life) in advanced cancer. Bottom line, controlling the tumor does not ensure living longer. This is because the underlying metabolic defect has not been corrected. Cancer is a systemic disease and the tumor is merely a symptom. To fi ght cancer with the intention of winning, you must exploit the one weakness that is common to virtually all cancer cells: Dysfunctional mitochondrial metabolism leading to damaged energy production.
Here are the hallmark steps that lead to cancer and its spread:
How To Win The WAR ON CANCER
by Dr. Daniel Thomas, DO, MS C
ancer has now surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in nearly half of the states in America. In the American population, deaths from heart disease still outnumber deaths from cancer, but that is quickly changing. Nearly half of all Americans can expect to get a terrifying diagnosis of cancer in their lifetime. The most disturbing statistic is that the incidence of cancer in children has skyrocketed 40% over the last two decades.
Cancer is the most cunning, shrewd, and adaptable disease in history. It has been outfoxing us for a long time. With conventional treatment (chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery), the statistics are not good. Conventional treatment can be effective in Stage 1 and 2 cancers, and some Stage 3 cancers, but sadly, not much progress has been made in the treatment of Stage 4 cancers in the past twenty years. Tragically, most people are not diagnosed until Stage 3 or 4. We must take a new approach because, clearly, these conventional treatments are not winning the war on cancer. Emerging evidence indicates that cancer is primarily a mitochondrial metabolic disease and not a genetic disease as previously thought. As such, it requires metabolic solutions to properly prevent and treat it. Regarding conventional treatment, serious side effects notwithstanding, even though chemotherapy can shrink tumors, there is little proof that it improves survival (extends
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• Damage to mitochondria leads to oxygen underutilization and a shift from aerobic respiration to glycolytic (fermentative) metabolism. When the capacity of the mitochondria to generate energy using oxygen is impaired, malignant transformation of the cell takes place.
• Damaged mitochondria send signals to the nucleus to activate cancer-promoting oncogenes and deactivate cancer-suppressive TP53 genes. This allows the abnormal cells to avoid obligatory suicide (apoptosis) and proliferate uncontrollably. The result is cancer.
• Mitochondrial injury leads to oxidative stress and excessive infl ammation. This further promotes uncontrolled cellular proliferation.
• Affected cells regress to “selfi sh- cell” or “single-cell” survival behaviors. Most of the time, the body’s cells work together, each contributing to the greater good. Cancer cells, which divide and colonize the body, are an exception to this rule. They prosper at the expense of other cells, but also seal their own fate by eventually killing the host.
• Cancer continues in anaerobic metabolism with subsequent angiogenesis (growth of blood vessels to feed the tumor) and even greater cellular proliferation, with eventual metastasis, body- wasting, pain, and death.
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