate without loss. The carcinogens held primarily responsible for the development of spontaneous cancer in man are those: Which inhibit the aerobiosis even in minimal quantities without at the same time immediately destroying the cell, and, which are constantly present in the organism in this minimal concentration of either endogenous or exogenous origin; they can therefore accumulate during the normal life expectancy gradually and unnoticeably until the total quantity necessary for malignization is reached.

Mercury

Each year in the U.S. an estimated 40 tons of mercury are used to prepare mercury-amalgam dental restorations. Scientific studies have concluded that the amalgam is the source for more than two thirds of the mercury in our human population. On a daily basis each amalgam releases on the order of 10 micrograms of mercury into the body. 

This mercury either accumulates in the body or is excreted via urine and faeces into our wastewater systems. After death, the accumulated mercury is released to the environment via either cremation or burial. Environmental mercury pollution is also caused by dentists who remove old fillings. Cutting out a mercury/amalgam filling releases colloidal mercury, for which there is no commercially available filters to remove it from the water evacuated from the patient’s mouth.

According to the observations made by the internationally recognized medical researcher, Yoshiaki Omura, MD, all cancer cells have mercury in them. Since mercury is the second most toxic substance on this planet, its presence provides a strong initiating factor for disrupting cell function. 

Support for this idea comes from an article, The Pathogenic Multi-potency of Mercury, by Hans Nolte, MD (Biological Therapy, Journal of Natural Medicine, Vol. VI, No. 3, June 1988). In the article, Nolte states that, “The wave spectrum of mercury contains ƒ more than thirteen wavelengths, whereas only one or two frequencies or wavelengths are usually observed for the other heavy or noble metals.” It is Dr. Nolte’s belief that the many harmful effects of mercury could be explained to some degree on the basis of this great variety of wavelengths. 

Dr. Omura’s clinical observation concludes that one of the primary reasons cancer returns is because residual mercury reignites a pathological environment even after surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and alternative therapies report a positive effect.

The frightening truth is that the medical establishment has lost the War on Cancer.

Based on the American Cancer Society’s 1999 statistics:

  • 1 in 2 American men will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime.
  • 1 in 3 American women will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime.

In the 1930’s the ratio was 3 out of one hundred developed Cancer.

Real Cause of Cancer

Cancer has only one prime cause. It is the replacement of normal oxygen respiration of the body’s cells by an anaerobic [i.e., oxygen-deficient] cell respiration. -Dr. Otto Warburg-1931 & 1944 Nobel Prize-Winner

An effective approach to treating cancer MUST include:

  • Detoxification (heavy metals, chemicals, etc.)
  • Boosting the Immune System (anti-oxidants)
  • Regeneration of damaged tissues (organic nutrients)
  • Destruction of cancer without destroying the body
  • Psychological Healing

An integrated comprehensive approach is the patient’s best insurance policy for beating cancer.

How To Prevent Cancer

Even the American Cancer Society (ACS), which is as traditional as medical organizations come, have recently suggested that you can reduce your risk of cancer by more than 60 percent through simple lifestyle changes.

The American Institute for Cancer Research has released a 517-page report detailing the CONVENTIONAL medical view of what your main risk factors for developing cancer, and what you can do to reduce your risk.

Among their findings — after reviewing more than 7,000 large-scale studies over the course of five years — the Institute is now convinced that excess body weight increases your risk for the following types of cancer:

  •  Colon
  •  Kidney
  •  Pancreas
  •  Esophagus
  •  Uterus, and breast cancer in post-menopausal women

The report also found that there are certain lifestyle changes that will reduce your risk of getting cancer:

  • Be as lean as possible within the normal range of body weight 
  • Be physically active as part of everyday life 
  • Limit consumption of “energy-dense foods,” foods that are high in calories, fat and sugar. Avoid sugary drinks  
  • Eat mostly foods of plant origin, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans  
  • Limit intake of red meat and avoid ALL processed meat  
  • Limit alcoholic drinks to one per day for women, two per day for men
  • Limit consumption of salt. Avoid moldy grains or legumes
  •  Aim to meet nutritional needs through diet alone, without dietary supplement 

Can Cancer be beaten, not by opposing it or fighting it that will only leave you tired.

 Love your true self and embrace health for you, your dear ones, embrace health for humankind and the planet. And so be it!

PLEASE GOOGLE THE GERSON CANCER THERAPY CURE

What Is It?

From the Book Conversation with Angels by D.B. Shaune (www.andsobeit.com) what a beautiful gift from above!!!

Notes 13th Jan 2008 Boston

The most important step in moving to a higher frequency is self-love. It is not what you call being egocentric. Self-love is void of ego. It is the profound understanding that you are one with the universe and you are made of the essence of love. It is the understanding that all life is connected by invisible strings, and when you hurt other life you are in actuality hurting yourself. This harmfulness is, by definition, the disease you call cancer.

This disease is an attribute of self-hatred manifested in your body. When you are not honouring and loving your body, you create disharmony, which manifests imbalance. That imbalance creates cancer cells that work against the body. On a macro-level, it is what you do to your planet. Your planet is part of you. You and the planet are one. When you do not love the planet, it is because you have not mastered self-love.

 The imbalance of the planet manifests in viruses and bacteria. It also manifests in food that has no love essence in it, which actually causes your body to create allergies. It also manifests in destructive forces of nature that attempt to preserve the balance by purging and cleansing parts of itself. It is the same with your body.

Cancer is the attribute of a disconnection between you and you. When you understand that you are part of God and you are part of all creation, you have no choice but to love yourself. When you do, you love all life and all creation. When you love all creation, you do not kill and you do not hurt others, because you know that all you do is hurting yourself. It is profound.

 Self-love has a biological attribute. It is in the pineal gland. As you evolve, your pineal grows and you develop the capacity to see yourself as part of all creation. You breach the dimension you are in and are able to perceive other dimensions as well.

 As you walk on earth in your biology, you feel that you stand alone as a self-sustained form of life, but from where we stand, you are connected by invisible strands to all life. As you act, you change the fabric of all that is. This is your power. When the hordes of entities come from all over the universe to see you it is because what you do affects them as well.

We wish you to understand that all the answers to all your questions are inside of you and if you exercise love in all of your choices, your vibration will change rapidly and you will become that which you are: an angel in plain clothes, carrying the essence of love and changing the vibration of this planet.

This is your mission. It is why you came here. We wish you to honour yourself, honour what you eat, honour your fellow man and woman, honour your animals, honour the dirt that you walk on, honour the air that you breath, honour the water that you drink, because all of it is you. And so be it.

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As you migth Know ACS’s ties to the pharmaceutical industry runs deep, and treating cancer is far more lucrative than preventing it, so chances are good that any real prevention will be widely and vigorously resisted. It has also been argued that their ties to polluting industries has led the industry to willfully suppress information about the environmental causes of cancer, something that is not part of the recommendations above either. 

Cancer is undoubtedly a very important issue, as cancer has now surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in Americans under the age of 85.

However, it is encouraging to see that cancer researchers are starting to catch on to prevention through diet and exercise, rather than simply focusing on preventive drug treatments. It’s a good start, but because they are late to the game they have completely missed the most important steps to virtually eliminating your risk of cancer.

As you probably know your key to fighting cancer is prevention. But, with cancer, as with many other life-threatening illnesses, the conventional medical industry makes no money if you are able to avoid the number one cause of death in the United States. They only benefit if they can treat you for it, which means that prevention techniques are practically ignored.

But, at this point, you also have to look at yourself and ask, “Am I willing to make the lifestyle changes needed to improve and maintain my own health? Or have I fallen prey for pharmaceutical brainwashing that they can fix me if something happens?” 

The industry can’t continue shoving pills down your throat unless you ask them to, and accept it as your only option. You have choices! Exercise them!

You can VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE your cancer risk if you follow risk reduction strategies that have not been formally “proven” yet by conservative researchers. It may take another 20 or 30 years for these strategies to be proven effective… And that’s IF they spend the money necessary to do all the follow-up studies required to establish scientific consensus.

Can you really wait that long, knowing that 175 Americans are diagnosed with cancer every hour? I suggest you get with the program now and save you and your family a cancer diagnosis.

What Can You Do to Virtually ELIMINATE Your Cancer Risk?

  • Resolve past emotional traumas.  Even the Center for Disease Control states that 85 percent of disease is caused by emotions.  Fortunately, there are now practical tools that can address this. One of the best was developed by Dr. Hammer and it is called German New Medicine. It is likely that this factor may be more important than all the other physical ones listed here, so make sure this is addressed. Energy psychology is one of the best approaches.
  • Please read about German New Medicine
  • Control your insulin and leptin levels: Make certain that you limit your intake of processed foods and sugars as much as possible. ACS indirectly acknowledges this but what they absolutely fail to appreciate is that weight is merely a SYMPTOM. The underlying pathology driving the weight gain is elevated insulin and leptin levels.
  • Get appropriate amounts of animal-based omega-3 fats and make sure you use cod liver oil if you don’t have regular access to sun exposure
  • Get appropriate exercise. One of the primary reasons exercise works is that it drives your insulin levels down. Controlling insulin levels is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your cancer risks 
  • Get enough sunshine.  It is now firmly established that you can reduce your risk of cancer by 50% if you get enough sunshine.   However, did you see one word of this in the ACS 517 page report?  So normalize your vitamin D levels with safe amounts of sun exposure. This works primarily by optimizing your vitamin D level. If you have regular access to sun exposure then you should use fish oil, not cod liver oil, as your primary source of omega-3 fats. Ideally, it would be best to monitor your vitamin D levels. 

Other Helpful Factors to Reduce Your Cancer Risk:

Only 25 percent of people eat enough vegetables, so eat as many vegetables as you are comfortable with. Ideally, they should be fresh and organic. However, please understand that fresh conventionally grown vegetables are healthier than organic ones that are old and wilted, they are certainly better than no vegetables at all, so don’t use that as an excuse. If you are a carb metabolic type you may need up to 300 percent more vegetables than a protein metabolic type

  • Make sure you are not in the two-thirds of the population who are overweight and maintain an ideal body weight
  • Get enough high-quality sleep
  • Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and air pollution
  • Boil, poach or steam your foods, rather than frying or charbroiling them

Vitamins And Cancer 

Are Vitamin Supplements a Bad Idea for Cancer Patients?

Millions of U.S. cancer survivors take vitamin supplements. However, there is little evidence that supplements help, and worries that some may actually fuel the disease.

A review of 32 studies conducted between 1999 and 2006 found that 64 percent to 81 percent of cancer survivors take extra vitamins or minerals (excluding multivitamins). But little is known about how megadoses of vitamins affect cancer.

A 1995 report showed that cancer cells in a petri dish thrive in the presence of vitamin C, and subsequent studies have suggested that vitamin C supplements may lower survival rates. A study of vitamin E showed patients with cancers of the head and neck who took supplements increased their risk for developing a second cancer.

The American Cancer Society says use of vitamins and supplements during cancer treatments should be avoided.

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Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

Cancer treatments are not what I typically focus on, for a variety of reasons. I also do not focus on recommendations for specific supplements, for the simple fact that the vast majority of supplements on the market are synthetic versions that can do more harm than good.

It’s important to keep in mind that there is a major difference between natural whole-food supplements and pharmaceutical grade, synthetic vitamins and minerals.

That said, there’s little doubt in my mind that most studies trying to scare you into thinking that taking vitamins and mineral supplements will kill you faster than any drug will, is based on the use of synthetic supplements, in combination with strong financial interests. 

Conventional cancer treatment represents a multi-billion dollar a year industry. These vast profits are fiercely protected by the industry giants, and it’s already been proven, over and over again, that financial ties can radically color the outcome of any study.

But conventional cancer treatments in no way address the underlying causes of cancer.

Cancer is a nutritional/toxic/environmental/emotional condition, which, in a great number of instances, can be successfully reversed through the application of a sound nutritional approach and common-sense lifestyle changes.

Chemotherapy — the LEAST Successful Cancer Treatment?

According to the National Cancer Institute (a component of the National Institutes of Health, and funded by the U.S. Congress), about 500,000 people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer this year. 

Many people are also unaware that cancer — NOT heart disease — is the number one risk of death for most everyone reading this article.

Chemotherapy, which has been one of the principal treatment methods for the past 50 years, works by killing all cells — throughout your body — that multiply and divide rapidly. This would include cancer cells, but also other rapidly multiplying and dividing cells, such as:

  • Bone marrow, which produces blood
  • Digestive system
  • Reproductive system
  • Hair follicles

This overkill approach is the cause of the astounding overall failure of chemotherapy.

In 2004, the Journal of Clinical Oncology published a revealing study about chemotherapy’s success rates when looking at how many cancer patients were still alive after 5 years. 

It states:

RESULTS: The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA.

CONCLUSION: As the 5-year relative survival rate for cancer in Australia is now over 60%, it is clear that cytotoxic chemotherapy only makes a minor contribution to cancer survival. To justify the continued funding and availability of drugs used in cytotoxic chemotherapy, a rigorous evaluation of the cost-effectiveness and impact on quality of life is urgently required.

I think you’d be hard pressed to find anything still being touted as your best shot at a cure with an average success rate of just over 2 percent, if it wasn’t for the fact that big profits were driving the recommendation.

The heartbreaking reality is that chemotherapy and other conventional cancer therapies rarely work, and some drug treatments also promote the spread of cancer. But somehow the rationale to “avoid these agents because they might promote the disease” does not apply when it comes to drugs.

This is a pervasive and hard to change double standard, visible again in the CA – A Cancer Journal for the Clinician listed above, which concludes by stating:

“Pending the publication of suitable trials, clinicians must be guided by existing data in the context of a fundamental principle of medicine, “Primum non nocere.” (First do no harm)

And yet, conventional cancer treatments can in no way, shape or form ever be considered harmless.

“…as a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good.” Alan C Nixon, PhD, former president of the American Chemical Society

Taking a Look at Definitions and Exceptions

Dr. Ralph Moss, author of the book, Questioning Chemotherapy, has documented the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy in treating most cancers. There are a few, rare exceptions, however, where the treatment can be of value, including:

  • Acute Iymphocytic leukemia
  • Hodgkin’s disease
  • Nonseminomatous testicular cancer
  • Choriocarcinoma
  • Retinoblastoma

These types of cancer account for 2 to 4 percent of all cancers occurring in the United States. This leaves some 96 to 98 percent of other cancers, such as breast, colon, and lung cancer, which are barely touched by chemotherapy. In many cases “life extension” equates to just another 6 to 18 months of life.

Effective cancer treatment is also a matter of definition. The FDA defines an “effective” drug as one that achieves a 50 percent or more reduction in tumor size for 28 days. In the vast majority of cases there is absolutely no correlation between shrinking tumors for 28 days and the cure of the cancer or extension of life.

However, when the cancer patient hears the doctor say “effective,” he or she thinks, and logically so, that “effective” means it has a good possibility of curing them.  But all it means is temporary tumor shrinkage.

What Else Do We Know About Supplements For Cancer?

Needless to say, there are a variety of supplements that have received favorable press, based on positive study results. Most, however — and this may be key — are found to be preventative, more so than curative in nature.

Black cohosh and CoQ10 are two supplements that have been found to have potential in the treatment of cancer. Other supplements have been shown to be helpful in reducing your risk of contracting a variety of different cancers, including:

The one supplement that appears to have the most overwhelming support for both reducing your risk, and aiding in your treatment of cancer, however, is vitamin D from sunlight.

Ozone Treatment in Cancer

The logic sustaining the use of oxygen-ozone application to the treatment of carcinomas rests on the strategy of capitalizing on the disturbed metabolism of cancer cells. Since the first bio-chemical hypothesis of cancer was proposed by Warburg[56] in 1925; that all tumors have higher rates of glycolysis under aerobic conditions than do nontumor cells, efforts have been made to find the variations which could best affect treatment strategy. 

Although his statement has subsequently been amended considerably, there is a massive and evolving body of research centering on biochemical differences between normal and malignant cells.[57]

Some tumors have high rates of glucose use and lactic acid production in the presence of oxygen, a reflection of a number of possible mechanisms, from membrane transport differences to variations in ATP regulation. Cancer cell mitochondrial ribosomes have altered J structure and function which could diminish their oxidative energy producing abilities thus accounting for their limited aerobic potential.[57]

Some authors[5,26] report a peroxide intolerance in tumor cells. Possessing insufficient catalase and peroxidase, they are incapable of effective peroxide inactivation. Such cells exposed to ozone are said to show a significant decrease in lactate content, indicating that ozone may induce metabolic inhibition in some carcinomas.

In one study,[58] cultured cells of different carcinoma types were compared with non-cancerous human lung fibroblasts on exposure to ozonated air (0.3, 0.5, and 0.8 ppm of O3 for 8 days). Alveolar (lung) adenocarcinoma, breast adenocarcinoma, uterine carcinosarcoma and endometrial carcinoma showed 40% cell growth inhibition at 0.3 ppm and 60% at 0.5 ppm. 

The non-cancerous lung cells were unaffected at these levels. In 0.8 ppm exposure, cancer cell growth inhibition was 90%. Interestingly, it was at this level that the control cell group started to manifest anabolic slowdown (50%). 

The authors postulate that cancer cells are less able to compensate for the oxidative challenge of ozone than normal cells, possibly by way of a less functional glutathione system.

There are many clinical and anecdotal reports,[21,25,27,59] of ozone major or minor autotherapy, at times prescribed on a daily basis for several weeks applied to the treatment of various carcinomatous conditions but with a paucity of controlled data. Several researchers have focused their efforts on using ozone as an adjunct to radiation or chemotherapy.[23]

Summary and Future Directions

Ozone, an allotropic form of oxygen, possesses unique properties which are being defined and applied to biological systems as well as to clinical practice. As a molecule containing a large excess of energy, through incompletely understood mechanisms, it manifests bactericidal, virucidal and fungicidal action which may make it a treatment of choice in certain conditions and an adjunct to treatment in others. 

Although ozone’s medicinal effects were discovered in the 19th century and clinically applied during World War I, equipment capable of purity and reliability of delivery of oxygen-ozone mixtures were not available until the late 1950s. Since then, experience has accumulated for the administration of ozone to humans and animals via a variety of routes, in doses that are both nontoxic and relevant to clinical problems, externally in gaseous form (or in solution) and systemically in blood ozonation.

A review of a large body of literature is presented which describes a spectrum of therapeutic indications. Of these, ozone application for superficial infection, burns, dental and intestinal conditions, and possibly circulatory problems seem to be the most promising. 

As regards blood ozonation, further research is indicated to delineate the nature of its dynamics and the extent of its effectiveness in:

(1) the identification of the galaxy of compounds formed in this process which, in view of doses administered, by all evidence, have metabolic, immunological, endocrine and possibly neurological effects; 

(2) the purification of blood or blood components for transfusion purposes; 

(3) the inhibition of carcinomas with reference to the types which may be the most susceptible and to its use as an adjunct to radiation or chemotherapy; and 

(4) the inactivation or the repression of viral diseases with special attention to chronic conditions of the Herpes or Retroviridae (HIV) families.

References – to be supplied upon request.