By:  Andreas Moritz
Posted:  January 31, 2012 — updated 2023

Dear Friends,

If you have a relative or friend who has cancer and is considering any conventional cancer treatment to achieve tumor shrinkage, you may want to pass this newsletter on to them. It discusses top-notch research just-published in the prestigious medical journal Cancer Cell, which proves aggressive tumor shrinkage is responsible for making cancers deadly and spreading them to other parts of the body.

For the past 20 years, I have been making the ‘outrageous’ claim that common cancer treatments, including chemotherapy medications, radiation therapy, and angiogenesis inhibitors used to shrink cancerous tumors are largely responsible for making them more aggressive and develop in other parts of the body (erroneously called “metastases”) as well. Over the years I have received a fair amount of ridicule, defamatory comments and outright death threats for publishing my unrelenting stance on the subject.

The National Cancer Institute states on its web site: “Angiogenesis inhibitors are unique cancer-fighting agents because they tend to inhibit the growth of blood vessels rather than tumor cells. In some cancers, angiogenesis inhibitors are most effective when combined with additional therapies, especially chemotherapy.” However, a 2012-study which was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), sheds new light on why the ‘effectiveness’ of these cancer-fighting drugs is actually short-lived and can turn into a frightening scenario with possibly fatal consequences. The new research shows that aggressive treatment (used to shrink or remove even relatively small, slow-growing or encapsulated, harmless tumors) may create a situation where the entire body is riddled with highly aggressive cancers.

This study, published in the January 17, 2012 issue of Cancer Cell,[2] finds that a group of little-explored cells that are part of every primary cancerous tumor likely serve as important gatekeepers against cancer progression and metastasis. A relatively new class of anti-cancer drugs, known as angiogenic inhibitors, diminishes or destroys these cells, called pericytes, by cutting off the blood supply to the tumors.

Scientists and oncologists from around the world made the shortsighted assumption that by cutting off a tumor’s life support system consisting of a tumor’s blood vessels they could achieve a successful and permanent tumor regression. Little did they know that this would open a Pandora’s box and create a cancer nightmare.

Cancer’s Wisdom in Action

Seen from a holistic and truly scientific perspective, the above assumption is critically flawed. I have frequently made the argument that cancer is one of the body’s final healing attempts to return to a balanced condition (homeostasis), and this new research clearly illustrates cancer constitutes one the body’s most highly evolved and sophisticated protective mechanisms.

The study found that therapies–which shrink cancer by cutting off tumors’ blood supply–may be inadvertently making tumors more aggressive and likely to spread. Said differently, to help prevent a cancer from getting out of control and invading other parts of the body, the body tenaciously and purposefully grows extra blood vessels. Why would the body do such a thing, you might ask?

Well, all cancer cells are normal cells that have turned anaerobic, meaning that they are so oxygen-deprived (due to congestion-caused oxygen deficiency) that they must mutate in order to survive and produce energy without having to use oxygen. To increase the oxygen supply to these congested cells and to support the action by pericytes’ to prevent cancer progression and metastasis, the body needs to grow new blood vessels. Thus, the currently applied medical approach of destroying these blood vessels is therefore counterproductive and must be considered dangerous. It destroys the very system the body uses to make sure a particular cancerous tumor remains an isolated and curable event and does not escalate into a widespread, uncontrollable, and self-perpetuating disease process.

To make this very clear, cancer drugs don’t just destroy cancer cells but also cancer-protective cells and blood vessels transporting oxygen to both cancer cells and normal cells. Ionizing radiation and cancer drugs are outright carcinogenic, and thus, they can cause new cancer cells to develop almost anywhere in the body.

Controlling Tumor Growth Makes Cancer Spread More

There is no doubt that chemotherapy drugs, angiogenic drugs, or radiation therapy can achieve significant tumor regression, but not without paying the hefty price of producing a multitude of new cancers. Besides the billions of corpses of dead cancer cells and pericytes this biological genocide leaves behind, there are also billions of inflamed or otherwise damaged cells and blood vessels that greatly increase the chances of developing any number of new, aggressive, deadly cancers.

Most of these cancers are too small, though, to be detected right away by diagnostic instruments, and doctors can get away with the proud expression “we got it all,” at least for a while. Yet within a year or two these cancers almost inevitably become larger and detectable, and the same doctors then tell their patients that their cancer not only has “returned,” but has metastasized to other parts of the body.

The above study provides us with the unexpected finding that may actually prove current cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, angiogenic therapy and radiation therapy, to be the greatest contributors to developing aggressive, terminal cancers and significantly lowering one’s chances of survival.

In this investigation, senior author Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Matrix Biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), had actually intended to find out if targeting of pericytes could inhibit tumor growth in the same way that other drugs inhibiting blood vessel growth to tumors can. After all, pericytes are an important part of tissue vasculature[3], covering blood vessels and supporting their growth. What Kalluari and his team stumbled upon instead was both startling and extremely disturbing.

In an article titled, “Study Shows How A Group of Tumor Cells Prevent Cancer Spread – Paradoxical discovery finds that pericyte cells help prevent metastasis,”[4] Bonnie Prescott at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, describes the dire implications of the study in some greater detail.

When applied to breast cancer, “Kalluri and his colleagues found that by depleting pericyte numbers by 60 percent in breast cancer tumors they saw a 30 percent decrease in tumor volumes over 25 days,” writes Prescott.

Since such significant tumor shrinkage will prevent or slow the growth of the targeted cancer, conventional ‘medical wisdom’ dictates that this would be a favorable effect, and oncologists have hailed this approach to be a breakthrough in cancer treatment. However, the researchers also discovered that by destroying pericytes by 60-70 percent the number of secondary lung tumors increased threefold, indicating that the tumors had metastasized.

“If you just looked at tumor growth, the results were good,” says Kalluri. “But when you looked at the whole picture, inhibiting tumor vessels was not controlling cancer progression. The cancer was, in fact, spreading.”

“We showed that a big tumor with good pericyte coverage is less metastatic than a smaller tumor of the same type with less pericyte coverage,” says Kalluri, who corroborated these findings in multiple types of cancer by repeating these same experiments with implanted renal cell carcinoma and melanoma tumors, writes Prescott.

All this questions the very argument pushed on unsuspecting cancer patients by medical professionals that treatment-caused tumor regression is a desirable objective. Just imagine you were diagnosed with a cancerous tumor and your doctor told you that his proposed treatment could reduce the size of your tumor by 30 percent but at the same time increase your chances of developing secondary tumors by a whopping 300 percent!

Beware of Conventional Cancer Treatments

The history of conventional anti-cancer therapies is replete with cases where the treatment turned out to be far more devastating than the disease itself. This single piece of research provides us with the understanding that the body isn’t reckless or irresponsible when it actually builds new blood vessels to support tumor growth. On the contrary, it is well equipped with the superb wisdom and physical means to pursue the best possible routes of survival, regardless of the circumstances such as toxicity, congestion, and emotional stress.

Attacking the body’s tumor cells is still an attack on the body, which is exacerbated when doctor and patient simplistically perceive cancer cells to be evil monsters that must be destroyed at any cost. Cancer diagnosis and treatment are severely stressful, violent acts against the body and will evoke a powerful fight or flight response that affects every part of the body. The death fright triggers continuous releases of stress hormones into the blood–powerful enough to shut down the digestive system and immune system, and to constrict important blood vessels, including those that support the cancer-protective pericytes.

As this new study has demonstrated, the destruction of pericytes goes hand in hand with a dramatic increase in the number of secondary tumors in other parts of the body. The body is not a machine but a living being, and it responds with emotions and biochemical changes to everything you think, feel and expose yourself to. Threatening the body on any level jeopardizes its healing abilities.

Cancer has a deeper meaning or purpose than purely random destruction, and ignorance about the true purpose of cancer is at the root of these misdirected cancer treatments. The body uses its own built-in survival and healing programs to keep cancer under control and to let the cancer do its job of mopping up accumulated toxins and waste products and to keep itself from spreading or showing up in other parts of the body.

After examining 130 breast cancer tumor samples of varying cancer stages and tumor sizes and comparing pericyte levels with prognosis, the scientists found that samples with low numbers of pericytes in tumors correlated with the most deeply invasive cancers, distant metastasis and 5- and 10- year survival rates lower than 20 percent.

To understand the exact mechanism behind the drastically increased risk of metastasis that follows drug treatment, I recommend you check out their study, which I consider to be one of the most important pieces of cancer research ever done. I am certainly not the only one to share this belief.

“These results are quite provocative and will influence clinical programs designed to target tumor angiogenesis,” says Ronald A. DePinho, president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. And for Kalluri and his team, the new discoveries suggest that certain assumptions about cancer must be revisited. “We must go back and audit the tumor and find out which cells play a protective role versus which cells promote growth and aggression,” says Kalluri. “Not everything is black and white. There are some cells inside a tumor that are actually good in certain contexts.”

Cancer’s Lessons To Us

To me, it makes no sense at all to use cancer-causing drugs and ionizing radiation to shrink malignant tumors in the short term while causing existing cancers to become deeply invasive and deadly and new cancers to show up in parts of the body distant to the original tumor. The shortsightedness of this approach seems obvious, and millions of people have fallen into the trap of gaining a little, but losing everything.

With regard to chemotherapy drugs, scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Department of Chemistry are currently (2012) investigating the suspected possibility that dead cancer cells left over after chemotherapy spark cancer to spread to other parts of the body (metastasis). “What if by killing cancer cells with chemotherapy we inadvertently induce DNA structures that make surviving cancers cells more invasive? The idea is tough to stomach,” Katri Selander, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UAB Division of Hematology and Oncology and co-principal researcher on the grant, said in a statement to the media. Dead cancer cells have already been found to activate a pathway in the body mediated as a protein dubbed toll-like receptor 9, or TLR9, that is present in the immune system and in many kinds of cancer. “If TLR9 boosts metastasis, then researchers will work on finding targeted therapies that block or regulate this molecular pathway,” Dr. Selander stated.

Angiogenic therapy has already been implicated with causing deadly metastasis, and chemotherapy is almost certainly following in the same track for the same and additional reasons.

A few years ago, a leading oncologist in the U.S. contacted me and asked me if liver flushes could help his wife who suffered from terminal lung cancer. He told me that during the past six years they had tried all the most advanced chemo drugs, to no avail. After each round of chemotherapy, more and more malignant tumors had developed in the lungs and spread to her liver and bones (now we know why). I told him that at this advanced stage, she had nothing to lose, but could turn the situation around by ridding the liver, blood and tissues of accumulated toxins. This would make tumor growth unnecessary.

The oncologist personally monitored and recorded the results of his wife’s first liver flush. He reported back to me that she had released an astonishing amount of at least 2,500 gallstones which kept pouring out of her over a period of three days (something that is almost unheard of). Four weeks later, this oncologist informed me that the tumors in his wife’s liver and bones had completely vanished and there was only one tiny speck of tumor left in her left lung. I recommended that she continued doing the liver flushes until all stones were gone. He also told me that she became like a new person since she did the flush. A life-long constipation was gone, her skin rejuvenated and was no longer pale and grayish-looking. She said she had regained the energy she used to have 20 years ago and the deep depression she had suffered from since her first cancer diagnosis had completely lifted.

I have personally seen cancer patients who successfully and naturally reversed their cancers but were then talked into taking a round of chemotherapy just to be sure to “get it all.” They all died within a day or two of the first treatment.

The methods of modern medicine don’t fight disease, they fight the body. Disease is the body’s way of healing itself, and modern treatment is a sure way to impair or even destroy this ability.

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