it has been a while since I had been on my website. It now more than ten years from
my cancer diagnosis and feel more like 51 than my age of 71. I continue reading at least two books per week on health. I realize now more than ever that the emphasis must be
on preventing cancer not treating cancer. And when I say preventing I do not mean diagnostic testing, I mean changing your lifestyle. Come join life is too damn good for you to be complicit in any future disease.
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REFLECTIONS FROM ATTENDING RECENT CANCER CONFERENCE
I have just attended the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine’s conference on Prostate Cancer. The conference was well attended by both patients and well respected medical practitioners. My emotions went from exhilaration to disillusionment while touching many points in between.
Many of the speakers spoke about the state of the art techniques that they were using to neutralize potentially life threatening cancerous tumors. No one spoke about the need to deal with cancer cells throughout one’s body that exist prior to the time that they reach critical mass such that they can be detected by diagnostic equipment. They gave the impression that once you remove or radiate the cancerous tumor your problem is solved.
No one gave any credence to the notion that if you ate primarily plant-based foods and actively exercised that you would have a much less likelihood of ever being diagnosed with cancer. The one physician who spoke specifically on the risk factors for urological cancers put a strong emphasis on genetics with little regard for high fat, animal-based diet of the American public. When I challenged her by citing the 500% greater likelihood for an American to get prostate cancer compared to an Asian man, she dismissed it on the flimsy basis that it is hard to compare based on the differences in each country’s level of diagnostics. Choosing to totally ignore significant differences in dietary customs.
When I challenged Dr. David Lee, one of the most respected robotic surgeons in the country, on how could one justify performing a procedure on someone with low-grade prostate cancer in light of the fact that Memorial Sloan Kettering recently questioned the wisdom of actively treating low grade prostate cancer. They concluded that 80% of the prostate cancers are slow growing, non-lethal. Dr. Lee’s answer was that this is the problem we do not know which is slow growing and which is aggressive. I consider this to be poor excuse for putting men through such an ordeal given that there are many tests that clearly indicate the predicted aggressiveness of the tumor.
Let me see if I can explain my frustration. I felt like I was attending a medical conference on bloodletting hundreds of years ago and questioned the merits only to be marginalized or dismissed for daring to attack the current protocol. I will not let my frustration stop me from continuing to spread the word about the need to deal with the root cause of cancer and not just accept the notion of only needing to treat the symptom.
My exhilaration came from the reaction I received after publicly asking questions at the end of each session. At the end of the conference I had many people come over to meet me and ask questions. I gave each one some materials that I brought with. Their enthusiasm and their desire to learn more uplifted me. I believe G_d has allowed me to find these answers not just for myself but so that I might be able to help others.
Do You Believe In Miracles?
Ever since they deciphered the DNA of prostate cancer and determined that only 15% of the tumors were lethal I have been patiently waiting for the test that would definitely determine whether one's tumor was indolent or potentially lethal. Having such a test would mean 200,000 men not having to aggressively treat prostate cancer with surgery and/or radiation.
Now that day has come. Myriad Genetics genomic test has been approved. You will now be able to have a simple non-invasive test to determine if the genes have certain markers that must be dealt with. The developers believe this also apply to breast cancer in the near future.
Men should be vigilant when any physician suggests surgery to remove the prostate or radiation w/o having this test first.
Many of the speakers spoke about the state of the art techniques that they were using to neutralize potentially life threatening cancerous tumors. No one spoke about the need to deal with cancer cells throughout one’s body that exist prior to the time that they reach critical mass such that they can be detected by diagnostic equipment. They gave the impression that once you remove or radiate the cancerous tumor your problem is solved.
No one gave any credence to the notion that if you ate primarily plant-based foods and actively exercised that you would have a much less likelihood of ever being diagnosed with cancer. The one physician who spoke specifically on the risk factors for urological cancers put a strong emphasis on genetics with little regard for high fat, animal-based diet of the American public. When I challenged her by citing the 500% greater likelihood for an American to get prostate cancer compared to an Asian man, she dismissed it on the flimsy basis that it is hard to compare based on the differences in each country’s level of diagnostics. Choosing to totally ignore significant differences in dietary customs.
When I challenged Dr. David Lee, one of the most respected robotic surgeons in the country, on how could one justify performing a procedure on someone with low-grade prostate cancer in light of the fact that Memorial Sloan Kettering recently questioned the wisdom of actively treating low grade prostate cancer. They concluded that 80% of the prostate cancers are slow growing, non-lethal. Dr. Lee’s answer was that this is the problem we do not know which is slow growing and which is aggressive. I consider this to be poor excuse for putting men through such an ordeal given that there are many tests that clearly indicate the predicted aggressiveness of the tumor.
Let me see if I can explain my frustration. I felt like I was attending a medical conference on bloodletting hundreds of years ago and questioned the merits only to be marginalized or dismissed for daring to attack the current protocol. I will not let my frustration stop me from continuing to spread the word about the need to deal with the root cause of cancer and not just accept the notion of only needing to treat the symptom.
My exhilaration came from the reaction I received after publicly asking questions at the end of each session. At the end of the conference I had many people come over to meet me and ask questions. I gave each one some materials that I brought with. Their enthusiasm and their desire to learn more uplifted me. I believe G_d has allowed me to find these answers not just for myself but so that I might be able to help others.
Do You Believe In Miracles?
Ever since they deciphered the DNA of prostate cancer and determined that only 15% of the tumors were lethal I have been patiently waiting for the test that would definitely determine whether one's tumor was indolent or potentially lethal. Having such a test would mean 200,000 men not having to aggressively treat prostate cancer with surgery and/or radiation.
Now that day has come. Myriad Genetics genomic test has been approved. You will now be able to have a simple non-invasive test to determine if the genes have certain markers that must be dealt with. The developers believe this also apply to breast cancer in the near future.
Men should be vigilant when any physician suggests surgery to remove the prostate or radiation w/o having this test first.
VITAMIN D & PROSTATE CANCER
In this excerpt from an in-depth report on Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer from our Prostate Bulletin, Dr. Tomasz M. Beer answers the question, "How does vitamin D affect the prostate? Vitamin D is the only vitamin that's also a hormone, the only vitamin that under ideal circumstances you wouldn't have to get from food or supplements. Your body manufactures vitamin D when your skin is exposed to the sun. A growing body of evidence suggests that vitamin D isn't beneficial only for bone health. It also may reduce the risk of certain cancers -- including cancers of the prostate, colon, breast, and ovaries -- and help prevent or even treat osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. Vitamin D has both of the key mechanisms we look for in anti-cancer compounds. In our laboratory research, vitamin D has been shown to induce significant growth arrest of prostate cancer cells and to promote their death, which is called apoptosis. While no animal studies I am aware of show complete cure of prostate cancer with vitamin D therapy, demonstrations of significant delay in cancer cell growth, delay in the progression of tumors, and prolonged survival in animals undergoing vitamin D treatment have all been completed and confirmed. This work has described the potential of vitamin D in prostate cancer therapy. This report was published be Johns Hopkins 06/10.
A BRAND NEW APPROACH TO CANCER BY DR. THOMAS SEYFRIED
Make sure to watch this video discussing cancer as a metabolic disease. Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEE-oU8_NSU