Cellular Mechanisms

 

CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF ANTI-CANCER STRATEGIES

Excerpts from Alternative Medicine, November 2000

 

Detoxification

 

The issue of toxicity goes much deeper than just avoiding the side effects

of drugs and radiation.  Toxins within the body are a major contributing

cause of cancer and autoimmune diseases in the first place, and then

continue to inhibit the body’s ability to heal itself.

 

 

Cancer cells, like other virally infected cells, are susceptible to heat.

That’s one reason why people mount a temperature when they get the flu.

Here we employ far‐infrared hyperthermia as a heat therapy, which aside

from being an excellent detoxifier, possesses the ability to interrupt the

blood supply to tumors and also to damage cancer cells themselves.

 

 

The National Cancer Institute recognizes hyperthermia as a viable, integrative approach to cancer.

 

The infrared rays penetrate to the inside of the body

and heat the core temperature up to 103˚F or so.  Normal cells have no

problem with this temperature, but it is very detrimental to cancer cells.

Cancer cells undergo a disintegration process, or lysis, at that temperature.

 

 

The other thing hyperthermia does is that it helps to shrink the blood

supply to cancer cells.  Cancer cells create their own blood supply, but it is very tenuous. When you subject the blood vessels surrounding the cancer to heat, they shrivel up – and the blood supply is cut off to the

tumors.  That’s another way tumor cells die in the presence of heat.

 

Strategy:  Fragment DNA and decrease blood supply (anti‐angiogenesis)

 

Agents:  Hyperthermia (heat).  Far infrared radiation is used to increase

the temperature of the entire body (whole body hyperthermia, employing

sauna‐like chambers) or to local areas with tumors or metastasized

sites (local, or regional, hyperthermia, using probes or focused emitting

devices).  The Immune Institute raises a patient’s core temperature up to

103˚F and local areas even higher.

 

Mechanism:  Cancer cells are far more vulnerable to heat than healthy

cells.  While a temperature of 103˚F or so does not harm normal cells, it

damages the enzymes, the membranes and particularly the DNA of cancer

cells.  Cancer cells need their own blood supply to grow into tumors, but

their blood vessels are very fragile; heated to 103˚F they shrivel up.  With

their blood supply cut off, tumor cells die.