Victory Over Cancer:

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Victory Over Cancer:

The Immune System and

Genes Working Together

 

Exciting New Revelations

Exciting new discoveries reveal that at least two anti-cancer

defense systems of the human body work in tandem with each other.

When seeking alternative care for cancer, people often try to use

various modes of healing. Often we conceptualize these various

healing modalities as separate and distinct from each other. For

example, we are used to thinking of the immune system having certain

effects, and other healing systems of the body having their own

separate effects.

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However, new discoveries of science tell us that the immune system

cancer defenses and the genetic cancer defense mechanisms work

together.

 

How does the body fight cancer? What can we do to stimulate our

natural healing forces to resist malignancy? Recent advances in

medical science have revealed that the body has two primary weapons

for fighting cancer. They are the immune system and the genes.

However, this basic information was not understood until scientists

began to unravel some of the deepest, darkest secrets of how cancer

cells work.

 

For many years, researchers were baffled by cancer. What

exactly was the disease called cancer? How did the body fight

cancer? The answers to these two crucial questions are now much

better understood. This knowledge is giving new hope to cancer

patients.

 

Understanding Cancer

Cancer cells are now known to be the descendants of normal cells

which changed into an unhealthy form. Cancer cells have many unique

properties which allow them to be very strong, resilient, and

resistant to attack by the immune system.

 

The immune system serves

as our primary defense against bacteria, viruses and other foreign

invaders. Physicians specializing in natural health methods have

long held that maintaining a healthy, vigorous immune system is

important in patients battling cancer.

 

Practitioners of the natural

healing arts employ many types of herbs and nutrients in attempts to

strengthen immune function. They look for evidence of immune system

augmentation via tests such as immune cell counts, and by directly

visualizing the living immune cells in action. It is quite

fascinating and exciting to watch once sluggish immune cells turn

into larger, more active forms. Special high-power microscopes allow

us to see the immune system cells and to observe their activity

levels.

 

Substances found in nature are often used by holistic practitioners

for their anti-oxidant effects, or their purported ability to

stimulate the immune system. However, some of these same items are

also able to induce genetic healing in cancer. Case in point is NAC

(N-acetylcysteine). Widely used for it's potential antioxidant and

immuno-stimulative properties, NAC is also an inducer of genetic

healing in malignancy. It seems likely that many more multi-role

nutritional supplements will be discovered with time.

 

Natural Killer Cells

One of the primary objectives of immune system stimulation is to

increase the number and vitality of Natural Killer Cells. Natural

Killer (NK) Cells are large immune cells which have been shown to

attack cancer cells and cells infected by viruses. NK Cells destroy

their targets by releasing substances that damage the offending

cell, leading to an immune response that eliminates the cell.

 

If

Natural Killer cells target and destroy cancer cells, why does

cancer exist? Two theories help to elucidate this question. The

first is that there are not enough NK cells, or that they are not

activated to a level required for a potent anti-malignancy action.

 

 

The other theory states that NK cells rarely know to kill malignant

cells because the NK cells were not specifically programmed by the

body to do so. New cancer vaccines are designed to " train " NK cells

to attack cancer cells.

 

In addition to directly killing malignant cells by exuding a

chemical, NK cells may also induce killing of cancer cells by

causing a powerful gene response within the cancer cell itself. This

gene response is known as apoptosis. Apoptosis is the self-

destruction of malignant cells.

 

The central control mechanisms of

all cells, including cancer cells, are the genes. Genes reside

within the center of every cell, and from there control all the

functions and activities of the cell. Malignancy can only occur if

the genes are changed in ways allowing the cell to transform into a

cancer cell from a normal cell.

 

Apoptosis is a gene response within

the cancer cell that results in the cancer cell going through a

program of self-destruction. Natural Killer cells seem to be able to

cause this self-destruction. Other natural substances also are known

to favor the self-destruction of cancer cells.

 

R-A Therapy

Alternative practitioners utilize many natural substances in an

attempt to induce both immune and genetic healing forces against

cancer. The two main genetic healing forces known to fight cancer

are apoptosis and re-differentiation. Re-differentiation, the " R " in

R-A Therapy is an inborn genetic system by which the cancer cell may

be able to revert back to a normal, non-malignant condition under

certain circumstances. The " A " in R-A therapy stands for apoptosis.

Apoptosis is sometimes referred to as " cancer cell suicide " . The two

genetic healing mechanisms often go hand in hand with immune system

augmentation, and are used in conjunction with many other

alternative modalities.

 

Working Together

The immune system and the body's gene defenses work together in an

attempt to eliminate malignant cells. Many of the same natural

substances which have long been used to stimulate the immune system

have recently been shown to also help to induce our genetic healing

mechanisms. Natural Killer cells, thought to be the single most

powerful immune system agent to fight cancer, are thought to cause

the death of malignant cells in part via their propensity to induce

genes in the cancer cells that lead to the " self-destruction " of the

selfsame cancer cells. The exciting new discovery that the body's

two main defenses against cancer are closely related reveals to us

the important role that natural therapies play, and engender hope

for newer and better anti-cancer treatments.

 

 

 

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Every person and their case of cancer or other illness is unique.

The cases presented here should not be taken as being " typical " .

Others may respond differently to our therapies. We encourage every

patient to learn of all their options in both natural and

conventional medical care. There are many additional sources of

information for patients and their families to research, including

their own local licensed physician. We do not claim to have any sure

and certain " cure " for any disease, but endeavor to bring our best

medical knowledge to bear on each case.