Preventing cancer

By RUSS MASON, M.S.
Special to the Saipan Tribune

Although books have been written about all the ways cancer can be prevented, for the average person the amount of information is overwhelming. The advice is correct, but there is just too much of it.

If a person is serious about preventing cancer for themselves and their family members, it’s a whole lot easier to do a few things gradually.

Here are four suggestions for you to consider. If you are able to do any or all of them, you will cut your risk of getting cancer significantly.

First, try to avoid anything with added sugar. Sugar will depress your immune system and make your body more accommodating to disease. For example, f you eliminate cola and drink water instead, you are doing something good for yourself. If you are at one of the lovely buffets, skip the ice cream and eat fresh fruit. Yes, there is some sugar in fruit, but it is far less harmful than processed, refined sugar.

Second, try to avoid any canned meat (you probably know what I am referring to). Most processed meats are loaded with chemicals, and your body doesn’t need them. Buy fresh meat such as chicken or fish instead.

Third, take vitamin C, 2,000mg per day-or, 1,000mg twice a day. Most people do not get enough of this health giving vitamin, and it has excellent anti-cancer properties.

Fourth, if you think you may be at risk for cancer, then eat eight fresh raw apricot seeds (also called kernels) every day. They contain amigdalyn, one of the most effective anti-cancer compounds in the world. They can be ordered online at RainrockNutritionals.com (660 apricot seeds will cost $20 and are worth every cent).

There is more you can do, but these four things will help reduce your risk significantly. In the next installment, I will add four more suggestions to the list.

The politics of cancer

People tend to be gullible when it comes to public information about health, nutrition, doctors, and pharmaceuticals. That is, they believe the guff when a big pharmaceutical company says, “We’re working on a cure for cancer.”

No they’re not. They are lying to you.

Cancer has been cured many times, by various physicians and scientists over the years, and you never heard of them. Why? Because the AMA, FDA, and “Big Pharma” made sure you didn’t. A doctor named Royal Rife, in the 1930s, developed a cure for cancer using a powerful microscope and a special kind of colored ray. Another physician William Coley, M.D., devised an ingenious method for killing cancer cells by making a vaccine from them. This vaccine was known as “Coley’s Toxins” and they worked. Dr. Emanuel Revici developed a lipid-based therapy that had an amazingly high cure rate. These scientists are but three-there are dozens of doctors who cured cancer.

If they cured cancer, they why aren’t we using their protocols?

Long ago, it was realized that cancer is big business. A cancer patient could be kept alive indefinitely, without getting worse and without getting better. The disease, the doctors said, was being “managed.” And, the sad truth is, the powerful people in the cancer industry do not want anybody to get better. They want every cancer patient to have a nice, long, expensive illness. If you can’t afford the costly pharmaceuticals, then you will be left to your own resources. That is, you will probably die.

But wait, it gets worse!

Oncologists (cancer specialists) are under severe constraints by the AMA and the FDA. They may only use “approved” treatments. These are chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. They may not use other medications to treat cancer (called “off-license” use), nor any therapy that is not approved. And if, for example, they use a non-approved therapy-such as intravenous vitamin C-they run the risk of losing their license to practice. The only upside to this is that the FDA cannot possibly monitor every physician’s activities. But still, if the doctor gets caught, he’s finished.

Let me tell you a story.

In 2001, I interviewed a wonderful man, Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. In the early ’70s Dr. Moss worked for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. His job was to write a monthly newsletter for the Center and to find out what new research was being conducted against cancer.

One day Dr. Moss went up to Walker Labs in Rye, New York and met the highly esteemed researcher, Kanematsu Sugiura. Dr. Sugiura was known as “The Father of Chemotherapy”; there was no one more prestigious than him. Dr. Moss saw Dr. Sugiura at lunch and casually asked him, “What are you working on now?” Dr. Sugiura replied, “I am working on amigdalyn.” Dr. Moss had heard of amigdalyn, but it had not been approved by the FDA. But Dr. Sugiura’s research confirmed that it was one of the most potent anti-cancer agents ever discovered; it could prevent metastases 80 percent of the time.

When Dr. Moss reported this to the chairmen of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, they were excited. Perhaps, at last, a verifiable cure for cancer had been found! Soon after, the three top doctors journeyed to Washington, D.C. and met with the head of the FDA, in order to get permission to conduct clinical trials on cancer patients.

Not only did the FDA respond with an emphatic NO, they said that if Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center even so much as dared to conduct research on sick patients, the Center’s funding would be cut. Then, the FDA suggested that the research be redone at one of their own laboratories. The doctors from New York reluctantly agreed.

Now it becomes nasty.

The research was redone and presto, it was shown that amigdalyn was of no use as a cancer therapy. When Dr. Sugiura was informed about this, he was outraged. “What was the dosage?” he demanded. Good question! It turns out that the FDA scientists used one-tenth the dosage of Sugiura’s protocols. There was no way it could be effective.

By comparison, if you have a headache, the standard dosage is two aspirin tablets. Not one-fifth of one aspirin. See how research can be skewed to prove something doesn’t work?

In the end, Ralph Moss left Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and went on to become the leading expert of cancer therapies in the world. He is a member of many international cancer communities and has received many honors and awards. Ralph is also my friend.

For the better part of a decade, Russ Mason wrote for a medical journal, Alternative & Complementary Therapies. His principal assignment was to interview a physician or other health care practitioner about new and important treatments, as well as diet and nutrition. Prior to that, he worked at NBC in New York for 16 years, often as a writer for their television programs.