Very interesting article, BW,
Sheila http://www.rense.com/general53/acsaid.com Although medical science claims the cause of most cancers is unknown, there is evidence accumulated since the late 19th century to show that cancer is a disease caused by infectious bacteria (not to be confused with viruses which are not visible microscopically). In 1890 the noted Scottish pathologist William Russell (1852-1940) discovered round forms in cancer tissue which he interpreted as "the characteristic organism of cancer." These forms were subsequently discredited as infectious agents but have became known to every pathologist as "Russell bodies." (For more details see, "The Russell Body: The forgotten clue to the bacterial cause of cancer" at: www.rense.com/general44/russell.htm) The most vocal proponent of bacteria as a cause of cancer was the late Virginia Livingston, M.D. In 1950, Virginia Wuerthele-Caspe Livingston and Eleanor Alexander-Jackson (a microbiologist), along with John A Anderson (head of the Department of Bacteriology at Rutgers), James Hillier (head of the electron microscopy at the RCA Victor Laboratories at Princeton), Roy Allen (a renowned microscopist), and Lawrence W Smith (author of a well-known pathology textbook used in medical colleges), all combined their talents to write a paper entitled "Cultural Properties and Pathogenicity of Certain Microorganisms Obtained from Various Proliferative and Neoplastic Diseases," published in the December issue of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. The characteristics of the cancer microbe in blood, tissue, and culture, were described in detail; and the extreme pleomorphic nature of the organism was revealed in photos taken with the electron microscope at a magnification of 31,000X. (The ordinary light microscope only magnifies a thousand times.) The cancer microbe, which Livingston later called Progenitor cryptocides, was filterable through a pore designed to hold back bacteria, indicating that the smallest forms of the microbe were indeed "virus-sized." However, with time these filter-passing were able to grow and revert back to the size of conventional bacteria. The microbe was characterized as pleomorphic, that is, having more than one form and size. The smallest forms of the organism were virus-like, and the larger bacterial forms were comparable to what bacteriologists call "mycoplasma", "L-forms" and "cell-wall deficient forms." The largest forms of the organism resembled what Russell called "the cancer parasite." Livingston believed the organism was closely related to the mycobacteria, the species of acid-fast bacteria that causes tuberculosis. She claimed the "acid-fast" staining method was essential to identify the microbe in tissue and in culture. In a series of papers Livingston and her colleagues all continued important cancer microbe research showing the characteristic "connective tissue parasite" of cancer, the germ that could be found inside the cell (intracellular) and outside the cell (extracellular) in all cancers they studied. Livingston always stressed that the microbe tends to involve the collagenous (connective) tissue, and the photographs presented here in prostate cancer confirm that. When she died in 1990 at the age of 84, she was widely regarded as a quack, particularly by the American Cancer Society which claimed her cancer microbe did not exist. Likewise, a bulletin published by the National Cancer institute on Nov 30, 1990 stated: "There is no scientific evidence to confirm Livingston's theories of cancer causation." More details covering a century of cancer microbe research can be found in my book, The Cancer Microbe: The Hidden Killer in Cancer, AIDS, and Other Immune Diseases (1990) , in Cell Wall Deficient Bacteria (1993) by Lida Mattman, Ph.D., in Can Bacteria Cause Cancer?: Alternative Medicine Confronts Big Science (1997) by David Hess, and also by initiating a computer search at www.google.com and typing in "cancer bacteria", "cancer microbe", or "cancer-associated bacteria." Over the past four decades personal publications in medical journals record the presence of cancer bacteria in various cancers, including breast cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, Hodgkin's disease, mycosis fungoides, as well as in non-cancerous diseases like scleroderma, lupus erythematosus, and sarcoidosis. Additional papers on the microbiology of cancer are presented online at the Journal of Independent Medical Research web site (www.joimr.org). References and abstracts on 10 cancer microbe medical publications can be found at the National Library of Medicine's "PubMed" web site (www.ncbi.nlm.gov/PubMed/). (Type in "Cantwell AR + cancer bacteria". According to Livingston, the cancer microbe is present in the blood, tissue, excreta, and body fluids of all human beings. When the immune system is functioning normally these microbes did not cause disease. However, when tissue is damaged or weakened these microbes became aggressive and pathogenic, producing hardening and thickening of the tissue (such as found in scleroderma and heart disease), inflammation (autoimmune diseases and sarcoidosis) and proliferative and cancerous changes. The cancer microbe is essential to our life biology. When conditions are adverse, it emerges and reverts to its pathogenic form . Livingston's research is connected with newer microbiologic findings indicating that the blood of all human beings is infected with a variety of so-called "cell wall deficient" bacteria. Tiny, virus-like forms of the cancer microbes are undoubtedly related to the tiniest of newly-discovered bacteria currently called nanobacteria. These previously neglected and largely-unstudied nanobacteria, which lie in size between the normal-sized bacteria and the smallest viruses, are thought to be involved in a variety of skin and heart ailments presently labeled as diseases of unknown etiology. An excellent source of up-to-date nanobacteria research can be found at the Nanobac Pharmaceutical web site (www.nanobaclabs.com/research ). Detecting Acid-Fast Cancer Bacteria in Prostate cancer In December 2003 my partner of 30 years was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He is a 68 year-old Italian-American who has always been in good health. His PSA was abnormally elevated to 9, and a digital rectal examination by the urologist revealed a hardened area on the right side of the gland. Multiple biopsies were performed from six areas of the prostate gland and three were positive for adenocarcinoma. Two months before the prostate cancer diagnosis, he had a skin biopsy performed on a small reddish skin lesion on the right lower leg. The pathology report was interpreted as Kaposi's sarcoma. The lesion totally disappeared after the biopsy site healed and there has been no recurrence. In view of the frequent association of KS with AIDS, an HIV test was performed and was negative. Thus, his KS diagnosis was consistent with the pre-AIDS "classic" type of KS which, although rare, is found most often in elderly Jews and Italians in America. His blood was not tested for the KS virus. However, blood tests did reveal past asymptomatic infection with the hepatitis B virus, and he has a history of recurrent skin infection with herpes simplex virus. A prostatectomy, along with removal of the surrounding lymph nodes, was performed in March 2004. Microscopic examination of this tissue showed the cancer entirely confined to the prostate with no cancer detected in the nodes. Approximately 25% of the gland was involved with invasive adenocarcinoma. (Cancerous prostate glands removed at surgery often tend to be multifocal, meaning that more than one part of the gland is affected by cancer.) In view of my previous cancer microbe studies, I requested that the pathologist supply me with a Fite-stained tissue section of his prostate tissue. The Fite stain is an "acid-fast" stain traditionally used for the detection of acid-fast tuberculosis-type bacteria. The acid-fast stain is essential to detect cancer-associated bacteria. One of the reasons pathologists do not identify bacteria in cancer is that the hematoxylin- eosin tissue stain, routinely employed by pathologists for diagnosis, does not stain cancer microbes. Because bacteria are so small, it is necessary to study the tissue under oil immersion. That is, a drop of oil must be put on the slide and the tissue must be studied carefully using the oil-immersion lens of the light microscope in order to visualize the material at the highest possible magnification. This allows tissue examination at the highest magnification possible, a magnification of 1000 times. Very interesting s --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.706 / Virus Database: 462 - Release Date: 14/06/04 -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. 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