Despite decades of hugely expensive cancer research,
medical science still has not found a cause and a cure for mankind's
most dreaded disease. Why can't we cure cancer and AIDS and autoimmune
disease?
One possible answer lies in the inability of scientists
to recognize the "cancer microbe." Virginia Livingston, M.D. spent
a lifetime studying this infectious germ that she discovered in cancer
and autoimmune disease.
Livingston, a San Diego internist who died in 1990 at
age 84, reported in a series of scientific papers that the cancer
microbe (which she called Progenitor Crypotocides) had various microscopic
forms in its life cycle that resembled viruses, bacteria and fungi.
She and her colleagues described the Pc germ as an intra- and extra-cellular
parasite that lived within and outside the cells. She explained how
it could be cultured and recognized in the laboratory, and how it
could be identified in the blood of both sick and healthy individuals.
The larger bacterial and fungus-like forms could be seen microscopically,
but the smaller virus-like forms could only be seen in high-powered
electron microscopes.
In 1974, Livingston discovered that the microbe secreted
a growth hormone called choriogonadotropin, which stimulated the
production of cancer tumors and depressed the immune response. Her
research has appeared in The American Journal of Medical Sciences,
The American Journal of Pathology, The Annals of the New York Academy
of Sciences, and other scientific journals.
Before I am hauled off for attending medical school
on another planet, please be assured that I am aware of current cancer
research which holds that genetic abnormalities and viruses, or both,
are the cause of cancer. However, I am also aware that most doctors
are unfamiliar with published cancer microbe research. Like viruses,
cancer bacteria live within the cell in close proximity to the genetic
material in the cell's nucleus. Therefore, these intracellular parasites
should be taken seriously as possible cancer-causing agents.
A century ago when bacteria were proven to cause syphilis,
tuberculosis and leprosy, it was commonly thought that cancer might
also be caused by bacteria. However, because cancer did not act like
an infectious or contagious disease, and because no consistent bacteria
could be isolated from cancerous tissue, the bacterial theory of cancer
was abandoned and remains so to this day.
In recent years, virologists and molecular biologists
have taken over cancer research. Now new immunosupressive and contagious
viruses like HIV (the AIDS virus) are known to be cancer-causing.
However, physicians have also learned that simple, common, "opportunistic"
bacterial, fungal and parasite germs can be far more deadly to the
AIDS patient than the AIDS virus.
Unlike foreign germs that attack the body from without,
the cancer microbe exists within all human beings. When the immune
system is damaged, or when cells are damaged, these germs cause trouble.
When these microbes proliferate in the tissues or in the blood they
can produce simple inflammation, or they can initiate more serious
diseases like cancer and auto-immune disease.
Wilhelm Reich, the famous psycho-analyst and associate
of Sigmund Freud, also found cancer microbes (which he called "T-bacilli")
in both healthy and sick people. This physician-scientist devised
a blood test for cancer, based on his observations that the blood
of sick patients contained a much larger number of microbes than the
blood of healthy people.
Reich's discovery of bions and orgone energy, as well
as his proposed treatment methods for cancer, were highly controversial
and he eventually incurred the wrath of the U.S. government. He was
brought to trial and sentenced to federal prison for two years in
1956. Before his incarceration, FDA officials axed his laboratory
in Maine, and six tons of his books and journals were ordered burned
in an unprecedented scientific holocaust. On November 3, 1957, the
sixty-year old Reich was found dead in his prison cell, an apparent
victim of a heart attack.
Followers of Reich still continue his research. Scientists
at the Orgone Bio-physical Research Laboratory offer seminars on the
Reich Blood Test and other aspects of his scientific work. Quintessential
reading for understanding the cancer microbe and its origin are Reich's
books The Cancer Biopathy and The Bion Experiments on the Origin of
Life (both reissued by Ferrar, Straus and Giroux), and Livingston's
The Conquest of Cancer.
Mainstream scientists are quick to dismiss so-called
cancer bacteria as "contaminant" or "opportunist" microbes - or as
germs that might work their way into cancer tissue but are not related
to the cause of cancer. However, experiments have shown that injecting
cancer microbes into animals can cause cancer; and microbes can be
detected in "precancerous" tissue, before the formation of cancer
tumors actually occurs. Cancer may be deadly because it is basically
an infection that may not be totally eradicated by surgery, chemotherapy,
or radiation.
My own research confirms the work of Livingston, Reich,
and other cancer microbe researchers. More than two dozen published
medical papers show that bacteria can be identified in the disease
tissue of cancer, autoimmune disease, and even AIDS. Cancer microbes
have been found in the swollen lymph nodes of "AIDS-related complex"
and in AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma. My book, The Cancer Microbe,
documents a century of cancer microbe research and includes pictures
of the cancer microbe in the diseased tissue of breast cancer, lymphoma
cancer, Kaposi'' sarcoma, scleroderma, lupus, lung and lymph node
disease, and certain other diseases "of unknown cause."
Although the existence of cancer microbes has been proven
in the scientific literature, leading cancer and AIDS authorities
remain openly hostile to this research. For example, in a Los Angeles
Times interview (April 6, 1984), Robert Gallo, the world's foremost
AIDS researcher, dismissed Livingston's research as "insanity." He
ranted, "She can have her theories and what can I say? I can't see
any basis and I don't know what to say or what analogy to give you."
To this day, Gallo claims that no infectious agent had
ever been demonstrated in Kaposi's sarcoma (the so-called "gay cancer").
Yet he (and the rest of the AIDS establishment) ignores research showing
bacteria in KS in peer-reviewed medical journals such as The Journal
of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology, Cutis, Growth and others.
Why is important AIDS and cancer research ignored? One
explanation is that the discovery of cancer-causing bacteria would
cause havoc in medical science. Physicians would be forced to reevaluate
current treatments for cancer (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, organ
and bone marrow transplantation) in the light of their effectiveness
against these microbes. And the financial interests of the powerful
cancer establishment would be severely threatened by the recognition
of cancer microbes.
Because cancer microbe infection cannot be totally eradicated
by antibiotics, new healing methods would have to be devised to put
these germs back into balance within he body. Certain "alternative"
methods of healing might prove useful in decreasing the toxic effects
of cancer microbe infection. Livingston often recommended non-traditional
remedies, as well as certain antibiotics andspecific "autogenous"
vaccines that were made from bacteria cultured from the patient.
Long before the American Cancer Society began recommending
dietary changes, Livingston strongly advised patients to adopt a totally
vegetarian, largely raw food diet. Eggs, cheese, alcohol and tobacco
were forbidden. Because she considered cancer a chronic infectious
disease, she encouraged vitamin, mineral, and enzyme supplementation.
She never claimed that her nutritional and vaccine programs would
cure cancer, but she believed they improved the immune response against
cancer and helped patients to live longer and healthier.
In the continuing quest to conquer cancer, medical science
should stop suppressing cancer microbe research and allow reasonable
discussion of the issues. This assumes, of course, that the lucrative
cancer industry really wants so find a cause and a cure for cancer.
