What Causes Cancer, And Can You Avoid It?

What causes cancer? Does anyone really know?

Cancer is perhaps the scariest of modern diseases. (Actually it’s been around for centuries, but it’s never been as common as it is now. The Romans knew of cancer, and treated it with bitter almonds.)

There are some obvious causes of cancer, such as cigarette smoking. By avoiding these you can reduce your risk of getting cancer.

There are foods known to reduce the chance of getting cancer, or to improve your chances of surviving it.

Medical scientists have studied cancer in great detail; they can list hundreds of different types, describing the stages and symptoms of breast cancer, symptoms of lung cancer, prostate cancer symptoms, symptoms of skin cancer, brain cancer, - on and on for pages and pages.

But are the scientists really any closer to knowing what causes cancer and how to cure or even prevent it?

It seems not, as they are still spending millions on research: what causes cancer:is it a virus or a bacteria? is there a gene for cancer?

The orthodox view assumes that the cancer cells are the enemy and must be killed or cut away. Treatment aims to kill or cut away the cancer cells.

Is it really logical to treat cancer with carcinogenic chemicals? Or with radiation? We all know that radiation causes cancer, how can it cure it?

The hope is that the cancer cells will all be killed before too many of the normal cells have been. The most successful of the orthodox cancer clinics give the patients nutritional support ‘to help them survive the treatment’! Personally, I’d rather have cancer. If you ask most oncologists (cancer doctors), they wouldn’t have chemotherapy or radiotherapy either.

Though the techniques for surgery and radiotherapy are constantly being refined, and new drugs for chemotherapy being invented, if you read between the lines it seems the only thing they are really getting better at is diagnosing cancer earlier – which makes it look as if people are surviving longer.

Luckily there are natural therapies available to help. These can be used to complement orthodox treatment or as an alternative to it. Natural therapies work without needing to ask what causes cancer, as they treat the whole person rather than concentrating on the cancer.

There is also a completely different theory about cancer, which gives a much more logical and complete picture of it as a single disease. According to this Unitarian theory the cure for cancer is simple and natural, as all cures should be. It not only answers the question, what is cancer, but makes cancer prevention as easy as prevention of scurvy.

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