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            <strong><strong>The Cancer Matrix</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;It isn't hard to understand that
            in heart failure the heart is undergoing changes in a unitary way, with&nbsp;all parts of the organ
            affected, and that parallel changes are happening in the rest of the body, interacting with and contributing
            to the changes in the heart, so that heart failure is now considered to be a systemic disease. (Most doctors
            see the systemic nature of heart disease, at least to the extent of warning their patients to lower
            cholesterol and avoid thyroid hormone.) But if someone tells a cancer patient or an oncologist that cancer
            is a systemic disease, the thought will be flatly rejected as untrue. They have been taught that cancer is a
            disease of bad, mutated, cells, which have to be completely eradicated, and that the patient's general
            health is a separate issue.
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            <span>&nbsp; &nbsp;The US government (NIH, CDC) provides a cancer curriculum to schools. For high school,
                grades 9-12, they explain that a series of gene mutations causes it. In grade school, the basic idea of
                the cancer curriculum is just to teach them to fear cancer and the sunlight which, according to the
                curriculum, seems to be a very important mutagen.</span>
            <span>&nbsp; &nbsp;The gene mutation theory of cancer is sustained by a broader mystique of "genetics" in
                our culture. Over 100 years ago, an ideology of chance and random changes in organisms was superimposed
                onto the theory of evolution. After 1944, when Avery, MacLeod and McCarty showed that strands of DNA
                carry hereditary information, the doctrine of random change took on a specific chemical meaning--changes
                in the sequence of bases in the DNA molecule. This made it easier to disregard the evidence of the
                inheritance of acquired changes, since chemical, even biochemical, reactions are usually interpreted
                statistically, with an assumption of randomness. If the changes in the DNA code are random, and not
                influenced by the organism's physiology and biochemistry, then the four nucleotides that make up DNA
                (abbreviated G, C, A, and T) should show a random composition, but in fact the ratio of GC pairs to AT
                pairs varies in different types of organism, and in mitochondrial DNA, the GC (guanine-cytosine) content
                corresponds closely to the rate of oxidative metabolism and longevity (Lehmann, et al.,
                2008).&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The official (government and American Cancer Society) view of cancer is that a tumor
                consists of the descendants of a single mutated cell. A current "proof" of this is that in a given
                tumor, all of the X chromosomes which are active have the same genetic composition, while in the rest of
                the organism, the X chromosome which remains active is a matter of chance. That shows, they argue, that
                the tumor must have developed from a cell in which that chromosome was active, not from a group of
                cells. However, non-random inactivation of X chromosomes is now known to occur, and that it involves
                epigenetic imprinting processes, such as methylation (Falconer, et al., 1982; Heard, 2004). Mary Lyon,
                the person who discovered that females inactivate one of their X chromosomes, has recognized the
                complexity of the process (Lyon, 2004). In arguing against the idea that the development of cancer is an
                epigenetic process, the cancer-gene people have invoked a process that responds to epigenetic
                influences.</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The assumption of randomness, and the assertions of the cancer doctors who subscribe
                to the doctrine, have had terrible effects on biology and medicine. Following the doctrine, their
                treatments must concentrate on eliminating every single cell of the cancer clone. Since surgery can't
                eliminate defective cells that have entered the blood stream, radiation and chemical toxins are logical
                necessities. Since mutations are random events, the person's general health is of little importance to
                the oncologist. Typically, they will tell the patient that their diet doesn't matter, except that they
                should avoid antioxidants if they are going to have radiation therapy.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For centuries, the definition of a malignant tumor has been that it's one which
                will return after it has been cut out. In recent years, the definition has been extended to those that
                return after the original tumor has been eliminated by radiation or chemotherapy. The idea of a "cancer
                stem cell," an especially tough type of cell from the mutated clone, has been invoked to explain the
                reason for the regrowth of a tumor in an area that was treated with intense radiation. However, it's now
                clear that normal cells are attracted to an irradiated area (Klopp, et al., 2007; Kidd, et al., 2009).
                The recognition of a "bystander effect," in which radiation (or other--Mothersill and Seymour, 2009)
                injury to one cell injures near-by cells by signals from the injured cell, has led to the recognition
                that ordinary stem cells or repair cells entering an area where a tumor has been destroyed will be
                modified by the residual damage of cells in the area. The ability to recruit normal cells into a damaged
                area, the "cancer field," the way normal organs do, shows that tumors can be thought of as organ-like
                structures, and that knowledge of the organizing principles of normal organs might improve our knowledge
                of tumors. The idea that cancer is primarily a problem of organization isn't new: Johannes Muller, in
                the 19th century, and J.W. Orr, and D.W. Smithers, in the 1940s and 1950s, and many others, have
                suggested that something outside of the individual cell could cause the
                disorganization.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Once it is accepted that cancer is a systemic disease, and that a tumor, or the
                place in the body where a tumor has been removed, is something more than a collection of defective
                cells, very different therapeutic approaches can be considered. Looking at the events in a failing
                heart, we can see that the potential repair cells recruited by the stressed heart are diverted by the
                conditions that they encounter there, and either die or become connective tissue cells, secreting
                collagen, rather than becoming new muscle cells.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Something that everyone knows about tumors is that they are harder than the normal
                tissues in which they appear--they can be identified as lumps. Like the failing heart, they become
                harder than normal, and like the failing heart, the hardening can proceed to calcification. There has
                been general recognition that inflammation has a role in both heart disease and cancer, but the fact
                that chronic inflammation leads to fibrosis, and that fibrosis often leads to calcification, is still
                usually considered not to be relevant to understanding and treating cancer. The tissue hardness that
                allows oncologists to diagnose cancer (Huang and Ingber, 2005) is ignored when choosing treatments,
                which isn't surprising, since treatments that destroy cancer cells increase the production of
                collagen.</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Aspirin is commonly recommended for preventing heart attacks, because it helps to
                prevent abnormal blood clots, but it has other effects that are beneficial in heart disease, for example
                reducing the generalized fibrosis of the heart that develops after a heart attack (Kalkman, et al.,
                1995; Wu, et al., 2012). It also protects against fibrosis in other organs, by a variety of mechanisms,
                and this effect on the extracellular matrix seems to be one of ways in which it protects against cancer.
                DCA, dichloroacetate, the drug that has been in the news in recent years because it can stop cancer
                growth, by restoring the oxidation of glucose and stopping the aerobic production of lactic acid, has
                been found to reduce the fibrosis of a failing heart, by the same mechanism, restoring glucose
                oxidation. In general, substances that increase collagen production are promoters of cancer and
                contribute to the progression of heart failure, and other degenerative changes.</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The incidence of cancer increases exponentially with age, but when random mutations
                are seen as the cause of cancer, aging as an essential cause of cancer is disregarded. The total
                collagen content of the body increases with aging, and the stiffness of that collagen also increases.
                The total collagen content in cancer patients is higher than in people without cancer (Zimin, et al.,
                2010). This suggests that the processes in the body that produce aging are acting more intensely in
                those who develop cancer. As the collagen accumulates in the extracellular matrix, the whole body
                becomes more favorable for the appearance of cancer.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Plastic surgeons have promoted the idea of injecting collagen into tissues with the
                argument that they are "replacing collagen lost with aging," but in fact collagen accumulates with
                aging. It is the greater compactness and stiffness of collagen in old skin that produces noticeable
                changes such as wrinkling. The difference between calf skin leather, used for soft gloves and purses,
                and cow hide, used for shoe soles and boots, illustrates the changes that occur with aging. Supermarkets
                used to categorize chickens as fryers and stewers, or stewing hens. The difference was the age and
                toughness, very young chickens could be cooked quickly, old laying hens had accumulated more collagen,
                and especially the cross-linked hardened collagen, and required long cooking to reduce the toughness.
                Old beef animals are usually sold as cheaper stew meat or hamburger, because the age-hardened collagen
                can make a steak too rubbery to chew if it's quickly cooked.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In a healthy young organism, tissue injuries are repaired by processes reminiscent
                of Metchnikov's experiment in which he put a thorn into a jelly fish, and found that wandering cells,
                phagocytes, converged on the foreign object, surrounding it. If they couldn't eat it, they caused it to
                be expelled. The importance of that experiment was that it showed that injured tissues emit signals that
                attract certain types of cell. The process of removing damaged tissues by phagocytosis guides the
                formation of new tissue, starting with the secretion of collagen, which guides the maturation of the new
                cells.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Around the middle of the last century, Hans Selye experimented with the antiseptic
                implantation of a short piece of a narrow glass tube under the skin of rats. The irritation from the
                glass object caused a collagenous capsule to be formed around it, in the well known "foreign body
                reaction." He found that a filament of tissue formed in the center of the tube, connecting the two ends
                of the capsule. The isolated tissue of the filament quickly underwent the degenerative changes seen in
                aged connective tissues, but if he periodically removed the fluid around it, and allowed fresh lymph
                fluid to fill the capsule, the filament retained a youthful elasticity, even as the rat aged. Isolation
                from the organism caused age-like degeneration to develop rapidly. When the organism can't remove a
                foreign object, the collagenous capsule that encloses it has a high probability of forming a cancer.
                This "foreign body carcinogenesis" has been studied for many years.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Foreign body carcinogenesis is closely related to chemical carcinogenesis, radiation
                carcinogenesis, and hormonal carcinogenesis. Chemical carcinogens such as methylcholanthrene are
                irritating when injected, and stimulate collagen production. Neither type of carcinogenesis is always
                effective, because this collagen reaction can be protective, by isolating the irritant toxin (Zhang, et
                al., 2013). Radiation stimulates the secretion of collagen, and causes cross-linking that makes it
                stiffer, and slows its removal, leading to its accumulation (Sassi, et al., 2001). Some types of
                cross-linking block the ability of macrophages to remove it, creating something like a diffuse foreign
                body reaction. Estrogen, for example in the process of causing breast cancer, causes increased collagen
                synthesis. This is widely recognized, in the association of "breast density" (a high collagen content)
                with the risk of cancer. Estrogen also causes the formation of the enzymes that cross-link and stiffen
                the collagen, lysyl oxidase and transglutaminase(Sanada, et al., 1978; Campisi, et al., 2008;
                Balestrieri, et al., 2012).</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Although ultraviolet and ionizing radiation can act directly on collagen, to stiffen
                it, the greatest effect of the radiation is probably by reaction with relatively unstable components of
                tissues, such as polyunsaturated fatty acids, which then react with the collagen, cross-linking it
                (Igarashi, et al., 1989). Even in the absence of radiation, a deficiency of vitamin E accelerates the
                spontaneous decomposition of the unsaturated fats, accelerating the aging of collagen (Sundholm and
                Visapää, 1978 ). Many observations suggest that all of the collagen-aging carcinogenic factors interact
                synergistically.</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When cells are placed on a glass slide coated with collagen, they move to parts of
                the collagen that have been cross-linked, and they move from slightly cross-linked collagen to stiffer,
                more thoroughly cross-linked areas (Vincent, et al., 2013). When they are on stiffer collagen, they pull
                themselves more tightly toward it, continuously expending energy in the process. The muscle-like
                contraction of the cell causes it to become more rigid (Huang and Ingber, 2005). The increased hardness
                of even small tumors makes it possible to identify lymph node metastases from a breast cancer by touch,
                without removing them (Miyaji, et al., 1997).</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The increased energy cost of this "isotonic contraction" of the cell filaments
                requires more energy to sustain, and will tend to create lactic acid, the way intense muscle contraction
                does, while consuming oxygen at a higher rate. The increased lactic acid and decreased oxygen
                availability stimulate the synthesis of more collagen, the growth of new blood vessels, expression of
                enzymes for increasing the stiffness of the collagen, and other processes associated with inflammation,
                aging, and cancer. Blocking even one of these processes, the lysyl oxidase cross-linking enzyme, can
                reduce the invasiveness of a cancer (Lee, et al., 2011). Some observations (Tan, et al., 2010) show that
                the circulating cells of metastatic cancer are more rigid than other cells, which would increase the
                likelihood that they will block capillaries, creating oxygen-deprived nests of collagen-secreting
                cells.</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;One of the substances produced by stressed cells that's involved in tumor induction,
                growth, and metastasis (Tanaka, et al., 2003; Datta, et al., 2010; Was, et al., 2010) is the enzyme heme
                oxygenase, which breaks down the essential component of respiratory enzymes, heme, producing carbon
                monoxide as a product, which inhibits cell respiration, increasing reliance on the glycolysis which
                produces lactic acid. If metastatic cells continue to produce this enzyme, this is likely to contribute
                to reconstituting the "cancer field," with increased HIF, hypoxia inducible factor, and a variety of
                other regulatory agents, each of which has its protective functions elsewhere, but which in combination
                can worsen the tumor.</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Substances that inhibit inflammation are likely to also inhibit excessive collagen
                synthesis, serotonin secretion, and the formation of estrogen. Besides aspirin, some effective
                substances are apigenin and naringenin, found in oranges and guavas. These flavonoids also inhibit the
                formation of nitric oxide and prostaglandins, which are important for inflammation and carcinogenesis
                (Liang, et al., 1999). Increased CO2, which has a variety of anti-inflammatory effects, can decrease
                collagen formation and tissue collagen content significantly (Ryu, et al., 2010).</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Deprivation of glucose and oxygen, which can be the local result of a cellular
                environment of condensed, stiffened collagen and the cellular tension and activation produced in
                response, combined with systemic stress that causes free fatty acids to interfere with the oxidation of
                sugar, activates enzymes that can dissolve collagen (MMP-2 and MMP-9). These enzymes are involved in
                metastasis, allowing cells to escape from the condensed collagen, but although they are normally thought
                of as enzymes that act outside of cells, they can also enter the cell's nucleus, where they degrade the
                DNA, causing the mutations and chromosomal abnormalities that are so characteristic of cancer (Hill, et
                al., 2012). Like glucose deprivation, exposure to 2-deoxyglucose, often used in tumor imaging, promotes
                metastasis (Schlappack, et al., 1991).</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The fact that cancer cells are stressed and damaged, and accumulate DNA damage,
                means that in a typical tumor there is a high rate of cell death. The number of apoptotic
                (disintegrating) cells in a tumor corresponds to the aggressiveness of the tumor (Vakkala, et al, 1999).
                In the 1940s and 1950s, Polezhaev demonstrated that dying cells stimulate cell renewal, and this is true
                in young and healthy organs, as well as in tumors.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 36% of women who had had a breast removed, from 7 to 22 years previously,
                identifiable (by the same tests used to diagnose breast cancer) cancer cells could be found circulating
                in their blood stream (Meng, et al., 2004). Tissue biopsies would be able to find the sources of those
                circulating cells, nests of similar cells throughout the body, which were dying about as fast as they
                were replicating. In 1969, Harry Rubin described an autopsy study which found that everyone over the age
                of 50 had at least one diagnosable cancer in some tissue. "Occult microscopic cancers are exceedingly
                common in the general population and are held in a dormant state by a balance between cell proliferation
                and cell death and also an intact host immune surveillance"(Goldstein and Mascitelli, 2011). These
                authors observed that the stress of surgery stimulates tumor growth, by various mechanisms, and that
                surgery increases the risk of developing cancer in apparently cancer-free patients.</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1956, Hardin Jones wrote "If one has cancer and opts to do nothing at all, he
                will live longer and feel better than if he undergoes radiation, chemotherapy or surgery, other than
                when used in immediate life-threatening situations." In the 1990s, a group of cancer specialists were
                asked what they would do if they were diagnosed with prostate cancer, and most of them said they would
                do nothing.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The radical mastectomy, which removed massive amounts of apparently normal tissue as
                well as the breast tumor, was practiced for hundreds of years, and was the standard treatment for breast
                cancer until the 1980s, after G.W. Crile, Jr., had publicized the evidence showing that simply removing
                the tumor lump itself didn't cause a higher mortality rate, and that the surgery produced much less
                disability.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Although the lumpectomy was eventually accepted by the profession, the evidence that
                the long term survival rate was higher when the surgery was done during the luteal phase in
                premenopausal women has been generally ignored, because the cancer ideology maintains that the fate of
                the cancer is in the cells, rather than in the patient's hormone balance.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Because of the continual indoctrination about the importance of "early diagnosis to
                increase the chance of a cure," and the widely publicized "cure rates," it's easy for doctors to rush
                people into treatment, before they have time to study the issue. Dean Burk, who was a collaborator of
                Otto Warburg's for many years, was quoted in regard to the claims of the American Cancer Society that
                "They lie like scoundrels."</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the 1970s, I noticed that the definitions of the features of uterine cancer had
                been changed recently, including as "cancer" things that had previously been classified as merely
                abnormal or precancerous.&nbsp;&nbsp;Reading more about the grading of cancer, I saw that other cancers
                had been defined more inclusively since the 1940s. Things that had previously not been called cancer
                were now being counted among the cancers that were cured by the various treatments, so, necessarily, the
                rate of cure had increased. The true situation could be seen by the age-specific mortality rate for each
                type of cancer. During the period when the "cure rates" were increasing, the age-specific death rates
                had increased. I think that's the sort of thing that Dean Burk had in mind.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Nearly all of the studies of "cure rates" are comparisons of one
                ideologically-based and lucrative treatment against another ideologically-based and more or less
                lucrative treatment. When the cure rate, for example for breast cancer surgery, varies with the amount
                of progesterone in the body, there is very little interest in investigating the processes involved,
                because lucrative products aren't involved.</span>
            <span>&nbsp; &nbsp;When abnormal "metastatic" cells circulate in the blood or lymph, most of them die
                spontaneously when they stick in a place that doesn't support their growth. Many of the nests of cells
                that have started to grow probably regress spontaneously when conditions in the body change. Even large,
                clearly diagnosed tumors occasionally regress spontaneously. Aging and sickness tend to support the
                vicious cycles that lead to the progressive deterioration of the collagenous matrix. Stress (even
                anxiety-induced hyperventilation) produces alkalosis, and alkalosis favors increased collagen synthesis,
                while lower pH inhibits it (Frick, et al., 1997). For example, within a minute or two of
                hyperventilating, platelets release serotonin, and serotonin is a major promoter of collagen synthesis
                and fibrosis.&nbsp;</span>
            <span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The vicious cycles that promote cancer can be interrupted to some extent simply by
                reducing exposure to things that promote stress and inflammation--endotoxin, polyunsaturated fats, amino
                acid imbalance, nutritional deficiencies, ionizing radiation, estrogens--and maintaining optimal levels
                of things that protect against those--carbon dioxide, vitamin E, progesterone, light, aspirin, sugars,
                and thyroid hormone, for example.</span>
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