The media has recently been full of some rather harsh comments relating to cancer. Having had a family with their fair share of cancer deaths, I felt enraged by the ‘off the cuff’ remarks. Here is one example:
Cancer remains the enemy within, the silent killer in our midst. It can strike anyone any time. We have been swamped with information on lifestyle habits, such as smoking, drinking and diet, which all have an impact on our chances of ending up with this disease.
In fact, after spending multiple billions of pounds and dollars on trying to understand the causes of cancer – and as much again on the government health advice that is given out across Europe relating to healthy eating, exercise and smoking habits – researchers now announce that the majority of cancers are down to... bad luck!
They concluded that two-thirds of cancers are bad luck. Apparently, it doesn’t matter if you follow an unhealthy diet, smoke too much or don’t bother exercising. Bad luck will overrule in the end.
What they mean by bad luck is that random mistakes or mutations can occur when stem cells divide. The more these mistakes accumulate, the more likely it is that cells will grow unchecked, a hallmark of cancer. Apparently, it is the parts of the body where the greatest cell divisions take place that are the major cancer ‘black spots’.
The question is, what makes healthy cells mutate in the first place? Researchers say that nobody knows this, so that’s where the bad luck comes in. They believe that we have some control over about a third of all cancers by eating sensibly, not smoking, not getting sunburnt and all the other lifestyle choices we make to avoid this dreadful disease.
It is well established that smoking greatly increases the probability of getting lung cancer, though that does not mean that every case of this type is caused by tobacco or that heavy smokers are bound to succumb to the disease.
Nevertheless, cigarettes are indisputably a major contributing factor, as is excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, lack of fruit and vegetables in a diet and inadequate exercise.
A study by Cancer Research UK just before Christmas reported that 40 per cent of cancer cases could be prevented by lifestyle changes, which is actually at odds with researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who put it down to bad luck (Science, 2015).
The researchers used a mathematical model to establish their results. Perhaps realising that they have opened the floodgates, the researchers cautioned that a poor diet and bad habits increase the amount of bad luck you might have, which rather suggests it isn’t just down to bad luck after all.
Cigarettes are indisputably a major contributing factor, as is excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, lack of fruit and vegetables in a diet and inadequate exercise
Another cancer-causing theory is stress, or the result of a traumatic event or period in one’s life. An Austrian doctor, Ryke Hamer, had an exceptionally high success rate with his cancer therapy. During one of several trials of the persecuted Hamer, the public prosecutor (Wiener-Neustadt in Austria) had to admit that after four to five years, 6,000 out of 6,500 patients with mostly advanced cancer were still alive. That is over 90 per cent, almost a reversal of the results to be expected after conventional treatment of advanced conditions.
Hamer started his cancer research when he developed testicular cancer after his son was shot dead. He wondered if his son’s death was the cause of his cancer. Subsequently, he investigated and documented over 15,000 cases of cancer and always found the following characteristics to be present, which he termed the Iron Rules of Cancer.
1. Every cancer and related disease starts as a DHS (Dirk Hamer Syndrome), which is a serious, acute-dramatic and isolating conflict-shock experience. It manifests simultaneously on three levels: psyche, brain and organ.
2. The theme of the psychic conflict determines the location of the focus or Hamer Herd in the brain, and the location of the cancer in the organ.
3. The course of the psychic conflict correlates with the development of the Hamer Herd in the brain, and the course of the cancer in the organ.
At the moment of the conflict-shock, a short circuit occurs in a pre-determined place of the brain. This can be photographed with computed-tomography (CT) and looks like concentric rings on a shooting target or like the surface of water after a stone has been dropped into it. Later on, if the conflict becomes resolved, the CT image changes, an edema develops and finally scar tissue.
Amazingly, Hamer was able to show that at the same time as the concentric brain lesion appears, the target organ CT may show such a concentric lesion.
According to Hamer, this happens instantly when the psychic shock hits the subconscious level and this same second is the start of cancer.
Hamer believes that the correlation between key emotional shock events, the target brain areas and the related organs has developed as an adaptation of our human evolution from similar programmes in the animal world.
When we unexpectedly experience emotional distress, an emergency repair programme is set in motion, a biological conflict programme with the aim of returning the individual to normal.
Incredibly, Hamer was hounded from him own country due to his beliefs. However, it seems acceptable to state that cancer is down to bad luck with no apparent repercussions.
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