User:Ronsword

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I am a health/medicine writer and journalist living in Florida who has published several books on complementary medicine. One for Carol Publishing, the other two for Dell Health as a contracted writer. The Dell books, one on Prostate Problems the other on Breast Cancer involved stringent oversight by legal and medical advisors, and this attention to objective and proper reporting has improved my own journalistic capabilities.

I take a special interest in the history and science of cancer bacteria research. I have avidly studied this field for twenty five years, have conducted myriad interviews, initiated correspondences with leading and independent cancer organizations including NCI and ACS, and have compiled a sizeable library of published research, correspondences, audio tapes of interviews and newspaper records dating back to early 20th century.

Over the years, I have grown from someone opinionated on the topic of "alternative medicine," to someone who has become totally dedicated to judicious presentation of facts and historical records, well aware of the many myths, half-truths and conjectures that exist regarding this subject. Unfortunatley, there is so much distorted information and misunderstanding about cancer bacteria research, and a substantial amount of resistance by many in the medical/scientific field toward it, that I feel it is my obligation as a journalist and a concerned human being, to convey the highest quality information I am able to in the hopes of promoting proper dialogue.

I suspect, based on my years of study, that cancer bacteria research is a potentially significant area of study and unravelling many of the questions regarding it may have an important impact on certain aspects of cancer medicine.

[edit] Other Areas of Interest

The relationship between cancer, immunosurveillance and human choriogonadotropin (HCG). This is, indeed, a fascinating aspect of the cancer problem. As Acevedo has noted, HCG is a common denominator in a large majority of tumor tissues, though NCI states it is a common aspect of healthy tissues as well. Several studies have suggested HCG and its related sialoglycoproteins exert a negative electrostatic charge, similar to cells of the immune system. If true, this would theoretically offer one explanation as to the ability of neoplasia to avoid immunosurveillance. While the HCG/cancer role needs to be further elucidated, a multi-institutional clinical trial conducted in the 1990's which specifically tested an anti-HCG vaccine in patients with later stage cancers claimed statistically favorable responses.

The additional role of HCG and cancer might be elucidated in the fields of reproductive medicine, where recent peer-reviewed studies suggest that HCG helps promote trophoblastic invasion of the endometrium in preparation of embryonic attachment. Perhaps more startling, T-cell apoptosis appears to be effected by HCG. It doesn't seem far fetched to propose a similar function for HCG synthesis in cancer.

Virginia Livingston first reported that cancer bacteria isolates were capable of synthesizing HCG in 1974. Hernan Acevedo later corroborated the ability of various bacterial species to synthesize HCG as well. Is there a connection between bacteria, HCG and cancer, and if so, might therapeutics designed to target HCG-promoting bacteria prove a potentially favorable treatment strategy? And might HCG neutralized cancer antigens pave the way for additional immunotherapeutics such as monoclonal antibody therapies which until know, have not proven as effective as was initially hoped? The story is still unfolding.

Stay tuned.