What is Cancer ?

What Is Cancer ?

By Professor Serge Jurasunas

This is a good question since the disease today has already reached an alarming proportion. Who doesn't have a friend or relative diagnosed with cancer, who is either sick or dying? It causes pain and suffering and despite the repeated expectation by medicine to cure cancer it is a complete failure, even for many oncology doctors who have yet to find an answer or somewhere else to turn?

First of all, cancer is not a new disease, since the earliest known description of a tumor appears in several Egyptian papyri , discovered late in the 19th century. Two of them are well known, the Ebers  medical papyrus (Herbs and Incantations)  and the Edwin Smith papyrus (Surgical document from the  16-17 Dynasties) were written around 1600 BC and are believed to date from sources as early as 2500 BC.

The word cancer was originally coined by Hippocrates who referred to the tumor by calling it Karkinos or crab in the Greek language, meaning a swelling masse that can penetrate into tissue. Later on, the Roman encyclopaedist Celsus, in De Medicina, translated Karkinos into the Latin word cancer. Today just to hear, “You have cancer,” creates a state of fear among people.

So what is cancer? Answer: A local disease, a cellular disease or also a whole disease? Cancer is a multi-factorial disease but particularly a cellular disease caused by a number of aggressive exogenous and endogenous factors and a deficient defense and cellular mechanism that sometimes come with hereditary risk. The more people you have in your family with cancer, the higher is the risk to develop a cancer or tumor. Today new lines of research show that Cancer is a disease of the cell cycle and failure of checkpoint and of apoptosis, called natural programmed cell death. Before a cell divides the DNA is checked to make sure it has replicated correctly. If the DNA does not copy itself correctly, or cells divide incorrectly then a gene mutation can occur. Abnormal cells are promptly eliminated by this mechanism that is activated by the P53 tumor suppressor gene. One particularity of cancer cells is their refusal to die, thus escaping from apoptosis because of the failure of the tumor suppressor genes controlling cell cycle and apoptosis. P53 mutation occurs in more than 50% of all cancer and appears necessary in many types of cancer. Not only does P53 mutation impair the destruction of abnormal/cancer cells but also acquires as we say oncogenic properties that activate tumor growth and invasion.

What Can Cause Mutation?

Answer: Radiation, tobacco, pollutants, insecticides, chemicals, viruses and bacteria. There are four important letters that make up the entire 3 billion letter genetic code and they are Adenine,Thymine, Guanine, Cysteine or ATGC. Any change or error in the position of the four letters lead to DNA mutation (P53 mutation) and starts to disrupt the cell cycle. Radiation, excessive oxidative stress can damage the DNA components and conducts to mutations.

How Does a Cancer Start?

Answer: Damaged cells not destroyed continue to divide, accumulate mutations, become less differentiated and do not respond anymore to cell signaling pathways. They then become independent and turn into cancer cells that start to proliferate, build more blood vessels for growth, utilizing degradation enzymes to expand and invade surrounding tissues. Some cancer cells detach from the primary tumor through loss of adhesion and penetrate into the blood or lymphatic circulation, what we call metastasis (meaning I am here but not here anymore) and establish secondary tumors at other locations in the body such as the liver, lung, brain and bones, depending on the type of cancer. After a period of dormancy cancer cells awaken and try to form a new tumor after a lapse of time from 6 months to 6-10 years and even more. I even have a case of breast cancer with a recurrence to the lungs, bones and brain after 15 years of dormancy. It depends on the dormancy state and the capacity of the cancer cells to build new blood vessel called angiogenesis, apoptotic failure and also immune defense failure.

Development of Cancer over Time

Cancer metastasis prevention is totally neglected by oncology. Metastasis is becoming a danger and responsible for 90% of cancer mortality. Today's hallmark of cancer is reportorial, representing the essential factors of cancer development and growth which includes P53 failure, angiogenesis, activation of oncogenes, failure of the immune defense, hypoxia and oxidative stress. Without tumor suppressor failure, activated oncogenes and especially tumor vascularization cancer is not possible.

The immune system, particularly the Natural Killer cells (NK-cells) play a crucial role in our defense against cancer but of course only are activated when cancer cells are circulating or to attack a tumor. They are known as our first line of defense against cancer. However we know that patients with cancer have a reduced N.K cell activity functioning only from 10-50% in comparison of a healthy person. Oncology continues to neglect this, however recently some limited articles are speaking about a new revolutionary treatment called 'Immuno-Oncology' to improve the standard treatment, which fact is what my colleagues and I have already been doing for the past several decades. Other new attractive future treatments are pointing to reactivating the apoptotic genes like the P53 tumor suppressor gene which I personally had already worked on for the past 10 years.

The Mechanism of Cancer

The mechanism of cancer is very complex since it takes an average of about 7-14 years for tumor to reach the clinical stage of 1cm, but grows faster for every additional cm. This means that we have a mechanism of cancer going on but we don't know its happening, then patients are often diagnosed at a later stage already having developed multiple metastases to the bones, liver and even the lungs. Why? Because the initiation of cancer and metastases invasion is asymptomatic since the process of initiation, growth and development is done in silence. Cancer cells first start to multiply and divide so as to make 2 cancer cells, then 4,8, then 16,32,64, and then exponentially to 128, 256 onward. Just realize that three quarters of the existence of a tumor remains undiscovered before the clinical stage. But one other important complexity of a malignant tumor is that within the same tumor, cancer cells may be differentiated from each other. Some cancer cells may have a high index of mutation while others have a different growth speed cycle (10-20-30 hours) and thus divide differently. Other cancer cells may even enter in the GO dormant phase of the cell cycle, do not divide anymore and are protected from destruction by chemotherapy drugs which target cancer cells only when they divide quickly. The cancer cells with slow division are not sensitive to chemotherapy even in the same tumor. This is why chemotherapy is inefficient on lung cancer since these cancer cells divide very slowly.

During dormancy in the GO phase cancer cells active their repair mechanism and become more resistant when they reenter the cycle sometime after not been destroyed by chemotherapy. This is why during chemotherapy cancer cells can spread even faster. Instead of improving patients get worse. This is what happens after a remission where many cancer cells enter into dormancy and then restart their cycle after few months or a few years to form a new tumor. However it has been shown that breast cancer recurrence for instance is associated with an immune deficiency, where often there is a failure or mutation of the P53 gene, mostly from bad dietary style and oxidative stress. Therefore some cancer cells may respond to apoptosis stimuli and be destroyed but others are more resistant, do not respond to chemotherapy and continue to divide. After being damaged they accumulate more mutations and become even more aggressive. This is more less the molecular basis of cancer that of course needs more details to explain, since a myriad of genes (oncogenes) is associates with certain cancers, cancer stage or metastasis cancer when they are activated, but you can view some of my lectures such as, “How to Understand and Treat Cancer from a Molecular Basis” or “Integrative Cancer”, both available on Slideshare, www.slideshare.net/sheldonstein .

Often it makes a difference between a tumor diagnosed with no metastases or a tumor already with multiple metastases. These genes or oncogenes can be targeted using dietary active compounds such as Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF.B), involved in many cellular processes including cell growth, cell differentiation and apoptosis, but when upregulated may to the contrary inhibit apoptosis and immune response and associate with metastasis invasion. C-Myc is an oncogene that normally plays a role in cell cycle progression and apoptosis but is often overexpressed or mutated in many cancers associated with metastasis and disease recurrence. The P53 tumor suppressor gene is part of a network that involves the function of many genes like TGF-B, Ras, Pten, C-Myc, while the mutation of P53 disrupts the other genes that start to be overexpressed, which is why we say that mutant P53 has a oncogenic function and not only associated with a failure of apoptosis.

One other example is the inhibition of apoptosis by survivin, a new inhibitor of apoptosis that is overexpressed in many cancers such breast and prostate that increases survival in cancer cells. Usually survivin expression is detected only in cancer tissue but not in healthy tissue and therefore is considered as a cancer Biomarker. The percentage of survivin-positive patients (and level of proteins) within the same tumor series is variable, ranging from 30-100%. This reflects the genetic heterogeneity of individual tumors and complexity of the disease, showing that each patient is an individual and therefore needs personalized treatment. In my clinic I can observe in similar types of breast cancer or prostate cancer the same overexpressed survivin proteins from a middle to very high level which in this case is an unfavorable marker of disease progression. We have also detected very early prostate cancer in patients with a high level of survivin proteins in their blood and treated them successfully without undergoing surgery and chemotherapy. We have also detected a very high level of survivin in breast disease recurrence along with a poor response to chemotherapy. Over the years we have accumulated enough experience with a variety of dietary active compounds to reduce or totally eliminate survivin activity and thus increase apoptosis and destruction of cancer cells by chemotherapy. I have offered many other examples in some of my lectures available on slideshare.

But of course there is another hypothesis or set of causative factors that associates with cancers such as mitochondrial and ATP energy failure, along with the breakdown of the cellular respiration caused by mitochondrial component damage and mtDNA mutation from an excess of endogenous free radicals and pollutants. ATP energy is essential for all cellular functions including cell differentiation, apoptosis and even to activate the immune system. Cell division and differentiation is 60% controlled by three DNA genomes and remaining 40% is controlled by the mitochondrial genome that drives the early cell division and differentiation cell performance. Meaning the decreasing ATP energy from a cancer phenotype means less differentiation as well as abnormal cells turning more and more into cancer cells. So it may be reasonable to say that cellular DNA mutation may be a secondary result of the primary process of mitochondrial dysfunction. It's important also to remember that apoptosis is driven by the mitochondria and not by the cell itself that only triggers the signal through the P53 gene, which in turn activates the pro-apoptotic gene Bax. Bax penetrates the mitochondria through the membrane and activates an enzyme called Cytochrome C, that's also released through the pore of the membrane in the Cytosol activating the apoptosis mechanism by further activating a family of proteins called Caspases. Survivin the IAP (Inhibitor of apoptosis) that I described above inhibits Caspases activity and counters the death of cancer cells by apoptosis. Therefore the membrane of mitochondria also plays a crucial role in the mechanism of apoptosis.

Cancer is a Disease of the Cellular Cycle

Thus cancer is both a disease of the cellular cycle but also of mitochondrial failure. See my articles,“Mitochondria and Cancer” and “The Clinical Evidence of Cellular Respiration to Target Cancer”, both available online. Consider further that the auto-intoxication and inflammation of the Extra Cellular Matrix is associated with tumorigenesis. A state of auto-intoxication and high oxidative stress triggers a chronic inflammation that modifies the fluid consistency of the ECM, causing an edema that leads to a total blockage of nearly all the exchange procedures between the body and the epithelial cells and pushes an abnormal cell with a genetic instability to become a cancer cell. In my new book, “ Health and Disease Begin in the Colon”, is not only about the colon but includes many other interesting chapters associated with cancer where I fully describe how auto-intoxication of the ECM can lead to cancer.

Today we know that the micro-environment plays a key role in tumor growth. We know that cancer cells are not isolated but are influenced by the condition of the micro-environment, even when tumor needs blood vessels in order to grow and expand. The tumor uses growth factors available in the micro-environment to attract blood vessels. In another one of my lectures, “The Biological Approach to Breast Cancer”, I present the relationship between the tumor and the micro-environment. Furthermore, inflammation of surrounding tissue in turn stimulates the further growth of a cancerous tumor which is associated with bad ground and bad inflammatory foods. We need to understand dietary style and detoxifying the body, especially the colon may be a key protection against cancer. Diet accounts for 30-40% of cancers. Industrial food is associated with higher cancer risk and will even rise in the future. Pollution and environmental toxins are also largely implicated, especially insecticides which are associated with breast and brain cancers. Scientists in the USA found a footprint of insecticides on the P53 gene located in chromosome 17 of the cell, which offers more proof of the implication of insecticides in causing cancer. We can discuss more about molecular medicine and a cell's DNA, but further ask, what makes a good cell? This depends on our food, our oxygen supply circulating in the blood, having blood free of toxins, pollutants and bacteria, which also depends on having a good immune system. So we need a clean colon and to prevent auto-intoxication of the colon. This is also an important step that we often forget about that I describe in my book. You'll never find a cancer patient especially in women without intestinal dysfunction and chronic constipation or patients not having nutritional deficiency and intoxicated blood.

Cell Cycle and Cancer

Excess industrial foods, toxins and stress reduce the activity of the immune system which is supposed to protect us from cancer. In the year 1900, 1 person out of 100 developed the risk of cancer, but today we have reached 1 person out of 3, while soon 1 in 2 will develop a cancer. While enormous progress has been done in the discovery of new mechanisms such the cell cycle, tumor suppressor genes, hundreds of recent articles focusing on new attractive treatments, it's still only in the theoretical phase and not yet a clinical application since the cornerstone of medicine is only concentrated on research and development for new treatments of chemotherapy with hundreds of millions of dollars invested, but in return for billions of dollars of profit.

Little research has been done on the preventive and therapeutic value of food against cancer, yet we know that many foods and dietary compounds can change genetic expression such as in brain and prostate cancer, where cruciferous vegetables, selenium, zinc, flax seed, vitamin D and chlorella extract offer increased protection against cancer or may be used together with conventional therapy for better results. We have to learn how to influence our internal landscape and not open the door to cancer.

Today a new science called Epigenetics suggests that many cancers may not be caused solely by mutations in genes but by changes in how the genes function. They can work faster or more slowly. Environmental toxins are mostly implicated in Epigenetic change, particularly the example of the P53 that I mentioned with a footprint of insecticides. The gene is shut down not only by mutation but they do not produce P53 protein. This is what I have often observed from the testing I have done on my cancer patients. Some have a totally inactive P53 without P53 protein, while others harbor mutated P53. The epigenetic transformation can be transmitted through several generations and with no surprise this new generation is much more vulnerable. Suppressed or mutated P53 is transmitted to our descendants who are already born with a deficient or mutated P53, already on the way to cancer. We need more attention from pediatric doctors caring for our children. This disease can also arise much later especially if we keep our bad life style where their parents think they are healthy or have healthy children. However this interaction between genes and the environment can also affect a number of susceptible persons, while others remain unaffected.

However my book gives all the details about the theory of cancer, about Epigenetics and the environment, how food can modulate our genes, the role of the P53 tumor suppressor gene and also about mitochondria and their implication in cancer. It especially offers the reader full details about diet, about food, juice combinations and especially about how to detoxify the body and the colon, so you can be more healthy and have a better chance to prevent cancer.

www.sergejurasunas.com

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How I Reverse Kidney Atrophy with Naturopathic Methods

By Serge Jurasunas

Professor of Naturopathic Oncology

During the nearly five decades of my  professional life I was confronted with all types of chronic and degenerative diseases,  but I especially dedicated myself to treating cancer patients. However kidney atrophy was included and had been a particular challenge. While the medical system was able to control symptoms and mechanisms for a time, sooner or later patients were confronted with the dialysis for the rest of their lives.

I started treating kidney atrophy early on, which reminded me of an excellent case for this article where after 38 years my patient still remains in good health. It began in 1979 when a young man of 30 years came to me for a consultation with a serious problem of kidney atrophy with high levels of uric acid, urea and albumin. His doctors told him that unless he went into dialysis immediately he would live only for about one year or a little more. A bad prognostic indeed!  At that time I was treating patients with a Naturopathic approach including hydrotherapy, detox, a cure of vegetable juice, cataplasm (poultice) of green clay, herbal teas, herbal bath and a diet with combined  with healthy food. This was one of my main protocols that I learned from Dr. Bernard Jensen at Hidden Valley Health Ranch. Colon cleansing was also very important for me since it had been used by Dr. Jensen where I could see tangible results in patients. I additionally used a wide range of supplementation to conclude my method of treatment.

However since 1972 I have been using the famous enzyme yeast cell (Zell-oxygen preparation) formulation that really boosts mitochondrial function, activates cellular respiration and increases ATP production. I had written several articles on this subject and devote a whole chapter in my new book, “Health and Disease Begin in the Colon.” Even today I still consider Enzyme Yeast Cells as a pillar of the Naturopathic approach to treating disease since it targets the whole body at the same time, detoxifies, regenerates and improves nutritional requirements. I considered it as one of the main keys in the treatment of chronic-degenerative diseases including of course kidney atrophy. Later on I became a specialist in Mitochondrial Medicine and one of my articles, “Oxygen, Mitochondria and Cancer”, published in the Townsend Letter is available on line from my website. If we treat the whole body mitochondria cannot be forgotten and organs like our kidneys have more mitochondria than other organs because the additional energy they need to filter out all the toxins. In this type of case we have if I may say a significant decrease in ATP production that stops the machinery from properly working.

At the time I already had started using cell therapy with which I became acquainted after traveling to Germany in 1969 and 1971. I was searching for new methods of treatment since I felt limited after all with just my knowledge of Naturopathy. When my patient told me about his kidney problem, especially about his desperation having been obliged to go on dialysis for the rest of his life, I decided to try an innovative treatment. I always work with my gut feeling and intuition and like to be thoughtful about my treatment plan.

Readers of The Townsend Letter have seen in one of my recent publications the case of a 36 year old woman suffering from Melas syndrome, which is usually fatal to the patient, being associated with a Cox 2 mutation in the mitochondria. Apparently in both medicines there was no solution.  But here again my intuitive reflection and experience guided me, where I managed to obtain remarkable results as the photos in the article had shown. But of course we are in 2017 and not 1979, yet by treating this young man back then it was truly an intuitive matter more than experience. However I felt sure I was able to do something proactive to reactivate his kidney function. So I told him yes, if you follow my naturopathic treatment you may avoid dialysis.

Treatment:

Application on the kidneys of a clay wrap during one hour, 3 times per week.

Special 30 min. herbal bath, 3 times per week

Half-bath (cold) for 20 min, 3 times per weeks.

Supplementation and Diet:

Enzyme yeast cell preparation, 40 ml per day.

Organic germanium (Geoxy132) coming from Asai's Institute in Tokyo.

Cellular therapy (This is the type of therapy I still use today. It really works well to regenerate the body, tissues and reverse any damage):

Kidney (organ) Rein 2 times per week i.m.

R.N.13 (ribonucleic acid from 13 different organs) i.m 2 times per week

This was a very special therapy using live cells taken from young animals and absorbed not by the blood circulation but the lymphatic circulation and it went directly only into the target organ such as the kidneys.

DNA capsule (from salmon roe)

Red Ginseng (pure ginseng)

This was followed with a special diet with an especially large intake of carrot, red beet, parsley, apple and celery juice which all have a great impact on kidney.

The patient followed this treatment for a few months, thereafter only the supplementation until 1985. This regimen included one formula, developed in my own laboratory under the brand name Apizellin,  a mixture that contains herbs, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, biocatalysors from substances such as urtika diocia, chelidonium magus, gallium verum, calamus acorus, oxalis, anthocyanin from red beet, red ginseng, petasites officinalis, organic germanium, potassium, manganese, zinc, cobalt, vitamin B15 in total 24 substances in one ampule. Apizellin was also investigated by the Robert Bradford Institute in San Diego, California. I believe the results are still available online.

Victory:

We bypassed the kidney atrophy and the man no longer needed to go on dialysis but kept consulting me frequently but with less frequency during the past year. It is interesting to mention years later his daughter came in also for a consultation with a kidney problem and her iris showed exactly the same sign in the same right kidney section of her iris.

However the patient came back for consultation in the first week of March 2017, after 7 years meaning 38 years after the first consultation with the prospect of his remaining life on dialysis, we can say yes, it was a victory over the medical system. 

Today the patient is 69 years old and still in Good health with only a slight increase in uric acid and urea, but even so this is after 38 years! 

69 Year Old Patient

Same Kidney Patient Age 31 when First Treated 38 Years Ago

Subsequently we just went back to live cell therapy and a cure of vegetable juice to prevent any worsening. The truth was also that the patient worked very hard and had always been under physical and mental stress....bad for the kidneys.

However this story reminded me of another very similar case yet a very complicated one that went back to 1981, close to the first story but with a man of 56 years, who at that time was sent to me by his medical doctor as a last resort. I remember the uric acid, urea, albumin was very, very high. His feet looked like those of an elephant with a death sentence.

Of course I treated him also with cell therapy and a very strict diet with a large intake of carrot, red beet and parsley juice while his supplementation included organic germanium, Apizellin and Enzyme Yeast Cells. At that time I developed a new therapy called “S.J Therapy”, made from my formula with various essential oils available in different ampules for different purposes, such as acting on the connective tissue, lymphatic system, capillaries, colon detoxification and also for treating a tumor. It was a multiple reflex therapy against acute-chronic and degenerative disease for which I wrote a booklet explaining this theory, “The S.J Therapy: Multiple-Reflex Therapy against Acute-Chronic and Degenerative Disease”. I worked in Germany with pharmacists specializing in the biology of cancer in a laboratory where I gained additional knowledge before we manufactured both therapies in our laboratory in Portugal.

When you work with patients as in my clinic, you require the best products possible. If you are fortunate to have your own Laboratory you will manufacture the best medications for your patients. At the time, many doctors from different countries came to my clinic to learn about my methods and the new S.J. Therapy. I also organized seminars in Orlando Florida, Miami and San Diego.

In my new book, “Health and Disease Begin in the Colon Featuring Prof. Jurasunas' Natural Medicine”, in the section on clinical cases you can see a photo of a group of Dutch doctors (with a boy seated on the knee of a doctor) that came in my clinic. We offer further examples of clinical cases similar to this young boy who was cured from a bad cancer.  Today after 34 years he is still coming to my clinic. This is another VICTORY without surgery and chemotherapy.

The  kidney patient was very positive and ready to do what was necessary and thank God, little by little we normalized the level of albumin, urea and uric acid. The man returned to a normal kidney function and felt revolted with a medical system that offered him nothing except a death sentence, while for him to fight for his life he needed to spend his own money since unfortunately this kind of medicine was not covered in Europe or here in Portugal by the medical health system. He subsequently sent a letter to the Prime Minster who in fact sent him back an answer saying that the letter was forwarded to the Ministry of Health which also answered him, all very unusual but polite. The answer was as follows:

We understand that this medicine has saved your life suffering from nephritis, but we recognized nothing can be done about payment. In other words if you take drugs that do not cure you, you don't pay for this or only up to 20% of the cost, but you may die. This was the system and you were entered in the statistics of incurable disease. If you wanted to live this was up to you to spend your money but not with funds from the Ministry of Health.

Since then I have kept copies of the letters sent by the patient along with the replies from both the office of the Prime Minister, and the Health dept. along with photos of the patient who afterwards had done much to help people treat themselves with other medicine than conventional medicine. He served as an example and role model for other sick people. Of course other cases come to mind where recently I was treating for the past 4 years a boy, now 8 years old, with an IGA nephropathy with active and chronic lesions. In fact he was diagnosed with a Henoch-Schonlein Pupura,  a very complicated disease that involves the skin, articulations, intestine, the nervous system and even cholesterol high as 360. He was taking cortisone as well but today the boy is just in excellent health where his photo shows him seated with his mother.

The Boy with His Mother

Four years were necessary but we managed to balance all the abnormal mechanisms, where we especially restored his kidney function offering him a better life.

Over the past 20 years I was confronted with several other similar cases with juveniles but always been able to restore kidney function. One of the substances I have used for the past 20 years is Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF) containing a nucleotide peptide complex composed of proteins, amino acids, polysaccharides, vitamins, nucleic acids, adenosine nucleotide, cytidine nucleotide and 10% DNA. This is just to mention some important substances that really work well to restore kidney function but also boost the bone marrow to produce blood cells such as in case of severe anemia or leukemia.

I remember in 2005, the case of a 26 year old young man suffering from glomerulonephritis who lost 9gr of protein per 24 hours while taking 8 gr of prednisone daily with other drugs.  He was living in France but came to see me in May while his mother was in Portugal.  We gave him a treatment of CGF, 60ml per day and 20 tablets of Sun-Chlorella. By July he lost only 7gr of protein per 24 hours. When he came to visit me in December for the Christmas Holiday his loss was only 3gr per 24 hours.  This was a real decrease of protein thanks to C.G.F. Over the past several years he has come for other treatments with me and I still see him.

In conclusion I just want to focus on saying that the Naturopathic system is really what we need when it comes to treating the whole body, utilizing all the techniques offered by nature, by healthy food, water, sun and detox, but of course we can also use live cell therapy, since in my clinic I use stem cell therapy for better results. Just by saying that kidney atrophy is not always final and the patient did not have to wait to go on dialysis means often there is a viable alternative solution. After 38 years I believe it was important that I write about this patient's story, who of course came back from time to time for a checkup, treatment and diet, which is what kept him without serious health problems for more than the past three decades.

If the reader would like further information or has any questions kindly contact the author:

Professor Serge Jurasunas

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How Medicine is Bombarding Patients with Toxic Drugs without Any Scientific Basis, Diagnosis or Even Reason

Take a minute to study this photo of a 74 year old woman accompanied by her daughter who came to my clinic on July 28, 2014 with a case of stomach cancer first diagnosed in April, 2007 followed by a total ablation of the organ and sent home. According to her doctor from the Institute of Oncology, chemotherapy at this point was useless. No further advice was suggested or offered to the patient.

Everyone can easily see from the photo, the poor physical condition of the patient, not mentioning how she felt: Very weak, difficulty in walking, shaking especially from the hands, considerable difficulty in eating food and she was not even advised about any special diet. However her doctors prescribed about 20 different drugs per day for her which was nonsense, totally unscientific, useless, with too much toxicity and not adapted to her case.

This may serve to show how medicine is often out of control. Instead of suggesting the patient receive some additional support to boost the immune system such as Chinese mushroom or other supplementation, they just kept busy by prescribing more drugs, often without necessity, based upon commercial interests and not for the benefit of the patient. I can cite one exemplary case from one of my female stage IV colon cancer patients with metastases to her lungs, liver and pleura. Two years ago, according to her doctor who had given up on her, she passed the normal statistic of life expectancy for such cases, meaning she should have been dead, but today she has four more years of life extension with a good quality of life after coming to our clinic. This serves as an example from which to learn for hospital Oncologists.

This old woman felt totally disoriented, often worse after taking some of her prescriptions while wondering why she had to take them when she did not feel better and even if these medications could improve her condition. Unless you can feel for yourself empathy about how patients can suffer, you cannot practice true medicine which focuses upon what is best for a patient beyond our own medical conception. Today we find medicine is still a paradigm with cancer being viewed as a localized disease. There is a total lack of understanding in the association between the tumor and the body’s defense system, especially the relationship between the immune system and homeostasis.  This is a total ignorance about how to restore a debilitated body from the consequences of chemotherapy and how immuno-nutrition can be so helpful.

Lately, several alerts have been launched about the abuse of pharmaceutical drug prescriptions, most of them toxic without efficacy, showing how Big Pharma manipulates our society. Recently several good books written by medical doctors are alerting readers how we are manipulated. In the USA new statistics show that about 240,000 to 280,000 people die every year from the adverse effects of prescription drugs.

But what is really tragic here is the fact that an old woman was totally abandoned by the modern medical system. While we agreed that at this point chemotherapy was useless, she had been prescribed unnecessarily drugs that made her worse while her family had to search for themselves how to prepare a proper diet that may be difficult for them to provide. Medical doctors are usually ignorant about nutrition, unless they choose to study on their own.  In a recent article published in a major daily newspaper in Portugal called, “Immuno-Oncology” by the director of the Portuguese Institute of Oncology it said that Oncologists are still ignorant about the immune system and even more so about diet which in fact they don’t believe will help.

I worked on her case by building a special liquefied food diet, based upon my own experience and recipes which I had used for such cases over the past 50 years, together with some liquid supplementation necessary to nourish her body involving digestion. You can find considerable information, recipes and vegetable juice cocktails in my new book, “Health and Disease Begin in the Colon Featuring Professor Jurasunas’ Natural Medicine”. I felt sure that in a couple of weeks the patient would start to feel better after I removed all the pharmaceutical drugs, except one for her blood pressure and another for her heart, which now made 2 drugs instead of 20.

Today I continue to feel strongly that something must be done about this type of situation, even though we face many other unacceptable similar situations for which our medical system needs to take action. Such patients often suffer from adverse effects ranging from medium to strong, sometimes fatal while others develop a peripheral neuropathy with total paralysis where I have often seen such cases coming to my clinic in wheelchair. They are then sent home without any further treatment, social or financial help. Sadly this includes not only adults but children as well. On our side we are the ones who devote our lives to helping these people in several directions including psychological support. In such cases I often offer free treatment since we need some compassion for these poor people.

I do hope that the public and patients will become more sensitive to these problems by refusing to take unnecessary drugs as is often the case today and open their minds to what is best for them to help and seek for some kind of alternative to toxic drugs that lead to nowhere other than by further damaging the body.

You get more benefit in such cases by taking for example, Chlorella Growth Factor that boosts the production of blood cells, activates the immune cells and especially helps the mitochondria to synthetize more ATP energy. Many other natural compounds and modern homoeopathic preparations can be substituted for unnecessary toxic drugs. Even pains can be managed with natural medications such as snake venom extract, which is an old therapy that I have used for over 30 years to reduce or eliminate pain among other actions.

Conventional medicine takes the view that, ``Oncology is absolutely  a necessity in our modern society,” however it really needs some change and cannot continue to play the game of Big Pharma that only sees colossal profits instead of better health and longer life for patients. The first book that alerted people was, “The Cancer Industry,” by Ralph W. Moss PhD., published in 1996. I suggest everyone read this book. Ralph Moss spent all his life studying the politics of cancer, cancer treatment on both sides and informing people about the results or his work. I met Ralph Moss when we spoke at the same congress on Complementary Oncology in Munich.

Please send this message to all your friends, relatives, doctors, Naturopathy colleges and clinics so we may try to change things for the better and patients may receive better care, compassionate kindness and consideration from their doctors.

Dr. Serge Jurasunas

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How An Oncologist Became Interested in Reading My Book, “Health and Disease Begin In the Colon, Featuring Professor Jurasunas' Natural Medicine”

The historical treatment of cancer is based on a dogma or paradigm that

initially includes the killing of cancer based on chemotherapy, radiation

and surgery. The idea is to use toxic drugs in a tentative to destroy cancer

cells, therefore to target exclusively what we call CANCER and not giving

any consideration for the whole body or the real condition of the patient.

Unfortunately chemotherapy is not selective, often inducing toxic effects

ranging from medium to strong which may even be fatal to the patient.

After 50 years of practice, work, investigation, and world travel , I realized

that conventional medicine is the same in every country. Over the past

several decades, rather than changing their paradigm to the contrary

Oncologists had become even more aggressive with toxic therapy, but

with little results. They did not speak of their failure. However on one

other side we assist to some change, to some open mind from some

Oncologist that really choose to treat cancer patient differently. This is not

easy to do since you may become a enemy from your colleagues.

Dr. Joseph Brenner Oncologist from Hospital and directing his own clinic

of Alternative medicine in Israel is one of this great mind that change his

way of treating cancer patient by using Alternative methods and offering a

better opportunity for cancer patients. We can even say that he is one of the

few Oncologists in the world that examine the disease from different

angles and being himself a victim of cancer which may explain his new

attitude. Although I know about medical doctors diagnosed with cancer, 

who later died from the disease, but to be more correct from the consequences of chemotherapy who were totally closed to any other approach.

Dr. Jurasunas and Dr. Brenner

How I First Met Dr. Brenner

In 2007 in one of my articles published in Townsend Letter, the Examiner

of Alternative Medicine I also mentioned my lecture given on October,

2006 at the University of Vilnius, Faculty of Medicine in Lithuania, where

I had been invited to speak on Complementary Oncology, where I

mentioned about how to obtain the DVD of this lecture . Shortly after, I

received an email from Dr. Brenner wishing to learn more about my

methods. Later on he came to Lisbon to visit me and we had some

interesting discussions, as you can imagine. Dr. Brenner was trained at the

prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center in New York City,

famous throughout the world. He already knew what you can expect from

chemotherapy/radiation.

The miracle the we spoke about was to join the two medicines through a

bridge that developed over the past few decades. Patients were still dying

from chemotherapy even with the failures especially when it come to

metastasized cancers, pancreatic cancers etc. Oncology had not made any

different moves. While so many patients taking their side run to the

Hospital and believe that chemotherapy will cure them, but then when they

realize it does not they then start to search for another solution. Recently a

important woman in Portugal was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and

she ran to the new modern Oncology Hospital in Lisbon, supposedly

extremely modern but unfortunately she soon found out that she ended up

in a dead end street. Another example was the well known movie actor,

Patrick Swayze, who died from pancreatic cancer, who at the end looked

like a feeble mummy in a wheel chair. 

We know there is no cure for pancreatic cancer but we can help and obtain better results using a combination of natural anticancer agents, for instance by combining Ukrain a natural anticancer agent together with curcuma, Biobran and proteolytic enzymes. Ukrain had been probably one of the most powerful anticancer agents, that I had used for about 25 years, together with many other European medical doctors, mostly from private German clinic and hospitals, but on other continents as well. Dr. Brenner also used Ukrain

with success but in 2013 Ukrain was brutally removed from the market

along with the ruthless arrest and imprisonment of Dr. Nowicky in Vienna.

“A Medico-Political Plot”, was the tittle of my article about this incident

published in Townsend Letter, the magazine of alternative medicine

(Feb/March 2013). It is interesting to read this article as it really explained

how the Austrian Authorities and Big-Pharma eliminated a very efficient

anticancer agent, showing how our health and our lives come after

corporate profits and financial gain. It is really a pity but nonetheless a

reality.

Dr. Brenner Continues to Learn from My Book

Dr. Brenner, even though a well-known Oncologist, who lectures all over

the world, had shown a great interest to read and learn from my book, just

as I even now am always happy to learn something more every day.

This coming June (2017) I am planning to meet again with Dr. Brenner, since we were both invited to lecture at the International  Biobran Workshop  in Cracow, Poland.  I will present an innovative approach to cancer treatment, together with some excellent clinical cases that will give us something new to think about in cancer treatment.  Dr. Brenner will probably speak about Hyperthermia for cancer patients who also are taking Biobran Mgn3, a strong Biological Response modifier able to increase immune cell activity especially the Natural Killer cells, our first line of defense against cancer.

The tittle of my book, “Health and Disease Begin in the Colon”, of

course focuses on the colon and the microbiome, demonstrating the

association between the colon and disease as seen through Iridology. This

is a very important part of my book, having practiced iridology for the past

50 years where I know what we can expect from this science.

However nutrition, detox and the value of natural foods, especially the

value of making vegetable juice at home truly helps to rebuild the body.

Personally over the past 50 years I drink my fresh vegetable juice every

day so it keeps me in better health. I also write about Live Blood Analysis,

molecular markers, apoptosis and many other valuable topics that are

included in this book.

This knowledge offers a real advantage for practitioners and even

Oncologists to approach this disease differently, essentially by targeting

the different aspects of cancer with nutritional support, boosting the

immune system, decreasing oxidative stress and increasing apoptosis. This

is the fantastic experience Dr. Brenner has already realized in treating

cancer, which will even improve more.

When we met for the second time at the 2nd World Congress of

Complementary Oncology in Munich, he told me that he knew little about

nutrition and diet. Now after reading my book he understood better how to

support his patients. I have great respect for such men, those showing

such simplicity, such an open mind that serve as a real example for other

Oncologists, especially those that believe that they know everything

having no need to learn more, new or something different.

Every day I learn something new, especially from my patients and from

any good book, journal or magazine article I read. I can especially suggest

The Townsend Letter - The Examiner of Alternative Medicine

( www.townsendletter.com), where I am a frequent contributor. The quality

and the variety of articles presented in this magazine are a real vehicle for

improving someone's knowledge and clinical practice with patients.

I wrote my first article for Townsend Letter in 1999 and still contribute

today. One of my best articles, “The Clinical Evidence of Cellular

Respiration to Target Cancer”, has been translated into Chinese, Japanese,

Lithuanian, Romanian and German so it should prove interesting. Soon I

will have two good articles published about my experience with

germanium and cancer. One article, “A Story of Cancer”, should be read

by everyone concerned with cancer as it give us something to think about

where it may also awaken many Oncologists to a new sense of

understanding and compassion, who may be totally indifferent to the

suffering of patients of who fight for their lives. They can open their

minds and hearts, learn something new, change their thinking and do

something more for their patients.

In fact this was how I met Dr. Brenner because he read my articles in the

Townsend Letter and now he is reading and learning from my book which

is a book of knowledge and not a book built up from the Internet.

Dr. Martin Dayton D.O, M.D. of the Dayton Dandes Holistic and

Integrative Medical Center in Florida (DaytonDandesMedical.com), is also

a truly open-minded doctor who wrote, “The book is the man's life work.”

He said that he is learning from my book which honors me but shows that

in any situation with any background or diploma, continual lifelong

learning is something very important, especially when you can take the

knowledge in my book and improve your own personal life and those of

your patients.

How Do You See and Treat Cancer Patients in Naturopathic Oncology

How Do You See and Treat Cancer Patients in Naturopathic Oncology

Naturopathy is a system based on the prevention and treatment of disease by not harming the body, by using natural means and employing techniques that come from nature. The number one priority is to diagnose and treat the disease as well as the patient. In Naturopathy treating a disease is considered a Healing Art which means the doctor must combine experience, wisdom, intuition and knowledge and offer the best treatment and remedies that may cure his patient. Naturopathy is universally recognized as a form of medicine thus the term Naturopathic Medicine and Naturopathic Physician requires a 4-5 year curriculum in a recognized college of Naturopathy, but real life experience and knowledge can only found within each practitioner and does not come from schooling alone.

It takes years and even decades before you can really understand what cancer means and treat cancer patients with success. Even after 50 years I am still learning. Whenever I have a cancer patient in front of me my mind immediately reacts to classify him from several aspects: First his age, appearance, physical condition. Then I study his eyes and look to understand his behavior. Women are usually under high stress and psychic shock from their first diagnostic, then surgery and worse going to chemotherapy. Usually there are three different phases of heavy stress without much comfort received during medical consultation and during the buildup of the conventional anti-cancer protocol. With most cancer patients I need to spend more time with emotional and even spiritual priorities since they are feeling lost and afraid to die. I always take the time to influence them positively and teach them that he should be the winner and not the loser. We give them appropriate writings to read that help to accept their condition and feel confident.

Then when you have in hand all the medical reports, the next step for me is to understand why the patient has a cancer, what is the hereditary condition, constitution, organ body functions etc... You cannot only see cancer as a cellular disease since other factors are probably associated and we know that terrain plays a key role the same as the nervous system, the liver and the colon. A bad nervous system is always negative for the patient since it reduces the capacity of the body to fight and it increases the risk of metastases spread. I confirm this with Iridology and sometimes perform a brain chemistry analysis to profile the neurotransmitters.

The state of body's intoxication is also important to monitor. I always use a very interesting approach with the science of Iridology or iris examination, a science that I mastered over the past 50 years having devoted considerable time in order to detect the various signs associated with cancer profiles. I even developed a breast cancer iris profile chart to memorize what the iris can show.

Afterwards I take a Live Blood Microscopy Analysis to profile the nutritional status of the patient, oxidative stress condition, any abnormal condition such as oxidized lipids, platelet aggregation, fungal and bacterial invasion which are often visible in the blood of a cancer patient. We have to remember diagnosed cancer patients always suffer from malnutrition, bowel dysfunction and often a bad nervous system as observed in their iris, which indeed is reflected in the Live Blood Analysis observation. We also use the oxidative dried blood test that to me is very important to define the inflammation stage of the disease.

I spent 38 years perfecting this test that I detail in my new book, Health and Disease Begin in the Colon. For each patient I administer a physical and psychological assessment questionnaire with a score ranging from 0 to 5, which are applied to different questions regarding pain, fatigue, appetite , anxiety etc..

We then have three basic important approaches to the disease and the patient. Next comes the molecular markers testing suggested for patients, especially the P53 tumor suppressor gene for a eventual mutation of the P53 gene which is associated with every step of tumor growth and metastasis invasion, and other pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic players. Here we just look at the cell, the Cellular cycle and know exactly the about the activity of genes and oncogenes. It serves as a diagnostic, prognostic and follow up of the treatment. Now we have a full picture of the disease and patient condition, nutritional need, emotional behavior where we can start a personalized treatment since each patient's condition is different from another, especially at the molecular level and their unique terrain.

We advise the patient about the anticancer diet he needs to follow. In this case food acts as medicine. Over the past 50 years I developed a number of

Dr. Jurasunas with a long term patient and her children

diets based on my study, experience and results obtained with my patients. Little by little you find what combination of food is best. In the beginning I learned nutrition, detox and cancer diet from Dr. Bernard Jensen and Max Gerson, as well as other pioneers, starting during 1964-1967. I was mainly influenced by Bernard Jensen and later found out about the work of Dr. Max Gerson. This is the way I started, later on going to Germany to learn about food that can reactivate cellular respiration. Over the past few years I have done intensive study focusing on a variety of natural bioactive agents, vegetables, fruits, herbal teas that have been extensively studied for their chemopreventive and targeting properties on a cellular level inducing apoptosis,blocking up angiogenesis, decreasing inflammatory mediators and stimulating the immune system. BcL2 for instance is an oncogene usually over-expressed in most cancers and responsible for cancer cell resistance to apoptosis and chemotherapy. You can use a wide range of bioactive agents such as curcumin, resveratrol, apigenin, green propolis, Maitake, ginseng, and fish peptides that target most of the genes and even may reactivate mutant P53 to normal function. Rice bran arabynoxilan (RBAC) from bran rice extract (Biobran) is one compound that I have used over 20 years which acts as a strong Biological Response Modifier activating NK cells, dendritic cells and stimulation of macrophages for example. NK cells in cancer patients are usually activated to 10-30% of their capacity compared to a healthy person. Biobran reactivates the production of the enzymes perforin and granzymes that directly kill cancer cells. I have published several of my lectures where I explain in detail the anticancer property of Biobran. Shark cartilage molecules are very efficient in shrinking tumors by blocking off the tumor's vascularization. Of course we use other anticancer agents like the Tegaran compound that targets the cancer cell cycle in every direction. The aim of our treatment is first to increase the resistance of the patient to chemotherapy side effects, to maximize response to chemotherapy and obtain a much better result. The patient may need some support for his nervous tension, anxiety and here supplementation may really help.

The bedrock of my method is always based upon the intake of enzyme yeast cell preparation made from fresh yeast that contains all the ingredients that our body needs, especially to regenerate mitochondrial function, increase energy level and body resistance. See my lecture, “The Clinical Evidence of Cellular Respiration in the Treatment of Cancer”, published in the Townsend Letter magazine.

Sometimes I will prescribe the Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF) to boost energy and fight severe anemia from chemotherapy. Sometimes it may even save life of patients, I have several examples. This also supports the nutritional needs of cancer patients and modifies blood status as observed with the LBA. We cannot forget detoxification and on this level, enzyme yeast cells and chlorella seem the perfect combination. Currently I am writing a course on immunonutrition including Detox, to be made available for doctors. My new book, Health and Disease Begin in the Colon Featuring Prof. Serge Jurasunas Natural Medicine, offers full details on the detoxification methods I have used over several decades. I especially included a chapter about enzyme yeast cell and chlorella extract along with special protocols. I feel this is truly what we call Naturopathic Oncology. My first article, “Orthomolecular Treatment on Cancer” published in the Townsend Letter in February, 1999, was the first introduction in the US to the theory of Otto Warburg and Paul Seeger on cellular respiration and the enzyme yeast cells preparation. Now one finds that in every corner of cancer alternative medicine, there is the question of mitochondrial and cellular respiration.

Of course we can follow up the result of the treatment to see if it really works from a scientific standpoint by performing a new molecular markers testing after 2 months of treatment. This is what I have been doing with most of my patients over the past decade. Sometimes we follow up on our patients with such testing for a one year or even a 2 year period or longer. This is a follow up protocol where we can always change something in the patient's treatment. The first thing I work with is the P53 tumor suppressor gene and mutated P53 in patient with resistant cancer cells. I managed to develop a treatment that reverses the mutation which was my first victory published in the Townsend Letter.

Therefore I introduced in my treatment a method that belongs to molecular medicine associated with Naturopathic methods which really may be considered Naturopathic Oncology. But patients can continue to take the other tests I mentioned every few months, but usually they all start to feel better. We even have seen multiple large secondary lesions to the lung, liver and ganglions reduced up to 80% after 3 months of treatment, and an 18 cm stomach tumor eliminated without surgery from our applied treatment as a support to chemotherapy. There are so many other examples that show how we can obtain a much better result, increasing chemotherapy effectiveness by increasing apoptosis,immune surveillance and by targeting angiogenesis, of course treating other side of the patient as detox, bowel function etc. Some of my patients treated some 15-20-30 years ago are still thriving today, feeling healthy with no recurrence. This includes breast, colon, stomach cancer, leukemia, and lymphoma. If you look in my book you will find detailed information. I especially offer real life examples, (many illustrated) of cancer patients that I have treated during my career.

This is never easy since your patient is not only a tumor, but a human being that often suffers and fights for his or her life. Sometimes the patient is more difficult to handle than the disease itself and it takes considerable time. Much of ones energy is devoted to trying to help the patient and change his behavior and attitude where often I obtained success. One day I decided to create a Mind-Body Institute in my clinic and set up monthly meetings with a group of cancer patients, offering helpful lectures. My patients in remission, already in good health were presenting their own successful cases describing their own fight telling how they overcame their cancer disease which motivated and often helped newcomers, sometimes desperate. This became a real success

How to treat cancer from a Naturopathic Oncology viewpoint probably needs a higher level in the way to approach the patient, to understand what cancer is from every point of view, cellular as well as the whole body so as especially build up an individualized protocol that includes anticancer agents that have demonstrated strong efficiency in-vitro and in-vivo in both animal and human models. For instance Biobran can enter into this category having been well documented over the past twenty years.

My book serves as a bridge between Naturopathy and Molecular medicine and of course it is also based on Iridology since I also have spent several decades on the iris examination of cancer patients. Besides this information I also present a series of very interesting iris cases related to cancer disease.

Looking into the iris gives you a good idea about your patient, his genetic status and often why there is a cancer. I manage to associate iridology and molecular markers testing so here you really have a bridge from Hippocrates to cellular theory explaining how the cells and work both empirically but additionally based on scientific factual observation.

My latest article in Townsend Letter of January 2017, “Health and Disease by Iris Examination”, is well illustrated and serves as a real guide explaining the advantages of Iridology which to me should be included in a course on Naturopathic Oncology.

Serge Jurasunas

Professor of Naturopathic Oncology.