Cancer: causes and cures

[dj]

I used turmeric powder and DMSO liquid. It was just enough of each to make a paste and apply to the skin without it dripping. She didn't complain of any irritation or pain.

Thanks for the clarification. That's encouraging news - such an easy and inexpensive treatment protocol.

I've done a good bit of researching and have never come across turmeric being used this way -- even though there is research supporting anti-cancer properties of turmeric.

That's definitely one of the compendium of cancer therapies - if we ever start building one.

 

[dj]

Next on my list of cancer therapies is a home made nutritional supplement. Basically this is medicinal food and is snacked on throughout the day – just as the medicinal tea is sipped on all day long.
Overview:
This is a fat bomb base (or custard base) made according to the Chateau crew’s perfected recipe. Typically I’ll flavor it as a dark chocolate with enough xylitol and stevia to minimize the bitterness from the chocolate. At times I may flavor as key lime (makes a great key lime pie filling) or cherry to add variety.
I mix into this custard a medicinal base consisting of powdered mushroom mix, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, long pepper (pipali), -- and I’m open to using other anti-cancer agents as my research identifies more.

Preparing the medicinal base:
Warm up 1 cup oil – coconut, ghee, lard, tallow or any combo thereof.
Add in following ingredients (approx. amounts - it's experimental):
15 T (Tablespoonsful) of turmeric
4 T of pipali (long pepper) – black pepper may work as a substitute but confirm anti-cancer properties of black pepper first
About 7 total Tablespoonsful of medicinal mushroom powder of choice – my current batch is:
1 T of 5-blend powder
1 T of chaga
1 T of cordyceps
4 T of turkey tail (important one for cancer)
Reishi would be good, too – it’s included in the 5-blend mix
2 T ginger powder
3 T cinnamon powder
3 T xylitol or erythritol or ½ tsp or so of stevia
Dash of salt

Add the medicinals to the oil, heat to low slow simmer. If powder absorbs all the oil then add up to another cup of oil so there’s a layer of oil above the powders. – basically you’re doing a partial oil extraction here – it’s especially important in improving the absorption of the turmeric and mushrooms.

Simmer very low for at least 10 minutes, 20 – 30min might be better – stir on occasion

This should result in about 2 cups worth of oil and powder residue. At this point I divide it into 2 equal parts which fit nicely into 2 half-pint mason jars. These can be stored in the fridge for a few weeks or in the freezer for a year or so, I expect.

I’ve been adding half (=1 half-pint jar) of the mixture above to a full batch (24 egg yolk batch) of fat bomb. It seems to work just fine adding it in any time after the custard gels – even days after.

It will affect the flavor of the custard. I don’t find it bad, especially in a chocolate base – but remember it’s medicine – it doesn’t have to taste like gourmet treats. I find the custard all by itself does a remarkably good job at masking the taste of the medicinals.

This allows me to get a pretty serious dose of the above anti-cancer supplements throughout the day without having to take handfuls of pills. And it’s tasty and fun – so it’s easy to keep up with regular dosing without making a big project out of it.

An alternative to medical custard is to make a similar medical mixture into a chocolate bits treat or a brownie bite type treat.
Just play around with making chocolate using coconut and/or lard and/or ghee and/or coco butter melted with coco powder and add in the medicine base as part of the recipe.
For brownie bites I modify a flourless death by chocolate type cake or tort to be paleo acceptable and add in the medicine base. = Easy-peasy and tasty medicine dosing on demand.

That concludes the main bulk of my current cancer protocol. I’ll add on a few bits and plan B options as I get time.

Questions and comments are always welcome
deej

 

[dj]

Another part of my treatment has been the use of Lugol’s iodine taken orally in the day at least 2 hours after my last dose of lipophilic vit C. I haven’t seen any research results that conclusively support using oral iodine as an anti-cancer agent, but the benefits of iodine lead me to think it may be helpful in subtle ways, if not in a direct way.

Typically I’ll take it anywhere from 3 to 7 times a week at a dose of more or less 100mg. I’ve been taking it long enough that I’m confident my iodine stores are filled so this is more for other benefits – parasite and harmful microbe reduction, detox for heavy metals, bromides, fluorides, etc.

Other ancillary treatments include

Use of a therapeutic IR pad – used both for lesion treatment and general mitochondria health (with direct open eye exposure based on Jack Kruse info).

A very low carb paleo type diet, bordering on ketogenic. I haven’t reached a full, deep ketogenic state yet, my body is resistant to that for now. Getting hard core and going to full ketogenic state is a “plan B” option if the situation worsens.

Eiriu Eolas meditation several times a week at least.

I’ve also got a few back up strategies to use for “Plan B” If needed

DCA, methylene blue (as a cautious experiment), barometric oxygen, ozone and oxygen therapies, - and a larger assortment of treatments to pull from as needed and as research uncovers.

OK, I think that pretty well covers what I’m doing. I’ll chip in more as I learn more and try more things.

I’d love to hear what others are doing and how it’s working. It would be great to try and collate what is working into some kind of reference.

To put this into context:
It’s a real shock when you get the cancer diagnosis. From my experience and from talking to others what follows next is a huge panic-like push from conventional medicine to get you into their treatment system. Often the rush seems to be totally unwarranted, yet they push hard and fast to get you hooked into their system.

With a reference of alternative treatments and case examples of how they’ve worked for people then it will be easier to face the cancer diagnosis and resist the huge push to get hooked into conventional medical treatment. It would offer some true helpful alternatives to an otherwise potentially very grim future.

Thanks for allowing me to share this.
Deej

 

[bowerbean]

Hi dj.....I have been following your recent posts in this thread and I am impressed and admire all you have been doing in the process of healing yourself. It has prompted me to share a bit of the frustration and experience I have been going through in regards to trying to heal myself from skin cancer for the past year now.

About 20 years ago I had Mohs surgery done on the top of my nose to remove squamous cell cancer. Over the years since then my nose began to show signs of the cancer returning to the same place. I decided after researching home remedies to make an organic eggplant/live vinegar concoction and start treating the very small lesion. It did start attacking the cancer and within a couple of days a huge raised scab about the size of a nickel formed over the lesion.

After 6 weeks of treating the lesion 6 to 7 times a day (which was getting old fast!) and more research I then decided to purchase and try a product called Curaderm BEC5 cream in hopes that this would speed up the healing process. Curaderm is a mixture of natural glycoalkaloids that are extracted from fruits such as Devil's apple, eggplant, and Devil's fig. It also contains salicylic acid and urea.

Using this cream began to show faster results and within a couple of weeks my whole nose and part of my upper cheeks were a swollen blistery mess. I was told by the Curaderm consulting service that this was considered normal and that the Curaderm goes underground and attacks the cancer that has spread under the skin where you can't see it. So that all healed up after a while except for the nickel-sized original spot on top of my nose. The Curaderm is still working on that because every other day or so a spongy layer of dead skin cells come off and then another and another, etc.

As this has been going on for nearly a year now, and with seemingly no end in sight, I ordered some Amazon Black salve (blood root) with iodine from Alpha Omega Labs (in Ecuador) through Herb Healers. After spending hours reading about this stuff, I felt it was pretty drastic and scary, but I thought it might just wipe the rest of this cancer out and be done with it!!!

I happened to go meet with a lady last Sunday who has a Masters Degree in herbal medicine. She runs her own small private business and makes all her own tinctures, salves, and remedies and is very familiar with blood root. She doesn't recommend that I use it at this time as it may well cause disfigurement due to the lesion being on my nose. She thinks I should keep on using the Curaderm and attack the cancer internally as well. I am thinking about trying her mixed mushroom tincture when she gets a new batch made and I am currently experimenting with one of her hemp tinctures. I received the Amazon black salve in the mail yesterday and I'm scared to death to use it now!!!

Anyway my head is spinning on trying to find the best and most efficient way to rid myself of this now long-term problem which is really beginning to affect my cheery disposition!...ha ha....anyone out there who has any skin cancer cure success stories, I'd love to hear about it!!!!
Thanks, Karen

 

[MusicMan]

Hello Bowerbean, I was interested that you had had Mohs' surgery, as I also have had that done at the beginning of this month. I had an itchy ear, and the specialist found BCC's in there, plus one on my neck and another on my cheek, which I had not been aware of!

So off I went and had the Mohs' surgery, the cheek and the neck wounds were stitched and have recovered well, but the ear is problematic as grafts tend to fail in the ear, and my other ear is somewhat disfigured with two failed graft attempts about twenty years ago. (About the same time I had one done on my nose, and that healed beautifully).

Anyway the treatment for the exposed wound on the ear is merely to cover the wound with medical grade Manuka Honey, and a dressing, to allow it to heal from the inside. Dressings are changed every couple of days. Going up for the 600km round trip again at the end of this month to get the other one out, and more Honey..

Note that this treatment is AFTER the Moh's surgery to remove the BCC.
Cancers of the nose and ears have a direct route to the brain, so it is probably important for you to get it sorted as quickly as possible.
With the one on my nose the surgeon cut an 'M' shaped incision, which was stitched. The area is problematic because of the skin tension there.
It's no fun, but an interesting experience nonetheless, and I've met some very nice people.
Good luck with your adventure.

 

[bowerbean]

Thanks for your reply MusicMan. Well it sounds like you've had a bit of a run with these spots too. I wish you a successful ending to your experience.

When I had the Mohs surgery done on my nose I also at the same time had 2 BCC spots removed (via Mohs) on both sides of my lower forehead. Those surgeries left holes they were able to squeeze together and stitch up giving me somewhat of a mini facelift.. ...they have not been a problem since and have left only minimal scarring.

The Mohs surgery on my nose took out a fairly large deep dollop and the doctor recommended a skin graft to fill it in. When I refused that he recommended dermabrasion which was basically sandpapering my nose till it was smooth!!..I said no thanks to that too and over the years my body repaired the hole quite nicely on its own.

From my reading on many different healing forums there seems to be many folks who have had their cancers come back after their Mohs surgeries. When I had the surgery I was told that it would not come back due to the method of continuing to cut tissue out until the last cut comes out cancer free. Well this is obviously not always the case.

So I will continue to keep my feelers out for anything new that I can try that I might have missed in my attempts of eradicating Round 2 cancer on my nose. I think blood root salve will be my LAST choice if indeed I decide to go that route!!!

 

[dj]

Hi Karen,

Sounds like you've done well with self-treating. 6 weeks of applying a topical 6 to 7 times a day shows serious dedication and determination. I doubt I could have followed such a regimen consistently for 6 weeks.

From what I've read about how others have healed in the face of great odds, it seems to me that the research and work you've put into your healing is an essential part of healing and can't help but be an important step on the way.

The eggplant and vinegar topical is completely new to me. However, I did come across a mention of a treatment, specifically for skin cancers, that involved use of alternate strong acid then strong base topicals. It might be a bit like your vinegar treatment but beefed up. Putting the alkaline topical on last may help to raise the pH around the cancer, which should inhibit the cancer.

Here's a link to the site where I saw this:

http://www.cancerfightingstrategies.com/skin-cancer-treatment.html

(you may need to copy and paste to get there, I'm not so smart on forum posting tech)

The products are called skincanheal 1 and skincanheal 2 - look for the mention of those on the page the link goes to and it'll spell out how to use it.

Caveat - the site looks to have some very good info as far as the things I know about but it seems to include many different approaches, some of which may have more wishful thinking behind them than research or clinical experience. -- in other words, I wouldn't take it all as gospel even if some of the info looks very solid. -- Also that site is very much about selling products (I think) so they may be biased.

I don't know how much those two products cost, but they may be similar to something sold by a company that is selling the black salve in the US.

Here's a link to a product the call HRx which is a strong base solution that's supposedly well tolerated on skin

http://www.herbhealers.com/catalog/product/view/id/766/s/hrx-hydroxide-concentrate-8oz-refill-1/category/43/

They also sell a Calcium Sulfate solution that goes by H3O and is the acidic opposite of the HRx. Both are inexpensive at that site and you can find instructions on how to use them in the product write up. -- It may be the same stuff as the skincanheal 1 and 2, but cheaper.

So - if you want to follow up with a stronger version of the eggplant/vinegar then you can try the 1 - 2 punch of applying a strong acid followed by a strong base - as long as you don't leave the products on the skin too long it shouldn't be damaging - and hopefully it will leave the tissue on the alkaline side to help suppress cancer cells and growth.

One more thing you might like to try is working on the issue internally - in a non-demanding way, preferably. The Tulsi and dandelion root tea is really quite nice and once you've brewed a batch you'll see it's no big deal to make up once every week or two. Check greenmedinfo for research on tulsi and dandelion root for skin cancer. They're pretty big medicine.

One last thing - if you can stand having a stain on your skin, the turmeric in dmso would probably make a stronger and easier to use topical for the spot. Either my 1:1:1 mix of olive leaf extract and turmeric extract and dmso - or the easier to use turmeric powder made into a paste with dmso.

Either of those topicals could be applied to a small gauze or piece of cotton the size of the spot and covered with a neutral color small bandage or bandaid and left on for most of the day or night. Just re-apply as needed - use once or twice a day should be good.

It will stain you yellow-orange, not unlike iodine, but the stain goes away after a few days. You can leave a bandage over the stain while it goes away if it's unsightly.

-- I hope I'm not being pushy on suggestions - these are just ideas, directions to go in if you like. I agree in not using the black salve yet. You can dilute it down so it's less aggressive and even mix it with aloe to make it more tolerable but it still might get a bit painful. The website says it's supposed to attack the cancer and not the healthy skin - but since it gets painful, that suggests it might leave a mark.

If you look around on the web link for the herbhealers site you can find some supporting products that help with the pain you can get from aggressive topicals like blood root - some kind of ant venom and something else.

Good luck -- keep me posted if you don't mind. I have plenty of links and info to share if you'd like to look over what I've found helpful. Just PM me so I'm not cluttering up forum bandwidth.

 

[Jones]

I tried Black Salve at the suggestion of a friend on a few suspicious spots a few years ago. The story is that it doesn't react on healthy skin, but reacts mostly immediately where there is cancer. From reading some of the posts about it on the Black Salve Research fb group some spots may take a number of applications to get all of the cancer out. My ex had her skin checked and had some spots surgically removed. She applied the salve over the surgery site and still got a strong reaction, this is apparently because some of the roots of the cancer are not visible so they are easily missed in a surgical removal. Also some spots that the doctor assured her were harmless still got a reaction - one that was quite large and had been dismissed as a birth mark.

More recently I wanted to get some more salve to test some spots and couldn't find the original supplier. Apparently it's getting harder in Australia to get because it has been made illegal to sell. However, it's not illegal to buy the ingredients and make your own. I bought the ingredients from this site: _Make your own Black Salve in Australia – Plant Essentials and made up a batch. So far I've tried two more spots on my chest that looked like small black head pimples and they both reacted. Of the two spots I tried on my nose, one had a minor reaction and the other, no reaction at all. In total out of all the areas I've tested (I've lost count), there have been 7 reactions producing eschars. Three of these were in area's that had previously been freeze/burnt in a skin clinic.

Two places that reacted didn't appear to be anything upon visual inspection and were not identified in the skin clinic, but I noticed if I were out in the sun, these area's had a slight sting/itch to them. The sensation was somewhat similar to getting sweat in a skin graze. One on the outer edge of my eye brow blew up straight away and my eye was puffy for a week, the other on the radial aspect of the crook of my elbow had 7 or 8 small reactions. On some of the larger spots that reacted, I could definitely feel a strong drawing/pulling sensation as the salve worked.

 

[aragorn]

I just noticed and read an article published Health Impact News called 'Understanding Cancer: Metabolic Disorders Caused by Environmental Toxins – Natural Treatments More Effective than Chemical Drugs'. It may be over-simplifying the cause of cancer, but it's an interesting read.

The most interesting part was the mentioning of a recent study that confirms (or so the article claims) "the Metabolic Shift Theory of Cancer Development ". Here's a snippet:

by Paul Fassa
Health Impact News

Recent research has shown that cancer is basically a metabolic disorder disease. It’s not genetic. It’s not bad luck. And it’s not a swarm of vicious viruses invading our bodies’ cells. Cancer cells begin taking over according to poor metabolic conditions in our physiological inner terrains caused by toxic foods and toxic environmental conditions. Then the tumors begin.

Metabolic disorders of all kinds are the actual primary causes of many diseases, including cancer. It’s hoped that the most recent massive research that supports the metabolic theory of cancer will lead further to abandoning the existing standard toxic cancer treatments and allowing suppressed natural cancer treatments to be openly allowed to everyone.

The Most Recent Study That Confirms the Metabolic Shift Theory of Cancer Development

The latest study is titled Inborn-like errors of metabolism are determinants of breast cancer risk, clinical response, and survival: a study of human biochemical individuality. It was published in the journal Oncotarget, a free access journal that is apparently under attack for publishing papers that stray from medical dogma.

This massive study involved over 1200 breast cancer patients studied by an international team of 35 co-investigators from 17 institutions in Brazil, Europe, and the USA. Essentially, it reported that cancer occurs because cancer cells form as a result of normal cells being forced to make and use energy without normal oxygen respiration.

From the study:

"We now recognize that human cancers evolve in an environment of metabolic stress. Rapidly proliferating tumor cells deprived of adequate oxygen, nutrients, hormones and growth factors up-regulate pathways that address these deficiencies (…) all to enhance [cancer’s] survival and proliferation. Thus cancer is a metabolic disorder that challenges decades of genomic research and scattered germ theory hypothesis. This leads to utilizing the body’s own mechanisms through food and other natural compounds to help the body restore overall homeostasis and overcome cancer.

The lone USA study author, Robert Nagourney, MD, explained the study’s significance this way:

"This suggests that cancer is not a genetic disease arising solely from mutations as we have all been taught, but instead a metabolic condition that develops under the stress of cellular nutrient deprivation. Cells that cannot generate enough energy due to lack of oxygen (…) use altered metabolic pathways to ensure their survival. Unfortunately, these cancer cells’ success comes at the expense of the host patient.
After comparing precursor markers for different autoimmune diseases and metabolic malfunctions found among the 1200 patients in the study, the researchers considered the potential for using those markers for early diagnosis."

Findings provide a powerful tool for early detection and the assessment of prognosis in breast cancer and define a novel concept of breast carcinogenesis that characterizes malignant transformation as the clinical manifestation of underlying metabolic insufficiencies.
That diagnosis would be so early that conventional oncology treatments could be avoided by addressing the metabolic imbalances that create carcinogenicity.

The complete study is accessed here.

 

[Sergey]

Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $100 million in cancer causing powder case.

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle more than 1,000 lawsuits claiming that baby powder, one of the company's brands, caused the development of cancer. These payments were the first major settlement in four years, bloomberg.com reports,citing sources familiar with the situation.
Agreements concluded with several law firms show that the world's largest manufacturer of medical devices is trying to get ahead of the booming lawsuit, which has about 20,000 claims pending.

The deal comes seven months after J&J last faced a jury examining evidence of cancer risk associated with its branded product talc, which it believes is safe, although in the U.S. and Canada they have replaced talc with corn starch. (That is, talcum powder is still available for third world countries. Keep in mind, comrades parents!!! ) According to people who asked not to be named, the company used the lull because of the pandemic to negotiate a settlement because it was a private matter.

Mark Lanier won the case against Johnson & Johnson in 2018 for $4.7 billion, but then the amount fell to $2.1 billion. Lanier claimed that J&J employees knew that internal tests showed that asbestos, which researchers link to mesothelioma, was contained in baby powder, but this information has not been disclosed for over 40 years.

J&J settled more than 75 mesothelioma cases filed by Simmons Hanly, and a similar number of such cases filed by Simon Greenstone, the company said.

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates that in July the settlement of all the remaining cases may cost J&J $10 billion.

Source: J&J to Pay More Than $100 Million to End Over 1,000 Talc Suits.

 

[Sergey]

Turmeric Extract Kills Highly Lethal Pancreatic Tumors, Preclinical Study Reveals​

Considering that the conventional treatment of advanced stage pancreatic cancer can result in as little as a 1% 5-year survival rate, new preclinical research on a liposomal turmeric extract that inhibits pancreatic tumor growth by 42% is all the more amazing.

A promising new study published in the journal Anticancer Research, a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the International Institute of Anticancer Research, reveals a unique turmeric extract known as liposomal curcumin may provide an ideal chemotherapy alternative in the treatment of highly lethal pancreatic cancers.[1]

Curcumin is the primarly polyphenol in turmeric, and has been the subject of extensive research demonstrating its ability to kill cancer cells, with over 1,500 studies available to view on Greenmedinfo.com relevant to over 100 distinct cancer types, including 24 studies demonstrating its anti-pancreatic cancer properties. [View all the curcumin studies.]

Liposomal curcumin utilizes a successful lipid-based drug delivery system, with some liposomal formulations having already received FDA approval. Owing to curcumin's low water solubility and subsequent low systemic bioavailability, its encapsulation into liposomes (artificially-prepared vesicle composed of a lipid bilayer) greatly improves its ability to gain entry into the body by passing through the 'glucoronidation barrier' in the liver.

Exocrine pancreatic cancer is notorious for responding poorly to conventional treatment, with American Cancer Society statistics promising only a 14% 5-year survival rate in Stage IA cancers, spiraling down to only 1% for Stage IV types.[2] Moreover, even when chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy results in the successful debulking of the tumor, and the patient manages to survive past 5 years, recurrence is still common; this often occurs as a direct result of conventional treatment, which damages the immune system and enriches the treatment-resistance tumorigenic cancer stem cell population within the post-treatment cancer survivor's body.

The new study was performed by researchers at the Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology, and Institute for Cancer Research, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas. They determined the antitumor effects of a liposomal curcumin formulation against human pancreatic cancer cells through in vitro and xenograft studies, where the cells were implanted into mice to form tumors

The liposomal curcumin formulation was found to inhibit pancreatic cancer cell proliferation in vitro, and when administered to the animals intraperitoneally at a dose of 20 mg/kg, three-times a week for four weeks, a 42% suppression of tumor growth was observed compared to untreated controls. This would be the equivalent of 1,360 mg for a 150 lb adult. Note, the 20 mg/kg dose given to the test animals is 100 times lower than the LD50 for mice (i.e. the dose that would take to kill 50% of a test group).



Additionally, researchers observed "A potent antiangiogenic effect," characterized by a reduced number blood vessels and other pro-angiogenic factors associated with the growth of the tumor's blood supply.

The researchers concluded, "These data clearly establish the efficacy of liposomal curcumin in reducing human pancreatic cancer growth in the examined model. The therapeutic curcumin-based effects, with no limiting side-effects, suggest that liposomal curcumin may be beneficial in patients with pancreatic cancer."

Considering the relatively high safety margin, affordability, accessibility and effectiveness (as demonstrated by pre-clinical research and a vast body of anecdotes) of turmeric extracts in fighting highly lethal cancers, we can only hope the medical establishment begins to incorporate these medicinal spices into their treatment protocols. Considering how potent are the chemosensitizing effects of curcumin, it could be argued that it is unethical for them not to provide their patients the option of using these agents, or at the very least as adjuvants in integrative cancer care. For more information on this latter application, read our article: Integrative Cancer Research: Surviving Chemo & Radiation

For more information on why chemotherapy and radiation not only so often fail, but actually make cancer more malignant, read Chemo and Radiation Actually Make Cancer More Malignant

Source: Turmeric Extract Kills Highly Lethal Pancreatic Tumors, Preclinical Study Reveals