BREAST
CANCER
By
Camellia C. Pratt, DTCM
The first world conference on Breast Cancer was held July 1997,
in Kingston, Ontario. The chief organizer Janet Collins, a nurse and midwife had
many friends and a sister fall victim to what some say is becoming an epidemic.
Breast Cancer kills almost one million women worldwide annually, including about
7000 in Canada in 1997.
As much as
cancer has been blamed on genetic quirks, lifestyle factors, including smoking
and having a high fat diet, about 70 % of breast disease causes don't fall into
high-risk categories. (1) Now with the high incident rates in the Northern New
York States and north shore of Great Lakes, second highest only to San Francisco
Bay with 18,000 new cases annually, some feel Breast Cancer could be
environmental pollution induced. Sandra Stein Graber, a Boston Biologist states
80% of Breast Cancers are caused by environmental hazards (2)
Despite the enormous effort to combat Breast Cancer, the number of new
cases rises each year. For example, the introduction of radiation therapy,
chemotherapy, immuno-therapy, CT Scans, MRI scans and all other new medical
technology, life spans for breast cancer patients have remained the same, as
there hasn't been any significant progress in Breast Cancer treatment. Treatment
has improved survival only slightly, in fact.
The five year survival rate for Breast Cancer in 1976 was 75%, 1983- 77%
and in 1989- 78%. Most scientist/ physicians are convinced however that the
slight increase in time of survival of lifespan is due largely to earlier
detection of Breast Cancer, by improving mammography technology. But to an
oncologist if the patient lives 5 years + 1 day, that woman survived and is
counted as a cure, even if she has died. If however she lives one day less than
5 years she is counted as a non-survivor. In 1960,1 in 20 women developed
Breast Cancer, in 1974, 1 in 17. The odds have gotten worse with each
succeeding year. By 1990 the rate rose astronomically to 1 in 10, and kept
zooming, in 1991, 1 in 9, in 1994, 1 in 8 women developed breast Cancer.
(3)
In the last two decades the National Cancer Institute has spent over $1 billion on breast cancer alone, touting spectacular progress at the research level with almost no change in reducing mortality or increasing life spans. And that is the primary objective of any treatment –to make the lifespan longer, improve survival. Two advances have come about however:
1. Minimizing pain and suffering
2. Less mutilating surgery to achieve the same survival. Even though
this information is well known to all scientist and physicians, the great
majority of all breast cancers are still handled the same way, i.e. modified
radical mastectomy rather than lumpectomy, auxiliary node dissection and
radiation therapy (3). Dr. Stephen Narod, a Medical Researcher from Women's
College Hospital in Toronto concluded "mastectomy before cancer
strikes" is the best approach to treating women carrying the genes linked
with the disease even though as some delegates attending the conference in
Kingston pointed out, research hasn't proven conclusively that breast removal is
an effective prevention strategy. (4)
There is an information gap on the causes, monitoring and prevention of
breast cancer, because little conclusive research has been done on the subject.
However, it is known that 75% of patients survive breast cancer, and most breast
cancers are present 8 to 10 years before they can be detected as a lump or on a
mammogram, according to Dr. Susan Love, MD. Associate Professor of Clinical
Surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the Breast
Cancer Institute. Dr. Love points out "The problem of the prevention and
treatment of breast cancer is the fact that 80% of women who get breast cancer
don't have (the traditional) risk factors. A low fat diet may be preventative,
but we won't have the results from studies for a good five to ten years. Recent
studies however have disputed the long-standing belief of that risk factor. The
Canadian National Breast Screening study, which examined the diets of almost
57,000 women, claimed that a higher incidence of breast cancer was observed in
women consuming the most fat. They neglected to report that the same high,
incidence of breast cancer was observed in the women consuming the least amount
of fat.
The Nurses Study in the U.S.A found exactly the same pattern. When the
data from both studies were compared and evaluated, it was discovered that
"The breast cancer rate among these women was virtually the same, whether
they ate a lot of fat or very little". (8)
Another study, has also recently discounted the high genetic risk
factor. Although the risk of breast cancer is doubled among women whose mother
or sister contacted Breast Cancer before the age of 40, the study indicated that
within middle -aged women, only 2.5 % of breast cancer cases were attributable
to family history. (5)
Early detection is currently one of the primary strategies for
prevention and successful treatment, which is why the self-breast exam is so
important. The benefits of mammography are still a subject of debate. Questions
that are still present include whether low-level radiation used in the test can
contribute to cancer, whether equivocal results lead to unnecessary surgery and
the accuracy rate of test results.
According to the National Cancer Institute, in women ages 40-49 there is
a high rate of missed tumors, resulting in 40% false negative test results.
Breast tissue in younger women is denser, which makes it more difficult to
detect tumors, so tumors grow more quickly in younger women, and tumors may
develop between screenings. Because there is no reduction in mortality from
breast cancer as a direct result of early mammogram, it is recommended that
women under fifty avoid screening mammograms although the American Cancer
Society is still recommending a mammogram every two years for women ages 40-49.
Dr. Love states, "We know that mammography works and will be a lifesaving
tool for at least 30% (6)
Dr. Norman Boyd, head of the Division of Epidemiology and
Statistics at
the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, whose research was funded by drug
companies (6), calls dense breast tissue a "major cancer risk”, and they
should have mammograms "more frequently than other women", also adding
patients should be cautioned to follow a low-fat, high fiber diet and perhaps
take specific medication to "block factors that play a role in breast
density" and thus cancer. According to the American Academy of Pathology at
least 50%, but as many as 80% of North American women suffer some sort of
fibrocystic breast disease or density (11), causing a lot of pain and discomfort
as well as a great deal of anxiety. Although a benign condition, it can be
difficult for both women and their physicians to distinguish a cystic breast
lump from a cancerous one. Right now Fibrocystic Breast Disease is a confusing
term or as Dr. Susan Love says “a wastebasket into which doctors throw every
breast problem which isn't cancer." (yet).
Various researchers have
suggested a hormonal imbalance, a decreased ratio of progesterone to estrogen in
the second half of the menses cycle, an abnormality of prolactin regulation, a
hypersensitivity to thyroid stimulating hormone and increased estrogen levels,
as causes of fibrocystic breast disease.
Various treatments of fibrocystic breast disease are:
Dr. Mauvais Jarvis and his group of French researchers found that breast pain
was relieved 95% of the time with a natural progesterone gel rubbed into the
breasts.
Dr. John Lee,
clinical instructor at U. of California Dept. of Family Medicine has had good
success using a 2 oz. jar of 3% natural progesterone cream for the last two
weeks of cycle for a total of 3 -6 months. Maintenance is 1/2 jar a month.
Studies have been inclusive as to whether vitamin supplementation reduces pain
or swelling.
Dr. Christine
Northrup, an American gynecologist, recommends hot castor oil packs applied to the
breast 3 times a week for one hour for 2-3 months with maintenance afterwards of
once a week. (12)
Dr. John Myers
a Baltimore gynecologist with a special interest in metabolic disease is
credited among the first to recognize the importance of iodine to the breast and
ovary. He found he could completely reverse fibrocystic breast disease using
iodine orally and vaginally along with trace mineral elements given under the
tongue and magnesium given intravenously. Cystic breast would soften quickly
under the regime, sometimes immediately. (11)
In the Canadian Journal of Surgery, Dr. William Ghent, former Professor
Emeritus of Surgery, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. and Dr. Bernard
Eskin, Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and Obstetrics & Gynecology
at Medical College of Pennsylvania, (who both collaborated on clinical research
of iodine deficiency and fibrocystic disease in the 1970's) have speculated that
the elemental iodine is essential for breast normality, and its absence seems to
render the breast ducts more sensitive to estrogen stimulation and subsequent
formation of cysts and scar tissue. They theorize that adequate amounts of
elemental iodine in breast tissue make them less sensitive to circulating
estrogens. As such the iodine could be classed as a natural anti-estrogen a sort
of natural tamoxifen. Incidentally, during treatment for fibrocystic breast
disease, it was noted that some women experienced a marked improvement in their
endometriosis. At present this special form of iodine must be taken continuously
or the breasts will become cystic again. With Dr. Ghent's research on
fibrocystic disease of 3200 women for 12,000 women years, the breast cancer rate
of women taking the elemental iodine was 0.00082 women per year, while the
projected incidence of breast cancer for Ontarian women was .0064 women per
year.(11)
Sydney Singer a
medical Anthropologist, examines the ways in which our lifestyles make us sick,
and came up with the theory that "there is no such disease as Breast
Cancer, there is cancer which manifested in a woman's breast". He
discovered that where there were not brassieres, there was little breast
disease, after conducting a two-year study in which he interviewed over 5000
women regarding their attitude and behavior regarding breast and bras. About
half of the women had breast cancer, and he discovered that the women with
breast cancer had a history of tighter and longer bra wearing than did the women
who had not (yet) developed the disease.
The researcher also threw out the challenge that if a woman stopped
wearing her bra for two weeks that fibrocystic breast disease would disappear.
(I had suffered Fibrocystic Breast Disease for over 35 years, and thought what
the heck, I'll give him three weeks. I marked the time off on my calendar and
carried on with life as usual. After three weeks, my breast was completely clear
of Fibrocystic Breast Disease (from a bag full of marbles to one full of water,
what a difference). Dr. Singer has pointed out that the problem caused by bras
is essentially a mechanical interference with the breast lymphatic drainage.
However, in today's world we are all exposed to hazardous cancer causing toxins
in our food, air water and medications. Pesticides, herbicides and other
chemical contaminants enter our bodies and must be cleared away, along with the
damage they caused. This is the basis of the dietary connection with cancer (and
environmental pollution). It is through our diets that we get exposed to many
toxins especially the fat-soluble toxins that are found in the fatty part of our
foods. High fat diets are associated with cancer, not because of the fat itself
(which people have been consuming for thousands, if not millions of years), but
because of the toxin content of fats produced in
our chemical dependent food production system. Once in our tissues, these toxins
must be flushed out via the lymphatics. However, a bra-constricted breast cannot
adequately perform this cleansing process, resulting in toxin accumulation in
the breasts.
One major
reason women wear bras is the myth that bras are needed for "support".
This myth assumes that the female body was created with a flaw pertaining to
shape. This apparent flaw is a reflection of a fashion image which demands that
women have their breasts higher on their chest wall than nature intended, and
which can be achieved only with the purchase of a product-the brassiere. In
fact, bras are creating droopy, weak breasts, the exact opposite of what this
myth claims. As the breast relies on the bra for artificial support the body
loses its ability to support the breast by itself. (13)
ERT & CANCER: Dr.
Alan Gaby, author of Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis, explains that at
least 28 different studies have evaluated the relationship between Estrogen
Replacement Therapy and breast cancer. These analyses suggest that estrogen
replacement therapy is associated with an increase in the risk of breast cancer
ranging from 1-30% (9)
When
suffering stage 3, large C prostate cancer, my husband was prescribed women's
hormones to slow the cancer growth. He developed breasts, which produced large
tumors. His surgeon wished to operate, but we decided against it, and upon
chance when visiting an acupuncturist, the DTCM recommended some nightly massage
of Zusali (Stomach 36 point) and the tumors went away.
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE: CANCER OF BREAST AND TREATMENT:
The value of lymph node removal is increasingly controversial, says Dr. Greg
McGregor, head of surgical oncology at the British Columbia Cancer Agency. He is
chief investigator in a new trial to see if lymph node conservation affects
cancer recurrence or survival.
Dr. Edward
Fish, Assistant Surgery Professor at University of Toronto, also questions
routine removal of lymph nodes, especially for women with a small lump. An
experimental technique is being developed where a dye is injected close to the
tumor. The dye then travels to the lymph gland called the senital gland. That
gland alone is then removed and if it contains no cancer cells, the lymph nodes
can be safely intact. Dr. Fish studied 100 women who had lumpectomy only. Women
over the age 65 with a small non-aggressive tumor had a local recurrence rate
of less than five percent and would thus benefit little from radiation.
Recently
in Vancouver B.C., 40 doctors from across North America made a landmark decision
to study unconventional cancer treatments. (16) In the question of
"preventive" chemotherapy, Steve Austin, a naturopath, says most women
have impaired quality of life from chemotherapy, but few benefits. Side effects
could include hair loss, nausea, and lowered white blood cell count and susceptibility to infection. (17)
Another
treatment/preventive tried out now is Tamoxifen, which was developed about 20
years ago. Researchers discovered it lowered Breast Cancer rates in animals, and
started studying its effects on human breast cancer. The researchers found out
that tamoxifen interfered with estrogen in breast tissue by stopping it from
binding to particular receptors. Although estrogen promotes the growth of breast
cancer cells, it must first bind to these receptors in order to have any effect
at all. Tamoxifen blocks these estrogen receptors and helps reduce the chance of
a recurrence of breast cancer. Because of this anti-estrogenic effect, the side
effects of tamoxifen mirror that of menopause. The research soon unveiled even
more serious side effects of tamoxifen usage. Even the National Cancer Institute
admits that Tamoxifen can cause an increase of uterine cancer. It is also
believed to cause liver cancer. Dr. Samuel Epstein, an expert in environmental
toxicology has reported Tamoxifen is the most potent liver carcinogen
available,(18) and most experts are
telling us this is the "most promising anti-cancer drug on the
market".(19)
It has
been my experience that before cancer can be cured or go into remission, some
psychological work must be done. There seems to be a spiritual manifestation of
the disease and this must be treated along side the physical ones. Dr. Louise
Hay, an international renown counselor, teacher and lecturer, states
"frequently patients with cancer have a deep hurt, long-standing
resentment, a deep secret or grief eating away at self. Carrying hatred saying
'What’s the use?', and then the part of the body involved sometimes shows the
person's mind bent. For example in breast problems perhaps the person had a
problem with over-mothering, over-protection or over-bearing attitude, perhaps a
refusal to nourish the self, putting everyone else first." (21)
Edward
Bach stated that Disease is in essence, the result of conflict between soul and
mind. and will never be eradicated in the patient except by spiritual and mental
effort. We must learn to think, reason, see, hear, speak and pray from the
heart, not the head to be with our soul. "Illness. disharmony and imbalance
are often a result of the gap between the inner state and the 'face' that we
daily put on to those around us" (22)
Dr. Ron
Pratt. Ph.D. .F.B.F.S. a social science researcher has stated that in his
experience and observations, that especially cancer, among others is a disease
that not only attacks the physical, it also attacks the spirit. "Such men
as Hippocrates, with his mighty ideals of healing, Paracelsus with his certainty
of the Divinity of Man; and Hahnemann, who realized that disease originates in a
plane above the physical, Edward Bach with his certainty that the real cause of
disease are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self-love, ignorance (lack of
wisdom), instability of mind (indecision), inconsistency, greed, presumption,
pretension, immaturity, deceit, deception, sensuality. What untold misery would
have been spared during the last 20 to 25 centuries had the teachings of these
great masters and their art been followed. Unfortunately, as in other areas,
materialism has appealed too strongly, and for so long a time, that the voices
of the detractors and obstructers have risen above the advise of those great
masters, who knew the truth." (20)
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE PERSPECTIVE
Many people are
returning to ancient manuscripts and studying the masters, and now we see the
West embracing the 5000 years documented medicine from the east, commonly known
as Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The five principles of TCM treatment are:
1. Fu Zheng Qi
Xie- promote, enhance, dispel evil, and strengthen’s patient’s resistance.
2. Huo Xue Qu
Yu- eliminates stasis and promotes blood circulation
3. Qing Re Jie
Du- clear and remove evil heat, detox, relieve fever and pain.
4.Ruan Jian San
Jie- softens, dissolve hard masses.
5. Yi Du Gong
Du- combat poisons with poisons.
TCM
believes
that cancer involves four factors: blood stasis, deficiency, toxicity and
phlegm, that all must be present for cancer to happen. The aetiology and
pathogenesis of Breast Cancer is:
Insufficiency
of vital Qi- injury of seven emotions
Stagnation of
Liver and Spleen Qi and disorder of Chong and Ren channels leads to disturbance
of physiological function of Zang-fu organs and mammary gland, obstruction of
the channels and collaterals accumulation of stagnated Qi, blood and phlegm in
breast.
1)
For stagnation of the Liver Qi,
wishing to relieve the depressed liver and resolve phlegm and masses use a
modified XIAO YAO SAN:
Chai hu 10 gr.
(Bupleurum falcatum)
Detoxifies
the liver, regulates liver qi,
Bai shao 12 gr,
(White peony)
Tonifies
blood, antispasmodic, nourishes ying
Dang Gui 12 gr.
Tonifies
and moves blood
Bai Zhu 10 gr.
Tonifies
qi, removes dampness, promotes digestion
Fu Ling I0 gr.
(Poria Cocos)
Diuretic,
drains dampness, purifies the lymphatic system, anticancer
Tian Nan Xing
10 gr. Arisaema Consanguineum –(prepared jack in the pulpit)
Dissolves
and Removes phlegm congestion from the chest, anticancer
Jiang Ban Xia
10 gr. (Prepared Pinellia ternata)
Dissolves
and removes phlegm from the chest
Quan Gua Lou
10gr. (Trichosanthes fruit)
Clears heat,
detoxifies, anticancer, removes phlegm-heat, dissipates nodules (tumors)
especially good for the lungs and breast
Chuan Lian Zi
10 gr. (Meliae Toosendan fruit)
Moves
qi, stops pain, clears heat and detoxifies, anticancer,
Gan Cao 6 gr.
(glycyrrhizae uralensis – licorice)
Harmonizes,
tonifies qi, anticancer
For
hypertensive liver fire add:
Mu Dan Pi 10 gr.
(tree peony root bark – paeonia suffructicosa)
Clears
heat, moves blood
Shan Zhi Zi
10gr. (Gardenia fruit – Gardeniae jasminoides)
Moves
blood, clears heat, detoxifies, anticancer
2)
For disorder of Chong & Ren Channels requiring a modified ER XIAN TANG
(Decoction of Curculigo and Epimodium) to regulate the two channels:
Xian Mao 10 gr.
(Curculigo orchiodes)
Tonifies
kidney yang (adrenals), removes coldness and dampness
Xian Ling Pi 15
gr. (Epimedium grandiflorum)
Tonifies
kidney yang (adrenals), removes damp-cold
Ba Ji Tan 10 gr.
(Morinda officinalis root)
Strengthens
kidney yang (adrenals)
Dang Gui 15gr.
(Angelica sinensis)
Tonifies
and moves blood
Lu Jiao Shuang
6 gr. (Cornu cervi degelatinatium) – this is the dregs after boiling deer
antler glue, it is milder than deer antler, but also tonifies qi and blood
Zi Dan Shen 15
gr. (Red sage root – Salvia miltiorrhizae)
Moves
blood, cools heat, relieves pain, calmative, removes liver qi stagnation,
prevents metastasis
Ban Xia
10gr. (Prepared pinellia ternata root)
Dissolves
and removes phlegm from the chest
Bai Jie Zi 10gr.
(mustard seed – brassica alba)
Promotes
digestion, relieves stagnation, anticancer
Gan Cao 6 gr.
(glycyrrhizae uralensis – licorice)
Harmonizes,
tonifies qi, anticancer
If the breast
is hard, painful and complicated with anemia add:
Ezhu 12 gr.
(Curcuma zedoaria)
Moves
blood, dissolves stagnation and masses, and relieves pain, anticancer
Zhi Ru Xiang 12
gr. (Frankincense – Gummi Olibanum)
Moves
blood, dissolves stagnation and masses, and relieves pain
Zhi Mo Yao 12gr.
(Myrrh – Commiphora myrrha)
Moves
blood, relieves pain, and dissolves masses
3)
Another type is accumulation of noxious fire in the interior and to purge fire,
remove toxins, subdue swelling and arrest pain use a modified LONG DAN XIE
GEN TANG:
Long Dan Cao 6
gr. (Gentiana scabra)
Clears
heat and dampness, relieves inflammation, anticancer
Shan Zhi Zi 10
gr. (Gardenia fruit – Gardeniae jasminoides)
Moves
blood, clears heat, detoxifies, anticancer
Huang
Qin 15 gr. (Scutellaria baicalensis)
Clears
heat and dampness, detoxifies, anticancer
Sheng Di 21gr.
(Unprepared Rehmannia glutinosa)
Clears
heat, nourishes the blood and yin
Che Qian Zi I2
gr. (Plantago asiatica seed)
Removes
dampness, diuretic, clears heat, purifies the lymphatic system
Ze Xie 10 gr.
(Alisma tuber – water plantain)
Diuretic,
clears heat, promotes lymphatic purification
Mu Tong 9 gr.
(Akebia trifoliata)
Diuretic,
antiinflammatory, detoxifies, anticancer
Dang Gui 12 gr.
(Angelica sinensis)
Tonifies
and moves blood
Chai Hu 10 gr.
(Bupleurum falcatum)
Detoxifies
the liver, regulates liver qi,
Zao Xin 30 gr.
(Terra flava usta – derived from the center of the ashes from the bottom of a
cooking stove where lithospermum has been burned)
Warms
the blood, stops bleeding, warms the stomach, stops vomiting
Feng Fang 15 gr.
(Wasp’s nest – Polistes olivaceus)
Detoxifies,
moves blood, anticancer, treats tumors
Quan Xie 10 gr.
(Scorpion – Buthus martensi)
Detoxifies,
regulates qi flow, anticancer
Long Kei Zi 15
gr.
??
Sheng Gan Cao 6
gr. (glycyrrhizae uralensis – licorice)
Harmonizes,
tonifies qi, anticancer
If the fever is
severe add:
Jin Yin Hua 30
gr. (Lonicera or honeysuckle flowers)
Anti-cancer,
detoxifies
Lian Qiao 15 gr.
(Forsythia suspensa)
Detoxifies,
clears heat, anticancer, moves blood, dissolves lumps
Sheng Shi Gao
30 gr. (Gypsum)
Clears
heat
or the
following could be used for removing heat and toxic material and anti-cancer.
Ban Zhi Lian 30 gr. (Scutellaria barbata)
Clears
heat and dampness, anticancer,
Bai Hua She She
Cao 30 gr, (Oldenlandia diffusa)
Anticancer,
clears heat
4) For
deficiency of both Qi and Blood- where the Breast is like a cauliflower and with
a continual exudative blood fluid plus other symptoms. Where the practitioner
wishes to tonify Qi and Blood remove toxic material and resolve phlegm a
modified GUI PI TANG can be used:
Huang Qi
(astragalus) 30 gr.
Tonifies qi,
strengthens the immune system, protects the body, anti-cancer
Dang Shen
(codonopsis) 30 gr.
Tonifies qi
Bai Zhu (white atractylodes) 12 gr.
Tonifies Qi,
removes dampness, strengthens digestion
Dang Gui (Angelica sinensis) I0 gr.
Nourishes
and moves blood,
Fu Ling (Poria cocos) 15 gr.
Diuretic,
promotes lymphatic drainage, anticancer
Chi Shan Yao
(red peony root – paeonia rubra) I2 gr.
Moves blood,
breaks up stagnation
Long Yan Rou (Longan berries – Arillus longus) 30 gr.
Nourishes
blood, mild sedative, tonifies the heart and spleen
Shuang Hua Teng (Lonicera or honeysuckle vine) 30 gr.
Anti-cancer,
detoxifies
Ba Jie Zi (mustard seed – brassica alba) 10 gr.
Promotes
digestion, relieves stagnation, anticancer
Qian Cao Gen
(madder root – Rubiae cordifoliae) 15 gr. (23)
Stops
bleeding and yet it promotes blood circulation
This entire
amount is cooked in 6 cups slowly down to 2 or 3, which is consumed in three
times daily.
FOLK CURE Another
folk remedy that has been very successful in dissolving cancer tumours is the
use of raw red beetroots, but when ingested as a juice there is a danger of the
patient contracting a high fever because of the incredible strong ability to
quickly break up cancer in the body. The beets can clean up the cancer faster
than the liver is capable of processing all of the wastes dumped into it at all
at once. Reducing dosage helps. (24)
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Camellia C.
Pratt is an East West Herb Course Student and a practitioner. She is developing
a wonderful website that describes her clinic. Check it out at
http://www.rainbowclinic.faithweb.com