Each of has about 75 trillion cells in our body. Virtually all of them replace themselves many times during our lifetimes. How many cells? Well, it's 75,000,000,000,000. That's a lot. They have various life cycles, but in about 7 years, they have all been regenerated. Amazing? I'll say!

So, on an average day, about 29 billion cells in your body replace themselves by dividing in two. One of cells resulting from that division dies off.

CELL DAMAGE OR "MUTATION"

In our bodies all day every day are lots of "free radicals." These little rascals are molecules which have one unpaired oxygen electron in their atomic makeup. They are produced by our digestive system, air we breathe, food we eat, water we drink and so on. In other words, we can't avoid them.

These "free radicals" bounce around, bumping into normal cells, and, in process, damaging normal cells DNA. Literally millions of our dividing cells get damaged every day -- some by free radicals, some by viruses and some by just normal cell breakdown due to aging or inherited gene mutation (this latter is rare). Fortunately, our cell division policing process recognizes these "incorrect" cell divisions and kills them off, most of time.

HOW WE "GET" CANCER

About a million or so of damaged cells each day are damaged in such a way that "oncogenes," hundred or so genes (out of 33,000 or so in each cell's DNA) which control cell death, get damaged. When this happens, cell begins to grow out of control. It becomes a cancer cell. Our immune system (about 20 trillion cells strong) normally recognizes this and takes care of it every day, until it can't anymore. Then, we "get" cancer.

Actually, all of us "have" cancer every day. It is controlled and gives us no symptoms. When symptoms (a tumor, for example) show up, it means that our metabolism (cell division and cell death)has temporarily broken down. A tumor with a billion cells is about size of period at end of this sentence. By time a tumor is diagnosed, it has usually been growing for from 5 to 12 years. Far from a death sentence or something requiring instant, emergency, radical treatment, this "getting" cancer is a wakeup call.

The key to understanding and controlling cancer is that it is a "systemic" problem. Our entire system has broken down. Killing cancer cells (with chemotherapy and radiation, for example) is not going to restore our system to its normal balance. In fact, those "treatments" simply make condition worse by severely damaging what is left of our immune system.

Once one understands this, our current conventional cancer treat- ment system makes no sense.

WHAT DO ONCOLOGISTS DO?

It is no longer necessary to settle for "big three" of conventional cancer treatment -- surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Today's cancer patients die for only three reasons: 1) Lack of information; 2) Lack of discipline; and 3) Blind trust in their cancer doctors.

MY STORY

On November 1, 1994, my former wife, Marjorie, passed on. She had lived a wonderfully productive and really unique life. I loved her dearly.

Watching her being treated by conventional cancer "system" etched memories that will never go away. I was puzzled and frustrated by barbaric nature of treatments and extreme pain she endured for four years. I saw dozens of other cancer patients hooked up to IVs and submitting to what seemed horribly toxic and ineffective "treatment."

Nobody was able to explain cause of this mysterious invader gradually eating away at my wife's vitality and life force. "Is there no better way?" I wondered.

Beginning in 1998, I became aware of tidal wave of information building on Internet about cancer (and everything else!). I vowed to take Marjorie's advice and "turn lemons into lemonade." I began researching book that became an e-book in November, 2000. I have updated it continuously and rewritten it three times since then. Today, it is also available as a "real" book. The latest edition, called "Cancer-Free" is result of four years of feedback from doctors, nurses, cancer researchers, cancer survivors and cancer "crusaders" like me all over world.

WHY YOU NEED TO GET SMART ABOUT CANCER

When you first walk into oncologist's office after your cancer diagnosis, you need to be smarter than he or she is about cancer. What? Smarter than cancer specialist? Yes. Exactly. If you want to survive your cancer and get your cancer under control, you need to be smarter than your oncologist.

Why?

THE CANCER "SYSTEM"

All conventional cancer treatment today is driven and controlled by drug company money. Any competition is brutally suppressed, with cooperation of our Federal and State governments. Many books have been written on this subject, some better than others. One especially good one is "Politics in Healing," by Daniel Haley. The fact of corruption is very real. Don't you be a victim of it.

A FEW FACTS

* Since 1930's in U.S. alone, over 150 treatments for cancer which are gentle and non-toxic have healed cancer patients. Some treatmetns have healed hundreds. Many have healed thousands. I know many of these people well. Why won't you hear about these from your cancer doctor? Because they are all natural substances. Therefore, they cannot be patented and offer no profit to pharmaceutical companies. This simple fact drives all conventional cancer treatments.

* Since 1971, when President Nixon declared "War on Cancer," cancer deaths per 100,000 population have risen steadily. If you were General in charge of this "war," you almost certainly would have scrapped your strategy for something different by now. Instead we, taxpayers, keep funding National Cancer Institute (NCI). This year their budget request is for $6.2 billion (with a "b") of your tax money. This agency was established in 1937. Not once in their 67-year history have they honestly tested even one of 150 "alternative" substances mentioned above.