Infected cells develop genetic changes that transform them into cancer cells.

A new study published in the journal Nature divides breast cancer into 4 genetic types.  One of the most deadly types, "basal-like" cancer, shows strong genetic similarities to types of lung cancer and to ovarian cancer.  A researcher is quoted in the New York Times as saying these similarities point to a common cause of the cancers.  I laughed out loud when I read this because they're all caused by infection and the cancers with the similarities they've identified are caused by a common organism infecting similar kinds of cells in the different organs.  It's right under their noses!

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/health/study-finds-variations-of-breast-cancer.html?_r=0

I've noticed, reading these research reports, that cancer researchers are excellent at identifying the results of infection with carcinogenic organisms and even of finding treatments that are effective against these results, without identifying the underlying cause of the disease.  For example, Tamoxifen and Taxol, two of the most important breast cancer drugs, are potent antifungal drugs.  Breast cancer is caused by skin fungal infections.  Researchers somewhere discovered these drugs work against breast cancer without knowing why!  God bless them anyway - they've saved countless lives with their antifungal drugs.

It's important to note that early breast cancers are always intraductal - they form inside the ducts of the milk glands, which are open to the outside world through the milk gland openings in the breast nipple.  Fungal organisms on the skin enter the ducts through the gland openings in the skin and infect and transform the cells lining the ducts.  Breast cancer does not start in the deep breast tissue as you would expect if it were entirely a genetic disorder - it spreads to the deep tissue through invasion of the cancer cells through the walls of the ducts.

Statistically, breastfeeding before the age of 32 lowers the lifetime risk of breast cancer.  I believe it is because breast milk contains potent immune factors intended to protect the nursing infant but that also protect the breast ducts from the infection.  Breasts continue to make small amounts of milk for 10 years or more after weaning, so that increased immune protection for the breast continues indefinitely.  A mother who first nurses after age 32 may already have an entrenched infection which would not be affected by the presence of breast milk.

Cancer rates are rapidly increasing, especially in young people, because our American food supply is over-manipulated.  Our food is genetically modified (GMO) and contains chemicals and pesticides that our parents and grandparents were never exposed to.  The alterations in our food supply are also causing our epidemic of obesity.  The rest of the world isn't suffering these problems because they're still eating food that's wild-type, not scientifically altered.

Japanese women living in Japan have a low breast cancer rate but when they move to the U.S. they quickly reach the same rates of breast cancer as American women.  Obviously genetics are not the problem - these women are exposed to new environmental factors when they move to the U.S.  Japanese women consume large quantities of soy in their diets.  My Chinese physician tells me that consumption of soy outside of the U.S. lowers the risk of breast cancer, but soy grown in the U.S. significantly raises the risk of cancer because it is 100% genetically-modified.  To lower your risk of breast cancer in the U.S., you must eat wild-type or imported soy.

The genetic counselor I consulted for BRCA 1 and 2 testing told me that these breast cancer genes code for DNA repair.  The presence of the BRCA genes decreases the body's ability to repair DNA damage.  So women with these genes develop cancer at an earlier age.  These genes do not code for cancer.  They make women more susceptible to carcinogenesis.  From what I've read about the mechanisms by which fungal organisms infect mammalian cells, it makes sense that when fungal organisms trick cells into taking them up into the cytoplasm and the organism shuts off programmed cell death in the cell nucleus, DNA damage must occur during the process which the BRCA genes are unable to repair.  Perhaps shutting off cell death IS the DNA damage that cannot be repaired.

We develop cancer because our chemically altered, genetically altered food damages our immune defenses, allowing infections to proliferate, invade and genetically transform cells into cancer cells.

We must stop the genetic modification of our food, identify and eliminate the chemicals used in food production that weaken our immune defenses and identify and treat the infections that cause cancer without damaging our natural defenses in the process.

Pectasol-C and Cimetidine are effective at keeping cancer at bay

I just had my mastectomy. My scans had shown my tumor enlarging in size after nearly 3 years of weekly Taxol. The Taxol was stopped and I had my surgery 4 weeks later. During that month, the tumor enlarged rapidly in size - I could actually see it enlarging day by day.

My awesome breast surgeon, Helena Chang, director of the Revlon UCLA Breast Center, got the entire tumor out with clean margins and even got the surgical site closed without a skin flap.

The surgical pathology report on the tumor showed it scored 8/9 on an aggressiveness score and showed minimal chemo effect, only 5% of tumor cells showed apoptosis.

I have lived 3 years now with a very aggressive cancer. I'm not cured but I am certain I will not die from this. I keep searching for new ways to treat the underlying fungal infection as it develops resistance to each new treatment. Conventional medicine has been absolutely necessary for my survival, but it is the alternative treatments and antifungal medicines that have saved me. This aggressive cancer would have killed me 2 years ago without IV Caspofungin and Chinese herbs.

Next I start radiation to the surgical site to clean up residual disease in the area.

Microscopic disease in my body beyond the surgical site is not being treated at this time. This is very dangerous given the aggressiveness of this disease. I requested Tamoxifen therapy during radiation until I start chemotherapy again. My wonderful oncologist agreed to this! It's the perfect drug because it's a potent antifungal agent, the real reason it's effective against breast cancer. It will keep metastases from developing while I'm waiting to restart chemo.

As soon as I started Tamoxifen, little stinging pains that had started in different places in my body immediately stopped. I believe it will be very effective in preventing metastases at this time. I would prefer to continue taking it while I'm on chemo - the infection causing the cancerous transformation would be treated at the same time as the cancer, an effective 1-2 punch. But at this time, Tamoxifen with chemo isn't considered safe because of the increased risk of blood clots.

Before my mastectomy I started taking Cimetidine (Tagamet), an over-the-counter stomach acid reducer. It's been known for years in alternative medicine to block the communication between cancer cells. Infectious organisms, including fungi, are known to communicate through chemical signals so the entire colony can act like a unit, like the Republican party. This is the reason resistance to treatment develops so quickly. I've read that when a primary tumor is surgically removed, the metastases immediately flare up and grow even more aggressively. I believe that reaction results from communication between infectious organisms - when the chemical signals from the largest tumor disappear, the remaining organisms are stimulated to grow even more aggressively to overcome the loss and insure the survival of the colony despite the loss.

So I started Cimetidine pre-op to prevent the flare-up when my primary tumor was removed. I also wanted to slow the growth of any metastases while I am off chemo. Before the surgery, the pain in my breast from the tumor had worsened steadily. When I took the Cimetidine, the pain completely stopped, but would come back with a vengeance 23 hours after the last dose - an intense burning pain, like the nasty buggers were trying to make up for lost time. I'm taking the Cimetidine every 12 hours until I restart chemo to prevent any flare-up when the organisms in the surgical site are fried by the radiation.

Pectasol-C is an absolutely brilliant compound with multiple benefits and it's completely safe. It is citrus pectin that has been broken into pieces small enough to absorbed through the intestinal wall into the blood stream. It has 3 important benefits:

1. Heavy metal chelation - very effective in the gut but also should chelate heavy metals in the blood since it is absorbed into the bloodstream.
2. Heals leaky gut - beneficial to prevent new allergies and heal the intestinal wall of breaks caused by toxic microorganisms in the gut. Should be beneficial for irritable bowel, Crohn's and ulcerative colitis.
3. Turns programmed cell death back on in cancer cells. When fungi infect cells, they shut off programmed cell death (apoptosis), the signals that tell the cell it's time to die. Without apoptosis, the cells become immortal and divide uncontrollably, i.e. become cancer. Researchers at Columbia University recently announced their findings on the effect of Pectasol-C on prostate cancer cells. They grew prostate cancer cells in petri dishes and added Pectasol-C and found that apoptosis was turned back on in these cells, resulting in a 54% kill rate in these cells, a strongly significant effect.

Both prostate and breast cancers have been known for years to respond to Pectasol. All of the hormone dependent cancers should respond as well, since they likely are caused by fungi, e.g. colon, melanoma, uterine, bladder.

I am using cimetidine and Pectasol-C along with Tamoxifen at least until I restart chemo in 2 months. I feel really excited and optimistic based on my immediate improvement in my general state of health and lack of side effects. The integrative medicine I am using as an adjunct to conventional treatment is benign and based on actual physiology and solid medical research.

I plan to continue to astonish cancer doctors with my survival and excellent condition for years to come.

Tamoxifen Has Been Found To Be An Effective Antifungal Medicine

It was announced on the major news services this past August that researchers at the University of Rochester have discovered that Tamoxifen is an effective antifungal agent.

Tamoxifen is the pill that is given to breast cancer patients for 5 years after they have finished chemotherapy to prevent recurrence of their cancer.

The U of R researchers believe that Tamoxifen can be used to treat life-threatening infections of the blood by fungi like Candida.

Obviously, if you've read my blog, it is clear to me why Tamoxifen is effective against both breast cancer and fungal infection - breast cancer is CAUSED by fungal disease.

I emailed the lead researcher today. Here is what I wrote to him:

I've read with interest about your discovery that Tamoxifen is an effective anti-fungal agent. I am an OBGYN.

I also have Stage 4 breast cancer. I contracted an aggressive skin fungal infection that spread to my breast tissue and formed a mass in less than a week's time. Biopsy of the mass showed deeply invasive carcinoma. The cancer spread to my chest wall and sternum while I was waiting for my staging PET scan.

That was 2 years ago. I'm still alive and living an essentially normal life because my oncologist listened to my story - that the carcinoma started from an aggressive fungal infection - and treated me with Caspofungin. The disease had continued to spread painfully through me despite chemo. Caspofungin stopped its progress. I'm certain Stage 4 breast cancer patients die despite chemo because the underlying disease process is left untreated.

I ask that you consider the possibility that Tamoxifen is effective against both breast cancer and fungal disease because breast cancer is in fact caused by fungal disease.

It is my heartfelt wish that medical research be done that ties breast cancer to fungal infection so that other breast cancer patients can survive as I have.

Best regards,

Julia White, MD

I'll keep you posted whether I receive a response from him.

I will continue to contact medical researchers in the hope that the idea that the most common forms of cancer in the US are caused by infection, including fungal infection, will interest researchers in pursuing that line of research, lead to the discovery of the fungal etiology of these cancers and lead to a real cure in the very near future.