Cancer is a fungus, can be caused by a fungus, or is accompanied by late-stage fungal infections, and now the
Mayo Clinic
confirms this. They are not the first to say so though. Many, even
from the official world of orthodox oncology, recognize the
similarities of cancer and fungal infections, the decay that ties these
two together in a dance that all too often ends in miserable death.
The Mayo Clinic
[1]
is saying that a fungal infection of the gastrointestinal tract mimics
cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. The invasive fungus,
Basidiobolus ranarum, is typically found in the soil,
decaying organic matter and the gastrointestinal tracts of fish, reptiles, amphibians, and bats.
Patients with this fungal infection had non-specific symptoms such
as abdominal pain or a mass that could be felt on examination. Before a
conclusive diagnosis of the fungal infection was made, most patients
were thought to have abdominal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease or
diverticulitis. Surgical resection of the area of involvement and
prolonged antifungal therapy successfully treated most patients.
Interestingly, a few years ago researchers at
Johns Hopkins
were surprised that the drug itraconazole, commonly used to treat
toenail fungus, can also block angiogenesis, the growth of new blood
vessels commonly seen in cancers. Tumor angiogenesis is the
proliferation of a network of blood vessels that penetrates into
cancerous growths, supplying nutrients and oxygen and removing waste
products.
[2] Cancer researchers studying the conditions necessary for cancer metastasis have discovered that
angiogenesis is one of the critical events required for metasteses to occur.[3] In
mice induced to have excess blood vessel growth, treatment with
itraconazole reduced blood vessel growth by 67% compared to placebo. “We
were surprised, to say the least, that itraconazole popped up as a
potential blocker of angiogenesis,” says Dr. Jun O. Liu, professor of
pharmacology. “We couldn’t have predicted that an antifungal drug would
have such a role.” Itraconazole was found to reduce the numbers of
circulating cancer cells, prevent the worsening of prostate cancers,
and delay the need for chemotherapy. However, it has serious side
effects when given in the necessary high dosages that include
hypertension, low potassium levels and fluid retention. These side
effects require treatment with other medications. Effects of high doses
of itraconazole could lead to heart failure.
[4]
For two decades
John Hopkins has recognized the
increasing frequency of severe fungal infections in patients with neoplastic diseases.
Most fungal infections are caused by the commonly recognized
opportunistic fungi Candida spp and Aspergillus spp, and the pathogenic
fungi Cryptococcus neoformans, Histoplasma capsulatum, Coccidiodes
immitis, and less often by Blastomyces dermatidis. However, recently
newer pathogens such as Pheohyphomycetes, Hyalohyphomycetes,
Zygomycetes and other fungi of emerging importance such as Torulopsis
glabrata, Trichosporon beigelii, Malassezia spp, Saccharomyces spp,
Hansenula spp, Rhodotorula spp, and Geotrichum candidum have appeared
as significant causes of infection in this patient population.
Dr. Tullio Simoncini does not say that cancer is caused by yeast;
what he is telling the world is that the cancer is a yeast overgrowth.
What causes the cancer (or a yeast-filled tumor) is another thing.
Simoncini has always insisted that tumors are white because they are
fungi. Some have made fun of him, but looking around at the extremely
sparse information about the subject, I ran into one person saying:
If someone had asked me a year ago what color
the inside of a tumor was, I would have guessed red and gray. When they
did the biopsy, I asked to see the tissue specimens: five quarter-inch
to half-inch strings of vermicelli (Italian for little worms) with
little streakings of blood. They didn’t look evil to me, just strings
of fat. The
entire mass was white inside as the pathology report stated.
Specialists in throat and
mouth cancer say that cancers can be red or
white patches:
any patch that appears randomly and is red or white in color could be a
mouth cancer symptom. The white patches in the mouth are called
leukoplakia and the red patches are called erythroplakia, which are
pre-cancerous conditions. Though these red or white patches are not
always cancerous, it could be the result of a fungal infection caused
by Candida called thrush.
[5]
Thrush will lead to a red patch that often bleeds after the white
patch disappears. A small amount of this fungus lives in your mouth
most of the time. It is usually kept in check by your immune system and
other types of germs that also normally live in your mouth. However,
when your immune system is weak, the fungus can grow.
Fungal Mycotoxins
It just so happens that a toxin produced by mold on nuts and grains can cause liver cancer, according to
University of California Irvine Researchers.
And a French case-control study of 1,010 breast cancer cases and 1,950
controls with nonmalignant diseases found that breast cancer was
associated with increased frequency of mold-fermented cheese
consumption.
[6] Fungi produce mycotoxins, which can kill us or cause cancer.
Dr. Wang and Groopman from the Environmental Health Sciences
Department at Johns Hopkins published on the effects of mold toxins on
DNA in
Mutation Research, a leading cancer journal.
[7] They said
mycotoxins with carcinogenic potency include aflatoxins,
sterigmatocystin, ochratoxin, fumonisins, zearalenone, and some
Penicillium toxins. Most of these carcinogenic mycotoxins are genotoxic
agents. Aflatoxin is a potent genotoxic agent, is mutagenic in many
model systems and produces chromosomal aberrations, micronuclei, sister
chromatid exchange, unscheduled DNA synthesis, and chromosomal strand
breaks. Most strikingly, the relationship between aflatoxin exposure
and development of human hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) is
demonstrated by studies.
Harrison
et al. (1993) examined human breast cancer tissue
for evidence of the presence of aflatoxin. The researchers examined
human DNA from a variety of tissues and organs to identify and quantify
aflatoxin DNA-adducts. Such adducts are considered to be proof of the
mycotoxin’s presence in a particular tissue. Aflatoxins may in fact be a
risk factor for cancer induction in a variety of organs in man, in the
same manner as that of cigarette smoking.
[8]
DNA from normal and tumorous tissue obtained from patients with
cancer of the breast was examined. Tumor tissues had higher
aflatoxin-adduct levels than did normal tissue from the same
individual. The result of
this study verifies the presence of
carcinogenic aflatoxin within the cancer tissue and thus implicates
aflatoxin as a cause of breast cancer. That is the same as
saying cancer is a fungus or is caused by a fungus and this is what Dr.
Simoncini has been saying all along.
Intensive Care Units are particularly on alert with
immunocompromised and oncology patients for fungal infections.
“Patients with brain tumors used to have a life expectancy of 3-12
months, but better treatment has allowed them to live a bit longer,”
said Brenda Shelton, clinical nurse specialist at the Sidney Kimmel
Comprehensive Cancer Center,
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore. “The last two brain tumor ICU patients we treated died of
infection, not of their disease. One patient had a rare fungus, and the
other had candidemia. Years ago, you would not see most of these fungal
infections in patients with brain tumors because they would not live
long enough.”
“The biggest misconception is the belief that fungal infections are
rare,” Shelton said. “Another misconception is fungal infections are
like every other severe infection. They are harder to manage, harder to
eradicate and more frequent than people realize.” One of the most
common complications involved in treating patients with
hematologic cancer is fungal infections.
Aspergillus niger fungal infection in
human lungs produces large amounts of oxalic acid, which is extremely
toxic to the blood vessels and which may cause fatal pulmonary
hemorrhages. Consequently, oxalic acid (calcium oxalate crystals) in
the sputum or lung specimens of patients is also an indication of an
Aspergillus
infection of the lung. These calcium oxalate crystals are the same as
the calcium oxalate found in breast cancers. The presence of oxalates
in the breast is indicative of the presence of fungi interwoven within
the stages of breast cancer development. Since humans do not make
oxalic acid themselves, this is an appropriate conclusion.
[9]
Dr. Robert Young
states, “Bacteria, yeast/fungi, and mold are not the cause of a
cancerous condition but are the result and the evidence of cells and
tissues biologically transforming from a healthy state and to an
unhealthy state.” Dr. Young astutely observed that, “over-acidification
of the body leads to the development of chronic yeast and fungal
infections and ultimately a cancerous condition of the cells and
tissues.”
If one has cancer, chances are pretty good that one also has a fungal infection to one degree or another.
According to The Home Medical Encyclopedia, in 1963 about one-half of all Americans suffered from an “unrecognized” systemic fungal condition.
Far more Americans suffer from fungal infections today as antibiotics,
hormone replacement therapies, and birth control pills continue to be
consumed like candy. Thus more and more children are becoming infected
with candidal meningitis or viral meningitis, which means their systems
are suffering under the weight of fungi who put out an assortment of
poisons—or mycotoxins.
Sodium Bicarbonate is an Antifungal Agent
The current controversy over sodium bicarbonate and its use in
oncology might be relatively new but baking soda has a long history of
helping people get through the worst medical conditions. The Eloquent
Peasant, an Egyptian literary work dated around 2000 B.C., refers to a
peddler selling natron, a natural blend of sodium bicarbonate, chloride
and sodium carbonate used in mummification, just one of hundreds of
uses this compound has been put to. Baking soda’s first widespread use
was probably as a leavening agent for bread and other baked goods. It
has been used commercially since 1775, although the now-famous Arm
& Hammer brand wasn’t introduced until 1867.
[10]
Sodium bicarbonate (Na2HCO3) is recognized by most as ordinary
baking soda, which is found in deposits around the globe. Its backbone
characteristic is to maintain balance of carbon dioxide, bicarbonate
and pH. Sodium bicarbonate is available and sold in every supermarket
and pharmacy in the world and is widely used in emergency rooms and
intensive care wards in injectable forms but is sold as a common
household substance that is used for hundreds of different things.
Read my book,
Sodium Bicarbonate,
and see that something as inexpensive as baking soda will outperform
the most expensive pharmaceuticals. Across a wide range of disorders,
including cancer and diabetes, we find conclusive evidence and plenty of
theoretical backing to suggest that sodium bicarbonate is a frontline
universal medicine that should be employed by all practitioners of the
healing and medical arts for a broad range of disorders that are
afflicting contemporary man.
[1] H. R. Vikram, J. D. Smilack, J. A. Leighton, M. D. Crowell, G. De Petris.
Emergence of Gastrointestinal Basidiobolomycosis in the United States, With a Review of Worldwide Cases.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012; DOI:
10.1093/cid/cis250
[4]
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (2011, June 2). Antifungal drug
delays need for chemo in advanced prostate cancer, study suggests.
ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2011/06/110602122353.htm
[7] Mutat Res. 1999 Mar 8;424(1-2):167-81.
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