POTENTIAL CAUSES OF CARCINOMA


References from: Biotherapeutic Index - Ordinatio Antihomotoxica et Materia Medica

Destributed by the Medical-Scientific Department of Biologische Heilmittel Heel GmbH

Baden-Baden, Germany, 1997

Theory of Irritation/Stimulation (Virchow)

Chronic irritation or stimulation (Thermal, mechanical, inflammatory, etc.) disturbs the histological equilibrium, thus inducing the proliferation of certain tissues.

Examples:

Oesophageal Carcinoma in a habitual consumer of hard liquor, carcinoma of the lip in pipe-smokers, ca. of the penis exclusively in non-circumcised males, bladder ca. in cases of bilharziosis, ca. of the urinary bladder, kidney, or gallbladder in conjunction with calculus of the respective organs, etc.


Theory of Hyperregenaration (Supersedes the Irritation Theory) ( Fischer-Wasels)

Tumor development is particularly frequent in regions in which tissues are repeatedly destroyed and subsequently regenerated. The malignant tumor is to be perceived as the product of defective regeneration.

Examples:

Carcinoma of the stomach ensuing recurring ulcers, Hepatic ca. after chronic cirrhosis of the liver, bronchial ca. in the aftermath of chronic bronchitis (smokers).

Theory of Germ-Layer Displacement (Cohnheim)

In cases in which germs-layers become displaced during the process of embryonic maturation and remain in such a false location, that tumor germs may form as a result of this developmental disturbance.

Examples:

Hamartoma from hepatic cavernomae, angioma, choladenoma, and adrenal germ-layers; choristoma from sacral or ovarian dermoids, teratoid tumors (of the testicle or ovaries).

In addition chorionepithelioma in males, craniopharyngeoma, branchiogenic, tumors, adamantoma, chordoma, multiple neurofibromatosis (Recklinghausen's disease).

The Radiation Theory

Multifarious tumors may be caused through radiation.

Examples:

Leukaemia ensuing exposure of radiation (Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, radiologists, patients undergone radiotherapy), thyroid ca. ensuing radiation treatment, Schneeberg's pulmonary tumor (radium), Thorotrast tumors (from Thorotrast, a radiopaque medium; thorium; devices for X-ray emission).

Chemical Theory

Contact with a carcinogenic substance over extended periods of time leads via inflammation to tumor development. Possible grounds include: a) disturbance of the enzyme system b) denaturation of cellular proteins c) adverse effects sustained by chromosomes .

Example:

Scrotal carcinoma in chimney-sweeps (first occupation-linked cancer), dermal ca. in workers exposed too far, bronchial as well as lip, mouth and larynx cancer in smokers (tar), cancer of the urinary bladder in workers exposed to aniline.

Theory of Hereditary Transmission

Increased tumoural frequency has been observed to occur within certain families. One distinguishes among predisposition to cancer according to the type of tumor, individuality, organ(s) affected, race, age and gender.

Examples:

Intestinal polyposis (probably dominant), tumors of the auditory nerve (dominant), retinal glioma ( irregularly dominante).

Trauma Theory (according to H. Rindfleisch)

Through sustained trauma, fragments of tissue become removed from their natural correlations. A tumor may subsequently develop from these traumatically "extraterrotorialised" tissue segments

Examples:

Tumor from a traumatically epidermatic epithelial-cyst.

Neural Theory (according to E. v. Rindfleisch)

Irritation-induced tumors are most likely to develop within regions in wich nervous destribution and regulation is disturbed or disrupted.

Example:

Irritation Theory.

The infection Theory

Infective agents (including parasites, see bilharziosis) can evoke malignant tumors by means of chronic irritation (see Irritation Theory). The Virus Theory perceives viruses to be determinative cause of cancer. Close interrelationships exist between the Mutation and the Virus Theories since a virus is capable of assuming the role of mutated gene.

Example:

Burkitt's tumor in African children (Epstein-Barr Virus), Kaposi's sarcoma in cases of HIV infection (AIDS). The disease AIDS provides a particularly vivid demonstration of the close interlinkage existing among infection, the bodily defense system and carcinogenesis.


Regardless of one's standpoint on the various individual cancer theories, the fact of the immune system's involvement in some manner in carcinomal development is unquestionable. Uncertain for the moment is which role it plays - whether the weakness in immunity is cause or result of the disease and whether the immune system hinders tumoural growth or possibly even fosters it. In order to develop immunotherapeutic concepts, therefore, it is decisively crucial to gain insight into the functional role played by the immune system during cancer development.

The teachings of homotoxicology according to Dr. H.-H. Reckeweg seek to provide such insight. Within a logical concept, homotoxicology endeavors to influence the course of disease, including that of neoplasm development, through application of antihomotoxic therapy.

Decisive in cases of cancer, of course, is the point in its developmental course at which diagnosis is established; a prerequisite factor for early introduction of a comprehensive therapeutic concept. prognosis can be evaluated on an individual basis only, depending upon the degree of severity displayed in each case.

To date, the following therapeutic techniques have received ample scientific substantiation as potentially successful means of treatment for the corresponding types of cancer:

  1. Operative treatment (Surgery)
  2. Treatment utilizing radioactivity (Radiotherapy)
  3. Treatment employing chemical agents (Chemotherapy)
  4. Immunomodulation


A program offering cancer-specific diagnostics and therapeutic measures therefore requires the effective collaboration of multiple disciplines with the various medical professions.

Neoplasm phases within the parenchyma, epithelium (carcinoma), and connective tissue (sarcoma) are the final phases of all homotoxicoses. The neoplasm phase represents cellular disease

A malignant tumor generally originates as a transformed cell. "Transformed" in this sense denotes defects within the genetic material. Such transformation is passed from one cellular generation to the next.

Malignant tumor develop i the following instances:

  1. Upon mutation of cellular mitogens of oncogens.
  2. When viral oncogens become integrated within the cell's DNA and
  3. in cases of loss (deletion) or ineffectiveness of tumour-supressing organs.


The impetus for a turn-over reaction from a healthy cell into a transformed tumor cell may result from multifactorial causes:


  1. The effects of cancerogenic substances (carcinotoxins): A single exposure to a carcinogenic substance (asbestos fiber) may result in a carcinoma development ensuing a latency period of 20 years! As a rule, however, it is the cumulative effect of several such materials which lead to cellular transformation. In 1981, the Cancer Institute in Washington evaluated 100,000 synthetic chemicals new to the human environment; as many as 22,000 of these were identified as cancerogenic.
  2. The effects of radiation
  3. The effect of viruses which induce genetic transformation within the cell
  4. The effects of cellular impregnation due to therapy employing chemical pharmaceuticals. Cellular impregnation sustained in this manner increasingly inflicts damage to the cells' enzymes. These damaged cells must be deemed precancerous, as one additional (possibly commonplace) noxa may suffice to trigger their "turn over" into mutated forms.


A paradigmatic change has taken with modern natural sciences in reference to the concept, of chronic-disease causality (including that of canceration), confirming the multicasuality of such pathological phases. Through the introduction of cybernetic concepts and the acceptance of quantum mechanics into the field of medicine, we know that chronic illnesses are expressions of dysfunction within regulatory cycles, whereby those disturbances may consist of the blockage or falsification of information.

The transfer of information (allowing an undisturbed flow-equilibrium) can be inhibited by certain elements. Let us examine these factors,

  1. conditions of deficiency (vitamins, trace elements, etc.); substances without which the transmitters' task of transferring information is impeded
  2. Electromagnetic impulses from fields of disturbance, through which informational transmission is falsified.
  3. Infiltration and accumulation of toxins (toxic remnants from incompletely regulated infection, subclinical intoxication, etc.).
  4. Blockage of mental, emotional, or psychological nature which obstructs informational transfer, as illustrated by recently-confirmed effects of such disorders upon the immune system.
  5. Electrical or magnetic fields (geopathic disturbances), which can cause falsification of the informational flow through superimposition and masking.

Although each disturbance-factor is different, the symptoms they initiate within our biological regulatory system are identical. The primary goal of any effective therapy for precancerous and neoplasm phases, therefore, must be to restore and reactivate the blocked processes of informational transfer to a maximum possible degree.


At the international cancer convention in 1990 (held in Hamburg, Germany), the British oncologist Hanham emphasized the "limited possibilities" offered by Chemotherapy, citing a rate of cure (excepting for childhood leukemia and testicular tumor) of far less than 20%.


An additional negative consideration here is the fact that initially monoclonal tumour-development may be compelled into further mutation through aggressive chemotherapeutic or radiological therapy. This means escalation of the new cells' genotypical or phenotypical dissimilarities to their stem cell; they become increasingly uncontrolled and hence more resistant to therapy


As we are all aware, one of Chemotherapy's side-effects is to aggravate blockage of the organism's informational flow. This characteristic alone makes chemotherapeutic treatment appropriate only for palliative application at best. In light of this situation, the quest for other, more beneficial forms of therapy must clearly continue.


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