| There has been something leading me into the | | | | germ could have more than one form is a threat to |
| direction of researching information on a possible link | | | | doctors and some microbiologists. The cancer germ |
| between microorganisms (bacteria and viruses) and | | | | has been described as having a virus like and fungus |
| their role in causing certain forms of cancer. Based on | | | | like, as well as a mycoplasma like phase. Such a Life |
| recent evidence linking microorganisms to not only | | | | Cycle is deemed nonsense in a lot of the medical |
| diseases but to the possible causative agent of | | | | community. Several scientists studied the pleomorphic |
| several types of cancer, I feel this article is credible | | | | cancer microbe. The results of this research indicate |
| for shedding light on this theory. Cancer kills millions of | | | | that cancer microbes are best detected by special |
| people every year and we need to find out as much | | | | staining tissue testing. Microbiologists love to separate |
| information about this health problem as possible. | | | | viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, and fungi, as distinct |
| Unfortunately, it is fair to say that most healthcare | | | | entities. In fact there is interplay between all of them. |
| physicians are either unaware of cancer | | | | Viruses can infect certain forms of bacteria, but |
| microorganism research, ignore the findings or are | | | | scientists cannot understand how microbes can |
| resistant to the research on it. When certain diseases | | | | change into virus-like, mycoplasma-like and fungus like |
| were initially identified as having a microbe as its | | | | infectious agents. The cancer microbe is related to |
| cause, cancer didn't act like an infectious disease and | | | | the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, it is helpful to |
| therefore it was concluded that microbes weren't the | | | | compare the microbiology of cancer with what we |
| causative. There were a few scientists who later | | | | know about the microbiology of mycobacteria and |
| found pleomorphic(capable of assuming different | | | | their production of various forms of clinical TB. |
| shapes) bacteria; these bacteria were simply | | | | Research has indicated that the same identical germs |
| dismissed as contaminants or as microbes that had | | | | do not always cause TB. |
| secondarily infected cancerous growths. Also, at this | | | | As a result, there is no reason to expect all |
| time there was no single or consistent type of | | | | cancer-associated bacteria to be exactly the same |
| microbe found and animals experimentally infected | | | | germ. Furthermore, just as everyone who harbors |
| with cancer microbes did not develop cancer. Thus | | | | H.pylori does not develop stomach ulcers, we should |
| for decades before the rise of virology and molecular | | | | not expect all cancer microbes to produce cancer. |
| biology, and a time before the revelation of | | | | Also it is not unreasonable to consider the fact that |
| mycoplasma forms of bacteria, the medical society | | | | cancer microbes have the potential to produce |
| concluded that bacteria were not involved as a cause | | | | disease states that are not considered cancer. |
| of cancer in any way. As a result, this conclusion has | | | | Cancer microbes can be identified in various disease |
| stained medical thought about cancer to this day. | | | | states. There are photomicrographs of cancer |
| It has taken the medical community many years to | | | | microbes in autoimmune diseases such as |
| finally discover the fact that microbes could even | | | | scleroderma, in AIDS related Kaposi's sarcoma, in |
| cause disease. There was a 200 hundred-year period | | | | breast cancer, in lymphoma and Hodgkins disease, in |
| where physicians knew about microbes, but didn't | | | | a lung disease called interstitial pneumonitis, in |
| realize that they could actually cause disease. In | | | | sarcoidosis and even in skin cancer. Not everyone |
| essence for two centuries the dogma was that | | | | who becomes infected with TB germs develops |
| those tiny microbes could not possibly be a threat to | | | | clinical tuberculosis. Individuals can harbor the TB germ |
| a grown person. Within the medical community once | | | | without ever becoming ill. The same is true for |
| something becomes a dogma, it is very difficult to | | | | cancer microbes. Not everyone who carries these |
| change medical thinking. Infectious bacteria can usually | | | | microbes develops cancer. |
| be recognized in disease because they can be seen | | | | One researcher found the microbe to be ubliquitous, |
| microscopically in tissue sections from disease states. | | | | which means it is found various disease states and |
| On occasion special staining of tissue sections is | | | | can also be found normally. The research also labeled |
| necessary to make microbes more visible and more | | | | the microbe a progenitor cryptocides, which means |
| easily identifiable. As a side note, in cancerous tissue, | | | | hidden killer. Most importantly, cancer microbes are |
| the cancer microbe is most easily viewed with an | | | | significant because they can be identified in the |
| acid-fast tissue stain. | | | | cancerous tissue in various forms of cancer. Also a |
| In this era of modern technology and medical | | | | few of these microbes can be seen in normal tissue, |
| breakthroughs, one would think that it would be | | | | but strikingly large numbers can be seen in the areas |
| impossible for disease experts to overlook | | | | of the tumor. These same microbes can be found in |
| disease-causing bacteria. An incident took place | | | | pre-cancerous conditions, suggesting that these |
| among legionnaires in Philadelphia in July 1976. This | | | | germs are present before the actual induction of |
| incident was a new and deadly lung disease that | | | | cancer. Furthermore, when cancer is cured by |
| struck two hundred twenty-two people in which | | | | radiation and chemotherapy, the microbe can still be |
| thirty-four died. The cause of this lung disease | | | | found in the damaged, previously cancerous areas. |
| remained a medical mystery for well over 5 months. | | | | One reason cancer cannot be cured is that we |
| Bacterial infection was ruled out when all tests were | | | | cannot stop the destruction caused by these hidden |
| reported as negative. One astute microbiologist finally | | | | and unrecognized bacterial elements. The reason |
| discovered bacteria. Joe McDade at the Leprosy | | | | antibiotics don't work well in cancer is because the |
| Branch of the CDC, was able to detect unusual | | | | microbes (in the mycoplasma state) aren't susceptible |
| bacteria in guinea pigs experimentally infected with | | | | to antibiotics. |
| lung tissue from the dead legionnaires. A further | | | | For more information on cancer and other health |
| modification of bacterial culture methods finally | | | | related problems visit the website located in the |
| allowed the isolation of causative bacteria, now | | | | resource box. |
| known as Legionella pneumophila. | | | | DISCLAIMER |
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| in the stomach lining. The CDC now claims that | | | | health-care professionals, or who fail to consult with |
| H.pylori causes more than 90% of duodenal ulcers | | | | health-care professionals assume all risks of such |
| and 80% of gastric ulcers. As a result, around | | | | conduct. The publisher isn't responsible for errors or |
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