Cancer is a process

The cancer process can be a lengthy one. It can last for many years until the final point, the discovery of a tumor, is reached.

Since no one is in absolutely perfect and total health right down to the cellular level, everyone can be considered to be in Phase 1 - or, to put it another way, in the precancerous phase. It may seem strange to imply that if you do not have cancer, you are in a precancerous stage. Current figures as to the risk of developing cancer vary, depending on the source, from one in two men and one in three women, or approximately 40 percent, and up to as high as 70 percent for people born now. Taking the average, you have a fifty-fifty chance of developing cancer. These are not great odds. When deaths are aggregated by age, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death for those younger than age eighty-five since 1999. This being so, it behooves you to do as much as you possibly can to avoid cancer and to stop yourself from becoming one of the side of overcaution than to put your head in the sand and simply hope that cancer will never happen to you.

           

You may be in reasonable health; you may even think of yourself as being totally healthy. Or you may have a variety of health problems, many or all of which may be predisposing you to developing cancer healthy cells into cancerous ones.

Cancer is unique among health problems

In heart disease it is your heart and arteries that are unhealthy and need to be treated; their structure and function need to be corrected. In asthma it is your lungs and bronchial tubes that are unhealthy and need to be treated. In diabetes it is the management of your blood glucose level that is faulty and your cellular response to insulin's to be corrected. In indigestion the function of your digestive system needs to be corrected.

But cancer is different. It is not a disease of a single organ or system. You do not have prostate cancer because your prostate is not doing its job properly or breast cancer because your breasts are not fulfilling their function. In cancer you do not have a disease of an organ or system, you have disease in organ or system.

It is very important to understand this when it comes to both prevention and recovery. You can prevent heart problems by appropriate dietary modifications that benefit your heart and arteries. You can prevent asthma by avoiding allergens and supplying the nutrients needed by your bronchial muscles. you can prevent digestive problems by relaxing while you eat, eating correctly, and avoiding allergens and toxins. 

These are, of course, very much simplified suggestions, and a lot more can be done, and may need to be done, in the treatment of the health problems mentioned, and of others. However, the common denominator in all of these problems is that the solution is aimed at improving the structure or function of the organ or tissue that is faulty.

When you think in terms of treating cancer, you do not in general think of treating the organ in which the cancer is situated. You do not aim to improve the function of your ovaries or uterus if you have ocarina or uterine cancer. You do not aim to improve the function of your kidneys if you have kidney cancer or of your lungs if you have lung cancer.

So what do you do, and on what basis?

This is where the two types of health care practiced today divide. We have the establishment approach that focuses almost entirely on the use of medical drugs and surgery. We can call this the medical-drug-surgery, or MDS approach. We have the natural-therapies approach, in the broadest meaning of the words, which is based on an understanding of human metabolism, nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, structural therapies such as chiropractic and osteopathy, and different forms of energy medicine. Much of this approach is based on a clear understanding of the biochemistry and metabolic pathways in the body and their correction. This is variously referred to as alternative medicine or complementary medicine. We can call this the complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM approach.

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