**Why the War on Cancer Has Failed and What That Means for More
Effective Prevention and Treatment
**
A groundbreaking look at the role of water in living organisms that
ultimately brings us closer to answering the riddle of the etiology of,
and therapy and treatment for, cancer
When President Nixon launched the War on Cancer with the signing of the
National Cancer Act of 1971 and the allocation of billions of research
dollars, it was amidst a flurry of promises that a cure was within
reach. The research establishment was trumpeting the discovery of
oncogenes, the genes that supposedly cause cancer. As soon as we
identified them and treated cancer patients accordingly, cancer would
become a thing of the past.
Fifty years later it's clear that the War on Cancer has failed--despite
what the cancer industry wants us to believe. New diagnoses have
continued to climb; one in three people in the United States can now
expect to battle cancer during their lifetime. For the majority of
common cancers, the search for oncogenes has not changed the treatment:
We're still treating with the same old triad of removing (surgery),
burning out (radiation), or poisoning (chemotherapy).
In Cancer and the New Biology of Water, Thomas Cowan, MD, argues that
this failure was inevitable because the oncogene theory is incorrect--or
at least incomplete--and based on a flawed concept of biology in which
DNA controls our cellular function and therefore our health. Instead,
Dr. Cowan tells us, the somatic mutations seen in cancer cells are the
result of a cellular deterioration that has little to do with oncogenes,
DNA, or even the nucleus. The root cause is metabolic dysfunction that
deteriorates the structured water that forms the basis of
cytoplasmic--and therefore, cellular--health.
Despite mainstream medicine's failure to bring an end to suffering or
deliver on its promises, it remains illegal for physicians to prescribe
anything other than the "standard of care" for their cancer patients--no
matter how dangerous and ineffective that standard may be--and despite
the fact that gentler, more effective, and more promising treatments
exist. While Dr. Cowan acknowledges that all of these treatments need
more research, Cancer and the New Biology of Water is an impassioned
plea from a long-time physician that these promising treatments merit
our attention and research dollars and that patients have the right to
information, options, and medical freedom in matters of their own life
and death.
