Virginia Livingston
Wheeler M.D. quotes
Virginia Livingston
Wheeler M.D.
"An examination of the 62 random cases shows that
our success rate has been 82 percent. Considering the patients we called
inconclusive but for whom we were able to be of some help, it is over 90
percent.
Now compare our figures with the official (as of early
1983) American Cancer Society figure of 15 percent of patients who are helped by
radiation or chemotherapy. (Also, note that the two physicians in our sampling
elected not to be treated with radiation or chemotherapy. We find this to be
true of practically all the physician-patients who come to our clinic.)
Of the people we could not help, those who died or are
presumed dead, I am willing to state that we probably could have helped these
patients had they not come to us with enormously
debilitated immune systems resulting from having already undergone massive
chemotherapy or radiation. The profound sadness we at the clinic experience when
we receive a patient who already is beyond help is only offset by the great joy
and satisfaction we feel when so-called terminal patients walk out of our doors
after the accepted tests show them to be on the road to recovery, or when the
disease is at least controlled to the point where they are able to lead
comfortable and normal lives.
Each patient cited here has been
proved to have cancer by a qualified pathologist examining tissue under a
microscope. In medicine only this represents the final proof of cancer. Once the
diagnosis is firmly established, the metastases or recurrences may be judged by
other means, such as X ray, CAT scan, and palpating (feeling) nodules."---Virginia Livingston
Wheeler M.D. (The Conquest of Cancer: Vaccines and Diet
p.18, 19)
I spent the next two years becoming more familiar with orthomolecular
medicine in general and the work of Dr. Livingston-Wheeler in particular. I
learned that Dr. Livingston-Wheeler had more than forty years experience in
medicine and that while a Professor of Microbiology at Rutgers University and
the University of San Diego her work had been applauded at major scientific
meetings from Rome to Paris to New York; that her scientific papers and articles
had appeared in prominent scientific journals; and that she was listed in
several Who's Who of science and medicine.
In June of 1982, I was fortunate enough to meet William Gladstone, president of
Waterside Productions, a literary agency based in Del Mar, California. Mr.
Gladstone is a good friend of Dr. Livingston-Wheeler's and was looking for a
seasoned medical writer to help bring her message to the American public. With
three medical books to my credit along with seven others, I was given the
opportunity to collaborate on the writing of this book.
I soon found myself engrossed in what I now consider to be one of the most
exciting and significant medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century. After
many hours of conversation with Dr. Virginia and her husband and colleague, Dr.
Owen Wheeler, after extensive interviews with her patients, days spent at the
clinic, and reviews of hundreds of their patients' medical charts, I am
convinced that Dr. Virginia's work is as important as the work of Louis Pasteur,
Madame Curie, or Salk and Sabin.
If you are reading this book because you have cancer, you are about to discover
a treatment program that puts the odds of surviving to live a healthy,
comfortable, productive life in your favor. If you do not have cancer, you are
about to discover a program that will diminish the likelihood that you will ever
suffer from this dreaded disease. Along the way you will learn the compelling
story of Dr. Virginia's lifetime of medical research to find a cure for this
treacherous disease.
Edmond G. Addeo Mill Valley, Calif.
(The Conquest of Cancer: Vaccines and Diet.
Introduction)
"Billions of DOLLARS have been misspent over the years
in the attempt to prevent or cure cancer. Despite these billions of dollars and
the fact that the possibility for cure has existed for decades, cancer is on the
increase. Why? It has been known for more than fifty years that cancer is an
infectious disease. A mysterious virus has been sought in sophisticated
research laboratories across the country, yet still hasn't been found.
These are strong statements. I intend, with this book, to show that they are
true. After years of neglect by the cancer establishment, I have decided to
bring my case for the conquest of cancer to the American public. There is a
vaccine against cancer and it is available to anyone.
Early in this century, Dr. Peyton
Rous demonstrated that 90 percent of the chickens for sale in New York City were
cancerous. He defined the poultry infection as caused by an unknown microbial
agent that passed through a special filter designed to hold back bacteria but
not viruses. The filtrability of this "cancer agent" led to the erroneous belief
that a virus was responsible for cancer, but my research has confirmed that this
is not true.
Various discoveries made over the
course of my career have led to the conclusion that cancer is caused by a
bacterium, which I have formally classified as Progenitor Cryptocides.
Moreover, this bacterium can be isolated and cultured,
and a vaccine can be made from it that can help your immune system keep cancer
suppressed and, if it appears, can help fight it off. This disease is definitely
transmissible to man from animals, and because the cancer-causing microbe also
already exists in our bodies from birth, it is immuno-therapy that is the single
most powerful anti-cancer program for all kinds of cancers.
......
.....As with most important
discoveries, it seems, it was quite by accident that I discovered the positive
identification of the microorganism that causes cancer. A school nurse had asked
me to look at a worrisome condition she had, a disease that greatly resembled
leprosy. In the infectious disease ward of the hospital in Brooklyn where I had
interned, I had seen many different kinds of infectious diseases, among them
leprosy, and I had taken a keen research interest in this field. This woman had
ulcers on her fingers, hardening of the skin, and a perforation in her nasal
septum. She had no sensation of hot or cold on the affected areas. These
symptoms are characteristic of leprosy, but her own doctor had diagnosed her
condition as scleroderma, which is a hardening and rigid thickening of the skin.
The nurse didn't have leprosy, but
out of sheer curiosity I made some smears of the nasal lesion and of the ulcers
on her fingers. I stained them with Ziehl-Neelsen stain, which is customarily
used to identify leprosy and tuberculosis. To my astonishment I saw under the
microscope the same kind of microorganisms that are seen in leprosy. The
microbes were red-staining, or "acid-fast." Although the nurse didn't have
leprosy, I had found in her an acid-fast microorganism that was neither the
lepra bacillus nor the tubercle bacillus. At the time, I called it
sclerobacillus and reasoned that it must be the causative agent in scleroderma
and possibly other diseases. I then treated the nurse with some medications that
are used in treating leprosy. To my gratification her lesions began to heal.
When I began to treat other
patients with scleroderma and Raynaud's syndrome the same way, they, too,
healed. My curiosity was further aroused. So I set up a research laboratory in
our basement at home where I studied this strange microorganism that I had
discovered to be acid-fast and pleomorphic (assuming many different shapes) but
definitely not the lepra or tubercle bacillus.
Subsequently, I met Dr. Eleanor
Alexander-Jackson, who was doing significant work with tuberculosis, and who was
studying the pleomorphic forms of that particular microbe. I started to visit
her regularly at her laboratory at Cornell University, and we worked together
closely on pleomorphism in scleroderma and other collagen diseases such as lupus
erythematpsis and erythema nodosum. (These collagen diseases cause a conspicuous
alteration in connective tissues, in which the malformation of cells is
involved.)
.....I found that when I inoculated animals with
this acid-fast microbe, many of them developed cancer. I thought this was
extremely unusual and decided to find out more about cancer. Through numerous
medical contacts I was able to obtain small pieces of tumors and make
literally thousands of slides from them. I was astounded to find that
when I applied the Ziehl-Neelsen stain, the identical appearing microbes were
present in all cancers.
I decided then to go directly
into the operating rooms and get tissues that had no possibility of
contamination. I haunted the local hospitals in New Jersey and New York
City and
stained tissue after tissue. I used the most rigid techniques for sterility and
yet time and again found the same microbe in every single slide I prepared.
Moreover, when I cultured this microbe from tissues and patients' blood and
injected it into mice, many mice developed cancer or a related collagen
disease.
I was almost speechless with
amazement. I knew that a number of scientists had claimed that cancer was caused
by a microbe—Doyen in France, Mori in Italy, and many others—but they didn't
know it was acid-fast and were told by their peers that it was just a
contaminant and didn't signify anything important. I was just a lowly school
doctor who now wanted to proclaim to the medical world that cancer was caused by
a microbe, an acid-fast bacillus, and I could demonstrate it. I published a few
papers in local professional journals, such as the New Jersey State Medical
Journal, but couldn't get the attention of the major periodicals.
......That was
about forty years ago. I have decided that this story, and the story of the
remarkable success rate we are having at our clinic in San Diego, must now be
told to the American public. The immunotherapy treatments we have employed to
help in the recovery of many hundreds of cancer victims are the result of almost
half a century of extensive research and clinical practice and are now ready to
be made available to as wide a public as possible.
Because the microbe I independently
discovered to be acid-fast and etiologically related to cancer is a bacterium,
and not a virus as conventional medicine insists, and because I involve diet
heavily in the immunotherapy program we have developed, the
conventional body of the American Medical Society and the American Cancer
Society have not yet recognized our work at the clinic. However, we are working
in close cooperation with dozens of local surgeons and specialists in the cancer
community, and hundreds of physicians in America and abroad have sent their
patients to us and seen them return home on the road to recovery. It is because
of these wonderful results that I have decided to publish the whole story.
Despite technological advancements
in surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy—the three "approved" cancer treatments—
your chances of avoiding cancer have not been improving. Americans continue to
smoke cigarettes, embrace nutritionally bankrupt diets, drink fluoridated
water, breathe polluted air, and contaminate the surf we swim in, the bays and
seas that give us our fish, and even the land on which we grow our food with
hundreds of environmental pollutants. In fact, those three traditional
therapeutic treatments for cancer, in many cases, may even shorten your life.
The obvious reality is that they do nothing to help you prevent the disease from
striking in the first place.
Breakthroughs in the past ten years
have pointed the way to a biological cure for cancer, one based on preventing
the onset of the disease from the beginning. The keystone of these
breakthroughs has been enhancing the individual's immune system with proper
diet and vaccines. My research for the causes of cancer led me to believe in the
"strong diet = strong immunity" concept of disease prevention. For the last
fourteen years I have been achieving remarkable results with human cancer
patients by using immunotherapy techniques to help their own bodies
ward off the tumors and literally destroy them. These immuno-therapy
techniques include the formulation of an autogenous vaccine (i.e., a vaccine
made from specific microbes in the patient's own body fluids or tumors), a
strict high immunity diet, and high doses of certain important anti-cancer
vitamins (such as vitamins A, C and E) as well as other nutrients. This entire
concept is immeasurably strengthened by the fact that Progenitor Cryptocides
produces choriogonadotropins (CG), an essential hormone, in the test tube. I
made this discovery in 1970, and it is now confirmed worldwide. In 1977 the fact
that a microbe produces CG in nature led to the approval of genetic engineering
by the government.
Therefore, while much in this book
will seem new to you, it has already stood the test of time—in some cases
twenty-five or thirty years of continuous experimentation—which even in the most
conservative of circles should be enough evidence to begin investigating the
results.
No matter what stage of cancer you
or a loved one has, immediate implementation of the Livingston Anti-Cancer Diet
can help strengthen your immune system and fortify you in the battle against
your disease. Change in diet alone may not cure you. But it can make a vital
difference in the course of the cancer. More importantly, for those of you who
have not yet been stricken, a variation of the diet which we call the Livingston
Cancer Prevention Diet can be a strong safeguard against coming down with this
dread disease.
You will not find our clinic in San Diego or our immuno-therapy methods on the
approved list of the American Cancer Society. This is because, nutritionally
speaking, traditional medicine is only now stepping out of the Middle Ages. Let
us not forget that it took almost 250 years to convince surgeons to wash their
hands before entering the operating room.
People continue to die of cancer,
yet the techniques we have developed at our clinic have enabled many so-called
terminal cancer patients to reverse their diseases and even live out the rest
of their lives free of tumors and pain. Many respected physicians,
surgeons, and university scientists have visited the clinic and been impressed
with the results. Many others are duplicating our work at their own hospital
laboratories and university research centers. Several great institutions, such
as Duke University, have invited us to present seminars on our work. However,
the A.M.A. and the American Cancer Society officially have not recognized us,
even though we do, in fact, employ the conventional modalities of radiation,
surgery, and chemotherapy when they are indicated, but only when indicated and
not as a matter of routine. Further, radiation and chemotherapy are used only in
carefully controlled doses.
It is astounding to me that a
"respected" group of scientists and physicians on the National Research Council
of the National Academy of Sciences published in June 1982 a National Cancer
Institute-sponsored report (Diet, Nutrition and Cancer, National Academy Press)
on the relationship between diet and cancer and simply asked Americans to eat
more food containing vitamins A and C. Not once did the report suggest vitamin
supplements or that perhaps the food the typical American eats does not have the
high level of nutrition it is supposed to have. The report suggested "a
reduction" of the intake of red meat, but it didn't report that a large number
of slaughtered cattle are infected with cancer. Nor did the report mention the
percentage of commercial chickens which have visible cancer when slaughtered.
I believe an alarmingly high percentage of commercial chickens, in the range of
nine out of ten, have the pathogenic form of the cancer microbe, and it is
transmissable from the hen to the egg to the chick. Chapter Nine will examine
this further, but for now the point is that the very idea of avoiding some foods
totally and eating more of other foods to prevent and even cure cancer is
anathema to the American medical establishment. This overall attitude toward new
ideas and the reluctance to accept clinical results as a stimulus for further
investigation is not much different from the attitude under which Louis Pasteur
was hooted off the stage at the Academy of Sciences in
Paris for suggesting that milk be boiled before it was given to children because
it had infectious "microbes" in it.
The biological approach to cancer
prevention and treatment should be, but is not, accepted by those who specialize
in radiation and chemical treatment, as an enhancement and detoxification of
the side effects of their own methods. I honestly don't know why these
practitioners don't accept it—perhaps it has something to do with the vested
interests of the medical establishment. Others contend it's merely the result
of inertia and the outmoded approach to medical instruction that is still
predominant in medical schools. Or, perhaps, it is because in modern America
technological methods receive the most attention in scientific journals and
government funding.
I must also state here that I fully expect controversial reaction to our program
and that, indeed, I have grown accustomed to it. I graduated from medical school
when there was severe discrimination against women in the medical profession.
Ever since then, controversy has followed my work.
The microbe I discovered to be
acid-fast and classified as Progenitor Cryptocides is a bacillus that is
a first cousin to the bacilli that cause tuberculosis and leprosy. I believed
then, and have proven repeatedly, that this P. Cryptocides bacillus is the
causative agent of cancer—all cancers. This microbe is present in all of our
cells, and it is only our immune systems that keep it suppressed. When our
immune systems are weakened, either by poor diet, infected foods, or old age,
this microbe gains a foothold and starts cancer cells growing into tumors. This
immune system principle is the entire basis for our program in San Diego. The
microbe is an obligate symbiant, meaning that it is contained within the normal
cell in symbiosis, emerges after injury during the healing process, but when not
immunologically and nutritionally controlled it produces neoplastic cells. It is
a function of the normal cell but reverts to a pathogenic state, a bacterial
revertant, when uncontrolled.
Although the experiments in our
laboratories and our clinical successes have
repeatedly demonstrated the importance of good nutrition in preventing and
treating cancer through immuno-therapy, only recently has this concept begun to
be accepted in the medical community. (I say "begun" because many competent
physicians today are using nutrition in their treatments but are still
considered "out of the mainstream.") While I know the information in this book
will be repeated in the years to come as younger researchers duplicate our work,
the traditional medical community is only in the early stages of exploration. In
essence, 1 have a forty-year headstart on them, and the benefits of my research
are here for you to put into practice today.
Such "new findings" showing that
good nutrition is essential for immunity to cancer will, I'm sure, continue to
appear. After all, the connection between what you eat and your level of
resistance to cancer and other diseases has already been established, especially
by Dr. Linus Pauling and several others (Cancer and Vitamin C, by Pauling and
Dr. Ewan Cameron).
Our research is still in progress,
and we are discovering new things every year. Our treatment program is such that
it can be modified each time new information has been tested and verified. None
of our treatments harm the body, as radiation and chemotherapy do. The diet
program we recommend, although capable of being improved, is the most advanced
nutritional approach to immunotherapy available today. The autogenous vaccine
we have developed appears to immunize our patients against the very disease that
brought them to our doors. When necessary, we do combine our biological approach
with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. We prefer that our patients avoid
these treatments before they come to us, but often they come to us after having
been so heavily treated that their immune systems are all but destroyed, and
their tumors are far advanced. Indeed, some of the patients have come into the
clinic barely able to walk and yet have returned home only weeks later on the
road to recovery.
I do not claim to have all the answers, nor do I have a corner on the science of
immunotherapy. But we at the clinic have dedicated our lives to helping others,
and we continue to treat patients with all stages of
cancer. We realize, though, that we can help even more by sharing our findings
with others throughout the world. That is why our doors are open to everyone;
our facilities and laboratories may be visited by any qualified researcher,
oncologist, or scientific organization.
We have tried to present this book
in a highly communicative fashion, with the scientific principles involved
easily understandable to the lay reader. I have chosen a professional writer
with knowledge of medical science as a collaborator. While some technical terms
are unavoidable in discussing cancer and its causes, we have tried to simplify
the terminology as much as possible. When appropriate, we will define words and
concepts parenthetically throughout the narrative. We've also included a
glossary of important terms and phrases. I encourage you to refer to it
frequently.
After reading this, I hope you will understand one thing: Having cancer doesn't
mean you are automatically going to die of it. I hope you will understand the
essentials of our biological approach to combating and controlling this
frightful disease. Follow the guidelines of our cancer prevention diet, and you
will greatly diminish your own chances of getting cancer. To those who already
have it, I can only promise you that hundreds have already discovered that their
tumors have diminished or disappeared completely after they embraced our
immunotherapy program and anti-cancer diet.
Since cancer appears to be an immune deficiency disease based on definite
inadequacies of such nutrients as the retinoic acids, on specific components of
vitamin A as well as on many other complex dietary factors, no other treatment
program today offers so much hope and promise in preventing and curing cancer."---
Virginia Livingston
Wheeler M.D. (The Conquest of Cancer: Vaccines and Diet
Ch 1.)