Quantum
HEALTH
Issue 13 September/October 2011
Cancer Remission: What Makes the Difference in Healing?
by Kelly A. Turner, PhD I
am a cancer consultant and researcher who studies people who heal from cancer without Western medicine or after Western medicine has failed to remit their cancer. While personally I believe in combining the best of Western (allopathic) and complementary medicine, as a researcher I study the most anomalous cases.
For my dissertation research at the University of California, Berkeley, I traveled around the world for a year asking fi fty non-allopathic healers from twelve different countries about how they treat cancer. Afterward, I asked twenty cancer survivors who had healed without Western medicine why they thought they healed. What emerged from the interviews were three underlying beliefs about cancer and about more than 75 cancer “treatments.” Of these 75+ treatments, six were among the top ten used by both healers and cancer survivors. In this article, I will briefl y describe these three underlying beliefs and six most common treatments. Most are followed with brief excerpts from my interviews. Please note that my study was designed to collect hypotheses only. Therefore, the following information records opinions only, not facts or verifi ed treatments.
The Three Most Common Beliefs Underlying Healing
Belief #1: Change the Conditions under which Cancer Thrives
The majority of my interviewees believe that cancer thrives under certain suboptimal
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conditions in the body. Therefore, to remove cancer, they recommended changing the underlying conditions in the body, at which point the cancer cells would theoretically die off naturally. An integrative oncologist from Japan describes his theory as follows:
HEALER (from Japan): Cancer substance is not made by cancer cells, but by human beings. And the cancer substance to change is not cancer cells, but human beings. Bad circulation and low [body] temperature—cancer cells never created [those]
conditions.Human beings themselves created [those] bad circumstances.
KELLY: So it’s the bad circumstances that human beings create in their body that allow the cancer cells to grow?
HEALER (from Japan): Yes. So, my understanding is cancer cell is not malignant cell, but sacrifi ced/ delinquent cell . . .adapted to the wrong circumstances. . . . In our body, cancer cells never arise up in a heart or small intestine, because these heart and small intestine are warm and high [in] blood and high content of oxygen. Small intestine and heart is good circumstance, so [they have a] small percentage [of cancer]— [it is] very unusual for cancer [to appear in those organs].
Belief #2: Illness = Blockage/Slowness; Health = Movement
The majority of my seventy interviewees also believed that any illness, including cancer, represents a blockage or slowness somewhere in the body-mind-spirit system, whereas health is
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