Healing cancer naturally: unlimiting the views
An interview with Scott E. Miners
Publisher, The Well
Being Journal
Gene Scott: You recently edited and wrote some of the articles in "Healing Cancer Naturally," a special edition of the Well Being Journal (2001) that you published, which has sold almost 20,000 copies to date. What would you do if you had been diagnosed with cancer?
Scott Miners: I was so diagnosed many years ago. Given what I
have learned in the past ten years, the very first things I would
do would be to detoxify my body and put into it only what is pure.
Mostly the assumption here is to use some substance or other to
help detoxify, and that is correct, and pure water is of prime
importance (people have healed just by water fasting alone). However,
important as these approaches are, there is one even more item
crucial to look at in most cases: toxic thoughts and emotions.
G.S.: Will you elaborate?
S.M.: There may be cases of cancer that are isolated to causes
such as environmental toxins. These cases do not fall into the
category of toxic thoughts and emotions as causal of your or my
cancerous condition. However, I say it is important to look at
this aspect of cancer along with any detoxification and support
of the body, because every anger or disappointment or hurt that
you remember or hold against someone is an energy in your being
that attracts a growth, and it is a negative growth.
G.S.: What would you suggest when this is the case?
S.M.: Without a doubt in my mind, if you have any illness that
could be related to the psychological-and most are in some way-then
forgiveness is the solution. When you forgive someone (including
yourself!) you understand him or her. When you understand, it
lifts or transforms the energy in your being that was causing
a growth. This is a most natural and very powerful "treatment"
that, from my perspective, must be a part of the healing program.
Because if you have unresolved issues, all of the medical treatments,
natural herbs and foods and immune system support and detoxification
in the world will only help in a compromised way-it is very much
a time to reexamine and rethink all of your life.
G.S.: Regarding a cancer diagnosis and natural treatments, why
is it so many physicians only recommend treatments limited to
chemotherapy or surgery? Have collective politics been involved
in a subtle suppression of very effective natural cancer healing
modalities?
S.M.: There is evidence that all the potential help that alternative
therapies could offer has been and still is being suppressed.
Many people who are aware of alternatives tell me they would like
to use proven, natural treatments, as they have no side effects,
but that their insurance doesn't cover those options. So they
opt for chemotherapy and radiation because the insurance covers
it; then they buy out-of-pocket whatever they can afford from
the health stores. I read an article recently by investigative
journalist Peter Barry Chowka, who interviewed David J. Hess,
Ph.D. author of Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies, about
biases toward cancer treatment. He said he became interested in
how industrial interests create selection pressures in academic
science and research that tends to favor research programs that
benefit industry rather than the general public.
G.S.: What can someone do today if diagnosed with cancer; where
can someone find information about alternative therapies?
S.M.: Start by asking your oncologist: "Will you give me
the names of at least five of your patients who have been healed
of cancer for at least five years," and if he or she cannot
do so, ask more questions. You will find from other sources that
there are many effective, time-tested, nontoxic, natural treatments-and
a plethora of success stories. Many pharmaceutical claims state
that chemotherapy and radiation caused the cure of a cancer, but
little is said about the adverse side effects: immune system damage,
brain damage and scarring that can last a lifetime. Our special
edition on "Healing Cancer Naturally" is a good place
to begin to explore alternatives, as it is full of success stories,
information and resources for further reading.
G.S.: It is hard to believe that there are only two basic treatments
supported by the medical system and insurance.
S.M.: Most state administrative laws in the U.S. bar physicians
from treating cancer with anything but chemotherapy, surgery or
radiation. This limit of physicians to conventional oncology is
a result of medical practices laws that were put into effect many
years ago. Those laws derive from AMA interests and are related
to "the conventional cancer industry." See Harris Coulter,
Ph.D.'s wonderful book Divided Legacy.
G.S.: What do you know about chemotherapy?
S.M.: Ralph Moss, Ph.D., who is a leading researcher in the field
of both conventional and CAM treatments for cancer, states that
for the vast majority of cancer cases, there is no proof that
chemotherapy extends life. For a minority of tumors-Hodgkin's
disease and testicular cancer being two examples-chemotherapy
does extend life, and the keyword here is "extend,"
not improve, but for the majority it does not (extend or improve).
In fact, when Dr. Moss suggested to an oncologist that chemotherapy
on solid tumors, especially in disseminated disease, shows no
proof of working, the oncologist replied by stating: "I'd
go further than that. I'd say that there is proof-proof that it
doesn't work."
G.S.: That is a most revealing statement.
S.M.: Indeed. We quoted another physician in our special who said
he was diagnosed with cancer at age sixty-five and refused chemotherapy
and radiation, even though he was told by his oncologist he would
only live one more year without those treatments. He went out
and learned about alternatives. He visited the Virginia Livingston
Clinic in San Diego and went on a program of natural foods and
raw vegetable juices, lots of water, and he healed. Then he acted
as director of the Clinic for the next twenty years.
I know the science shows chemotherapy seemingly destroys cancer
viruses or cells. However, it also shows that chemotherapy destroys
healthy cells too. The Hippocratic Oath includes the words: "To
do no harm" to the patient. The overwhelming evidence is
that there are many treatments that are nontoxic and do no harm
as does chemotherapy and radiation.
G.S.: What are some of the alternative cancer treatments that
are covered in your special edition "Healing Cancer Naturally"?
S.M.: One of the most fascinating stories is the one about Haelan.
I was approached about four years ago by the author of our feature,
Donna Sage, and I asked her lots of questions. She had met the
president of Haelan by coincidence on a flight to Houston. She
sent us a draft article at my request, and I asked her many more
questions after reading it. She did the research and then introduced
me to the president of the Haelan company and their chief researcher.
The researcher discovered the product in China, where it was used
effectively to offset the ill-effects of chemotherapy and to stop
cachexia. This man helped the company that produces Haelan to
refine it. He discovered, through his research in fermentation
processes, that when you nitrogenate the isoflavones in soy, the
isoflavones can enter the cancer cell and disintegrate it from
within. Cancer cells otherwise won't let isoflavones in via the
cell receptors, but they will let nitrogen in because cancer thrives
on it. When you attach a nitrogen molecule to the isoflavone,
the cancer cell pulls in the nitrogen with the isoflavone attached,
and that is the beginning of its demise. I am very impressed with
the number of people who have healed cancer conditions with the
use of Haelan.
G.S.: Would you use Haelan if you had cancer?
S.M.: Without a doubt in my mind. It would be the first aid I
would add to my program. I have used it. It is expensive, and
it isn't covered by insurance (yet), but it is expensive because
of the painstaking fermentation process, the hand-picked pure
soybeans and water used and the labor. It isn't expensive compared
to chemotherapy, even if it is covered by insurance, because there
are no harmful side effects and it is very effective in regressing
tumors and alleviating cancer cells from the body. I highly recommend
reading our in-depth article about this fascinating product on
our website:wellbeingjournal.com.
G.S.: What else is in your special edition?
S.M.: Another wonderful feature in the special edition is the
Essiac story, which I first wrote myself about six or seven years
ago and then updated for this special issue. Essiac is an herbal
formula, also called Floressence™, that is seen to be a tumor
regressor, detoxifier and general immune system enhancer. It is
associated with thousands of cases of healing cancer. It is now
being studied at two major universities and is used in hospitals
in Russia.
There are also feature articles about MGN-3, a special derivative
of mushrooms now used effectively by thousands of people; Thymic
Protein A, which is proven now to be a powerful immune system
enhancer to build the body's ability to manufacture T-cells; Medical
Ozone therapy-the oxygenation of the blood-as oxygen disintegrates
pathogens such as cancer cells, and viruses such as HIV, and has
been used effectively in Europe for fifteen years; Hyperthermia,
the application of heat (done in clinical settings) to raise the
body's temperature and detoxify; The Gerson Therapy, which uses
natural foods, raw vegetable juices and enemas to detoxify the
body; Una de Gato, an Amazon rainforest herb (root) that has long
been used for its effectiveness with cancer and immunity; Flax
oil, which supplies EFAs and is associated with the prevention
and cure of breast cancer especially. And an intriguing story
about Intrasound and its association to the healing of cancer.
Really, the whole issue is a seventy-two page magazine packed
full of valuable knowledge: which foods to eat, how to detoxify,
how to build the immune system, and there are many personal stories-people
telling how they did what they did with these natural alternatives.
Also, there are resources, clinics and other sources referenced
which readers may use to acquire more in-depth information. I
highly recommend reading this special edition of the Journal.
Healing Cancer Naturally, 2001is a special edition of the Well
Being Journal and costs $6.95. To order call 888-532-3117.
http://www.wellbeingjournal.com
Resources:
·Guradian of London quote: Sept. 29, 1990.
·Peter Barry Chowka and David J. Hess: see http://www.chowka.com,
and Hess's book Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies: A Guide
to the Science and Politics of an Emerging Medical Field, February
1999.
·Ralph Moss's comments came from a highly recommended interview
in Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, January 1998.