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We can tell a lot about a person knowing his or her origins. It doesn’t define the whole person but it can give us a clue about his or her behavior in certain situations. The same is true with animals, bacteria and viruses. Suppose we apply this to the origins of cancer. But where does cancer really come from?

Some history

To date, our knowledge on the origins of cancer is focused on a causative agent, the so-called action-reaction theory. An excellent example is cigarette smoking or exposure to industrial compounds for some years. The causative agent produces an increased mutation in the genes of the cells of the lung and causes cancer. 15% of cancer causation is explained by this theory. This developed in the 1950s. But it doesn’t explain treatment resistance, metastasis and cancer recurrence. What behavior of cancer actually kills? more…

Lance Armstrong was lucky. If you know his cancer story, you’d be convinced that broccoli was key to his survival. You’d consider Lance and the vegetable broccoli to be superstars in their own right.

One is not enough

Even so, broccoli alone may not be enough to prevent cancer. Just one weapon to fight a many headed monster is risky. You don’t get out of the house on a bitterly cold winter day with only a hat without gloves, warm coat and boots. You’d freeze to death. The same thing rings true when preventing and battling cancer. A cancer mass is a very complex entity, built with defenses to survive and kill. Employing one strategy decrease our chance of survival. more…

Cranberries – scientifically named Vacciniun macrocarpon – grow lushly in Northern America and are also known as American cranberry or bog cranberry. Cranberries are functional foods.

Cranberries are used in a variety of American dishes. They are cooked into that sumptuous sauce for that Thanksgiving turkey. Cranberry juice is a popular drink mixed with other fruit juices. This fruit is so useful, why we do not use it all year around. more…

source: http://people.tribe.net/jamesd/blog

Here is another cancer cure supplement story. Can shark cartilage shrink cancer? Cartilages are semi-soft, elastic tissues found in most animals and humans ,devoid of blood vessels. Sharks skeletons are wholly cartilage. Shark cartilage are harvested, pulverized and packaged into capsules. They are sold as dietary supplement and sadly as anticancer pills.

What kick started this idea?

How is shark cartilage related to cancer? It started when doctor John Prudden utilized cow cartilage to heal surgical wounds in the early 1950s possibly with some success. Next, he experimented with cancer patients and had 50 percent unconfirmed positive responses. Recently, Tiger Woods’ physician used similar technique to heal his worn out knee. But what really sensationalized shark cartilage is the book by William Lane PhD “Sharks don’t get Cancer” . This is a bogus claim. Sharks, as scientific studies revealed, do get cancer. more…