T HE N EW D IRECTION IN

C ANCER T HERAPY
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he present emphasis in cancer therapy is to destroy tumours, and all
research focuses on finding new ways for doing this. However, there
is little factual evidence that this approach actually works and benefits
patients, while there is mounting evidence that it is exactly this
approach that makes cancer so dangerous. In my more than 30 years of
To avoid death working with cancer patients, I started out with this common perception of
seeing tumours as the enemy that should be destroyed, but gradually, based
from cancer, we on experience and new independent research, I changed my views.
need to prevent I now regard cancer cells and tumours as generally harmless, and the
common therapies as the main cause of cancer deaths. I believe that with the
inflammation by right strategy, no one needs to die of cancer. Here I want to give a short
overview of a proposed change in cancer therapy.
stabilising and For more than 100 years, there has been increasing evidence for a microbial
cause of cancer. I have written about this in my article "Pleomorphic
then only gradually Microbes: The Hidden Cause of Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases".1 My
eliminating tumours present understanding of the development of cancer is as follows.
Cancer may start with a primary infection which becomes chronic in a
with a combination stressed or congested part of the body, or, according to Reich2, microbial
activity may arise spontaneously from the disintegration of unhealthy tissue.
of oral alkalising, The body limits the infestation by encapsulating it; alternatively, we may
antimicrobial regard tumour formation as a biofilm which microbes use to protect
themselves from the immune system. This is similar to trees forming bark
treatments, tumours when stung by certain wasps. As long as the blood is reasonably
clean, a tumour is just a tumour—not malignant and not a cancer.
proteolytic enzymes However, if the immune system is under constant attack, as from intestinal
dysbiosis, Candida, toxins invading the blood due to leaky gut syndrome,
and periods of stressful events such as emotional trauma or subconscious fear and shock
raw-food fasting. due to a cancer diagnosis, then the blood becomes infested with dangerous
(pleomorphic) microbes. Now, also, any more or less dormant microbes
inside the tumour become active. Cancer-causing microbes produce
metabolites that block the oxidative energy production of affected cells.
Seeger and Budwig showed that there is a blockage of the cytochrome
system. In addition, there may be a blockage of the citric acid cycle by fungal
tartaric acid3 which competes with malic acid. Cancer microbes also produce
growth hormones which cause the tumour to expand.
In any case, pleomorphic microbes increasingly block the oxidative energy
by Walter Last © 2013 production of affected cells and they start producing energy anaerobically,
similar to fungi. Also, tumour cells begin to look like fungal cells. Now the
Website: tumour is malignant but still contained. This situation may persist for years
http://www.health-science- with the tumour slowly growing, shrinking or becoming dormant for long
spirit.com periods depending on the vitality of the body, the strength of the immune
system and especially the acid–alkali balance or pH of the lymphatic system.
The more that the oxidative energy production of tumours is blocked, the

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more lactic acid is produced, the more malignant they Preventing Cancer Deaths
are and the faster they grow and metastasise. However, If we can prevent these three events, then there will be
and this is of vital importance, tumours cannot grow in an no deaths from cancer. A recent study shows the general
alkaline environment. principle of how this can be done, even in a conventional
Cancer cells look, behave, metabolise and spread just setting with chemotherapy. This is based on the idea of
like fungi. We can see this in comparison to Candida. not destroying the tumour, but just giving it enough
Normally it is just a harmless and possibly even chemotherapy to keep it from growing any further. The
beneficial intestinal yeast, but when its existence is researcher, Robert A. Gatenby, MD, stated in an
threatened it transforms into a dangerous and invasive interview: "With a mouse ovarian cancer model, if you
fungal form. It is the same with cancer cells. When treat it with a very high dose, the tumor goes away. It
tumours come under increasing pressure from a looks like you've cured it. But a couple weeks later it
worsening microbial presence or from aggressive comes back and starts killing animals. This is a standard
medical treatment, they become locally invasive and outcome. What we did is use smaller doses of drugs and
also tend to form distant metastases. applied them when necessary. We were able to keep
The trend in modern medicine is to remove even very tumors stable and mice alive indefinitely."5
small tumours. This causes already-present dormant Instead of using chemotherapy, alkalising is the
micrometastases to spring into life years earlier than method of choice in natural medicine to stabilise a
they would otherwise have tumour and keep it from
done, leading to an earlier growing any further. For a
death4, especially in younger tumour to spread, it needs to
individuals with strong Instead of using dissolve the surrounding
inflammatory reactions. chemotherapy, alkalising connective tissue, but that can
Whether conventional tumour happen only if the tissue is
treatment leads to metastasis is the method of choice in sufficiently acidic to activate the
does not depend on the size of natural medicine to stabilise proteolytic enzymes of the
the tumour or its conventionally tumour.
assigned stage or malignancy, a tumour and keep it from A 2009 study showed that oral
but rather on the microbial growing any further. sodium bicarbonate not only
condition of the blood and inhibits the growth of tumours
especially the lymphatic pH and the formation of
(acidity). If conventional spontaneous metastases in
treatment is successful in the long term, this means that mouse models of metastatic breast cancer, but also
the tumour was harmless anyway in regard to microbial reduces the rate of lymph node involvement and hepatic
presence. metastases.6
However, even metastases do not normally kill. These findings were confirmed and surpassed in a
Tumours only rarely kill directly by pressing on vital January 2013 study which showed in detail how oral
structures; instead, they kill more commonly indirectly if bicarbonate not only stops tumour growth but can also
they are attacked by a tumour-destroying treatment or by shrink tumours. Bicarbonate alkalises the lymph fluid
an improved immune system and release large amounts and inhibits inflammation so that a gradually shrinking
of toxins. This then causes death due to massive tumour does not cause a problem as long as alkalinity is
inflammations and infections, often resulting in death maintained.7
from lung infections or heart or liver failure. It does not This study provides fascinating details about tumour
matter if conventional or natural therapies have been growth as a function of acidity. Measurements inside
used to cause these inflammations. Most cancer malignant tumours showed an acidic pH of 6.5–6.9,
patients with metastases who survive the initial compared to normal tissue with a pH of 7.2–7.4 (pH 7 is
treatments die years later from cachexia—severe weight- neutral). A tumour expanded into the surrounding
loss and muscle wasting due to progressive anaemia tissue only where the pH at the edge of the tumour was
from the destruction of erythrocytes (red blood cells) by lower than 7.2. When one side of the tumour had a pH
fungal-type blood microbes. of 6.7 and the other side 7.3, then the tumour would
From this we see that there are three possible ways of shrink at the side of the higher pH and expand into the
dying from cancer: tissue at the side with the lower pH. Within a few days,
• A tumour becomes too large and obstructs vital tumours were actually visibly moving around according
organ functions, although this is rare; to the acid–alkali balance of their environment.
• Immune attacks and toxins released by a In the study's untreated mice, the whole tumour and
disintegrating tumour cause massive inflammations; its surrounding tissue were acidic, with the lowest pH
• Most erythrocytes are disabled by blood microbes (6.57) at the edge of the tumour. In the treated mice, the
and are unable to supply oxygen. whole tumour and its surrounding tissue were alkaline,

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with the highest pH (7.26) at the edge of the tumour. as well. This is basically the case with all therapies that
Untreated tumours on average doubled in size between destroy tumours and generate powerful inflammations
days two and 16 after transplanting. However, those in the process. Examples of this are the Gerson therapy
treated with sodium bicarbonate grew slowly up to day or the use of black salve or similar remedies in
eight and then started shrinking to about half that size, destroying breast tumours. These can be successful but
but one of four tumours had already completely often they are not, and younger and healthier individuals
dissolved by day twelve. The amount of sodium have the most problems because their immune systems
bicarbonate used was 17 grams per litre of water, and the produce the strongest inflammations.
mice could drink as much as they liked. Even destroying tumours by infusion of sodium
Recently I had a demonstration of how different bicarbonate, as with the Simoncini method, is
treatment options tend to play out. In October 2012, a dangerous and can cause inflammation and death. Such
woman with whom I was corresponding was diagnosed problems with natural methods could easily be avoided
with stage 4 lung cancer (the last stage before dying). She by using, in addition, anti-inflammatory measures such
had a large tumour in her right lung, and a lot of fluid in as maintaining oral alkalising, antimicrobial therapy
her heart and lungs. At the same time, the famous cricket and/or periods of undereating or fasting.
commentator and former cricketer, Now, even conventional research
Tony Greig, was diagnosed with stage 1 shows that fasting blocks tumour
lung cancer, having a small malignant growth10 and that periodic fasting11 is
lesion in his right lung. He had surgery much more effective than unrestricted
and other conventional treatment. By Unfortunately, food intake or permanent restriction.
the end of December, Tony Greig had The advantage of fasting is that it
died of cardiac arrest, while the woman many natural shrinks tumours without causing
who was using alkalising and inflammation, because when the body
antimicrobial therapy had no more
therapies create lacks food it just uses unhealthy tissue
fluid, her heart was in excellent problems as well. and tumours as an energy source. An
condition, her blood tests were added benefit is that the food
extremely healthy and she felt great.
This is basically restriction also suppresses microbial
The tumour was still the same size as the case with all activity. Some famous cancer cures
when it was scanned in November. such as the Breuss Cure and the Grape
therapies that Cure use this principle.
Shrinking Tumours Safely destroy tumours Another way of shrinking and
An interesting presentation by possibly eliminating tumours
Gershom Zajicek, MD (Professor and generate without creating inflammations is
of Experimental Medicine and powerful by strongly alkalising, as with
Cancer Research at The Hebrew caesium chloride or with very high
University of Jerusalem), titled inflammations amounts of sodium bicarbonate
"Treatment accelerates tumor in the process. to keep the urine above pH 8 for
growth", explained recent research some time. But these therapies
showing the futility and danger of can also cause problems, and in
trying to remove or reduce most cases I see no need to go to
tumours with conventional extremes.
therapies because, afterwards, Frequently used in natural
either metastases develop or medicine are proteolytic enzymes,
tumours regrow at an increased rate.8 as they help to remove protein debris and shrink tumours
Chemotherapy, especially, was found to make tumours while at the same time inhibiting inflammations.
metastasise and grow massively in size afterwards. As a Favourites are bromelain and papain. In addition, the
result, the drugs killed the patients more quickly.9 When fibrinolytic enzymes nattokinase and serrapeptase inhibit
tumours are stressed, they produce stem cells and, from excessive blood clumping or hypercoagulation12 which is
these, new cancer cells which are much more malignant needed for metastases to form.
and resistant to therapy than they were pre-treatment. I believe that the most convenient and reliable method
Conventional medicine disguises these facts with is to keep tumours initially stable with alkalisers,13 e.g.,
statistics, by detecting and removing increasingly smaller using sodium bicarbonate and potassium citrate spread
and harmless tumours which would never have posed a out during the day, and subsequently shrink tumours
threat but counting them as cured cancers. Furthermore, gradually without causing inflammation. This can be
deaths after cancer treatment are often assigned to other done with a combination of alkalising, antimicrobial
causes, and this reduces the statistical cancer death rate. therapy, proteolytic enzymes and periodic raw-food
Unfortunately, many natural therapies create problems fasting.

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 A remaining problem is still the treatment of However, DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) did not normalise
individuals who used conventional treatment and are these cells.15 The only difference between MSM and
now dying from cachexia. Videos (for example, Humoral DMSO is an additional oxygen atom in MSM. I interpret
Pathology and Symbiosis or Parasitism) made with Grayfield this to mean that MSM had been enzymatically reduced
microscopy14 show very clearly that, with late-stage to DMSO, and the liberated oxygen was in a form that
cancer, most of the erythrocytes are heavily infested with repaired the oxidative energy metabolism of the
microbes and are unable to function. This obviously melanoma cells. This is basically proof that cancer cells
calls for antimicrobial therapy combined with oxygen and normal cells can easily be converted into each other
therapy. Also, individuals with AIDS, tuberculosis and by either blocking or restoring the oxidative energy
various autoimmune diseases frequently die of cachexia, metabolism.
which again shows that this condition is not caused by Commonly, cancer microbes prevent cancer cells from
tumours but, rather, by microbes. becoming normal, but in this case DMSO produced by
the reduction of MSM would have inhibited or killed
Growth Promoters and Inhibitors such microbes. DMSO is effective
To keep a tumour stable, it is also against fungi and mycoplasmas. Both
important to minimise growth- effects, mitochondrial repair and
promoters. The main growth-promoter microbial inhibition, would have
is inflammation, which can be There are also combined to normalise these
controlled with antimicrobial therapy, reports of an melanoma cells. However, in actual
alkalising, fasting, proteolytic therapy, this may not work so well
enzymes, antioxidants and anti- anticancer effect of unless blood microbes are also under
inflammatory herbs. Other common
growth-promoters are polyunsaturated
DMSO on its own. control.
DMSO is frequently used as a carrier
oils, phosphates or foods high in It is apparently in conventional chemotherapy or in
phosphorus, and sugar, cereals and beneficial with antiviral therapy because of its ability
grain products, especially more highly to enter affected cells easily. With
refined varieties, because all of these many cancers cancer, it specifically zooms in on
increase inflammation. malignant cells and can be used to
Easily digestible carbohydrates
such as breast, carry remedies along. This is
are so harmful with cancer lung and prostate especially good for treating brain
because they are the main food tumours which are otherwise
for cancer cells and microbes. cancers and difficult to reach. There are also
More glucose means more lactic lymphomas, and it reports of an anticancer effect of
acid and higher acidity, which in DMSO on its own. It is apparently
turn means more inflammation also can normalise beneficial with many cancers such
and stronger tumour growth. leukaemia cells. as breast, lung and prostate
Another common growth- cancers and lymphomas, and it
promoter is insulin-like growth also can normalise leukaemia
factor 1, or IGF-1, in cow's milk. cells. In one recent study with
While it can stimulate the growth highly invasive lung cancer cells,
of all tumours, it especially the authors wrote: "We found that
affects those of the breasts, prostate, lungs and colon. It DMSO can significantly inhibit cancer cell invasion,
may be no coincidence that these are also the most migration, proliferation, and colony formation
frequent cancers. A universal tumour growth-promoter capabilities…"16 DMSO also caused cancer cells to die
is chronic stress of any kind, be it emotional, nutritional naturally, and it has been shown to protect against
or environmental. radiation damage, especially in regard to cancer
Fresh vegetables and their juices, and especially green- treatment.
leaf vegetables, beetroot and wheatgrass, have been Therefore, it may be preferable to combine MSM with
shown to be able to improve the oxygen metabolism of DMSO in cancer treatment. MSM may be dissolved in
cancer cells and therefore make them less malignant and DMSO at a rate of up to 34 grams per 100 millilitres. For
possibly normal. breast cancer, melanomas and other tumours close to
More recently, this has also been shown for MSM the skin, this solution may be diluted 2:1 or 1:1 with
(dimethyl sulfone). MSM is interesting in that it gives a water and kept as a pack over the tumour site until the
hint of what makes cells malignant. Melanoma cells of a tumour appears to normalise. For accessible internal
particularly aggressive strain were treated with a 2% tumours, such as in the stomach, pancreas, uterus, etc.,
MSM solution. After one day of exposure, the cells had it may be best to expose them frequently to this solution
become completely normal and remained so indefinitely. by assuming a position which tends to pool the ingested

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or instilled solution around the tumour. For inaccessiblesyndrome and root-canal fillings on blood microbes, and
tumours, a combination of high-dose topical and oral how best to normalise conditions. There is evidence that
intake could be tried. However, DMSO should not be cleaning the blood will also gradually eliminate tumours
used rectally as it may carry toxins into the blood. or keep them dormant. This, too, needs to be confirmed
or researched further to find the causes of any failures.
Remaining Questions Until we have a reliable protocol, I recommend using a
A main problem with antimicrobial therapy is the variety of broad-spectrum antimicrobials with good
uncertainty of deciding which antifungal properties in different
remedies are best to clean the combinations and dosages, as
blood, in which dosages and detailed in The Ultimate
combinations, and for how long A main problem with Cleanse17, and with the addition
to use them. This could easily antimicrobial therapy is of an electronic blood purifier or
be assessed with live blood suitable frequency device and,
analysis (LBA), but natural the uncertainty of deciding of course, alkalising to keep
therapists who use LBA which remedies are best urine above pH 7. In Germany,
commonly do not see a isopathic remedies for the
sufficient number of cancer to clean the blood…and for Enderlein therapy are readily
patients to be able to make how long to use them. available. For a detailed
meaningful comparisons. program, see my book
Furthermore, the most effective Overcoming Cancer.18 ∞
remedies against pleomorphic
microbes are banned or under attack from health About the Author:
authorities in most western countries, and it may be Walter Last is a retired biochemist, research chemist,
risky to research in this area. Alternative-minded nutritionist and natural therapist based in Australia. His
medical doctors may have some more leeway in this books are available at http://tinyurl.com/4xkdgcu. He is a
regard. Perhaps a common databank could be long-time contributor to NEXUS. His article “A New
established. Direction in Cancer Therapy” is available online at
Also other aspects would need to be investigated, such http://tinyurl.com/byzt9hz. For more information, visit
as the influence of intestinal dysbiosis, leaky gut http://www.health-science-spirit.com.

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