Devra Davis
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 Where animal studies on the causes of cancer exist, they are often faulted as not relevant to humans. Yet when studies of almost identical design are employed to craft novel treatments and therapies, the physiological differences between animals and humans suddenly become insignificant.
Many people think that the reason large numbers of us no longer die from infectious diseases is the miraculous breakthroughs of scientific discovery. Not so. In fact, the decline of epidemics in the nineteenth century had nothing to do with breathtaking scientific advances; all of these came much later. |
Andreas Moritz
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 To deal with the root causes of cancer, you must find satisfying and practical answers to the above questions. If you feel the inner urge to make sense of this life-changing event, cancer that is, you will greatly benefit from continuing to read this book. Cancer can be your greatest opportunity to help restore balance to all aspects of your life, but on the other hand, it can also be the harbinger of severe trauma and suffering. Either way, you will discover that you are always in control of your body. To live in a human body, you must have access to a certain amount of life-sustaining energy. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Even so, environmental concerns, even ones that are known causes of cancer, are beyond the mission of the public health establishment.
Finally, our third question: who makes money by keeping us healthy?
Alas, there is no one.
APPENDIX A
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
In 1971, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made a secret trip to China, a country with which the United States had no diplomatic (and hardly another ties) at the time. One of the few reporters in the Kissinger entourage was James Reston of the New York Times. |
Bill Sardi
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 We may look back on this period as the dark ages of cancer treatment, when our ignorance of the basic causes of cancer and the biology of the cancer cell led us to use toxic mixtures of randomly selected chemicals, more in the hope than in the expectation of a cure for the disease. - Garth Powis, DPh, The Toxicity of Anticancer Drugs, Per-gamon Press, 1991.
Which Model of Cancer Care Is Best? |
Andreas Moritz
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| It will perhaps astound you to learn that a person who is afflicted with the main causes of cancer (which constitute the real illness) would most likely die quickly unless he actually grew cancer cells. In the book, Cancer is not a Disease, I will provide evidence to this effect. This chapter establishes the foundation for understanding the true causes, purpose and role of cancer.
I further claim that cancer will only occur after all other defense or healing mechanisms in the body have failed. |
Stacy Malkan
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 There's a normalization of cancer in that model when you don't look at causes of cancer. It's like saying you're going to get it — but we'll cure it."
Look Good, Feel Better
We may get cancer, but at least we'll look good when we do.
"Give cancer the brush," says the ad for "Look Good ... Feel Better," the flagship cancer program of the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA).26 The program offers free makeup to women recovering from cancer treatments — a generous gesture, yes, but also a bit jarring with its head-patting tone and focus on pushing products. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Removing the symptom of cancer, such as a tumor, does not remove the underlying causes of cancer, regardless whether the tumor is removed at an early or late stage. As explained before, the tumor is not the problem; it is actually part for the solution. Early cancer detection and treatment almost never prevent a recurrence unless, of course, the patient also removes the causes of the cancer. With most cancers, the highly suppressive and destructive cancer treatments eventually lead to a far more aggressive and fast-spreading cancer (survival response) than the original one. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 Every individual concerned with public health should be worried about the results of these polls and should question himself or herself as to the need of re-examining the communication strategies designed to inform people about the causes of cancer. Why? Because with the exception of the smoking issue, these perceptions are completely at odds with what the scientific community has succeeded in identifying as trigger factors for cancer.
As we look at the causes of cancer, you will discover that a minority of cancers are caused by factors that cannot really be controlled (Figure 2). |
Andreas Moritz
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| The approaches provided in this book offer to deal with the causes of cancer while giving very little importance to the symptoms of cancer, that is, cancer cells.
It is a medical fact that every person has cancer cells in the body at all times. These cancer cells remain undetectable through standard tests until they have multiplied to several billion. When doctors announce to their cancer patients that the treatments they prescribed had successfully eliminated all cancer cells, they merely refer to tests that are able to identify the detectable size of cancer tumors. |
Devra Davis
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| I believe that if we had acted on what has long been known about the industrial and environmental causes of cancer when this war first began, at least a million and a half lives could have been spared, a huge casualty rate that those who have managed the war on cancer must answer for. This book explains how I have come to that reckoning.
THE SECRET HISTORY of the
WAR ON CANCER
"Those who want the future to be different from the past, must study the past"
-SPINOZA
My very good friend Andrea Martin lived through three bouts of breast cancer. |
Andreas Moritz
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| See also chapter 10 on the real causes of cancer.)
Blaming bacteria for causing an infection reflects great ignorance about the workings of natural processes both in the body and in the environment. As mentioned before, infection is not caused by bacteria, but by the presence of toxic substances and the resulting cell damage that attracts these organisms.
So-called deadly bacteria, which are involved in the most serious infections, can be found almost everywhere. |
Mark Sircus
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 Inorganic arsenic is considered one of the prominent environmental causes of cancer mortality in the world. Chicken consumption may contribute significant amounts of arsenic to total arsenic exposure of the U.S. population according to the Journal Environmental Health Perspectives.1*
"Arsenic acts as a growth stimulant in chickens—develops the meat faster—and since then, the poultry industry has gone wild using this ingredient," says Donald Herman, a Mississippi agricultural consultant and former Environmental Protection Agency researcher who has studied this use of arsenic for a decade. |
Devra Davis
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| The complexities of the real world make unequivocal evidence on the causes of cancer in humans quite hard to come by. In truth, there is much bona fide scientific uncertainty about such a complicated illness. The existence of this doubt is easily exploited. Since World War II, whenever and however information on the cancer hazards of the workplace and the environment has been generated, it has typically been discredited, dismissed, or disparaged.7
The tobacco companies' long struggle to obscure and muddy findings on the dangers of cigarettes, successful for many decades, serves as the model. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Maintaining his journalistic independence, Adams simply reports on the true causes of cancer and genuine cancer cures without any financial involvement whatsoever in the products he recommends. "While non-profit cancer groups gladly take money from companies that profit from cancer, I simply refuse to accept any money whatsoever from the products that I recommend for preventing and curing cancer," Adams said. "Readers need to know that my recommendations are made entirely based on merit, and unlike the cancer non-profit groups operating today, I cannot be bought off with Big Pharma money. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It exposes the lies of the chemical industry in trying to sweep the truth about the chemical causes of cancer under the rug even while profiting from the screening and treatment of cancer. (The book is just being released in October, 2007. Ask for it at your bookstore, or order it online.)
The environmental burden of chemical laundry detergents
I believe that people who wash their clothes in popular, brand-name laundry detergents are in fact washing their clothes in chemical poisons. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Where to start with curing cancer
The bottom line is that conventional cancer treatments are a sham and they do nothing to help the patient overcome the causes of cancer. They do a great job of creating repeat business for the cancer industry, however, and pharmaceutical companies now have a reliable market for the anticancer chemicals that have now become mainstream treatments for this entirely preventable and curable disease. But if you want to really cure cancer, you've got to focus on detoxification and healing from the inside out. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cures for cancer exist all around us: Sunlight, rainforest herbs, anti-cancer foods and superfoods, etc. The causes of cancer are well known: Toxic chemicals in foods, cosmetics, personal care products, home cleaning products, and so on. So why don't we, as a nation, take steps to outlaw the things that cause cancer while promoting the things that prevent cancer?
The reason, once again, is because there's too much money at stake here. The corporations are in charge, and as long as they're running the show, cancer cures or prevention strategies that really work will simply not be tolerated. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is no coincidence that the mainstream disease groups keep the chemical causes of cancer and neurological disorders a big secret. They're primarily focused on treatment, not prevention. Because prevention would necessitate a discussion of why all these product companies are using such toxic chemicals in their foods, drugs and personal care products.
Preventing prevention
Virtually all the popular cancer groups out there -- including the non-profit cancer groups -- are focused on lucrative cancer treatments while avoiding cost-effective cancer prevention. |
Ron Garner
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 Time after time, it seems that funding for research and development programs that address the causes of cancer is totally ignored by those in authority positions.
Politicians like to use terms such as "declaring war" on diseases. But to return a body to health, the solution is not to find an aggressor against a disease. The solution is to build a solid defense system within the body so that disease has no appropriate medium in which to exist. From an economic viewpoint, politicians are able to justify large expenditures during wartime, hence their bellicose rhetoric. |
Devra Davis
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| He thought the exclusive focus on smoking would lead us away from other causes of cancer that were far more deadly. He was railroaded out of here. He wasn't the easiest fellow to work with and rubbed lots of people the wrong way, but not necessarily for the wrong reasons. I decided after seeing what happened to him that I was better off sticking to basic research. Somebody like you should think about that."
I did. I stayed with NAS for a decade, working with some of the most talented experts on some of the most fascinating and challenging problems in science at the time. |
Melody Petersen
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 Professors see more money in working on the next blockbuster heartburn medicine than in studying the environmental causes of cancer. They and the companies that financially support them are more interested in developing hair loss treatments and other lifestyle drugs for rich Americans than in discovering cures for diseases like malaria, which is devastating poor countries and killing a child every thirty seconds. |
Devra Davis
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| Scientists who tackled industrial causes of cancer often found themselves facing subtle and sometimes not so subtle warnings. Those who resisted pressure to back off often found their funding cut.9 In some cases, scientific research was stopped in its tracks, and many careers, like Hueper's, were derailed.10
In retrospect it seems clear that Frank Press was correct about many things. It's not enough to write the right book. The world has to be ready to listen. |
| Centuries-old knowledge about the causes of cancer, accepted by scientists and businesses alike in 1936, is now inadmissible in court—not because it has been disproved, but because it has been superseded by legal maneuvers and disqualified by a subtle shift in what is considered proof of harm. The kinds of scientific evidence that can be used today in these situations has been carefully culled. Animal research is usually ruled out. That work may be suitable to make drugs, but not for showing harm to people. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 But despite his three medical degrees, a professorship of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, his frequent Congressional testimony as an expert on public health and environmental causes of cancer, his authorship of seven books, and countless editorials appearing in some of America's leading newspapers, reporters were repeatedly blocked from describing him more completely. |
Jacky Law
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 Sir Richard Doll in The causes of cancer revealed how the Western diet was just as important as tobacco in causing cancer. Professor Samuel Epstein had found that chemical pollutants in the air and water caused a further one in five of all cancers. Sir Douglas Black had rediscovered that poverty was still a major cause of illness in Britain, killing 75,000 people a year - or 200 a day. And it had been proved 'beyond reasonable doubt' that milk and dairy foods were killing thousands a year from heart attacks and an excess of salt was equally implicated in strokes. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| He has contributed numerous editorials and letters to leading national newspapers, and has published over 100 press releases, over the last decade, on the politics of cancer, and on avoidable causes of cancer, particularly in consumer products.
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| This endorsement was coupled with insistence that the public has an absolute right-to-know of information on avoidable causes of cancer, a democratic right which the agribusiness and FDA continue to subvert.
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. Chairman
Cancer Prevention Coalition
Use of rBST in South Africa SAMPRO Press Release November 1,2005
SAMPRO (The South African Milk Processors Organisation) has decided to formally oppose the use of rBST in dairy herds. As a result, SAMPRO will submit a formal application for the deregulation of rBST to the relevant Government institution. |
| Samuel Epstein, a scientist at the University of Illinois School for Public Health, is an expert on the environmental causes of cancer. He is opposed to Posilac going into cows that produce the milk your family drinks. His view is based on what he says is a body of peer-reviewed research, including many studies he cites in an article published in last year's International Journal of Health Services, that raises some troubling questions. And Dr. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 They are showing that the causes of cancer, heart disease, and age-related diseases are changes in the body's own normal regulatory communication systems. The same exact gene and hormonal signals that are essential for survival are used against the person to cause cancer and heart disease. This is an amazing discovery; one that alters the way health care should be viewed on a fundamental level.
This is great news for individuals who are truly interested in their own quality of health. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Here are the basic causes of cancer:
1. Toxins. As I mentioned in my Natural Cures book, the number one reason people get sick or have any disease is too many toxins in the body. Toxins are the number one cause of cancer as well. The basic or main toxins that cause cancer include: a. smoking; b. mechanical, physical, and chemical irritation; c. food additives, such as DES, or diethylstilbestrol, which is used in food production—primarily in meat products. Eighty-five percent of all meat in the United States contains dangerous residual amounts of this poison. |
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