Why do albinos commonly contract skin cancer?

Answer 1

We are naturally protected from the harmful effects of the sun, by the melanin in our skin. Albinos have NO melanin in their skin (hence the pinkish translucent appearance) and therefore have no natural protection from the sun's rays.
When the body encounters stress, tissue damage, and so on from various sources including ionizing radiation, toxins, physical trauma, then the body's repair system goes into overdrive. Part of the body's electrical and chemical signals for doing this repair involves the hormone estrogen. Fibroblasts, adult stem cells, blastema cells travel to the damaged area and via gene impression replace damaged tissues. The trophoblastic theory of cancer is that the body's repair system can go out of control and not shut itself off. The cancer cells appear to be undifferentiated cells similar to stem cells, and trophoblasts. The metabolism of the cells is that of fermentation of sugar rather than the oxidation of sugar via the cellular mitochondria of a normal cell. Ultra Violet (UV) A, B, and C come from the sun. UV C is normally blocked by the upper atmosphere, or can be produced artificially by man made UV lamps. This color or wavelength of light is shorter than other visible colors as well as infrared (IR). As the length of the light wave (electromagnetic or photon radiation) gets shorter, its energy intensity increases. The extreme end of the electromagnetic spectrum beyond UV is x-rays, various forms of radioactive particle decays, and gamma rays. These shorter wavelengths are said to be ionizing radiation because these rays are capable of providing chemical molecules enough energy to break their bonds. When such radiation penetrates many layers of tissues, it causes bond breakage to cellular DNA, RNA, and mitochondrial DNA, causing what is called mutations throughout all tissue layers. When cell enzymes internal to the cell improperly repair the DNA, RNA, and mitochondrial DNA, this can result in a mutation. The presence of estrogen and the electrical signals for damage repair may trigger these malformed / damaged cells to reproduce themselves. Cancer results when programmed cell death, and the body's immune system cannot halt the growth of such cell colonies. Cancer cells produce a protein coating that has a negative charge, the same as that of the immune system's T-cells, preventing these T-cells from attacking these abnormal cells. Trypsin is a enzyme produced by the pancreas that can eat away the abnormal cell's protein coating, exposing the cancer cells to the body's immune system that then can destroy the cells. The same enzyme is used in the digestive (gastrointestinal) tract to digest meat protein. If the pancreas is damaged or otherwise does not produce enough trypsin or other proteolytic (digestive) enzymes, then cancer cell destruction will not happen at a quick enough rate to overcome the disease naturally, and tumors will form. Many diets intended to combat cancer always reduce meat protein intake to reduce the digestive consumption of the various proteolytic enzymes produced by the pancreas so that these can completely go towards the digestion of the abnormal protein coats of cancerous cells to permit the immune system to destroy the cancer. For anyone, not just albinos, to avoid getting cancer, they must have sufficient pancreatic enzyme production, good (anti-cancer) diet, and a good immune system and must minimize the cancer risk factors. The risk factors include toxins, ionizing radiation exposure, and microbial infections that tend to produce their own toxic byproducts (wastes). Blocks that minimize sun exposure are fine as long as they do not contain toxins that can be absorbed through the skin. Wearing clothing that covers the skin sufficiently to block the sun may be the best plan--the astronauts wear space suits that are white or silver in color to reflect or block most of the incident light spectrum, and they wear protective eye wear in the form of helmet face shields that filter the harmful wavelengths of radiation (light). The body has its own defenses to toxins. One video explains that various heavy, toxic metals have similar chemical properties to other required metal mineral elements, and so are accumulated by the body by mistake / accidentally. In the case of prostate cancer, the body mistakes toxic cadmium for good zinc, and for example, deposits cadmium in the prostate in addition to zinc. Another video explains that both males and females produce the hormone estrogen. There are several varieties of the hormone estrogen. Estrogen is involved in the body's electrical and chemical signaling process to heal wounds, cuts, bruises, stress related damage, and so on. Excessive estrogen is usually located surrounding cancer cells. Cells exposed to certain higher levels of estrogen can become cancerous. Those cancer cells get a protein coating on their walls that has a negative charge that repels blood T-cells, the body's protection against foreign infections. Trypsin is an enzyme that is produced by the pancreas that erodes away the abnormal protein coat from cancer cells to expose them to the blood's T-cells that then destroy the cancer cells. As we age, our hormone levels decrease to the point where testosterone levels become less than the estrogen levels that we produce, causing trouble in the prostate gland-the levels reduce after age 30 or so and become equal at about age 50. Peroxisomes cells are the body's natural mechanisms to detoxify itself of various toxins. These cells have a weakness-a chemical named phthalates that is a plasticizer used to make plastics flexible, and phthalates are supposedly found in Styrofoam coffee cups, and huge numbers of other plastic products. Sauna sweating can remove some phthalates from skin and fat. Glutathione is a sulfur-based detoxification agent that can remove phthalates from deeper body tissue sites, as well can remove other toxins from your system. However, this natural molecule is produced by the body itself only if you have the genetic traits to permit its healthy production. Sulfur containing foods that promote the production of glutathione include garlic, onions, broccoli, kale, cauliflower, watercress, bio-active whey protein-the clear liquid that comes off of the top of yogurt (it comes from milk protein products that have not been de-natured-non-pasteurized milk, etc). Glutathione (GSH) is a small protein produced naturally in our cells if the requisite precursors are present. It functions both as an antioxidant and an antitoxin and is a major defense system against illness and aging. Our body's glutathione level actually indicates our state of health and can predict longevity. It has been suggested that in the future, GSH levels will be closely monitored. There are over 60,000 medical articles currently published on GSH, yet most health professionals have only a vague idea of its significance. In the near future the importance of glutathione will be widely recognized. Dr. Robert H. Keller now is a partner / developer / associate in a multi-level marketing firm that promotes a supplement that supposedly is a bioavailable form of precursor to glutathione named MaxGXL or similar such. They may be charging more than $100 per 1.5 liter can of this may be good / may be bad supplement stuff. Recently alternative medicine remedies have been in the form of diet change, and the addition of certain vitamins, minerals, and supplements, combined with treatments with ozone, or peroxide, or hyperbaric oxygen, radio frequency plasma machine treatments, blood electrification, drinking of properly prepared colloidal silver water, pulsed electro-magnetic field treatments, tincture of iodine, or treatment with sodium bicarbonate. Detoxification is also key since a large proportion of malignancy is believed to be directly caused by toxins (possibly in the presence of pathogens). Bad oil is hydrogenated oil used in processing foods so that they do not spoil. If microorganisms cannot live on this oil (to cause spoilage), how can we humans live on it? Perhaps this stuff is so bad that it is a major part of what is killing us? The Budwig diet involves eating cottage cheese mixed with flaxseed oil. Flaxseed oil is a good oil like olive oil. The biochemical effect is that this good type oil is made water soluble so that it can be absorbed into the cells of the body themselves to eliminate or displace other proteins that have poor cell oxygenation properties, and by doing so, oxygen energize existing cells, reverse the fermentation processes happening in cancer cells, possibly reverting these cells back to normal cells. This oxygenation influences cancer cells to return to a normal metabolism, and then obey chemical and electrical signals in the mitochondria for normal programmed cell death (apoptosis). Gerson therapy is applied on a per patient basis by first evaluating the needs of the patient and customizing the diet for them. This diet involves juicing of a huge quantity of vegetables and fruits on an hourly basis and drinking it all, eating cooked vegetables, and taking coffee enemas. Coffee is a diuretic. As such the coffee when introduced into the colon will force the kidneys to express more urine than normal, ridding the body of more toxins than normal. The juicing machine endorsed by the followers of this diet is a grind then press unit that does not centrifugally spin the vegetable or fruit pulp. Supposedly this spinning action oxidizes a lot of the nutrients of the juice meant to go into the patient to improve their health. This grind and press juicing method can be crudely done by buying a meat grinder to slowly grind the vegetable or fruit, then using a multi-ton hydraulic jack to press / crush the ground vegetable and fruit pulp to release the juice. Typically the ground pulp is placed within a small fabric bag that when pressed by several tons force has the juices come out through the weaving of the fabric like a filtering effect to remove the liquid juice from the pulp. Toxic chemicals from our environment find their way into our bodies. Some people genetically store the toxins in fat tissue, while other people do not (See Peroxisomes and Glutathione 'GSH' above). There are many toxins and various specific supplements (or chelation agents) to take to rid the body of many of them. The usual method to detoxify from these is to do various organ cleanses. Sometimes this involves doing a juice fast where all the body's needs must be met by drinking various fruit and vegetable juices for 1.5 to 2 weeks straight. Some people are unable to digest their food properly because they either lack digestive enzymes or HCl stomach acid or pepsin that properly break down their food (vitamins and minerals) so that it can be nicely absorbed into the blood stream. There are all sorts of dietary enzyme, HCl, and pepsin supplements that can be found in health food stores and some pharmacies. Some medical scientists believe that the body's own repair system intended to heal wounds, bruises, cuts, scrapes, and so on can sometimes go out of control where undifferentiated (stem) cells sent in to repair a damaged area do not stop reproducing because the electrical and chemical signals that regulate such processes have failed to halt this process. The theory goes that if the cancer cells are destroyed by laetrile / amygdalin, the tissues of the tumor can be reabsorbed into the system by proteolytic enzymes produced by the pancreas. This is very bad news if you have your pancreas removed by surgery. (See trophoblastic theory of cancer). They account for the different types of cancer by the original type of tissue damage that was being repaired. This theory is supported by people like G. Edward Griffin (and his many medical doctor colleagues) whose videos can be viewed on Google Videos. In his videos, he does not explain everything that is involved with the treatment method that he prefers (as he claims to do in his book on the topic), but most of the ideas seem to be nicely expressed and easy to understand. Another world famous scientist, one Italian oncology doctor, has used the observations of Otto Warburg to treat certain forms of cancer as the body's reaction to a rapidly growing fungal infection--the body encapsulates the infection in tumor tissue to prevent its spread. (See Dr. Tullio Simoncini "Cancer as a fungus"). By using simplistic anti-fungal substances such as sodium bicarbonate for internal cancers, and tincture of Iodine for external cancers, Dr. Simoncini has successfully treated many patients without adverse side effects. Simoncini reasons that a rapidly growing fugal colony is difficult for the body to combat, and so as a result, the body just encapsulates the infections within tumorous cell growths. By attacking and killing the underlying fungal infections, the need for the encapsulating tumor cells is gone, so the body just re-absorbs the tissues leaving just healthy tissue untouched. Videos on Google videos have Dr. Simoncini applying his treatment and showing before and after results. Often the treatments succeed in about one and a half weeks time. If this scientist is correct, then the rapid tumor cells that are preventing the spread of the fugal infection will be killed by chemotherapy, and permit the spread of the fugal infection, kill the immune system, and kill your hair follicles-helping "the fungal cause of cancer" to spread to more places in the body. Still other scientists in India, Russia, Germany, Cuba, Mexico, etc, have treated both the blood and the tumor areas with medical ozone, and performed blood irradiation with ultraviolet light to damage microbial blood-borne pathogens so that the body's auto immune system quickly develops resistance to these pathogens, thereby removing the cause of certain varieties of malignancy. Theoretically, this will work with some but perhaps not all cancers. Although there are Google videos about this ozone injection into tumors, there are no after follow-ups taken of the results days, weeks, or even months after the surgery- -so this remains in the speculative column for me. In 1990 Drs. Steven Kaali and William Lyman discovered that biocompatible electric current (a few millionths of an Ampere) could be used on blood, (and other bodily or synthetic fluids) to inactivate the HIV AIDS virus infectivity in-vitro (PMID: 15858720). Using this information and examining the patents filed by Kaali, et al., Dr. Robert C. Beck, DSc. Physics, determined that such a biocompatible (small) electrical current could be induced to flow through the skin, into the blood, down one of the major arterial blood vessels in the forearm and back out through the skin without exsanguination (invasively removing quantities of blood from the body into a treatment machine, then putting it back into the body). Numerous AIDS patients who listened to Bob Beck spontaneously recovered within about one month. Testing that Beck had sponsored showed before and after Polymerase Chain Reaction Tests that saw the HIV viral loads go to such low levels that they were indistinguishable from zero on the measurement equipment used in the lab testing procedures. Beck publicized his treatment application, and some cancer patients began experimentally using it along with some herbal remedies recommended by Hulda Regehr Clark. After about a month's time these cancer patients reported back to Beck that they had undergone spontaneous remissions from the disease. Beck then incorporated this information in many of his lectures. Beck also found that there were shortcomings in his treatment when the AIDS virus could lay dormant within other body tissues and re-emerge later on. For this he developed a PEMF (pulsed electro magnetic field) device. The device would emit a very strong magnetic pulse from the sudden release of current from the stored electrical charge of a capacitor into an air core inductor of about 1 to 2.5 milli-Henrys. He also used low concentration colloidal silver in / using demineralized water to boost the immune system and rid the gastrointestinal tract of parasites and pathogenic microbes. (The use of demineralized water prevents the formation of silver salts that can cause a skin discoloration disease that turns a person's skin gray--argyria). Lastly, he found that patients were usually taking about a month to recover, and determined that by using ozonated drinking water that the inactivated pathogens could be more easily filtered out of the body via the kidneys, thereby cutting in half the recovery time using his treatment methods. He began to call his treatment method "The Beck Protocol." Medical doctors who saw this as economic competition to their business began to pooh-pooh the entire scheme without even experimentally giving it a try (the scientific method), and down played any scientific basis for the theory of its modality, calling it "quackery and nostrums." Beck knew that the FDA and AMA would likely try to entrap him and charge him with practicing medicine without a license, but Beck was careful to label this as medical experimentation and made no recommendations that any one particular sick person do any of these treatments without first consulting with their own medical professional. The Beck Protocol involves killing various pathogenic causes of diseases including HIV AIDS, fugal infections, other blood borne viruses, mycoplasmas, and bacteria. In doing so, alternative health practitioners believe that this permits the immune system to concentrate on fighting the cancer. The protocol consists of blood electrification (a weak [low power / current] form of electroporation) that inactivates the infectivity of blood borne pathogens, treatment using a brief duration pulsed electro magnetic field (PEMF) to kill pathogens within the lymphatic system and similar tissues, the drinking of distilled / demineralized water that has been electrolyzed by a low DC constant current set of 0.9999 pure silver electrodes producing argyria-safe 5 to 10 ppm colloidal silver, and the separate consumption of ozonated water. Ozone is O3 , a form of energized oxygen that is formed either from high voltage (7 to 10 kilovolts) corona plasma discharge energy, or from exposure of oxygen to an intense quartz encapsulated Mercury vapor germicidal ultraviolet light source. Alternative health care providers also combine this Beck Protocol with further herbs, and dietary supplements such as those suggested by Hulda Regehr Clark. A veterinarian and doctor of naturopathy named Dr. Joel D. Wallach (famous for his "Dead Doctors Don't Lie" audio presentation) supposedly performed many autopsies on animals and people who died of natural causes (old age). His studies produced conclusions that many of these animals and people died from low serum levels of vital nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. He created a list of 92 (or so) such vital minerals, nutrients, and vitamins that he says are best absorbed / are most bioavailable in colloidal form. See colloidal minerals. Each such nutrient supposedly has a purpose in preventing health ailments. For example, Vitamin C prevents scurvy, and niacin prevents pellagra, etc.