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Cancer - The Missing
Point
by: Dr Randy
Wysong
If one were to judge by television advertising and news
reports, it would seem that the “war on cancer” is all but
won. What are the weapons being heralded? Drugs, research,
tests and exams. They miss the point.
“Prevention” is promoted as meaning catching the disease
early. Really. That also misses the point. Is it “prevention”
if you call 911 when you come home and see smoke billowing
from all your windows? Do we just live with a carpe diem
philosophy and wait for the doctor to tell us we have a lump
in our breast or a swollen nodular prostate? Is the cause of
cancer a lack of one of the new cancer drugs? Is the cause of
cancer really unknown, requiring endless research?
First, let me put to rest the propaganda that the war is
being won. Since President Nixon declared the war (1971) and
after over 200 billion dollars have been spent on research
(remember, one billion is a thousand million), more Americans
will die of cancer in the next 14 months than have died in all
U.S. wars ever fought combined! (Where are the protest
marches?) Soon, cancer will overtake heart disease as the
number one killer.
Decades ago, early in the war, there were some dramatic
successes such as with Hodgkin's disease and some forms of
childhood leukemia. There can be little doubt that debunking
(surgical removal) of large cancers brings benefits. But the
big killers such as colorectal, lung, prostate and breast
cancer remain as threatening as ever. Survival gains are
measured primarily in additional months (not years) added to
life, not in cures. The placebo effect is by and large
ignored. (People getting a sugar pill placebo in cancer
studies have been known to lose their hair and some actually
cure themselves by simply thinking they will be cured.) A
percentage of people can experience remissions spontaneously
and from simple lifestyle adjustments, but the cancer therapy
is always credited with the cure. (Investigations, "Placebo
Learning: The Placebo Effect as a Conditioned Response," 1985;
2(1):23. O'Regan B, et al. 1993. Spontaneous Remission: An
Annotated Bibliography. Sausalito, CA. Talbot M. 1991. The
Holographic Universe. New York. Harper Collins Publishers.
Townsend Letter, 2004; 251:32-3.)
Statistics can always be massaged to create the result
desired. This practice is rampant in cancer research. Animal
models (euphemism for real living and feeling caged creatures
being tortured by the millions) do not prove effectiveness
across species boundaries to humans. Neither do laboratory
cell lines. That's why all the "breakthroughs" based on tumor
shrinkage never pan out. For-profit drug companies and
National Cancer Institute grant-based research ignore
metastases (the spreading cells of cancer through the body) in
their positive reports. Instead they highlight and focus on
more easily obtained lab results, such as "tumor shrinkage,”
and on easily manipulated clinical data such as "five-year
survival."
Twelve new "improved" drugs introduced in Europe between
1995 and 2000 were no better than the drugs they replaced. But
the prices were all higher, in one instance by a factor of 350
times. One new "revolutionary" drug, Erbitux™, found to
"shrink" tumors but not extend the lives of patients at all
costs $2,400 per week. Avastin™, another costly
chemotherapeutic, by the best calculation, extended the lives
of 400 colorectal patients by 4.7 months. Tamoxifin™ is proven
to be effective in decreasing breast cancer. Risk is decreased
by about 15% but what is not equally heralded is the fact that
it increased the risk of endometrial uterine cancer by about
15%. (Patient Information: Nolvadex, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals)
Are such results worth the financial devastation and
miserable life that chemotherapy, radiation and surgery
impose? Is that the way to spend one's remaining days? If such
therapy does add a couple of months, are those couple of
months really worth the poking, prodding, pain, unrelenting
nausea, disfiguring, destruction of the immune system and
increased susceptibility to other diseases? "Yes" would be a
hard answer to justify.
In the face of a cancer diagnosis most people just throw up
their hands in terror and surrender to the conventional cancer
therapy death process. The feeling is that something must be
done, and, since "doctors know best," one must begin the
"fight" by following the advice of the doctor. But fighting
does not mean surrendering to the will of another person who
has their own personal agenda and narrowed field of view
dictated by the club they belong to. That misses the point.
You must do something.
Here's the on-point best approach:
1. Prevention means adjusting your life right now so that
you are living in tune with your design. Cancer is, quite
simply, the reaction of cells subjected long enough to an
environment they are not designed for. The genetic apparatus
loses its bearings, becomes insane, if you will, and regresses
to embryonic infancy and just begins multiplying recklessly.
What is the proper environment? It is that food, air, water
and lifestyle you are genetically designed for. The proper
healthy preventive living context is encapsulated in the
Wysong Optimal Health Program™.
2. If you get cancer, don't panic. First thing is follow #1
advice. Learn. Gather as much information as you can from all
resources, not just what the medical establishment provides.
We try to gather such information for you in The Wysong
Directory of Alternative Resources.
3. Think about what has happened in your life that has
caused the disease. It is caused, it does not just happen.
Correct your life.
4. You take control of your own body and you make the
decisions. Determine to set right what is wrong and do it.
Taking control is essential to not feeling like a helpless
victim and sinking into hopeless despair – a sure mindset to
speed the disease along.
5. Think long and hard before submitting to unproven cancer
therapies. If the doctor cannot prove effectiveness (at least
prove that you will be better off with the therapy than
without) and if you are not willing to take the risk of all
the contraindications, then don't submit because you think it
is "all that can be done." It isn't. See #2 above.
All good things in life are hard. In our modern world, good
health takes effort and attention. Preventing and reversing
disease also takes effort – your effort. Begin today to take
charge of your health and be the best you can be. Most chronic
degenerative diseases have long latency periods, the time
between when the disease begins and it manifests in overt
symptoms. Most everyone reading this has such disease brewing
within at this very moment. So take advantage of the window of
opportunity and give your body a chance by living the life you
were designed to live. That will not only prevent disease from
gaining a foothold, but reverse disease that is incubating
within.
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About The Author
Dr. Wysong is a former veterinary clinician and
surgeon, college instructor in human anatomy, physiology
and the origin of life, inventor of numerous medical,
surgical, nutritional, athletic and fitness products and
devices, research director for the present company by
his name and founder of the philanthropic Wysong
Institute. He is author of The Creation-Evolution
Controversy now in its eleventh printing, a new two
volume set on philosophy for living, several books on
nutrition, prevention and health for people and animals
and over 15 years of monthly health newsletters. He may
be contacted at Wysong@Wysong.net and a free
subscription to his e-Health Letter is available at http://www.wysong.net.
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