Cancer is a process that has always effected animals, it’s just as common in domestic and farm animals, birds and fishes as it is in humans. Western scientific medicine has been effective in minimising infectious diseases. Many of us are living longer and cancer has almost been accepted as a normal feature of the aging process. But statistics don’t bear this out.

Cancer

The incidence of cancer is increasing in all age groups. Because cancer cells take a while to grow to a point where they’re a large enough mass to become recognizable, it may be 18 months to 3 years, even 30 years before the disease is diagnosed by a physician. By then we could be more than halfway down the path to a terminal disease. Because of our psychological make-up we’re often immobilised by the information. We are inclined to minimise it or deny that it’s happened to us. We get depressed.

‘Why me? A cycle of immobilisation – minimisation – often happens. Those who do break out of it and figure out how to accept the fact start testing for alternatives, often ‘against the clock’ find out that cancer is an awesome and complex subject providing a excellent example of opening a’whole can of worms’. Information overload, expert language, ignorance of options, vested interest, absence of co-operation, interruptions, lack of access to particular information or therapy and a plethora of barriers like language translation exist which prevent understanding the issue let alone the most recent research.

Let’s understand it

Since an naturopathic physician (Western surgical physician ) is generally the first point of contact for this dis-ease, cancer is largely treated only with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery and more recent biological discoveries in therapy. Despite billions spent on research today are essentially the exact choices we had fifty years back. Essentially the basic treatment of cancer hasn’t changed for several years. Orthodox treatments for cancer may be brutal and expensive however, in the face of scientific medical evidence are the finest we have.

Solid information on options is confusing, contradictory, unproved and unsupported by current medical models. Many medical doctors view alternatives or complementary approaches without doubt. Those that do endorse them do this mainly because they may improve the patients or contribute to palliative care (palliative:’relieving or relieving a problem without addressing the cause’).

Many complementary and alternative practitioners point out that allopathic cancer treatments are only palliative because they treat effects without looking at causes. An example is using pain killers to remove a headache. Although it’s highly useful and very convenient it is no guarantee that the headache will not re-occur. Similarly the orthodox treatment of cancer is much more concerned with treating the dis-ease compared to the individual.

How does it begin?

In cancer, a cell, or group of cells, loses contact where it is in the scheme of things, its’synergy’, and begins replicating for itself. The word synergy comes from the Greek ‘sunergos’, meaning ‘working together’. Synergy is the interaction of at least two agents, that produces a effect greater than the sum of the individual effects, in this instance – us. All the cells in a healthy body function together to give us life. They exist as unique individual cells in their own right but also have a higher purpose, contributing to the life-form of which they are part.

Each of the two thousand billion cells in our bodies has as many working parts as a passenger airliner so that it is fairly usual for some of those cells to suffer harm. Most of us have the capacity for cancer. Even a wholesome body carries about 10,000 cancerous cells and a fully functioning immune system will eliminate them. But what do cells’get’ that change them, click them out of the entire system of our body to become greedy and self-replicating? Some doctors refer to this simply as ‘insult’.

Keep in mind

What happens when you insult a mobile so often it gets angry? Just like you or I might do – it gives up on the server and sets out for itself. Our consumer culture is currently full of ways for us to insult our cells and pressure them without us even realising. The growth starts when oncogenes (controlling cell growth and multiplication) in a cell or group of cells are’transformed’ by carcinogens. Cell insult often starts with ‘free radicals’, which are unstable atoms or molecules made by the body as part of its natural defence against illness. Sometimes the body over-reacts in its own creation of these and generates more than it requires.

Recognised stressors that could spark overproduction include cigarette smoke, smog or pollution, too much ultraviolet light, illness or even too much ! Free radicals have a negative charge which makes them highly reactive. As soon as they’re produced they start searching for other molecules with positively charged particles. The response they have on meeting is called oxidisation, and this response may have a detrimental effect, damaging the D.N.A.. When a cell is transformed to a tumour-forming type, the shift in its oncogenes is passed on all offspring cells. Hence a small group can become established and then begin dividing rapidly.

Usually these cells’give up’ on their regular specialised activity within the human body and escape from normal controls like bodily hormones and nerves. Cancer doesn’t have any regard for the state of its host only the achievement of its growth, it’s’anti-synergistic’ and a parasite to the body, consuming nutrients and contributing nothing. It transforms the energies around it to its own use and blocks any attacks by suppressing the body’s own immunity. This resistance self-attack is an emerging pattern in contemporary diseases.

Final note

Cancer cells interact with one another and cells . They affect the growth of cells elsewhere in the body, they alter the immune system to benefit themselves, they could avoid or destroy normal body defences such as lymphocytes. They are even able to convince the body to grow new blood vessels to feed a tumour. Cancer cells proceed apparently’at will’ round the body, dissolving the glue of healthy cell walls to maneuver through and setup camp elsewhere, creating metastases (secondary growths) apparently anywhere. It’s an extremely complex disease with more than a hundred definable types and lots of variables within each.

Cancer is a kind of insanity which grows inside us. It’s no surprise this most mysterious and frightening of ailments is immortalised in the’dreaming mechanics’ of our media. Movies like the Alien series capitalise on our fears of something unknown and undesirable growing inside us. Cell insult happens in many of ways and when the perfect conditions for cancer exist it will begin to grow through cell multiplication. Once the cancer growth gets going, and the conditions that engendered it are still present, the expansion continues at various prices, depending on the server and what they supply. Cancer develops best in an P.H. Despite immortal cell replication it may take several years before a cancer becomes evident. A million cells collectively create just a small growth. Diagnosis is still difficult at this point as there might not be any visible evidence of cancer.