Quotes about Cancer Gene from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
Email to a friend
 "That means, quite simply, that at best, genes were responsible for only a small percentage of the minimal cancer rates we had in the early 1900s, and that finding the "cancer gene" will affect only that tiny percentage of cancer. Bottom line: look not for a cure in the cancer gene.
3. What you can do: the alternatives
According to the medical establishment, there are no effective alternative treatments for cancet. Your only options are chemo, radiation, and surgery."- Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "And, in fact, we already know how small a role the "cancer gene" plays in the onset of cancer. There has been an 8-17-fold increase in the incidence of cancer in the last hundred years. Not even one-millionth of 1% of that increase can be related to genes. Genes evolve over hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of years. That means that the so-called cancer gene has had no impact on the huge increase we've seen since 1900. And that means that virtually 90% of all the cancer that we see today cannot possibly have anything to do with genes." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Bottom line: look not for a cure in the cancer gene. 3. What you can do: the alternatives According to the medical establishment, there are no effective alternative treatments for cancet. Your only options are chemo, radiation, and surgery. In fact, in half the states in this country, it is illegal for even a medical doctor to prescribe anything other than chemo, radiation, or surgery as a treatment for cancer. The sad thing is that it absolutely is not true. There are effective alternatives. But wait a second." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Discovery of the cancer gene and the elusive "cure for cancer" are right around the corner. • Things have never looked better for winning the war on cancer. On the other hand, if you look just below the surface, you find an entirely different story. • We spend $100,000,000,000.00 a year on cancer in the United States. • In the Feb 9, 1994 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the "War on Cancer" was declared a failure. "In all age groups, cancer incidence is increasing . . . few new effective treatments have been devised for the most common cancers." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) |
 "Weinberg reported that a single cancer gene does not turn normal rat-embryo cells cancerous, but that pairs of cancer genes do. Ruley's research confirmed that pairs of cancerous genes produce a malignancy but a lone cancer gene does not. The British researchers found that newborn hamster skin cells became cancerous when treated with a carcinogenic chemical and one cancer gene but not when treated singly with one or the other."- William L. Fischer, How to Fight Cancer & Win (Get the book.) |
 "If such diseases as cancer were primarily caused by genetics, one would expect the rate of disease to remain somewhat stable, or even diminish (since many with the cancer gene would die before being able to reproduce).
Instead, most diseases are on the rise because they are environmentally rooted, our bodies not being designed to deal with the continual barrage of environmental pollutants in today's civilized societies. Our increasingly unhealthful lifestyles and polluted environments result in toxic body ecologies."- Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
 "A few more advanced studies have even taken this approach to the genetic level; they go to the molecular basis of how the cancer gene is "turned on" and get the same results. Another technique has been to actually implant human prostate cancer cells in animals, then test whether genistein and diadzein inhibit tumor growth. (They do!)
Scientists aren't certain at this point how soy and other isoflavones work to prevent prostate cancer specifically. We can speculate, however, based on our knowledge of the mechanism by which they prevent other cancers."- James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.) |
 "A positive test means you have the cancer gene, a negative test means you don't.28 But a positive test doesn't mean you definitely will get cancer, and, more important, a negative test doesn't mean you won't.
Take the most familiar genetic test, for BRCAi, the abnormal gene associated with breast cancer. Consider a 30-year-old female. If she has a positive test, her risk of developing breast cancer by age 70 is around 50 percent.29 (That is simply the chance of being diagnosed with cancer, not the chance of dying from it."- H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.) |
 "Third, the mere presence of BRCA-1, BRCA-2 or any other breast cancer gene does not guarantee disease occurrence. Environmental and dietary factors play a central role in determining whether these genes are expressed.
A recent paper31 reviewed twenty-two studies that assessed the risk of breast (and ovarian) cancer among women who carried mutated BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 genes. Overall, disease risk was 65% for breast cancer and 39% for ovarian cancer by age seventy for BRCA-1 women, and 45% and 11%, respectively, for BRCA-2 women. Women with these genes certainly face high risks for breast cancer."- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.) "These questions were especially encouraged by the early reports on the discovery of the breast cancer gene, BRCA-1. Headline articles in the New York Times and other newspapers and magazines trumpeted this discovery as an enormous advance. The hoopla surrounding BRCA-1, which now also includes BRCA-2, reinforced the idea that breast cancer was due to genetic misfortune. This caused great fear among people with a family history of breast cancer. It also generated excitement among scientists and pharmaceutical companies." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.) |
 "An alternative to Herceptin appears to be oleic acid, a component of olive oil, which decreases the proteins produced by the breast cancer gene HER-2 by 36-46%, which is almost as strong as Herceptin, which reduces HER-2 proteins by 48%. [Annals Oncology 16: 358-71, 2005] Why isn't oleic acid called "jaw dropping," "stupendous," and "revolutionary?"
One combined study showed that oleic acid plus Herceptin had a dramatic synergistic effect, reducing the HER-2 gene/protein by 70%."- Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "While genetic testing may indicate whether a particular individual has a mutated cancer gene, this kind of information assumes this is a static situation. In fact, it is a dynamic (ever changing) situation. For example, there is a family on record of four brothers who died of lung cancer over a 20-year period. The two brothers who did not smoke developed cancer at the age of 70 and 72 years of age, while the other two brothers who were heavy smokers became affected in their forties." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) |
 "Judith Campisi at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory can switch back on a youth-promoting gene by injecting a cancer gene antigen.
Dr. Michael WestofGeron Company in California found genes thatpromote aging in the skin, arteries, and Brain; and is researching senstatins that can reverse the agingprocess inthese cells; possibly ridding wrinkles, andatherosclerosis.
Dr. Woodring Wright and Dr. Jerry Shay at the University of Texas discovered two genetic mortality programs, MP-1 for gradual aging, and MP-2 for swift decay and death."- Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) |
 "Pancreatic cancer is also proportionally more common in Jews, perhaps because of particular inherited genetic mutations that occur in some Jewish families (similar to the mutation in BRCA2 breast cancer gene, the non-polyposis colon cancer gene, mole melanoma syndrome, etc.).
• Long-standing chronic pancreatitis or diabetes mellitus or partial gastrectomy.
• Diets high in total or animal fats, fried foods, and nitrosamines."- The Life Extension Editorial Staff, Disease Prevention and Treatment (Get the book.) |
| "Ruley's research confirmed that pairs of cancerous genes produce a malignancy but a lone cancer gene does not. The British researchers found that newborn hamster skin cells became cancerous when treated with a carcinogenic chemical and one cancer gene but not when treated singly with one or the other.
All in all, now that science has identified proto-oncogenes in the genetic material stored in our cells and is hot on the trail of the triggers that turn them on, certainly some optimism is justified." - William L. Fischer, How to Fight Cancer & Win (Get the book.) |
 "Yet lycopenes from tomatoes are such potent antioxidants, immune stimulants and regulators of cancer gene expression; that a little tomato sauce on the pizza could neufralize the otherwise unhealthy meal of pizza and offer significant protection against the second most common cancer in American men.
As little as one serving per week of tomatoes could reduce esophageal cancer risk by 40% and odier sites by 50%.'''. In another study, blood samples from 25,000 people were frozen for 15 years."- Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.) |
FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.
TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalPedia.com
This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008, 2009 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.
ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of NaturalPedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.
| Email announcements powered by Campaign Enterprise from ArialSoftware.com |
