by miraclesinprogress

Created on: January 20, 2011

While we have long been told a quick "cure" for cancer is quite likely a long ways off, there are groups of people who do not seem to contract cancer easily in the first place. There are also people who have survived horrendous experiences with cancer and have lived to write books about their survival experiences: some of them have discovered and/or appropriated multi-faceted methods of healing.

As a survivor of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, I have, for many years, had a keen interest in cancer prevention as well as cancer cures. I honestly believe that a cancer "cure" (and more than one "cure") quite likely exists, and has existed, for centuries.

Why do I make such a [potentially] bizarre sounding statement? For one reason, because I have read so many books (some by medical physicians that have radically altered their approaches to cancer treament after receiving the dreaded diagnosis themselves and finding the medical responses they previously had unequivocal faith in to be sorely wanting) by authors who have experienced dramatic turnarounds in initial tumor growth with a variety of natural remedies, whether or not these have been combined with "conventional" therapies. However, that being said, given that various cancers do not "happen" overnight, I do not believe they can always be "cured" by a single modality or remedy or pill.

Cancer is still one of the most terrifying illnesses. Sometimes people have tried unique natural remedies alone; sometimes these remedies have been combined with dietary and/or lifestyle changes. Sometimes people have engaged a "Patch Adams" approach; sometimes people have utilized ideas after reading the books written by Norman Cousins, such as Anatomy of an Illness, and The Healing Heart.

I want to provide an excellent example of how a lack of information can keep us from understanding the most basic aspect of cancer, and this is evidenced from the information on the front of David Servan-Schreiber's (M.D., Ph.D., by the way) fairly recent book, entitled Anti Cancer: A New Way of Life. Above this title are two small lines of type and they read:

     "All of us have cancer cells in our bodies. But not all of us will develop cancer."

Herein lies one of the first mysteries about cancer. We already "have" it or as the author's introduction states: "Cancer lies dormant in all of us." So, we just might not be developing it. Why not? This is a very important

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