Cruciform

Fungus

Cancer isn't a fungus. But it shares some properties with them and fungi are an important idea in the cancer ecosystem but perhaps not in the way one might think.

Luck

No, luck has nothing to do with cancer. That's just another way of saying cancer forms all the time, it does and the body usually takes care of it. The problem is that one time when it does not because it lacks the required raw materials.

Paradigm

Gene P53: a paradigm shift in cancer therapeutics

The discovery of unique P450 Cytochrome enzymes in only cancer cells enabled a new generation of drugs so fight cancer. Some qualify tfor patent, some do not. THat makes for an interesting problem.

Q40

A chemical fond in some plants activates our cancer fighting gene P53.

Salvestrols

The biochemistry of immunotherapy.

Immunotherapy is simply activating the body's defenses to kill cancer One might ask why gene P3 is deactivated in Cancer patients in the fist place, and rightly so, this only started in 1900. The answer if of course the food supply and it's subtle. Have a look here to gain some background knowledge than in the last 15 minutes of the last link on this page you'll find the answer and will then know why you should only buy organic.

http://insights.rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.us/sci/med/disease/cancer/salvestrols/

Apple

A novel triterpenoid isolated from apple functions as an anti-mammary tumor agent via a mitochondrial and caspase-independent apoptosis pathway.

A novel triterpenoid, named 3β-trans-cinnamoyloxy-2α-hydroxy-urs-12-en-28-oic acid (CHUA), was one of the main components of apple peels and showed potent in vitro antitumor activity against human tumor cells. In vivo antitumor experiments showed that CHUA could significantly inhibit the growth of mammary tumor in a nude mouse xenograft model at a dose of 50 mg/kg/day without body weight loss and mortality. In vitro, CHUA could induce apoptosis in MDA-MB-231 cells through the detection of DNA fragments and LDH activity. Simultaneously, mitochondrial transmembrane potential was markedly reduced and the release of cytochrome c was increased after CHUA treatment. It also up-regulated the expression ratio of mitochondrial Bax/Bcl-2 regulated by SIRT1 and p53. Interestingly, z-VAD-fmk and z-DEVD-fmk augmented cell death after CHUA treatment. Other protease(s) different from caspase-3 might be responsible for the degradation of PARP. These results suggested that the pro-apoptotic activity of CHUA may be adjusted by mitochondrial and caspase-independent pathways.

Artemesinin

"Scientists develop new cancer-killing compound from salad plant"

Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently available drugs, heralding the possibility of a more effective chemotherapy drug with minimal side effects.

Mistletoe

"Laboratory studies have found that mistletoe kills cancer cells and stimulates the immune system."

(US National Institute of Health website - NIH)

"The use of mistletoe to treat cancer has been studied in Europe in more than 30 clinical trials; improvements in survival or quality of life have been reported."

but then go on to say:

"almost all of the trials had major weaknesses that raise doubts about their findings. These weaknesses have included small numbers of patients, incomplete data, lack of information about the dose of mistletoe, and problems with the design of the studies."

What they did't say it they didn't get better. What they're saying that can't say much more about it. Ok, you don't have to, they got better.

Now that text was taken from the US Federal Government National Institute of Health ("NIH") website that deals with non-patented medicine. Every once in a while they change the name and the web address. Back when it was called the "CAM" division I took the text from the site and pasted it here. The current name is now different and the text was changed. However the Rexall drug chain, I suppose interested in selling the stuff, has some text from it they also lifted from the original CAM site, which was slightly more generous that what is currently there. Here is the text from the Rexall site.

"Studies in laboratory settings have found that this herb kills cancer cells and stimulates the immune system. It has also been studied in European clinical trials as a cancer treatment. There have been some positive outcomes from these trials, but all of these trials have had major design weaknesses that makes the findings questionable."

Pay particular attention to the words they took off the current version of the fact sheet about this: "kills cancer cells and stimulates the immune system". Because it's not true? No, it was on there a while and is true.

One can only speculate why a government service purported to increase health would do this.

This sort of revisionism when documenting the US medical system is not new, look at the archived and current versions of the Wikipedia page on "Iatrogenesis" or "diseases caused by the medical system" noting that only a very small fraction arr surgery; more so our surgical prowess makes leaps and bounds. In the 1960s the life expectancy of a heart transplant patient was measured in days and took two days to perform. Noe we can transplant a liver, lungs and a heart and expect the patient to live a normal life. But the medicine side of this equation? That's the problem.

But look what words used to be in Wikipedia and what are not there now. Again in this case they are not there now not because they are not true, because they are inconvenient: if you want to see who controls something, see who you are not allowed to criticize. It is not the surgeons. Here is the quote from the 2011 version:

"Based on these figures, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer."

Flat out, this is the third leading cause of death in the US today. Rather than fixing it they took the words out of Wikipedia.

But, notice what words are in there now:

"Globally it is estimated that 142,000 people died in 2013 from adverse effects of medical treatment up from 94,000 in 1990"

So, as bad as the problem was, it got worse fairly quickly.

Pesticides

W.H.O. communique

Report showing the organophosphate pesticides "probably" cause cancer.

Leatrile

No it does't actually work, yes it was important.

Laetrile had a unique and interesting property that was instrumental in the development of a $2B drug called Abiraterone acetate that seems to be an absolute cure for one kind of cancer. It's rather a long story of which this was only a small part.