Ben77

My personal experience with cancer began, when I was diagnosed at 6 years old with primary bone cancer "Ewing's sarcoma" and I became a very sick little boy. In a few weeks, I became ill with the Mumps and Measles and suddenly my cancer was gone. My bones still have the calcium deposits from the numerous tumors, but it never returned. I have lost many of my family members to cancer, since then, so I decided to focus my education on cancer. To my surprise, I found several programs that actually work.

There are three programs in our medical schools, that work on cancer far better than the standard (chemo, radiation and surgery), which have been a dismal failure for over 50 years. Some of these programs are still in "clinical trials", so I will start with the first two, which have some approved and some still in "clinical trials".

The first is the "Monocolonal Antibodies", which can be prescribed for specific cancers. Here are the FDA approved monoclonal antibodies for cancer treatment: 1. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia=Alemtuzumab(Campath) 2001 2. Acute myelogenous leukemia=Gemtuzumab-ozogamicin(Mylotarg) 2000 3. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma=Ibritumomab-tiuxetan(Zevalin) 2002 & Rituximab(Rituxan-Mabthera) 1997 & Tositumomab(Bexxar) 2003 4. Colorectal cancer=Bevacizumab(Avastin) 2004 & Cetuximab(Eribtux)2004 & Panitumumab(Vectibix)2006 5. Breast cancer=Trastuzumab(Herceptin)1998 & Bevacizumab (Avastin) 2004 6. Lung cancer=Bevacizumab(Avastin) 2004 7. Head & Neck cancer=Cetuximab(Eribtux)2004(1)

Monoclonal antibodies offer what many medical authorities view as some of the most promising pathways for the treatment of cancer.(2) Monoclonal antibodies are the most widely used form of cancer immunotherapy at this time. Monoclonal antibody therapy is a form of passive immunotherapy, because it uses antibodies made in large numbers outside the body (in the lab), rather than by a person's own immune system.(3) Monoclonal antibodies work on cancer cells in the same way natural antibodies work, by identifying and binding to the target cells. They then alert other cells in the immune system to the presence of the cancer cells.(4) The immune system is then able to destroy the cancer cells.

The second program is known as "Cancer immunotherapy", which attempts to stimulate the immune system to reject and destroy tumors.(5) Many cancer doctors now regard immunotherapy as the "fourth modality," or fourth way, to treat cancer. Many advances against cancer in the future will probably come from this field.(6) White blood cells can be stimulated in various ways to boost the body's immune response to cancer, with little or no effect on healthy tissue.(7) Targeted immunotherapy is designed to make the immune system specifically kill cancer cells.(8) Cancer immunotherapy is the use of the immune system to reject cancer. The main premise is stimulating the patient's immune system to attack the malignant tumor cells that are responsible for the disease. This can be either through immunization of the patient, in which case the patient's own immune system is trained to recognize tumor cells as targets to be destroyed, or through the administration of therapeutic antibodies..., in which case the patient's immune system is recruited to destroy tumor cells by the therapeutic antibodies.(14)

Dendritic Cell therapy is an immune therapy which harnesses the body's own immune system to fight cancer. Dendritic Cell (DC) therapy represents a new and promising immunotherapeutic approach for treatment of advance cancer as well as for secondary prevention of cancer. As Dr. Harmon Eyre, the VP of Research at the AMA commented on results of DC therapy for cancer: "Patients' responses are far out of proportion to anything that any current therapy could do".(15)

The third program is "Virotherapy", which uses onocolytic viruses to destroy cancer. An oncolytic virus is a virus that will grow in a cancer cell and kill it. Once it enters a cancer cell, the virus replicates (reproduces), and when it kills the cancer cell, the virus spreads to other cancer cells.

The first recognition of the potential of virotherapy dates back over a hundred years, when it was noted that some patients with terminal cancers went into remission after suffering a viral infection.(9) This is what happened to me as a child, with the Mumps and Measles. "Viruses are an ideal way to battle cancer because they are so good at choosing which cells to invade, getting around cell defenses, killing the cells, and then replicating themselves."(10) In the 1970s, measles infections were observed to cause regression of pre-existing cancer tumors in children. The Mayo Clinic is unique in its pursuit of oncolytic measles vaccine strains for cancer treatment, in several tumor types, including glioblastoma multiforme (brain tumor), recurrent ovarian cancer and multiple myeloma.(11)

Poultry viruses, belonging to the Newcastle disease virus (NDV) family, can target cancer cells selectively, resulting in replication inside the malignant cell and finally killing the cell, while releasing additional viruses that destroy neighboring cells. Such viruses can also penetrate brain (tumors) and result in dramatic anticancer effects in patients with this deadly type of cancer.(12) The first report that NDV may be useful as a cancer treatment was published in 1964. For 20 years before this report, NDV was used in a vaccine to prevent Newcastle disease in birds. During that time, it was learned that NDV caused only minor illness in humans. The mild side effects caused by NDV in humans and its ability to replicate up to 10,000 times faster in human cancer cells than in most normal human cells, led researchers to look more closely at NDV as a cancer treatment."(13) This commercially available lentogenic vaccine (NDV-B1) is used nationwide in poultry farms and the farmer is repeatedly exposed to it, as he sprays his chickens for vaccination and if he has cancer, it could put him into complete remission, with almost no side effects. Inhalation with a nebulizer is the most common method of treatment in the clinical trials and repeated exposure is what seems most successful in those trials.

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of this republic should make a special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious." Dr. Benjamin Rush (signer of the Declaration of Independence).