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THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS for Totality-Treatment in Malignant Diseases (in Berchtesgaden, Hippokrates Verlag, 1953. Stuttgart) revealed that many authors and particularly Professor Zabel, chairman, held to the statement that "before the growth starts, the function of the organism must have been abnormal. ... This is a real blow to the conception that the tumor is a locally limited disease."
Professor Lambert came to the following conclusions: "In the tissue culture the cancer cell will be damaged by a temperature of 39o C. and dies at 42o C.; the normal cell will be damaged by 43o C. and dies at 46-47o C. The findings of several authors show later aberrations - most probably caused by different methods."40 ... "the next task of our work will be first the increase of our knowledge about the direct influence of temperature on the growth, and second, an intensive study about the connection of indirect influence of higher temperature on the reactions of the local and general bodily difference, especially on the reaction of the neighboring tissue of the tumor. The factors of the disposition and constitution should not be neglected."41
Dr. Johannes Kuhl reported: "I started from the fundamentals of the cell metabolism, the oxidation and the glycolysis, the burning down and the spreading of the end products. I found in the ferments, vitamins, hormones and other vital substances only secondary means."42 Dr. Kuhl regarded the cancer cell end product, the lactic acid, as a stimulant of growth. He recognized "the constant majorities of oxidation at the development of the cell and its levels. That means the constant majority of glycolysis in the pathological regenerative growth." He saw in addition, "the transition of the stronger glycolysis to major oxidation at the end of the normal regenerative growth."
Kuhl's theory is built on von Euler's finding that the total lacking of the cytochrome system in the cancer cell is significant for the carcinomatous enzyme system. That means that the cancer cell is a so-called cytochrome deficient cell. This is the reason why the cancer cell is not normally differentiated and could only develop a breathing fermenting system, otherwise it is a real body cell without mutation and without other structural changes. One of the leading cancer-biologists, Professor Little says: "Cancer develops in a body where there is a general breakdown of the whole body." And in another statement, Little says: "The cancer problem will not be solved by specialists, rather by a practitioner." This means by a physician who constantly observes the whole body and tries to help the entire system. The practioner is not so much burdened with an immense literature on special cancer fields and is more open to reasonable argumentation.
Professor Ernest Leupold has stated (translation): "all cells in the body, the normal and the tumor cells, stay biologically in contact and exchange reaction to the general metabolic processes which are fundamentally all the same for all cells, whether they produce normal cells or simple proliferations. Tumors are, therefore, only systems of a general disease which are different in their degree and temporary course from other proliferate producing metabolic processes."43 He also thinks that the general disease is present before the tumor appears as Professor Zabel assumes.
"We should not regard the tumor as a special type of disease. That cannot be proven by the fact that not only the ripe and unripe tumor cells can be influenced by the same conditions of the metabolism, but also many other segments are influenced at the same time and in the same way." I observed the same clinical appearances in cancer patients who also improved or restored completely several chronic diseases in the organs during the treatment: such diseases as chronic arthritis, chronic sinusitis, chronic gall bladder disorders, arteriosclerosis, asthma, craurosis vulvae, eczemas, etc.
Some chronic or degenerative diseases, including cancer, have been neglected in the last 30 years. Cancer was considered incurable in the minds of physicians; therefore, it almost seemed not worthwhile to put intensive work into it. Internal physicians left cancer work to surgeons, biologists, and pathologists. These, however, were deeply interested in finding out what causes cancer and what it does in animals and human beings in the field of their competence, biological or chemical specialty.
Patients have reported that after unsuccessful operations and X-ray treatments that physicians gave them sedation only, thereby adding new poisons to the large amount which the disease is continuously producing.
When papers report that a surgeon recommends more operations for the purpose of preventing the loss of the patient to the non-physicians, we all should feel gravely concerned. Such aberrations from scientific behavior should be an incentive to apply any promising treatment, regardless of who worked it out or how difficult it may be. Where lives are at stake our surgeons and physicians should not recommend only surgery or non-surgery, but should consider all meritorious possibilities. Of course, this book describes many obstacles which have to be overcome in this modern civilization.