IS CANCER A FUNGUS?

Ariadne....No cancer is NOT a fungus and that e mail was a scam......You have to be very careful about bogus claims like those especially if they ask for money too......Cancer involves the genes at their most primitive level whereas the gene in question mutates and starts to change dramatically and is not like the other cells in your body....Cancer eats away the good cells.......We get losts of scammers here too who supposedly have the cure or knows where it is...Once we had someone post that the cure was in the Andes Mountains!...Who knew?!?.....But no sadly we have no cure as of yert for breast cancer.....I hope and pray it is found in my lifetime and if not then in my daughter's....Hugs....Lucy

Ariadne, hollyann is right that cancers are mutated cells.

Now, what can TRIGGER those mutations includes many, many different things: random errors in cell reproduction (which increase with age), radiation (anything from sunlight to x-rays to nuclear fallout, as in Hiroshima), various chemical and pharmaceutical compounds ("environmental exposure"), even a virus (there is a lymphocytic leukemia endemic in Japan and parts of the Caribbean and Africa that has been shown to be associated with a virus, HTLV, or human T lymphocytic virus) -- so it is not inconceivable that a particular fungus could be ASSOCIATED with DEVELOPMENT of a particular cancer -- possibly a fungus that has immunosuppressant properties, so that the body can't effectively get rid of mutated cells? or a fungus that triggers mutations? -- but cancer is not a fungus.

Ariadne, the u-tube video interviews with oncologist Dr. Tulio Simoncini is impressive. I recieved a personal e-mail from someone whose friend went to see the italian oncologist. She did the sodium bicarbonate treatments along with something else natural and was cured of breast cancer. I don't know all the details, but I do know if my cancer returns invasive I'm going to visit this oncologist.

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Don't let one bogus claim make you fearful of trying promising herbs or natural medicine to treat your cancer. There are good treatments and bad ones. It's up to you to do your homework to decide which is which.

There is a lot that is unknown about cancer. Not all cancers are the same. I say, keep a open mind.  B Barry

This is from Ralph Moss' most recent newsletter. He disagrees with Simoncini that cancer is a fungus but finds merit with sodium bicaronate as a treatment....

Cancer Decisions® - Simoncini's Bicarbonate Treatment For Cancer
http://www.cancerdecisions.com/content/view/228/2/lang,english/

yes it is true cancer is a fungus Dr Simoncini has been cureing folks with grrrrr8 success. with baking soda ,,,it was used in india 2,000 years ago ....also HEMP oil taken by mouth at 3 - 5 grams a day will cure most cancers 

you are sooooo blind... face it the world is not flat and cancer is a fungus also hemp oil taken orally at 3 to 4 grams a day will cure most cancers  see the rick simpson story on you tube 

doen't Big Pharma ask for monney?

cancer is a fungus and a tumor is the bodies last ditch effort to encaspulate the fungus colony, so when the surgen cuts out the tumor he is speading the fugus around  when you get a breast exam you  just squeeze and move the fungus around .Now look folks Cancer is a fungus and big pharma dont want you to know baking soda works also! and add Hemp Oil taken orally at 3-5 grams a day will cure cancer.So folks The world is not flat and dont listen to the folks that say it is flat  We are being lied to for monies sake,there is no need for research, it was done 2,000 years ago in INDIA.......... WAKE UP!

Bonniewilsonburns, there is research into the possible cancer preventative properties of consuming mushrooms.  Ideas range from mushrooms stimulating the immune system, to acting as an aromatase inhibitor, lowering estrogen levels.  They may have been collecting data to test that hypothesis in the population of patients.

Chemotherapy drugs are often anti-mitotic.  That is, they interfere with cell division.  This strategy is employed in many antibiotics and anti-fungals as well.  It's likely this mechanism of action that wiped out the fungal infection on your toes.  Most rapidly dividing cells are effected by chemotherapy, and that would include the fungal cells, that are somewhat similar to both plan and animal cells.

Anything that causes inflammation on a chronic basis may shatter a chromosome or tweak DNA which could lead to some types of cancer. But the cancer is not in and of itself a "fungus". Aflatoxin is a fungus that causes liver cancer, but the cancer is the result of those effects, and the cancer is not in and of itself a fungus. There may be some merit in baking soda as a part of a larger therapy program but, it is not proven truly effective. Cancer has the ability to create an acidic micro-environment, even in the most alkali conditions. In fact, the more alkali certain cellular environments are, the more this reaction by cancer cells can be deepened. It is not as simple as using infusions of baking soda unfortunately.

Cancer is NOT a fungus but a fungus may cause cancer. The author of this book or whatever has have used a very clever marketing maneuver. The cancer is an uncontrolled division of cells caused due to mutations in proto-oncogenes and in tumor suppresser genes. Unless proved scientifically, do not believe in such hornswoggle.....   

Regards

Deepesh Soni

Cancer is a fungus?!!?!?!

Speaking as a BRCA2 positive (8765delAG mutation), I believe the correct medical term for that theory - using the appropriate Latin terminology, of course - is "tauros excrementa," although I do like deepeshsoni's use of "hornswoggle."

Meanwhile, with all due respect Maud, it looks as if Deepeshsoni's cred's are as a cell biologist. I'd like to hear what he has to say, personal experience with breast cancer or no.

Charles I like your sense of humor!