The Link Between Cancer and Infectious Diseases

This 2006 paper on bacterial infections and cancer notes that:

An overwhelming body of evidence has determined that relationships among certain bacteria and cancers exist. The bacterial mechanisms involved are as yet unclear. These gaps in knowledge make it impossible to state the exact progression of events by which specific bacteria may cause, colonize or cure cancer. 

Did you know that the prostate cancer PSA test detects for a substance that is produced by five different tumor (ascomycete) forming fungi?  According to FungalBionics, written by A.V. Costantini, MD, 1998, “structurally the PSA molecule is a 33-kiloDalton serine protease (an enzyme), which was found to be produced by the molds Aspergillus flavus, A. fumigatus, A. oryzae, Ophiostoma piceae, and Scedosporium apiospermum, all of which are sac(ascomycete) fungi.”  (here’s the proof for you science geeks)

In other words, the PSA test doesn’t test for prostate cancer, it tests for a kallikrein family protease that is created by fungus.  The PSA test is actually testing for a fungal infection.

For those who may be suffering with chronic prostate problems, such as chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, it’s worth noting that often times antibiotics fail to treat the condition. Recent research has shown fungal infections can mimic all the symptoms of a bacterial infection or prostate cancer.  Patients who don’t respond to conventional treatment may do will with a course of antifungal medication:

A NYT’s article notes that:

Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened… But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that view into question. Besides finding tumors that would be lethal if left untreated, screening appears to be finding many small tumors that would not be a problem if they were left alone, undiscovered by screening. They were destined to stop growing on their own or shrink, or even, at least in the case of some breast cancers, disappear…

…“The old view is that cancer is a linear process,” said Dr. Barnett Kramer, associate director for disease prevention at the National Institutes of Health. “A cell acquired a mutation, and little by little it acquired more and more mutations. Mutations are not supposed to revert spontaneously.”

Would someone please explain to me how genetic “damage” can suddenly reverse itself?  Are scientists invoking magic to explain this?  They must be, because it’s not possible given the “cellular damage” hypothesis that’s all the rage these days.  Of course, if cancer is caused by an underlying infection, then remissions suddenly become easy to explain.

Previously I wrote that cellular damage will never result in additive novel properties emerging in cellular behavior. If I take a strand of DNA from a cell and destroy a few random pieces of that DNA chain, then pack it back in the cell, the cell will never gain any new abilities from this damage.  Damaging a cell will never cause it to suddenly replicate itself in an out-of-control fashion, or suddenly give it the ability to avoid dying, because these are additive new novel properties.

Damage can only result in increasing entropy.  A billion monkeys banging on keyboards for a hundred years will never write the encyclopedia Britannica, and a billion random bits of damage to 3 billion DNA sequence pairs will never result in an immortal super-replicating cellular organism.  The “damage” that causes these abilities to emerge in cancer cells has to be intentional and directed.  The “damage” has to be caused by a living entity making intentional changes to its environment that leads to what we observe to be as cancer.

Home remedies for cancer, such as vitamin C, coniferous oil, mushroom extracts, vitamin D, hash oil, etc.. etc.. all display antifungal or antibacterial properties.  The reason why they work is because they help the body clear the underlying infectious disease responsible for causing the cancer.

People get “metabolic” diseases like cancer in the first place because their diet lacks proper nutrients and the fiber necessary for the body to fight off infections.  The reason why smokers get lung cancer is because cancer causing microbes live on the tobacco leaves and the carcinogenic toxins in the smoke reduce their body’s ability to fight off those microbes.  It’s never about the damage caused by carcinogens directly, it’s about their effect on the body’s ability to fight off infections.

Exercise also alters the chemical balance of our body making it more difficult for infections to take hold.  It is a well known medical fact that exercise reduces your chances for getting an infectious disease.  This is also why your odds of getting cancer (which is an infectious disease, not a “metabolic” disease) decrease with exercise.  In fact, your odds of getting any “metabolic” disease decrease with exercise precisely because exercise creates an inhospitable environment for bad microbes.  It has nothing to do with exercise altering a person’s metabolism, and everything to do with creating an inhospitable environment in the body for harmful microbes.

Consider that if cancer was caused by genetic mutations, exercise should have no impact on your odds of getting cancer whatsoever.  If lung cancer from smoking was caused by carcinogenic mutations, running 8 miles a day should do absolutely nothing to decrease your odds of getting lung cancer, right?  Of course, we know that is absolutely not the case.  Exercise dramatically reduces a smokers odds of getting lung cancer (or any other type of cancer).

Did you know that a Mediterranean diet, rich in fruits and vegetables with only small servings of whole grains and meats, can cut your chances of getting heart disease by half?  Guess what else it prevents? – cancer and brain diseases.  Isn’t it odd that a change in diet can effect cancer, brain disease and heart disease all at the same time?  Perhaps that’s because they all have the same underlying cause.

In fact ANYTHING that reduces your odds of getting an infectious disease also reduces your odds of getting cancer (or any other “metabolic” disease).  Did you know that meditation can dramatically reduce your odds of getting a cold?  Guess what else it prevents?  Heart disease and cancer.

For those of us looking for a cure to cancer, there is no “one” cure because there is no one singular source of microbial cancer causing infection. It appears that a wide variety of microbes may cause cancerous lesions.  Just as there is no one singular antibiotic that treats all bacterial infections, there is no one singular antimicrobial that treats all cancerous infections.

I think the vast majority of cancer diagnoses are actually fungal infections.  I talked about antibiotics at the beginning of the article, but please be aware that excessive antibiotic usage, many of which are produced from mold or fungus like penicillin, dramatically increases your chances of getting cancer.  Many antibiotics are also antifungals, which is why they show positive results.  The focus should be on antifungals, not antibiotics.

Take a look at this 2001 study on aspergillosis (fungal infection) in cancer patients:

Diagnostic Difficulties

There are no truly conclusive, rapid, and accurate tests to confirm a diagnosis of invasive Aspergillus infection. Therefore, the diagnosis is absolutely dependent upon a high level of clinical suspicion for susceptible patients, as described in Table 1 of Dr. Bow’s article.

The early use of computed tomography (CT) scanning of the chest or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the sinuses can provide strong clinical evidence of infection in the proper host. These tests should be ordered without hesitation in high-risk transplant or leukemia patients with suspicious clinical findings. Pulmonary CT findings include patchy consolidation, pulmonary nodules [looks like cancer], cavitary lesions [looks like cancer], or a “crescent” air sign. A “halo” sign is particularly suggestive of aspergillosis in a neutropenic or bone marrow transplant patient.[5] In one investigation, early CT scans performed in febrile neutropenic patients with x-ray infiltrates [looks like cancer] and probable invasive pulmonary aspergillosis identified halo signs in 92%, thus reducing the time to diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis from 7 days to 1 day.[6] Improved response rates (as high as 72%) were documented as a result of the earlier diagnosis and initiation of therapy in this study.

The best method of curing cancer is to keep your immune system healthy so that you don’t get attacked by it in the first place.  Diet and exercise people – you better start taking it seriously.

For you spiritual folks, I get a kick out of reading near death experiences.  I found this one to be particularly interesting:

I have lost much of what I saw, but I held onto the main idea of what I was being told while moving over the planet.. or rather having a movie OF the planet being shown before me….  There were fields of crops all over, in specific.  As I would zoom in and get close, for instance, to a field of wheat, I would be told, “This has been poisoned.  The food has been altered and poisoned.  It is no longer pure.  The people are consuming impure food.  This is death.”  I felt sad and concerned about this and wondered why… or how it was possible.  How could a field of wheat or corn be “poisoned”… and WHY?!  I was told that man should return to the Earth or death would ensue everywhere.  It was said again and again during this scene to “Return to the Earth.” I was told that upon my return, that I should look for pure food, unadulterated.. and only consume that which is “clean,” but I dismissed this somewhat, because I had no intention of returning.

Fungal aflatoxin infecting wheat and corn crops (poison), along with GMO seeds that contain self-producing insecticides (altered)?

Dr. Lonnie Herman lays out the medical literature linking cancer to microbes and fungus:

If those lectures piqued your interest, listen to this former oncology nurse explain why she left the oncology profession and became a nurse who specializes in alternative medicine.  She talks about her first hand experience with seeing people heal themselves of cancer using several different kinds of alternative treatments, along with diet and exercise.  In particular, she talks about ozone therapy and vitamin C therapy, both of which are extremely potent antifungal treatments:

Oh, and be sure to subscribe to the Alternative Cancer subreddit and upvote the article!  And be sure to check out my previous article on this subject: Cancer: A Yeast Fungus Gone Out of Control?

• Broccoli Extract
• Beta Glucan
• Apple Cider Vinegar
• BEC5 Eggplant Extract
• Cinnamon
• Garlic/cloves/onion
• Turmeric