Understanding Cancer using Nature as A Teacher

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Coley developed the theory that it was the infections which had helped patients in the past to recover from their cancer.

So he began to treat patients by injecting a brew of Streptococcus pyogenes directly into inoperable tumors.

The treatment was most effective when it provoked a fever and a full-blown infection.

According to Stephen Hoption Cann of the University of British Columbia, "He had successes you simply couldn't hope for today, curing even extensive metastatic disease."

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"Metastasis accounts for most of cancer's lethality," said Sherwood, who is an assistant professor of biology at Duke. "It's the most essential step in cancer progression, but it's the least understood."

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"In looking at the various environmental issues we are faced with, and the tasks that we need to fulfill for the planet, if we could get more than 10 percent of the people consciously aware, than I believe we could pull the 80 percent in that direction, too."-Dr.Masaru Emoto