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There are over 200 different types of cancer so it’s difficult to mention all the symptoms caused by all types of cancers.

Noticing changes in your body is a responsibility you should pay attention to.. If you have a reason to worry, your GP will want to know. Many symptoms can be symptoms from other illnesses or conditions that are much less serious, than cancer. Be aware of what is normal for your body and look out for any changes.

Lumps and bumps - If you find a lump anywhere on your body that is not normal for you need to have it checked out. Most breast and testicular cancers are found either by the person with the cancer or their partner. Get into the habit of feeling your breasts or testicles. Notice how the skin looks and feels. Get familiar with the shape and any lumpiness that is normal for you. It is important to get any lumps checked right away but realize that many lumps are caused by other things and not cancer.



Skin moles (I’m not talking about underground moles that eat your garden!)

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Late stage cancer patients might consider alternative, natural therapies rather than the expensive cut, burn and poison treatments that are almost always used by conventional medicine even when the patient’s prognosis is looking really bad!

If for example, a stage 4 pancreatic cancer patient is looking at a 1% chance of surviving five years! It is possible that the patient might want to spare themselves the pain and suffering from these treatments and especially chemo and radiation, and give natural therapies a try instead. There is not much for them to lose and they may enjoy the time they have left a heck of a lot more than being poisoned, burned and cut by surgeons and oncologists! Any 4th stage cancer patient should definitely check out my book as there are many instances described in the book where hopeless late stage 4 cancer patients recovered and lived for years when their doctors had told them their prognosis was hopeless!

Keep in mind that I am not saying that patients with stage 1-3 cancers should exclusively rely on natural therapies. Conventional cancer treatments can most definitely help. However, I do say that every patient taking chemo, radiation or other cancer treatments should most assuredly be taking numerous complementary adjuvant therapies that will improve the results of chemo and radiation and lower side effects from these harsh treatments. Most adjuvant therapies described in my book enhance the patient’s immune system which is a really big deal as chemo and radiation hammer the immune system and lower the patient’s ability to destroy cancerous tumors. At the end of the day it is the immune system that must defeat cancer and stop it from metastasizing not your oncologist!

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LEUKEMIA CANCER CELLS OBSERVED TO BE DESTROYED BY ALPHA-LIPOIC ACID 100% MORE THAN CONTROLS! ALPHA-LIPOIC ACID FOUND TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN NORMAL AND LEUKEMIC CANCER CELLS KILLING ONLY THE LEUKEMIA CELLS!



A LEUKAEMIA PATIENT’S DEFORMED AND DYSFUNCTIONAL RED BLOOD CELLS SURROUNDED BY B- LYMPHOCYTE CELLS (WHITE)

• Alpha-Lipoic Acid has been proven to scavenges free radicals, including the hydroxyl radical documented to be involved in all stages of the cancer process
• Lipoic acid showed to down-regulate genes that accelerate cancer without causing toxic side effects
• Lipoic acid given to lab animals with fast growing cancer, increased their lifespan 25%!
• Activates an immune molecule destroying enzyme called denzyme capase that increased by 100% the destruction of leukemia cells compared to controls.

Alpha-Lipoic acid is an organic acid, an anti-oxidant and an enzyme co-factor. Professor Lester Packer at the Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California considers lipoic acid to be the most effective of all antioxidant proven to have anti-carcinogenic properties as it neutralizes free radicals. In particular this includes the destruction of the hydroxyl radical implicated in all stages of the cancer process and known to promote metastasis!

Lipoic acid increases and regenerates the strength of other antioxidants including vitamins C and E, coenzyme Q10, and glutathione. It has been proven to boost the levels of glutathione by up to 70% and observed to be particularly effective in lung, liver, and kidney cancer cells in laboratory animals injected with alpha-lipoic acid. It has also been found to minimize the synthesis production of damaging cytokines and adhesion molecules. It does so by influencing the activity of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kB), a transcription factor. Exner et al. 2000

Lipoic acid has been documented in studies to have the ability to down-regulate genes that accelerate cancer without causing toxic side effects! It also has been found to be so incredibly responsive in targeting cancer cells in laboratory-induced cancers that researchers commented that it seemed these cancer cells literally soaked up the lipoic acid and when the cancer cells are saturated they are destroyed! Researchers have found that lipoic acid tested on rats suffering from aggressive forms of cancer, increased their lifespan by 25%! (Karpov et al. 1977). Alpha-lipoic acid has been observed to be highly effective targeting leukemia cell lines and highly toxic these cancer cells and destroying them by anti-oxidant induced apoptosis! (programmed cell suicide.) It was observed activating an enzyme capase to destroy cancer cells by nearly 100% more than the controls! Pack et al. 2002.
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Tagamet the famous anti-acid is proven to be highly effective shrinking colon, gastric, kidney, esophagus, stomach, liver, ovary, gallbladder and metastatic melanoma cancers and reverse metastases. Tagamet was also found to improve the results of chemotherapy! A 10 year colon cancer study found a 300% higher improvement rate compared to controls!

Tagamet, the over the counter anti-acid medicine also known as Cimetidine, has been found in peer reviewed studies to have incredible anti-cancer properties! A Japanese cancer study reported that patients taking Tagamet had a 84.6% survival rate vs. 49.8% for the control cohort! Tagamet’s anti-cancer properties have been determined in well controlled studies to shrink tumors and reverse colon, gastric, kidney and melanoma cancers. Department of Molecular Genetics, Nagoya City Univ. Nagoya Medical School, Japan.

Tagamet has been used as for heartburn or excess stomach acid and for the treatment of peptic ulcers since the 70′s, when the Medical Establishment was convinced that ulcers were caused by excess stomach acid. The Establishment dogma was proven to be completely wrong regarding the actual cause of peptic ulcers and gastritis. After over a hundred years holding this erroneous theory they were reluctantly forced to accept that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori caused ulcers not too much stomach acid! In 2005 Australian researchers Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for jointly discovering the bacterium Helicobacter pylori caused gastritis and peptic ulcer disease and not nervousness and acidic foods as believed.

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This indian man loves his rice with curry loaded with curcumin and that’s why he looks so young and handsome!

Curcumin has been found to be highly effective preventing and treating glioblastoma, a fatal brain cancer and one study showed an 81% decrease in brain tumors with no evidence toxic side effects! Curcumin has been found to inhibit breast cancer cell mobility and invasion and cause apoptosis in lung cancer cells extending the normal survival prognosis. In India, the rate of colon, beast, prostrate, and lung cancer is 1000% less than in the USA and a major reason is because of the spices they use including curcumin!

Curcumin is a substance derived from the spice turmeric, and is a staple in the diets of 1.1 billion people in India and used in the popular dish, curry. The pigment gives curry spice turmeric its yellow-orange color. From ancient times the Chinese and Indians have used curcumin extensively as a medicine. It has been found to have powerful anti-inflammatory properties and chronic inflammation is a major underlying factor in most, chronic diseases. Medical researchers have determined that curcumin affects over 700 genes, which may explain the numerous health benefits from consuming this spice.
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Dr Frederic Crane was the first to isolate CoEnzyme Q-10 from beef hearts in 1957.

Scientists find that CoEnzyme Q-10 contains highly potent anti-cancer, anti-tumor properties and is an effective complementary, adjuvant treatment for breast cancer!

Dr. Frederick Crane isolated CoEnzyme Q-10 which is an orange-colored powder from beef heart in 1957. The next year Dr. Karl Folkers, then a research scientist at Merck, identified Coenzyme Q10's molecular structure. When a professor at the University of Texas, Dr. Folkers was the most prominent advocate for using Coenzyme Q10 to treat congestive heart failure and other diseases.

Although scientists show considerable interest in Coenzyme Q10, most practicing physicians are not aware of its potential. A Denmark research study was conducted with 32 advanced breast cancer patients who were treated with CoQ10. Each patient was given 90mg of CoQ10 daily plus vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fatty acids. The results were that 6 patients incurred partial tumor regression which was very significant considering the patient’s advanced stage of breast cancer!

Later in 1993, one of the patients in the trial decided on her own to increase her dosage of CoQ10 from 90mg to 390 mg and the results were that her tumors were according to the researchers…”no longer palpable and in the following month, a mammogram confirmed the disappearance of her tumors! Afterwards, another woman who participated in the study also increased her dosage of CoQ10 and her tumor also disappeared and a clinical examination found neither evidence of the prior residual tumor nor signs of metastases.”

The researchers reported that all the patients in the study were able to use less pain medicine, had improved quality of life, and did not lose weight during standard cancer treatment therapies. It seems to me every breast cancer patient should be taking large doses of CoEnzyme Q-10! For more information on this and other anti-cancer adjuvant therapies, my book called Alternative Cancer Therapies may be helpful especially if you or one of your loved ones has cancer.

I just published a 379 page book reviewing 82 adjuvant anti-cancer therapies backed up by research studies at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Mass General in Boston , Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic and numerous other research institutions. I began researching and the book a few years ago when 2 people close to me were diagnosed with late stage cancer. They both found their conditions significantly improved by adopting a number of therapies including Tagamet! Believe it or not this anti-acid, over the counter med. has profound, documented anti-cancer properties! The Kindle electronic book is $6. Check out the long, free introduction. Every therapy in my book can be taken with chemo and radiation! Many therapies lower the side effects of these treatments and seriously improve a patient's long term prognosis even in late stage cancers.

Alternative Cancer Therapies by Joseph Birch



My book for Kindle reader:
http://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Cancer-Therapies-ebook/dp/B007BDL7H4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329831206&sr=8-1

My book for Epub (Apple iPad/iBooks, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps including Stanza, Aldiko, Adobe Digital Editions, others):
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/134959

Eating vegetables containing vitamin K is a must if you want to survive cancer or prevent having cancer!


PHOTO: SPINACH

Vitamin K found in spinach, kale, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, onions and lettuce has been found to contain significant anti-cancerous compounds. Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) determined that vitamin K is a growth regulator, promotes apoptosis, and decreases pro-inflammatory cytokines and these properties are most important in battling cancer. The Pittsburg scientists used a new form of vitamin k that is very promising for the treatment of liver cancer. They call this compound 5 (CPD5). They assert that this type of vitamin k compound is not limited to destroying liver cancer cells and claim it is also effective against melanoma, liver and breast cancers. Primary liver cancer is a type of cancer that does not respond well to chemotherapy and other conventional treatments. The results of the UPCI study were published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. They claim in the article that the use of Vitamin K as a cancer treatment therapy is an innovative approach proven to be successful in treating and preventing cancer by destroying cancer cells by triggering apoptosis. (Ni et al.1998).
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PHOTO: PISTACHIO NUTS

Cancer patients should eat lots of pistachio especially if they have lung cancer! Studies indicate that eating pistachio nuts can slow the progression of lung cancer and increase that patient’s life expectancy. A 2009 study was published in the December issue of Science Daily determined that eating pistachio nuts on a daily basis can help reduce the risk and the effects of all cancers, and not only lung cancer! The study gave the subjects only 2 ounces per day and it had a very positive effect. This finding was reported at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held Dec. 6-9. According to Dr. Ladia M. Hernandez, senior research dietitian in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Texas, it is widely accepted that vitamin E (gamma-tocopherol) provides a degree of protection against certain forms of cancer and pistachios are an excellent source of gamma-tocopherol.


IMAGE: LUNG CANCER

Pistachios are also known to be beneficial to the heart as they provide high levels of antioxidants. Hernandez et. al. conducted a six-week, clinical trial to determine if the consumption of pistachios would increase dietary intake and serum levels of gamma-tocopherol. The researchers postulated that a pistachio-rich diet could potentially help reduce the risk of other cancers from developing as well. The study found that a significant increase in energy-adjusted dietary intake of gamma-tocopherol occurred in subjects consuming pistachio nuts compared with those on the control diet.

Hernandes makes the point that epidemiologic studies have indicated that gamma-tocopherol is protective against lung and prostate cancer and thus pistachio intake may help. As previously mentioned, it may be helpful in preventing and treating other types of cancer as well. Other food sources rich in gamma-tocopherol include nuts such as peanuts, pecans, walnuts, soybean and corn oils. Hernandez maintains from her research that 2 ounces per day of pistachios could be incorporated into dietary strategies designed to reduce the risk of lung, prostrate and other forms of cancer.

PHOTO: STUDIES DEMONSTRATE THAT MICE HAVE TO AVOID STRESS TOO

Reducing stress, loneliness and depression is critical to keep your immunity strong so you can prevent the cancer within from growing and metastasizing!

A recent experiment conducted at the University of Chicago and Yale University found that rats raised in a lonely, socially isolated setting developed 84 times more tumors than rats that lived in a group setting. Imagine what the implications of that finding might be if even remotely applied to humans with cancer. So if you’re living like a lonely rat start socializing and making friends as it will improve your chances of survival.

A study with mice (Hasegawa and Saiki) demonstrated how psychosocial stress, adrenal activation and tumor development were linked together. It was proven that chronic behavioral stress results in high levels of tissue hormones called catecholamines that add to the development of tumors. The study also found that stress caused a more invasive growth of ovarian carcinoma cells in mice. Tumors in stressed animals showed markedly increased growth of blood vessels helping the tumors to grow more rapidly! A study on human ovarian carcinoma cells conducted by researchers Sood et al. confirmed that chronic behavioral stress and neuroendocrine hormone production caused by stress, increases the growth of ovarian cancer by increasing vessel growth in tumors and therefore increasing tumor growth. They found that excess stress hormones, epinephrine and norepinephrine increased ovarian cancer cell invasiveness by 89% to 198%!
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