CANCER'S CAUSE, CANCER'S CURE (16 page)

The doctor then stormed out of the consultation room of his country office, and Professor Boiteux sat there for a long time in a state of shock. In about twenty minutes, the urologist returned and handed his patient a written prescription to take to a pharmacist. It contained nothing related to Beljanski’s products; instead, it was another prescription for anti-hormonal medications, which Professor Boiteux had previously received and not filled. The pharmaceutical order also held no mention of radiotherapy. His country urologist additionally told Professor Boiteux, “You can take anything else that you want, but I don’t want to hear about how you are treating yourself. If there is something more that you want to swallow, you are free to do that, but do not tell me.”

In effect, Professor Boiteux was on his own, for he did not take any of the anti-hormone medications and continued with Beljanski’s products. By May 1995 the prostate pathology had completely disappeared and his PSA was down from 9.6 ng/ml to essentially normal at 4.0 ng/ml. The patient felt happy beyond words.

Six months later, he became overly confident in his body’s new-found health. The Professor told me, “I asked myself—being a man of science specializing in physics—what has cured me? I decided to stop taking these two Beljanski products just to see what would happen. Whether or not he wanted to hear from me or about Beljanskis work, I wrote to my local country urologist and made him an offer. I told him that he could use me as a human guinea pig to see if the prostate cancer would return as a result of my discontinuing the ingestion of Beljanski’s two herbs.”

“My doctor wrote back two weeks later and did not mention the Beljanski herbal products. Instead he issued me a warning, saying:

‘When prostate cancer returns after it has been in remission, it is twice as difficult to treat and get rid of a second time.’ I understood his warning and was cautioned by it,” Professor Boiteux said.

One of Beljanski’s Herbals Helps Osteoarthritic Knee Pain

The professor continued: “Then one evening about six weeks later as I was preparing to take a shower, arthritic-type pains hit me once again in both knees. Perhaps I failed to mention to you the osteoarthritis that had been bothering me for more than twelve years stopped causing me any difficulty when I began to take Beljanski’s supplements. After I had taken Dr. Beljanski’s herbal extracts, the pains disappeared and I hadn’t experienced pains in my knees for at least a year. In fact, I had forgotten about these osteoarthritic joint pains, as I had become much more concerned about the prostate cancer, which was of course more serious.

“The resumption of my previous osteoarthritic symptoms was taken by me as a message that at least one of Dr. Beljanski’s products had to become part of my life once again. I didn’t resume taking the
Ginkgo biloba
because it had been dispensed to me by Dr. Philippe Causé specifically to neutralize the negative effects of radiotherapy, which Dr. Causé assumed I would take; but I had not received any radiation. So I restarted only the Pao pereira herbal extract at a somewhat lower dosage from six capsules daily to four capsules daily.

“The knee pains went away fast, but when I reduced the dosage a few months later to just three capsules per day, the arthritic pains returned. Four Pao pereira was better for me—if I continued to take two in the morning and two at night, my arthritic knees gave me no problems. As I’ve stated, I did not resume taking the
Ginkgo biloba
at all,” says Dr. Boiteux. “As far as my mind, emotions and body are concerned, I am feeling alert, relaxed, vigorous, strong and fine in every way—a state of health that I attribute to my use of Dr. Mirko Beljanski’s herbal extracts.”

Professor Boiteux also made it very clear that he wished to add this final observation to my report on his case study:

“As a man of science, I believe I’m qualified to make a certain judgment. My declaration is that the readers of your book, Dr. Walker, will come to recognize this truth: Dr. Mirko Beljanski’s intellectual prowess combined the experimental curiosity of Michael Faraday [the father of modern electrical theory], the methodical rigor of Antoine Lavoisier [the father of modern chemistry], the theoretical vision of Albert Einstein [the father of modern physics], and the inventive genius of Thomas Edison [the father of modern technological innovation].” I couldn’t agree more.

5

Integrative Cancer Therapy:

The Power of Combining Alternative With Conventional

W
hen you or someone you love is told “you have cancer,” I’m certain the response is universal—I know I felt it. Fear grips your gut, and you’re sent into an emotional tailspin. Most likely the first thing you’re going to ask the doctor is “what are my chances?” The answers will range from being really good to facing death in a few weeks or months. It’s a terribly draining experience.

One thing is for certain. When you are told you have cancer, you know you are soon to be making some hard choices in terms of treatment. The doctors most likely will push for conventional treatment, but if you’ve done your homework, you might not be so willing to go that discouraging route. You think about trying alternative treatments, or perhaps you’re a die-hard like me, and you would never even consider doing chemo or radiation.

Treatment decisions are difficult. Cancer is a disease that has defied every conventional and most alternative therapies thrown at it. Sometimes some drug or herb works, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the cancer comes back, other times it stays in remission forever.

Fortunately, it is becoming more and more common for cancer patients to choose a balance between the worlds of holistic and conventional cancer treatments. While the two medical philosophies differ markedly, research shows that combined they can be extraordinarily effective.

Together they are called complementary or integrative therapy. It is not something that is standardized or even yet widely accepted; each doctor you talk to will probably have a different idea of what integrative therapy is. According to the clinical journal,
Integrative Cancer Therapies
(
ICT
), integrative therapy is the “scientific understanding of alternative medicine and traditional medicine therapies, and their responsible integration with conventional health care. Integrative care includes therapeutic interventions in diet, lifestyle, exercise, stress care, and nutritional supplements, as well as experimental vaccines, chrono-chemotherapy [adapting chemotherapy to your natural rhythm of sleep and awake time], and other advanced treatments.”

Integrative therapy is the wave of the future in cancer treatments, but it is definitely a “consumer beware” situation. There are those who are already abusing the idea by merely giving nod to alternative treatments. They are privileging conventional chemo and radiation therapy while vilifying the nutritional supplement aspect of integration—most likely as a way to appease Big Pharma while appearing to be participating in the new game of integration. One notable doctor, Aaron Katz, M.D., Director for the Center for Holistic Urology, takes the idea of integration seriously.

The mission of the Center for Holistic Urology (CHU) echoes the definition of the journal noted above. It includes complementary therapies such as acupuncture, clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, exercise and mind-body therapies, and its goal is to “promote wider knowledge and understanding of such therapies by conducting high-quality basic science research and clinical trials.”

So what do we have to lose? There are roughly half-a-million cancer patients who will die in the U.S. alone by the end of this year and another seven million more people around the globe.
Over 11,700,000 are living with the disease right now and nearly all of them know it. More, of course, will be diagnosed next year.

But here’s the question we all have to ask ourselves: does it really matter how you kill cancer cells as long as they are dead?

Proven Synergy with Chemotherapeutic Agents

When I embarked on my mission, I wanted to make Dr. Beljanski’s botanicals the alternative cancer resource of choice. I would still love for that to happen, but I have also come to respect the microbiologist and what he stood for. As Melissa Burchill, the dietician nutritionist who wrote up the results of the Columbia clinical trials of the bolt molecules, succinctly put it, “Patients should bear in mind that Dr. Beljanski conceived of these plant extracts as adjuncts to conventional cancer treatment.”
Dr. Beljanski never wanted to buck the conventional trend. Rather, he was integrative from the beginning, constantly searching for ways to make conventional medical treatments more effective.

When I first started studying Beljanski’s work, I could barely contain my excitement as I realized how thoroughly he researched every aspect of DNA destabilization and the botanicals to correct the problem. Dr. Beljanski’s approach to what causes cancer as well as the two bolt molecules that can kill the cancerous cell has some serious science behind it; he has 133 refereed publications to his name. (In the world of science and academia, refereed means that one’s work is reviewed by one’s peers before it is put into publication.)

But it was one of the later studies, the one I noted in the preface, that electrified me to my core. Dr. Beljanski, towards the end of his life, asked another “what if” question—what would happen if he paired his botanicals with conventional chemo and radiation? The results were stunning: chemo and radiation were markedly more effective when used in conjunction with the anticancer botanicals of Pao pereira and
R. vomitoria
.

Cancer Cells 100 Percent Dead

In order to answer his question of whether or not conventional treatments would be enhanced by the bolt molecules, he first had to test the substances in test tubes. When that showed promising results, he knew not to get excited. Within all organisms, any drug faces a complicated array of physiological regulations. Some will contribute to the elimination of the drug before it has had time to act; others will just simply resist the drug’s effect. Compounds which are introduced at high levels of dosage with food may not be absorbed sufficiently because something in the food interferes with the absorption of the drug. In addition, each individual’s biochemistry is unique and great variations exist from person to person in terms of how a drug is handled, metabolized, and eliminated. Such countless interactions are the real stumbling blocks for optimal action by any medication introduced into the organism. For this reason, agents that appear to work
in vitro
may result in disappointing results, and even no results,
in vivo
. This, however, was not the case with the two Beljanski herbal extracts.

Beljanski and his team found in a series of trials in mice, that they could, under certain circumstances, produce the previously unheard of result of
100 percent cured
.

I also had to chuckle with satisfaction, for once I understood the science—in typical Beljanski fashion—it made perfectly logical sense and presented the ultimate in integrative science.

It really was quite simple. In an attempt to improve the treatment results in those mice receiving
in vivo
transplanted cancers, Beljanski combined his plant extracts with a low dosage of conventional chemotherapeutic cytotoxic (cell-killing) agents. Beljanski reasoned that in low dosages, cytotoxic agents and/or radiotherapy would destabilize cancerous DNA. Yes, this action does cause more cancerous damage, but that was precisely the point. Any carcinogen keeps the replicated DNA strand from closing up, thereby causing it to duplicate itself
ad infinitum
. Cancer-killing agents, working as carcinogens, lay open additional strands of DNA which allows the bolt molecule to better penetrate the cancerous cell, thereby allowing the botanicals to do their job even more effectively. In other words, chemotherapy and radiation are in essence the sucker punch that allows the knockout blow to happen.

The results were excellent for his cancer-ridden laboratory animals. The rate of improvement when the botanicals were combined with the cytotoxic agent was far more effective than using either one alone. Then, to further demonstrate the advantage of combining the two types of treatment, a series of experiments were undertaken on mice with a naturally developed and highly dangerous strand of lymphoma (technically labeled YC-8), a permanent cancer of the lymphatic vessels in mammals. The lymphoma test was in contrast to most of the other experiments, which involved transplantable cancers such as splicing breast cancer cells straight into the laboratory animal. The mice for this study were divided into four groups:

• One group received no treatment. This was the control group.
  

• The second group received only low doses of the chemotherapeutic agent.
  

• The third group received only Beljanski’s
  Rauwolfia vomitoria
  extract.
  

• The fourth group received a combination of the low dose chemotherapy and the
  Rauwolfia
  botanical.
  

The result?

The control animals receiving no treatment were all dead from cancer invasion by the thirtieth day—no survival.

The survival rate for the second cancerous group (mice treated only with the chemotherapeutic agent CCNU) at ninety days was 45 percent.

The survival rate for those cancer-filled mice treated with only the
Rauwolfia
extract at ninety days was 30 percent.

But in the fourth cancerous group, when the two treatments were combined (the extract plus the CCNU), Beljanski’s team found that one, the tumor did not have a chance to develop significantly (which was what happened in the other three groups), and two, the mouse survival rate reached an
unexpected high of 100 percent
.

This kind of result is practically unheard of in any study on cancer cells and anticancer remedies, natural or synthetic. Other similar tests were conducted combining the alkaloids with additional cytotoxics standardly used in human chemotherapy. The results recorded were all exceedingly positive. Those mice receiving the low dose chemotherapy along with Dr. Beljanski’s botanicals generally survived their cancers. Those receiving chemotherapy alone did not!