Monday 4 February 2019 was yet another World Cancer Day.
We celebrated our efforts to find and eradicate cancer without
admitting to ourselves that cancer isn’t a single disease, but rather
a group of diseases all caused by our bodies responding to the toxic
environment we are exposing ourselves to, just as our planet is
responding to the toxic wastes we are dumping into it. The question
is WHY do our bodies run amok. The answer lies in the same
answer to why Global Warming exists. It is the untold unimaginable
continued damage and destruction we cause to the world and to
ourselves that accounts for the destruction of the planet and the
development of cancer within us. While some individuals may
have a genetic predisposition [1] for certain types of cancers, it
is nonetheless this constant bombarding of ourselves with toxins,
which our bodies try to react to and when overwhelmed the climate
change of our bodies occur and call for the eradication of first the
damaged cells and then eventually ourselves. Just as the continued
bombardment of our Earth with environmental toxins is resulting
in violent changes on the planet in an attempt to respond to and
eradicate the cause of the toxins to the plant, so too are our bodies
reacting to try to eradicate these toxins and their effect within our
bodies. This process on a biological basis is reflected in how the cells
of our body respond to the cellular environment as shown in Figure1.
The process of developing cancer or not developing cancer is not a
sudden change but rather a transitional series of events resulting
from the interaction between the specific responses and expression
of the genome of the cell involved and the specific environment
in which the cell is immersed. This environment includes both
carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic factors. As the insults occur, the
cellular mechanisms to respond to those insults include a variety
of responses, including cellular repair and immunologic reactions.
The outcome is determined by the interaction between these two
opposing sets of factors. Progression or regression is determined
by these responses. Clearly no one wants to have cancer or for the
planet to be destroyed. Confusion comes from not knowing what
is helpful and what is hurting us. Until recently [2], we have been
limited by testing (qualitative imaging, biomarkers, etc.), which at
best can only provide a yes/no answer to the question of whether
a person has cancer or not. Many of these tests do not even provide
a yes/no answer, but rather infer there could be a problem. These
qualitative approaches are unable to provide us with information
warning us that these transitional changes are happening [3];
changes which we could act upon if we only knew they were
occurring. Changes which when measured could be used to
determine if a given treatment is working [4], harming us or having
no effect. Measurable changes which can show us cancer in its early
stages [5]. These transitional changes can now be measured using
FMTVDM [2]. The only question is whether we use this tool to help
find these transitional changes and guide our treatment regimens
or whether we will continue to pretend that what we are doing is
working?
Figure 1: Quantification of the “Health-Spectrum” for Cancer.