"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship ... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic ... The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
Benjamin Rush, M.D., signer of The Declaration of Independence, physician to George Washington.
From THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN RUSH
CANCER: What you may Not Have Been Told
By Jenny Hauf
In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared ‘war on cancer’. Since that time, the US has spent more than one trillion dollars on treatment and research. One trillion dollars! That is one thousand billion US dollars. Unfortunately, the overall death rate from cancer has increased 5% and some cancers have increased several hundred percent.
The very basic concept of cancer is that certain types of cells have gone ‘amuck’ in large numbers. Cancer can be of two types: one benign, which is localized and only causes problems by its location and rate of growth; the second one is malignant, which means it can move from one place to another. We all have cancer cells. I have them; you have them; newborn babies have them. Whether or not these cells will mutate depends on our immune system’s ability to identify these cells as abnormal and kill them.
Cancer is caused by a number of factors. Some of the major factors are chronic stealth infections (microorganisms), chemicals, radiation and strong electromagnetic fields. The microorganisms that cause cancer include adenoviruses, herpes viruses, hepadenoviruses, and the papovaviruses, which contain the, now famous, SV40 virus. The SV40 was found as a contaminant in the polio vaccines during the 60s and 70s and has been shown to cause various types of brain cancers in humans.
Investigating microorganisms as a cause for various cancers is only now being explored. Since 1967, when the US Surgeon General, William H. Stewart, made the statement, “The book is closed on infectious disease,” funding for the investigation of microorganisms, as a causal factor for cancer and other diseases, dried up. The focus was redirected to the research on genetic causes of cancer. Subsequently, billions of dollars went into this research. Ultimately, this new focus and increased revenue has made no appreciable difference to life expectancy or quality of life for any patient. It has not improved or identified viable treatments of cancer or other diseases.
Cancer-causing genes have been knowingly identified through laboratory testing within the medial community. So what? Has this finding made any difference in life expectancy or quality of life? No. It is interesting to note the current biotech industry would not be where it is today without this research and the financial support out of every one of our pockets. Every time we ‘walk for the cure’, hold benefits, and make donations, we are supporting the financial appetite of the problem and not the solution.
Chemicals are another cancer causing agent. In 1990, Eilhu Richter and Jerry Westin of Hebrew University’s Hadassah School of Medicine observed that between 1976 and 1986, Israel was the only country among twenty-eight studied that showed a breast cancer rate drop. Among those twenty-eight, was the United States. The richest, most powerful, and supposedly, most medically advanced country in the world, was out ranked by Israel.
The Israeli researchers were anticipating a 20% rise in breast cancer mortality, consistent with other countries. In fact, they amazingly observed an 8% drop. In the youngest group, instead of a 20% rise, the rate dropped 34%. Statistically, this is a 50% change. This magnitude of change, in the study of cancer, is enormous. The identifiable reason for this drop in mortality rates was attributed to the 1978 ban on three organochloride pesticides: alpha benzene hexachloride, gamma benzene hexachloride (lindane which is typically used for lice treatment), and DDT. There are many studies showing the toxic effects of chemicals. Interestingly, chemical companies have paid for studies that come to the conclusion that chemicals are good. Yet, independent, non-industry organizations show significantly that chemicals are harmful. This, in turn, poses a very important question of whose interests are truly being served.
One of the first forms of cancer treatment was radiation. They began using this form of treatment in the early 1900’s. Hum, the statistics stated earlier says that even as late as 1971 cancer is on the incline not the decline. In more recent years, it has even been proven that radiation is yet another known cancer causing carcinogen, beyond a doubt. Do you see a pattern forming?
ElectoMagnetic Fields (EMF’s) are known to cause cancer. Electricians are ten times more likely than anyone in the general population of developing cancer such as leukemia. Cell towers, cell phones, high power electrical lines and computers have all been named as potential contributors to a cancer diagnosis.
The mechanism as to how cancer becomes established is always the same, oxygen deficiency. Two-time Noble Prize winner for medicine, Otto Warberg, theorized that cancer was caused by the replacement of oxygen with the fermentation of sugar. In an oxygen-deprived state, the normal tissue cells regress in their development and start to behave like bacteria utilizing sugar as their means to get energy. Cancer cells, when they behave like bacteria, lose their growth inhibition. They do not remain anchored to other cells and have an indefinite proliferative life span.
Conventional therapies for the battle against cancer include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery. Patients need to beware that what their medical doctor shares with them regarding cancer treatments does not present the entire picture. A doctor’s word should not be taken as gospel without further research. In 1978, for example, the Office of Technology Assessment, an arm of the US Congress, issued a major report concluding that only 10-20% of all procedures used in medical practices have been shown to be efficacious by controlled trial. In other words, 80-90% of what doctors implement as treatment is unscientific guesswork. Since then, this study, to my knowledge, has not been repeated, as it would only serve to strengthen the case against these conventional therapies.
The pharmaceutical industry, which is the most profitable industry in the world, has a strong vested interest in what goes on in all countries’ governments, in particular, the industrial nations. On Capitol Hill, Washington DC, there are 625 (my last count) registered lobbyists that are on the pharmaceutical industry payrolls. That equates to more drug lobbyists than senators and congressmen combined. Unfortunately, I have not found similar statistics for Canada, though I have no reason to believe that the situation is much better there. In the US, more than half of the pharmaceutical lobbyists were either former members of congress (21) or worked in congress or other federal agencies (295). Basically, they are ‘hired guns’ to ensure that the interests of the pharmaceutical industry are well served. In the 1999-2000 US federal election $262 million was spent by this industry for political influence. Governments are not immune to the influence of the long arm of the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical companies are not interested in winning the war on cancer. Their interest lie in waging the war on cancer, not winning the war. Why? In waging a war, maximum profits for pharmaceuticals are guaranteed by those convinced of victory over a bitter enemy, regardless of the evidence to prove otherwise.
Two time Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling wrote, “Everyone should know that the war on cancer is largely a fraud.” According to the US National Cancer Institute: a five-year survival rate for cancer for all nationalities was 49% in 1974 to 1975 and 50.7% in 1981 to 1986. This represents merely a 1.7% improvement in thirteen years. However, the 1.7% improvement may be due to earlier diagnosis rather than true survival rates. Overall, from 1947-1984, the incidence of cancer in the general US population grew by 40%.
Over the years, official medicine has poured billions of dollars into radiation, chemotherapy and surgical research as the major weapons in the ‘war on cancer’. The overall cancer death rate has risen by 5% since the war began. (Richard Waters, “Options”, 1993.) Dr. Alan Levin of the University of California Medical School stated, “most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy”. According to Dr. John Cairn of the Harvard University School of Public Health, “Only 2-3% of the nearly one-half million Americans diagnosed with cancer every year are being saved by chemotherapy.” In March 1971, a New York Journal of Medicine study found that 10% of 133 patients using the Chemo drug 5FU (5 Flouro Uracil) died as a result of the drug’s toxicity. Some doctors jokingly refer to this drug as ‘5 Feet Under’.
In February 1996, the WHO (World Health Organization) formally designated Tamoxifen as a carcinogen. According to Dr. Samuel Epstien of the University of Illinois, the drug Tamoxifen (commonly used for breast cancer treatment) is “a rip roaring liver carcinogen”. The National Cancer Institute and Zeneca Pharmaceutical lobbied to keep legislators from adding Tamoxifen to its list of carcinogens. (Science News, March 2, 1996). Zeneca’s annual revenues from Tamoxifen were $470 million. Interestingly enough, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals is one of the world’s largest producers of pesticides and industrial chemicals. Zeneca makes the carcinogenic herbicide acetochlor and other chlorine products creating annual revenues of over $300 million on these chemicals.
Acetochlor and all polychlorinated herbicides are estrogen mimickers. The body produces natural estrogen and progesterone in a balanced combination. When estrogen is produced in larger amounts, the body becomes imbalanced and thus potentially puts the body into a compromised condition. This imbalance of hormones can lead to cancer. Tamoxifen is promoted as a form of chemotherapy treatment. Zeneca claims Tamoxifen blocks estrogen mimickers.
Not surprisingly, who would know more about estrogens effects on the body and how to block this than the company who produces estrogen mimickers. Estrogen mimickers on their own have one to one estrogenicity factor. This means that one molecule of estrogen mimicker acts like one molecule of estrogen. Put two estrogen mimickers together and you have a compound that can have an estrogenicity factor of 1600. This means that the effects of two molecules of two estrogen mimickers can act like 1600 molecules of estrogen. It is broadly known that estrogen is a significant cause of breast cancer.
An NCI (National Cancer Institute) study followed 46,355 women and tracked the 2,082 cases of postmenopausal breast cancer that occurred among them. Women on estrogens only were 20% higher risk. Those on both estrogens and progestins had a forty-percent higher risk. A UCLA study found that women who received combined Hormone Replacement Therapy for five to ten years were 51% more likely to develop breast cancer.
Radiation is another weapon in the war against cancer yet radiation is also a major cause of cancer itself. According to internationally respected radiation expert Rosalie Bertells, her research provided evidence that mammography’s cause more cancer than they detect. And regular mammography’s cause cumulative radiation damage not to mention that as a diagnostic tool they are very ineffective.
This crude method will detect cancers that are no less than seven years old. Yet radiation therapy is a cash cow for most cancer therapy hospitals and clinics. Not to mention, most doctors are lavishly treated by pharmaceutical companies with gifts. According to ABC Primetime Thursday night, (Feb 21, 2002) doctors were coerced with $6 billion in parties, gifts and trips to “educate” medical doctors.
Radiation and chemotherapy are toxic substances which in turn can, and do, generate cancer. Adding a poison to kill a poison is not good math for our bodies. Yet government bows to the dictums of industry which supports and promotes these aggressive interventions.
Government institutions are generally against alternative medicine. As an example, the Ontario government proposed deregulation of Naturopathic Medicine in 1982 as one MPP explained, “Naturopathic Doctors are not a threat to the public and do not need to be regulated because since their legislative inception in 1925 they have not killed anyone. Therefore, naturopathic doctors do not need to be regulated.”
In the US, official medicine also stifles alternative medicine. The Office of Alternative Medicine was established within the National Institute of Health and given a mere $2 million research budget. Yet the same year, the National Institute of Health spent $68 million of taxpayers’ money on a single research trial for one drug. One chemical received 34 times more funding than an entire research department that funds non-patentable research.
In conclusion, imagine that your body is the house of your soul and you have been putting garbage in one room in your house for years. Eventually, this garbage finally attracts flies. Flies are like cancer. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy may kill the flies but they also contribute to the garbage. So, if you don’t get rid of the garbage, the flies will come back.
The comments I have made regarding the use of chemotherapy and radiation are mine. Everyone must make their own decision on what they want to put into or expose their body to.
Jenny Hauf
