Cancer is an Infectious Disease as if Cancer is Metabolic Parasites: Evolution and Degeneration of Biology of Cancer Cells - Prevention & Healing Inc.
by Simon Yu, MD | Mar 16, 2015 | Cancer, History of Medicine, Parasites/Fungi
Dr. Tim Guilford, MD from California recently emailed me a Research Paper Review Article from Oncotarget titled, “Antibiotics that target mitochondria effectively eradicate cancer stem cells, across multiple tumor types: Treating cancer like an infectious disease.” This research paper, published in January 2015 came from, and was funded by, the University of Manchester, England. It proposed to treat cancer like an infectious disease by using FDA approved antibiotics as anticancer therapy, across multiple tumor types.
Based on their study, 4-5 different classes of FDA approved antibiotics can be used to eradicate cancer stem cells, in 12 different cancer cell lines, across 8 different tumor types, including breast, DCIS, ovarian, prostate, melanoma, and glioblastoma of the brain. Those classes of mitochondria-targeted antibiotics include: erythromycin-azithromycin, tetracycline-doxycycline, glycylcyclines, and an antiparasitic drug, pyrvinium pamoate and chloramphenicol. (Pyrvinium pamoate is not commercially available in the US and one may use pyrantel pamoate or combine with ivermectin).
The crux of the hypothesis is based on understanding the Achilles’ heel in Cancer Stem Cell’s mitochondria. Because mitochondria evolved from bacteria that were originally engulfed by early eukaryotic-protozoa cells over one billion years ago (known as the endosymbiotic theory of mitochondria evolution), cancer mitochondria are more susceptible to those classes of mitochondria-targeted antibiotics.
The eukaryotic protozoa cells evolved from our universal ancestor a billion years ago, incorporating endosymbiotic bacteria as mitochondrial cellular power plants. Human cells are a product of the creation and biological evolution of the eukaryotic protozoa cells.
Is it possible to reverse the process of cancerous conditions? It takes more than antibiotics or antiparasitic medications to treat cancer. We need to treat the whole body on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.
However, based on these well researched papers, it is worthwhile to start using natural and prescribed antibiotics, antifungal, and antiparasitic medications, as a means to reduce the total burden of infections, as a part of cancer management programs by primary care physicians. It may have a secondary benefit of targeting the mitochondria of cancer stem cells. This research paper gives us a glimpse of hope and the possibility of a cure for cancer. I have seen this phenomenon and described it in my book, Accidental Cure.