Can Bacteria Cause Cancer?: Alternative Medicine Confronts Big Science

by David J. Hess

Book Overview

Growing numbers of cancer patients are exploring diet, food supplements, herbs, and nontoxic immunotherapies like bacterial vaccines as a means of therapy. Yet most cancer research organizations refuse to even evaluate these alternatives. Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? argues convincingly that unless this neglected world of alternative therapies is properly scrutinized, the medical Vietnam of the twentieth century may well affect one in two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814735614
• ISBN13: 9780814735619
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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This is an excellent book by a qualified science writer on a highly controversial subject. Hess does a good job of bridging the gap between modern cancer research and an age old theory which has---until the recent so-called 'breakthroughs' involving H.Pylori and stomach cancer---been all but debunked. The fact is, the 100 year old bacteria theory is gaining new ground and an accumulation of scientific data is strongly supporting it. Tragically, much-maligned researchers like Virginia Livginston had to pay a price at the hands of an economically driven pharmaceutical/medical establishment that has irresponsibly pushed its own brand of cancer treatments----toxic chemotherapies, radiation, etc.----as if they were the sin que non of science, when in fact, they have shown in case after case to neither prolong, nor advance the quality of life for many forms of cancer at a profit. Since Hess's book was written, more powerful data, and a clearer picture is beginning to emerge which clearly establishes a probable bacteria/cancer link for many forms of cancer, not just gastric and the few others established medicine now is admitting exist. For those interested in ongoing updates and a central overview of the cancer bacteria debate, please visit the non-profit website CANCER BACTERIA HOMEPAGE at http://members.aol.com/CAbacteria/homepage.html - Or visit the web and simply type in CANCER BACTERIA HOMEPAGE