As few as 50 years ago, a diagnosis of cancer was .usually a death sentence. Health professionals could only guess at probable causes, and treatments were often as deadly as the disease itself. Because we had no idea how a person “got” cancer, fears about possible infection led to secrecy by victims and ostracism and [...]
The description of cancer given at the beginning of this chapter might have been written in 1950 or i960. It represents an understanding of how cancer cells behave in terms of what was then known about cellular biology. Very little was understood shout what controlled events within cells and determined (among other things) their proliferation [...]
Six different laboratories in four different countries have now obtained similar results: that polyunsaturated fatty acids normalize human cancer cells. Tests have been done on at least nine different human malignant cell lines, including cancers of the liver, bone, oesophagus, breast, prostate, and skin. In all these tests, the normal cells remained unaffected. Studies on [...]
Things that are nothing to do with cancer such as nervous tension, migraines and sinus problems can of course cause headaches in people with cancer, just as they can in anyone. However, the cause we will discuss here is the one that is likely to worry you the most—cancer in the brain or cerebro-spinal fluid [...]
Normally, if you are to have an operation for breast cancer, you will be admitted to hospital the day before, to allow time for blood tests and a chest X-ray to be done. Bone scans, liver scans and other specialized ‘screening’ investigations are no longer carried out for all patients. There has been a trend [...]