What causes cancer?

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Based on my research and experience, this is my current opinion.

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In essence, cancer is an intra-cellular immune reaction to a microbial infection.  More specifically, it is caused by a combination of two major factors:  (1) microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungus*, or parasites) that commandeer cells to react in a perpetually defensive mode, and (2) a state of deficient health and/or deficient immune system in general that is conducive to the microbial action.  Things that have become known as carcinogens are carcinogenic because they injure certain tissues, making them more susceptible to these dynamics, or otherwise create impaired health that is a hospitable, enabling condition for the microbial action, and cancer, to thrive.  The microbes are ubiquitous; most cannot be avoided.  So what you can do is optimize your health and immune system as the best defense, and that requires supplying your body with optimal, proactive nutrition and lifestyle, and not taxing it with chemicals, drugs, unhealthy foods, toxic substances, stress, risky medical procedures, etc.  Cancer takes root in stem cells, which is one of the (many) reasons why chemotherapy** cannot cure it; chemotherapy misses the target of the microbial infection, and is palliative at best, and counterproductive at worst.  Radiation** is also generally palliative only, it cannot cure it.  Surgery only debulks tumor and microbial load, which may or may not set the disease back far enough to result in a meaningful "remission" (but the original cause and susceptibility remain untreated).  Immunotherapy** is likewise a false hope because, again, it completely misses the target of the microbial infection, and its hazards usually outweigh its benefits.  All of these methods pose a high risk of ultimately causing the cancer to become more aggressive.  None of these methods, nor any conventional medical approaches, address the root enabling factor, of unhealthy diet/lifestyle.  

 

Killing cancer cells is not the optimal target, because the microbial infection remains, and is the driving force behind the disease.  The microbes are what compel the de-activation of the cells' natural, programmed suicide process (apoptosis).  So if you kill the microbes, the cancer cells' apoptosis reflex will resume, and the cancer cells will then die off.

 

The failure to appreciate all these facts is the fatal flaw in conventional medical treatment.  Does changing to a radically healthy diet/lifestyle guarantee a 100% success rate of curing cancer?  No, but its success rate is high, especially compared to the abjectly dismal track record of conventional medical treatments, which, being so dismal, is very easy to beat (often doing NOTHING is no worse).  This natural method has a better track record, on average, of diminishing cancer long-term, and often curing it, than any other treatment, by an extremely wide margin.

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(*Most likely candidate.)

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( **When a doctor prescribes any of these treatments, what that really means, as a practical matter, is:  "We can't cure you, so we're throwing this at it, because it's all we have, and we need to feel like we're 'doing something,' even though the 'something' doesn't do much good.")