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When Cancer Goes Away on Its Own

When cancer goes away on its own, we call the event "spontaneous regression." Theoretically, spontaneous regression isn't supposed to happen, but it does. It's a hard topic to study, however, "because of problems with accurate documentation." Once the regression is complete, the remaining records usually aren't sufficient to prove that the cancer ever existed in the first place. But cases of spontaneous re ression do exist, most of them cases of partial regressIon, where the cancer diminishes but doesn't entirely go away. These partial regressions often follow "some nonspecific immune stimulating event such as infection (usually abscess), blood transfusion reaction, or even rabies vaccine." Some of these cases suggest that patients who experience such a partial regression of their cancer may end up worse off for it, with the cancer coming back even more vigorously than before. Others dispute that point. When these authors surveyed the medical literature, they found only 24 complete regressions of one common cancer (melanoma) with evidence so strong that it couldn't be denied. - D. Bottger, R. V. Dowden, and P. P. Kay, "Complete spontaneous regression of cutaneous primary malignant melanoma," Plastic and Recomtructive Surgery 89 (1992): 548-53. Edito'r's note. Natural healers seek to produce these spontaneous regressions not by causing the immune system to react through one-time adverse events like infections, but by causing the immune system to grow stronger-through improving the patient's eating habits, wars of thinking, social relationships, and so on. They claIm successes, which medicine generally denies. This article confirms, at least, that spontaneous regressions exist, and that they can be naturally produced.

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