Cancer: Who Can You Trust?
by Phillip Day

It is with great pleasure that I write to introduce this month's CTM EClub. However I do so with the marked poignancy that the chief pillars of the information we have been sharing in this series have been in the public domain in excess of fifty years and remain largely unheeded by our medical experts, many of whom are, as ever, fixated on the cure of cancer rather than its prevention. The aim of my organisation, Credence, is to report research that has failed to make its vital and prominent appearance either in the medical literature or through the mass communications media because of political or economic constraints, such as they are perceived. The purpose EClub is to encourage the re-education of the public and its physicians on cancer in all its forms, and thereby encourage and engender no more or less a goal than the total eradication of cancer in societies where this scourge is epidemic. To accomplish this with a high degree of success, three areas of education and action need to be urgently addressed: that of what cancer actually is, how to prevent it, and lastly, how to eradicate it in current patients, howsoever late-term in their illness.

The answers to many diseases previously fatal to mankind came through the age-old study of what worked and what didn't. This is the very nature and essence of science, or knowledge gained. Backroom boys fooling around in the lab, trying stuff out, blowing holes in the ceiling, learning from their successes and failures. Aye, as Shakespeare would remark, but here's the rub. History has shown a marked trend in human pride where, on more than one occasion, man has overlooked, fudged, prejudiced and, perhaps more significantly, ignored the obvious and unprofitable in favour of his often frenzied search for the answer within the technical and the brilliant, thereby increasing his own stature within his noble profession, earning himself the approbation of his peers.

Leo Tolstoy astutely observed: "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth, if it would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."

Knowledge is a pride thing. Always has been.

Read EClub and you will find comprehensive technical references on a series of key nutritional treatments for cancer, complete with their total scientific justifications, which have been largely embargoed by traditional medicine in their search for the ephemeral technical and patentable answers to cancer. EClub is not just for the public, but also for physicians, practitioners and scientists whose brave colleagues directly and indirectly contributed to such ground-breaking work. The fact that this information has to come from a published source other than those provided by accepted medical journals, speaks volumes on just how political and economic an animal cancer has become.

At Credence, our job has been to draw together the myriad research that has sprung from mankind's honest desire to eliminate from its cultures a disease that has destroyed millions. The fact that this information has been a matter of public knowledge for decades, and yet has not made it into general oncological practice, is perhaps one of the greatest scandals in medical and social history. The political and socio-economical reasons why this has happened, and continues to happen to this day, are discussed in some detail in my book Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth.

And so, welcome to the third of our four-part series: Cancer, Who Can We Trust?