What is cancer?

Human beings are made up of cells. We have billions of cells in our body. There are many types of cells in our body for e.g. liver cells, brain cells, blood cells and so on. In a normal adult human being, cells only grow and divide slowly and under a very highly controlled system so that they are always the same – both number and function.

Cancer begins when one cell changes and starts growing and dividing rapidly, no longer in control by the body. This one cell divides to give two cells, then four, eight and so on until they form a growing mass of cancer cells - called a tumour.

It has been estimated that thousands of failure to repair or failure of cells to die (apostasis) had to occur over ten to thirty years before a cancerous lump is identified and a cancer diagnosis is made.

This means that you do not “catch” cancer overnight. Cancer is a result of constant abuse or things gone wrong in the body over many years.

Therefore removing the cancerous tissue (by sugery) and attempting to kill cancer cells (by chemotherapy and radiation) is not an effective answer to the cancer problem.

Michio Kushi (The cancer prevention diet. 1993) wrote:

Cancer is not the result of some alien factor over which we have no control. Rather it is simply the product of our own daily behaviour, including our thinking, lifestyle and daily way of eating. Cancer is only the terminal stage of along process of failing to live in harmony with our bodies’ needs and with our environment.

Brenda Hunter, Ph. D., a renowned psychologist and author, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent a mastectomy but opted for holistic healing instead of chemotherapy or radiotherapy. In her book: Staying Alive, she wrote:

I have discovered that cancer is a complex multifaceted illness with deep roots that extend not only into our bodies but into our minds and sprits as well. To heal our bodies, we must heal our lives.

Even when we are in the best of health, all of us walk around every day with about three hundred cancer cells swimming among the 30 trillion cells in our bodies. The difference between a person "with cancer" and a person with fleeting cancer cells (healthy person) is that in the latter, the immune system eliminates the aberrant cells from the body before they can damage the body or create a tumour.