Are Cancer Stem Cells the Key to Discovering a Cure?

Are Cancer Stem Cells the Key to Discovering a Cure?

This article makes grim reading and should serve as a warning. Here we are believing that Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy make cancer shrink, yet they seriously undermine the immune system and so can make cancer even more aggressive.


 From the perspective of conventional cancer treatment, a diagnosis of multi-drug resistant cancer is equivalent to a death sentence. By the time such a diagnosis occurs, the patient's body has been irreversibly damaged by chemotherapy and radiation, and an even more aggressive cancer has emerged to take the place of the original one.

Tragically, these treatments do not simply fail but make the cancers more malignant.  This fact is effectively concealed by the name multidrug resistant cancer which makes it seem as if the cancer was so exceptionally resistant and malignant that the normally effective drugs used to treat it just couldn't do the job. 

Cancer Cells Are Sugar Addicts

Cancer Cells Are Sugar Addicts

This post reminded me of being told that my nephew before he was diagnosed with Leukemia, kept eating a lot of sweet stuff.  No one thought anything of it until he kept getting colds and infections and finally his mother insisted on a blood test which revealed the dreaded result.  He is in remission but his immune system will take years to be restored.  It proves what the article below states:


In 1924, Otto Warburg, Ph.D., a Nobel Prize winning biochemist, proposed the hypothesis that cancer is a metabolic disease, that affects the way cells use food to make energy.

Warburg believed that cancer cells exhibit a preference for using sugar to fuel themselves, even when the oxygen needed for normal cellular energy processes is available.^1,2,3,4 He wrote:
“Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.”¹

Until recently, Warburg’s hypothesis had been marginalized by the persistent belief in the oncology world that cancer is a genetic disease. However, in his new book, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer, Thomas Seyfried, Ph.D., has put Warburg’s work back in the medical limelight.⁵

This is an interesting study on the effect of Protein and the connection to breast cancer.

Protein Research Uncovers Potential New Diagnosis and Therapy for Breast Cancer

Scientists at the University of York, using clinical specimens from charity Breast Cancer Now’s Tissue Bank, have conducted new research into a specific sodium channel that indicates the presence of cancer cells and affects tumour growth rates.

Protein Research Uncovers Potential New Diagnosis and Therapy for Breast Cancer