It has been apparent for a long time that both chemo
and radiation have poor long term outcomes.
This work infers just why. Read
it carefully.
Obviously self-help with a diet of blueberries and
vegetables anyways is powerfully indicated.
Even more powerfully indicated is to simply abandon the two toxic
therapies generally promoted. Both will
seriously weaken you at a time you need dietary transformation and enhancement. I always felt this to be true and held both
as suspect, but now we have direct evidence and appropriate pathways.
There are other protocols which will help ‘debulk’ a
tumor and these can be safely pursued if indicated in combination with the
blueberry vegetable therapy additionally indicated.
This is a powerful finding that will still take
years and many unnecessary deaths to be fully implemented.
Research:
Radiotherapy Causes Cancer, Blueberry Kills It
30th August 2013
By Sayer Ji
An important new study reveals both the abject
failure of conventional radiation treatment for cancer, and the very real
possibility that blueberries contain a curative compound far more effective
than anything modern cancer specialists have available to them to strike at the
very root of cancer malignancy.
Published in the
journal eCAM and
titled, “BlueBerry Isolate, Pterostilbene, Functions as a Potential
Anticancer Stem Cell Agent in Suppressing Irradiation-Mediated Enrichment of
Hepatoma Stem Cells,”[1] researchers reported two major findings:
1. Irradiation of liver cancer cells (hepatoma)
with the same type of radiation used to treat cancer patients resulted in
enriching the highly malignant cancer stem cell subpopulations, as well as
cell properties associated with increased invasiveness and treatment
resistance. [see figure 1 below]
2. The
addition of pterostilbene, a stilbenoid chemically related
to resveratrol and found in blueberries and grapes, suppressed the adverse
changes associated with irradiation.
The figure above shows the enrichment of the
CD133 cell marker, and list of 5 additional cellular markers (e.g. c-Myc)
indicates enhancement of “stemness” (i.e. malignancy) following radiation
treatment.
In order to fully appreciate the significance
of these findings, one must first understand what cancer stem cells are.
As far as back the
mid-19th century, researchers observed that cancer tissue
looked like embryonic tissue, and formulated what is known as the embryonal
rest theory of cancer (ERTC).[2] According this theory, cancers grow
out from a small collection of embryonal cells that persist and do not
differentiate into mature adult cells. While the past century has been
dominated by the view that cancer is a de-differentiation of adult cells that
through repeated arbitrary damage to their DNA have gone ‘rogue,’ the recent
discovery of a small population of stem cells within most cancers, capable of
differentiating into all the cell types found within various tumor samples,
lends support for ERTC. Furthermore, it
underscores just how misguided our views and treatments of cancer have been
since the official ‘war on cancer’ was declared by Nixon in 1971. If
cancer is not strictly a chance byproduct of multi-mutational DNA changes
(known as ‘internal Darwinism) but a highly organized hierarchy of cells created
and governed by the cancer stem cell, then using what amount to weapons-grade
materials of mass destruction (chemoagents and radioisotopes) to further drive
mutagenesis and cause fatal collateral harm to the patient makes little sense.[ ouch – we may have it totally wrong –
arclein ]
Indeed, the ERTC/Cancer Stem Cell explanation
is very important, as it explains the
mechanism behind the abject failure of the modern chemotherapy and
radiation-based standard of care.
Conventional cancer
treatments were almost exclusively developed using animal models, where a
therapy’s effectiveness was determined by its ability to shrink tumors. Animal
models, however, are entirely inappropriate when it comes to understanding
human cancer because the average rodent life span does not exceed two years,
and therefore tumor relapse is exceptionally difficult if not impossible to
study. When applied to human physiology, conventional chemotherapy or
radiation treatment will effectively ‘debulk’ a tumor (‘fractional ablation’),
creating the appearance that the ‘war is being won,’ when in fact the stem cell
population within that tumor has either been enriched, or worse, has been
supplemented through de novo transformation
of non-tumorigenic cells within a benign or indolent mass into cells with
cancer stem-cell like properties, i.e. the theoretically infinite ability to
self-renew.
This, of course, means
that years after the original treatment, the small population of highly
invasive and malignant cells can reappear somewhere else in the body, which the
conventional cancer establishment often categorically denies as being linked to
the original cancer (this is not unlike the re-emergence of an antibiotic
resistant infection). If a patient makes it past the ’5-year- survival mark’
post-treatment they are considered ‘cured’ and any new cancer defined as being
of novel origin and written off
as unrelated to the original treatments.
Cancer Stem
Cell-Targeted Therapies Hold the Key
And so, the emerging
acknowledgment that the treatments themselves either enrich and/or create
cancer stem cells, and that natural compounds have the ability to selectively
kill (‘selective cytotoxicity‘) only the cancer
stem cells, hold as much promise to the victims of cancer as it does liability
to those who have been in the ‘medical dark ages’ for so long, causing massive
collateral damage and iatrogenesis in their patients all in the name of ‘saving
them.’
The new study, in the
conservative tradition of peer-reviewed and published science related to
oncology, suggests that pterostilbene should be used as an adjunct or complementary treatment with
radiotherapy. However, we believe* that the obvious conclusion is that
radiotherapy should be discontinued entirely in favor of a truly intelligent
cancer stem-cell targeted treatment protocol, in combination with profound
dietary and lifestyle changes consistent with using food, detoxification, and
mind-body therapies to adjust the bodily environment (and by implication, the
tumor microenviroment) so that cancer proliferation and cancer stem cell
formation is not encouraged, but discouraged. For additional research
on Radiotherapy’s ability to dramatically increase cancer
malignancy up to 30-fold, view our article on the topic: Study: Radiation Therapy Can Make Cancers 30x More Malignant
Blueberries have
already been found to cause programmed cell death (apoptosis) within in the significantly more virulent
triple negative breast cancer cell lines,[3] and an
accumulating body of research reveals that the blueberry phytocompound resveratrol
has the ability to kill dozens of lethal cancer types,
including targeting the cancer stem cells within them.
Blueberry is Only the Tip of the Fruit Bowl
In total, our project
has identified no less than 27 substances with experimentally confirmed cancer
stem cell-killing properties. View them all here on our research page dedicated
to the topic: Cancer
Stem Cell-Killing Substances. Also, you may be interesting in reading
another article on the topic: Are Cancer Stem Cells the Key to Discovering a Cure?
Incidentally, the best
way to defeat cancer stem cells is to avoid their generation and promotion in
the first place. This is why the above-mentioned page on cancer stem
cell-killing substances also includes a list of problematic environmental
exposures associated with cancer stem cell creation, including chemotherapy,
low oxygen (hypoxia), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, alcohol and
surgery itself. As the subtitle of the book I co-authored articulates so
clearly, “Cancer Killers: The Cause is the Cure,”
meaning, removing the “cause” is the “cure.”
*This opinion is not to be substituted for, or
misinterpreted as, medical advice from a licensed health care practitioner. It
represents a personal viewpoint, that the author applies only to his own life,
which is all he is legally empowered to affect.
Article Resources
[1] Chi-Ming Lee,
Yen-Hao Su, Thanh-Tuan Huynh, Wei-Hwa Lee, Jeng-Fong Chiou, Yen-Kuang Lin,
Michael Hsiao, Chih-Hsiung Wu, Yuh-Feng Lin, Alexander T H Wu, Chi-Tai
Yeh. BlueBerry Isolate, Pterostilbene,
Functions as a Potential Anticancer Stem Cell Agent in Suppressing
Irradiation-Mediated Enrichment of Hepatoma Stem Cells. Evid
Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013 ;2013:258425. Epub 2013 Jun 26. PMID: 23878592
About the author:
Sayer Ji is the
founder and director of www.GreenMedInfo.com and an advisory
board member at the National Health Federation, an international
nonprofit, consumer-education, health-freedom organization.
He co-authored the
book Cancer Killers: The Cause Is The Cure,
and is currently co-authoring another book with Tania Melkonian entitled EATomology: An Edible Philosophy of
Food.
Check out Sayer Ji’s
new collaborative project EATomology.
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