Why do most cancers originate from glial cells?

Answer 1

Glial cells are nerve helper cells.

Glial cells are readily capable of mitosis (replication) whereas neurons cells supposedly less so.

There is a pleomorphic theory about pathogenic causes of disease that says that each pathogen could mutate to a form of disease that is best suited to the medium of the disease site. If this is so, then a pathogen that attacks uniquely the glial cells may exist that triggers various diseases including cancer. However, further research for any proof or investigation of this may be reported elsewhere.

When cancer happens, normal cells are turned from a oxygen sugar oxidative (aerobic) metabolism controlled by the mitochondria to a sugar fermentation (anaerobic) metabolism that is not under mitochondrial control. The mitochondria control what is called programmed cell death of which wikipedia states there are two types:

• Apoptosis or Type I cell-death
• Autophagic or Type II cell-death (cytoplasmic: characterized by the formation of large vacuoles which eat away organelles in a specific sequence prior to the nucleus being destroyed.)

Cancer cells replicate rapidly, uncontrollably, and they no longer obey Type I programmed cell death signals.

Professor John Beard surmised that cancer was partly caused by a deficiency of the pancreatic enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin. People on diets rich in animal meat were losing the preventative effects of these enzymes because the latter were being constantly employed to break down these animal proteins. These pancreatic enzymes were shown by Beard to strip down and digest the protein coating of cancer cells. It was this life-saving action that was described by the Edinburgh embryologist in his Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer.

Even if the brain cancer is stopped, many say that the remaining dead tumor tissue that persists can still kill the patient by just statically obstructing normal biological functions, and that protein digestive enzymes are key to their elimination and subsequent patient recovery.

Jim Sheridan / cancell / cantron, Gerson Therapy, the Budwig diet, Royal Rife frequency machine treatments, the Beck Protocol, Laetrile / amygdalin treatments, cansema black salve capsules, herbal remedies recommended by H. R. Clark, and numerous other naturalistic, holistic dietary approaches can often be combined to help.

The underlying cause or trigger of cancer is likely one or more toxins, or exposure to certain fields of electromagnetic energy of frequencies known to cause damage, or microbial pathogenic causes of disease.

Heavy metals are known toxins. They can be chelated out of the blood and other tissues.

The pancreas could be overtaxed by eating meat so that no more digestive enzymes are available to eat the abnormal protein coating from cancerous cells, exposing them to the body's immune system.

Peroxisomes, and glutathione function may be poor.

Certain serum levels of vitamins could be very poor causing disease. Many doctors have noted recent research by UCSD into vitamin D that indicate that many diseases including cancer can be avoided if the serum levels of vitamin D are within a healthy range.

The theory goes that sometimes the body's own repair system can go out of control, where adult stem cells, fibroblasts, and similar undifferentiated cells meant to go to a damaged area and repair or replace damaged tissues, keep replicating out of control because they no longer respond to the body's natural chemical and electrical signals to stop the replication / repair process.

Other theories of the illness are that cancer can be caused by pathogenic infections of microbes or fungus. Both of these types of infections can feed off of injured tissues that are unable to defend themselves against these foreign infections. As these damaged tissues are being consumed by these infections, the body's other systems kick in to isolate the infection by the growth of tumors to stop their spread. As the bodies immune system weakens, the underlying cause of the disease may spread to other parts of the body.

Apoptosis, programmed cell death, is an important mechanism in cancer treatment.
When cancer is malignant, the cells no longer follow their directed, programmed death, and continue to replicated out of control.

The following is an abstract from a medical study indexed by Medline / Pub Med:

Amygdalin induces apoptosis through regulation of Bax and Bcl-2 expressions in human DU145 and LNCaP prostate cancer cells.
Chang HK, Shin MS, Yang HY, Lee JW, Kim YS, Lee MH, Kim J, Kim KH, Kim CJ.
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, South Korea.

prostate cancer is one of the most common non-skin cancers in men. Amygdalin is one of the nitrilosides, natural cyanide-containing substances abundant in the seeds of plants of the prunasin family that have been used to treat cancers and relieve pain. In particular, D-amygdalin (D-mandelonitrile-beta-D-gentiobioside) is known to exhibit selective killing effect on cancer cells.

Apoptosis, programmed cell death, is an important mechanism in cancer treatment. In the present study, we prepared the aqueous extract of the amygdalin from Armeniacae semen and investigated whether this extract induces apoptotic cell death in human DU145 and LNCaP prostate cancer cells. In the present results, DU145 and LNCaP cells treated with amygdalin exhibited several morphological characteristics of apoptosis. Treatment with amygdalin increased expression of Bax, a pro-apoptotic protein, decreased expression of Bcl-2, an anti-apoptotic protein, and increased caspase-3 enzyme activity in DU145 and LNCaP prostate cancer cells. Here, we have shown that amygdalin induces apoptotic cell death in human DU145 and LNCaP prostate cancer cells by caspase-3 activation through down-regulation of Bcl-2 and up-regulation of Bax. The present study reveals that amygdalin may offer a valuable option for the treatment of prostate cancers.

PMID: 16880611 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Although the untainted study above specifically mentions prostate cancer, it is believed that a wide variety of cancer can be similarly controlled. Many studies conducted within the sphere of influence of the Rockefeller family have been critisized as tainted or deceptive in their characterization that the injected laetrile substance is at all toxic at the recommended levels, and not jepardized by any dietary enzyme triggers as was done in the poisoning of the dogs study PMID: 203726 .

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