Understanding Colon and Stomach Cancer

The first thing a colon cancer or stomach cancer patient needs to understand is that the "cure rate" of orthodox medicine for these two kinds of cancer is virtually zero. Even the "cure rate" for alternative cancer treatments is significantly lower than for most other kinds of cancer.

The reason the cure rate is so low, in my opinion, is because of the damage caused by surgery and chemotherapy to the colon and/or stomach.

Surgery on the colon and/or stomach damage the body's ability to digest foods and extract the nutrients from foods. Chemotherapy, for any reason, can damage the lining of the stomach and/or colon, thus interfering with the body's ability to process the nutrients in foods and supplements.

Because the body cannot digest foods properly, and cannot extract nutrients from the foods and supplements (because of surgery and chemotherapy), the cancer cells are not able to be killed by any cancer treatment and the non-cancerous cells are not properly protected and nurished by the foods and supplements that are consumed.

When you think about colon and stomach cancer you need to think about two different concepts:
1) The cancer cells (which need nutrients to be killed),
2) The non-cancerous calls (which need nutrients to keep the cancer patient alive).

THESE TWO ITEMS ARE OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE TO ANY CANCER PATIENT, BUT BOTH OF THEM ARE ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO STOMACH AND COLON CANCER PATIENTS BECAUSE OF THE DAMAGE DONE BY SURGERY AND CHEMOTHERAPY.

Surgery and chemotherapy damages the ability of the body to properly digest the foods they eat and thus their cancer cells are not adequately killed, their non-cancerous cells are not adequately protected and their immune system has not been adequately nourished.

In addition, due primarily to surgery, many advanced colon and stomach cancer patients cannot eat very much and of course what they can eat is not digested properly.

But there is yet another reason getting rid of cancer cells quickly is critical.

First, cancer cells steal both glucose and nutrients from non-cancerous cells. It is bad enough that the person may not be able to eat much, and cannot digest much, but the cancer cells are stealing glucose and nutrients from the non-cancerous cells.

It gets worse. Cancer cells also create lactic acid. Lactic acid can further block nutrients from getting to the non-cancerous cells.

But perhaps even more important, lactic acid is converted to glucose in the liver. In other words, the cancer cells consume glucose (in fact they steal glucose from non-cancerous cells) and in turn create lactic acid. The lactic acid goes to the liver and the liver converts the lactic acid into glucose, which then goes back to the cancer cells.

This cycle is called the "Lactic Acid Cycle" or the "Cachexia Cycle." It sounds harmless, but it is not. At both ends of the lactic acid cycle enormous amounts of energy are consumed by the body and cells. This further steals energy from the non-cancerous cells.

For a colon cancer patient there are many things that can cause a loss of appetite. But the two main reasons are pain and cachexia. Pain can cause a lack of appetite because surgery, radiation or chemotherapy may have damaged the stomach or colon, thus making it painful to eat.

The second major reason for a loss of appetite is cachexia. Because the patient may not be able to digest foods the cancer cells may thrive greatly thus creating cachexia.